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Living Matrix: Film on the New Science of Healing

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(In the interest of integrity, I want to disclose right off the top that my name is Joan Parisi Wilcox, and I know the film makers, have worked with the executive producer Harry Massey, hosted the London premier of this documentary and was on the panel for the US premier, so I am not unbiased. However,as a writer with freedom of professional pursuit I choose my projects and affiliations carefully and I am honored to know and work with the visionaries who created this film. This review is sincere, and I want to specifically speak to the science of the film.)

This documentary provides an entertaining and compelling introduction to the "new biology." It shows us what the future of medicine and healthcare will look like. It heralds that we have as yet untapped self-healing potentials, abilities that conventional science still treat as anomalies but that frontier scientists are taking seriously. It provides some of the theories that are reshaping the study of biology, health, physiology, and medicine. It's an ambitious film that hits the mark in introducing the general public to difficult subjects (medicine, physics, healing) in an engaging and easy-to-understand way.

The film is captivating in its content, presentation and flow, working from personal stories of healing that defy conventional explanation to mainstream medical and scientific knowledge to frontier theories and explanations. It leads us on a journey into the body that many people may find both surprising and mind-boggling, taking us beyond the cells to the bioenergetic and bio-informational fields that may actually regulate the body and its systems at its deepest, most fundamental level.

There is real science behind this film, but you won't find it publicized in the mainstream media. You have to be willing to look for it, as I will briefly dicsuss in a moment. The film makers have done us a service by profiling some of the top scientists, independent researchers, and journalists who are doing the studies or writing about the science of the new biology/medicine. The new biology looks beyond DNA, genes and cells into the deeper aspects of what controls, regulates and directs physiology. One of the answers is turning out to be fields of energy and information. We truly are on the cusp of a "quantum biology."

As physicist Anton Zellinger has said, information may be the most fundamental aspect of the universe, and as physicist Jacob Bekenstein says, "Ask anybody what the physical world is made of, and you are likely told matter and energy. Yet, if we have learned anything from engineering, biology and physics, information is just as crucial an ingredient." This film presents the theories about how energy and information appear to be fundamental to our body and to the state of our health.

While the film presents several stories of healings that defy the science of conventional, allopathic medicine, it doesn't leave us scratching our heads and saying, "How can this be?" It provides possible theories that explain these medical "miracles." I emphasize that the explanations are theories, not proof, but not much of conventional medicine is proven conclusively either. Science is statistical. Treatments (estrogen replacement therapy, mammogram recommendations, treatment strategies for prostrate cancer, etc.) in conventional medicine change as new research is conducted and knew understandings gained. In the young science of quantum biology and bioenergetic therapy, the same holds true.

One of the strong points of this film is that it lets the researchers speak for themselves. You may not always agree with them, but you have to hand it to them for stepping outside of the ivory tower to stake their claim in research areas that don't earn them professional kudos or easy grant money. They believe in what they are doing, and they are willing to risk their reputations and careers on their research and on letting us know that there is more to health than we have been told by the increasingly corporate medical establishment.

The controversial part of this film is not the people in it, but the science they talk about. It's so new and sometimes so outside the mainstream that some of it strains credulity. But that's the way science works: what was once crackpot eventually becomes mainstream. At one time scientists scoffed at germ theory. One of the physicists who first proposed the existence of quarks was called a charlatan and refused a university position. Nowadays, everyone knows germs exist and can contribute to illness. Today quarks are an accepted, even a bedrock, part of the standard model of quantum mechanics. So, old paradigms die hard, especially when careers and huge grants depend on preserving them.

This film is about the new paradigm, and the evidence for the new quantum biology is amassing slowly. Much of the evidence is quite convincing if you give it a fair hearing. A film traditionally does not provide references and citations, so if you want to know more, you have to be motivated to look for it. You can't fault film makers, as one reviewer does, for following the conventions of their medium, and I for one have yet to see a film that provided a bibliography. (The website is another story, and I suspect that the reviewer's suggestion for a bibliography there will be taken.) If you want to know more about the theories presented in the film, you can start by looking up the books and journal articles of the pioneering scientists and journalists in this film. They are easy to find, most right here on Amazon.

I recommend you start with James Oschman's two books, which are compilations of both the soft and hard science of the new biology. Lynn McTaggart is a journalist, not a scientist, and her book "The Field" provides a popular yet fairly rigorous look at the evidence as well. Bruce Lipton's "The Biology of Belief" is one of the first popular books about the new science of epigenetics, which is showing how DNA is not the primary control center of the cell and how cells respond to environmental influences. You might also want to look at a book I co-wrote with one of the producers, Harry Massey, and one of the independent researchers featured in this documentary, Peter Fraser. It's about NES therapy and the new biology ("Decoding the Human Body-Field: The New Science of Information as Medicine".) Rupert Sheldrake, Edgar Mitchell and others also have books worth reading about the new paradigm in biology and other areas of science. So, the science is real and available. (And for the reviewer so concerned about Dr. Cimbal's example about birds, see the theory of Iannis Kominis of the University of Crete and the New Scientist article "Do birds see with quantum eyes?" Cimbal may have cited outdated info about birds and field effects, but no one really knows how birds navigate; it's all theory. Many of the latest theories about nature, especially photosynthesis, are quantum based, as is Kominis's theory about bird navigation.)

Many people have been inspired by this film, as has been evidenced by the sold-out screenings and the packed Q & A sessions afterwards. This is a film that is bound to open your mind to new possibilities. It might even help change your state of health. But the bottom line is that if you want to know what the future of healthcare and medicine will likely be, and you want to know more about your own self-healing potential, this film is the one to watch.

This was an outstanding DVD that can be viewed for simply knowledge or used as a basis for a teaching tool for a class. In either case, it offers a refreshing contemporary view of the changing consciousness in the health field about the body, complementary health modalities and the field of healing.
It is great to show as a 1-1 DVD or for a whole group. The presenters are professionals, pracitioners, scientists and the people's stories are believable and from different age groups.
Outstanding quality and content! One of the best buys I've ever made--I recommend this to healing practitioners of every holistic area and even conventional doctors--this is a new view of genetics, the body and healing--BUY THIS DVD!
(Rev).A.L. Walton, N.D.

This DVD is promoting the notion of healing that comes from a deeper reality. This explains all the "spontaneous" healings. It does this very well. The editing is excellent. No extraneous stuff. To the point. Articulate folks explaining/advocating a different definition of the nature of reality than our simple 3-D reality with "modern" medicine.

I'd recommend it to anyone . . . folks who already know this stuff -- it's a great reminder from a variety of perspectives -- and to anyone becoming interested in the "mystery."

I thought reading The Reconnection was amazing, but this DVD goes way beyond that. The information in this DVD explains why and how the healing is needed and how it happens. Now I finally understand. Many Aha moments.

This film is largely based on the works of Lynne McTaggart The Field Updated Ed: The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe and The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World and is a visual attempt to convey the failure of science to apply discoveries in quantum physics to the current biologic/medical model. The film does a "fair" job of it. The production was too much like "The Secret" which hinders the fine research collected in McTaggart's two books. If you enjoyed the books then see this film. If you haven't read the books and this film seems like something you'd be interested in go ahead and buy it and read the books later.

The skeptics are, of course, out looking for blood. Pay them no attention and keep this quote by Ken Wilber with you at all times, "scientism [is] the belief that there is no reality save that revealed by science, and no truth save that which science delivers."

The concepts exposed in this video are revolutionary.
If serious research resources are allocated to this field, we may one day see conventional (allopathic) medicine as obsolete and even... primitive.
The fact that humans are beginning to interact - in a scientific way, and not so much in a religious or esoteric way - with the energy and vibrational fields governing life and health is a huge leap forward in human evolution.
Many paradigms will be shattered when such science becomes mainstream (if ever allowed). It is obvious that there are enormous economic interests opposed to such development, as it would virtually destroy many well-established medical industries, associated businesses, jobs, careers, lobbies, bureaucracies, etc.
Nevertheless, fortunately, History shows us that one way or the other, sooner or later, Universal knowledge prevails. It's just a matter of time and adaptation.

Hi I like the reviews here and cannot disagree with them; HOWEVER, I saw this in Los Angeles in a chiropractic office with an audience of holistic health care consumers and several practitioners. How much people liked the movie seemed proportional to how new they were to the word "holistic" and the phrase "energy medicine."

For those already very familiar with these terms, there will be little new here. However if you want a very gentle, East Coast intellectual intro to "holism" and "energy" as they were coming into the material-science establishment about 40 years ago, this is the film to show your father and and grandparents.

I wish I could point you to a film more adventurous and up to date now that we have had 15 years of Energy Medicine. I would look for videos and DVDs on meridian tapping. Of course many of these on YouTube as we speak.

The big key here I kept waiting for them to touch on at all is how the nature of both health and healing comes from the character of the etheric body. The film builds a pretty good base to support this key idea but fails to venture beyond what various "experts" have to say.

A phenomenal new movie with incredible information that will change the way you think about your body, your mind, and medicine. It delivers a powerful statement that every living being has incredible abilities to heal itself, with scientific documentation that the field that surrounds us is a reality.

Knowing that our medicine has become dependent on pharmaceuticals for every
health concern, illness, and physical challenge, this offers breakthrough
understanding of how healing can really occur beyond our present approaches to
cure. If and when the principles presented are broadly understood, there is a real possibility of breaking out of our pathetic drug dependence to gain and maintain health. This is an exciting video to those who are open to deeper
understanding and moving beyond the status quo to amazing possibities for better
lives notwithstanding the medical community's general emphasis on more of the same approaches.

This well-produced, thought-provoking documentary updates the information shared in "What the Bleep" to include exciting new developments in the Quantum Field. Fast-paced, easy to understand, well produced and well written. Kudos to all!