What the #$*! Do We Know?
Here's a quirky little film produced down in Oregon that's been running at the Uptown on Queen Anne for something like 33 weeks. Must be quite a thriller.
Well...if you like quantum physics mixed in with a little new age channelling.
What the #$*! Do We Know? is a documentary film about science, the life of the mind, and the creation of reality in a place other than "out there." As one guy says, "There's no out there, out there...strictly speaking." The opening frame screams a message that will immediately put Christians on edge: "In the beginning was the Void."
Actually, that made me laugh, because it told me where we were going.
Of course, having read about the film online beforehand, I knew Christianity (and religion in general) would not fare well in the eyes of the talking heads, and we didn't . But still, I enjoyed this exploration of what the nature of subatomic particles implies for the "reality" of our lives. One statement caught my attention early in the film; something to the effect that through most of history, science has been wrong, as they keep proving over and over. Who knows? In a not too different future, maybe all these physicists, physicians, and gurus will have been proven to be quacks and nut-cases.
But it's a fairly astute line-up--or at least they sound that way--but we don't find out until the end just how astute they are. They're from the big schools, published lots of papers and books on this stuff, and are amazing articulate about particles and peptides, managing to make what are fairly complex concepts (at least to me) half-way understandable. Is time flowing forward or backward? Does water respond to "love and peace" messages? (Not making that up.) Is there an objective reality outside of ourselves? (The film gives us a resounding "no.") Is there anything good or bad? (Another no, but somehow, it's "better" that we know that.)
What they don't want you to know (well, they do - just not until the movie is over, otherwise you might dismiss the whole thing out of hand) is that one that one of the primary voices in the film is that of a woman named JZ Knight, aka Ramtha, of channeling fame. For being 35,000 years old, she (he, it?) looks pretty good, and really comes off saying what sound to be wise things, though the look in her eye is a little creepy.
Sounds a bit goofy, but I found the basic idea compelling and worth thinking about, because for me, it is simply giving some physiological evidence supporting ideas that are as old as Moses. We are creatures made to create, that our choice is real, that there is freedom and creativity expressed as energy that results in much (they would say all) of the material world around us.
Just more proof from the quantum world that God is nothing short of "wow."
10:45:50 PM
