Kristal Kraft's blog stirred up a lot of discussion, and several responses mentioned that long-tailed film, What the Bleep Do We Know? It is long-tailed, because it is slowly gaining a larger and larger audience. It is a commercially gutsy film that dares to address such things as how quantum physics, molecular biology and neuroscience can affect our everyday lives and reality.

The film looks at such seemingly random things as:

Non-rational way of knowing, which is intuition, faith, insight, nature and body-based wisdom.

Our addictions: Are we really addicted to those things we cannot control? (a departure from the quantum discussion)

Paradigm Shifts -- Best said by Mark Woodhouse: "To change a major paradigm is to change our definition of what is possible." Consider the magic in that! Our old comfort with absolute answers should perhaps be replaced by a new comfort with uncertainty.

Water?  The film discusses and illustrates Dr. Masuru Emoto's discovery that crystals formed in frozen water reveal remarkable changes when specific and concentrated thoughts are directed to them. For example, water from pure natural springs and water that has been "blessed" with loving words, show beautifully compex snowflake patterns. Water that has been exposed to pollution and/or hateful words form "incomplete and asymetrical patterns with dull colors."  Dr. Emoto's well-publicized research shows exquisitely how our thoughts and feelings affect our physical reality. 

Many here have already seen the film--and each of us derived something different from the experience, I have just ordered the longer sequel, What the Bleep: Down the Rabbit Hole from the Bleep site.  I figure once I get the hang of these things, the real estate market (for starters) will be just what I intend.

And maybe the real estate slowdown is good and meaningful and just as it is supposed to be.

(one of Emoto's water crystals: Love)

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