Has anyone read or seen any of the What the Bleep... books or movies?? I am curious to know if they are investing any time into.

If you aren't sure what "What the Bleep" is, check this link...

http://www.whatthebleep.com/

Does this have anything to do with that animated professor who shoots the electrons throught the slots? does anyone have any idea what I'm talking about?

Not sure what you are talking about. Sounds kinda odd, can you tell us about it???

Yup, this guy :

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4...=what+the+bleep

I watched it from Google video last week.
It starts off well enough by putting forward some strange views on the world,but then it kinda goes off on a tangent and you start wondering whats the point of all this crap to the story ?
I'd still reccommend it though specially since it's free over at google....

Awsome. I've had to hire this out for $8.00 NZD twice now. Anyway i personally thought it was an excellent documentry. It has various points Boogeyman, the main one to my knowledge is the power of thought. But i do agree, i think it trails along a bit too much near the end.

I saw it and enjoyed it, but it's been a while. It asks some good questions, but the answers are kind of weak. I would probably have to see it again to give a fair review,
but IMHO it is well worth seeing.

What i found the most interesting is the water crystal experiment.

http://www.whatthebleep.com/crystals/

I own it, but is very unorganized and just throws everything at you. I found "the secret" to be more organized (though not as much info) but it is very long and tends to repeat its self a lot.

There was a thread on this Here and there was also the News article a while back.

I rented the DVD over a year ago on netflix, weird plot, kinda cool movie.

I've never heard of it before now, but it seems pretty cool.

I rented this movie around this time last year. As a physicist, I was naturally curious to see how quantum mechanics was being used in pseudo-religions. And while a lot of the physics is more or less on target, there were no profound insights on how one could actually use quantum mechanics in their daily life. Other than the film's emphasis on the power of positive thinking and that we create our own destinies, yet one doesn't need science to affirm these time-honored beliefs. They've been around in the non-scientific form since the days of Dale Carnegie and Napoleon Hill, and currently Tony Robbins.

Thus, a little digging into the background of this film yielded some interesting facts: the three producers were all students of JZ Knight's "Ramtha School of Enlightenment." One of the more famous (or infamous) of the New Age movements. Hence, the prominent role we see for Ms. Knight (or Mr. Ramtha?) dispensing ancient wisdom throughout the film. She's seen her share of controversies though, this from Wikipedia:

"...JZ Knight has been involved in several court disputes, some personal (her divorce from Jeff Knight) and others business-related, for example, one involving the dissemination of material containing the copyrighted Ramtha. In Knight vs. Knight, 1992-1995, Jeff Knight alleges that he lost years of his life by postponing modern medical treatment for his HIV infection, due to advice from his wife that Ramtha could heal him — he died before he could appeal the court's decision against him. Another case, in Austria, involved a Berlin woman who also claimed to channel Ramtha. The Austrian Supreme court decided that JZ Knight was the only person with the sole trademark and copyright license for the name Ramtha and its associated teachings..."
So, if she was privy to ancient healing wisdom via Ramtha, apparently HIV was a disease Ramtha couldn't cure.
And if Ramtha exists, then why does he need to get involved in copyright court cases over who can channel him? I think he'd be mature enough after 35,000 years to pick and choose his channelers.

But back to the movie, while I think it's good in that it stimulates interest in quantum mechanics, the pseudo-science and quantum mysticism overshadows that.

If one is truly interested in quantum mechanics, then there are several good introductory books, with a minimum of math, you can use to get the basic concepts. To truly understand quantum mechanics at a deeper level, one needs Calculus, statistics/probability, and linear algebra to work the problems, which sounds hard but is doable.

So, what's my advice?

Study the following Quantum Mechanics 1 course, downloadable from MIT, then go back and watch "What the Bleep!"

MIT course link - http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Physics/8-04Spri...eHome/index.htm

I've got the dvd , too. Mindblowing .

If I am not mistaken isn't this all about the Laws of Attraction?

They also have another DVD / Documentary called the Secret. I think both DVD's are based on the philosophies of the Laws of Attraction.

Laws of Attraction is basically positive = positive and negative = negative.

They are teaching people how you can utilize positivity to your advantage.

More or less. but there is much more about What the Bleep .

Well
First off ,the Calculus,stats,probability ,algebra ..............Just aint gonna happen NO SIREEE

But i would like your opinion on where the world of quantum mechanics can lead us to? and if you think it can account for any of the things that we would label today as "Paranormal"
Thanks
Bogey