This is a 'science' documentary created by Ramtha School of Enlightenment (a cult-like movement). It's a bizarre film mixing real science with un-proven mystical experiments, through the story of a really annoying deaf woman (hence the comedy). From the Google Video:

The topics discussed in What the Bleep Do We Know!? include neurology, quantum physics, psychology, epistemology, ontology, metaphysics, magical thinking and spirituality. The film features interviews with individuals presented as experts in science and spirituality, interspersed with the story of a deaf photographer as she struggles with her situation. Computer-animated graphics feature heavily in the film. The film has received widespread criticism from the scientific community. Physicists, in particular, claim that the film grossly misrepresents the meaning of various principles of quantum mechanics, and is in fact pseudoscience.

The comments of those presented as scientific experts converge on a single theme: "We all create our own reality." This is not a widely held view of physics by the scientific community, but it correlates well with subjective experience.

If you put all the prominent scientists and physicists on one side of the scale, and all the yogis and ginis', Tibetan monks on the other.....would they be there at all?

Balk not at an on-the-fly koan, perhaps you are robbing yourself of a manifest reality you were meant to create or perceive.

Non-linear, is the universe we reside in or not-
-linear is how most process is filtered in ones reality....survival of the fittest??....non-linear prevails, because it already is......perception.

This was jim-dandy, but must agree concerning the red-head on anti-depressants....blegh

as for the culty feel, got that vibe too, but three shows in a row on public television about global warming, produce a similar effect....the cult of assumption, contextual science, and conjecture....oh yeah, and the Graaaaave-voiced narrator chicks....

Watched this last week whilst searching for something else. Interesting.
The sort of clip that could start a debate.....

.....oh and you atheists, who have a hard time with Christians, check out 48:00 for a retort to their witness, to shake the very foundations of THEIR perceptions!!

hmmm well, since my philosophy professor recommended it last month and it's now here on the Sift...why not?

Wonder if the hypothalamus really pumps like a little heart???

Uh oh, betcha someone could get fired watchin' this at work, if the accuser finds this on their monitor, at 103:35...c'mon, there doin' the nasty at a wedding!!!
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If you want to read a really good post about this movie go here:

Skeptico: What the (Bleep) Were They Thinking?

"Upon further investigation I find the films’ producers, writers, directors, and a number of the featured “experts” are members of the Ramtha School of Enlightenment. The film is a propaganda piece for a cult."

it's a recruiting tool for a cult headed by a lady who claims to be possessed by an ancient warrior who lived in Atlantis. While I think it's true that our inner state of consciousness can change our outer reality in some degree, the way it is portrayed by these people seems to be indicative of the same kind of pipe dream that most cults and new age sects pass off to unsuspecting people (and their wallets) who are searching for something outside of normal religion.

uh-oh, I'm getting the "video not available" message. Another regional lock-out issue?

Hmmmm: weird. I've not seen a Google Video in this state before. It has a preview (so hasn't been pulled from Google yet) - but the video says "This video is not available. Please try again later" on both the embeded and source FLV...maybe it's in the process of being pulled? Any region outside the UK/US see the video? (either here or on the original Google page?)

I guess Google were in the process of pulling the original video (the FLV file's been replaced with an error on it's GV page)...So I've replaced it with another (Romanian subtitled) version - so it should work fine now (until Google pulls this one too!)

This is not a documentary but a pseudoscience mixed with some new age philosophy.

I watched it before I knew the whole Ramtha business and even then I rolled my eyes at her appearances and silly allusions using scientific terms.

Basically if you ask them how they can take the concepts that apply only in the quantum mechanics domain (i.e. the really small) to our reality (the big) their entire arguement falls apart. However it's an interesting step towards actually getting inclined to see movies talking more about this.

^ *Seconded, is better to edit out 'documentary' from the title

I'm sorry: but am I the only Sifter who understands the English Language here?

This is a documentary...and as I stated in the title: is full of pseudo-science (I haven't edited anything here...and in fact, refuse to do so - as the tags/title describes it perfectly). Now, where's all these complaints with the over-used 'Awesome' or 'Amazing' titles?...(Sometimes, I really feel like I'm pissing in the wind with some of you Sifters, as some seem to comment without reading a single bit of the title/tags/opening comment - please people: let's read before we react, eh?)

Do have a cup of tea and calm down Benjee. Personally you can keep the sift anyway you really like really.

No we do read and understand but you should also read and understand when i was in school the definition of a documentary was objective: emphasizing or expressing things as perceived without distortion of personal feelings, insertion of fictional matter, or interpretation; "objective art". Or according to PBS, refers to film or video that explores a subject in a way the public expects to be factual and accurate.

Personally I just hate the way the word documentary is being used as of late as alot of people call their 9/11 conspiracy ladened videos documentaries, they called this a documentary, they called Fahrenheit 9/11 a documentary when it really wasn't.

Makes me sad that everytime I watch something informative these days I instantly have to check if they are not BSing me in some way or the other.

Sorry (a genuine apology this time!) The above was a drunken comment of despair - constant sniping comments on my Sifts gets a little tiresome at times (of which you're responsible for many, Farhad).

And like you aren't?

Boys, girls, please!! Trying to build a docudrama!!

Wonder how many spiritually lazy folks pshawed this clever creation at first gawk...

I didn't know about the cult angle; interesting. Still, upvote just b/c it's notable enough - I wonder if the Rams want cash or want the vid up, though? We'll find out when we find out how long this one stays alive, source-wise.

Also adding this one to the controversies thread.

"Pseudo-science" sounds good to me.

OMFG, the 13:45 clip about ships and natives is hilariously stupid.

If this vid already had 10 votes, I might now downvote it - but I wanted to allow people to have that privilege by getting it on teh front page first. I'm funny that way.

From the article benjee posted, there's this link from the Ramthanans.
http://anon.salon.speedera.net/anon.salon/media/2004/09/response.pdf

What I find most amusing about all this is that when this was originally reviewed by local film critics they didn't mention this at all.

I think they panned it, but they didn't mention the cult stuff.

What they did mention was how "novel" it was to withhold the identity of the experts until the end - at which point you find out the big red woman is the cult leader.

Aha.

This has some good material on it

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_the_bleep_do_we_know#Controversial_aspects_of_the_film

Read about David Albert who gave the movie-makers an interview that was entirely in disagreement with the ideas of the film. His interview was cut up and taken out of context and put in the movie.

The poster did a good job of titling and tagging the video, but I wish this movie would go away, just in case people might actually take it seriously.

I agree with brain- hence my downvote. While I don't believe in supression, I also think that the fewer people that waste their time with this crap, the better.

who took iously??? just in case , hide the xanax...this ser

fun this was to watch, as the sandpaper on the brain, twirls whom it will.....

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Works fine for me (Google Video URL: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4328506305686135801)

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Seems to be working fine now.

Weird? Hey @lucky760 used this to fix embed but shows no fix although it indicated it has been fixed.
http://vimeo.com/35423497

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I demand you apply a power point to my account. Or a bitcoin.

Oh and I remember renting this thinking it was ..credible.

I was young, but interested.

Once I watched it again while older and learned more about it because I did not have such a slow internet connection, well darn.. they edited interviews to fit their agenda etc.

The video is a joke, a sham, just plain ol' bullshit that I feel bad for fixing. Damn. or for helping Eric fix, Eric and I made a mistake.

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