What the Bleep

Following my last post about firing neurons, I watched the DVD What the bleep do we know, the other night. It was fascinating. It was based on the concept of quantum physics - and encouraging us to re-look at the world that we take for granted, to question our being in the world. It reminds us that we live in a uncertain world, that is plastic, that is able to be changed and manipulated purely by thought. Big concepts huh? But to a certain extent it is very true.

I mean you need to take things carefully, and not blindly believe everything it says - but the film states this themselves. They are presenting some opinions to get you thinking - they don't say that what they say is true, they encourage you to make up your own mind. But for instance they present a finding that a Japanese man, Masaru Emoto happened upon. He claimed that water changed it's physiological properties when thoughts (words of intent) were directed towards the water. He showed this by sending words of intent towards bodies of water then freezing it and take a microscopic photo of a single water droplet. The positive words/thoughts showed beautiful crystalised forms and the negative thoughts/words showed grotesque and ugly forms. Some of the forms are indeed beautiful and spectacular, I have shown one below which takes the form of "thank you"

Anyway Mr Emoto does go on to say that transformed water, if it is positive, will then have healing properties and he goes on to try and sell the secret to releasing the thoughts of water and I highly doubt this is true, I mean it could be but from further research (googling) it seems he hasn't tested it enough in a scientific setting. He also hasn't passed James Randi's 1 Million dollar test (this is to the healing claims). But I do believe that they are quite confident that water does change shape and this is what is quite amazing in itself because it means we actively affect our world, which has been supported in scientific settings time and time again and this is the remarkable point that to me is far more weight to it.

We actively affect our world.

So often we think we are passive players, take for instance the healing sell from the concept of positive thought water, people buy into these types of offers because we are all trying to look for the external answer that will help, change, decide the path for their lives. In fact, people are so passive and become so complacent and believe they have no control and inevitably it becomes a truth, the brain and body physiologically change in accordance to this belief, and ironically the 'observer' has just controlled his/her life into being controlled. How amazing is that concept! If you don't look at the world differently after that then you are blind and cannot read.

Actually let's take the concept of vision and perception to further explore the unbelievable beings that we are. Basically, we operate like a machine - we are data collectors and users, we do not see with the eyes but with the mind (Shakespeare knew this when he wrote A Midsummer Nights Dream! Sorry I'm digressing, back to it). Scientists have shown by mapping our brain, that when we see something and when we imagine something, our brain is doing the exact same things in terms of information processing - so there is no difference between what is real and what is unreal, we understand something to be there because we have a built a collection of infinite information in our minds, assisting us to understand what something is and to consciously acknowledge that it's there - we have created neural networks for quick referencing. And those neural networks can be different for everyone based on experience, why are they different? Because we create understanding, we are not born with it only the capacity to create it. So you see the brain is plastic and it can change. I won't go into now but if you care to know more about neurons firing together and wiring together then Norman Doige's book The brain that changes itself is a bloody good place to start.


But back to seeing, are things visible if we don't have a reference point for them or the ability to access the information for them? There is some experiments that have shown this may be correct. This all shows us that our realities are indeed ours and different from others. So we have created our reality which means we can change it, we just need to be conscious of it to change it and thats where I think we are lacking but when you are conscious of it - life become amazing because the simplest and smallest intricacies of life will seem different and complex, constructed and changeable - we start to live in a really dynamic world full of infinite possibilities.

The very next morning I went to have breakfast with my friend who is a casting manager and she told me a story from her work. She was running out of time to cast her final actors and the director kept asking her to get more people because he didn't feel comfortable with the people she had already put forward, however she did not have time to find more people, get their profile pictures and put them forward for submission. So she became conscious of her choices, and how information may look to her director. There was one actor that she thought would be great but he had not passed the photo test with the director - she resubmitted all the same people but different photos of them, and she had all the photos looking away and the actor she wanted she used a photo looking directly at the camera. Not only did the director (after scrutinizing mind you over these photos) not only not know that the submissions were all the same but he chose the person she wanted out of the 20 faces. Was it magic? no, it was psychology in action, it was understanding our brain and using it's skills or rather lack of skill to save time. Magic, no. Incredible, yes.

Next time you make a choice - become conscious as to why you are making that choice. does it remind you of something? Have you chosen it before? Does it relate to something in your life? Is it attached to a positive memory? Are you repeating the choice because you make to any of your choices unconsciously?

Only when we become conscious, do we really understand the infinite possibilities of ourselves and our lives. We hold the most powerful tool ever known, and it's sitting right behind your eyes.

xx