What the Bleep Do We Know!?: Discovering the Endless Possibilities for Altering Your Everyday Reality | 
 enlarge | Authors: William Arntz, Betsy Chasse, Mark Vicente
Creator: Jack Forem
Publisher: HCI
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Media: Hardcover
Pages: 274
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Dimensions (in): 9.6 x 7.4 x 1
ISBN: 075730334X
Dewey Decimal Number: 204
EAN: 9780757303340
Publication Date: November 1, 2005
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Condition: Hardcover. Binding is tight. Small and large tears in dust jacket. Moderate wear to cover. Some pages show wear. Writing on inside of cover.
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Product Description
Gravity sometimes doesn't work.
Some things are both waves and particles. . .at the same time.
Electrons simply disappear . . . all the time. If the universe is this wild and unpredictable, so full of possibility, why are your thoughts about your own life so limited? Hundreds of years ago, science and religion split apart; they became antagonists in the great game of explanation and discovery. But science and religion are two sides of the same coin. They both help explain the universe, our place in the great plan and the meaning of our lives. In fact, they can only begin to do that adequately when they work together. What the Bleep Do We Know?!TM is a book of amazing science. With the help of more than a dozen research and theoretical scientists, it takes you through the looking glass of quantum physics into a universe that is more bizarre and alive than ever imagined. Then it takes you beyond, into the outer-inner edges of our scientific knowledge of consciousness, perception, body chemistry and brain structure. What is a thought made of? What is reality made of? And most importantly, how does a thought change the nature of reality? This science leads not just to the material world, but deep into the realm of spirituality. If observation affects the outcome, we aren’t merely part of the universe, but participants in it. If thoughts are more than random neural firings, than consciousness is more than an anatomical accident. A higher power exists, but is it truly out there? Where is the dividing line between out there and in here? This is not a book of definitive answers. This is a book of mind stretching questions. It is a book that shows you not the path, but the endless possibilities. Do you think you have to go to the same job every day, do the same errands, think the same thoughts, feel the same way? Well, think again.
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 Really good Physics, then Some Other Stuff January 16, 2006
John Matlock (Winnemucca, NV)
92 out of 109 found this review helpful
I'm a physicist, or at least that's what my college diploma says. So it was with great interest that I picked up this book. I found it very interesting. I also found that there were great parts that I simply skipped.
First the good parts. The descriptions of quantum physics, told here without mathematics are as good as I've read anywhere. Some of the stranger effects like the ability of the electron to change orbits in an atom instantly, travelling faster than the speed of light, is very well described. So is the discussion that (and to a certain extent continues) split the physicists into two camps when quantum theeory was developed.
The other part of the book that I skipped is when they seem to get very involved with trying to relate physics with religion, specifically the new age religions involved with chanelling the 'thoughts' of a 'priest' from 35,000 years ago.
I think the physics descriptions so good that I'll recommend the book. I just skipped the new age cult stuff.
It's all about possibility... January 3, 2006
a reader (St. Louis, MO)
29 out of 35 found this review helpful
There will always be skeptics, especially when the topics raised are so controversial. But I would also say to these skeptics that they're missing the point of this entire book and film: possibilitiy. The point is to challenge our minds, to explore the possibilities.
Some critics have focused on the segment where it's stated that the brain doesn't recognize the difference between a real object and the thought of that object. Of course most of us know the difference between what is real and what is imagined. That's not the point here. What we should consider after hearing a statement like this how amazing the human brain is and perhaps study it further.
I know many hard-core scientists shy away from "New Age" ideas and the types of possibiliites presented here. But what this book intends to show is that science and spirituality can be compatible and that an open mind can lead to growth on many levels.
Check out the official "What the Bleep" web site. They recommend books on every topic mentioned in the film. And by the way, only 2 of the scientists in the film/book are associated with Ramtha. And you don't have to believe everything you read or hear in order to find this book (and film) fascinating.
So what's the worst that can come of this? People begin to ask questions and start reading more about science and spirituality. Sounds like a healthy education to me.
Great Book for Bleepers September 5, 2006
Flatwoods (Atlanta, GA)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
If you liked the video, you'll love the book. It expands on each topic discussed in th video. I just got the new "What the Bleep; Down the Rabbit Hole extended version" video and noticed that some of the new video material are the same interviews printed in the book.
A Work of Art and Science April 6, 2008
Moonstone Star White (FL, USA)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I love this book because it is not only thought-provoking and paradigm-shattering (and how I love exploring new paradigms!), but it is a beautiful work of art in itself. The watermark backgrounds, the illustrations and the celestial colors make this book a sensory delight. The sidebar quotes and interesting juxtapositions of art and text make this book easy and pleasurable to peruse without actually having to sit down and read to enjoy it.
This book is full of thought-provoking ideas about the nature of reality, spirituality and quantum physics. Of particular interest was a segment about the studies done by Dr. Masaru Emoto and outlined in his book "The Hidden Messages of Water", which demonstrates that thought and intention change the characteristics of the water itself.
There are many quotes from respected physicists peppered throughout the book, as well as the movie the book is derived from. I found the movie to be more entertaining, but the book is great for just picking up to ponder an idea. You can open the book anywhere and find interesting ideas to think about without necessarily reading it cover to cover.
I'm glad to see this melding of science and spirituality begin to hit the mainstream. We've always known intuitively that they cannot exist separately. To me, this is the only way life makes sense.
The discovery by scientists years ago that the observor of an experiment actually influenced the outcome of that experiment was only the beginning of a radical change in our collective understanding of the workings of consciousness. This book and movie demonstrate very powerfully that thoughts and beliefs shape the reality we experience, both individually and collectively.
Moonstone Star White is the author of High Way from Hell: Using Emotion to Fan the Fire of Enlightment, a book that explores the creation of reality through the attracting power of feeling held in the subconscious mind.
*****If Knowledge is Power, this Book is Radioactive***** April 4, 2006
John Jay Harper (Spokane, WA United States)
40 out of 54 found this review helpful
As a retired electronics engineer, I thrilled this past summer to see the movie What The Bleep Do We Know?! but now to see this mind-opening topic-in-printed form, too. Why, it's almost too much too fast for some of us scientists that were taught in the Old School House to take onboard at once. Overall the full-length feature was a creative, playful way to address the many paradoxes one finds as we try to switch our perceptions between our macroscopic realm of physics and our microscopic quantum realm of metaphysics where mind and matter converge it seems. While the movie starred Marlee Matlin, who did a fantastic job of keeping me interested in the twist and turns of the plot, this book did the same only in words. The interviews conducted with the physicists were fascinating. For example, they chatted with Amit Goswami, Fred Alan Wolf, and William Tiller to name but a few, and displayed the artistic work of Japan's Masaru Emoto as contained in his newly-translated into English book The Hidden Messages in Water. Specifically, after all was said and done through these masterful media-works in whatever form they took to teach us the new physics, the bottom-line truth was the same for me. We are entering into the Age of Aquarius--The Water-Bearer--where water in all its liquid, solid, and gaseous forms will be used to dissolve and reshape our global society because our minds imprint their intentions onto water molecules and our world is made of water. Now if our choices of consciousness create our reality, there's something to deeply-ponder as super oceanic storms ravage our planet's coastlines and the icebergs in Greenland begin to melt faster and faster according to the latest news reports in 2006. It seems to me therefore that more of us need to learn how to read the tea leaves, the "signs of the times," for ourselves--if we are to survive the apocalypse that ethnobotanist Terence McKenna delcared would happen in 2012 where we would all experience "the interiorizing of our body and the exteriorizing of our soul." That is to say, we shall become the beings of light that had their origins in the everlasting waters of our Sun.
Dr. John Jay Harper is the author of Tranceformers: Shamans of the 21st Century and the DVD Science of Soul: The End-Time Solar Cycle of Chaos in 2012 A.D.
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