“What the Bleep Do We Know” is an alternative way to view reality

When I was 19 0r 20 I used to love this documentary. Since then I've learned more about physics and the mechanics of the universe, and this expanded understanding has only led to a greater appreciation of this film.

For Christmas a few years ago I was given the expanded version of this film where a lot of the experiments which led to a better understanding of the fundamental principles espoused in this film are explained in greater depth.

Imagine you are a scientist and you put on a white lab coat and some smart looking glasses and dress in such a way to look like a scientist who commands respect. And then you invite other people to your fancy looking laboratory. These people are your unwitting test subjects. Nice people. Maybe a bit gullible... not horribly stupid. And you as a scientist with your fancy lab coat and your lovely laboratory seem awfully impressive and credible to these nice test subjects. You tell these people that you are testing something like the magnitude of brainwaves. But, make it sound official. Make it sound good and scientific. Make it sound convincing. Have you got them eating out of your hand yet? Have you practiced your self-assured “I'm a very successful scientist” smile. Perfect. You look charming and smart. I think the test subjects are buying it. So, tell them the machine you have on the desk is a way of gauging the intensity and magnitude of brainwaves. And tell them the machine will on its own randomly produce ones and zeros in about a fifty:fifty ratio. Tell them to pick either ones or zeros and then focus their thoughts on making the machine produce more ones or zeros. For example, dear test subject, if you focus your mind very hard on making it produce more ones, it will produce more ones. What your test subjects don't know is the machine is just a random number generator which is supposed to produce roughly an equal number of ones & zeros. Nothing beyond that. But because your test subjects believed you, they focused on creating more ones. And the machine started producing more ones. And when the statistical evidence was analyzed at some specific rate of significance, the data was conclusive... that their thoughts must have played some role. Thoughts produced some effect on the outcome of a machine's supposedly random number generation.

What are the implications of such an experiment? They are pretty fucking cool.

That's just a taste of what is being studied and considered. Just a little, tiny droplet in the ocean..... Fun stuff to think about.

So here is a link to watch the film free on hulu. As always, I don't know how long the link will work. Reality is constantly in flux. If the link stops working, maybe google it? Here is the link...

http://www.hulu.com/watch/490980

Life is your garden. Dig it.

Wishing you everything that is wonderful on this beautiful, crazy collection of particles that is floating in this amazing universe.

an alternative view on fluoridation (alternative to the american view... most other developed nations already know better)

I am still searching for an alternative to drinking fluoridated water. I would buy bottled water, but the plastic molecules that are ingested when we drink from bottles are also toxic. I have been buying Italian water in glass bottles because I know Italy, along with most European nations, does not fluoridate their water. But the store where I buy them is closed today. Happy New Year.

I know for a fact that fluoride, when ingested in such concentrated doses as are found in American tap water, has adverse effects on the circulatory system and the pineal gland in the brain. Google it, if you would like to know more. I've already been reading about this for years. The info is out there if you wish to study it in depth.

And, I do have a filter on my tap... It does remove some impurities. but I know it does not reduce the fluoride I consume. And I am still showering in the stuff every day. It is stressing me out. I'm drinking herbal tea right now, and herbal tea is stressing me out because I know I am drinking way more fluoride than I would like.

I would like to think that in the future I will have figured out a better source of hydration and not have to stress so much. I was buying filtered water for a few years when I first moved up here, but even though it claimed to be filtered via reverse osmosis, I was skeptical of the actual quality of the water. So, I bought this filter. Either way I am sure I am still not drinking the quality of water I would like.

And since I am stuck at home with this stressing me out until my grocery store opens tomorrow, I thought I could post this link to a video about fluoride so that I might share some of the insights that are stressing me out right now. And hopefully we can find an alternative to adding fluoride to the drinking water sometime soon...

Or maybe I'll move and find a better source of drinking water/ get an awesome filter installed and stop stressing out.

But for now, here's the link.

 http://fluoridealert.org/fan-tv/10-facts/

Wishing you a wonderful New Year.

eta: google adsense posted this on my blog...

http://purewaterfreedom.com/osc/

thanks, google.

Edited to also add:

I moved and now I get great water, sans fluoride, from Aunt Ellen's Water in Imperial Beach. I have a big, glass, 3-gallon bottle and a cool water basin. I still want to get a filter for the shower... Or, just have the local water supply not be poisonous... But, hey!