The movie “What the Bleep Do We Know” is trying to illustrate the connection between the physical and the immaterial worlds. Human everyday life consists of many routines and necessary things that are mostly physical such as work, school, a number of chores or minor responsibilities, and hopefully sleep.
The person is consumed by the fast-paced world and involuntarily distances themselves from the inner world (What the Bleep Do We Know?). This busy lifestyle leaves no time to think about the spiritual side of life. But in reality, there is a close connection between the material and the immaterial worlds and they are united in an individual. The immaterial world is a place of feelings, thoughts, and concepts. It is what makes a person who they are. They were not the ones who consciously created themselves so it must have been some other Natural force. A human being puts their own personality and physical world together and makes it one, creating something that did not exist before. This individuality is very unique, which people often call “the soul”. The perspective that a person has decides everything. If someone sees themselves as overweight or not good-looking enough, this view is reinforced by the self and the person focuses all their attention on the negative aspects of the body or mind. Because it happens so often it becomes almost impossible to view yourself as anything different. But if a person decides to take their life into their own hands, think about the positive sides, and make an effort to work on anything that worries them, then the outcome will be absolutely positive. The brain’s impulses will realign into a new schema and change the rest of human beings accordingly.
A somewhat similar idea is presented in the movie “The Secret: Law of Attraction.” For some time now it has been speculated that thoughts are material. In the real world, this is true but unnoticeable to most (The Secret). An interesting fact is that anything, an object, an animal a person, first starts with an idea for that entity. For example, a table did not just appear out of nowhere. First, there was an idea, an image of a table in the brain.
The way it looks, its proportions were visualized mentally, creating an idea of the table. And when a person decided to make that table, he manifested his idea into a material object. The table itself is an extension of something absolutely immaterial. The moving force of this is the want of a person to create or do something. Exactly the same process takes place when someone wants something else. They have to be positive about it and visualize the object. Even if it is not physical at first, the “wave” of a person’s feelings and emotions will be directed towards that object and “attract” it. It is also a fact that people who are optimistic, find the way out of problems much easier than those who do not even try and expect failure from the very beginning, saying that “it will not work out anyway”. In life there are two types of people, those who look for excuses—this cannot be done because of this and this, and there are those who look for solutions to accomplish something. In reality, there is an eternal amount of possibilities and one of them always brings the desired result to the ones who ask for it.
A very interesting perspective is analyzed in the movie “Waking Life”. For the longest time, it was thought that when a person goes to sleep the brain shuts down and the body processes rest in a dormant state. But how then would it be possible to describe dreams? In the present times, scientists have proved that during sleep there are very many processes that actually increase their functioning.
When a person sees a dream, these can be thought of as fragments of life, needs, and wants of an individual (Waking Life). Previously it was speculated that dream state is very real and everything that happens in the dream is as real as the material world and this is true.
There are numerous books and articles that teach how to control your dreams and use them to understand yourself more and the world around you. Nothing in the universe happens without a reason. The intricate mechanism of dreams is there for a reason. How can a person see images during sleep if the eyes are closed? This proves that in “some places” people see not with their eyes but with their mind and soul. A gut feeling, intuition, and the ability to predict certain events are all examples of the unknown immaterial world that exists inside every one of us. The outlook or the philosophies of life guide the person through it. The ability of self-realization gives the person a chance to better themselves in numerous ways for eternity, without ever reaching a limit. This world is a mysterious and powerful place, which bases everything on the immaterial, images, feelings, emotions, and the rest—the physical world comes only after…
References
The Secret. Ex. Prod. Paul Harrington. Melbourne, Australia: Prime Time Productions. 2006. Film.
Waking Life. Ex. Prod. Tommy Pallotta. Los Angeles, United States: Fox Searchlight Pictures. 2001. Film.
What the Bleep Do We Know? Ex. Prod. William Arntz. California, United States: Roadside Attractions. 2004. Film.