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Date: 2004-08-26 01:07:43

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you illustrate quite beautifully that when you expect something, you do infact get it. isn't that what this movie is about? creating through expectation (and the conditioned expectation of the body)?
i'm an professional artist and i know that one can only create viable art through vision and focus. I see this creative process as a microcosm of the way one creates reality.
i have done exercises where i have 'created my day' as talked of in the film, and very strange coincidences would collaberate in my life and give me specific circumstances which i focused on and visualized before-hand, things so specific that i couldn't deny that they were somehow a direct manifestation of my vision and focus. isn't that how olympians do what seems to be impossible to the rest of us? isn't that how cities are forged?-- all things start as an idea, all things around us are thought materialized, someone's dream made concrete.

again and again we see that the poets and visionary dreamers often put theories forward that are then substantiated by science years later. i happen to like the theories put forth in this movie, because they work for me, i find that they are useful and pragmatic. that is all the 'scientific experimentation' i need. hard evidence, in the form that i have seen my vision take specific form, not just in my art, but also in my life.
and so what if these theories also smack of the fanciful? i'm sure that many people thought that the young man with uncombed hair and socks that didn't match was also fanciful when he thought of e=mc2 before he substantiated his vision with data. many scientists come up with visionary theories, and then must go back and back them up.

besides, science is mostly theory in some very real way, because whenever you observe something you change it-- so what are scientists really observing anyway?? to dissect something you have to kill it.  art and poetry have something very real to teach us about embracing the mysterious, rather than cutting something apart in order to 'figure it out' to death, a la scientific practice.
besides, it's much more fun to think about the possibile, if only as an exercise in imagination and hope. and if this movie empowers people to adjust their thinking and stop being slaves to their cells' addictions to stress, sex, and substance abuse-- if this movie encourages people to get beyond conventional thinking and gets people thinking outside the box-- then i don't give a shit if the science if as thin as a coat of cheap paint-- at least it's something dynamic and creates a ripple effect. it's so funny when people make fun of 'self help' or things that 'empower' because they think it's not cool to try to improve yourself, or open yourself up to new thoughts and ideas-- doesn't it occur to the nay-sayers, that if something's helping someone function more dynamically then maybe that's a good thing???? if something works and it helps me, then i'll use it.