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Date: 2004-08-31 18:30:44

Comment:

I have read all of the comments.  Given the various perspectives I am impressed with the emotion and feelings and questions that have been raised. Though there was some metion of propoganda I did not see it result in an examination. So, I have done as my handle suggests and would not mind hearing comments privatly from those who find my veiwpoint of interest and would care to comment on it.

The film was billed as a documentary at the theater I saw it at. There was a high school science teacher who brought his class. There were persons outside of the theater handing out flyers for workshops where one could learn the amazing powers of their minds.
A ranage of causalities from the film being made. I was not able to find out who the flyer passers were, they dissapeared upon me asking some questions. I quess their minds could not handle or they did not want to address the simple who, how, and whys of my questions.
WHen I go to see a documentary, I go on the basis that it is a film covering real events. This movie was certainly not doing so. This is a number one problem for me. It is a false premise from the get go. Sure, it might have been a bit entertaining if I had been in the mood to be entertained. Still even after a few min. I tried to change my mind that I was looking at a creative story. But it kept changing back and forth attempting to be at one moment a scientific reality and the next a fantasy. Then I was cvonstantly trying to figure out who was who, I did recognize a few of the players though. Only at the end when the credits were given and I saw "ramtha" did it ring a bel and I did a little digging. It did not take me long to discover that several of the experts though not credited with being handpicked teachers in this ramthas school were the ones who had been given most of the camera and voice time. I wondered why, Then in the bio of one of the film makers it said he had been a student of the zen master rama, I e a gentleman who before he committed suicide was also known as fredric lenz and accused by many of being a manipulative , abusive cult leader. The other film makers also turned out to be students of this ramthas school. The vision that one creates their own reality is also a foundation in the teachings of this school. so, it begins to look like a duck, smell like a duck and quack also. Speaking of Quacks, this school besides teaching this which is only the hook into a much darker reality filled with a world of govenment conspiricies and aliens among us, survivalism so that the students can recreated and repopulate the world after the apocoypse.
You may think if I had known that up front I wouldn't have gone to see the film....on the contrary, it would have made it a much more interesting viewing for me because of its propoganda value. Go see it by all means, do a little digging on your own. There is nothing better the a good peice of propaganda to educate ones self. As far as the ideas...read a book, go to the library, I know this is getting more difficult in this aqge of instant gratification, otherwise, continue to not pull the curtain back from the wizard of oz...perhaps toto did have a higher state of conciousness.