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Date: 2004-09-27 20:08:46

Comment:

One of my clients, struggling for survival in a world of anguish and unsufferable pain, saw this movie and had a diagnosable hypomanic experience.  Nevertheless he begged me to see it, and in an effort to respect the integrity of his struggle, I went.  But only with some reservations, since I was aware of the connections to the Ramtha cult, which made me highly suspicious of any ostensible scientific objectivity in the material.  Watching the entertaining visuals and graphics, it made me think about the caveat about  impressionable naifs who are swayed by signs and wonders, those who seek the truth of human nature and transcendent identity in colorful patterns and mind bending illusions.  Whatever the scientific credibility of the various commentators, they lose respect when associated with a pathologic example of pseudo religious narcissistic grandiosity such as JZ Knight...An individual with as serious a distortion of Essence as has ever clouded the minds of sincere seekers in any age, new or otherwise.  As for the film itself, there is nothing in this pastiche of concepts which isn't already covered, with much greater objectivity, in The Dancing Wu Li Masters, or in The Tao of Physics...and many other sincere and serious works of that caliber...But our pseudoshaman Ramtha would have us all associate these profundities with her, and then attempt to manipulate us into believing that she is the One who Awakens us to the ships.  It is a sad and seriously deceitful process by which great evil attempts to use partial truth to distort and manipulate the minds of the credulous and easily impressed -- even if sincere -- seekers of a Reality which actually does exist, and which will exist long after Ramtha and her cohorts have been consigned to the nonexistence from which her narcissism springs.