I just finished watching it again... ok, maybe the woman who hears voices from that god from thousands of years ago, MAYBE. But still, the movie makes so many good points, like about how everything is connected, and the world is just made up of potential.
There's a lot of BS in that movie! I discussed it online with a bunch of science geeks who debunked a lot of that crap.
like what??? i'm really interested because I've heard that a lot of the movie is crap... but it seems so amazing... so where did they get these facts, and what is and isn't true? links?
The woman you're thinking of is Judith Zebra Knight (not her real name). She believes (supposedly - I think she's a charlatan/lying, as opposed to nuts) that her initial incarnation was a super-powered entity named Ramtha, who battled as a leader in the first war on Earth, weilding a giant, magical sword. She is also one of the hate-filled mystics who preaches that HIV/AIDS is a cosmic punishment for homosexuality. Quantum physics is confusing even to quantum physicists. Like neurology, there are still many question marks to be found within the science. For this reason, anti-science types like "Ramtha" adopt it as a way of falsely qualifying their nonsensical theories. The reasoning is approximately: "Science cannot explain the precise functioning/mechanisms of X, so there MUST be flying telepathic goblins on Venus". It's astounding to me how often, in modern times, the experiencing of a mystery can promote belief in the supernatural. In ancient times, it's understandable that lightning was perceived as evidence of giant gods hurling spears of light down from the sky, but this is the twenty-first century. Peacelove, Aldousage
Yeah, the old "uncertainty about something = evidence of anything" argument recurs with sickening regularity these days. People so desperately want some mystery back in their lives, which I can understand, but those who peddle it really do seem to have the worst motives and the least respect for their customers at the moment. But yeah, between quantum physics, string theory and multi-dimensionality, the 20th and 21st century has never been more ripe for those who wish to disguise mysticism/just plain lunacy as science.
but I have to say... what if her story was true? Wouldn't that be awesome if it happened to you? I don't know, but when i heard her telling her story, while i was skeptical and didn't believe too much of it, i just thought to myself... what IF some spirit warrior from another dimension millions of years ago made contact with me and showed me enlightenment, the spirit world, etc.?
alright guys. so i just stumbled upon this thread. i have seen this movie. that was a while ago, but since then ive done so much research on ramtha, quantum physics, magick, all that and after i saw the movie i had the same thoughts. let me straighten this out for you... so after this movie, a good friend of mine had a spiritual experience that changed his life forvever, he realized that he could hack the quantum field like a video game and rewire his brain into believing that he could do magick. but anyway, let me tell you about ramtha she sounds completely fuckinggg psycho. yeah, twinkies prolong life, she did say that. ha. when you look at that from face value, it just looks like some lunatic preaching about nonsensical shit for money. which it is. but shes fucking genius. you see, people think her group is a cult because they don't understand, people take this shit too seriously, or too literally. that's the problem for example, let me explain the twinkies. now ramtha believes that the mind is more important than the body in a sense, and you can reverse the signs of aging through...mental stability, so to speak. now we all know that twinkies are bad for your body, right? well, ramtha doesn't know that, so when she eats twinkies, she says to herself, "oh, wow! im so fucking healthy!" which in turn, makes her healthy. sounds crazy right. yeah, i know. and thats magick. it's the same concept of, "you make your own reality" or in robert anton wilson's words, "we're all stuck in our own reality tunnel"...and it just falls within as a metaphor. her health was manifested through the...twinkie... now for me, twinkies are unhealthy because i know [or think] that they're unhealthy. when i eat them, i say to myself "oh shit, im gonna die from eating this." and in turn, i will. thats why i dont eat twinkies. theyre disgusting anyway. and ramtha, is also a sarcastic bitch, you must understand, she likes to toy with people. so when you think that she is insane, she kind of feeds of your...misunderstanding.... so she pretty much just uses narrow minded people for her own entertainment. which is not nice. but anyway... the movie is definately biased, but look into alternate forms of magick information if you are interested. aliester crowley: the book of lies, and magick is good. And it may be surprising, but robert anton wilson offers a more scientific, literal look on magick, especially in prometheus rising, which is actually about the evolution of human consciousness, but i find to realte to the subject thoroughly. this completely explains magick...probably better than i did watch the whole thing!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdlVyAC55g4 ^there's 5 parts, by the way amazing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfdUrGTSFls ^robert anton wilson is in that https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpSqrb3VK3c ha.
You can get that from Deleuze and Guttari, but to be honest they probably don't make much more sense.
gee, thanks for clearing that up for me...i guess it wasn't as blatantly obvious to others as it was to you and i? let me ask you something spooky; would you trust a person that abused animals and shot dope to watch your children? to fix your plumbing while you weren't there? to hold your money for you? to give you an honest opinion? to be sane? crowley was a quack. his poetry was interesting at least, but as far as "magick" goes, uh...it goes nowhere.
Actually, I was going to say that the one thing I know for definite about Crowley is that his poetry is pretty bad, in so far as any poetry can actually be good. I dunno, there's a lot of people prepared to believe any nutter specifically because he's a nutter. Hang around a forum for long enough and eventually someone will make that dreaded argument, that all geniuses are regarded as madmen. The leap in logic - that all madmen should therefore be assumed to be potential geniuses - is astonishing.
i think i might of watched this movie your talking about i thought it was all right is this about quantum physics? i watched the three peices to that the one where there just talking about well i watched it from front to back i should say 3 different ways of taking it in there is probably people that take stuff like this way to serious
alright, its not Crowley's job to fix my plumbing or watch my kids, because he's dead, and that's not why i even mentioned him, all i said was that he wrote an amazing book about magick. He's one of the best contributers to the occult, not my babysitter. talk shit.