This is a different review than I had planned on only because it touched me so deeply.

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I went to a movie today. I used to go to the movies a lot…when they weren’t so crowded. I don’t enjoy it as much anymore.

This movie, though, was worth it. There were only 6 people in the entire theatre but the movie was intense.

I went to see What the #$*! Do We Know!? It’s part documentary, part drama and it deals with quantum physics, the effects of ourselves on our own state of being, and how we can affect change in our lives.

It’s a powerful movie.

One part talked about the Message of Water. A scientist exposed water to certain messages…like The Chi of Love, Thank you, and I hate you and I want you to die. What came from this experiment is amazing. The water samples that had positive messages were astoundingly beautiful. The ones that had negative messages were odd and different and there was apparently something wrong with them.

One person in the film says (paraphrasing), “Our bodies are mostly made of water. If we can project positive thoughts into that part of ourselves, imagine what we can do.”

The links between quantum physics and spirituality are intense.

The thing that touched me the most, though, was in our emotions. One scientist (most of the interviewees were physicists or medical doctors or psychologists) said that we become addicted to a specific type of emotion and cling to that because we know how it will manifest itself. If we’re used to being the victim, if we engage in bad relationships, if we are angry, our synopses begin to ignore any other messages they receive and only work on those types of emotions, the most predominant ones.

They said that the only way to overcome this, to change the ways our synopses behave, is to change our reactions, change our behaviors, to have willpower against those things we know are destructive for us. They said this is the hardest thing we can ever do…but it is worth it.

I liked, most, though, that we can affect change by finding the positive…by loving ourselves…by finding beauty in every day things.

I like those kinds of messages. They make my heart smile.

I also liked the link between the scientific and the spiritual just because I’m such a science geek. Heh.

When I went back to school, I knew science was where my heart was…but I also knew that I needed something that spoke to me. I ended up with a major in linguistics (I graduate with my bachelor’s next spring and will go straight into grad school after that). My minor is in geology. I covered science on both sides of the spectrum: social and hard.

Anyway…this film spoke to me because of that on some level.

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