What the bleep do we know!?

I finally got around to watching the movie What the Bleep Do We Know. The movie combines an interview style documentary with a rich, highly visual drama. The movie was interesting, well made, and even funny and entertaining at parts. The authors of course arrange everything to present their world-view, which was certainly provocative in part. For the most part, however, the ideas resonated well with my beliefs including the ideas:

• Science has it's limits and we must find meaning at a higher level
• We are here, in our present state, in a form of Godly infancy progressing towards a higher form of Godliness.
• We must learn to overcome our body, it's addictions and cravings.
• We must overcome guilt and find a place where we don't desire to do destructive things to begin with.
• We are all connected in subtle, yet powerful ways.

Some things that I was fascinated by included:

• The discussion of how we can have a tangible affect on reality through our thoughts/faith. Don't expect this to be scientifically proven anytime soon though.
• The observation that we can perceive back in time but not forward, or simply that things somehow move one direction in time.

It's a stretch that the conclusions they drew were necessarily derivable from quantum mechanics as the film's interviewees imply. Instead, what conclusions they might have gotten right are probably laws that naturally surface through the search for truth as we hit the borders of what science understands. Because of these borders, science is and always will be ultimately based on belief at some level. In other words, the foundation of science, as much as we may delude ourselves to believe is based on absolutes and facts, is in fact founded on philosophy and faith. Consider, for instance, the idea we all take for granted that a mathematical formula can somehow reflect reality. When not taken for granted, this fundamental idea becomes enigmatic. Why is it that using numbers, we can make such accurate models of reality? Is there something about nature itself that is somehow a numerical manifestation?

The point is that science, as useful a tool as it is, isn't the best place to find an answer to the question that we most care about: what is the meaning of our existence? Science cannot assign meaning to things, it can only describe and model things. The illusion of meaning coming from science is only the humanity of the scientists themselves showing through. Science in it's purest form is cold and meaningless. We humans infuse science with meaning; think watching "I Love Lucy" on a heartless machine made of metal, glass, and plastic. Humans thrive on purpose and meaning, not because it serves some evolutionary cause, but because we are at a higher level of consciousness than mere evolutionary machines. It is meaning that makes us so alive and gives us our spark of Godliness.

This movie reminded me somewhat of David Hawkins' levels of consciousness.