Alexandra Bruce:

Chica Bruce wrote the paperback companion volume to that movie, What The Bleep Do We Know?, entitled Beyond The Bleep. The movie has a lot of talking heads arguing unconvincingly the New Age proposition that "we create our own reality", and somehow basing this on quantum theory. Quite a chore, considering that quantum theory originally set out only to explain equilibrium distribution of electromagnetic radiation in a hollow cavity. Beyond the Bleep has more than a talking head, however-it has a thinking mind. Steamshovel readers will remember that Chica has explicated the Montauk/Philadelphia Experiment material more clearly than any of its associated personalities (Preston Nichols, Al Bielek, etc.). While movie viewers may come away with questions about how or even if quantum theory, as well as advances in neurology, heal Marlee Matelin's broken heart in the movie, Chica tackles the contradictory issues head on: "Is an affluent person, living in a cushy gated community in Sedona superior at 'manifesting' the infinite creative potential of the universe than a slum dweller in Kinshasa? When 'spirituality' gets confused with wishful thinking, combined with Middle American values and judgments, we have a problem..." (She also deals quite thoroughly with the criticism that the film is a propaganda tool for the Ramtha group, declaring herself "resistant" to its motifs.)

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