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Down A Rabbit Hole
19 · Apr · 2007
A few years ago when I was going through a particularly devastating time in my life, I was at an art show talking to a friend and when she asked me how I was doing. Having little self-respect left, I looked at her quite seriously and said, “I think I might be having a nervous breakdown.” This wise, hip and happy 40-something woman (who I admire immensely) looked at me with a smile and said,“Good” then walked away.
It’s interesting that each time I go through some painful experience, much of what I think I know to be true is found to be a flimsy guess based on my limited knowledge of the way life is. I mean, I’m no scientist. I’m no relationship expert, either. But I guess you already knew that.
MJ and I watched the movie What The Bleep Do We Know this past weekend and I have to tell you – WOW. We don’t know much. Check this out:
Quote from the Movie, "What the Bleep Do We Know!?"
"The average person considers their life boring or uninspiring because they've made little or no attempt to gain knowledge and information that will inspire them. They're so hypnotized by their environment - through the media, through television, through unattainable ideals of physical appearance, beauty, and valor that everybody struggles to become but cannot - that most people surrender and live their lives in mediocrity. And they may live those lives, and their souls, their desires, may never really rise to the surface. So, they may want to be something else.But if they do rise to the surface, and people ask themselves, Is there something more, or Why am I here? What is the purpose of life? Where am I going? What happens when I die? When they start to ask those questions, they start to flirt and interact with the perception that they may be having a nervous breakdown, and in Reality, their old concept of how they viewed their life and the world starts to fall apart."
Dr. Joseph Dispenza

It’s true; I am perhaps a little crazy. I have always left that option open. But I am not as crazy as I thought I was. In fact, I’m starting to think I should have majored in Quantum Physics.
If you haven’t seen What The Bleep Do We Know, I humbly suggest you Netflix it right away and hold a screening party. I promise you, it will spark loads of interesting conversations.
“What I thought was unreal, now for me... seems in some ways to be more real than what I think to be real... which seems now more to be unreal.” - Fred Alan Wolf
Posted by Penny Rene at April 19, 2007 10:36 AM
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That is my favorite movie! I first saw it a few years ago in one of my grad school classes titled Integrative Psychology and Postmodern Pathfinding. It was so validating and fascinating to watch. I have always believed in that stuff and it's so exciting that science is now proving it. I have seen it nearly 7 times, watched it with clients, recommended it to everyone, used it to screen out dating partners, etc. You learn something new everytime you watch it. And, that IS the direction I'm taking my career in....
Posted by: Natasha on April 19, 2007 11:44 AM
i love this movie! i admire how the one guy in the film discusses how he creates his day each morning before he even gets out of bed. it is a struggle to become/remain the constant creative force in your own life--- but i'm working on it :)
Posted by: jess on April 19, 2007 03:44 PM
