A math phobic writer attends Fred Alan Wolf’s physics seminar
Fred Alan Wolf in Australia. Click image for larger view
After attending the What the BLEEP / Prophets Conference in Vancouver, B.C. in August, I lingered an extra day in order to attend Fred Alan Wolf’s day-long seminar. Sitting in a packed student lecture hall in the university, old math and science phobia neuornets dancing in my head, I dutifully flipped over the writing arm on my chair and settled in.
Not to worry. Fred’s lecture was as distant from my old science lab days as Altair. I mean, how scary can a physics class be with PowerPoint cartoons running all over the place, and an impish professor who blatantly uses the word Spirit in the same sentence with quantum foam, and who can admit, “For years I was caught in the fear of being a recovering academic. Now I’m much more willing to be an asshole.”
From getting a grip on the Observer to parallel universes, from quantum leaps to Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity, Fred makes the world of physics assessable. Like String Theory, his mind stretches all over the place. But his numerous forays into distant topics always spins back into the subject at hand with a philosophical and hardnosed lesson in how the realm of particle physics works. His easy-to-grasp graphics and explanations gave me unforgettable insight into the relativity of time. And now I can say honestly and with fervor, I get quantum leaps.
Fred Alan Wolf has several classes designed to take wannabe physics aficionados as deep down the rabbit hole as they want to go. He does a half or one day lecture, a weekend seminar, and depending upon the interest and motivation of the students, a week seminar. “Usually people just want to get a taste,” says Fred. “They want to have a least a working vocabulary of this stuff so they can think about it.”
Fred will be in Australia this month for two weeks on a five city tour presenting ideas about a spiritual universe; the soul and quantum physics. For information check out: fredalanwolf.com
A Bleep study group starts in Mexico City
My name is Ricardo Fontanot, and I am the leader of our Bleep Study Group in Mexico City. We decided to meet on Saturday, September 10 th, 2005. The expectation was big, as many of us already saw the film and almost everybody had been commenting about this marvel of today. For many of us, technology, science and related matters are not our field of interest, and of course we thought it is nothing that has to do with spiritual teachings at all.
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Before this great film was seen by people all around the world, nobody taught us to pay attention. But in science miracles are happening that impressed us very much. And, in fact, miracles really happen in life. They happen all the time, because, as you can learn from the film, we are all somehow connected to each other and to things, and to the whole universe!
Ricardo Fontanot
Miracles actually happened before the first study group session even began! Only science has the explanation about why the experiences didn’t respect time and the logic of who knows whom, etc. But before, during, and after this great day my wife, Rocío Berny, created her day all the time. She does dubbing for those US TV programs and shows that are aired in Mexico, in Spanish, of course. A director had been treating her very, very badly. In disregard to common attitudes, however, while creating her days, she always pictured the atmosphere at that company as being nice, friendly, surrounded by human warmth and understanding. Nevertheless, she had a hard time to forgive the man of his behavior. It was not easy. Bad feelings and memories came, all the time. But she managed to talk friendly to her mind and practice detachment. I helped her as much as I could.
What happened? She learned from friends that the man in question was not seen for a while at the dubbing company. Had he been asked to leave? Who knows… But let’s listen to Rocío’s declaration in writing, when I asked her to express her experiences with What the Bleep?!:
“Since approximately the past 23 or 25 years of my life I have been working with myself, passing through metaphysics, neurolinguistics, Silva Mind Control, etc.. During all that time I had the hope that all this knowledge might be true in practice. After the film What The Bleep Do We Know?!, I have the certainty that the power of altering my reality isn’t an act of faith, it is my right as a Human Being.”
My wife and I feel more and more connected. The other night I had a dream where I entered a “discussion” with Rocío. When she woke up, the first thing she said was, “Where you angry with me this night. I had that feeling…”
The other day, I was very concentrated typing at a computer at the University where I teach German, in a room packed with students. All of a sudden I had the feeling, the certainty (I don’t know how to express myself) I have no idea why, that a fly was on the hair of the person next to me. I looked to my right and there it was, right in the middle of her head. How could I have seen this? Then it came to my mind that what is in our field of vision contains some 400 billion bits of information, but our knowledge contains only some two thousand.
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