What the Bleep Do We Know

Discovering the Endless Possibilities for Altering Your Everyday Reality

By: William Arntz, Betsy Chase, Mark Vicente

Narrated by: Suzanne Toren

Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins

Publisher's summary

Everyone is still talking about the movie What the Bleep Do We Know!? Now comes the audio edition of the book based on the mind-boggling movie that grossed $11 million in the U.S. alone. As the movie did, this book compels listeners to ask themselves Great Questions that will recreate their lives as they know them.

With the help of 14 leading quantum physicists, scientists, and spiritual thinkers, this book guides readers on a course from the scientific to the spiritual, and from the universal to the deeply personal. Along the way, it asks such questions as: Are we seeing the world as it really is?What are thoughts made of? What is the relationship between our thoughts and our world? Are we biologically addicted to certain emotions? How can I create my day every day?

What the Bleep answers this question and others through an innovative new approach to self-help and spirituality that's far different - and more exciting - than anything else you've heard. More than 20 short, focused, interactive chapters take listeners on a journey that will integrate the answers to these Great Questions into every aspect of their lives.

©2005 William Arntz, Betsy Chasse, Mark Vicente (P)2010 Audible, Inc

Critic reviews

"Anyone considering the nature of consciousness, intelligence, reality, or attitude adjustment will find this packed with insights and lively discussion, which is surprisingly easy to access considering the weight of the matters under review." ( Midwest Book Review)

Mostly Just Boring

This book is mostly a collection of Post-It quotes with some rather thin connecting narrative. In themselves the quotes are interesting and can lead the mind down some great tangents, but the same material is available in better form elsewhere, like in self-help books and better popular science like Hawking and Sagan. The authors admit that the juxtapositions are somewhat random, and I find it very difficult to follow their train of thought, if in fact there one.

Most troubling to me are the omissions -- while they are almost totally negative toward Christianity and almost totally positive toward Eastern religions, they ignore Judaism and Islam, and they quote major Christian thinkers like Tillich and Aquinas without attribution. They reference quantum theory repeatedly (and their point seems to be cross-disciplinary fertilization), but they seem unaware of the existence of Paul Dirac, the physicist who provided much of the theoretical underpinning of such quantum concepts as black holes, string theory, and antimatter. Winner of the Nobel Prize in 1933 (shared with Schrodinger, who is referenced repeatedly), Dirac's method involved the attempt to reconcile classical physics, general relativity, and observation of sub-atomic particles. Such glaring holes create a sense that the authors really have no idea what they are talking about.

Yes, there are major thought shifts going on right now and many fundamental assertions are being challenged. This happens every few hundred years, and that's what makes history so interesting. But understanding how people in other times and places think takes much more than a few insights, and reductionism is trivialization.

The greatest challenge of our age is opening our minds to these thought shifts while remaining passionately committed to truth. Without this commitment, we are subject to the political manipulation of alternative facts and fake news, all delivered in breathless Gee Whiz!!! pronouncements. Eventually I decided that this book just isn't worth my time.

Not as good as the video

While I thoroughly enjoyed the documentary video and got so much out of it, this audiobook was a flop for me. I could not keep myself engaged and was thus easily distracted by anything that came into my mind. Regrettably I have to give it a “no” from me in all areas.

Not the movie

Any additional comments?

Though I really like the movie and have seen it several times, I found this book to be disorganized and boring.

I tried to listen but gave up

What would have made What the Bleep Do We Know better?

If it hadn't been written.

What do you think your next listen will be?

Fiction

How could the performance have been better?

I don't know

What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?

What a waste

Any additional comments?

It was recommended to me by someone else. I won't pick another like it.

Attacking straw men

I'll admit it, I couldn't finish this book and didn't even come close. I made it halfway into chapter 3 before I had enough of the self-flattery and the nonsense attack on scientist straw men that the authors seemingly sees everywhere but I personally never have come across once. From what I could bear to read, it seems all scientists view people exclusively as 'machines' and ignoring all other aspects of the human existence. The authors even made a link between the inquisitions burning and the scientist, somehow accusing the scientist of taking control over the narrative of human understanding. I just found the critique uneducated, meaningless and without respect for the people who has been on the fronline of creating our modern world. In the beginning of the book the authors claimed they were surprised by some attacks on the film the book is based on from the scientific community. That they were surprised by this is probably the biggest testimony to how ignorant this authors are.

What a waste of time and money, but if you like stuff like The Secret this book surely will fit your needs.

Groundbreaking

What disappointed you about What the Bleep Do We Know?

This work, written in part by a 35000 year old Lemurian, is groundbreaking in the sense that it brings a heretofore uncharted dimension to the concepts 'speculate','conjecture' and 'jump to conclusion'.

Ramtha is fictitious ravings of a mad woman p

"Ramtha" (the name is claimed to be derived from Ram and to mean "the God" in Ramtha's language) is a reputed entity whom Knight says she channels. According to Knight, Ramtha was a Lemurian warrior who fought the Atlanteans over 35,000 years ago.[20] Knight claims Ramtha speaks of leading an army over 2.5 million strong (more than twice the estimated world population at about 30,000 BC) for 63 years, and conquering three-fourths of the known world (which was allegedly going through cataclysmic geological changes). According to Knight, Ramtha led the army for 10 years until he was betrayed and almost killed.[21]"
These people cite this person countlessly throughout this book like it were actually fact. These people are out of their minds and this entire book is produced by cult followers of this crazy lady who claims she can channel god.

struggle to finish the first part

The audio skips as the person reads.
therefore I can't stay Interested in reading.