The movie's sub-title is "A Film on the New Science of Healing". The central claim of this science documentary is that a so-called quantum- physics body-field is intimately linked to our health and healing. The movie ends with expert Peter Fraser claiming that there is a "viable scientific theory" providing that link. Harry Massey, the film's executive producer, has acknowledged that the science does not exist (see Harry's message on the "infoceuticals" topic on the discussion page of the facebook user "thelivingmatrix"). Science is hard, but the existence of scientific research is very easy, and none exists to back up this claim.
In many places, experts claim that quantum physics is the only way to explain how certain things work. Horsefeathers! I have deconstructed several of these in my review of the film on floatingbones.com (note: 2 blog entries about the movie).
If you watch this movie, make sure your finger is poised over the PAUSE button on your DVD player. If someone makes a claim you don't understand, pause it immediately and check it out. Part of the technique that documentaries like this do is to stack so many ideas in rapid- fire succession that you can't evaluate an of them.
The expert statements are dubious, but the most smarmy of all is the narrator. He reads lines like:
"Other researchers theorize that the heart may be the master organ for imprinting information into the body field."
"The body's holographic body field is continually supplied with information via the pressure waves of the heart."
"This control system is sending out information to the body via the body field."
His lines are almost more convincing than the experts, because he says the things that "everyone" knows. Mr. Narrator's claims are just as dubious -- if not more dubious -- than any that the experts say.
The emperor wears no clothes, but work awfully hard to convince you that he does. That's why I give it 1 star.
6.6Plot summary
Our film, The Living Matrix - The Science of Healing, uncovers new ideas about the intricate web of factors that determine our health. We talk with a group of dedicated scientists, psychologists, bioenergetic researchers and holistic practitioners who are finding healing potential in new places. The documentary brings together academic and independent researchers, practitioners, and science journalists whose work reveals scientific evidence that energy and information fields, not genetics, control health and wellbeing. These include internationally known healer, Dr. Eric Pearl; cellular biologist and former Stanford University professor Dr. Bruce Lipton; author Lynne McTaggart, and former U.S. astronaut Dr. Edgar Mitchell, among others. Through in-person interviews and dramatized video vignettes that document the stories of people who recovered from chronic illness - including a five-year-old boy born with cerebral palsy, an osteopathic doctor with a brain tumor, and a housewife bedridden with chronic fatigue syndrome - the film demonstrates the effectiveness of bioenergetic medicine where traditional medicine has not succeeded.
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Fails to deliver any science on its central claim
Confirms what many of us have suspected for years
So much of "science" is stuck in old paradigms that the 'powers that be' cling to so as not to upset the status quo. Open your mind and watch this film, realizing that many of the concepts presented here in 2009 have been proven again and again.
provocative, informative mix of edge science and "spiritual" healing
Over a dozen articulate scientists and healers present theories, anecdotes and results of rigorous experiments, including cures that aren't explained in our traditional understanding of biology and medicine.
Similar in many ways to "What the Bleep Do We Know?" - including extensive use of animation to explain ideas about fields, physics and the body.
Several of the experiments were conducted in California's Institute of Noetic Science, and several of the scientists interviewed work there. The Institute, founded by astronaut Edgar Mitchell, is also described in the new Dan Brown book "The Lost Symbol" where the characters are fictionalized. But its research is real. Mitchell, resident scientist Dean Radin, and director Marilyn Schlitz all appear. Very thought provoking!