Reviews

It's a blatant propaganda film.

This movie selectively presents favorable and pseudo scientific data to validate the point of view of the 3 directors. (William Arntz, Betsy Chasse and Mark Vicente) who also are the writing crew and the producers. They ignore contradictory information to their asseveration's, and therefore, they produce slanted conclusions. I think that the principal difficulty for the producers was to find the panel of experts suitable to their needs. The three directors are students of the Ramtha School of Enlightenment, and JZ Knight (one of the principal "experts" of the panel) is "by coincidence" Ramtha.

One of the others principal experts is the Ph.D. in physics John Hagelin, who was famous in 1994 for receiving the parody of the Nobel prize called the Ig Nobel. He received the Ig Nobel in peace, for his "experimental" conclusion that 4,000 trained meditators caused an 18 percent decrease in violent crime in Washington D.C. (see the information at http://www.improb.com/ig/ig-pastwinners.html#ig1994). He is chairman of the Physics Department at Maharishi International University in Fairfield, Iowa. The University was founded by the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the Indian guru who vaulted to fame and to the money, after becoming the spiritual adviser to the Beatles. JZ Knight (or Ramtha) appears frequently in the film. She appears to be a scientist or spiritual teacher of some kind. By the end of the film, during the credits, she is identified as the spirit "Ramtha" who is being "channeled" by "JZ Knight." Knight was born Judith Darlene Hampton in Roswell, N.M. The spirit, Ramtha, who she claims to channel, is "a 35,000 year-old warrior spirit from the lost continent of Atlantis and one of the Ascended Masters". I'm sure she doesn't have an idea what the Schrödinger equation means, what is the idea of the black body radiation, the structure of the Plank constant or at least the concept of a wave function (some of the most elemental basics of the quantum mechanics). As the purported experts speak throughout the movie, they make several references to concepts, ideas, and alleged facts about quantum physics and other specific items. However, they make little to no effort to explain what these things are. With those unclear references, they arrive at distorted and fiddle conclusions, like the relation between consciousness and the material world, or that human beings have the capability to create their own reality; Dr. Miceal Ledwith even asserts that human beings have the capability of walking on water. Other expressions of ambiguous or unexplained meaning used by the "experts" include "infecting the quantum field", emotion as "holographically imprinted chemicals", "antigravity magnets", "the observer of reality is a spirit in the four layered bio-body suit", etc. All of the expert's panel participants have previously been involved in promoting similar and pseudo scientific ideas. Their presence in the film represents the filmmaker's efforts to find scientists sympathetic to the film's ideas. Given the selection process, the scientists do not represent the general scientific community's views.

In conclusion, this documental is just propaganda.

Excellent worked film. A jewel in the cinematography of the dance, particularized mainly in the state of the soul in which the body is taken to its limits. That is the ecstasy, that is the dance. The edition is a superior job, the relationship between the images and the audio one, allows seeing an arduous and fine choreographic work of the editors and the producers. The camera is an alive spectator that allows to confront to the real spectator with the interpreter and to participate in communion with the deep perception that takes until the exhaustion of the danced body at the end of the film. In this trip around the world of the dances of ecstasy, perhaps they are not all the dances in this movie, but those that there is, are very representative. There are not dialogues, just some few texts in French and German and small narration in German at the beginning, but they are not necessary because this movie is movement, image and audio. It is Dance. Highly advisable movie, especially if one loves the dance. It is difficult to rent or get a copy, but is available in the P2P technologies programs like eMule. Sorry for my English grammar, but it is difficult to express the personal thoughts in a foreign language.