Dave Emnett

9/18/05

Theology



What the Bleep’s Quantum Field vs. Scot Peck’s Maps

In the movie, What the Bleep Do We Know, the idea that all the different possible worlds that one could be living in are in the quantum field all the time, is illustrated. Every decision we make in life, every breath we take, every person we speak to or look at, and every path we take effects what will happen the next second, the next hour, the next day, and the rest of our life. Each decision affects what world we will live in, all of which are there in the quantum field. M. Scott Peck’s ideas about maps align almost perfectly with this idea. He says that our view of reality or how we see our world is like a map. Peck says, “If the map is true and accurate, we will generally know where we are, and if we have decided where we want to go, we will generally know how to get there. If the map is false and inaccurate, we generally will be lost.” (18) Our map of reality affects which world we chose to live in. In the movie they say that we are conditioned to think that the external world is more important than the internal world. Transference, from M. Scott Peck, is an idea very close to this. Our transference is the way we our conditioned to see reality as a child. Usually, in this day and age, we are more focused on appearances. In Choosing a Map for Life, there is an example of a man who has trouble with authority. This is because when he was a child his parents continually let him down. He became conditioned to this so much that that was all he knew. He realized that he could not trust his parents. However, when you are a child your parents are all you know. So he came to believe that he couldn’t trust people. This was his transference and the world that he became conditioned to live in, one of many worlds in his quantum field. The movie tells us that there are different levels of trust and that he deepest level is unity. This man’s truth that he could trust people was altered by a bad unity with his parents. In Choosing a Map for Life, Peck tells us the “truth can overcome Transference.” (22) If we can find the deepest level of truth, unity. Then we can overcome our transference and we can choose the world in our quantum field that we want to live in.

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