What the Bleep do We Know!?

How does the Story of Amanda illustrate M. Scott Peck's ideas about "maps"?

“What the Bleep do We Know” and the story about Amanda connects to M. Scott Peck’s Article, because Amanda is a living example of M. Scott Peck’s theory that we all use the “maps” in our mind in our daily lives. Amanda, portrayed by Marlee Matlin, has a problem, and that is she can’t get over her husband and how he cheated on her shortly after their marriage causing them to break up. She is reminded of this all day and it dreads her and affects her behavior towards others. She looks at love a whole different way, because of what happened to her she thinks that love is phony and everyone in love is just like her cheating ex –husband, and from this she bases her hatred of weddings. When she is forced to take pictures at a wedding for her job, she is very negative and even complains to her boss about the assignment. She goes to the ceremony and takes pictures of the couple saying there vows and she is disgusted, because she believes that what she is seeing is all an act and that this marriage will turn out just like hers. Then at the reception, she sees the groom winking at a bridesmaid. All of a sudden she sees the image of her wedding all over again the lens of the camera, this is the image of her exchanging vows with her husband and we see her husband smiling and winking at a woman in the congregation. Then we see her walking in on her husband and this woman having sex on their bed. Because she has this map in her head, she thinks that history is repeating itself and this groom is going to cheat on his wife. She is so overwhelmed she wants to scream, so she goes over to the bathroom and sees two people having sex through some fogged up glass, so immediately she thinks it’s the groom and a bridesmaid. This troubles her even more than ever, so she goes out to the dance floor and yells at everyone. All of sudden there is silence, and she tells someone standing next to her that the groom was already cheating on his wife. Then as soon as that comes out she sees the bridesmaid and another person come out of the bathroom area who had just been having sex. She realizes that she was wrong and that history doesn’t always repeat itself. Amanda’s mind was greatly altered during this experience, because she relied on the “map” in her head to do all her thinking for her. She now sees the world the way that she thinks it is all because she was affected by an experience. Now that she sees the world in this way, she has created a map and she depends on the map to always be right.