The line of movie-goers stretched around the block at the Bloor Cinema last Wednesday, all waiting to see a special screening of What the bleep do we know?, a computer animation-fueled foray into the field of psychoenergetics.
The film presents a fictional story line that helps relate the scientific information through documentary-style interviews with experts in the fields of quantum mechanics, psychology, biology, and spirituality; that, and some impressive computer animations and visual effects that help illustrate the concepts being introduced.
The screening was put on by The Learning Annex, a continuing education school that sponsors seminars with provocative and progressive thinkers. It was followed by a discussion with Dr. William Tiller, a University of Toronto PhD graduate whose research and advancements in the field of psychoenergetics provided inspiration and a partial basis for the film.
Tiller, a professor emeritus at Stanford University, in the department of material science, has been involved in academia for over 34 years. He has published over 250 scientific papers, 3 books, and has several patents in his conventional science field. During this time, he has also pursued serious experimental and theoretical studies in the field of psychoenergetics, which he thinks, “will become a very important part of tomorrow’s physics.” In this area he has an additional 100 scientific papers and two books.
“I decided to invest a portion of my time to seriously look at the area described by many as psychoenergetics, the paranormal, psychic phenomena, etc., and to do this in parallel with my professional work in the area of materials science as a Stanford University professor,” said Tiller.
He divided his research time for this venture into thirds, giving equal energy to developing his spiritual self, and meditating on how “seemingly crazy phenomena” could coexist with our “more accepted and understood conventional physical phenomena.” The final third he devoted to “designing and conducting experiments to keep the theory honest.”
“My overall goal was to build a bridge between the conventional territory of science and this new, strange territory, and to make it strong enough that my colleagues might be willing to walk across the bridge and join in the exploration,” commented Tiller.
Tiller’s working hypothesis, as inspired by his research into the areas of psychoenergetics, is “that we are primarily elements of spirit, indestructible and eternal and multiplexed in the divine. As such, we have a mechanism of perception, which is a ten-dimensional mind domain. In turn, this mind mechanism creates a vehicle for our experience-our cosmos, our local universe, our solar system, our planet, our physical bodies, etc. This is all a ‘simulator’ for our experience which we view from the spiritual level of self which is outside the simulator.”
His hypothesis goes on to state some fairly profound concepts with the primary insight being that human consciousness, specifically human intention, can interact with aspects of our material reality with measurable and substantial effects.
“I’m talking about a pathway to human evolution-scientifically, and socially,” Miller explains during our discussion. “We are all co-creators of this reality and one of most important things that can be learned from this work and the film is that we can, and need to, become more aware of our power in this co-creation.”
Miller admits that he cannot absolutely prove these theories, but there hasn’t been any falsification either. And maybe this situation is, as he states in the introduction to his paper “Conscious Acts of Creation: The Emergence of a New Physics”, like that of Copernicus and Galileo. “In-the-box scientists,” he suggests, need to look “through the telescope at the data of these experiments in psychoenergetics.”
Miller goes on to write in that paper, “Today, we once again have abundant experimental evidence concerning nature’s expression that is being “swept under the rug” by the scientific establishment because it doesn’t fit into the current prevailing paradigm.”
