"I AM" the Movie

[Ca.]

"I AM" the Movie Pt 1 of 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=CMj9N5Io0ts&list=PL944C5EB879C74E7A#!

I AM
_http://www.iamthedoc.com/thefilm/
is an utterly engaging and entertaining non-fiction film that poses two practical and provocative questions: what’s wrong with our world, and what can we do to make it better?

The filmmaker behind the inquiry is Tom Shadyac, one of Hollywood’s leading comedy practitioners and the creative force behind such blockbusters as “Ace Ventura,” “Liar Liar,” “The Nutty Professor,” and “Bruce Almighty.”

However, in I AM, Shadyac steps in front of the camera to recount what happened to him after a cycling accident left him incapacitated, possibly for good. Though he ultimately recovered, he emerged with a new sense of purpose, determined to share his own awakening to his prior life of excess and greed, and to investigate how he as an individual, and we as a race, could improve the way we live and walk in the world......countined @ the above link.

 

[Gonzo]

Thanks for suggesting this. Here's what I'll be sharing on my blog regarding this movie:

I Am, by Tom Shadyac (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=CMj9N5Io0ts&list=PL944C5EB879C74E7A#)

Took some time to watch this tonight. It's moving and inspirational and I had a lump in my throat several times throughout the movie. The comedy film director, Tom Shadyac, who brought us Jim Carey movies like Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, Liar Liar and Bruce Almighty and other films like Patch Adams and The Nutty Professor, had a revelation after suffering from post concussion syndrome related depression. He wondered what is wrong with the world and sought to answer the question in a documentary, speaking to scientists, psychologists, artists, environmentalists, authors, activists, philosophers, entrepreneurs, and others.

While he identifies the societal shift from our cooperative and democratic nature to the selfish quest for possessing beyond our needs and disconnection from others and the environment as primary issues in our world, he also discovers much of what's right with our world, leaving us with a sense of hope and possibility.

It would have been even more powerful if he were able to uncover the source of the ailments, especially making the connection to the psychopath and their potent effect on humanity, but that knowledge obviously hasn't travelled far enough yet, since none of the interviewees mentioned it (much has been written about the effects of psychopaths and knowledge is slowly becoming mainstream. A good place to start would be Political Ponerology: A Science on The Nature of Evil adjusted for Political Purposes, by Andrew M. Lobaczewski).

The most fascinating portion of the film is the science behind the heart, the wealth of information it has been demonstrated to produce and the powerful magnetic field it issues. We are shown how our heart's field affects all life it touches. Probes connected to a magnetometer are inserted into a dish of yogurt and Shadyac is asked to think of things that evoke strong emotions such as talking with his agent, his former marriage and dealing with his lawyer. Each of these thoughts registered a spike in the magnetometer, leading us to postulate the mechanism by which we are invisibly affecting life around us and forcing us to consider the effect that we therefore must be having collectively on our planet.

Gonzo

Edit: typo

 

[SeekinTruth]

Thanks for sharing this. It was definitely worth watching. And I agree with Gonzo that the missing piece of the puzzle is psychopathy.

 

[Gonzo]

Just found a link to the full version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpVEH-Bpdes

Gonzo

 

[Ca.]

Just found a link to the full version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpVEH-Bpdes

Gonzo

Thanks, this is a better quality, and uninterrupted to boot, so me passed your copy, too others as well. :)

Also to my thoughts to you both, from what he shared your correct, that he did not come out, and discuss, or acknowledge the psychopath directly by word, but did show, The Good , The Bad, and The Ugly, as through visual snippets.

This might have been the best approach to help maintain his ability to sharing what the message was about in his coming of awareness of being, the monument of clarity, from an unfortunate, but fortunate, head knock.

There was perhaps also in his best interest (wee bit of speculation, and maybe projection on my part), to keep on the subject of what was realized (to keep the flame of the fire) that if he can do it, wake up, so anyone can without the danger of near death, if one is open, and willing, to take the responsibility of the light.

So it may have been important (do his close proximity to this element, and to keep his carrier, to continue to make thought provoking films) to work subliminally. Can not imagine that he was not totally unaware that Hollywood is (one of many) the predators paradise, a psychopaths playground, (next to Vegas).

And was concerned with PTB (mafia) that control the distribution of film's to the movie theaters might be trouble, for a wider audience. Thus making the psychopath acknowledgment by showing those that represent the light, and keeping of what the theme of his project was.

A forum for freedom, of limiting the martial world of bondage, of the sts platform of physical, and Spiritual slavery and a way to find the meaning of life.
;)

 

[Gonzo]

I often have difficulty expressing the value of something when I know it would have been even better if that something had added a significant component. So, I hope my comments didn't diminish my expressing how powerful and moving this movie was.

There certainly is truth that in showing the light, the darkness is further contrasted, and therefore more identifiable and this movie certainly shone a light.

One aspect that really stuck with me was the story of how a tribal hunter, after generations of hunters sharing their catch with their tribe, decides he should keep his catch to himself, since it was through his strength and skill. This idea spread to others hunters and soon, the weaker members of the tribe started to starve.

Showing how we moved from a natural state of cooperation and democracy to selfishness and plutocracy was a significant theme of the movie.

Getting people to see how we are no longer living in a way that is in harmony with our true nature could be a strong step in helping some people awaken.

Gonzo

 

[Ca.]

I often have difficulty expressing the value of something when I know it would have been even better if that something had added a significant component. So, I hope my comments didn't diminish my expressing how powerful and moving this movie was.

Getting people to see how we are no longer living in a way that is in harmony with our true nature could be a strong step in helping some people awaken.

Gonzo

No, all points are valid, there your certitude, feelings, and ideas, of how a recipe can be made, and then shared, 4 thoughts for education, without freewill violation, of the STO fundamentals of light.

 

[mcb]

I watched this movie last night, and I don't know if it was the fact that I was getting over a cold, or that I had watched Evidence of Revision the week before, or what, but it didn't impress me much. I guess I would have to see what effect it has on people that are just starting out on the questions that he poses.

 

[paralleloscope]

Allthough the movie had some good scenes, points and nice footage, it felt like it was catering for the 'we are all one' plateau, which isn't a bad thing as such- some sleepers may be guided out of lopsided definitions of human . But it knocks 'new age' with one hand and sort of directs it there with the other (Heart math). And of course, absence of the psychopathy factor is a serious lack of direction. I feel like a pessimist for knocking this movie, but I don't imagine it moving too much awareness.