Vol. 4 Issue 1
May, 2008


From The Filmmakers

Interview with John Raatz
Nature: More than Meets the Eye

Miceal Ledwith
The Gods of Men

Lynne McTaggart
Intention: an effect like starlight

Movie Review
In The Shadow of the Moon

Book Review
A Thousand Names for Joy

Recommended Reading

Letters to the Editor

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May 2008

From The Filmmakers

By Will Arntz

Help - my shirt has an Owner’s Manual!!!

It was probably 10 years ago. I had bought an “outdoor hiking shirt” with some special something so that I wouldn’t end up like a prune after days in the great outdoors. OK, that sounds good. But low and behold when I unpacked it an Owner’s Manual fell out! Not a simple care and feeding tag, but pages and pages of how to use the shirt, what vents to open when, the best wicking strategy for a variety of conditions, UV conversion charts for various altitudes and probably recycling considerations - but I may be exaggerating, or not.

Interview with John Raatz

John Raatz and his Visioneering Group have been championing an Enlightened Media longer than just about anyone. Ten years after he promoted some groundbreaking films (described below) he found the What the BLEEP filmmakers and convinced them to bring him on board to promote the film. The filmmakers were 4 months into their self distribution and realized they needed a real professional to bust into the next level. Which with John Raatz and David Langer and the rest of their crew, they did. That was then - what about now????

Nature: More than Meets the Eye

By Katie Elliott

I was staring out a window, high up in the mountains in Colorado. My lap top wasn’t cooperating for about the fourth time that day, my blackberry wasn’t getting any service, I was sick of all 39 days worth of songs on my ipod, there was nothing on TV, and so I had nothing to distract me from gazing out and just observing. I was watching tiny snowflakes falling and hawks circling above huge pine trees. A rabbit ran across the field past a single little wildflower in bloom. It was amazingly beautiful and it hit me then that I hadn’t even given it a minute of my time because of all the electronic gadgets taking up space in my attention.

Special Event

Visit Bleepstore.com at booth 522 and catch special screenings of the films WATER and THE VOICE. Water is being screened at 6:00 pm on Saturday. and The Voice at 4:00pm on Sunday. Click here for more details.

Bleepstore.com May Specials

The Scalpel and the Soul by Allan J. Hamilton, M.D., FACS - A Harvard-educated neurosurgeon reveals his experiences-in and out of the operating room-with apparitions, angels, exorcism, and after-death survival, and shares the lessons he learned. A young burn victim remains in a coma until a ghost appears. A doctor discovers he can predict when a patient will die. A clinically dead patient later recounts extraordinary details about the private lives of her caregivers. These things really happened and neurosurgeon Allan J. Hamilton was involved in every one of them. Based on thirty years of medical experience, The Scalpel and the Soul tells the unspoken stories behind remarkable patients and strange events, and shares the moral and spiritual lessons found in them. bleepstore.com.


Discovery of Glow - In the 300-year-old town of Iridescent village, lives Lumina Osity, an imaginative nine-year-old who loves science and astronomy. She lives in an old lighthouse, where the stars shine brightly almost every night. One evening, as she is trying to go to bed, she finds herself scared and alone struggling to fall sleep. After imagining space travel to other planets, Lumina realizes that she is feeling stellar and “glowing”. Finally she is able to fall asleep. This experience leads her to embark on a quest to find out more about the ability to glow. Could it be that glow is somehow directly connected to feelings? And, will Lumina be able to use her scientific abilities to truly explain the glow phenomenon? Amazing experiences offer her clues to the secrets of glow, and with the help of her friends, the mysteries begin to unveil. Ages 7-11. bleepstore.com.


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