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week.
Just hours after
Mount St. Helens
steamed, Brian
Binnie landed
SpaceShipOne in
the Mojave Desert
HARRY
KIRSBAUM and won a $10 mil-
lion prize for its
Columnist
backers.
He also complet-
ed the first big step toward making
space travel as routine as a flight to
Fort Lauderdale.
Well, it might be a little more
expensive, and you might need to use
that airsickness bag in the seat pock-
et, but it's likely you won't have to lis-
ten to a screaming baby and you
might get served a real meal instead
of pretzels — but I digress.
Every photograph taken from
space, whether from a previous shut-
tle or the Hubble Telescope, shows us
how small we are in relation to the
universe.
Imagine how the world will look
from space by those with the means
to see for themselves, and imagine
how miniscule our problems will
seem when faced with a view like
that.
We don't often get a chance to
think beyond our day-to-day lives,
but sometimes we need to get some
perspective.
Those who can't afford space travel,
only need to see What the Bleep Do
We Know!? an "indie" movie that
began appearing at small movie hous-
es around the country last week.
The meaning of life, the power of
positive thinking and the role of
quantum physics is masterfully
explored by professors, physicists, sci-
entists and others within the storyline
of a harried and depressed wedding
photographer played by Marlee
Matlin.
This is not your normal documen-
tary.
Matlin's struggle is interspersed
with "meaning of life" theories and
beautiful special effects that explain
their points. Those who were inter-
viewed were not identified until after

Harry Kirsbaum's e-mail address is
hkirsbaum@thej ewishnews. corn

the credits rolled.
You saw some wearing lab coats
and some speaking in their offices
with books on physics and the sci-
ences in the background. You heard
their message, and they all made the
same amount of sense because there
was no outward way to judge them.
One scientist made the case that all
the diets and exercise in the world
won't make you healthy unless your
attitude is healthy first.
To show the limit of the mind's
eye, another used an anecdote of
what the Indians "saw" when
Christopher Columbus and his three
ships appeared on the horizon —
nothing.
The sight was beyond their com-
prehension, and they only saw it after
their shaman noticed it first.
One makes a case for science over
organized religion.
Another says that we all have the
power to change the world.
We all have our ideas of who we are
and why we're here. We just don't
make time to think about it much.
And that's the best thing about the

"What the Bleep."
The audience applauded at the
movie's end, but it was different than
the negative and cynical applause I
heard after Fahrenheit 9/11.
People left the theater in good spir-
its.
"Buzz" for the movie started in
recent months through yoga centers
in California.
I'm not a New Age type. Yoga does-
n't help me — it causes back spasms.
But this movie is worth seeing, and
I'll buy it when it comes out in video.
Along with the gloomy news of
war, divisive debates and the constant
threat of terror we faced this week,
we also saw space travel come closer
to a regular person's grasp and we saw
the power of a volcano.
I saw a movie that put things into a
positive perspective.
Although you might not agree with
every position, What the Bleep will
make you think, and it will cause you
to smile.
It has the same message as that
great Zen philosopher Ferris Bueller,
who said, "Life moves pretty fast. If
you don't stop and look around once
in a while, you might miss it."
How can you argue with that? ❑