The reaction to the film was fantastic and the credits were treated to a standing ovation. You might be aware (and Rachel blogged about it here) that The Living Matrix features the noetic scientists, their research and the new science of healing, all of which play a key role in Dan Brown’s new bestseller The Lost Symbol.

Marilyn Schlitz, PhD, president of IONS, was at the premiere and was giving many interviews (I think she is going to be on Dateline in the next day or two). You can see a photo of her below.

The premiere was accompanied by a panel discussion moderated by Areille Ford, founder of the Spiritual Cinema Circle. On this panel were the film makers Greg Becker and Harry Massey, as well as Dr Eric Pearl, Marilyn Schlitz, Lynne McTaggart and Peter Fraser—four of the 16 leaders in Bioenergetics who are featured in the film. While scheduled to last from 9 PM to 10 PM the conversation was so passionate that it was still going strong when I left after 10:30. These are a couple of photos I took on my phone, and now it’s time to jump back on a plane and head back to Portland again!

Marilyn Schlitz, PhD, president of IONS, and Dr Eric Pearl

Cynthia Black and Craig Martin at the LA Premiere of The Living Matrix

This mention has the president of IONS receiving an overwhelming shower of media calls, and the filmmaker of The Living Matrix extremely pleased. Lynne McTaggart is mentioned, who also appears in The Living Matrix, and I’m sure she is finding herself rather busy too. On page 56, they talk about the consciousness project which is documented in our soon-to-be-released film Something Unknown, which shows that “the coalescing of millions of minds…effected the randomizing function of [Random Event Generators], organizing their outputs and bringing order from chaos.” As Dan Brown puts it, this concentrated human intention “[fuels] the claim that human consciousness, as Noetic author Lynne McTaggart described it, was a substance outside the confines of the body….a highly ordered energy capable of changing the physical world.”

The next paragraph mentions the ice crystal work of our own Dr. Masaru Emoto, concluding that “Human thought can literally transform the physical world.” The rest of the chapter speaks of how the discoveries of physics today have links to ancient texts and figures across the religious spectrum.

I found myself so pleased to see that the ideas and messages of many of our authors—new and not so new—and filmmakers have made it into the pages of a mainstream title. It makes the soul feel good to have been a small part in getting that out into the world. I hope Dan sparks more interest in these topics, leading people to look into these areas to decide on their own what resonates with them, and what doesn’t. The journey is absolutely divine.