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I wrote this book, he sighs to the camera.

Marlee Matlin in What the #$*! Do We (K)now!?

The HBO series focus on Vicente is one of its most maddening if understandable choices.

But this framing doesnt give a sense of just how weird the 2004 filmWhat the #$*!

Do We (K)now!

What the #$*!

Do We (K)now!

Do We (K)now!

Included alongside these figures is a blonde woman with a fluctuating accent who turns out to be J. Knight isnt introduced as Ramtha the first time she appears on screen.

Neither she, nor any of the other dozen or so talking heads inWhat the #$*!

Do We (K)now!

As a movie,What the #$*!

Do We (K)now!

A year and a half afterWhat the #$*!

Do We (K)now!

People not on the woo-woo wavelength ofWhat the #$*!

Do We (K)now!

?tended to see it as a bemusing oddity.

The parts have so little connection and fit together so strangely that the movie seems to be channel surfing.

This is not a bad thing, but wondrously curious,Roger Ebertwrote.

It was treated as harmless, though it wasnt entirely, with its anti-pharmaceuticals bent.

The film concludes with Matlins character triumphantly binning her anxiety meds after achieving enlightenment.

and she decides her sickness is psychosomatic in its origins and quickly recovers.

And in that sense,What the #$*!

Do We (K)now!

This isnt about mystical beliefs and howling at the moon and holding a crystal.

Do We (K)now!

?feels constructed with an understanding that it needs to legitimize Ramtha by putting her alongside more mainstream experts.

For Raniere, one route to making himself and his organization respectable came from courting the Dalai Lama.

I dont have a lot of high-level credentials, but I think Im a good scientific thinker.

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