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...acquire material goods. In one segment, a kid who wants a red BMX bicycle cuts out a picture in a catalog, concentrates real hard, and is rewarded with the spiffy two-wheeler. The Secret"is like having the universe as your catalog," says Joe Vitale, who is called a "metaphysician" in the film but whose website bills him as "Mr. Fire" - a marketing consultant with the power to sway consumers with a "hypno-buying trance." "The get-rich-quick parts really bothered me," says Bodhi Tree buyer Harmony Allor . "It's my hope that people won't use creative visualization...
...great American metaphysician Chuck Jones discerned some years ago that the universe operates in sequences of violent Newtonian reciprocities. Jones dramatized his ideas in the famous Wile E. Coyote-Road Runner Dynamic: Coyote sets in motion giant boulder A, which whistlingly descends into a canyon to strike seesaw lever B, catapulting giant boulder C into orbit...and so on. Jones' work is a bridge that carries Isaac Newton across into Chaos Theory...
...sufficient ego. "Only at 50," he admits, "did I fully realize I wanted to be an actor." At that point, Yes, Minister made a star of Hawthorne, who bears a striking resemblance to Ralph Richardson. In the past few years Hawthorne found roles that fully challenged him: as novelist-metaphysician C.S. Lewis in Shadowlands and as George III. The former brought him a 1991 Tony Award; the latter earned him, in the same year, London's Olivier Award. He is still deadpan-dismissive about his craft: "You have to understand that throughout life I have more or less played...
...talented Speech is no metaphysician, nor a messiah. But the ideas he and Arrested Development present, borne on soulful rhythms and profanity-free lyrics, are refreshing and intriguing...
...child is a precise metaphysician. He (or she) writes down name, house number, street, town, state, ZIP code, country . . . and then, to be exact, "Planet Earth, the Solar System, the Galaxy, the Universe." Creation is an onion with many skins, all layering outward from the child's self. If he gets lost in the galaxy, he can find the way back, can fly through the concentric circles to his own house -- from outermost remoteness to innermost home. Nostalgia means the nostos algos, the agony to return home. What got broken long ago in Ernest was his charts and instruments...