Quantum Physics, the basics

The movie, "What the Bleep Do We Know?," could easily be titled, "A Dummy's guide to Quantum Physics." For most people (myself included,) while the movie illustrates some excellent points about new research on the true nature of "reality," the topics are so foreign that the viewer walks away with a vague feeling of having their world turned upside down without the legitimate facts to explain why or how it happened. Some of the basis for the claims in this educational movie can be found in the following statements:
1. Matter is not static and predictable.
2. Particles appear and disappear all the time.
3. The theory of quantum superposition explains that particles exist as a wave.
4. Matter is not matter until we perceive it, only tendencies and possibilities.
5. Both self imposed distance and overreaction prevent us from acting in the world as whole, coherent people.
6. We are physically addicted to many of our emotions. Every time we react the same way to the same stimulus, we reinforce a connection in our brains.
7. This connection can be broken by consciously choosing to move out of the area of the brain which contains our associations and reaffirms our previous personalities or selves.
8. In December of 1993, a collective meditation was performed in Washington, DC by about 4,000 people. The FBI predicted a 25% drop in violent crime that summer.
9. The molecular structure of water is highly receptive. Experiments conducted by Mr Emoto demonstrated a significant change in this structure both after blessings from a Zen Buddhist Monk and after bottles were left overnight with words taped to them. These findings are especially significant when you note that over 90% of the human body is water.
More information on Mr. Emoto's research can be found here: http://www.wellnessgoods.com/messages.asp
To address the question of the implications of this movie on politics: it essentially tells us that we have it all wrong. We are experiencing a self choosen reality, and both individually and as a nation, we are in a rut. Our collective understanding of the world around is falling within simplistic terms and in mass we obey the rules set forth for us, paying no attention to our own personal power or the real magic that exists in the world around us. If we truely have the power to create our world, we each become responsible and there is no reason left to complain or place blame. The cliche but true statements about the power of positive thinking take on deeper meaning when you imagine that focusing your energy on hatred will spread a pretty ugly molecular structure through 90% of your fellow man's body. And if meditation is all that's required to reduce the crime rate, can we please stop spending billions of dollars on weapons and defense?? Really, let's all just sit down together and meditate on this together . . .