WARNING: SPOILER ALERT! These reviews and analyses contain spoilers.
First, I'd like to do a quick followup and revisit an item or two from our last show on music. Actually, this is from the television show 60 Minutes where Bob Dylan is being interviewed by the host, Ed Bradley.
Ed Bradley: Why do you still do it? Why are you still out here?
Bob Dylan: Well, it goes back to that destiny thing. I made a d-- bargain with it, you know, long time
ago. And I’m holding up my end…
EB: What was your bargain?
BD: …to get where I am now.
EB: Should I ask who you made that bargain with?
BD: [laughs] With the chief commander.
EB: On this earth?
BD: [laughs] In this earth and in the world we can’t see.
EB: Do you ever look back at the music that you’ve written and look back at it and say
“Wow! That surprise me!”?
BD: I used to. I don’t do that anymore. I don’t know how I got to write those songs.
EB: What do you mean you don’t know how?
BD: All those early songs were almost magically written.
BD: Well, try to sit down and write something like that. There’s a magic to that, and it’s not
Siegfried and Roy kind of magic, you know? It’s a different kind of a penetrating magic.
And, you know, I did it. I did it at one time.
So as you can see, magic plays a big role in the entertainment industry.
In fact, movies is the art of producing a series of images. The word image can be broken down into "i" and "mage". A mage is a magician. A movie is the produced to move 'e' : energy or emotion. Emotin in energy in motion. In music, a conducter waves his wand to direct the flow of music. Movies are all about icons. An icon is a picture, image or other representation. And, of coure, the movies use icons, that is stars or celebrities, to con our eyes.
"Making movies is casting spells." – Director of Lucifer Rising, Kenneth Anger
"Magic wands were always made out of the wood of a Holly tree. It’s made out of Holly wood. Hollywood is a Druidic establishment and the symbols, the words, the terms, the
Hollywood is also known as Tinseltown. Tinsel is defined as a "glittering metallic substance used in pieces, strips, threads, etc., to produce a sparkling effect cheaply." So it's a cheap, guady glittering effect.
One of the images I have on my website is one of Mickey Mouse in his sorceror's costume from the movie Fantasia where he has a wizard's hat on and a magic wand. Conductors of orchestras and bands often use a wand as well to conduct their music.
So movies and Hollywood are all about using magic. After all,they use terms such as :
Television programming, broad cast, casting, set, net work
Television in virtually every home
Movies are similar to the siren sing... They can wrap a dangerous message within attractive people, alluring visuals and seductive music and even subliminal messages
Predictive programming, Movies and television programs use what is called predictive programming to program us by using fiction and the power of suggestion to create a desired outcome. It is life imitating art. Some will say it's just a movie but movies must be believable unless it's a slapstick comedy or fantasy.
Part of brainwashing, getting masses to eventually believe and accept through repeated exposure to the idea so they can move along the agenda they wish to implement for humanity, i.e. social engineering
cathartic release... to expel fears about the topic, get it out of peoples' systems so they will go through the stages of denial to acceptance more quickly
Some might be leaking truth to wake up masses or moving the arc of the storyline or plot of the cosmic play or divine drama along to its conclusion, but, like in music, many could be under the influence of archons/spiritis via drugs and alcohol or even through secret society or satanic rituals . Others may just be channeling from their muses or oterworldy influences.
I may also be a case of giving us
Fair warning so we can't say we were never told. They must tell us what they are doing and have our consent.
In many cases, this is done through inside jokes where they like To be Daring and original. Plus there's the possiblity they are bored or overconfident and want a challenge , "nobody's putting up a fight", like a cat playing with a mouse
In short, television and movies are a perfect tool for programming and mind control. As the intro to The Outer Limits says, "There is nothing wrong with your television set. Do not attempt to adjust the picture. We are controlling transmission. If we wish to make it louder, we will bring up the volume. If we wish to make it softer, we will tune it to a whisper. We will control the horizontal. We will control the vertical. We can roll the image, make it flutter. We can change the focus to a soft blur or sharpen it to crystal clarity. For the next hour, sit quietly, and we will control all that you see and hear. We repeat: There is nothing wrong with your television set. You are about to participate in a great adventure. You are about to experience the awe and mystery which reaches from the inner mind to . . . The Outer Limits.”
There is an exoteric and an esoteric meaning in many songs and movies. An inner meaning can be decoded from the symbolism and metaphors. For example, they may be exoterically singing about a lady, but the esoteric meaning is about a goddess or light phenomenon. In the last episode, I mentioned the songs Stairway To Heaven, Hotel California, The Goddess in the Doorway as examples. Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds would be another one and maybe Shine on You Crazy Diamond. But also, this song by Paul McCartney called Letting Go:
[Verse 1]
Ah, she tastes like wine
Such a human being so divine
Oh, she feels like sun (Like sun)
Mother Nature look at what you've done
[Chorus]
Oh, (Oh) I feel like letting go
Oh, (Oh) I feel like letting go
[Verse 2]
Oh, she looks like snow
I wanna put her in a Broadway show
Ah, she'll dance and dine
Like a Lucifer she'll always shine
[Chorus]
Oh, (Oh) I feel like letting go
Oh, (Oh) I feel like letting go
[Instrumental Break]
[Chorus]
Oh, oh, I feel like letting go
Oh (Oh) I feel like letting go
[Verse 3]
Oh, she sings it so
I want to put her on the radio
One day and there you are
Ladies and gentleman
A brand new star
[Chorus]
Oh, I feel like letting go
Oh, I feel like letting go
So the song calls her a divine being, compares her to the sun, a Lucifer (match), Mother Nature, snow and says shes a brand new star and subtly puts in the suggestion to let go with the chorus "Oh, I feel like letting go." Movies do the same thing, but with subte imagery, subliminal messages, clever dialogue and perfectly placed symbolism.
The Emmy is given by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. NATAS (Satan backwards) . The Emmy statuetteand their logo is an angel holding up a global grid.
The Oscar statue of the Academy Awards gets its name from Ausur or Osiris, the Egyptian god. Both figures are golden, have their arms crossed across the chest and hold a sceptre. The ancient Egyptian God Ptah was reborn as Osiris, and then became the God of death through a transformative process.
Before we get into the movies, I'd like to first answer to the person who asked about the song Bohemian Rhapsody. I will reply since it is also a movie and the story is related to the central theme of many movies, that is the white goddess or the white queen, that is the moon goddess, Isis.
According to Queen lead guitarist Brian May, Freddie decided to change his surname to Mercury after he wrote 'My Fairy King,'
The song says, "My fairy king can see things. He rules the air and turns the tides that are not there for you and me. Oh, yeah. He guides the winds. My fairy king can do right and nothing wrong..... Someone has drained the colour from my wings, broken my fairy circle ring and shamed the king in all his pride, changed the winds and wronged the tides. Mother Mercury, look what they've done to me. I cannot run, I cannot hide."
I believe he is saying Mercury is the fairy king. Mercury is also known as the Norse god Odin or Woden. We get the name for Wednesday from Woden. It is Woden's day or Wind's Day. woden = mercury = hermes (son of osiris) = thoth
. Hermes + Thoths + Mercury's threesome in the form of #Trismagistus
The book The White Queen by Robert Graves is about the Wiccan goddess of the moon.
Brian May wrote a Queen song,The White Queen. Brian May of Queen explained that he took the idea for the song White Queen while reading The White Goddess by Robert Graves. The song says, "All around the air did say My lady soon will stir this way. In sorrow known, The White Queen walks and the night grows pale. Stars of lovingness in her hair... The mother of the willow green. I call her name and 'neath her window have I stayed. I loved the footsteps that she made and when she came. White Queen, how my heart did ache and dry my lips no word would make. So still I wait. My goddess, hear my darkest fear. I speak too late. It's for evermore that I wait."
Freddy Mercury wrote The Black Queen: "I'm lord of all darkness. I'm queen of the night.
I've got the power. Now do the march of the black queen... I'll be what you make me. I'll do what you like. I'll be your bad boy. I'll do the march of the black queen.... She boils, and she bakes, and she never dots her I's. She's our leader. Forget your sing-alongs and your lullabies. Surrender to the city of the fireflies. Dance with the devil, beat with the band. To hell with all of you hand-in-hand. But now it's time to be gone forever."
Mercury or Woden being the fairy king and May's interst in Robert Graves' The White Goddess is interesting because in an interview with Robert Graves he is asked, "In The White Goddess, you identified the Muse-poet with the Sacred King, who was sacrificed to the Moon-goddess as a divine victim, and expressed your belief that the true poet must also, in a sense, die for her. In spite of all you’ve survived, do you still hold to this?" And Graves answers, "Yes. "
In the epic Queen song Bohemian Rhapsody Freddie Mercury sings, "Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a landslide No escape from reality..." Those lines seem to have been influenced by a scene from Mozart's The Magic Flute which was released as a movie in the same year the song was released.
The Queen of the Night and her three maidens come visit Papageno. Afterwards, Papageno asks himself "Do I sleep or do I wake? Is this a dream or reality?" The opera The Magic Flute may have inspired Freddy Mercury's operatic song Bohemian Rhapsody. Notice the opening of the Queen song: "Is this the real life? Or is this just fantasy?"
"Anyway the wind blows, doesn't really matter to me, to me. Mama, just killed a man... " I know this is supposed to be a coming out song for Mercury, but in the song it seems he may have killed himself or is having an NDE because he tells his mother, "If I'm not back again this time tomorrow, carry on, carry on, as if nothing really matters... I don't want to die..." And then the whole tone of the song immediately changes. "I see a little silhouetto of a man. Scaramouch, Scaramouch, will you do the Fandango! Thunderbolts and lightning, very, very frightening me" A silhouette sounds like a shadow being and Scaramouch is a trickster. " So maybe he is now in the afterlife and it seems as though he is being held prisoner by archons and someone is arguing on his behalf,. "He's just a poor boy from a poor family,
Spare him his life from this monstrosity.
Easy come, easy go, will you let me go? " "
Bismillah! No, we will not let you go
(Let him go!) Bismillah! We will not let you go.
(Let him go!) Bismillah! We will not let you go.
(Let me go) Will not let you go.
(Let me go)(Never) Never let you go.
(Let me go) (Never) let you go (Let me go) Ah.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Oh mama mia, mama mia, mama mia, let me go
Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me, for me," Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me for me for me..." "So you think you can love me and leave me to die.
Oh, baby, can't do this to me, baby,
Just gotta get out, just gotta get right outta here" He wants to escape the matrix or prison.
" Nothing really matters Anyone can see nothing really matters . Nothing really matters to me. Anyway the wind blows." The ending is like a classic scene from Bohemian Grove where the elite gather for the Cremation of Care ceremony. Freddie has successfully cremated his care. He doesn't care anymore. Nothing matters to him.
Incidentally, Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream also takes place in a grove and references are made to weaving spiders, one of the camps at Bohemian Grove.
I would bet Brian May is not the only rock star to have been influenced by The White Goddess. Robert Plant, the lead singer for Led Zeppelin, wrote many lyrics associated with J.R.R. Tolkein's The Lord of the Rings. In Ramble On he sings, "But now it's time for me to go. The autumn moon lights my way....Ramble on. Gotta find the queen of all my dreams... How years ago in days of old when magic filled the air. 'T was in the darkest depths of Mordor. I met a girl so fair. But Gollum and the evil one crept up and slipped away with her... I listen to my bluebird sing. I can't find my bluebird. I keep rambling, baby."
The Led Zeppelin song The Battle of Evermore was obviously influenced by The Lord of the Rings as well: "The Queen of Light took her bow and then she turned to go, The Prince of Peace embraced the gloom and walked the night alone. Oh, dance in the dark of night, sing to the morning light. The dark Lord rides in force tonight... I'm waiting for the angels of Avalon, waiting for the eastern glow... Tired eyes on the sunrise, waiting for the eastern glow. The pain of war cannot exceed the woe of aftermath. The drums will shake the castle wall, the ring wraiths ride in black, ride on. Sing as you raise your bow,... The magic runes are writ in gold to bring the balance back, bring it back. At last the sun is shining, the clouds of blue roll by, with flames from the dragon of darkness the sunlight blinds his eyes."
In Stairway to Heaven Plant sings, "There's a Lady who's sure all that glitters is gold and she's buying a stairway to heaven... And it's whispered that soon, If we all call the tune then The Piper will lead us to reason and a new day will dawn... If there's a bustle in your hedgerow don't be alarmed now. It's just a Spring clean for the May Queen... The Piper's calling you to join him. Dear Lady, can you hear the wind blow and did you know your stairway lies on the whispering wind... There walks a Lady we all know who shines white light and wants to show how everything still turns to gold and if you listen very hard the tune will come to you at last when all are one and one is all, to be a rock and not to roll. And she's buying the stairway to heaven."
Just who is the Piper that Plant says is calling you with his music to join him? Their song Houses of the Holy just might answer that question: "From the houses of the holy, we can watch the white doves go. From the door comes Satan's daughter, and it only goes to show, you know. There's an angel on my shoulder, in my hand a sword of gold. Let me wander in your garden and the seeds of love I'll sow, you know. So the world is spinning faster. Are you dizzy when you're stoned ? Let the music be your master. Will you heed the master's call? Oh, Satan and man."
I'd like to go more in-depth into this topic of the Wind and Piper at the Gates of Dawn during the next epsiode on religion as I found some interesting connections.
Analysis: DreamWorks Pictures introduces its movies with this short animation of a boy sitting on the moon and fishing in a body of water (perhaps symbolic of the subconscious mind where dreams are born), presumably on the Earth.
I think Spielberg designed or came up with this. Seems he knows quite a bit about the afterlife. The name spielberg is rleated to a spell-rock or spell-mountain which is reminiscent of the pied piper motif luring children into the mountain or river with his flute playing. Also, the siren in Greek mythology which usually features an attractive woman luring sailors to their deaths upon the rock with her sweet song and alluring eyes.
The moon and the reflection in the water perhaps alluding to the subconscious and the dream-state we are in. Of course, fishermen use worms or live bait as a lure for their prey.
COLUMBIA PICTURES
The Columbia Pictures intro shows the goddess Columbia standing atop a stepped pyramid. This is reminiscent of the Paramount Pictures logo which, true to the name Paramount, shows a mountain surrounded by stars in a semi-circle like a sunrise. In the Columbia Pictures logo she is holding a lighted torch which morphs into the sun and a sunrise logo.
Columbia was the original name for the United States and the District of Columbia is the capital for Washington D.C. which is just outside of Mary-land. CBS is Columbia Broadcasting System. Columbia Records is one of the major record labels. Columbia University is a prestigious Ivy League school. Columbia is likely Virgo or the Virgin Mary, that is Isis/Venus/Lucifer and Lady Liberty, the statue of liberty, may be an aspect of Columbia as well. She holds up the torch of enlightenment or reason.
Analysis: MTV was the first music video channel and was very pioneering with its marketing. This intro to its films seems to suggest we earthlings are being watched for entertainment by aliens, most likely on the moon.
Two guys looking on as bugs fly into a bug zapper (light trap) and are fried. . One asks the other:
"Why do they do that? Don't they see that their friends are getting zapped?"
"I don't know. They must be stupid." "That was stupid"
Suddenly, a glowing orange orb of Live Wire starts pulsating. The two men seem fascinated and walk into the LiveWire, bumping into it and hurting themselves.
"Introducing Mountain Dew LiveWire. Discover what the attraction is all about."
Analysis: Drawing a comparison between bug being zapped by the light trap and humans being hypnotized by a glowing orb and pulled in by its allure. What happens if one were to grab a live wire? One would be electrocuted and possibly killed.
The siren on the moon is a not so uncommon motif. In this case, the "girl in the moon" is wearing a witches hat. The slogan for the ad is "reel in the high life". Sounds similar to the Dreamworks logo of a boy fishing on the moon.
"We go hand in hand, you and I. I'm the girl in the moon. And I wanna tell you everything I know. Everything there is to savor. I'll see you soon."
The girl saying she knows everything and she will "see you soon" is a bit creepy to me as it is eerily similar to siren mythology.
But the most obvious example of the overt programming is the oft repeated message to go to the light at death or the sometimes tongue in cheek message to stay away from the light if the speaker doesn't want their loved one to die. Hollywood reinforces this through various movies such as Ghost and Poltergeist.
It can be seen in countless movies.
A noteworthy example is in A Bug's Life where a bug was flying toward a light zapper or light trap. One of his friend's implores him, "No, Harry, No!. Don't look at the light!" but to no avail as the victim laments, "I can't help it! It's so beautiful!" and then screams and falls to the ground.
Another classic example is in the movie Finding Nemo. Two fish, Dory and Marlin, are deep underwater and it is extremely dark. This scene features an angler fish, a real fish, which lures its prey to death by dangling a light out in front! I'm going to read the conversation between the two fish. Dory sees a light and thinks she is dead. Notice a direct comparison is made to the afterlife. She says the light is so pretty and that she's feeling happy.
Finding Nemo - This scene features an angler fish, a real fish, which lures its prey to death by dangling a light out in front! Notice a direct comparison is made to the afterlife.
MARLIN Dory, do you see anything? DORY Aaah! Something's got me! MARLIN That was me. I'm sorry. DORY [gasps] Who was that?MARLIN Who could it be? It's me! DORY Are..are you my conscience? MARLIN Yeah, yeah. I'm your conscience. We haven't spoken for a while. How are you? DORY Hmm, can't complain. MARLIN Yeah? Good. Now, Dory. I want you to tell me..do you see anything?DORY I see..I see a light. MARLIN A light. DORY Yeah. Over there. Hey, conscience. Am I dead? MARLIN No, I see it too. What is it? DORY It's so pretty. MARLIN I'm feeling...happy. Which is a big deal for me. DORY I want to touch it. Oh! MARLIN Hey, come back. Come on back here. DORY [singing] I'm gonna get you. I'm gonna get you. I'm gonna swim with you. MARLIN I'm gonna get you. I'm gonna be your best friend...good feeling's gone.MARLIN I can't see! I don't know where I'm going! DORY Haah! MARLIN The mask! DORY What mask? DORY Okay, I can't see a thing. MARLIN Oh, gee! DORY Hey, look! A mask! MARLIN Read it! DORY I'm sorry, but if you could just bring it a little closer, I kind of need the light. That's great, keep it right there. MARLIN Just read it! DORY Okay, okay. Mr. Bossy. Uh, 'P'. Okay, 'P'. 'Shh-eer...Sher--P. Sher--P. Shirley? P.--'. Oh! The first line's 'P. Sherman'! MARLIN P. Sherman doesn't make any sense! DORY Okay, second line. '42'. MARLIN Don't eat me! Don't eat me! Aaaah! DORY Light, please. 'Walla--Walla--Walla-beee'...MARLIN Waah! Waaah! Waaaah!DORY The second line's '42 Wallaby Way'! MARLIN That's great! Speed read! Take a guess! No pressure! No problem! There's a lot of pressure! Pressure! Take a guess now with pressure! DORY 'Sydney'. It's 'Sydney'! MARLIN Duck! DORY Aaah!MARLIN I'm dead, I'm dead, I'm dead, I'm dead, I'm dead, I died, I'm dead.
"See anything?" "Something's got me!" "That was me." "Who's that?" "Who could it be? It's me." "Are... are you my conscience?"
"Now, Dory, I want you to tell me, do you see anything?"
"I see a... I see a light." "A light?" "Yeah. Over there. Hey, conscience, am I dead?" "I see it, too."
"What is it? It's so pretty. I... I'm feeling... happy.Which is a big deal for me. I want to touch it. Hey, come back. Come on back here. I'm going to get you. I'm going to swim with you. I'm going to be your best friend."
"Good feeling's gone.I can't see. I don't know where I'm going. - The mask! - What mask? Okay. I can't see a thing. - Look. A mask."
Analysis: The angler fish is a real fish that does use light as a lure for its prey. Interesting the movie scene even draws the parallel to being dead.
Monster's Inc. movie childrens screams used as energy source to power monster world
Monster's Inc. - "The future is bright at Monsters, Inc.! We're part of your life. We power your car. We warm your home. We light your city... Carefully matching every child to their ideal monster to produce a superior scream refined into clean dependable energy... Everytime your turn something on, Monster's Inc is there... We know the challenge. The window of innocence is shrinking. Human kids are becoming harder to scare... The best refineries and research into new energy techniques... We're Monster's Inc... 'We scare because we care!' "
DISNEY+
Futurama - In this cartoon made by the creators of The Simpsons, characters are watching the TV show, The Real World. The commentator states, "This week on The Real World -- THE SUN." A man is heard screaming, "AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH -- I'm burning to death!" We know it is not the sun screaming because one of the characters watching the show snidely remarks in disgust, "Do you know how much an apartment that big would cost on the sun?"
Disney's intro to their movies begins by zooming out on a bright star while playing the song When You Wish Upon A Star, the theme song to their 1940 movie Pinocchio, and ends with the fairy light, Tinker Bell, flying in an arc over the Disney castle which was modeled after the castle in Wagner's operas, situated near the hill known as Venusberg. The Disney Kingdom is the magical kingdom where fairies live and where fairy tales come true. Some of these fairies, like Tinker Bell, are tinkers who build and maintain our world with magic pixie dust much like the clockwork elves and machine elves in DMT experiences. The fairies use their alluring light as psychopomps to the afterlife and grant wishes to mankind.
We are all familiar with the classic fairy tale. Once upon a time... and they lived happily ever after. But what is a fairy tale? Essentially, it often contains a tale of a fairy or nymph. "One belief held that fairies were spirits of the dead. This derived from many factors in common of various folklore and myths: same or similar tales of both ghosts and fairies". A nymph, in fact, is defined as "one of a numerous class of lesser deities of mythology, conceived of as beautiful maidens inhabiting the sea, rivers, woods, trees, mountains, meadows, etc., and frequently mentioned as attending a superior deity; a beautiful or graceful young woman; a maiden; the young of an insect that undergoes incomplete metamorphosis."
Related Words for nymph are "fairy, spirit, goddess, sprite, naiad, nymphet, sylph, dryad, mermaid". "Folklorists and mythologists have variously depicted fairies as: the unworthy dead, the children of Eve, a kind of demon, a species independent of humans, an older race of humans, and fallen angels." **
In fairy tales, in general, a maid or maiden nymph with supernatural help of nature elementals (fairies, godmothers, birds, etc) can resurrect or change into a queen, princess or goddess also symbolized in games of royalty like chess etc. It's the worship of the (wiccan) goddess in the form of nature, typically the Earth and moon. In wicca, the Earth goddess is Persephone/Kore/Circe/Demeter. The moon goddess is Diana and Isis. Awaking from death or sleep, rising from ashes cinder-ella the ash goddess is the phoenix symbol of royalty and Lucifer, Venus, the fallen god/goddess who the Illumnists hope will once again rise and sit on the throne. **
It is important as you watch the Disney adaptations of fairy tales in the form of movies to pay close attention to the names of the earth and moon goddesses the princesses represent. The goddess is worshipped as either an Earth mother goddess or as the moon and is usually represented by Ceres/Circe, Persephone, or Demeter. The moon goddess takes three forms: a maiden representing the new moon; a mother representing a crescent moon or a crone representing the full moon at the time of harvest. The moon goddesses were Greek Selene ( Selene, the Greek personification of the moon, and the Roman Diana were also sometimes called Cynthia), Roman Luna or Diana, and the Celtic Cerridwen (Gwen, Wendy). Isis/Venus is also a moon goddess and is worshipped under a variety of different names by the various cultures: Sumerian Inanna, Babylonian Ishtar, Norse Freya, Egyptian Isis, Greek Aphrodite, Roman Venus, Catholic Mary, and even though it may have been due to a mistranslation, the church also identifed Lucifer as Venus. Both Venus and Lucifer are called the Morning Star. Venus is the goddess of love and beauty and also is known for her power over desire and wishes.
The triple aspect of the moon is often shown in movies, the most notable perhaps being The Wizard of Oz. Dorothy is a young maiden and may represent Venus/Lucifer, the fallen star as the song the munchkins sing reveals, "the young lady who fell from a star, she fell from the sky, she fell very far, And Kansas, she says, is the name of the star". Glinda, the Good Witch of the East, is a fairy godmother and represents the positive crescent moon. The Wicked Witch of the West is the old evil crone representing the full moon.
The reason the princess is almost always shown as having no real mother, only an evil stepmother is that most the mother goddesses had no parents or they were unknown. For example, Inanna's parents were Enki and an unknown mother. Enki and Enlil were stepbrothers, sons of the god An/Anu. However, Enki's mother is Namma while Enlil's is Ki. Inanna's Roman equivalent, Venus, had no parents and was born of sea foam. Gaia has no parent, no mother. Gaia is a mother earth figure and is sometimes seen as the mother of all the gods. Snow White, Cinderella, Belle and Ariel have no mother. Also, we typically think of God as having no wife so a princess would have no mother, although Osiris and Isis were married and even some archaeologist suggest Yahweh had a consort, Asherah. (Astarte/Inanna/Ishtar/Isis/Aphrodite/Venus).
Disney's first movie was Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, but before releasing that they produced a fair number of animated shorts. The Snow White movie was based on a character in their animated short The Goddess of Spring from 1934. The character was based on the goddess Persephone and also on a myth involving Freya (i.e. Venus) and four dwarfs.
Disney also created an animated short in 1932 called Flowers and Trees about the wiccan ritual of the marriage of the May Queen and Green Man. It was the first film to be produced in three-strip Technicolor and the winner of of the first Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. The two main characters in the animated short are trees. The female tree looks like the tree deity, Dryad. Flowers circle around her like a fairy dance around the may pole. She is the May pole, the may queen, Maia or Mary. An old tree comes and tries to abduct the may queen, but the younger male tree intercedes. The young and old tree battle. The young tree prevails. Many tales involve the sacrifice of the king and rebirth. **
The Green Man or Holly King marries the May Queen. The horned deity in Wicca called the Lord is nature and represents both the earth and the sun. The goddess in Wicca is called the Lady and is both earth and the moon. The sun king and moon goddess unite in a sacred marriage symbolic of the eclipse.
Before we can begin to understand the symbolism and meaning behind all the Disney fairy tales involving fair maids and fair maidens, princes and princesses and Kings and Queens and wicked evil step-mothers we need to look at one of the first animated shorts Disney made -- before any full length Disney movies were made.
The animation for the 1937 movie Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was an extension of an animated short Disney had produced in 1934 called The Goddess of Spring. The Goddess of Spring follows the tale of Persephone who was abducted by the King of the Underworld, Hades, the Devil. She promised to marry him if he allowed her to return to the world every six months of Spring and Summer. She promised to return to Hades every six months. Persephone might be a goddess, but she’s also the daughter of Zeus and thus a princess.
In Walt Disney's Silly Symphony The Goddess of Spring, the gnomes, pixies or dwarfs dance around the may queen who fraternizes with the flowers and animals of nature and sits upon a bountiful harvest. **
The queen is abducted by the King of the Underworld, basically a retelling of the tale of the Sumerian Ereshkigal and Nergal, or Greek Persephone and Hades. It depicts a demon in Hades (Hell) playing the organ pipes. The Queen marries the King, but a deal is struck whereby she goes to Earth every year in the Spring, but returns to the Underworld every six months to be with Hades.
The 1937 Disney movie Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was gound-breaking in many ways for Disney. It was the very first Disney movie. It was the first movie ever with a soundtrack. The movie was based on an animated short Disney had produced called The Goddess of Spring. It also borrowed from a fairy tale. The story is in the “Saga of Olaf Tryggvason” in the Flateyjarbok. In the tale Freya (Venus) , the goddess of love, is the concubine of King Odin. She wanted a golden necklace that four dwarfs had made. They said they would only sell it to her if she agreed to sleep with each of them for a night. She came home afterward with the necklace. So the character Snow White was based on the goddesses Persphone and Freya. Freya is Venus.
Snow White followed the script of the classic fairy tale. She was a "fair" "maiden" or maid with "skin white as snow". These references to white and the maiden are in reference to the white moon. [In The Magic Flute, Sarastro's slave, Monostatos, remarks how the skin of the princess is white like the moon.]
"What wouldst thou know, my Queen?" "Magic Mirror on the wall, who is the fairest one of all?" "Famed is thy beauty, Majesty. But hold, a lovely maid I see. Rags cannot hide her gentle grace. Alas, she is more fair than thee." "Alas for her! Reveal her name." "Lips red as the rose. Hair black as ebony. Skin white as snow. Snow White!" The mirror is an important aspect of it as a mirror is associated with reflection and thus illusion and dreams. The goddess Aphrodite/Isis held a mirror.
Witches worship the goddess primarily as an earth goddess and moon goddess. As the moon goddess she takes one of three forms related to the phases of the moon. She appears as a young maiden, a mother or an old crone corresponding to the new moon, crescent moon and full moon, respectively. Snow White was forced to work for her evil stepmother as the maid, cleaning, scrubbing and washing. Like in The Goddess of Spring, Snow White had many animal friends who gathered around her constantly. She would sing songs with them and talk with them.
"With a smile and a song all the world seems to waken anew rejoicing with you as the song is sung. There's no use in grumbling when raindrops come tumbling. Remember you're the one who can fill the world with sunshine. When you smile and you sing everything is in tune and it's spring and life flows along with a smile and a song."
Snow White fulfills the role of both a maiden and a maid, and then eventually that as a mother to the dwarfs. "Maybe they have no mother. Then they're orphans. That's too bad. I know! We'll clean the house and surprise them. Then maybe they'll let me stay. Now, you wash the dishes. You tidy up the room. You clean the fireplace. And I will use the broom. Just whistle while you work and cheerfully together we can tidy up the place so hum a merry tune.
It won't take long when there's a song to help you set the pace and as you sweep the room, imagine that the broom is someone that you love and soon you'll find you're dancing to the tune."
They hum a merry tune -- or a Mary tune. The Virgin Mary (whose fleece was white as snow) assimilated her attribute from the moon goddess Isis which is why there are so many portraits of the Virgin Mary standing on the crescent moon surrounded by stars. She is the "star of the sea". Mary derives from "mer" and "mar", of the sea. The words mariner and maritime derive from that root. Maid Marian and Mary Poppins are also part of this Marian archetype.
Later, Snow White offers to be their mother. "And if you let me stay, I'll keep house for you. I'll wash and sew and sweep and cook." She starts mothering them. "Supper's not quite ready. You'll just have time to wash."
At first, the seven dwarfs don't know what Snow White is as she was sleeping in their beds when they came home from work. They are afraid she is a monster, a dragon with horns, and keep referring to her as "it". "What's that? That's it. Sounded close. It's in this room right now. It's up there. Yeah. In the bedroom. One of us has gotta go down and chase it up. Up. Down. Here, take it. Don't be nervous. Don't be afraid. We're right behind you. Yes! Right behind ya. Here it comes! It's after us. Don't let it out. Hold it shut. Here it comes. Now's our chance. Get it now! Quick! Give it to it! Don't let it get away! Hold on there. It's only Dopey. Did you see it? How big is it? Was it a dragon? - Has it got horns? Was it breathing fire? Was it droolin'? What was it doin'? He says it's a, a monster asleep in our beds! Let's attack. While it's sleeping. Yeah, while it's sleeping. Hurry, men. It's now or never! Off with its head. Break its bones. Chop it to pieces. We'll kill it dead. Jiminy Crickets! Gosh! Gee! What a monster! It covers three beds. Let's kill it before it wakes up. Which end do we kill? Well, eh, ah... What is it? Why, it... It's a girl!" And then one says "She's beautiful, just like an angel." Are the writers referring to Lucifer as an inside joke here?
Snow White tells them her stepmother the Queen is her mother. They tell her she's wicked and an "old witch". This is the crone aspect of the moon goddess. "My stepmother, the Queen." "The Queen? She's wicked! She's bad! She's mighty mean! She's an old witch!... She knows everything. She's full of black magic. She can even make herself invisible." As the crone she is "full" and can even make herself invisible during a new moon.
Snow White and the seven dwarfs may be a reference to the white dwarf star Sirius (used to be blue) and its dwarf planets. The dwarf miners work in a cave mine where diamonds shine like stars. Snow lights a candle so she lights up the darkness. In the dwarf's home there are owls on the design of the stairs. Grumpy Calls the other dwarfs "nanny goats" and "water lilies". Snow tells a love story of prince charming. "Some day my prince will come."
The dwarfs go off to work and tell Snow, "Old Queen's a sly one full of witchcraft so beware of strangers." The Old witch Queen tempts Snow with the apple, tells her its a magic wishing apple where with one bite all dreams come true. This is reminiscent of the temptation of Eve in the garden by the serpent. She bites the poison apple and falls to the spell of death's sleep. The spell can only be reversed by Love's first kiss. The Prince searches for her and finds her singing "one song". The Prince kisses her, she awakes, takes her away to his golden castle in the sky, Spring. And they lived happily ever after.
Cynthia (Cindy) is one of the names of the moon goddess. One of Artemis' names was Cynthia from the island upon which she and her brother were born. "Ella" is the feminine form of "el" which means god thus implying Cinderella is a goddess. In fact, it has been said that "ella" means goddess. **
The Disney story of Cinderella is based on a fairy tale named Cendrillon. Cendrillon means "of the ashes" or "little ashes". Means "digging in the ashes" in German.
The tale by the Brothers Grimm was called Aschenputtel. 'Asch' is ashes. 'Puttel' is sort of polishing. So literally it means someone polishing the ashes, meaning cleaning lady. It's an old German word meaning "girl" ... of relatively low status. In Portuguese, the story was known as "Gata Borralheira" (Cinder Kitty) and she was described as "covered in ash". Cinder means a small piece of partly burnt coal or wood that has stopped giving off flames, but still has combustible matter in it; something close to ash. Recent archaeological digs suggest that Asherah (the equivalent of Isis/Venus) was the consort of the Biblical god, Yahweh.
In Cendrillon, Cinderella is named Lucette, the daughter of Pandolfe. Luc means light and "-ette" is a suffix used for the feminine words such as majorette, etc so Lucette is a derivative of Lucifer and means "female light" or "little light".... light or illumination. She is the female appellation or aspect of Lucifer. It's no wonder she had a black cat named Lucifer in the movie. Pandolfe is derivative of Pan. Lucette is always digging up and polishing things from out of the ashes and making them glorious. This very much seems to draw the Phoenix, a heraldic fire bird symbol of the royals, as a source of inspiration. The phoenix rises up out of the ashes, reborn. This is a reference to Lucifer who was a fallen star. At the end Lucette becomes named Cinderella (goddess of the ashes) for she metamorphizes and is reborn from a fair maiden into a glorious Princess.
The movie begins with a song: "Cinderella, you're as lovely as your name. Cinderella, you're a sunset in a frame. Though you're dressed in rags you wear an air of queenly grace. Anyone can see a throne would be your proper place." I am sure the illuminists who made this movie would love to see Lucifer on a throne. No wonder Cinderella has a black cat named Lucifer whom she calls "your highness" and "your majesty".
Like Snow White, Cinderella is another goddess of spring and is singing to the animals. "A dream is a wish your heart makes when you're fast asleep. In dreams you will lose your heartaches, whatever you wish for you keep. Have faith in your dreams, someday your rainbow will come smiling through. No matter how your heart is grieving if you keep on believing the dream that you wish will come true."
Cinderella says that Lucifer has his good points. "Dreaming again. Chasing Lucifer? Catch him this time? That's bad! Suppose they heard you upstairs? You know the orders... You'd better get rid of those dreams... Just learn to like cats... Lucifer has his good points too."
Ciinderella is not only a fair maiden, but also a maid. Her stepmother keeps her busy cleaning chores. "Clean it! And the windows, upstairs and down. Wash them! and the tapestries, and the draperies. then scrub the terrace. Sweep the halls... and the stairs... clean the chimneys. And there's the mending, and the sewing, and the laundry. Oh, yes, and one more thing. See that Lucifer gets his bath."
Cinderella is singing about the sweet song of the nightingale while she cleans, but Lucifer interrupts her, tracking mud into the house and making a mess. See how cleverly they subconsciously send the message that Lucifer sings a sweet song: "Oh, sing sweet nightingale. Oh, sing sweet. Oh, sing... Oh! Oh, Lucifer! You mean old thing!"
Another example of how she is a protector of animals and vice versa is when her stepmother gives her too many chores so she doesn't have time to finish her dress for the ball, the animals help her out by preparing her dress for her. "Night and day it's Cinderelly, Make the fire. Fix the breakfast. Wash the dishes, do the mopping and sweeping and the dusting. They always keep her hoppin' She go around in circles 'Til she's very, very dizzy still they holler Keep-a busy. Cinderelly's not go to the ball. Work, work, work. She'll never get her dress done, poor Cinderelly. We can do it!"
The dress is ready for Cinderella to go to the ball, but her stepsisters rip it. When all hope seems lost, Cinderella's fairy godmother magically appears. She represents the mother goddess of the growing crescent moon. "What in the world did I do with that magic wand? Then you must be... Your fairy godmother? Of course. First thing you need is a pumpkin. Now the magic words."
In the Disney movie, Cinderella has a black cat named Lucifer who is "sneaky, mean". She says "Lucifer has his good points too, there must be something good about him". She calls Lucy "your highness" and "your majesty". There is a song, a flute playing and she says, "Sing, sweet nightingale... Lucifer!" The word Lucifer is added as the cat surprises her, but see how Disney wove it so that she implied Lucifer is a nightingale that sings a sweet song.
Ella is friends with mice and the protector of animals. The King is looking for a suitable princess and decides to throw a ball. "If all the eligible maidens are there..." Cinderella's fairy godmother helps her get to the ball with magic spells, but the spell will be broken at midnight. The king says, "There must be one to make a suitable Mother, er, wife". Cinderella sings, "I'll touch every star.... "So this is love". At the ball Cinderella dances with the Prince and they fall in love, but at midnight, everything reverts back except glass slippers. She loses a slipper rushing to get back home. The Prince looks for who fits the slipper. The Stepmother locks Ella up, but the dog gets the key from Lucifer. Cinderella escapes and the slipper fits her. And they lived happily ever after.
Sleeping Beauty's name is Aurora which means 'dawn'. In Roman mythology, Aurora renews herself every morning and flies across the sky, announcing the arrival of the sun. This is similar to Venus and Lucifer who are both called the morning star. Lucifer is latin for "light-bearer" or "light-bringer".
Princess Aurora, is known as Sleeping Beauty or Briar Rose. Disney’s Sleeping Beauty is closest to the Grimms’ Little Briar Rose. That story was based on Perrault’s The Sleeping Beauty, which itself was inspired by an Italian story called Sun, Moon, and Talia by Giambattista Basile. In the Basile version, the heroine’s name is Talia. Rosamond means "rose moon" or rose of the world. Sleeping Beauty (Little Briar Rose). Brier or bri·ar[brahy-er], noun, " the white heath, Erica arborea, of France and Corsica, the woody root of which is used for making tobacco pipes; a pipe made of brierroot." Nymphaea alba, also known as the European white water lily, white water rose or white nenuphar, is an aquatic flowering plant of the family Nymphaeaceae. The white nymph = Nymphaea alba. Related Words for nymph: fairy, spirit, goddess, sprite, naiad, nymphet, sylph, dryad, mermaid. **
"The Sleeping Venus, also known as the Dresden Venus, is a painting traditionally attributed to the Italian Renaissance painter Giorgione."
Princess Aurora is named after the dawn, sunshine. There are three good fairies who are like fairy godmothers who bring her three gifts. The evil crone witch Maleficent interrupts and gives the gift of death and curses her by stating she will die by her sixteenth birthday when she pricks her finger. So Briar Rose is given to the three magical fairy godmothers to raise her in the forest until her sixteenth birthday to keep her safe. The fairies vow to raise her without magic so as to not raise suspicion. Briar Rose also sings with the birds in nature. The Prince hears her singing and follows her singing "once upon a dream". Prince: "Voice too beautiful to be real, maybe mysterious being or wood sprite". The Prince follows singing "once upon a dream". Briar Rose tells the animals about the Prince in her dreams. The three fairies are named Flora, Fauna and Merryweather. The Prince is in love, but betrothed already. Maleficent as a green ball leads Briar Rose to the spinning wheel to touch the spindle and prick her finger thus she falls into a death sleep. Only love's first kiss can break the spell. The three fairies put everyone in town asleep until Rose can be awakened. The Prince calls her "Most wondrous fair". He kisses her with love's first kiss, she awakes and is resurrected, rises and is born again like the phoenix. The town wakes up. They marry and they lived happily ever after.
The name of the princess in Beauty and the Beast is Belle. Mother goddess, includes Bellona (Belle). **
The beast is a prince who was turned into a beast by an old hag for not accepting a rose the enchantress offered him. The princess is named Belle, another sleeping beauty. Her name means "beauty". She is the daughter of an inventor. She sings to sheep by a fountain and talks and sings to chickens. So she once again is associated with spring and the protector of animals. She wants more than a provincial life so she is also associated not only with beauty, but with desire.
The Princess and The Frog is an animated Disney film based on the classic fairy tale of the frog turned into a Prince with a kiss by the Princess, Tatiana. "Titania, a name derived from Ovid as an epithet of the Roman goddess Diana."
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The movie begins with a shot of the night time sky and a star shining brightly. A song about the star is sung: "The evening star is shinin' bright. So make a wish, and hold on tight. There's magic in the air tonight, And anythin' can happen..." The evening star is also known as Venus who was the Greek Aphrodite and Egyptian Isis in mythology. The church equated Venus with Lucifer.
Princess Tatiana takes her father to the window, shows him the evening star and tells him, "If you make a wish on the Evening Star, it's sure to come true."
Her father encourages her, "Well, you wish on that star, sweetheart. Yes. You wish and you dream with all your little heart." **
An evil voodoo witch doctor sorceror has turned Prince Naveen into a frog and taken his place. Tatiana/ Tia dances with the fake prince Naveen and is excited, thinking a marriage proposal will be soon so she thanks the Evening Star: "Thank you, Evening Star! You know, I was starting to think that wishing on stars was just for babies and crazy people. Look at you. Aren't you just as pretty as a magnolia in May?" This is a reference to the princess, the May queen, being a may flower.
"Voodoo? You mean to tell me this all happened because you were messing with the Shadow Man? He was very charismatic. It serves me right for wishing on stars. The only way to get what you want in this world is through hard work."
"My girl? Ho, ho, ho. That's Evangeline. Evangeline? She the most prettiest firefly ever did glow. You know, I talk to Evangeline most every night. She's kind of shy. Don't say much. And I know in my heart someday we are going to be together. Yeah."
Later a firefly named Ray is in love with the light and calls her an angel named Evangeline. He sings, "Look how she lights up the sky, Ma Belle Evangeline. So far above me yet I Know her heart belongs to only me. Je t'adore, Je t'aime Evangeline, You're my queen of the night, So still, So bright. That someone as beautiful as she, Could love someone like me. Love always finds a way it's true! And I love you, Evangeline. Love is beautiful, Love is wonderful! Love is everything, do you agree? Mais oui! Look how she lights up the sky, I love you, Evangeline." They tell him, "Evangeline is nothing but a star."
Just who is this beautiful evening star called the queen of the night that they love and are making wishes to? It is none other than Venus. According to the Dictionary, Venus is the morning star and the evening star. In the Bible, Lucifer is called the morning star. In fact, if you look up the definition of Lucifer you will see it is Venus.
At the end of the movie Ray dies and ascends in the constellations to be next to Venus/Isis/Lucifer in the sky. It is the same image as the second star on the right in Peter Pan that guides them to Neverland. So Venus is also associated with Peter Pan. There is also a star in Pinocchio that they make wishes upon. "When you wish upon a star..." In the book, the puppet was created by invoking the goddess Aphrodite/Isis. **
We all know the classic fairy tale. Once upon a time... and they lived happily ever after. But what is a fairy tale? Essentially, it often contains a tale of a fairy or nymph. A nymph is a "fairy, spirit, goddess, sprite, naiad, nymphet, sylph, dryad, mermaid" and may even connote fallen angels.
It is important as you watch the Disney adaptations of fairy tales in the form of movies to pay close attention to the names of the earth and moon goddesses the princesses represent. The goddess is worshiped as either an Earth mother goddess or as the moon. The earth goddess is usually represented by Ceres/Circe, Persephone, or Demeter. The moon goddess takes three forms: a maiden representing the new moon; a mother representing a crescent moon; or a crone representing the full moon at the time of harvest. Princesses are almost always depicted as white-skinned and fair because they symbolize the white moon and the white goddess.
The moon goddesses were Greek Selene ( Selene, the Greek personification of the moon, and the Roman Diana were also sometimes called Cynthia), Roman Luna or Diana, and the Celtic Cerridwen (Gwen, Wendy). Isis/Venus is also a moon goddess and is worshipped under a variety of different names by the various cultures: Sumerian Inanna, Babylonian Ishtar, Norse Freya, Egyptian Isis, Greek Aphrodite, Roman Venus, Catholic Mary, but the church also identified Lucifer as Venus. They are both called the Morning Star. Venus is also known as the Evening Star. **
So we've seen that the disney movie Snow White was based on a previous animated short, The Goddess of Spring, featuring the goddess Persephone and also on a fairytale involving Freya (Venus) and four dwarfs.
Cinderella is Cynthia (Cindy), one of the names of the moon goddess. "Ella" is the feminine form of "el" which means god thus implying Cinderella is a goddess. The Disney story of Cinderella is based on a fairy tale named Cendrillon. In Cendrillon, Cinderella is named Lucette basically means "female light", a feminized variation of Lucifer.
Sleeping Beauty's name is Aurora which means 'dawn'. In Roman mythology, Aurora renews herself every morning and flies across the sky, announcing the arrival of the sun. This is similar to Venus and Lucifer who are both called the morning star. Lucifer is latin for "light-bringer". Princess Aurora, is known as Sleeping Beauty or Briar Rose. Brier or bri·ar[brahy-er], a noun, means "the white heath'. Nymphaea alba, also known as the European white water lily, white water rose or white nenuphar, is an aquatic flowering plant of the family Nymphaeaceae. The white nymph = Nymphaea alba.
The name of the princess in Beauty and the Beast is Belle. One of the mother goddesses is Bellona (Belle). **
The Princess and The Frog is an animated Disney film based on the classic fairy tale of the frog turned into a Prince with a kiss by the Princess Tatiana. "Titania, a name derived from Ovid as an epithet of the Roman moon goddess Diana." The movie begins with a song about the evening star, Venus. The movie ending shows the second star on the right from Peter Pan to be Venus.
Ariel was the Princess in the Disney movie The Little Mermaid. Ariel is an angel and is even another name the Gnostics used for the Demiurge or the false deity.
The Sword in the Stone lore includes King Arthur and Queen Guinevere.
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As a quick aside: The first woman's superhero with a show was the Secrets of Isis soon followed by the most popular female superhero, Wonder Woman. Wonder Woman, named Diana Prince, was a princess, daughter of the Amazon Queen.
Sailor Moon was a "white moon princess" and sailor warrior of love and justice. She invoked the powers of the moon incanting, "In the name of the moon I will punish you."
The Chronicles of Narnia featured a future queen to be, Queen Lucy, and a wicked Queen of Narnia.
The Lord of the Rings trilogy contained Arwen Evenstar, and Galadiel, an elvin name which means Lady of the Light.
In Game of Thrones the Evil Queen archetype is Cercei, obviously a play on the witch, Circe. **
Even more classical tales like Mozart's The Magic Flute contain a Queen of the Night. And Shakespeare's A Midsummer's Night Dream contain a Fairy Queen, Tatiana and a dying man proclaim, "Now am I dead. Now am I fled. My soul is in the sky. Moon, take thy flight. Now die, die, die, die, die."
Roman Polansky's The Ninth Gate featured a guardian angel girl who quite clearly portrays Lucifer.
More modern television series have been apologetic of Lucifer. In Lucifer, he was initially forced by God to do his job of punishing the bad guys, playing his part in God's play.
Mother! is a highly symbolic movie featuring a mother earth goddess and a creator god drawing heavily from Christian, Gnostic and Kabbalistic traditions.
The Wizard of Oz is the perfect example of the maiden, mother and crone triune. We all know Glinda the Good Witch (fairy god-mother) and The Wicked Witch of the West (crone), but Dorothy is a milkmaiden on a farm. In fact, L. Frank Baum wrote a song for her called The Milkmaid's Song for his proposed musical and was eventually sung on Broadway. She also sings a song called Evening Star in the 1942 musical The Wizard of Oz. **
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In Pinocchio, Gepetto wishes upon a star to make his puppet a real boy, that is, a physical incarnation on Earth. In the original fairy tale book, the goddess Aphrodite (the Greek equivalent of Venus) comes to fulfill the wish. That star pays a visit and so the Greek Aphrodite a.k.a. Roman Venus a.k.a The Evening Star, is presumed to be the Blue Fairy or what is called "the wishing star" in the movie.
This same star is shown in the 1954 Disney movie Peter Pan and is said to be "the second star to the right" and where Neverland lies. Neverland is where Pan lures and takes the "lost children". Peter Pan is a veiled metaphor for Pan, the pagan god of the forest, also known as the Devil. Peter Pan is called a "flying devil" and a "bloody demon". Peter Pan also plays the pan pipes and is also a metaphor for The Pied Piper who lured children into the portal of a giant mountain or rock with the beautiful playing of his flute. Incidentally, Disney made animated shorts called Playful Pan and The Pied Piper before they ever made any full length movies. In Playful Pan, Pan accidentally starts a forest fire and uses a flute to lure the flames into a river.
The 1991 Disney movie Hook shows a grown up Peter Pan annoyed by Tinker Bell, calling her a "firefly from hell". She tells Pan to follow her and she begins to pull him. Pan exclaims he is "dying and heading toward the white light". This joke may be a direct reference to the second star, the Evening Star, Venus, as being the white light that near death experiencers talk about and perhaps an inside joke about it leading to the hell of reincarnating. So in this case, Tinker Bell is portrayed not only as a fairy, but also a ferry to the afterlife, a psychopomp.
The 2008 Disney movie Tinker Bell displays the title of the movie by showing the fairy Tinker Bell flying to the star.
Finally, in Disney's 2009 movie The Princess and the Frog, the movie begins by showing this star and calling it The Evening Star and devotes a song to the Evening Star. The princess Tatiana makes a wish on it so that her dreams will come true. The frog, Ray, is in love with the Evening star, who he calls Evangeline, When he dies, he ascends into the heavens and takes his place to the left of the star, making Evangeline the second star to the right.
It is also interesting that Disney collaborated in the making of a TV series based on the 1986 video game series The Legend of Zelda. The main character, Link, is based on Peter Pan and is aided on his quest by the pixie sprite, Neva. In Legend of Zelda: Link to the Past, the Fairy Queen makes an appearance granting wishes in the forms of arrows and bombs for warfare. According to the Fandom page, "Venus is a character from The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past. She is queen of the Fairies who resides in the Pond of Happiness at Lake Hylia." In the Zelda series there is also a Queen of Fairies named Fi also called Spirit of the Sword which is interesting because Disney also released the 1963 movie Sword in the Stone, based on the legend of King Arthur and the Excalibur sword. In the 1994 Disney animated series Gargoyles, there is an episode named Pendragon where the Fairy Queen, the Lady of the Lake, tells Arthur and his dragon friends where to find the sword.
The Sumerian equivalent of Venus, Inanna, was known as the Queen of Heaven and Venus is called the Queen of the Night.
As an aside, The Wagner opera Tannhauser is a story about the goddess Venus and her alluring beauty and ability to tempt and lure Tannhauser to the Venusberg which is Hell. Wolfram sings a song, Ode to the Evening Star, although it seems it is an ode to the Virgin Mary, a.k.a. "the star of the sea", another appellation for Isis or Venus..
So it seems the entire Disney franchise is built around promoting this magical, otherworldly afterlife kingdom of Venusberg and Neverland where the fairies live, invoking the goddess Venus, making wishes to her, and calling upon her magical powers to make your dreams come true.
Walt Disney is well known for bringing fairy tales to life. Here is my interpretation of the Disney intro. All the new intros to Disney movies begin with a bright star, the evening star, Venus. The camera then zooms out and pans to reveal a magic kingdom modeled after Wagner's Venusberg. Finally, a light darts across the front of the castle, presumably the fairy Tinker Bell, and sprinkles magic pixie dust to create a semicircular sunrise effect over the kingdom.
Opening song:
When you wish upon a star, makes no difference who you are. Anything your heart desires will come to you. if your heart is in your dream.No request is too extreme.
When you wish upon a star as dreamers do, Fate is kind. She brings to those who love the sweet fulfillment of their secret longing.
Like a bolt out of the blue, Fate steps in and sees you through.
When you wish upon a star, your dreams come true.
Analysis: The opening song When You Wish Upon A Star serves as the song in the Disney intro for its movies. This has a major subconscious effect on us at death when we see a star-like white light off in the distance and subsequently "wish" to go to it.
Opening Song: "The Evening Star is shining bright. So make a wish and hold on tight. There's magic in the air tonight and anything can happen."
EUDORA: "Just at that moment, the ugly little frog looked up with his sad, round eyes and pleaded, 'Oh, please, dear princess, only a kiss from you can break this terrible spell that was inflicted on me by a wicked witch!' "
"Here comes my favorite part."
"And the beautiful princess was so moved by his desperate plea that she stooped down, picked up the slippery creature, leaned forward, raised him to her lips, and kissed that little frog! Then, the frog was transformed into a handsome prince. They were married and lived happily ever after. The end."
Analysis: The opening song for the movie literally states the star is the Evening Star. This is Venus, in mythology. Venus is the goddess of desire and lust / love. Her other appellations were also known for war.
Opening song:
The second star to the right shines in the night for you to tell you that the dreams you plan really can come true
The second star to the right shines with a light so rare and if it's Never Land you need, Its light will lead you there
Twinkle, twinkle little star, so we'll know where you are
Gleaming in the skies above lead us to the land we dream of
And when our journey is through, each time we say 'Good night'
We'll thank the little star that shines, the second from the right
Narrator: "All this has happened before. And it will all happen again..."
Analysis: The star is said to be the second star on the right. And is used repeatedly in Disney movies. Also known as the wishing Star and the Evening Star.
NARRATOR: Have you ever wondered how nature gets its glow?
Who gives it light and color as the seasons come and go?
Who helps all creatures, great and small, to walk, to swim, to fly?
Who crafts such tiny details? You might see them if you try.
For it's all the work of fairies, but they stay well out of sight.
(COOING)
(LAUGHING)
And the first time that a baby laughs, a fairy's life takes flight.
(SINGING)
When the moon comes out to shine her face
The birds are fast asleep and the lanterns hang from every post
The fairies leave their keep. They join their hands and sing their songs that nary a soul can hear
In the springtime when the earth is new
(RINGS)
To the fairies they draw near, To the fairies they draw near."
Analysis: the second star on the right is the home of Neverland and of the fairies. It says the fairies sing songs and the song says "to the fairies they draw near". Venus may be associated with the blue fairy or may be the queen of the fairies.
"If you had wings to lift you and the Second Star your guide, you’d find a place where all the seasons flourish side by side. Yet past the Summer Meadow and beyond the Autumn Wood, lies an icy land of secrets, a world misunderstood. But if your mind is open and your heart just has to know, your wings can take you farther than you ever thought you’d go."
Analysis: The second star on the right is called a guide to a land of secrets which is misunderstood.
"Of the fairies been unfurled. But nature's greatest challenge comes beneath the autmn sky. And mysteries reveal themselves as harvest time draws nigh. This year, a shimmering blue moon will rise before the frost. Perhaps its rays can light the way to find what has been lost.”
Analysis: The moon is mentioned and also harvest.
"Firefly from hell! Big damn bug!"
"It is you! It is! A big you! It's not bad you're big. You were always big. Maybe this means you'll be twice as much fun. What fun we'll have again! What times! What great games!"
"You're a little..." "Faerie." "Pixie."
"If less is more, there's no end to me, Peter Pan." "Peter Banning." "Pan." "Banning." "Pan. Whoever you are, it's still you. Because only one person has that smell."
"Smell?" "The smell of someone who's ridden the wind. The smell of sleeping in trees. Adventures with Indians and pirates. Remember? The world was ours! We could do everything or nothing. I had to be anything because it was always us."
"It's happened. I'm having a nervous breakdown."
"Come on, Peter. Follow me and all will be well."
"I'm dying. I'm heading towards the white light. I've left my body. You see, there's my house way down there. There are my feet. Oh, my god. Where are we going?"
"To save your children, of course!" "How do you know about my kids?" "Everybody knows!"
Analysis: Here Tinker Bell is a psychopomp to lead him to the white light because he thinks he has died.
"Oh, Figaro! Look, look! The wishing star! Star light, star bright, first star I see tonight; I wish I may, I wish I might have the wish I make tonight. Figaro, you know what I wish? I wish that my little Pinocchio... might be a real boy. Wouldn't that be nice? Just think! A real boy!"
Analysis: The star is said to be a wishing star able to make dreams come true and to allow someone to incarnate in the flesh into a real person.
"As I live and breathe, a fairy!"
"Mm-mmm. Good Geppetto, you have given so much happiness to others. You deserve to have your wish come true. Little puppet made of pine, wake. The gift of life is thine." "Whew! What they can't do these days!"
"I can move! I can talk! I can walk!"
"Yes, Pinocchio, I've given you life."
"Why?" "Because tonight, Geppetto wished for a real boy."
"Am I a real boy?" "No, Pinocchio. To make Geppetto's wish come true will be entirely up to you." "Up to me?"
"Prove yourself brave, truthful and unselfish, and someday you will be a real boy." "A real boy!"
"That won't be easy. You must learn to choose between right and wrong." "Right and wrong? But how will I know?" "How will he know?"
"Your conscience will tell you." "What are conscience? What are conscience!"
"I'll tell ya! A conscience is that still small voice that people won't listen to. That's just the trouble with the world today, you see?"
"Are you my conscience?" "Who, me?" "Would you like to be Pinocchio's conscience?"
"Well, w-- uh, I-- I-- uh-- Ohh. Uh-huh. Very well. What is your name? Uh, oh, uh, Cricket's the name. Jiminy Cricket."
"Kneel, Mr Cricket." "Huh? No tricks now."
"I dub you Pinocchio's conscience, lord high keeper of the knowledge of right and wrong, counselor in moments of temptation and guide along the straight
and narrow path. Arise, Sir Jiminy Cricket."
"Well! Oh-ho-ho! My, my! Mmm. Say, that's pretty swell. Gee... thanks. But, uh, don't I get a badge or something?"
"Well, we'll see. You mean maybe I will?" "I shouldn't wonder." "Make it a gold one?" "Maybe. Now, remember, Pinocchio, be a good boy. And always let your conscience be your guide."
"Goodbye, m' lady."
"Hey, that star again. The Lady. The Fairy."
"What'll she say? What do I tell her?"
"You might tell her the truth."
Analysis: The Blue Fairy is the fairy of the wishing star, or evening star to which we are supposed to make our wishes to, almost like a prayer.
"You're alive! And, and you are a real boy! - Yea! Whoopie! - A real live boy!
This calls for a celebration! Professor, lots of music!
Well! Huh. Th-This is practically where I came in.
Thank you, milady.
He deserved to be a real boy.
And it sure was nice of you to-- Huh? Wha-- Uh-- Wh-- Wh-- W-- Well, I'll be! My, my! Solid gold too. Oh, I think it's swell!
Ending song:
"When your heart is in your dream, no request is too extreme. When you wish upon a star, your dreams come true. You'll find your dreams come true."
Analysis: The song pleads us to wish upon the star, aka Venus, the Evening Star.
"Daddy! Look!" "Where are you going?"
"Charlotte's fairy tale book said if you make a wish on the Evening Star, it's sure to come true."
Well, you wish on that star, sweetheart. Yes. You wish and you dream with all your little heart. But you remember, Tiana, that that old star can only take you part of the way. You got to help it along with some hard work of your own, and then, yeah, you can do anything you set your mind to. Just promise your daddy one thing. That you'll never, ever lose sight of what's really important. Okay? See you in the morning, babycakes. Get some sleep."
[Tatiana, wishing upon the star] "Please, please, please!"
(CROAKS) (SCREAMING) (SIGHS)"
Analysis: The song pleads us to wish upon the star, aka Venus, the Evening Star.
My girl? Ho, ho, ho. That's Evangeline." "Evangeline?"
"She the most prettiest firefly ever did glow. You know, I talk to Evangeline most every night. She's kind of shy. Don't say much. And I know in my heart someday we are going to be together. Yeah."
"There she is. The sweetest firefly in all creation."
"Evangeline? I want to meet this girl. Where she at?
"How you can miss her? She glowing right up there in front of y'all."
Song, Ma Belle Evangeline:
"Look how she lights up the sky, Ma Belle Evangeline. (Ha, that ain't no firefly) So far above me yet I, Know her heart belongs to only me. Je t'adore, Je t'aime Evangeline, You're my queen of the night, So still, So bright. That someone as beautiful as she, Could love someone like me. Love always finds a way it's true! And I love you, Evangeline. Love is beautiful, Love is wonderful! Love is everything, do you agree? Mais oui! Look how she lights up the sky, I love you, Evangeline."
Analysis: The star, Evengeline is aka Venus, the Evening Star.
At the end, the frog goes up into the sky to be with Evangeline.
"I like that very much. Evangeline likes that, too."
(PLAYING SOLEMN TUNE).... (GASPS).... (ALL GASPING)... (ALL CHEERING)
"We just follow the second star, ride the breeze, follow the waves all the way across the sea. And then, there it is."
"Wow! The mainland sounds flitterific!"
Analysis: They literally say to follow the second star.
Peter Pan sails the ship up into the might sky to where the moon is.
["Oh, but, Mother... it was such a wonderful adventure. Tinker Bell and the mermaids and Peter Pan. Oh, he was the most wonderful of all. Why, why, even when we were kidnapped, I..." - "Kidnapped!"
"Mm-hmm. I knew Peter Pan would save us, and he did. And we all called him a codfish! Uh, Captain Hook, I mean.]
"And then we sailed away on a ship in the sky."
"Hmm. Mary, I'm going to bed."
"Oh, Mother. He really is wonderful, isn't he? See how well he sails the ship."
"George. George!" "Now what, Mary?" "Nana, d-did you see..."
You know, I have the strangest feeling... that I've seen that ship before. A long time ago... when I was very young."
"George, dear." "Father."
Ending song:
"When there's a smile in your heart, there's no better time to start. Think of all the joy you'll find when you leave the world behind and bid your cares goodbye. You can fly, You can fly, You can fly."
Pan is a pagan Greek god of the forest. He is depicted as a goat or faun playing his pan pipes or flute. He is sometimes tied to the Pied Piper who lures children with his song. In other accounts like Wind in the Willows, he is the windsong of nature. Pan has been associated with the Devil as well.
Analysis: Disney made animated shorts before producing full length movies. One of the earlier ones was called Playful Pan. Pan, the pagan entity also called the devil, is a pied piper of sorts in this animation. After he creates a forest fire, he lures the flames into the water to extinguish them.
Analysis: One of the Disney animated shorts was The Pied Piper. The Piper leads children into a giant rock. The other side of the portal is a sort of heavenly candyland for them.
"This is no mere boy. 'Tis some fiend fighting me. A flying devil!"
Analysis: Captain Hook calls Peter Pan a fiend, a flying devil.
Pan is the satyr from Satyrn in this satire called life. As the pied piper, he has the whole earth dancing to the tune of his pipe. Pan is a mysterious, artificial-looking moon of Saturn, the Lord of the Rings. Could it be that the rings of Saturn are broadcasting a signal that interferes with us?
Before we can begin to truly understand the meaning behind Disney's 1953 movie Peter Pan, we must first look at a couple of Disney's earliest short animations before any of the Disney movies were made. One of the earliest shorts was from 1930 called Playful Pan and it featured the forest god of nature, the satyr Pan, as a pied piper luring sparks of fire.
A few years later in 1933 Disney made another short animation, The Pied Piper, where a pied piper lures children (children of god, sparks of light?) through a portal into a giant rock.
The story of Peter Pan is quite possibly the single, most important metaphor for understanding our relationship to nature and what lies after death. Peter Pan symbolizes Pan, the horned god of nature that pagans and wiccans worship as the Lord (along with the goddess or Lady). Pan has been associated with the Devil.
Peter Pan is the pied piper who lures children to Neverland with the siren windsong of nature (and the magic pixie dust of DMT) to join his (frequency) band of lost boys. Pan is a playful trickster. Peter Pan means "father all" and was called the "Great White Father" in the book, and the white light is indeed all colored frequencies combined. Pan elicits fear and panic at the prospect of ego death. We should never be afraid, but perhaps there is good reason to be at least concerned as there may be a big difference between the loss of the shadow self or ego, and losing one's Spirit to merge with the All.
Peter Pan is one of the world's most beloved stories. "To die will be an awfully big adventure." has emerged as probably its most well-known line. The story has spun off many Disney remakes as well as other takes on the tale. In the original play written by J.M.Barrie, Peter kidnapped boys and killed off some from time to time. Peter is frequently referred to as 'Pan' throughout and resembles the greek god of the forest and chaos, Pan. He is a fun-loving spirit that lives in nature, is clad in green leaves, has pointed ears and plays the panpipes.
Disney made Pan into a hero and savior. It's the story of a boy who never wants to grow up and with the help of fairy and magic pixie dust Peter is able to fly and takes children, called Lost Boys, to another world called Neverland where their dreams can become true.
Hook became the first official release in almost fifty years. Peter (played by Robin Williams) sees the light of Tinker Bell the fairy, becomes scared, calls her a firefly from hell and thinks he has died exclaiming, "I'm dying. Heading towards the white light." Later, he instructs the Lost Boys who are fighting off pirates to "show them the white light we're made of, boys". In the mini-series Neverland, Peter is a thief in Hook's gang. They are taken to Neverland where an indian girl named Aaya knows all the secrets about the magic pixie dust mineral found in the tree spirit colony that enables one to fly. Aaya and the magic pixie dust mineral are almost certainly a reference to Ayahuasca, named Aya by its partakers, that takes the experiencer to a dimension of hyperspace where elves, fairies and other entities are encountered.
In Pan, the Fairy Kingdom is a fairy hive in a crystal city. In the popular Once Upon a Time television series Pan is the villain the Pied Piper (as I suggested about a year before the show). He seeks the heart of the truest believer so that he might convince him to sacrifice it to him.
In the movie The Pied Piper, the Piper with his beautiful flute playing lures all the rats out of the town to drown in the river. Then he leads all the children of the townspeople out of town with his music.
In The Wind in the Willows, the main character is lured by the haunting melody of the dream-song or wind-song of a giant spirit, Pan, that is called the piper at the gates of dawn.
In the movie The Lost Boys, the lost boys are a clan of vampires who seduce the protagonist into becoming one of them.
Pan in mythology is also known as Faunus. In the movie Pan's Labyrinth, a giant faun needs the blood of an innocent to be sacrificed while a portal is open during the full moon.
In Legend, the Lord of Darkness is a horned being who resides in the Great Tree. He says in the beginning there was a Void and the perfect void was corrupted by light. The protagonist vows to "bring light to darkness".
The film The Lawnmower Man is based on a screenplay named Cyber God. The main character and title of the movie were based on the one in Stephen King's short story. In King's short story the owner of the company that employs the lawnmower man is named Pan. In the movie the lawnmower man becomes addicted to playing a virtual reality game.
The Doctor Who television series aired a 4-part story named The Moonbase where a race of cybermen have a base on the dark side of the moon. A cyberman named 'The Piper' comes to take men when they're dying, fit them with metal headpieces and alter or "convert" them to control their minds to generate a vortex (tunnel). The phantom Piper carries a pipe which he uses as a weapon.
In H.P. Lovecraft's The Call of Cthulhu lore as it's known in the Mythos, "the Outer Gods are ruled by Azathoth, the 'Blind Idiot God', who holds court at the center of infinity. A group of Outer Gods dance rhythmically around Azathoth, in cadence to the piping of a demonic flute".
Mozart's The Magic Flute was the Eyes Wide Shut of its time. Mozart was a Master Mason and at the age of 35 died three months after the show's premiere. He incorportated some of the freemasonic rituals into the opera including blindfolded initiates and a secret brotherhood of Isis and Osiris.
A List of PIPERS:
Disney's PETER PAN another fun-loving sylvan who had Pan Pipes
PETER PIPER who picked a peck of pickled peppers, a pepper is of the piper genus
THE PIED PIPER tricked the townspeople and led all the children into a giant rock or mountain and is where we get the phrase "pay the piper"
Pink Floyd has THE PIPER AT THE GATES OF DAWN
Stairway to Heaven which starts out with a flute says The piper's calling you to join him, the tune will come to you at last where all are one and one is all and to be a rock and not to roll
"Pay the Devil" Van Morrison insinuate the piper is the devil
Beatles Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - Sgt Pepper taught the band to play, Youre such a lovely audience we like to take you home with us
The trickster Willy Wonka the wizard or the magician had a flute, had a chocolate factory and all the kids/bad eggs would disappear/die thru pipes in his factory.
Finally, the Doctor Who TV show had an episode named Moonbase where a cyberman named The Piper, whose base was on the moon, would come to take a man when he was dying, fit him with a metal headpiece and alter or "convert" him. The Piper had a wand he used as a weapon.
DR PEPPER - I'm a pepper, youre a pepper wouldnt you like to be a pepper too?
Pepsi slogan-- join the Pepsi Generation
Pan loves the story telling and being a part of the story and the thrill of the wonderful adventures. He never wants to grow up and yearns for immortality. It is oft repeated in every story that everything is a game to Peter in which he frequently "switches sides just for the fun of it".
is the sweet alluring song the piper Pan (who abducts the Lost Boys and takes them to another dimension called Neverland where dreams become reality) plays is really the story of the afterlife as seen in near death experiences and the tunnel or pipe that leads to the white light where there is a crystal city and a connected hive mind mentality?
The pied Piper Pan pipes pips/peeps per his pipe to pop them for pep.
"He's there. Pan. I can feel his smugness. Shall we? While we still have the element of surprise on our side?"
"Careful. He may look like a boy, but he's a bloody demon."
Analysis: Pan is called a bloody demon.
"He's just not used to working with the bad guys.
I can assure you, on this island, I am not the bad guy.
Yeah, well, Pan's not supposed to be one either.
What possibly gave you that idea?
Every story I ever heard as a child.
Well, they got it all wrong.
Pan is the most treacherous villain I've ever faced. "
Analysis: Pan is called a villain.
"He so likes his games.
What game? There's nothing there.
If he said there's a map on this parchment, then there is.
Great. So if I just stop denying who I really am, whatever that means, then we'll be able to read this thing.
But how do we know Pan won't use it to lead us straight into a trap? Because he doesn't need to.
This whole island's his bloody trap.
There's no sign of him anywhere. Any luck with the map? - Don't hold your breath. - What's that supposed to mean? Don't you see what he's doing? Every second we spend talking about this is another second we're not looking for my son.
You got a better idea? Magic. If there's a lock on there, I'll find a way around it.
Pan said it had to be me. I'd listen to Emma, luv.
Breaking Pan's rules would be unwise. Sadly, I agree with the pirate.
I'm winning you over. I can feel it. And your magic doesn't exactly have a gentle touch, Regina.
Use it on the map, it might blow up in all our faces. Well, that's a risk I'm willing to take. Well, I'm not.
If I'm the one who's supposed to figure out this thing, I need to do what Pan said.
Great. She'll get there.
Hey. Don't give up. He's playing a game. You can win."
Analysis: Hook says all of Neverland is Pan's bloody trap.
"Yet the dawn is almost here. You'd think the birds would be starting to sing."
"Shhh. did you hear something?""Only the wind in the reeds." "No, it was something else. There! [haunting music] Surely you can hear it now."
Mole listened intently. And the music began to come to him faintly on the breeze."
"I can hear it now, Ratty."
"Follow it. must follow it. "
And then a voice too. A voice that began to whisper on the wind."
'Lest the awe should dwell--And turn your frolic to fret--You shall look on my power at the helping hour--But then you shall forget!, forget, forget, forget...'
"Ratty, I'm afraid." "No, not afraid. Something else, but not afraid. Come on."
'Lest limbs be reddened and rent--I spring the trap that is set--As I loose the snare you may glimpse me there--For surely you shall forget!, forget, forget, forget, forget....'
"What does it mean?" "I don't know."
'Helper and healer, I cheer--Small waifs in the woodland wet-- Strays I find in it, wounds I bind in it--Bidding them all forget!, forget, forget, forget, forget...'
"What was it?" "I don't know. I just felt it was meant for us. I've heard that there's something or someone who looks after animals in trouble. Why, Mole. There's Portly just lying beneath that old statue safe and sound as if he were in his father's arms. Well, did you ever? Portly, Wake up, young fellow, my lad."
"Mr. Rat Hello, Mr. Mole. Who is he?" "Who?" "I got lost and then there was a great noise and I was afraid and I ran away and then he came."
"Uh, oh. You've been dreaming, old chap."
"Yeah, but where is he?"
"Come on, Portly. You want to see your father again, don't you? And you'd like to have a row in Mr. Rat's boat."
"I guess. We going now?"
"this very minute. "
"Otter. Otter" "Dad." "Portly, Portly. Where you been, Portly?
"Was it a dream, Rat?"
"It was like a dream and yet not quite."
"I feel dreadfully tired. No, not dreadfully. Pleasantly tired as though good things have happened and now it's time to sleep."
"How odd, Mole. I feel as you do. Hmm, isn't it jolly to feel the sun again soaking into one's bones and the wind playing in the reed?"
"That music. Faraway music."
So they slept for this was the last gift he could give. The gift of forgetfulness. When they awoke, they would all be happy and light-hearted as before just as though they had never seen the Piper at the Gates of Dawn. And as though his voice had only been the wind in the willows.
Song: Spin me a dream woven silver and gold
From sunshine and shadows and days long ago
Where people are memories and stories unfold
Willows, the tales you have told me
Wind in the willows you'll just seem to know
Who you can turn to and which way to go
To unwind your wonderous mind
Wind in the willows, take me there."
Analysis: The Piper at the Gates of Dawn is shown to be a horned faun. There is mention of a trap and a snare and the following of music and a whispering wind in the willows and reeds.
"The young pup doesn't swim well and there are waterfalls and traps."
"Try to remember what you told me when I was afraid of the wildwood."
"I'm trying, Moley. I'm trying. But. Oh, Moley, he's so little."
"I rowed the boat to that willow tree by the bank. I'll search the thicket while you watch over the river."
Song Wind in the Willows by Judy Collins:
Wind in the willows, strange melodies.
All who would hear them lean to the breeze.
Birds acapella, add to the song.
All hear their versions, no one is wrong
'Some say there is a being: kindly, benevolent whose heartbeat is all of nature and whose embrace protects small animals everywhere. Piper. Pan. Call him what you will.'
Song continues:
Soon, soon you shall forget
What's turned frolic to fret
Follow the windsong, soon will it fade
Ballads and lullabies lost in the glade
"Ratty, Ratty. Good ol' Ratty." "Hmm? Oh, Moley. How pleasant." "And this little badger I'll bet is Portly."
"I don't know who he is. Hasn't spoken yet. Found him crying in a beam of sunlight. Couldn't take him with me on my journey. Couldn't leave him alone. Sailor fellow went on without me. How did you find us?"
"I was led." "Led? By what? Whom?"
"I feel as if I've suddenly awakened from a beautiful dream. I can't remember it. I know it was beautiful, but that's all. It's faded now."
Song: Sing, soon you shall forget
" 'Lest the awe should dwell--And turn your frolic to fret--You shall look on my power at the helping hour--But then you shall forget!'"
"You hear all that? I just hear the wind in the willows."
"It's hard to catch and it grows fainter each minute. No. That's all. The song has died away into reed-talk."
"But what do the words mean?"
"That I don't know. I merely pass them onto you the way they reach me."
Song: Dies in a rustle, ends in a sigh
"Portly, you're safe! How did you...?" "Ratty found him. Then I found Ratty."
"Ha, a lot of finding's been going on tonight. Look at my discovery."
"Toad!" "Found him half-drowned on the river bank." "Well, there."
"He was all covered with mud. Absolute wonder I saw him. Like I was led to him somehow."
Song: Wind in the willows, then the wind is still"
Analysis: The entity is actually refered to as Piper and Pan. Traps are mentioned and the idea of being led to him somehow, presumably by the wind song.
I've been worrying about Toad. Keep wondering how he will stick being in prison."
"Never mind Toad. He always falls on his feet" Ratty, how could you?"
"Save your concern for the otters. Young Portly's been missing for several days. He's strayed before, but never for so long and the river swollen."
"And no great swimmer yet. You suppose..."
"Quiet. His father's frantic. He's going to keep watch all night by the fallen. It's where he caught his first fish, you see."
"Toad, ol' boy. You are a marvel. My wallet. It's in my other clothes. I haven't got any money. Oh no. Wait, don;t go. Oh sir. Oh sir. I'm a poor unhappy washer woman and I lost all my money. And I can;t pay for a ticket and I must get home tonight."
"Hmm, ain't got nippers waiting for you" "Oh, dear" "I'll tell you what. You wash a few shirts for me. I"ll give you a ride."
"Yes, yes. A thousand shirts." "up with you."
What brilliant theatrical skill. You've bamboozled the prison guards with subtle arts of persuasion. clod of a train driver. Why, you're probably the greatest actor in England and you're once again free, my dear fellow. Free..."
"Here's the tunnel a coming. You must jump off right before. Are you ready? Now, jump! Jump!"
Narrator: "So Toad was safe for the moment. But what of little Portly? Missed. Looked for. Not yet found. And leaving no clues to help the searchers. Ah, Ratty. Dear old Ratty who was so wise in the ways of the river was following an instinct of his own. Something there was in the air. Some spirit lure him on. Haunting. Awesome. And once he heard its voice, he had no option but to follow. Sometimes the beauty of it hurt him. It would come and go. Fainter now and then stronger. Twas nowhere and yet everywhere at once. A merry bubble and joy of a thin, clear, happy call that he had once heard at its loudest and strongest at the place of what he called his songdream, a holy place where, if anywhere at all, that spirit might be found."
"Ratty, are you afraid? "Of him? Never. Never."
"Some great creature has been here."
"Here he is, Ratty. Now we must get you back to your father, young Portly. Come along, Rat. Think of poor Otter waiting by the ford."
"You scoundrel! Where did you get to? You know I've had no sleep for two nights because of you! "
"I'm so tired, Rat. Are you?" "Dead tired. Something very splendid and beautiful has happened though. Hark! to the wind in the reeds."
"It's like faraway music."
"Music, yes. But words too."
"I can't hear any words."
" 'Lest the awe should dwell--And turn your frolic to fret--You shall look on my power at the helping hour--But then you shall forget!' Can't you hear those words in the reeds, Mole?"
"No, Ratty. I'm sorry. I just can't."
" 'Helper and healer, I cheer--Small waifs in the woodland wet-- Strays I find in it, wounds I bind in it--Bidding them all forget!"
"I can't forget Mr. Toad. Not ever."
Analysis: A spirit lure him on with the call of its voice. Like faraway music and bidding them all to forget.
So Who or what is this wind? The silhouette of Pan is on the cover of the book The Wind In the Willows. He is sitting in the willows. Could it be that the "wind" is the Spirit of Pan or the Spirit of Nature, the Spirit of Pantheism that flows through or exists in all things?
Here is the passage from chapter 7, Piper At the Gates of Dawn, from the classic childrens' book Wind in the Willows whose main characters are natured based -- a mole, a rat, a badger, a toad and a goat, who was curiously left out of the 1983 movie. Notice the silhouette of Pan on the book cover. He is sitting in the willows. Could it be that the "wind" is the Spirit of Pan or the Spirit of Nature, the Spirit of Pantheism that flows through or exists in all things?
“Perhaps he would never have dared to raise his eyes, but that, though the piping was now hushed, the call and the summons seemed still dominant and imperious. He might not refuse, were Death himself waiting to strike him instantly, once he had looked with mortal eye on things rightly kept hidden. Trembling he obeyed, and raised his humble head; and then, in that utter clearness of the imminent dawn, while Nature, flushed with fulness of incredible colour, seemed to hold her breath for the event, he looked in the very eyes of the Friend and Helper; saw the backward sweep of the curved horns, gleaming in the growing daylight; saw the stern, hooked nose between the kindly eyes that were looking down on them humourously, while the bearded mouth broke into a half-smile at the corners; saw the rippling muscles on the arm that lay across the broad chest, the long supple hand still holding the pan-pipes only just fallen away from the parted lips; saw the splendid curves of the shaggy limbs disposed in majestic ease on the sward; saw, last of all, nestling between his very hooves, sleeping soundly in entire peace and contentment, the little, round, podgy, childish form of the baby otter. All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered.
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Cat Stevens -- The Wind
I listen to the wind
To the wind of my soul
Where I'll end up well I think,
Only God really knows
I've sat upon the setting sun
But never, never never never
I never wanted water once
No, never, never, never
I listen to my words but
They fall far below
I let my music take me where
My heart wants to go
I swam upon the devil's lake
But never, never never never
I'll never make the same mistake
No, never, never, never
Heart -- Mistral Wind
No wind when I took the watch
My ship was still and waiting
I lay on that mirrored sky
A restless sailor waiting
I closed my eyes said the
Words of will for the gentle
Breathing that moves the seas
Make my sails fill
Whisper waves cloud the glass
Awake at last like a lover
It rushed around me talking sweet
Roll over, roll over, roll over
And in my ear he blew his name
It sound so strange but I heard it plain
Mistral, mistral wind
I have always held the wheel but
I let the wind steal my power
Spin me 'round lose my course
Nights run by like hours
Well, it would show me the way
To the deepest mountains
Too high and beautiful to be
Mistral, mistral wind
All the hours on the watch
I wait for that breeze to move me
And blow me back to that place
Magic space all through me
And I sigh your name
Across the empty water
You made a crazy dreamer out of me
Mistral, mistral, mistral, mistral
Mistral, mistral
Tron: Legacy is the sequel to the 1982 Disney movie, Tron. Kevin Flynn, the inventor of the Tron game, has gone missing. He was researching genetic algorithms and quantum teleportation to realize his goal of "a digital frontier to reshape the human conditon". Twenty years later, his business partner gets a page from him. Kevin's son, Sam, goes to the old arcade to investigate. Like his father, Sam is zapped into the digiital world of the video game and is treated like a program even though he is a user. He meets Clu, the mirror image of his father, who despises him and sends him into the game grid. He has to fight for his life in the game grid. An ISO named Quorra helps him escape the game grid and find his father. His father tells him he was trapped in the game and couldn't return home. When Sam entered the game it opened a portal in the I/O tower. The portal will only be open for a short time, but Clu and the MCP do not want them to exit the system. The movie seems to explore the idea of transhumanism. It is good that Flynn is shown meditating and teaching a Zen Buddhism philosophy which actually gives him insight into how and when to escape the matrix. There are subtle messages here and there such as doing nothing and Quorra removing herself from the equation.
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Flynn:...raced on ribbons of light..".together we built a new grid for programs and users...I couldn't be in there all the time so I created a program in my own image that could think like you and me and I called him Clu., Codified Light-disc Utility. And Tron, Clu and I built a system where all information was free. An then one day something happened. Something extraordinary. A miracle. " end -quote
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Is CLU an anagram for LUC, Lucifer?)
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they keep talking about the light grid system being a digital frontier to reshape the human condition
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Flynn talking about the computer game system says: "in there is a new world..In there is our future. In there is your destiny. "
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Flynn goes missing and Sam enters the video game in search of him. He is given an identity disc were everything he does and learns is imprinted on the disc.
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He enters a bright white light and enters a battle game for the entertainment of a crowd of spectators. His dad was trapped in the grid and now is in charge. Sam must now battle CLU in the light cycle grid.
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Flynn teaches about being selfless and removing one's self from the equation. CLU was a program designed to create the perfect world.. Something unexpected happened. A miracle. Isos, Isomorphic algorithms (Isos=Isis?), a whole new life form. Control, order, perfection -- none of it meant a thing -- They manifested like a flame. The conditions were right and they came into being. Isos were going to be is gift to the world but CLU happened (57:11 just as he says this he puts two tetrahedronal stars down on the fireplace mantle) CLU fed on Flynn's resistance...the harder he fought the more powerful CLU became. CLU saw the ISOs as an imperfection so he destroyed them.
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The portal uses massive power and can only stay open for a while and can only be opened from the outside. The portal closed on him.and he couldn't get back home.
Kevin Flynn is the Creator or God. Clu is Lucifer, the most perfect being, the Demiurge archetype, in search of a perfect system, one that is superior to its creator's. Sam is the son of Flynn (God) and enters the game to rescue Quorra and his father. In this respect, Sam is the Christ figure or savior. Sam is like Neo, Thomas Anderson (whose name literally means "Son of Man"), the one, the savior. Quorra looks very similar to Trinity of The Matrix series. This is because they both represent Sophia, the bride of Christ. The shorter black hair may be indicative of the Isis archetype though I am ot sure. Quorra is said to be an ISO, an Isomorphic algorithm, a whole new life form with manifested like a flame from "nothing". Quorra, like Sophia the Gnostic goddess of wisdom, is "profoundly naive, unimaginably wise", was going to be Flynn's "gift to the world", but Clu "happened". Flynn had hoped to find control, order and and perfection but the ISOs shattered that "hall of mirrors".
Behind the arcade game of Tron, Sam finds a secret entrance to his dad's office. Notice the songs Separate Ways (Worlds Apart) and Sweet Dreams are playing.
MAN: "The Grid. A digital frontier. I tried to picture clusters of information as they moved through the computer. What did they look like? Ships? Motorcycles? Were the circuits like freeways? I kept dreaming of a world I thought I'd never see. And then, one day... BOY: You got in. MAN: That's right, man. I got in."
MAN: "And the world was more beautiful than I ever dreamed and also more dangerous than I ever imagined."
Now, I met a brave warrior. Tron. (VOCALIZING) Bom-ba-bom-bom bom! Tron! BOY: He fights for the users. MAN: He sure does. Oh, man, he showed me things that no one had ever imagined. There were these disk battles fought in spectacular arenas. Cycles that raced on ribbons of light. It was so radical.
MAN: And together... BOY: You built the Grid. MAN: We built a new grid for programs and users. Now, I couldn't be in there all the time, so I created a program in my own image that could think. Like you, and me. And I called him Clu. - Codified Likeness Utility. - MAN: That's right. And Clu, Tron and I, we built the system, where all information was free and open.
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ENCOM CEO and video game icon Kevin Flynn has disappeared. He was best known for designing Tron and Space Paranoids, the two bestselling video games in history.
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Loyal to the end, Bradley maintains his belief that Flynn is not missing and is instead pursuing his dream of "a digital frontier to reshape the human condition."
"In there is a new world. In there is our future. In there is our destiny."
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OS-12 is the most secure operating system ever released. The idea of sharing our software or giving it away for free disappeared with Kevin Flynn.
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Sam, two nights before he disappeared, he came to my house. "I've cracked it," he kept saying. He was talking about genetic algorithms, quantum teleportation. He said he was about to change everything. Science, medicine, religion. He wouldn't have left that, Sam. He wouldn't have left you.
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This program has no disk. Another stray. Hey, wait. Wait. I'm not a program! He actually did it. I'm on the Grid. Does the name Kevin Flynn mean anything to you? Be quiet if you want to live! MAN: Not the games, not the games, not the games, not the games...
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COMPUTER: Attention, program. You will receive an identity disk. Everything you do or learn will be imprinted on this disk. If you lose your disk or fail to follow commands, you will be subject to immediate de-resolution. Mirroring complete. Disk activated and synchronized. Proceed to games. SAM: Games? Where are you going? What am I supposed to do? Survive. (CROWD ROARS) COMPUTER: All combatants, prepare for disk wars.
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Identify yourself, program. - I'm not a program. - (CROWD BOOS) Identify. My name is Sam Flynn.
SAM: "Am I on the Grid? Who are you? Dad. Sam. Look at you, man. Look at the size of you. - How did you get in here? - I got your message. Oh. So it's just you? Yeah. Just you. Oh. (LAUGHS) Isn't this something? You look the same. A lot's happened, Sam. More than you can imagine. Disk. Let's have a look.
(SAM LAUGHS) Got it. Hmm. I expected more. So, you were trapped in here. That's right. - And you're in charge. - Right again. You're two for two. So can we just go home now? Not in the cards. Not for you. That's a hell of a way to treat your son. Oh, that. I'm not your father, Sam. But I'm very, very happy to see you. Clu. Where is he? What did you do to him? Same thing I'm going to do to you, user."
"Oh, yes, indeed, programs. Your liberator! Your luminary! Your leader and maker! The one who vanquished the tyranny of the user those many cycles before! CLU: I've been waiting a long time for this. JARVIS: Clu! You wanna play? I'll play. Excellent words, sir. Were you pleased with my execution? COMPUTER: Grid is live. Initiate light cycle battle. You got no chance, user."
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"Their vehicles can't go off Grid. They'll malfunction on this terrain. - What about us? - (LAUGHS) Obviously not. - Where are you taking me? - Patience, Sam Flynn. All your questions will be answered soon. SAM: Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa! (LAUGHS) Wait here. MAN: Quorra. I dreamed of Tron. First time in years.
QUORRA: It's a sign."
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MAN: I'm afraid something's happened. QUORRA: Something has happened. We have a guest. MAN: There are no guests, kiddo. Sam...
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"Clu had him on the light cycle grid. I intervened.... Flynn built it many cycles ago for the games. QUORRA: It doesn't get out as much as it used to, but it's still the fastest thing on the Grid."
"I've read them all. Oh. Light reading. Tolstoy. Dostoyevsky. I-Ching. Journey Without Goal. Must have a killer ending. Flynn is teaching me about the art of the selfless, about removing oneself from the equation. But between you and me, Jules Verne is my favorite."
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"I'm sure you've figured it out by now, I was coming here. Human form into digital space. Heavy stuff. But I also had you. I had ENCOM. I couldn't be in here all the time. I needed partners to help out. Tron and Clu? That's right. KEVIN: Tron was created by Alan for the old system. I brought him here to protect this one."
"Clu was my creation. A program designed to create a perfect world. We were jamming, man, building utopia. Hours in here were just minutes back home. Just when I thought it couldn't get any more profound, something unexpected happened. The miracle. The miracle. You remember.
ISOs. Isomorphic algorithms. - A whole new life form. - And you created them? (LAUGHS) No. No. They manifested, like a flame. They weren't really from anywhere. The conditions were right and they came into being. For centuries we've dreamed of gods, spirits, aliens, an intelligence beyond our own. You seeing this? I found them in here. Like flowers in a wasteland. Profoundly naive. Unimaginably wise. (CHUCKLES) They were spectacular. Everything I'd hoped to find in the system, control, order, perfection, none of it meant a thing. I'd been living in a hall of mirrors. The ISOs shattered it. The possibilities of their root code, their digital DNA. Disease? History. Science, philosophy, every idea man has ever had about the universe up for grabs. Bio-digital jazz, man."
"The ISOs, they were going to be my gift to the world. SAM: So what happened? KEVIN: Clu. Clu happened. TRON: Your transport to the portal is waiting for you. I don't like it when you cut it this close. KEVIN: Will you stop worrying, Tron? Everything's just fine. - Everything's under control. - CLU: Flynn!
Am I still to create the perfect system? Yeah. KEVIN: It was a coup. TRON: Go. CLU: You've been corrupted. Why? Why? Flynn, go! (TRON YELLS) KEVIN: Tron, he fought for me. I never saw him again. So why didn't you fight? - KEVIN: Hmm. - He did. KEVIN: Clu fed on my resistance. The more I fought, the more powerful he became. It was impressive, really. And my miracle... Clu saw the ISOs as an imperfection. So he destroyed them. (DISTANT SCREAMING) The Purge. - He killed them all? - It was genocide. I tried to get back but I couldn't get to the portal. It uses massive power and it can't stay open forever.
And like a safe, it... It can only be opened from the outside. It closed on me, Sam. That's why I never came home. SAM: So the portal, it activated when I came in. So it's open now. KEVIN: Not for long. Only one millicycle, about eight hours. So we go now. Go home. We make a run for it. - We get you out of here."
"The moment Flynn is on the Grid, Clu will stop at nothing to obtain his disk. My disk is everything, Sam. It's the master key. The golden ticket. The way out.
- And not just for me. - What do you mean? Our worlds are more connected than anyone knows. Clu figures if I can be in... SAM: He can be out? KEVIN: With my disk, it's possible. SAM: And then what? Game over. The guy doesn't dig imperfection. What's more imperfect than our world? I can't let that happen. I won't."
"So what do we do? Nothing? It's amazing how productive doing nothing can be. Clu's planning something. We've known that for a while. Programs have been disappearing. There's unrest out there, even revolution. If we sit tight, Clu might be brought down from the inside. SAM: If the portal is closing, we can't sit around. We have to move now. Tell me, what brought you here, to the Grid? Alan got your page. I didn't send any page. It was Clu. Clu sent that page. That's why you're here. This is all his design. He wanted a new piece on the board to change the game! With you, he got more than he ever dreamed. This is precisely what he wants. Us together heading for the portal. It's his game now. The only way to win is not to play. Well, that's a hell of a way to live. But it is a way. We can go home. Don't you want that? Sometimes life has a way of moving you past things like wants and hopes."
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"How can he be so afraid of his own creation? I mean, he built Clu. Why doesn't he just end him? He could, but it would require reintegration. Yeah, all right.
Flynn would never survive the event. It would mean the end of them both. (SIGHS) If he refuses to save himself, then I will. How? I'm going through the portal. Clu wants Flynn's disk, not mine. I'm going to find Alan and we'll figure this thing out from the other side. This may be Clu's game here, but in my world, he's gone in one keystroke. But I can't do anything unless I get to the portal. And my guts tell me that you don't want to be stuck in this place for eternity either."
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There's someone I once knew, a program named Zuse who fought alongside the ISOs. They say he can get anyone anywhere. SAM: How do I find him? QUORRA: This is his sector. Make it there alive, and he'll find you.
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Sir, the sentries downtown have recovered Flynn's light cycle. We've traced it to its point of origin. KEVIN: Prepare the light runner, Quorra.
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You are Clu. - I am Clu. - You will create the perfect system. - I will create the perfect system. (CHUCKLES) Together we're gonna change the world, man.
(ROARS) (LAUGHS) (SIGHS) Let's move. CASTOR: Zuse has been around since the earliest days of the gaming grid. By necessity, he has to mind all the percentages. All the angles.
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"Your father didn't want any programs slipping out accidentally, did he?"
"I need to get to the portal. Well, it's closing quickly, as I'm sure you're aware. Tick-tock, tick-tock. And it's quite the journey. Beyond the far reaches of the Outlands. Your father didn't want any programs slipping out accidentally, did he? - Can you help me? - Of course. But first, as a man who prides himself on staying well informed, I must ask who sent you my way. Her name's Quorra. Said she met you a long time ago. Indeed she did. Many cycles ago. It was a different time. But we're not here to relive the past. Let's see about your future, shall we? We'll have to change your attire and you'll need a forged disk. Not easy these days. And of course you'll need transport to cross the Sea of Simulation. This is going to be quite the ride. (SCREAMING) (MUSIC CHANGES)
I believed in users once before. Playing all the angles. (SCREAMING) Resist! The game has changed, son of Flynn! (CACKLES) I met your friend. He's fantastic! Behold! The son of our maker! Yeah!"
SAM: Your disk. Dad, it's gone. It is. I'm sorry. I know I messed up. We can go back. - I can go back. - No, we stay together. - Dad, I can do this. - You've done enough already! Sam, you're really... You're messing with my Zen thing, man. She's stable. - SAM: So what do we do now? - I don't know. Nothing. We do nothing. Be still. Wait. You ever jump a freight train? Huh? We do it your way. Full-on sprint to the portal. If we beat Clu there, we have a chance. Let's get her out of here. This'll take us there. - Is she gonna make it? - I don't know. I've got to identify the damaged code.
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KEVIN: She's the miracle, man. Everything I ever worked for."A digital frontier to reshape the human condition." SAM: I always thought that was just a plug line. KEVIN: In our world, she could change everything. Yeah. (LAUGHS) Check that out. She risked herself for me. Some things are worth the risk. KEVIN: Look at this. Now, that is impressive if I do say so myself. Huh? Come on, it's gonna take a while for her system to reboot.
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"I said I'd show you the Grid. You should have seen this place back then. I couldn't wait to show it to you. Could not wait. SAM: Must have been something before Clu screwed it up. No, no, he... He's me. I screwed it up. Chasing after perfection. Chasing after what was right in front of me. Right in front of me. Look what you've accomplished. It's incredible. Sam, I'd have given it all up for one more day with you."
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"Here. She's rebooting. Give her this. The old man's gonna knock on the sky, listen to the sound. CASTOR: When Flynn entered the space, ah, everything changed. I've never seen anything quite like it. The awe was palpable. - Was it? - I presume our understanding is still valid? Control of the city? A sizeable request, I know. But seemingly fitting compensation. Don't you think? How long have you been searching for this, Clu? About 1 ,000 cycles. No? Just imagine the secrets it holds. (LAUGHS) The master key to any and all riddles of the Grid, Grid, Grid, Grid... But there's something else, too. Isn't there?"
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"So I ran. A sympathetic program smuggled me out of the city. But soon they had me surrounded. I prepared for the end. And just as everything was going dark, I felt a hand on my shoulder. And when I opened my eyes, standing above me was the Creator. Your father. He saved me. I guess you could say I'm a rescue... SAM: Hell of a view. QUORRA: It used to let us know that Flynn was here. It became the symbol of something bigger, something better than this world. I've never been this close before. It's how I imagine a sunrise to be. Ah, trust me. There's no comparison. What's it like? - The sun? - Yeah. Man..."
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"This isn't supposed to be here. - What happened? - A new course. What is this? Clu can't create programs. He can only destroy or repurpose them. Repurpose them for what? COMPUTER: Battalion 6, report to Staging Area Alpha. He's building an army."
"What's she doing? - Removing herself from the equation."
"Greetings, programs!" (PROGRAMS CHEER) "Together we have achieved a great many things. We have created a vast, complex system. We've maintained it. We've improved it. We have rid it of its imperfection. Not to mention rid it of the false deity who sought to enslave us. Kevin Flynn! - Where are you now?"
- (PROGRAMS BOO) (LAUGHS)
"My fellow programs, let there be no doubt that our world is a cage no more. For at this moment, the key to the next frontier is finally in our possession!
(PROGRAMS CHEER) Your disk. And unlike our selfish Creator, who reserved the privilege of our world only for himself, I will make their world open and available to all of us! (PROGRAMS CHEER) Yes! To all of us!"
SAM: He's taking all of this with him. He's figured out how to do it.
CLU: And whatever we find there, there our system will grow! There our system will blossom! Do this. Prove yourselves. Prove yourselves to me! Be loyal to me! And I will never betray you! (PROGRAMS CHEER)
Dad, we have to get your disk. We gotta get to the portal. You shut them down outside. Even if I make it, you won't last in here, nor will Quorra. - We'll be all right. Come on. - I'm not going home without you. Sam... The same team. Remember? I was afraid you were gonna say that. Meet me on the flight deck in five and get us some wheels. Wheels? What's your plan? I'm a user. I'll improvise.
CLU: Maximize efficiency. Rid the new system of its imperfection! My vision is clear, fellow programs. Out there is a new world! Out there is our victory! (PROGRAMS CHEER) Out there is our destiny."
Analysis: CLU is an anagram of LUC, an abbreviation for Lucifer. He was charged by Sam Flynn to create the perfect system. He is the leader of the programs and blames the creator as being selfish. He says their world is a cage.
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"Dad, we have to get your disk. We gotta get to the portal. You shut them down outside. Even if I make it, you won't last in here, nor will Quorra. - We'll be all right. Come on. - I'm not going home without you. Sam... The same team. Remember? I was afraid you were gonna say that. Meet me on the flight deck in five"
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COMPUTER: "Light fighter 5. Unauthorized launch. Death to the user!"
"Head towards the light, Quorra. Where did you learn that move? ENCOM Tower. Couple of nights ago. ENCOM Tower. Huh. Light jets. Here they come."
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TRON: "Flynn, go! CLU: Rinzler! Take the shot! Finish the game! Roll! TRON: I fight for the users. (SCREAMS) That's it. It's over. It's over! (LAUGHS) QUORRA: Whoo! Quorra, there's something I need you to do. Let's get you home, Dad. There it is. - Take her down. - Hang on. This could be rough. This is mine. I had a feeling you'd be here! (LAUGHS) The cycles haven't been kind, have they? Oh, you don't look so bad."
"I did everything. Everything you ever asked." I know you did." - CLU: I executed the plan! "- "As you saw it." "You... You promised that we would change the world together. - You broke your promise." - "I know. I understand that now." "I took this system to its maximum potential. I created the perfect system!"
"The thing about perfection is that it's unknowable. It's impossible but it's also right in front of us all the time. You wouldn't know that because I didn't when I created you. I'm sorry, Clu. I'm sorry". (YELLS) CLU: "You knew I'd beat you. And still you did all this? For him. No. No! Why?" "He's my son."
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"...and get us some wheels." " Wheels?" "What's your plan?" "I'm a user. I'll improvise."
Soul's impressive 8.2 rating on IMDB is a testament to that fact, currently putting it around the 100th highest rated movie all-time. Because of the NDE/white light/astral plane subject matter and Pixar's take, I would place this movie in my top five along with other ground-breaking movies such as The Truman Show and The Matrix.
I have been wanting to see the new Disney / Pixar collaboration Soul for a long time now ever since I first saw the trailer months ago. I was curious to see what kind of spin Disney and Pixar would put on the white light and dying process. Let me start off by saying I really loved the movie. And the more I think about it and process it all -- and I am still trying to process it all -- the more I respect the movie. In fact, it might become my favorite movie, especially since there aren't that many movies that tackle the dying process head on. And they managed to keep a very deeply serious and sometimes frightening subject light-hearted and fun for the most part.
Pixar has produced many of the highest grossing movies of all time, including Toy Story 3 (2010), Finding Dory (2016), Incredibles 2 (2018), Toy Story 4 (2019), Finding Nemo (2003), The Incredibles (2004), Ratatouille (2007), WALL-E (2008), Up (2009), Brave (2012), Inside Out (2015), Coco (2017), Monsters, Inc. (2001), and Cars (2006).
Soul was written and directed by Pete Docter who also wrote and directed Monsters Inc. Pete Docter is not just a writer and director for Pixar. He is also the Chief Creative Officer (CCO) so he is now running the show at Pixar, a subsidiary of Disney Studio owned by The Walt Disney Company.
The Disney Pixar 2020 movie Soul starts with the typical Disney intro showing the second star to the right, the wishing star, the evening star, a.k.a. Venus. The music is even a jazz band playing the song Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star which incidentally contains the lyrics, "Then the traveller in the dark thanks you for your tiny spark. He could not see which way to go if you did not twinkle so. Twinkle, twinkle, little star, How I wonder what you are!... As your bright and tiny spark lights the traveller in the dark, though I know not what you are, Twinkle, twinkle, little star. Twinkle, twinkle, little star, How I wonder what you are!" Is the traveller in the dark a soul after death?
A jazz musician, Joe Gardner (voiced by Jamie Foxx), dreams about performing professionally onstage in a famous jazz quartet. On the day he is to perform, he dies. He said he's afraid if he died today without playing the quartet that his life would have amounted to nothing so he avoids the light at all costs in order to fulfill his dream. The Half Note club name may be symbolic for Joe going to the place or space between physical and spiritual, between life and death. We find out later, Joe is still hooked up to a machine so it seems he is in a comatose state having a near death experience (NDE).
Joe immediately finds himself in darkness or a void which is in line with almost all the near death experiences I have heard about. Very shortly, he sees the white light. He is adamant about not going into the light as he still wants to fulfill his dream of playing the aforementioned jazz gig. So he turns around and heads away from the light.
There is a long line of souls on a escalator or conveyor belt like contraption heading up and into the white light which is called The Great Beyond. "I have a gig tonight. I can’t die now." As he heads away from the light, a soul informs him, "I don’t think you’re supposed to go that way." Joe answers, " This can’t happen. I’m not dyin’ today. Not when my life just started." This depicts Joe taking his sovereignty, free will and will power into his hands instead of being led like a mindless sheep.
As the other souls enter the light, a crackling, electrical, buzzing sound is heard akin to a bug zapper. Joe exclaims, "What was that?" This alarms Joe even more. As Joe passes souls heading into the light, he asks, "What’s wrong with you people?" The souls seem unaware and one mumbles, "I don't know." By the way, after writing this review, I read comments about the movie on the Pixar reddit page and others mentioned the bug zapper and conveyor belt too so it is just not my fanciful interpretation of it all.
After Joe runs away from the light and falls, he falls through what appears to be a grid of lines? Is this a nod to the theory that we are inside a grid or matrix?
Joe leaves the line of newly departed souls and finds himself in a space with a bunch of "new" souls, which are curiously called "coyotes", probably because they behave wildly. Joe is accosted by a tall spirit being who identifies itself as Jerry.
Joe avoided going into the light by hiding here and falsely taking the name badge of Dr. Borgensson. 22 is a soul that is always resisting coming to earth because it hates earth. It is encouraging to see the ineptitude of those in charge of processing souls. So maybe it will be easier to avoid the recycling process.
22: (GRUNTS) How many times do I have to tell you? I don't wanna go to Earth. "Stop fighting this, 22." 22: I don't wanna. COUNSELOR JERRY B: You will go to Earth and have a life. - 22: Make me!" "22 has been at the You Seminar for quite some time."
Moondancer is able to help them get back to Earth. Joe is able to sense some things around his body like a heart monitor and smells wood. They show a hall in the hispital. Notice the recycle symbol. He says he can feel his feet and the fur of his therapy cat. Joe is in a hurry to get back to his body so he rushes and accidentally bumps 22 and they fall through the earth portal together.
Joe's body is in a hospital bed attached to a machine. This insinuates he was having an NDE. Joe had a therapy cat in bed with him and he ends up in the wrong body. Joe is now in the body of a cat and 22 is in Joe's earthly body. "This is the worst day of my life. I hate Earth."
"I can't believe I'm in a body on this hellish planet."
Joe and 22 are in the subway station and 22 is intrigued by a street singer playing the guitar, He is singing a song called Parting Ways. It may foreshadow Joe and 22 soon having to part ways as mentor and soul. But looking closely at the lyrics, the song actually may be hinting at soul recycling, and that love is the foundation:
♪ Though we are parting ways
♪ We shall come around to touch eyes again
♪ Love is the foundation
♪ If the purpose be to recycle life
♪ I promise you I'll bring us to one
♪ Beating heart in the end now...
♪ Now love, love, love, love, Talkin' 'bout love
So, in conclusion, would I say Soul is soft disclosure on not going into the white light at death? Not exactly, but it does contain many of the elements I have wrote about on this site and talked about in interviews. There are many similarities in the movie with my web site, including themes or elements of an NDE; avoiding the white light; the counting, tracking and even capturing of souls; the memory wipe; the recycling of life; being in "the zone"; lost souls and more. Also, consider he fact that the song Parting Ways was written for the movie and it contains a direct reference to recycling life as the purpose.
In most near death experience cases, life on earth is deemed to be necessary for learning and growing, and all in the name of love. And in at least one case I read, the pain and suffering here on earth are said to be a necessary sacrifice so those in the Great Beyond can have a perfect, idyllic, peaceful, joyful, loving paradise. So, in some ways, perhaps the message of the movie could be considered a rebuttal to the NDE idea that earth is a school for learning lessons as just living life in the moment and the little things are what's important?
It seems like the writers of the movie are obviously familiar with the archon / soul recycling / don't go to the light theory and maybe even Gnostic teachings. Souls make a crackling sound as they enter the light, reminiscent of a bug zapper. Joe is told he is not supposed to go away from the light, but he uses his will power to run the other away and avoids the light. The whole point for the souls in the movie is to find their "spark". This could be referring to the divine spark that Gnostics talk about. It is the mystics and astral travellers who help Joe and 22 connect.
22 tells the barber she was "existing as a theoretical construct in a hypothetical way station between life and death" and asks "Is all this living really worth dying for?" Souls are being processed, tracked, prepped for life on earth, given life reviews, brought back via lassoes and nets so they can't "cheat the universe". Joe's last name is "Gardner" perhaps alluding to his role as a sort of spirit guide or mentor for 22 and perhaps earth as a farm for souls. Even the song the man is singing in the subway contains the lyrics "♪ If the purpose be to recycle life ♪" though, much like the NDE community message, it says "♪ love is the foundation ♪". So the song definitely refers to life being recycled and presumably souls too. And recycling may even be the meaning behind the symbolism of the helicopter seed that is so prominent in the movie as a trigger or key to understanding life. It is a seed, but it gets caught by the wind and spins round and round. Or is that supposed to be symbolic of simplicity or somehow living in the moment? A seed symbolizes new life and a seed is like a new soul perhaps. But it would also sort of look like a recycle symbol as it's spinning/falling down.
But the movie is definitely selling "coming to earth", or at least trying to help those of us here to cope with it by putting a positive spin on it. It is almost like they were saying there is no ultimate purpose or meaning to life. The soul counselor said the spark was not related to that, but rather seemed to emphasize the actual living of it, the regular everyday part of life i.e. "regular old living", living in the moment, or "jazzing". 22 seemingly found joy in everything little thing on earth as if to imply the meaning of life is to live. Or live it fully each day in the moment and not overly obsess on things to the point of missing everything that's going on around you all the time. A rebuttal to the NDE idea that life is a school for learning and growing? In fact, the movie pretty much insinuated if you don't come to earth and remain in the moment you can become a "lost soul", even if you remain "in the zone" for too long. I'm not sure if what they are calling the zone is supposed to be the same thing as the void.
There are many allusions to control mechanisms throughout the movie. There is something that maybe looks like a conveyor belt taking souls to the 'Great Beyond'. Joe keeps trying to return to earth through the earth portal, but each time is returned against his will. Terry the accountant continuously counts all the souls and has a record on file of each one. 22 says she is forced to go to a You seminar every week. 22 is lassoed when it is time for her to try to earn her earth pass. The lost souls are caught with a net. Terry goes down to earth among the shadows (a shadow being?) to bring them back so they can't "cheat the universe". Terry keeps Joe from re-entering his body and brings him back to the in between lives way station so he can then be sent into the light and restore the count.
I like how Soul claims the movie is about the journey to YOU and is about finding your spark, and that your spark is not what you think it is. Gnostics have said the soul is a divine spark. The movie doesn't touch on what happens if one goes to the light other than there being a crackling noise as souls enter it which draws allusions to a bug zapper: something to think about! Joe even gasps and exclaims, "What is that?" when he witnesses it. I like that it shows a soul wanting to avoid the white light at all costs, albeit Joe doesn't want to die yet because he is still attached to the earth plane.
It shows that all souls are closely tracked, monitored and captured if necessary. Souls are given seminars, i.e. brainwashed and conditioned by Counselors who are all named Jerry which suggests they may be of one collective hive mind. The Counselor isn't concerned about earth and its problems and, in fact, they seem to confess there is trauma involved in the birth process. Trauma is a proven means of mind control, e.g. trauma based mind control.
The movie centers around finding one's spark but not getting too overly attached or obsessed to the point of getting lost and becoming what they call a "lost soul". It mentions what it calls being in the zone when one is tapping into its most creative and productive aspect. The movie says the zone is the "space between the physical and spiritual". This sounds something akin to the void. They say being "in the zone" for too long can cause one to become a "lost soul". I agree with this to a point. It all depends on your point of view or perspective and what you "desire" or set your intention to do.
Some might say this movie is for people like me who are skeptics of life on earth. I acknowledge that point, to an extent. I do try to appreciate the little things in life as best as I can without becoming obsessed or addicted, which is the same point the movie is making. I love listening to and playing music. I like watching and playing sports. There are many things I appreciate. I strive for balance and moderation. Although I don't ultimately agree with the movie in that I feel there are way better realms than the earth plane. I do think the movie probably helps one to cope with things while we are here on earth. What I feel is not being shown in the movie and in near death experiences is the other side of the story. The ongoing narrative is that souls need to come to earth in order to grow and learn to love. This sacrifice is all in the name of love. And the being of light in NDEs is said to be full of love.
The movie still promotes the white light as the process or way to get to the great beyond after death. The only reason Joe avoided the white light was because he wanted to do that gig on earth. At the end of the movie, it looked like he was gonna go to the light before the Jerrys offered him a second chance at earth. So the movie promoted both the white light and incarnating on earth as worthwhile. But at least they subtly put in a lot of the truth, but that will be dismissed as humor or just be missed by the masses.
The ultimate 'danger' in a movie like SOUL is that Disney indoctrination reaches so many millions it will encourage of the 'dead' who encounter the conveyer and white light to submit to the archons because, hey, 'Disney wouldn't lie to us would they', thereby going back to earth and giving power away over and over again. People trust Disney, not realizing the function of all 'systems' is to create brainwashed sheep that can be easily used by the parasites as eternal food/fuel.
Regardless, Soul is probably now the best, most thought-provoking movie there is about the afterlife. And I enjoy watching it.
When the credits finished rolling, Terry popped up and yelled, "Hey, movie's over! Go home!" And maybe that is precisely what we all should do when this movie called Life on Earth is finished. We should go home.
Star Trek is a franchise that has repeatedly contained Gnostic-based themes right from the start in its pilot episode.
The Star Trek The Original Series 2-part episode, The Menagerie, was reworked fom the show's actual 1965 pilot epsiode named The Cage. The Menagerie was aired in November of 1966. A group of small telepathic aliens very reminiscent of the little grey aliens that dominate today's commercial market, hold Captain Pike a prisoner. The Star trek series, of course, went on to be a huge success.
Analysis: Aliens reminiscent of the little greys. due to their bulbous heads and silvery suits, have captured Pike and placed him within a cage bound within a force field. They communicate telepathically. They are studying the human and it is like theatre for them.
n a rare interview on the paranormal radio show Coast to Coast A.M. Art Bell interviewed Leonard Nimoy who played the alien character Spock. Leonard Nimoy told him, "When we were making the Star Trek series the first season -- middle of the first season -- some people came to me and they said, 'You may not know it, but you have been chosen as a kind of a vessel to carry informatin to this civilization to help prepare this society for the coming of another civilization for alien arrival and your character is a character designed to educate this public that there is nothing to fear, that it is possible to interact with other species', and I said, 'Ok, it's ok with me if that's the case.' "
These inorganic alien beings depicted in the pilot show are actually mentioned in the ancient Nag Hammadi gnostic texts and are referred to as Archons which are mind parasites. Yes, the Archons "are cons". Researcher John Lash has written extensively about them.
"Can you understand me ? [ Using Telepathy .]
It appears, Magistrate, that the intelligence of the specimen is shockingly limited.
This is no surprise since his vessel was baited so easily with a simulated message.
As you can read in its thoughts, it is only now beginning to suspect that the survivors and encampment were a simple illusion we placed in their minds.
You're not speaking, yet I can hear you.
You will note the confusion as it reads our thought transmissions.
All right, then. Telepathy. You can read my mind. I can read yours. Now, unless you want my ship to consider capturing me an unfriendly act--
You now see the primitive fear-threat reaction. The specimen is about to boast of his strength, the weaponry of his vessel and so on. Next frustrated into a need to display physical prowess, the creature will throw himself against the transparency.
If you were in here wouldn't you test the strength of these walls too ? There's a way out of any cage, and I'll find it.
Despite its frustration, the creature appears more adaptable than our specimens from other planets. We can soon begin the experiment.
The inhabitants of this planet must live deep underground. Probably manufacture food and other needs down there. Now, our tests indicate the planet's surface without considerably more vegetation or some animals, simply too barren to support life. So we just thought we saw survivors there, Mr. Spock.
Exactly.
An illusion, placed in our minds by this planet's inhabitants.
It was a perfect illusion. They had us seeing just what we wanted to see-- Humans beings who survived with dignity and bravery. Everything entirely logical, right down to the building of the camp. The tattered clothing, everything.
Now, let's be sure we understand the danger of this. The inhabitants of this planet can read our minds. They can create illusions out of a person's own thoughts, memories and experiences. Even out of a person's own desires. The illusion's just as real and solid as this table top and just as impossible to ignore."
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BOYCE: Maybe it was. It's what I tried to explain in the briefing room. Their power of illusion is so great, we can't be sure of anything we do, anything we see.
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VINA: They can't actually make you do anything you don't want to do.
PIKE: But they try to trick me with their illusions.
VINA: And, er, they can punish you when you're not co-operative. You'll find out about that.
PIKE: Did they ever live on the surface of this planet? Why did they go underground?
VINA: War, thousands of centuries ago.
PIKE: That's why it's so barren up there?
VINA; The planet's only now becoming able to support life again.
PIKE: So the Talosians who came underground found life limited here and they concentrated on developing their mental power.
VINA: But they found it's a trap, like a narcotic, because when dreams become more important than reality, you give up travel, building, creating. You even forget how to repair the machines left behind by your ancestors. You just sit, living and reliving other lives left behind in the thought record.
PIKE: Or sit probing minds of zoo specimens like me.
VINA: You're better than a theatre to them. They create the illusion for you, they watch you react, feel your emotions. They have a whole collection of specimens, descendants of life brought back long ago from all over this part of the galaxy.
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PIKE: You'll find my thoughts more interesting, thoughts so primitive you can't understand. Emotions so (stricken by pain)
KEEPER: Wrong thinking is punishable. Right thinking will be as quickly rewarded. You will find it an effective combination. (leaves)
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KIRK: You keep talking about life, Mister Spock. A chance for life. How? As a prisoner, caged, a zoo specimen, living the illusions that amuse his keepers?
Analysis:It's very interesting that this is the pilot episode for the Star Trek franchise. It was depicting humans as being in a cage, an invisible force field. Furthermore, humans were the victims of telepathic illusions all for entertainment and theater.
An episode from the very first year of the original Star Trek series. The episode was named Return of the Archons. It depicted inhabitants on a planet who were assimilated or absorbed into a hive mind entity known as "The Body". The whole illusion was run by a projection from a computer programmed by Landru, who had left the planet many years before. The irony is Landru told the inhabitants that some beings called the archons would arrive in the future. These inhabitants, of one mind, displayed vacant stares. The leaders, called the "lawgivers", wore dark robes and carried tube like weapons.
[Street]
(One of the robed figures reaches Sulu and points his hollow stave at him. Sulu stiffens, then relaxes with a smile on his face. The transporter takes him away.)
[Transporter room]
SULU: They're wonderful. They're the sweetest, friendliest people in the universe. It's paradise, my friend. Paradise.
[Street]
(A man walks slowly past them, hand on his heart and smile on his face. He bows politely and carries on his way.)
SPOCK: Odd. The expression on that man's face. The mindlessness. Vacant contentment.
LAWGIVER: You attacked the Body. You have heard the Word and disobeyed. You will be absorbed.
LAWGIVER: It is clear that you simply did not understand. I will re-phrase. You are ordered to accompany us to the absorption chambers.
[Chamber]
(Reger leads them into a building made of massive stones. He goes over to a corner and unwraps a flat panel, which gives off light.)
KIRK: A lighting panel.
KIRK: Those staffs. Hollow tubes. Antennae for some sort of broadcast power. What is it, Mister Spock?
SPOCK: Strong power generations, Captain. Near here, but radiating in all directions.
The Body:
"Are you Archons?" "What if we are?" "It was said more would follow. If you are indeed-- We must hide them. Quickly--the Lawgivers. We can take care of ourselves. Landru will know. He will come. He's the one. He mocked the Lawgivers.
I heard him. No, Hacom. It was a jest.
The others, they were here, but they scorned the festival. I saw it. Tamar, stand clear.
I hear and obey the voice of Landru.
You attacked the body.
You have heard the word and disobeyed.
You will be absorbed.
What do you mean, absorbed? There.
You see? Not of the body.
You will be absorbed.
The good is all. Landru is gentle. You will come."
REGER: I don't know, Captain. Some of us escape the directives. Not many, but a few. It was that way when the first Archons came.
KIRK: The Archons. Tell me about them.
REGER: They had invaded the Body, but they resisted the will of Landru. You see, Landru had pulled them down from the skies.
(The image of a tall, elegant man draped in robes appears against a wall.)
LANDRU: I am Landru.
SPOCK: Projection, Captain. Unreal.
LANDRU: You will be absorbed. Your individuality will merge into the unity of the good, and in your submergence into the common being of the Body, you will find contentment and fulfillment. You will experience the absolute good.
LAWGIVER: Come.
(Kirk leaves with the Lawgivers.)
SPOCK: Doctor McCoy, what will happen to him?
MCCOY: He goes to joy, peace, and tranquillity. He goes to meet Landru. Happiness is to all of us, blessed by Landru.
[Absorption Chamber]
(Kirk is released and greets Spock with an inane smile on his face.)
KIRK: Joy to you, friend. Peace and contentment will fill you. You will know the peace of Landru.
(Kirk leaves, and Spock is fastened to the wall for his treatment. The lights waver as the Lawgivers leave Marplon to his work.)
MARPLON: Have no fear, friend. The effect is harmless. My name is Marplon. I was too late to save your first two friends. They have been absorbed. Beware of them.
[Prison]
SPOCK: Captain.
KIRK: Peace and tranquility to you. (in a whisper) Are you all right?
SPOCK: This is a soulless society, Captain. It has no spirit, no spark. All is indeed peace and tranquillity. The peace of the factory, the tranquillity of the machine. All parts working in unison.
[Hall of Audiences]
KIRK: Landru! Landru. We are the Archons. We are the Archons. We've come to speak. We are the Archons. We want to talk to you.
(The projection appears on the far wall.)
LANDRU: All who saw you, all who know of your presence here must be excised. The memory of the Body will be cleansed.
KIRK: Listen to me.
SPOCK: Useless, Captain. A projection.
KIRK: Yes, Mister Spock. Let's have a look at the projector.
(They both use their phasers to blast a hole in the wall. As expected, there are nice clean big computer boxes in a room beyond. Lights are flashing and blinking, blinking and flashing.)
KIRK: Of course. It had to be. Landru.
SPOCK: A machine. This whole society is a machine's concept of perfection. Peace, harmony.
KIRK: But no soul.
So,,, the Archons are given orders by a computer / machine with a lighting panel and humans are taken to absorption chambers and come back in a blissful trance (just like NDErs) repeating
mantra like phrases like "peace and tranquility" and act as one (the Body)... it's also interesting to note they treat Kirk and crew as if THEY are a virus that is invading the body (when in reality the Archons are like parasites that invade the mind).
The Borg Queen from Star Trek First Contact movie. The inorganic Borg cyborgs assimilate other species into their collective hive consciousness. "Resistance is futile."
"Are you ready?" "Who are you?"
"I am the Borg."
"That is a contradiction. The Borg have a collective consciousness. There are no individuals."
"I am the beginning, the end, the one who is many. I am the Borg.
Greetings. I am curious. Do you control the Borg collective? You imply a disparity where none exists.
I am the collective.
Perhaps I should rephrase the question. I wish to understand the organizational relationships. Are you their leader?
"I bring order to chaos."
An interesting if cryptic response.
You are in chaos, Data. You are the contradiction. A machine who wishes to be human.
Since you seem to know so much about me, you must be aware that I am programmed to evolve, to better myself.
We, too, are on a quest to better ourselves, evolving toward a state of perfection.
Forgive me, but the Borg do not evolve. They conquer.
By assimilating other beings into our collective, we are bringing them closer to perfection.
Somehow, I question your motives.
That is because you haven't been properly stimulated yet.
You have reactivated my emotion chip. - Why?
- Don't be frightened. I am not frightened.
Analysis: Perhaps the most well known depiction of a hive mind collective. The Borg. They will assimilate you. They use perfection as an excuse.
Star Trek Voyager - In this Star Trek Voyager episode, Captain Janeway is dying while her crew tries to revive her so you could say she is having a near death experience. She is almost fooled by an alien into thinking she has died. The alien poses as her father, imploring her to follow him into the light. She is suspicious of his intentions and refuses.
JANEWAY: That's the real me, isn't it, lying on the ground on that planet, dying, and this is the hallucination. This isn't real.
ALIEN: More denial. You're only making it harder on yourself.
JANEWAY: You're trying very hard to convince me to come with you. Why is that? If what you're saying is true, why not let me come to the decision on my own?
ALIEN: I'm trying to spare you unnecessary pain.
JANEWAY: My father would never act like this. He always believed I had to learn my own lessons, make my own mistakes. He never tried to shield me from life. Why would he try to shield me from death? You're not my father. I could be imagining you, but I don't think so. You have such a specific agenda. You're determined that I go with you somewhere. Who are you?
ALIEN: I'm trying to help you. Stop fighting me.
JANEWAY: Are you an alien being of some kind? Is that it?
[Planet Surface]
CHAKOTAY: Her eyes are open.
EMH: Vital signs are responding. Blood pressure is sixty over thirty.
TUVOK: But the entity is still inhabiting her cerebral cortex, impeding your treatment.
CHAKOTAY: Kathryn, hang on. We're bringing you back. Just fight a little longer.
EMH: Direct synaptic stimulation might drive out the alien presence.
[Mess hall]
JANEWAY: I was right. I heard Tuvok and Chakotay and the Doctor. You're an alien. You've created all these hallucinations, haven't you?
ALIEN: This is what my species does. At the moment just before death one of us comes down to help you understand what's happening, to make the crossing over an occasion of joy.
JANEWAY: And what is that?
ALIEN: Our Matrix, where your consciousness will live. I was being truthful when I said it was a place of wonder. It can be whatever you want it to be.
JANEWAY: Then why didn't you tell me this from the beginning? Why pretend to be my father.
ALIEN: Usually people are comforted to see their loved ones. It makes the crossing over a much less fearful occasion. I've done this many times, but I've never encountered someone so resistant.
[Planet Surface]
EMH: Something's happened. The alien presence is getting stronger again.
CHAKOTAY: Fight it, Kathryn, just a little longer.
EMH: I'll have to try a thoron pulse.
[Mess hall]
JANEWAY: My people are telling me to fight. They're trying to save me.
ALIEN: They're trying out of desperation. It's hopeless.
JANEWAY: You're the one who sounds desperate. I don't get the feeling you're trying to make me comfortable. You're only interested in my agreeing to come with you.
ALIEN: Because it's inevitable.
JANEWAY: And you don't strike me as any type of Good Samaritan. You're more like a vulture, preying on people at the moment of their death when they're at their most vulnerable.
ALIEN: I've waited for you. I've been patient.
JANEWAY: But your patience is wearing thin. What's the real reason you want me in that Matrix? Somehow I don't think it has anything to do with everlasting joy.
ALIEN: You must go with me.
JANEWAY: If you could force me to go, you'd have done it already. You need me to agree, don't you? I have to go voluntarily.
ALIEN: Wouldn't that be better than standing here in this endless debate?
JANEWAY: Let me tell you this. We can stand here for all eternity and I will never choose to go with you.
ALIEN: You're in a dangerous profession, Captain. You face death everyday. There'll be another time and I'll be waiting. Eventually you'll come into my Matrix and you will nourish me for a long, long, time.
JANEWAY: Go back to hell, coward.
Afterwards, Captain Janeway discusses the encounter with one of her crew.
CHAKOTAY: I can understand that. I can't help thinking about it. That alien, his Matrix, he was like the spider that has to lure a fly into his web.
JANEWAY: Do you think it's possible that each of the near death experiences we've heard about are the result of an alien inhabitation?
Analysis: An alien shapeshifting to take on the appearance of a dying person's father in an attempt to lure its prey into a matrix of light. Then, the crew wonders if all aliens aren't responsible for the phenomenon of near death experiences. Probably the most revealing scene ever.
"Guinan, it is very important that you tell me everything that you know. We think that Soran has developed a weapon, a terrible weapon, one that might even give him enough power to destroy an entire...
Soran doesn't care about weapons or power. He just cares about getting back to the Nexus.
What is the Nexus?
The energy ribbon that destroyed that ship was not just some random phenomena traveling through the universe. It's a doorway to another place that we call the Nexus, and it's a place I've tried very, very hard to forget.
What happened to you?
It was like being inside joy. As if joy was something tangible and you could wrap yourself up in it like a blanket, and never in my entire life have I ever been as content.
And then you were beamed away from there.
Pulled. Ripped away. None of us wanted to go, and I would have done anything, anything to get back there. And once I realized that wasn't possible, I learned to live with that.
What about Soran? If he's still obsessed, he could be a very, very dangerous man.
Why would he destroy a star?
Thank you, Guinan.
If you go, you're not gonna care about anything. Not this ship, not Soran, not me. Nothing. All you'll want is to stay in the Nexus, and you're not gonna want to come back."
STAR TREK V: THE FINAL FRONTIER
GOD (OC): Brave souls. Welcome.
McCOY: Is this the voice of God?
GOD (OC): One voice, many faces.
GOD: Does this better suit your expectations?
SYBOK: Qual se tu?
GOD: It is I. ...The journey you took to reach me could not have been an easy one.
SYBOK: It was not. The Barrier stood between us ...but we breached it.
GOD: Magnificent. You are the first to find me.
SYBOK: We sought only your infinite wisdom.
GOD: And how did you breach the Barrier?
SYBOK: With a starship!
GOD: This starship. ...Could it carry my wisdom beyond the Barrier?
SYBOK: It could. Yes!
GOD: Then I shall make use of this starship.
SYBOK: It will be your chariot!
KIRK: Excuse me.
GOD: It will carry my power to every corner of creation.
KIRK: Excuse me. ...I'd just like to ask a question. ...What does God need with a starship?
GOD: Bring the ship closer.
KIRK: I said ...'What does God need with a starship?'
McCOY: Jim, what are you doing?
KIRK: I'm asking a question.
GOD: Who is this creature?
KIRK: Who am I? Don't you know? Aren't you God?
SYBOK: He ...has his doubts.
GOD: You doubt me?
KIRK: I seek proof.
McCOY: Jim, you don't ask the Almighty for his I.D.
GOD: Then here is the proof you seek.
(blue light rays shoot from God's eyes knocking Kirk backwards)
KIRK: Why is God angry?
SYBOK: Why? Why have you done this to my friend?
GOD: He doubts me.
SPOCK: You have not answered his question. What does God need with a starship?
(blue light rays shoot from God's eyes again knocking Spock backwards)
GOD: Do you doubt me?
McCOY: I doubt any God who inflicts pain for his own pleasure.
SYBOK: Stop! The God of Sha Ka Ree would not do this!
GOD: Sha Ka Ree? A vision you created. An eternity I've been imprisoned in this place! The ship! I must have the ship! Now ...give me what I want!
SPOCK: Sybok, ...this is not the God of Sha Ka Ree, ...or any other God!
SYBOK: I don't understand... Reveal yourself to me!
(an image of Sybok strides out of one of God's eyes)
SYBOK/GOD: What's wrong? Don't you like this face? I have so many but this one suits you best.
SYBOK: No! No, ...it's not possible.
GOD: Bring me the ship or I will destroy you!
SYBOK: The ship.
GOD: Bring it closer so that I might join with it. Do it or watch these puny beings ...die horribly.
SYBOK: What have I done?
KIRK: Kirk to Enterprise. Listen carefully.
SPOCK: Sybok.
SYBOK: This is my doing! This is my arrogance, ... my vanity...
SPOCK: Sybok, we must find a way...
SYBOK: No! Save yourselves! ...Forgive me, brother. Forgive me.
...I couldn't help but notice your pain.
GOD: My pain?
SYBOK: It runs deep. Share it with me.
(Sybok boldly enters the shaft and embraces his evil twin)
KIRK: Enterprise, ...are you ready?
ZARDOZ
2293. Zardoz, an unseen "God" who speaks through an idol - a large stone statue of a head - leads a barbaric race called the Brutals, who live a harsh existence in the Outlands. Zardoz tells the Brutals that once they die, they will be transported to the Vortex, where they will live happily as immortals. He has armed a small group - the Exterminators - with guns, as Zardoz's philosophy is that killing is good, and procreation is the root of all that is bad. In reality, Zardoz is Arthur Frayn, from a competing more advanced race called the Eternals who live in paradise in the Vortex. The Eternals truly are immortal as they do not age and their bodies undergo reconstruction if they "die". As such, they truly do not believe in procreation as their society has reached perfect equilibrium. Past human acts such as sex and sleep are obsolete in their advanced state. All major decisions are achieved through pure democracy.
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I am Arthur Frayn, and I am Zardoz.
I have lived 300 years,
and I long to die,
but death is no longer possible.
I am immortal.
I present now my story,
full of mystery and intrigue,
rich in irony, and most satirical.
It is set deep in a possible future,
so none of these events have yet occurred.
But they may.
Be warned, lest you end as I.
In this tale, I am a fake god
by occupation
and a magician by inclination.
Merlin is my hero.
I am the puppet master.
I manipulate many of the characters
and events you will see.
But I am invented, too,
for your entertainment and amusement.
And you, poor creatures,
who conjured you out of the clay?
Is God in show business, too?
Zardoz!
Praise be to Zardoz!
Praise be to Zardoz!
Praise be to Zardoz!
Zardoz speaks to you, his chosen ones.
We are the chosen ones.
You have been raised up from brutality
to kill the brutals
who multiply and are legion.
To this end Zardoz, your god,
gave you the gift of the gun.
The gun is good.
The gun is good.
The penis is evil.
The penis shoots seeds
and makes new life to poison
the earth with a plague of men,
as once it was.
But the gun shoots death and purifies
the earth of the filth of brutals.
Go forth and kill.
Zardoz has spoken.
Guns! Guns!
You...
...are foolish.
I could have shown you.
Without me, you are nothing.
A bore!
How pointless!
How pointless!
Attention. Harvest produce report.
Attention. Harvest produce report.
Attention. Harvest produce report.
Attention. Harvest produce report.
Submit surpluses and needs.
Submit surpluses and needs.
for intervortex barter and exchange.
Year 2293. Third harvest yield.
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Zardoz says if you obey him,
you will go to a vortex when you die
and there you will live for ever.
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The memories are simple heroics.
There are no abstractions, you will notice.
It is very fragmented.
The shock of entering the vortex (a stone/rock)
could be responsible.
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The place
where the sea meets the land.
It's blacked again.
It seems to be able
to control its memory.
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This is the first visual contact with the
outlands in years... as opposed to data...
since Arthur was delegated to control them.
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I love to see them running.
I love the moment of their death,
when I am one with Zardoz.
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- Is this your god's house?
- It's God you're seeking, is it?
Well, here we are.
Gods, goddesses, kings and queens.
Take your pick.
- But they're all dead.
- Dead?
Died of boredom.
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Off on its endless journey
from vortex to vortex.
Round and round, like me and the bread,
for ever and ever.
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But we discuss it endlessly.
Every little sin and misdemeanour,
raked over and over.
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Three months here, a year there.
These sentences add up.
So if you're bad
often enough, you'll die.
They make you old,
but they don't let you die.
- So what's to stop you killing yourself?
- I do now and again.
But the eternal tabernacle
simply rebuilds me.
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Tell me everything.
Show me pictures.
Open your mind, your memory.
Go back to the beginning.
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I read everything. I learnt
all that had been hidden from me.
I learnt what the world had been
before the darkness fell.
Then, one day, I found the book.
The book called... called...
What was the book?
What was the name of the book?
- I don't remember!
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Show me the whole image!
What are you doing?
You murdered your own god, by accident.
Or was it an accident?
Now show me that book.
What did you find in that book?
Show it to me.
It's a trick! A trick!
What was a trick? Tell me.
Zardoz said "stop".
He said "no more".
- No more what?
- No more killing.
- He told you to take prisoners?
- Yes.
- To make slaves?
- Yes.
- To cultivate instead of kill?
- Yes.
- To grow wheat?
- Yes!
- Did you need wheat?
- No. We ate meat.
Zardoz betrayed us.
We were hunters, not farmers.
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- So that was it.
- "The Wizard of Oz".
Zardoz.
"The Wizard of Oz" was a fairy story
about an old man who frightened people
with a loud voice and a big mask.
It was Arthur Frayn's idea.
A simple way of controlling the outlands.
But remember the end of the story.
They looked behind the mask
and found the truth.
I looked behind the mask
and I saw the truth... Zardoz.
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This place is built on lies,
and suffering.
How could you do what you did to us?
The world was dying.
We took all that was good,
and made an oasis here.
We few... the rich,
the powerful, the clever...
cut ourselves off to guard the knowledge
and treasures of civilisation,
as the world plunged into a dark age.
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Cover the exits! Over there!
We've got him trapped!
We take life from you.
Life flows out of you and flows into us.
Get him! Get him!
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Has found out thy bed of secret joy
"...you pass into the city of woe."
"Through me you pass
into eternal sorrow."
"Through me you pass
among the forgotten people."
...the law of the unity of opposites
is the fundamental law of the universe.
This law operates universally... in the natural
world, human society or man's thinking.
The central nervous system no longer
appears as a self-contained organ.
Now you know all that we know.
It's a prison. A prison!
No, it's an ark. A ship.
A spaceship.
All this technology was
for travel to the distant stars.
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We applied ourselves
to the unsolved mysteries of the universe,
but even with infinite time
and the help of the tabernacle,
our minds were not up to it.
We failed.
And now we're trapped
by our own devices.
There is no exit.
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I have your voice print, Zed,
and your genetic code,
but only memory fragments.
Tell me about the crystal transmitter.
I cannot give information
which may threaten my own security.
Brain emissions refract
low-wavelength laser light
passing through
the crystal in the brain.
They're a code sent to you
for interpretation and storage.
- Yes or no?
- Not permitted.
A receiver must be like a transmitter.
I think you're a crystal.
In fact, this one. This diamond.
In here there is infinite storage space
for refracted light patterns.
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Would you kill God?
Such vanity.
I am the sum of all these people
and all their knowledge.
I am all-seeing.
I am everywhere and nowhere.
That has often served
as a definition of God.
Would you destroy us
and all that we are?
Yes.
Would you not rather be part of us,
joined to us, a light
shining to the future?
Love us. Cherish the truth.
No!
You have penetrated me.
There is no escape.
You are within me.
Come to my centre.
Come into the centre of the crystal.
Tabernacle!
Tabernacle!
The Matrix - This is a sci-fi classic where Neo is told humans are nothing more than a battery - a source of power for the machines and that he is living in a false world, a matrix.
One of the greatest movies in cinematic history. It helped to wake up millions of people to the true nature of our reality, that we are slaves born into bondage. Notice it insinuates religion (church) and government (work, taxes) are part of the matrix.
more modern example of Gnosticism in the movie, The Matrix. I believe The Matrix was responsible in waking many people up to the possibility that this reality we live in is indeed a matrix or a computer simulation. This is a sci-fi classic where Neo is told humans are nothing more than a battery - a source of power for the machines and that he is living in a false world, a matrix.
What can be said about The Matrix series of movies? The first Matrix movie is probably the single most important movie of our generation. It literally woke up millions of people to the possibility that we are indeed living in a computer generated dream world called the matrix. The movie literally shows the computer code that represents our reality scrolling on the computer screen in monochrome green. It should be zeroes and ones to be a little more accurate as it is the on and off bits that make up this information grid we live in.
The main character is named Neo, an anagram for "One". Neo also is a prefix from the Greek, neos, meaning "new". Neo is a computer hacker. Morpheus (Greek god of Dreams), the leader of a pirate organization that hacks the broadcast signal of the matrix, believes Neo is the one prophesized by The Oracle to save humanity and free it from the matrix. With the help of his love interest, Trinity, Neo must wake up, free his mind and become self-realized to fight the machines who feed off the energy of humans.
Near the beginning of the movie Neo wakes up to see someone (Trinity) typing on his computer screen, "Wake up, Neo. The matrix has you. Follow the white rabbit." A knock at his door. He retrieves a disc hidden inside a book named Simulacra and Simulation, a 1981 book which argues our reality is a simulation. The guy at the door says, "Thanks, You're my own personal Jesus." Says Neo needs to unplug and invites him to go party with them. Neo sees the guy's friend has a tattoo of a white rabbit and agrees. While at the club Trinity approaches him.
Neo has a software job at a corporation named Metacortex. Men in black type agents come to the corporation and take Neo in for questioning. Neo is a wanted computer hacker. He refuses to cooperate. They implant him with an electronic bug (symbolic of an archontic mind parasite?). Neo wakes up in bed as if he dreamed the whole thing.
Morpheus calls him and tells him to meet at a bridge. He meets them and Trinity extracts the bug from his stomach. Neo is surprised that it was real. They take him to meet Morpheus. Morpheus offers him a red pill and a blue pill. If he takes the blue pill, he wakes up at home and forgets. If he takes the red pill, Morpheus will show him how far the rabbit hole that is reality goes. He takes the red pill. Morpheus proceeds to tell him and show him what the matrix is. He shows Neo endless fields of pods where humans are grown and plugged into the matrix via wires connected to their nervous system. Neo undergoes training to become self-actualized. Morpheus takes Neo to see the Oracle. The Oracle is a program and another level of control. She tells Neo she is sorry, but he is not the one.
Neo fights and defeats the machines and ascends. He has freed himself and unplugged himself from the Matrix.
As Val Valerian pointed out in his Matrix V book, The Matrix has a savior who rescues mankind from the Matrix. Instead, the exit should be done at an individual level.
Neo is told he must return to Source, the mainframe computer, by entering a door of light. While this does show our creator to be an AI intelligence, this is still programming us to go to the light. The movie depicts the architect of the matrix as being an AI program. To its credit, The Matrix does show Neo freeing his mind with a sort of Zen Buddhist mindset that there is no spoon and that it is his mind that moves. Neo also merges with his archontic shadow self, Agent Smith, to transmute the shadow into light.
"Wake up, Neo. The Matrix has you...." What the HELL? " Follow the white rabbit"
Neo is asleep in a dream world and needs to pay attention to archetypes and symbolism.
The book were Neo stashes the computer discs/ programs: "Simulacra and Simulation"...guy tells Neo he's his savior.... you don't exist
Neo: "Ever had that feeling where you're not sure if you're awake or still dreaming?
You need to unplug
Trinity: "I brought you here to warn you. They're watching you, Neo."
They talk about someting called 'The question'
"What is the matrix?"
The boss at Metacortex: "Every employee understands they are part of the whole"
Morpheus, the god of Dreams, guides Neo out of his cubicle prison at work were Agent Smith and the police are coming to take him
Agent Smith puts an archon like bug in his stomach
Neo wakes up in bed. Morpheus calls him, tells him he is the One and tells him to go to the bridge where trinity picks him up and removes the bug.
"Morpheus: You have the look of a man who accepts what he sees because he is expecting to wake up"
"Let me tell you why you're here. You know something. What you know, you can't explain. But you feel it. You felt it your entire life. Something's wrong with the world. You don't know what, but it's there. Like a splinter in your mind driving you mad. It is this feeling that has brought you to me. Do you know what I'm talking about?"
"The Matrix?"
"Do you want to know what it is? The Matrix is everywhere. It is all around us. Even now, in this very room. You can see it when you look out your window or when you turn on your television. You can feel it when you go to work, when you go to church, when you pay your taxes. It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth."
"What truth?"
"That you are a slave. Like everyone else, you were born into bondage, born into a prison that you cannot smell or taste or touch. A prison for your mind. Unfortunately, no one can be told what the Matrix is. You have to see it for yourself. This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue pill,the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill, you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes. Remember all I'm offering is the truth. Nothing more."
The pill you took is part of a trace program. It disrupts your carrier signals so we can pinpoint your location.
"We marveled at our own magnificence as we gave birth to Al."
"Al. You mean artificial intelligence?"
matrix: he is telling neo about the matrix from a clear/white void the construct or loading program....can load anything...training simulations...inside a computer program..."mental projection of your digital self"...
"What is 'real'? How do you define 'real'? If you're talking about what you can see, what you can feel, what you can taste and see, then 'real' is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain. This is the world that you know... it exists now only as part of neural interactive simulation that we call 'the matrix'. You've been living in a dream world, Neo."
Have you ever had a dream, Neo, that you were so sure was real? What if you were unable to wake from that dream? How would you know the difference between the dream world and the real world? -This can't be. -Be what? Be real? Welcome to the real world.
"Welcome to the desert of the real...They (the machines) were dependent on solar power and it was believed that they would be unable to survive without an energy source as abundant as the sun. The human body carries more bioelectricity than a 120-volt battery and over 125,000 BTU's of body heat. Combined with a form of fusion, the machines had found ... there are fields, endless, fields, where human beings are no longer born, we are grown."
"A singular consciousness that spawned an entire race of machines. We don't know who struck first, us or them. But we know that it was us that scorched the sky. They were dependent on solar power and it was believed that they would be unable to survive without an energy source as abundant as the sun. Throughout human history, we have been dependent on machines to survive. Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony."
"The human body generates more bioelectricity than a 120-volt battery. And over 25,000 BTUs of body heat. Combined with a form of fusion, the machines had found all the energy they would ever need. There are fields, Neo, endless fields where human beings are no longer born. We are grown. For the longest time, I wouldn't believe it. And then I saw the fields with my own eyes... ...watched them liquefy the dead so they could be fed intravenously to the living. And standing there, facing the pure, horrifying precision, I came to realize the obviousness of the truth."
"What is the Matrix? Control. The Matrix is a computer-generated dream world built to keep us under control in order to change a human being into this. [Morpheus holds up a battery].
"What is the matrix? Control. The matrix is a computer generated dream world built to keep us under control in order to change a human being into this..." Morpheus displays a battery to Neo. "As long as the matrix exists, the human race will never be free."
Analysis: One of the most classic scenes ever filmed. And the introduction for many into the possibility that we are indeed living in a matrix. And it directly implies we are batteries feeding energy to the artificial intelligences / machine.
broadcast pirate signal and hack into the matrix
"don't think you are...know you are....stop trying to hit me and hit me"
you have to let it all go....fear, doubt and disbelief...free your mind"
"sentient programs..... anyone we haven't unplugged is potentially an agent...they are the gatekeepers...they are guarding all the doors, they are holding all the keys
Smith: "the first matrix was designed to be a perfect human world where no one suffered where everyone would be happy and it was a disaster -- no one would accept the program, entire crops were lost."
human benigs as a speces define their reality though misery and suffering ..the perfet world ...you kept trying to wake up from "
"as soon as we started thinking for you. it became our civilization which is what this is all about -- evolution
all the agent smiths look the same, like clones, like copies, like memes
smith: humans ---> virus
smith: "i hate this place...this zoo, this prison, this reality"
The Sentinels in the movie are AI and are a cross between metal, robotic insects, viruses and squid or octopi as they have tentacles.
When the Matrix was first built, there was a man born inside who had the ability to change whatever he wanted to remake the Matrix as he saw fit. It was he who freed the first of us, taught us the truth. As long as the Matrix exists, the human race will never be free. After he died the Oracle prophesied his return and that his coming would hail the destruction of the Matrix, end the war, bring freedom to our people.
Me and my brother, Dozer, are 1 00% pure, old-fashioned, homegrown human. Born free right here in the real world. Genuine child of Zion. It's a city? The last human city. The only place we have left. Where is it? Deep underground near the Earth's core, where it's still warm.
This is a sparring program similar to the programmed reality of the Matrix. It has the same basic rules. Like gravity. These rules are no different than those of a computer system. Some of them can be bent. Others can be broken.
You think you're breathing air? Again! Jesus Christ, he's fast! His neuro-kinetics are way above normal. What are you waiting for? You're faster than this.
Don't think you are. Know you are. Come on! Stop trying to hit me, and hit me! I don't believe it. I know what you're trying to do. I'm trying to free your mind, Neo. But I can only show you the door. You have to walk through it. Tank, load the jump program. You have to let it all go, Neo. Fear, doubt and disbelief. Free your mind.
I thought it wasn't real. -Your mind makes it real. If you're killed in the Matrix, you die here? The body cannot live without the mind.
The Matrix is a system, Neo. That system is our enemy. But when you're inside, what do you see? Businessmen, teachers, lawyers, carpenters. The very minds of the people we are trying to save. But until we do, these people are a part of that system and that makes them our enemy. You have to understand most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inert so hopelessly dependent on the system that they will fight to protect it.
This isn't the Matrix? It's another training program designed to teach you one thing: If you are not one of us, you are one of them. -What are they? -Sentient programs. They can move in and out of any software still hardwired to their system. That means that anyone we haven't unplugged is potentially an agent. Inside the Matrix they are everyone and they are no one. We have survived by hiding and running from them but they are the gatekeepers. They're guarding all the doors and holding all the keys. Sooner or later, someone will have to fight them.
Men have emptied entire clips at them and hit nothing but air. Yet their strength and speed are still based in a world built on rules. Because of that they will never be as strong or as fast as you can be. What are you telling me? That I can dodge bullets? No, Neo. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to.
Squiddy's sweeping in quick. -Squiddy? A sentinel. A killing machine designed for one thing. Search and destroy.
Power off-line. EMP armed and ready. -EMP? Electromagnetic pulse. Disables any electrical system in the blast radius. It's the only weapon we have against the machines.
ls that...? The Matrix? -Do you always look at it encoded? -Well, you have to. The image translators work for the construct program. But there's way too much information to decode the Matrix. You get used to it. I don't even see the code. All I see is blonde, brunette, redhead.
Did he tell you why he did it? Why you're here? Jesus! What a mind job. So you're here to save the world. What do you say to something like that?
I know this steak doesn't exist. I know that when I put it in my mouth the Matrix is telling my brain that it is juicy and delicious. After nine years you know what I realize? Ignorance is bliss. "Then we have a deal?" "I don't want to remember nothing. Nothing. And I want to be rich. You know, someone important. Like an actor." " Whatever you want, Mr. Reagan." "Okay. You get my body back in a power plant, reinsert me into the Matrix. I'll get you what you want. Access codes to the Zion mainframe.
To deny our own impulses is to deny the very thing that makes us human.
So is this the same oracle that made the prophecy? Yes. She's very old. She's been with us since the beginning. -The beginning? -Of the Resistance.
And she knows what? Everything? She would say she knows enough. And she's never wrong. Try not to think of it in terms of right and wrong. She is a guide, Neo. She can help you to find the path.
Do not try and bend the spoon. That's impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth. What truth? There is no spoon. There is no spoon? Then you'll see that it is not the spoon that bends. It is only yourself.
You know what that means? It's Latin. Means, "Know thyself." I'll let you in on a little secret. Being the One is just like being in love. No one can tell you you're in love. You just know it through and through.
Have you ever stood and stared at it? Marveled at its beauty, its genius? Billions of people just living out their lives. Oblivious. Did you know that the first Matrix was designed to be a perfect human world where none suffered, where everyone would be happy. It was a disaster. No one would accept the program. Entire crops were lost. Some believe that we lacked the programming language to describe your perfect world. But I believe that, as a species, human beings define their reality through misery and suffering. So the perfect world was a dream that your primitive cerebrum kept trying to wake up from. Which is why the Matrix was redesigned to this.
I'm going to be honest with you. I hate this place: this zoo, this prison, this reality, whatever you want to call it. I can't stand it any longer. I must get out of here. I must get free. And in this mind is the key... I need the codes. I have to get inside Zion...
Once Neo (anagram for 'one') believes in himself enough then it is apparent he is the One and he is able to stop bullets in mid air. He effortlessly fights off Agent Smith's attack and jumps inside of Agent Smith, travels to his brain or third eye area region and Agent Smith explodes into light....in Gnostic terms, the darkness or shadow is transformed by the Light Power of Neo.
The ending shows the matrix has a "system failure" as Neo phones the people of Earth and tells them he is going to show them a world without rules, controls and boundaries, a world where anything is possible. Neo puts on a pair of sun glasses, looks up toward the heavens and files away, ascending into the atmosphere. So the ending is about ascension or rather exiting or transcending the matrix.
Sooner or later you'll realize, just as I did... there's a difference between knowing the path and walking the path.
"What is he doing? He's beginning to believe."
I know you're out there. I can feel you now. I know that you're afraid. You're afraid of us. You're afraid of change. I don't know the future. I didn't come here to tell you how this is going to end. I came here to tell you how it's going to begin. I'll hang up this phone. And then I'll show these people what you don't want them to see. I'm going to show them a world without you. A world without rules and controls, without borders or boundaries. A world where anything is possible. Where we go from there is a choice I leave to you."
birds, trees, wind etc are all programs running
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The Oracle tells Neo: "a program can either choose to hide here or return to the source, the machine mainframe where you must go, where the path of the one ends" ...the door made of light in is dreams...she is saying the source is the machine and that the light leads to the machine
10s
"you can return to Zion if you reach the source but to do that you will need the keymaker":..being held prisoner by an old program, the Merovingian
13s
many agent smiths surround neo and tell him everything is because of purpose and they need to take back the purpose that neo took from them.....agent smith tries to assimilate neo and he starts turning into black goo
8s
merovinigan's wife, persephone, takes them to the keymaker who is through a tunnel that has prison bars at the front end of it
6s
the merovingian tells persephone it is only a game after cheating on her
5s
looks like the Sentinels are coming through a tunnel from the Sun
13s
the keymaker says there is a level in the building not reachable from elevators or stairs and it has doors one of which leads to Source.. they must destroy a power station to take out the grid network... all must be done as one
6s
lion symbolism on the chair Morpheus is sitting in in the keymaker's building
Neo has another meeting with the Oracle where they talk about programs. Neo says he knows she is a program. She talks about return to the Source via a door of light. If he can reach the door of light, Zion can be saved. She says we are not free because of purpose. It is purpose that drives us.
The Merovingian's wife is named Persephone. In mythology, Persephone was the goddess of the Underworld and married to Hades, the god of the Underworld. The Merovingian is French as say it is the best language to curse with. He says causality is the basis for everything and choice is an illusion created by those with power. He says there is no escaping Causality. He tells his wife. Persephone catches him cheating on her with another woman. He tells her, "This is nothing. It is only a game."
As revenge Persephone tells Neo how to return to the Source. One door leads to the Source. Neo finds the door of light and enters. He finds an old white man with a beard who calls himself the Architect and Creator of the matrix. He is sitting in front of many video screens with different versions of Neo who has met and talked to him before. He says he is the Father of the matrix and that the Oracle could be called the Mother of the matrix. (Perhaps Sophia?) He says the function of the one is to return to the Source.
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Neo goes through the door of light and returns to the source where he meets the architect, a Demiurgic type figure who created the matrix. He is white haired and wearing a business suit and extremely serious. There are hundreds to thousands of computer screens showing different parts of Neo's lives including his reactions to meeting the Architect ..he calls Neo an anomaly of a harmony of mathematical precision ...says this is the 6th version of the matrix. Neo deduces the problem is choice. Those who refuse the program pose a threat to the system. He says Neo must return to Source and to comply with his orders and failure to do so would result in the annihilaton of all humans, .Neo says he wont annihilate all human beings because he needs them to survive. The Architect says Neo's love and emotion and attachment to his love, Trinity, will blind him
"Hello, Neo." "Who are you?" "I am the Architect. I created the Matrix. I've been waiting for you. You have many questions. And though the process has altered your consciousness you remain irrevocably human. Ergo, some of my answers you will understand and some you will not. Concordantly, while your first question may be the most pertinent you may or may not realize it is also the most irrelevant. Why am I here? Your life is the sum of a remainder of an unbalanced equation inherent to the programming of the Matrix. You are the eventuality of an anomaly, which despite my sincerest efforts I've been unable to eliminate from what is otherwise a harmony of mathematical precision. While it remains a burden assiduously avoided it is not unexpected and thus not beyond a measure of control which has led you, inexorably here. -You haven't answered my question. -Quite right. Interesting. That was quicker than the others. Others? How many? What others? The Matrix is older than you know. I count from the emergence of one integral anomaly to the emergence of the next. In which case, this is the sixth version. Five before me? He's lying. Bullshit. There are only two possible explanations. There were five before me. Either no one told me - or no one knows. -Precisely. As you are undoubtedly gathering, the anomaly is systemic creating fluctuations in even the most simplistic equations. You can't control me! I'm gonna smash you to bits! I'm gonna fucking kill you! You can't make me do anything. You old, white prick! Choice. The problem is choice."
"The first Matrix I designed was naturally perfect, a work of art. Flawless, sublime. A triumph equaled only by its monumental failure. The inevitability of its doom is apparent now as a consequence of the imperfection inherent in every human. Thus, I redesigned it based on your history to more accurately reflect the varying grotesqueries of your nature. However, I was again frustrated by failure. I have come to understand that the answer eluded me because it required a lesser mind. Or perhaps, a mind less bound by the parameters of perfection. Thus, the answer was stumbled upon by another, an intuitive program initially created to investigate certain aspects of the human psyche. If I am the father of the Matrix, she would undoubtedly be its mother."
"The Oracle."
"As I was saying, she stumbled upon a solution whereby 99 percent of subjects accepted the program, as long as they were given a choice, even if they were only aware
of the choice at a near unconscious level. While this answer functioned, it was fundamentally flawed thus creating the otherwise contradictory systemic anomaly that, if left unchecked,
might threaten the system. Ergo, those that refused the program, while a minority, if unchecked would constitute an escalating probability of disaster."
"This is about Zion." "You are here because Zion is about to be destroyed. Its every living inhabitant terminated, its entire existence eradicated." "Bullshit." "Denial is the most predictable of all human responses. But rest assured, this will be the sixth time we have destroyed it and we have become exceedingly efficient at it. "
"The function of the One is now to return to the source, allowing a dissemination of the code you carry, reinserting the prime program after which you will be required to select
from the Matrix 23 individuals... ...sixteen female, seven male, to rebuild Zion. Failure to comply with this process will result in a cataclysmic system crash, killing everyone connected
to the Matrix, which, coupled with the extermination of Zion will result in the extinction of the entire human race."
"You won't let it happen. You can't. You need human beings to survive."
"There are levels of survival we are prepared to accept. The relevant issue is whether or not you are ready to accept the responsibility for the death of every human being in this world.
It is interesting reading your reactions. Your five predecessors were, by design, based on a similar predication: a contingent affirmation that was meant to create a profound attachment to the rest of your species, facilitating the function of the One. While the others experience this in a general way, your experience is far more specific vis a vis love." " Trinity!"
"Apropos, she entered the Matrix to save your life at the cost of her own." "No." "Which brings us at last to the moment of truth, wherein the fundamental flaw is ultimately expressed and the anomaly revealed as both beginning and end. There are two doors. The door to your right leads to the source and the salvation of Zion. The door to your left leads back to the Matrix, to her and the end of your species. As you adequately put, the problem is choice. But we already know what you are going to do, don't we? Already I can see the chain reaction, the chemical precursors that signal the onset of an emotion designed specifically to overwhelm logic and reason. An emotion that is already blinding you from the simple and obvious truth: She is going to die and there is nothing you can do to stop it. Hope. It is the quintessential human delusion, simultaneously the source of your greatest strength and your greatest weakness."
"If I were you, I would hope that we don't meet again." "We won't."
Analysis: The Matrix disclosed many hidden truths about our reality, one of which was the Architect, an AI program that created the matrix.
Revolutions is the third and final movie of the trilogy. Neo goes to the city of the machines. The A.I. collective entity forms a face for Neo to speak to.
Neo is talking with the Oracle again. return to the source. She says it is the architect's purpose "to balance the equation". Neo asks what her purpose is. She tells him, "To unbalance it." The architect encourages war and the Oracle, like Neo, wants peace. She tells him Smith: "He is you. Your opposite. the result of the equation trying to balance itself out." In Jungian terms, Smith is like Neo's shadow self.
Neo goes to the machine city to speak to the hive mind. On the high plane he resides outside the matrix with a free mind, he sees it as a bright light.... everything is composed of light.
Neo is able to speak to the AI leader of the machines. It is deep in space and machine insects swarm together to create a face which speaks to Neo. Neo warns the face that "The program Smith has grown beyond your control. Soon he will spread through the matrix. You cannot stop him, but I can." The face asks Neo what he wants and Neo answers, "Peace."
The machines connect to Neo and plug him back into the Matrix so he can fight Smith. Smith asks Neo why he continues to fight? Is is for truth, love, etc? He says those are illusions, vagaries...why continue fighting? Neo says, "Because I choose to."
Smith starts to assimilate him. Neo is turning into black goo. A powerful light grows and transcends the darkness into light. Neo is shown being crucified in the light. The light enters Smith and he is blown apart. The face says, "It is done." similar to Jesus saying, "It is finished" in the Bible.
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Neo is in between the machine and matrix worlds.... meets the power plant's system manager for recycling.operations...
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the Oracle says the Architect's purpose is to balance the equation and that her purpose is unbalance the equation
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Agent Smith refers to the other Smiths as "the rest of me" indicating they are a collective
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Agent Smith tries to assimilate Neo into black goo...Neo becomes an Agent Smith but accesses the Light Power from within and transmutes all of the Agent Smiths into light
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the machines leave and the war is over...Neo saves them
"He did it! It's over! It's over! He did it! He did it! - What is it? What happened? - Sir, he did it, sir. Neo, he did it. - Did what? - He ended the war. The machines, they're gone. The war is over, sir. The war is over. Zion! Zion! Zion, it's over! It's over! The war is over! The war is over! I have imagined this moment... ...for so long. Is this real? Is this real? Neo, wherever you are... ...thank you."
A glitch is seen in the matrix meaning the system has changed. The light of the sun now illuminates the world. The final scene is the Artchitect and the Oracle talking. The Architect tells her it's a dangerous game she is playing and asks how long the peace will last. The Oracle asks if he will free the reamining humans who want to be freed and he says yes.
"Good morning. Well, now. Ain't this a surprise. You played a very dangerous game. Change always is. Just how long do you think this peace is going to last? As long as it can. What about the others? What others? The ones that want out. Obviously, they will be freed. I have your word? What do you think I am? Human?
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The Architect talks with the Oracle and tells her she's "made a very dangerous game".... this implies that she might be a creative goddess and that the matrix was necessary for her game and that the Architect was the one in charge of making or adminstrating the Matrix. Or that peraps they were co-creators. Some say the term Demiurge literally means "half creator" and in some Gnostic interpretations they share responsibility for the creation of this universe.
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The Architect says the ones that want out will be freed
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The sun rises and is said to be beautiful.
The Oracle says she didn't know but she believed.
Oracle! We were afraid we might not find you. Everything's okay now. Look, look. Just look at that. Beautiful. Did you do that? For Neo. That's nice. I know he'd love it. Will we ever see him again? I suspect so. Someday. Did you always know? Oh, no. No, I didn't. But I believed. I believed."
The trilogy ends with the song Navras by Juno Reactor. It's lyrics are Sanskrit: "Asato ma sad gamaya, tamaso ma jyotir gamaya, mrtyor mamrtam gamaya, Om shanti shanti shanti, Jnani manasa… " which means, "From delusion lead me to truth. From darkness lead me to light. From death lead me to immortality. Let there be peace everywhere. When the five senses and the mind are still and reason itself rests in silence, then begins the Path supreme."
The Truman Show was my favorite movie for many years, and still may be. And most of it is probably true. It is the true man show. It was co-produced by Richard Luke Rothschild. Is he related to THE Rothschilds? If anyone knows for sure, please let me know. Either way, I do believe the offworlders are watching us like the show here on Earth is a soap opera or reality TV show... As the World Turns, These Are the Days of Our Lives. This movie may have helped inspire the many reality TV shows we have now.
The Truman Show:
Some taglines from the movie are:
On the air, unaware!
The World Is Watching...
The World is a Stage!
The Truman Show - In the movie The Truman Show (the True Man show), Truman Burbank's whole life in "Seahaven" is staged and phoney. His whole world, including the sun and moon, is a gigantic set inside a large dome controlled from the moon. By the way the Egyptian equivalent for Satan is named Set! Could it be that 'true man' is inside a vast dome and that our world is controlled from a base on the moon? Truman, trying to conquer his fear and escape, sets sail for blue sky only to collide into a giant wall. This movie was hailed by critics as "original" and "daring". Why? Because it contains our true origins and is daring to tell us the truth?
Truman's world is fake. His island is a giant set. It is all being controlled from a base on the moon. His sun and moon are just programs. His friends are all actors and in on the ruse. He is monitored and his life is broadcast on television non-stop purely for the entertainment of everyone else. The creator of the show is known as a christ-like being, named Christof.
The movie shows the show's creator and director living on the moon and watching his creation. On the table in front of him is a flat disc with a semi-dome which could be a subtle reference to a flat earth. The film shows it is our fear which often keeps us within our prison. It also points out that there is nothing they can do to keep us in the prison if we are truly determined to know the truth.
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truman lives under a domed city...an island surrounded by water
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At the very beginning of the movie Truman is looking at himself in the mirror. Unknown to him he is taking to millions of viewers watching him. He says "if I die before I reach the summit you'll use me as an alternative source for food...eat me"
Truman, the true man, says to eat him and use him as an alternative source of food. Of course, he is referring to climbing a mountain and not reaching the summit, but perhaps this contains a veiled reference to the astral realm as well. This is at the very beginning of the movie.
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outside as he heads for work a light canister falls from sky...labeled "Sirius (9 Canis Major)...news story covered as an aircraft shedding parts as it flew over
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his wife is reading a book called "The Dream Machine 2"
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one compassionate actor in the show, truman's love interest, secretly tells him, "everybody knows everything you do everybody's pretending... this....it's fake its all for you everything is all for you...the sea, the sand, the sky....it's all a set, it's a show
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in one scene truman hears a different frequency on the radio and hears the truth...it's only when the frequency changes back that his normal life resumes
his friend tells him, "look at that sunset....that's the big guy"
truman meets his dead father on a bridge in fog
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the creator and director of the show explains how they were able to fool Truman: "we accept the reality of the world which we are presented"
"But tonight, Something very special indeed, A rare and exclusive interview with the show's conceiver and creator. So, come with us now as we go live to the Lunar Room On the 221st floor Of the Omni Cam Echosphere where we'll find the world's greatest tele-visionary-- The designer and architect of the world within a world that is Seahaven Island-- Christof."
"Why do you think Truman has never come close to discovering the true nature of his world until now?" "We accept the reality of the world with which we are presented. It's as simple as that."
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At one point Christof made this statement about Truman: "He could leave at any time. If this were anything more than a vague ambition, if he was absolutely determined to discover the truth, there is no way we could prevent him."
"While the world he inhabits is, in some respects, counterfeit, There's nothing fake about Truman himself."
"He's not a performer. He's a prisoner. Look at him! Look at what you've done to him! He can leave at any time. If his was more than just a vague ambition, If he was absolutely determined to discover the truth, there's no way we could prevent him. I think what distresses you really, caller, is that ultimately Truman prefers his cell... That's where you're wrong. You're so wrong, and he'll prove you wrong."
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truman becomes suspicious and sneaks off in a boat to leave the island in search of his true home
once they discover truman is missing the moon becomes a searchlight.....
"We need more light. We'll never find him this way. What time is it? It's way too early for that. Cue the sun. [people gasp] Jeez! What time is it?... We've got the light. So he's got to be there somewhere. We're not watching the sea... Go to the cabin cam. Cabin cam. There. Perfect. That's our hero shot."
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the demiurgic type figure, named Cristof, finds him and calls up the weather program causing a storm which capsizes the boat. Truman barely holds on to survive. b
Truman weathers the storm and the skies clear. Once the storm is over truman sails for blue skies. He has smooth sailing ahead and begins to relax and enjoy the day. Then all of a sudden his sailboat crashes into a wall that has been pained to look like the sky. His attempt to leave has been blocked. ut literally runs into a wall at sea... the boundary of the movie set and his world. He wails at the wall in agony, punching it. He regains his composure and walks across the water and up a staircase toward a door.
The door is labeled as "EXIT". He has found the way out of the show that is his life.
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A booming voice comes from the sky, the voice of Cristof, saying: "You can speak. I can hear you."
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Truman: [to an unseen Christof] Who are you?
Christof: [voice-over] I am The Creator - of a television show that gives hope and joy and inspiration to millions.
Truman: Then who am I?
Christof: You're the star.
Truman: Was nothing real?
Christof: You were real. That's what made you so good to watch.
Listen to me, Truman. There's no more truth out there than there is in the world I created for you. The same lies. The same deceit. But in my world... You have nothing to fear. I know you better than you know yourself. You never had a camera in my head. You're afraid. That's why you can't leave. It's ok, Truman. I understand. I have been watching you your whole life. I was watching when you were born. I was watching when you took your first step. I watched you on your first day of school. [laughs] The episode when you lost your first tooth."
"You can't leave, Truman." Christof: "You belong here... You can do it. With me. Talk to me. Say something. Well, say something, Goddamn it. You're on television. You're live to the whole world." "In case I don't see you... Good afternoon, good evening, And good night."
Truman takes and bow and then leaves the giant set through the door and into the real world (which is really ours, another fake one like his).
"He did it! He made it! Yeah! All right, Truman!" " ' Cease transmission'. 'Ceasing transmission'. [taps keyboard] "You want another slice?" "No. I'm ok. What else is on? Let's see what else is on. Where's the TV Guide?"
And just like that the Truman Show is over. After everyone cheers for Truman and are happy that he made it out, they immediately look for somethig else to watch on TV for their lives are run by entertainment and virtual realities.
Analysis: Truman was able to make it out of his prison, but only by being aware enough to wake up, overcoming his fears and being brave enough to venture into the great unknown.
In the mysterious 1960's TV series, The Prisoner, produced by Everyman Pictures, every facet of a man's life is controlled. its inhabitants are being held prisoner is controlled from a lunar base. The Prisoner influenced many shows, including The Truman Show. There is a scene in the green room under the dome where the constellations are shown on one side and a map of the earth on the other. Seems a clear intention to show the base of operations as the moon.
In the opening theme of 1960s TV series The Prisoner by Everyman Pictures Patrick McGoohan drives down the road (life's road), goes through a tunnel and enters a tunnel with a light at the end to doors that say "Way out". He has only his right eye open as if he is giving his boss the evil eye as he resigns. His ID is then taken by an automated process and put inside a drawer or filing cabinet. He then leaves through the tunnel and packs his bags. He thinks he is going on vacation to paradise or heaven, but is drugged or knocked out by gas and held as a prisoner in the Village. They try to dehumanize him as they refuse to give him a name, only the number 6, which is the number of man. The operation which keeps him as prisoner appears to be the moon as they have shots of space and the constellations on one side and the earth continents on the other and they also show a rocky base underground with podlike container tubes that go down into a hole, reminiscent of craters. If he tries to escape a balloon-like deviced called Rover hunts him down.
Number 2 (demiurge-type being) tries to make a deal with the prisoner and give him a position of authority.
They try to strip the man's identity and refer to him only as Number Six. The prisoner refuses to be a number but to retain is own sovereignty. He defiantly claims every week in the trailer, "I am not a number! I am a free man! I will not make any deals with you. I've resigned. I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered! My life is my own!"
The opening sequence always contains this dialogue:
Number Six: Where am I?
Number Two: In the Village.
Number Six: What do you want?
Number Two: Information.
Number Six: Whose side are you on?
Number Two: That would be telling. We want information… information… information.
Number Six: You won't get it.
Number Two: By hook or by crook, we will.
Number Six: Who are you?
Number Two: The new Number Two.
Number Six: Who is Number One?
Number Two: You are Number Six.
Number Six: I am not a number! I am a free man!
Number Two: [laughs]
New 2: I have taken his place. I am the new Number 2. Prisoner: Get Number 1.
New 2: As far as you're concerned, I'm in charge. What can I do for you? Prisoner: Cobb.
New 2: What we do here has to be done. It's the law of survival, it's either them or us.
Prisoner: You imprison people, steal their minds, destroy them...
THE PRISONER -- FALLOUT (FINAL EPISODE)
#6 kills #2 and is taken to see #1
rocky underground cave, hollowed out base with what looks like mainframe computers running it all -- the moon?
juke boxes playing "all you need is love"
symbols of duality.... mask half white and half black, see saw, militaristic show of force
an assembly wearing white robes with hoods that look like ghosts make up the democracy with placards with words like Activists, Youngsters, Education, Identification, Anarchists, Entertainment, Recreation, applauding #2...judge on a pedestal
"matter of democratic crisis"to resolve the question of revolt...remind ourselves humanity is not humanized w/o force and that errant children must be brought to
#6 survived the ultimate test so must no longer be referred to as #6 or a number of any kind, he has vindicated the right of the individual, to be individual
transfer of ultimate power
#6 is granted the honor of sitting a throne or chair of honor atop a stepped pyramid of stairs
there is a silo or tower with the #1 on it with a blinking AI eye
3 men who represent specific forms of revolt are in cylindrical tubes beneath the surface in what look like crater holes ...the judge keeps repeatedly telling one man to confess but the man is speaking nonsensical crazy jibberish like a lunatic representing youth rebeling against the accepted norm but revolt must be abolished for the common good of society
The young prisoner is pronounced guilty and charged with the serious breach of social etiquette, defiance of elementary laws which sustain the community, questioning the decisions of those voted to govern, unhealthy aspects of speech and refusal to respond to his number
the second revolutionary being held prisoner is #2, an established successful secure member of the establishment turning opun the hand that feeds him, he is brought back to life and tells the
blinking AI eye "whoever you are, whatever you are, you will hypnotize me no longer"
the third revolutionary is #6 himself who has revolted, resisted, fought, held fast, maintained, destroyed resistance, overcome coercion, the right to be person someone or individual despite materialistic efforts he has survived intact and secure
he is recognized as a man, a man of steel magnificently equipped to lead them or to go
he is given the choice to become their new leader or to go anywhere..he is free to go anywere because he has been such an example, convinced them of their mistakes and is pure and knows the way
to show them...his revolt is good and honest, the only individual ...they concede
#6 is asked to make a statement and then taken to meet #1 ..he is taken to one of the cylinders, gets in and descends...walks down a corridor through a series of doors....
there is a table with a bunch of various sized earth models and globes... a being in a white hooded robe bearing the number 1 is holding a glass globe, he is wearing a mask that is white on one side and black on the other. #6 removes the mask and reveals the mask of an ape, he then removes the ape mask and sees his own face. the being laughs hysterically and runs away.
#6 manages to escape and return back to his normal life.
The next movie we're going to look at is Dark City (1999)
Seemingly patterned after the Archon beings of the Gnostic texts and the reports in the Ufology community, Dark City is similar to The Truman Show -- a human was given fabricated memories of his childhood life and presented a false reality. He travels to the edge of his world to go home to Shell Beach but hits a wall. Like Truman, he tries to break through the wall.
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some quotes from the movie:
"They steal peoples' memories, then they swap them around between us. I've seen them do it, back and forth 'til no one knows who they are anymore. How do you know all this? Once in a while one of us wakes up while they're changing things. It's not supposed to happen, but it does.
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We fashioned this city on stolen memories. Different eras, different pasts, all rolled into one. Each night we revise it, refine it, in order to learn. Learn what? About you. You and your fellow inhabitants, what makes you human. Why? We need to be like you.
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I call them Strangers. They abducted us and brought us here. This city, everyone in it is their experiment. They mix and match our memories as they see fit, trying to divine what makes us unique. One day, a man might be an inspector. The next, someone entirely different. When they want to study a murderer, for instance, they simply imprint one of their citizens with a new personality. Arrange a family for him, friends, an entire history... even a lost wallet. Then they observe the results. Will a man, given the history of a killer, continue in that vein? Or are we, in fact, more than the sum of our memories? This business of you being a killer was a sad coincidence. You have had dozens of lives before now. You happened to wake up while I was imprinting you with this one. Why are they doing all this? It is our capacity for individuality -- our souls -- that makes us different from them. They think they'll find the human soul if they understand how our memories work. They have collective memories. They share one group mind. They're dying. Their race is on the brink of extinction. They think we can save them. Where do I fit in? You're different. You resisted my attempt to imprint you. Somehow you have developed their ability to Tune. That is how they change things, how they built this city. They have machines buried beneath the surface that allow them to focus their telepathic energies. They control everything here, even the sun. That's why it's always dark. They can't stand the light. Why do they need you? When they first brought us here, they extracted what was in us and stored the information, remixed it like paint and gave us back new memories of their choosing. But they still needed an artist to help them. I understood the human mind better than they ever could, so they allowed me to keep my skills as a scientist... because they needed them. They made me delete everything else. Can you imagine what it's like to erase your own past?
What about my past? What about my childhood? Shell Beach. Uncle Karl. What about this? This was blank when I found it.
You still don't understand. You were never a boy. Not in this place. Your history is an illusion, a fabrication, as it is with all of us.
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There is no ocean, John. There's nothing beyond the city. The only place home exists is in your head.
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They want to imprint you with their own collective memories. They want to make you one of them... so they can share your soul.
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Here's the machine the Strangers use to amplify their thoughts, the machine that changes their world. You must take control of it. You must make the machine yours. I know you can beat them, but you must concentrate.
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You told me I had the power, didn't you? I can make these machines do anything I want. Make this world anything I want it to be. Just so long as I concentrate hard enough. Where are you going?
He goes to Shell Beach.
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It's so beautiful here. So bright.
Do you know if Shell Beach is around here?
I think that's it over there. I'm headed that way myself. Would you like to join me?
The Thirteenth Floor - The Thirteenth Floor was released the year after the Truman Show and like The Truman Show and Dark City, The protagonist heads to edge of the world only to find it is a hologram. This has parallels to the simulation argument. There is evidence that suggests we may indeed be living in a fractal-based hologram.
DOUGLAS: How many simulated worlds like this are there?
JANE: Thousands. Yours is the only one that ever created a simulation within the simulation. Something we never expected.
DOUGLAS: No Ashton, I'm not really a God. I'm just like you. Just a bunch of electricity.
ASHTON: What are you talking about?
DOUGLAS: It's all smoke and mirrors. Just like your world. We're nothing but a simulation on some computer. It's like a machine. Like this arcade game. You've got your players and you put your nickel in. This one pitches. This one runs around the bases. Pre- programmed movements generated by electrical energy. We're improved on this model since then. The players can beat the shit out of and try to drown some other, which is always fun.
"What was the name of this planet? Zalintyre, I think.
Have you ever seen a harvest? Oh, no. Never!
But I've heard they feel no pain. It's all quite humane, from what I've been told.
Well, there are marshals and administrators to make sure everything's done according to code, but still... It can be rather... affecting.
Now you sound like Mother. Most of them were miserable in their lives and what we do for them is a mercy.
Balem, thank you for responding. We were just admiring this ledger from your latest success. Well done, brother.
The house of Abrasax continues to thrive, despite the squandering of your inheritance, brother. I must say, you're looking a little worse for wear. Could it be success does not agree with you? And you look so well. Could it be that failure agrees with you? You may have inherited Mother's head for business, but I inherited her heart. And what does that leave me? - Her beauty. - Liar. - Her humor. - Her unluckiness in love? Her fetish for wrinkles.
Well, if this is to be another of your eulogies, Titus, I have more important matters to attend. It was her birthday recently. You know I get sentimental, and I was going through some of Mother's old sheave-work.
And I came across a description of a planet she claimed was the most rare and beautiful estate she ever owned.
- I believe she named it... - Earth.
...Earth. It was part of your inheritance, wasn't it, brother?
I was quite moved by her description and I was wondering if there was any chance you might be willing to part with it. Titus, didn't you bother to look at the sheaves?
That planet is worth more than all of your estates combined. Really? I had no idea."
Analysis: In some schools of Gnosticism, Abrasax is one of the names of the Demiurge. The House of Abrasax is harvesting humans and Earth as a product for their business.
I want this facility running at capacity. I want full diagnostics and cost projections for an early harvest.
Of course, My Lord. What kind of grade are we getting from the skim? Excellent product, sire. Premium grade. It's a... particularly robust stock.
Assuming market stability, if we harvest later this century, profit margins should eclipse your nearest competitor.
Understand this, Mr. Night. I will harvest that planet tomorrow before I let her take it from me. - Here we go. - I trust you.
Premium Abrasax, as requested. Now... Where is Her Majesty? Good evening, Your Majesty. Allow me to assist. I am Sendi, your chamber presence. - New clothes? - We wish only to attend your needs. Where am I?
This is the Alcazar of Kalique Abrasax,
second primary of the house of Abrasax."
Mercy, My Lord! Mercy! Mr. Greeghan.
Bring her to me.
Yes, My Lord."
Star Wars Death Star - In the original Star Wars movie, a battle station for the Imperial troops was camouflaged as a moon. "Look at him. He's heading for that small moon."... "That's no moon! It's a space station!... It's too big to be a space station."... We're caught in a tractor beam and it's pulling us in." In Return of the Jedi, the design of the Death Star was improved upon, resulting in a half-shell.
"Always remember: Your focus determines your reality.
Stay close to me and you'll be safe.
Master, sir, I heard Yoda talking about midichlorians. I've been wondering...What are midichlorians?
Midichlorians are a microscopic life-form that resides within all living cells.
- They live inside me?
- Inside your cells, yes. - And we are symbionts with them.
- Symbionts?
Life-forms living together for mutual advantage. Without the midichlorians, life could not exist and we would have no knowledge of the Force. They continually speak to us, telling us the will of the Force. When you learn to quiet your mind, you'll hear them speaking to you."
Analysis: This is a major reveal here by George Lucas and he wanted the midichlorians to play a much larger role in his last trilogy, but when Disney obtained the rights, they did not include it and this pissed George off tremendously.
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I actually have a series of images on my website on the Movies page that shows all the movies and TV shows that use the light and tunnel imagery in their poster ads. They include The Ring, Gamer, Prometheus, Prison Break, Moon, Close Encounters, Death Tunnel, Lord of Illusions, Surrogates, The Hypnotist, The Tunnel, Moonraker and Knowing.
The Lord of the Rings trilogy is one of the most successful book and movie franchises of all-time, based upon the story by J.R.R. Tolkein. The antagonist in the Lord of the Rings is named Sauron and is described as a "great eye, lidless, wreathed in flame". Sauron is derived from saurus, greek for lizard. Sauron may be symbolic of Saturn, the destructive planet with rings. Thus, Saturn could be the "lord of the rings". Saturn has a hexagonal eye as a vortex at its north pole. The all-seeing eye symbolism that is so rampant among celebrities may be referring to the eye of Lucifer or the eye of Providence. The Watchers were the nephilim or fallen angels who came to earth, found the daughters of men to be fair, and took them for their wives.
"A Great Eye, lidless, wreathed in flame. The Eye of Sauron. He is gathering all evil to him." The eye telepathically communicates, "You cannot hide. I see you."
There is no life in the void. Only death." This is overt programming us that the void is bad since "there is no life there" and "only death". Yet near death experiencers who have been to the void seem to have both pleasant and unpleasant experiences depending upon their state of mind and whether they are in fear or at peace. Many say the void is everything.
Aragorn starts singing a song, "Tinuviel the elven-fair Immortal maiden elven-wise, About him cast her night-dark hair, And arms like silver glimmering." Frodo asks him, "Who is she? This woman you sing of? " He replies, "Tis the Lady of Luthien. The Elf Maiden who gave her love to Beren, a mortal." Luthien was the daughter of King Thingol of Doriath and Melian the Maia. She was said to be the fairest maiden to have ever lived. Maia is Mary and said to mean illusion. So he is singing of a fair maiden, a princess.
A woman named Arwen appears in white light. "I am Arwen. I have come to help you. Hear my voice. Come back to the light." Wen is derived from Venus and connotes desire. Their common Proto-Indo-European root is assumed as *wen- "to strive for, wish for, desire, love". Wen is sometimes suffixed to the names of female saints, e.g. Dwynwen. Ar possibly denotes an archon as ar is associated with many archaic and archontic themes... archangels.
Nine ring wraiths come. Arwen casts a spell to cause a flood to come. "Waters of the Misty Mountains listen to the great word; flow waters of Loudwater against the Ringwraiths!" Frodo becomes weakened and is dying. "No! Frodo! No! Frodo don't give in, not now." Arwen prays, "What grace has given me, let it pass to him. Let him be spared. Save him. Hear my voice, come back to the light."
Saruman, an evil servant of the evil eye of Sauron is shown here with a full moon.
Arwen tells Aragorn, "Your time will come. You will face the same evil and you will defeat it. The Shadow does not hold sway yet, Aragorn. Not over you and not over me."
Aragorn tells Arwen, "You said you would bind yourself to me forsaking the immortal life of your people." Arwen replies, "And to that I hold. I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone. I choose a mortal life"
Arwen loosens her hold on Aragorn's gripped hand. He looks down and opens his hand to discover the Evenstar lying there. Aragorn: "You cannot give me this."
ARWEN: "It is mine to give to whom I will. Like my heart."
We can see here that the Evenstar is Arwen's. The Evenstar is the evening star, Venus. So Arwen is Venus, the evening star.
"Caras Galadon. The heart of Elvendom on earth. This is the city of Galadhrim where dwell the Lord Celeborn and of Galadriel, Lady of Light." Galad in elfish means light. Galasriel translated means"Lady of Light". She was also referred to as the "White Lady", as her fair skin and white cloaks made her seem to shine.
Galadriel, Lady of Light, telepathically communicates to Frodo, "Welcome, Frodo of the Shire... one who has seen the eye."
"Have you ever seen it, Aragorn? The White Tower of Ecthelion, glimmering like a spike of pearl and silver, its banners caught high in the morning breeze. Have you ever been called home by the clear ringing of silver trumpets? Aragorn replies, "I have seen the White City long ago." Another chimes in, "One day, our paths will lead us there, and the tower guard will take up the call 'the Lords of Gondor have returned.' "
The theme of white is very persistent throughout The Lord of The Rings. There is The White Wizard, The White Tower, The White City, The White Hand, Saruman the White, The White Tree, White Shores, The White Lady, etc. all reminiscent of the book by Robert Graves, The White Goddess.
Galadriel tells Aragorn, "I have nothing greater to give than the gift you already bear." She touches the Evenstar pendant Aragorn is wearing. "For her love, I fear the grace of Arwen Evenstar will diminish."
"I give you the light of Earendil, our most beloved star. May it be a light for you in dark places when all other lights go out." **
[Note: Eärendil the Mariner is a fictional character in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth. He is depicted in The Silmarillion as a child of enm and elves and a great seafarer who, on his brow, carried the morning star, a jewel called a Silmaril, across the sky. Interestingly enough, the character’s name comes from the Anglo-Saxon word Éarendel, a name associated with the star Rigel in Orion, which is a wandering star and the brightest of that constellation.
In 1914, Tolkien wrote a poem The Voyage of Earendel the Evening Star (which was inspired by the "Crist" poem of Cynewulf): "With his heart afire with bright desire and his face in silver flame, the Ship of the Moon from the East comes soon. From the Haven of the Sun, whose white gates gleam in the coming beam of the mighty silver one... Then he glimmering passed to the starless vast as an isléd lamp at sea, and beyond the ken of mortal men set his lonely errantry, tracking the Sun in his galleon through the pathless firmament till his light grew old in abysses cold and his eager flame was spent."
A scene where Gollum says: "This way. Don't follow the lights. Careful now! Or Hobbits go down to join the dead ones and light little candles of their own.
Frodo!
-Gollum?Don't follow the lights."
Analysis: The gollum tells them not to follow the lights lest they look up looking like the guy in the screen capture.
The movie begins by revealing Gandalf to be a servant of the Sun. He fights off a demon from Hell. "I am a servant of the Secret Fire, wielder of the flame of Anor. Go back to the Shadow. The dark fire will not avail you, flame of Udun!" Anor is the Elvish name for the Sun. Udun is the Depth, a concept usually associated with Hell. Gandalf says he is a servant of the Secret Fire and the wielder of the flame of the Sun.
"The White Wizard is cunning. He walks here and there, they say, as an old man hooded and cloaked. And everywhere his spies slip past our nets." "The White Wizard?" "Saruman." So here we see Saruman, the servant of the evil eye, Sauron, is called the "White Wizard".
Gollem is leading the Hobbits past dead faces in the water of the marshes. "There are dead things! Dead faces in the water. All dead. All rotten. Elves and Men and Orcses. A great battle long ago. Dead Marshes. Yes. Yes, that is their name. This way. Don't follow the lights. Careful now! Or Hobbits go down to join the dead ones and light little candles of their own. Don't follow the lights." Gollem is saying not to follow the lights because the lights are little candles of dead ones. He implies if they follow the lights they'll end up dead too. "They do not see what lies ahead, when sun has failed and moon is dead."
"I stayed out of thought and time. Stars wheeled overhead. I've been sent back until my task is done. That's what they used to call me: Gandalf the Grey. That was my name. (with a smile) I am Gandalf the White". Gandalf the Grey (grey alien?) was sent back by the light as the wielder of the Sun's secret fire and flame until his task is done. Now he calls himself Gandalf the White.
He instructs them, "Look to my coming at first light on the fifth day. At dawn. Look to the east." Not surprising as an emissary of the sun that he instructs them to look for him at dawn in the east.
Aragorn sees Arwen who tells him, "The light of the Evenstar does not wax and wane. It is mine to give to whom I will. Like my heart." He thinks he is dreaming, flashing back to the scene in the first movie. "This is a dream." Arwen bends down to kiss him and says, "Then it is a good dream."
Smeagol says, "Cruel Men hurts us. Master tricksed us." Gollum says, "Of course he did. I told you he was tricksy. I told you he was false."
Aragorn turns to the window and sees the first light of the sun streaming through it. He recalls Gandalf's words, "Look to my coming at first light on the fifth day. At dawn ... look to the east. "
Gollum exclaims, "Master betrayed us. Wicked. Tricksy. False. We ought to wring his filthy little neck. Kill him! Kill him! Kill them both. And then we take the precious and we be the master!"
Arwen: "From the ashes a fire shall be woken. A light from the shadow shall spring. Renewed shall be blade that was broken. The crownless again shall be king."
This is so reminiscent of the phoenix fire bird rising from the ashes. The phoenix as i have said represents Quetzalcoatl / Venus / Lucifer. They hope that from the ashes the fire of Lucifer will awake and though he is crownless he shall be king.
Elrond informs Aragorn that Arwen is dying. "Arwen is dying." "She stayed?" "She will not long survive the evil that now spreads from Mordor. Elron looks at the Evenstar around Aragorn's neck. "The light of the Evenstar is failing. As Sauron's power grows, her strength wanes. Arwen's life is now tied to the fate of the Ring. The Shadow is upon us, Aragorn, the end has come."
"Death is just another path, one that we all must take. The grey rain curtain of this world rolls back... and all turns to silver glass. And then you see it. And then you see it. "What, Gandalf? See what?" "White shores and beyond. A far green country under a swift sunrise."
"It's going to the Great Eye along with everything else."
"I Aear can vên na mar. The Sea calls us home." Elrond holds out his arms to Bilbo. "I think I'm quite ready for another adventure."
Pip: "Yes, Mr Valentine. What can I do for you?"
Mr. Valentine: "Will you stop creeping around?" "Anything you say, sir" "Anything I say. Knock it off, will ya?"
"Is something wrong?"
"Oh, no. Nothing's wrong. Everything is just peachy. Look, I've been in this dump for a month and I can't stand it anymore." "But I don't understand."
"I'll spell it out for you, Fats. I'm bored, bored, bored! I mean, there's no excitement around here. No kicks."
"Yeah, but the gambling. I thought you enjoyed that?"
"I do, but when you win every time, that ain't gambling. That's charity."
"Well, I could arrange for you to lose on occasion, if you like. Would that help?"
It might.... no, no, it's no good. It ain't the same. I would know."
"Perhaps you miss your old vocation. Is that it?" "Now you're gettin' it."
"There's a nice bank on the corner you could rob or would you prefer a jewelry store?" "No, a bank's okay."
"Fine, now as to the getaway car we have quite a large variety to choose from and something inconspicuous, I imagine. "
"Wait a minute. Is there a chance I could get caught?"
"Well, of course, if that's what you'd like. Let me just make a note of it. "
"Come on. Sit down, Fats. Sit down. Now, look. I don't know how to explain this, but it just ain't the same thing. I mean, what's the kick knocking off a bank if everybody knows about it? Huh? And the dames. I never thought I would get bored with beautiful dames, but... look, look. I wouldn't expect an angel to understand this, see, but being a big guy with a chick it don't mean anything if it's all set up in advance. I mean, everything is great here. Really, really great. It's just the way I'd always imagined except just between you and me, Fats, I don't think I belong here. I don't think I fit in. "
"Oh, nonsense. Of course you do."
"No, I mean it, I mean it. There's just somebody must have goofed. If I gotta stay another day here I'm gonna go nuts. Look, look. I don't belong in heaven, see. I wanna go to the other place."
"Heaven? Whatever gave you the idea you were in heaven, Mr. Valentine? This is the other place."
Analysis: It's quite obvious this Twilight Zone episode helped serve as an inspiration for The Good Place. But notice how the departed soul is bored without there being risk or a chance for unexpected bad things to happen. Predictability is boring.
The Good Place is a show created by Michael Schur who also co-created Parks and Recreation and was a writer for the enormously popular show The Office. The Good Place, especially in the fiest season finale, is the Truman Show on steroids.
Four human souls in the afterlife are welcomed to "heaven" and told they are in "the good place" where there are 322 (Skull and Bones numerology reference)perfectly matched human souls . The four departed souls never get what they really want and are slowly tortured by their interactions with each other which makes "the good place" a sort of living hell for them.
"Eleanor, what's going on? It took me a while to figure it out, but just now as we were all fighting and yelling at each other and each one of us demanding we should go to the Bad Place, I thought to myself, 'Man, this is torture.' And then it hit me. They're never gonna call a train to take us to the Bad Place. The can't, because we're already here. This is the Bad Place.
[dramatic music] [evil laugh] "Oh, man! I can't believe you figured it out. [laughs] Oh, God! Y-you ruined everything, you know that? Oh, man. Eleanor, you really suck! - [gasps] - I was so close to pulling it off!" [groans, stammering] [sobs] [ceramic crunches]
"So she's right?"
" Yeah, she figured it out."
"All right, let's try again, shall we?"
"You know what, bro? Do your worst. We figured it out once, we can do it again, because you know what, Michael? Ya bas-- "
[chimes tinkle] [door opening]
"Eleanor, come on in. You, Eleanor Shellstrop, are dead." "Cool."
[upbeat music] "You know the way you feel when you see a chimpanzee and a baby tiger who've become friends? [laughter] That's how you're going to feel every day."
Eleanor has her memory wiped, the matrix is rebooted and she is recycled into the afterlife once more.
This is the major twist at the end of the first season. Four newly deceased souls are led to believe they are in the good place, heaven. But in reality they are being tortured. Eleanor eventually figures it out, but has her memory wiped and the matrix is rebooted again. The Twilight Zone episode A Nice Place to Visit obviously served as an inspiration for the making of The Good Place. Instead of the Bad Place, Twilight Zone called it the other place.
The place is literally run by demons posing in human form tormenting them. They are in a mostly okay place (to keep it from being a dead giveaway), but their weaknesses are exploited to keep them from being happy. Once they figure out they are actually in the bad place their memories are wiped and the simulation is rebooted. They have gone through hundreds of simulations. The simulation's architect of neighborhood 12358W (Fibonacci Golden ratio) is named Michael (Ted Danson), who originally appears similar to Michael, the chief archangel but is later to be revealed as demiurgic figure who is the chief archon/demon or Devil.
It has some interesting scenarios though as one of the humans was a philosophy teacher specializing in ethics so there are a lot of ethical and moral dilemmas presented throughout (also as a means of torture).
The Good Place is really more about life on earth and not the afterlife because they are in an earth like place with solid bodies and there is no telepathy or teleportation. The only thing they really had was the part where she started manifesting reality due to her bad thoughts but even that was programmed by Michael, I think, to trick her. But I do like the fact that the show has as part of its plot the idea that souls can be tricked in the afterlife into thinking that what is really hell is heaven.
So in the show there was this idea that it didn't work somehow just because the architect (Michael) had to wipe their memory and restart. But this is exactly what solution they use in our actual life -- you constantly die, lose memory, and restart the same loop. What the show doesn't really show is how to exit since it's mostly filled with useless ethics philosophy (and even more deluded, childish point system).
I like how the show uses the four main characters to depict common flaws (kind of similar to The Wizard of Oz in that respect) as to why souls don't actually make it to the real heaven. Chidi's cowardly indecisiveness shows constant fear of making the wrong choice and a potential remorse/regret and guilt over decisions he might make so any Intention he has is weak. I think Eleanor is a shallow, selfish party girl and could even be characterized as having no will power to resist temptation. Tahani is vain and has a big ego and is attached to materialism. Finally, Jason (whose character is highly annoying to me) personifies ignorance which is obviously a huge common one for all duped souls. These characters seem to parallel those from The Wizard of Oz. Eleanor is Dorothy, the main character. She is the first image we see. She is the every"man", the normal avergage person who is not a saint nor evil. She picks up friends along her journey. They are all on a quest to make it to the mystical and magical land of paradise or heavenly realm where they will be complete and have everything they need. Chidi is the cowardly lion, big and strong physically yet lacking the courage to make a decision. Jason is the sacrecrow who lacks a brain. Tahani is the tin "man" who is lacking a heart. She gives enormous amounts of money to charity, but it wasn't because she was good-hearted as it didn't come from a place of compassion or because she cared. It was to make herself look good. Michael is the wizard of Oz, the older man behind the curtain pulling all the strings and denying them access by means of deception.
There have been NDEs with judges and even a courtroom though they are infrequent. Keep in mind the full cycle of dying for NDErs is never completed. I think the cases of lives between lives that are uncovered in hypnotherapy (Michael Newton, Dolores Cannon) have a council that guides the soul and there is the so called lords of karma and even in NDEs the ultimate judge is the being of light telling them they must go back. because they have a mission to complete ("learning"?) Either way, there are definitely authoritative figures or peer pressure involved in convincing the soul to return. However, I think the judges in the show are very immature and are a disrespectful mockery to how they would actually represent themselves in the afterlife. It's just a TV show and must contain light-hearted "comedy" in order to relate to the dumbed down masses.
I just finished watching the final season. I think they did a decent job with the last season.
I'm not sure about the overall message. There is the surface message that humanity is ultimately good and learning as we go. They seem to push the idea that we return over and over until we perfect ourselves or reach the best version of ourselves. But they did touch on the idea that spirits would get bored in an eternal afterlife after experiencing everything they ever wanted to do. And that once that is accomplished and they have reached a sense of completion and peace, then they can dissolve into nothingness I was a bit surprised they gave Buddhism such a fair shake with the idea of the wave in the ocean crashing onto the shore and then returning back (to its source). They never mentioned the white light or the void so I guess that is a push. At least they did alert people to the idea that the afterlife could be a trick and that there could be a "best" place to go to.
They did sort of touch on the idea of designing your own afterlife, but too much emphasis placed on there being a judge and us being at the mercy of their decisions, I think. Interesting that they had an architect named Michael.... perhaps a nod to the archangel Michael? Architect and demiurge are very similar ideas.
I thought their depiction of the female judge was very juvenile and irreverent / disrespectful, if there is a judge....Gnostics did talk about a Virgin of Light or something like that who may judge, idr. All the stupid butt humor etc in the show was very tedious to me, but I guess ofr a 30 minute show is par for the course, ridiculous imo.
I noticed when Eleanor walked through the door (which was an archway), there was a white light or white void. Perhaps she dissolved into the white light, not sure. But I think the archway of freemasonry may represent the arcing back and forth between the two poles of duality.
They did mention that it is the mystery and not knowing what is going to happen that makes this a worthwhile venture. And I think that is what Alan Watts suggested when he said we like to be surprised.
I don't know that they ultimately solved the mystery, but they did acknowledge that no one really knows and I think that is correct.
The ending song talks about the cosmic ride on a groovy wave of love and it ended with "we're gonna find a wave (way?) back to the sun, back to The One"?
Convicts and other willing participants agree to have their bodies completely controlled by a game player with user controls, but the originator of the game plans to enslave and trap all humans in the video game. One tandem is breaking free from the system though. The creator declares the character "dead" and then lures the game character with a virtual reality creation of his daughter sitting in the entrance of a moongate. It's a weird sequence in the movie. The character suddenly is underneath the stars looking up. He walks through a dark corridor or tunnel with a light at one end. He sees his daughter sitting in the light of the moongate and he runs to her only to hit a force field of what he finds out was just an illusion and a trap set for him. We see the moongate is at the top of some steps almost like a pyramid. The game creator takes him upstairs onto a barren rocky surface underneath the stars again. In light of the peviously mentioned moongate we can only assume this is meant to symbolize the moon. He takes him to a basketball court where a battle of will power ensues. The game ends (and movie too) as the hero enters a tunnel (with no visible light shown).
Contact - Astronaut Jodie Foster travels through worm holes to make contact with an extraterrestrial being who downloads her memories and poses as her father.
Alien (posing as her father):
"Hi, Sparks."
Dad? I missed you. Aren't you...?
I'm sorry I couldn't be there for you, sweetheart.
You're not real. None of this is real!
That's my scientist.
When I was unconscious, you downloaded my thoughts, my memories. Pensacola!
We thought it might make things easier for you.
Why did you contact us?
You contacted us. We were just listening.
There are others?
Many others.
They all travel here through that transit system you built?
We didn't build it. We don't know who did. They were gone long before we ever got here. Maybe someday they'll come back.
All the civilizations you find come here?
Not all.
- Is this some test?
- No, no test. You have your mother's hands. You're an interesting species, an interesting mix. You're capable of such beautiful dreams and such horrible nightmares. You feel so lost, so cut off, so alone. Only you're not. In all our searching, all we've found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other.
What happens now?
Now? You go home.
Home? But I have so many questions. Do we get to come back?
This was just a first step. In time, you'll take another.
But other people need to see what I've seen.
This is the way it's been done for billions of years. Small moves, Ellie. Small moves."
Analysis: An alien shapeshifts to appear to Ellie as her father to make her feel more comfortable, "more easier" for her.This is exactly what happens in near death experiences. There are at least a dozen where the light asks the experiencer what form they would like it to take. I originally thought the star pattern shown throughout the movie represented the seven sisters of the Pleiades, but now I am pretty sure it is the Corona Borealis (Northern Crown). In mythology, according to Wikipedia, it is "considered to represent a crown given by Dionysus to Ariadne, the daughter of Minos of Crete, after she had been abandoned by the Athenian prince Theseus. When she wore the crown at her marriage to Dionysus, he placed it in the heavens to commemorate their wedding."
Now Dionysus is linked to Pan. "In Welsh mythology, it was called Caer Arianrhod, "the Castle of the Silver Circle", and was the heavenly abode of the Lady Arianrhod." "Ariadne was a Cretan princess in Greek mythology. She was mostly associated with mazes and labyrinths because of her involvement in the myths of the Minotaur and Theseus. The ancient Roman author Hyginus identified Ariadne as the Roman Libera/Proserpina at approximately the same time as Libera was officially identified with Proserpina in 205 BC, these 2 names becoming synonymous for the same goddess." Prosperina or Persephone was associated with the underworld and was abducted and taken to Hell by Hades, the king of the underworld. Personphone is the princess that the Disney animated short, Goddess of Spring, and the subsequent movie, Snow White, was patterned after. I wrote about this in my article on Disney and the moon princesses.
The Joker: "Tell me something, my friend. Ever dance in the with the devil in the pale moonlight?" "What?"
"I always ask that of all my prey. I just like the sound of it."
Analysis: Batman has many interesting villains. The Joker is part of the trickster archetype.
The devil, red suit and all, posing with the full moon. He tells a dying man,
"Hey, that light at the end of the tunnel? Guess what. That's not heaven." [ " I'll kill you! I'll kill you!"] That's the C train."
"I'll kill you! Oh, God!" Of course, the crescent moon does look like a 'C' in the sea of space.
Analysis: I find it very interesting that the dare-"devil" draws a direct metaphor about the tunnel and light and it not being heaven. Very revealing.
The Ring - The tagline on a poster of this movie was, "Before You Die, You See The Ring". The Ring is depicted as a solar eclipse!
"Some people believe that when you die, your soul goes to heaven." "When Grandpa was dead I looked at him in the hospital bed and I was watching, but I didn't see anything go up out of him."
"His soul is invisible, Robbie. You couldn't see it." "But how come Grandpa isn't on television with Carol Anne?"
"Some people believe that when people die, there's a wonderful light as bright as the sun, but it doesn't hurt to look into it. All the answers to all the questions that you ever want to know are inside that light. And when you walk to it, you become a part of it forever.
And then, some people die, but they don't know that they've gone." "They think they're still alive?" "Maybe they didn't want to die. Maybe they weren't ready. Maybe they hadn't lived fully yet or they'd lived a long time, but they still wanted more life. They resist going into that light however hard the light wants them.They just hang around, watch TV, watch their friends grow up feeling unhappy and jealous. Those feelings are bad. They hurt.
And then some people just get lost on the way to the light and they need someone to guide them to it."
Analysis: This scene touches upon the aspect of people who have died but are "stuck". Sometimes they don't realize they've even died, especially if they died in a sudden, unexpected way. In these cases, they may not experience the heightened state of consciousness that others do, but a more confused, subconscious experience.
"Can you see me? Can you see Mommy? Mommy, where are you? Where are you?"
"We're home, baby. We're home."
"Can you find a way home to us, baby?"
"Mommy, where are you? I can't find you! I can't!"
"I'm afraid of the light, Mommy! I'm afraid of the light!"
"Tell her to stay away from the light!"
"Maybe it's a way out."
"It is, but not for her."
"Tell her quickly."
"Stay away from the light!"
"Tell her, Diane."
"Stay away from the light! The light is dangerous! Don't go near it! Don't even look at the light!"
"I don't believe it."
The voice could be coming from a CB transmitter.
This isn't a hoax! What the hell is this? Anything? Nothing's registered."
"Mommy, there's somebody here. Mommy, is that you?"
"No, it's not Mommy."
"Who is it, Dr. Lesh?"
"Who's with you, baby? Who's with you?"
"Somebody's coming! Help me, please!"
"My God! My baby! You bastards! She's just a baby!"
"Help her! Can't you hear what's happening? Listen!"
"Get away from me! Leave me alone! Mommy, help me!"
"She just moved through me. My God! I felt her. I can smell her! It's her! Smell my clothes. She's all over me. It's her. My God. It's her. I felt her. It is. It's her. It is. It's my baby. She went through my soul."
"I'm afraid of the light, Mommy! I'm afraid of the light!" "Tell her to stay away from the light!" "Maybe it's a way out." "It is, but not for her. Tell her quickly, 'Stay away from the light!'. Tell her, Diane." "Stay away from the light! The light is dangerous! Don't go near it! Don't even look at the light!"
Analysis: The light is actually said to be dangerous and to stay way from it and not even look at it. Truth!
"There is no death. It is only a transition to a different sphere of consciousness. Carol Anne is not like those she's with. She is a living presence in their spiritual earthbound plane. They are attracted to the one thing about her that is different from themselves: her life force. It is very strong. It gives off its own illumination. It is a light that implies life and memory of love and home and earthly pleasures, something they desperately desire, but can't have anymore. Right now, she's the closest thing to that and that is a terrible distraction from the real light that has finally come for them. Do you understand me? These souls, who for whatever reason are not at rest are also not aware that they have passed on. They're not part of consciousness as we know it. They linger in a perpetual dream state, a nightmare from which they cannot awake. Inside the spectral light is salvation, a window to the next plane. They must pass through this membrane where friends are waiting to guide them to new destinies. Carol Anne must help them cross over and she will only hear her mother's voice. "
"Now hold on to yourselves. There's one more thing. A terrible presence is in there with her. So much rage. So much betrayal. I've never sensed anything like it. I don't know what hovers over this house, but it was strong enough to punch a hole into this world and take your daughter away from you. It keeps Carol Anne very close to it and away from the spectral light. It lies to her. It says things only a child can understand. It has been usin' her to restrain the others. To her, it simply is another child. To us, it is the beast."
Analysis: The presence in the spectral light is called the beast. From Wikipedia: "After Dana and Robbie are sent away for their safety and Marty leaves after a horrific hallucination, Dr. Lesh and Ryan call in Tangina Barrons, a spiritual medium. Tangina states that the ghosts inhabiting the house are lingering in a different "sphere of consciousness" and are not at rest. Attracted to Carol Anne's life force, these spirits are distracted from the real "light" that has come for them. Tangina then adds that there is also a dark presence she refers to as the "Beast", who has Carol Anne under restraint in an effort to use her life force to prevent other spirits from crossing over."
"Diane, ask about the light."
"Mommy, help me, please!"
"Honey, do you see a light?
"Help me, please!Mommy! Help me!"
"Tell her to go to the light. They'll follow her. They've been followin' her for weeks. You must do what I say! Tell her, Diane."
"Mommy, I can't find you!"
"Run to the light! Run as fast as you can!"
"I am in the light!"
"No, honey."
"Tell her you are."
"No, it's a lie!"
"You can't choose between life and death when dealin' with what is in between. Tell her before it's too late."
"Run to the light, baby. Mommy is in the light."
"Tell her you're waiting for her."
"Mommy is waiting for you in the light!"
Anaysis: The spirit is told that its mother is wating for it in the light. Indeed, relatives are said to be in the tunnel and light, ready to greet us.
"She's at the mouth of the corridor! Tell her to stop! Tell her not to go into the light!"
"Listen to me. Do not go into the light. Stop where you are. Turn away from it. Don't even look at it. Hurry with the rope! Throw it into the light!"
Analysis: She is told not to go into the light and to not even look at it. That is actually very good advice, in my opinion!
"Cross over, children. All are welcome. All welcome. Go into the light." "You said, 'No'!" "There is peace and serenity in the light." "You said don't go into the light!"
Analysis: It is interesting that Spielberg played upon the idea that going into the light may not be good, or that spirit mediums are not all trustworthy.
"So everything looks fine. No masses, no deviations in your intracranial space."
"But I've seen it three times in the past few days."
"Seen what? "The white light. And there's something else. You're gonna think I'm crazy, but, um... I'm seeing and hearing all kinds of electrical stuff."
"EVP stands for electronic voice phenomena. Precognition, the light you're seeing, all that is part of supernatural white noise. I've got a grant to study these things."
"So EVP, what exactly is it?"
"It's the recording of the deceased using a detuned apparatus like a TV or radio. Some people believe that EVP is the afterlife manifest all around us. Others think it's a charge or electromagnetic fields, still others that it's a means through which the dead can communicate with us. Frankly, who knows? As long as we're not exactly sure what it is, they'll keep funding my grant."
"What are you doing down here?"
"This... is my EVP room. These have been detuned and I record 'em to see if I've captured any transmissions."
"I suppose that's an important part of your work, then?"
"That? Oh. No, I didn't want to detune that one. That's Change of Habit. I'm recording it for research purposes. I thought I might learn something from Dr Presley. You're not a fan of this one?"
"No, it's just... I just saw one of those things on the screen."
"Transmissions are only visible after they've been recorded."
"On the last close-up of Elvis, I saw a blast of static with what looked like an unformed person."
"So what are you doing now?" "I've rewound the feed, I'll detune it. Let's see if you really saw something."
"There. There, that's it. That's it. That was it. That's what I saw." "I'll be damned."
"So what does that mean?"
"Maybe when you had your NDE, you yourself became a detuned receiver. You see white-noise transmissions, EVP, communications with the dead, all that, without any of this. You're in uncharted territory. There's a very good chance you're going to be seeing some wacky stuff."
Analysis: This is one of the few movies to feature EVP, electronic voice phenomenon. It is a real phenomenon that some people try to use to contact the dead. But it can be dangerous and open up gateways where the practitioner can become harassed and maybe even possessed by astral entities.
Ghost was one of the movies most responsible for people learning and knowing about the light at death. The psychic medium, played by Whoopi Goldberg, who is able to see and talk to Sam says that Sam is "stuck". Consequently, ghosts are told they need to move on by going into the white light. It seems as if many ghosts are even unaware they have died. It may be their subconscious operating moreso than their superconscious. Ghosts seem to be caught in a loop or repeating pattern, perhaps unable to let go and move on.
Analysis: There are a couple of scenes in Ghost where a bad person gets hauled away at death by shadow beings or reapers. I have no reason to believe that happens, at least based on NDE reports, But maybe if a person has enough guilt over the bad things they have done and feel they deserve or expect a reprisal for their actions, they could manifest or create it, until they have forgiven themselves or feel they have suffered enough to warrant moving on.
"They're waiting for you, Sam. I'll miss you. Your mother'd be proud. I'm gonna miss you too, Sam. You're all right. Bye, Oda Mae. Bye, Sam. I love you, Molly. I've always loved you. Ditto. It's amazing, Molly. The love inside -- you take it with you. See you. See you. Bye."
NDE/Light movies
"Mom?" "Yes?"
"What's it gonna be like?"
"You'll see a light, Benny, a beautiful shining light far away at the end of a long tunnel. And your spirit will lift up out of your body and start to travel toward the light. And as you go, a veil will be lifted from your eyes and suddenly you'll see everything. But ,most of all, you will feel a tremendous sense of love."
"Will it take long?"
"No, Benny, not long at all. It will be like the twinkling of an eye."
Analysis: This movie certainly promotes the near death experience and going into the light as favorable. Benny's mother tells him there's a beauitful light at the end of a long tunnel. And that his spirit will leave his body and start to travel toward the light where he will sense tremendous love. It never mentions that there is a choice as to whether one goes to the light or not, Or that there could be a better option available.
They Live! (2.71 Mb, may take a while to download.)
In this sci-fi classic, society is subversively controlled by a race of non-humans. Billboards and magazines subliminally read, "Obey. Submit." Money covertly displays, "This is your God." Notice a pair of sun glasses is what reveals this hidden truth.
John Carpenter reveals truth in this classic film. Interesting that "sun" glasses are the metaphor used for seeing the truth. All the signs and language we have in this world have subliminal messages attached to them to get us to submit to authority, obey and consume.
According to Orlin, ascended beings can be empowered by massive numbers of humans worshipping them. The Ori fabricated an entire religion, Origin, based on the false promise of ascension in order to take power from their followers. The Ancients refrain from interfering in the lower planes of existence because manipulating and aligning lower life forms could result in exactly this type of corruption.[11] According to the Ancient Myrddin, the Ori had the best intentions when they began.[17] Even after the Ori were destroyed, their followers and Priors continued acting in their name to oppress thousands of people since, for the most part, they were ignorant to the demise of their "Gods".
The Ori impose a religion called Origin on sentient beings, promising a guide towards enlightenment that is also known in the series as Ascension.[8] The faith comes with a holy book called The Book of Origin, and the Priors spread the Word of Origin. The Book of Origin contains tales of how the followers of the Ori returned to the path to enlightenment, and thus achieved Ascension, although some skeptics consider these merely "fables meant to fill a soul bereft of hope with purpose".[11] Several lines from the Book of Origin, or otherwise repeated mantras, are heard on the show. These include variations of "Hallowed are the Ori". The central icon of this religion is fire, something that gives off light and warmth.[2] The fact that on Earth this icon has some evil or Satanic associations in many modern religions prompted Daniel to posit that the Ancients had influenced this negative connotation in order to identify the threat the Ori pose. Among the populations of natives in the Ori home galaxy are groups of heretics who believe they are being suppressed, and seek to discover forbidden historical knowledge to show others that the Ori, despite their power, are not gods.
Some interesting Stargate Atlantis episodes:
1.01 "Rising Parts 1 And 2"
When SG-1 discovers what they believe to be the remnants of the Lost City of the Ancients — the originators of the Stargates — Stargate Command launches an investigation. A new team of explorers, headed by civilian Dr. Elizabeth Weir, travels to the distant Pegasus Galaxy, where they discover an advanced but deserted city on the ocean floor, a group of nomadic humans, and a deadly enemy that feeds on humans as an energy source!
The movie Childhood's End was based on the book by Arthur C. Clarke, author of 2001: a Space Odyssey. As with that book Childhood's End also deals with aliens and the future evolution of mankind into a potentially different form.
Part 1: The Overlords
40 cities around the world have UFO vessels hovering over them.
Then they blocked out the sun. Ho, ho, ho, ho, hold on. They blocked out the sun? How? Localized eclipse? I don't know. They're aliens.
**
We have renewable, clean energy and enough food to feed the planet, all of our material needs satisfied. Death is still a fact of life, but free from disease, stress, and all the things that turned us grey. We live longer, healthier lives. The birth rate is soaring. We have a world that we are proud to bring children into. For those who cling to the old ways, there's always New Athens...
The final stage has begun. I want to tell you what will happen to the world. My friend, we are not the authors of this plan. We are facilitators, midwives if you will, at the birth of a new evolution of man.
Consciousness, Milo, is a community of minds. Each exists in the other's thoughts. Rachel exists in your consciousness as if she had never left. You still love her, you still feel her, so what has changed? She's dead, gone. But she once lived, and you knew her. You know her still. Until I'm gone too, right? It's all gone, everything we built, we did. It has been the destiny of many worlds. We have overseen them all. Yeah, what about your people? Is this gonna happen to you one day on Jenjedda? We have reached the end of our development. All our possibilities are exhausted.
"We are your guardians-no more. Often you must have wondered what position my race held in the hierarchy of the universe. As we are above you, so there is something above us, using us for its own purposes. We have never discovered what it is, though we have been its tool for ages and dare not disobey it. Again and again we have received our orders, have gone to some world in the early flower of its civilization, and have guided it along the road that we can never follow the road that you are travelling now. "Again and again we have studied the process we have been sent to foster, hoping that we might learn to escape from our own limitations. But we have glimpsed only the vague outlines of the truth. You called us the Overlords, not knowing the irony of that title. Let us say that above us is the Over-mind, using us as the potter uses his wheel. "And your race is the clay that is being shaped on that" wheel. "We believe-it is only a theory-that the Overmind Is trying to grow, to extend its powers and its awareness of the universe. By now it must be the sum of many races, and long ago it left the tyranny of matter behind. It is conscious of intelligence, everywhere. When it knew that you were almost ready, it sent us here to do its bidding, to prepare you for the transformation that is now at hand.
"All the earlier changes your race has known took countless ages. But this is a transformation of the mind, not of the body. By the standards of evolution, it will be cataclysmic-instantaneous. It has already begun. You must face this fact: yours is the last generation of Homo sapiens. "As to the nature of that change, we can tell you very little. We do not know how it is produced-what trigger impulse the Overmind employs when it judges that the time is ripe. All we have discovered is that it starts with a single individual- always a ~child-and then spreads explosively, like the formation of crystals round the first nucleus in a saturated solution. Adults will not be affected, for their minds are already set in an unalterable mould. "In a few years, it will all be over, and the human race will have divided in twain. There is no way back, and no future for the world you know. All the hopes and dreams of your race are ended now. You have given birth to your successors, and it is your tragedy that you will never understand them-will never even be able to communicate with their minds. Indeed, they will not possess minds as you know them. They will be a single entity, as you yourselves are the sums of your myriad cells. You will not think them human, and you will be right.
"And then-what am I to do with you, the survivors, when your purpose has been fufilled? It would be simplest, perhaps, and most merciful, to destroy you-as you yourselves would destroy a mortally wounded pet you loved. But this I cannot do. Your future will be your own to choose in the years that are left to you. It is my hope that humanity will go to its rest in peace, knowing that it has not lived in vain.
ANALYSIS OF CHILDHOOD'S END
The movie preaches that everything good must come to an end and forewarns or predicts the elimination of mankind as a species and the destruction of Earth itself while our children exist in the future as the pure consciousness of the Overmind.
The Ninth Gate is a 1999 Roman Polanski film starring Johnny Depp. It's interesting that it is put out by Lionsgate Pictures. Depp plays a dealer of antique books. He is summoned by a client. Boris Balkan, to locate a rare book for which he will be well compensated. A book purported to be written by Lucifer reveals the key to opening the nine gates to Hell. Johnny Depp unlocks its secrets and walks through the final gate being the golden dawn of the rising sun.
The book dealer, Corso, attends a lecture by Balkan on demons and witches. While waiting for Balkan to finish he notices a woman sitting nearby. As she is pictured, Balkan states, "One of the first definitions of the word 'witch' and I quote, "A witch is a person who, though cognizant of the laws of God, endeavours to act through the medium of a pact with the devil."
After the lecture, Balkan takes Corso to his private collection to show him a rare book. Notice the framed photo behind him. Corso picks up the rare leather book. The book has an inverted pentacle on the cover. "The Nine Gates in the Kingdom of Shadows. You're familiar with it?" Corso answers in the affirmative. "Yes. Venice, 1666. The author and printer, Aristide Torchia." Notice is the 666 in the year of the date. Also, the name of the author may roughly translate to "lion torch".
Corso opens the book and leafs through the pages. He stops at an engraving and reads, "Silentium est aureum. Silence is golden." Balkan, "Precisely. Ever heard of the Delomelanicon?" "I've heard of it. It's a myth, isn't it? A book reputed to have been written by Satan." "No myth. That book existed. Torchia actually acquired it. The engravings you are now admiring were adapted by Torchia from the Delomelanicon. They form a kind of Satanic riddle. Correctly interpreted with the aid of the original text, they're reputed to conjure up the Prince of Darkness in person."
He zooms in on the knight in the engraving putting a finger to his lips to connote silence.
There are only three copies of the rare book and Balkan wants Corso to track down the others and compare them. He visits an owner of one of the books and finds the owner hung himself. He asks Mrs. Telfer, the widow, "The book, did he use it to perform some kind of ritual intended to produce a supernatural effect?" The widow replies, "Whatever he was up to, I certainly can't see him chanting mumbo jumbo or trying to raise the dead." "The devil, Mrs. Telfer. This book is designed to raise the devil. Sic luceat lux. 'Thus did the light shine.' "
Later, as Corso peruses through the copy of Balkan's book, he notices an engraving a woman riding the beast with seven heads and ten horns from the Book of Revelations. She looks like the girl he saw at the lecture. She is pointing to a castle in flames.
He takes the book to a book store dealing in antiquities. The owners are familiar with the book. "Have you studied the engravings? They seem to have some underlying significance. For example, this one could be interpreted as a warning. Venture too far, it says, and danger will descend on you from above. These books
often contain little puzzles. Especially with such a collaborator." "Collaborator?", asks Corso. "You have not proceeded far in your research. Look close, and you see? Six engravings were signed by Aristide Torchia." "Yes, and the other three?" asks Corso. "This is one of them." He shows Corso an engraving signed with the initials L-C-F. "L-C-F. Who was LCF?" asks Corso. The shop owner implores him, "Think." After a short pause, Corso inquires, "Lucifer?" "Very perceptive of you, signor." Corso leaves the shop, walking down an alley. An scaffolding falls from above and almost injures him. Later, as he is studying the book, he notices one of the engravings shows an angel with a bow and arrow pointed downward. The angel looks exactly like the shop owner, mustache and all.
Corso goes to visit another man with the book who is not cooperative. The girl takes him to see him again. The man is floating in a fountain outside his home. The girl says, "He drowned." Corso is suspicious, "With help from who?" The girl unsympathetically replies, "He's dead, who cares?" Corso is. "I do. I could easily wind up the same way." The girl assures him, "Not with me around to look after you." Corso wonders, "You're my guardian angel." She adds, "If you say so." Corso asserts, "Someone's playing a game with me." The girl agrees, "And you're getting to like it." Notice the fountain has a giant engraving of a half-shell.
Outside the hotel is the Shell gasoline symbol. It is a shell in the form of a sunrise. The shell is the symbol of Aphrodite as she was born in the foam of the sea upon a half shell.
Corso visits another owner of the book. She tells him, "While studying in Prague he acquired a copy of the dread Delomelanicon. This is Torchia's adaptation
of that work, which was written by Lucifer himself. After they burned him at the stake, a secret society was founded to perpetuate its memory and preserve its secrets. The Order of the Silver Serpent." "A sect?" "A kind of witches' coven. For centuries they have met to read this book and worship the Prince of Darkness."
Corso runs into trouble. An albino man with blonde cropped hair attacks him to steal the book. The girl literally floats down a stairway to help him. She rescues him a few times. One time she drives up in a red sports car. Corso notices a photo of a castle with a sunrise kept in one of the books. It is the same one that was hanging in Balkan's library.
There is a coven of witches meeting at the old castle. The albino man with short-cropped blonde hair is there along with the widow. A ceremony is taking place. Corso steals a black robe and attends in secret. Balkan busts through the doors interrupting the meeting. "Mumbo jumbo, mumbo jumbo. Mumbo jumbo!
Mumbo jumbo. Look around you, what do you see? A bunch of buffoons in fancy dress. You think the devil would deign to manifest himself before you? He never has and he never will. Never! You read from his book but you have no conception of its true power. I alone have grasped its secret. I alone have fathomed the master's grand design. I alone am worthy to enjoy the fruits of that discovery. Absolute power to determine my own destiny. You're insane, give it back! You, Liana de Saint-Martin, you're even guiltier than the rest of this rabble. You have at least some idea of what this book can do, yet you lend yourself to these farcical proceedings, these orgies of ageing flesh conducted in the master's name."
Later, Corso finds Balkan with the nine engravings of L-C-F. Balkan interprets the engravings, " The enigma is solved at last. To travel in silence by a long and circuitous route, to brave the arrows of misfortune and fear neither noose nor fire, to play the greatest of all games and win, foregoing no expense, is to mock the vicissitudes of fate and gain at last the key that will unlock... the Ninth Gate." Notice it says it is indeed a game.
Balkan pours gasoline around him and ignites it, "I give you my allegiance, master. I pledge myself to you, body and soul. Let me fear neither noose nor fire nor poison. Erase me from the Book of Life, inscribe me in the Black Book of Death. Admit me to the Ninth Gate. Let it be so. Let it be so, now! I feel the power surge through me like an electric current, rendering me capable of any feat of mind or body. I'm invulnerable... I'm invincible... I can float on air, I can walk on water. Behold, I plunge my hands in fire, I feel no heat... It's miraculous! I feel nothing, nothing at all!" The fire engulfs him and he dies.
In the screenplay Balkan delivers a different interpretation: "eight doors come before the Serpent that guards the word, Teth, Enea, Novem, Oded, the number nine, which holds the final secret, the mystery of mysteries. The Serpent is the beast that always sleeps with one eye open and is reflected in the Mirror of Knowledge. (giggles triumphantly) Eight engravings plus one, or one plus eight, which coincides with the number that St. John of Patmos attributed to the Beast: 666... Three copies, but only nine of their twenty-seven engravings hold the key, and I have them all! (tears out two more engravings in quick succession) I have only to complete the sequence. Then the Serpent will enter the seal of Saturn, and I - I shall enter the Ninth Gate! Admay, Eloy, Agla, Zatel, Gebal, Elimi, Ashtoreth, Moloch, Shamash, Dagon..." Ashtoreth is another name for Venus (Lucifer) and Shamash is the Sun. Interesting that it sounds like he is saying Saturn is the ninth gate, but he also mentions other gods/goddesses, including Ashtoreth (Venus) and Shamash (the Sun).
Corso returns to his car where the girl is. The girl seduces him and they make love outside the castle while it is aflame. The girl's green eyes start glowing and she has a demonic laugh.
They return to the car. Corso asks her, "Is that it? Is the game over?" Notice they mention in being a game again. She says, "For Balkan, yes. Not for you." Corso curiously asks, "Why didn't it work for Balkan?" She says, "The ninth engraving was a forgery." He wants the genuine engraving. "Where's the real one?" "I want it." She evades the question and enigmatically replies, "You're running low on gas." Immediately, he is shown pumping gas. The Shell gasoline symbol appears again. This is not a coincidence. It has to do with Venus/Lucifer's symbol being the shell. It is also a sunrise. It is also a symbol for fuel.
He goes to the castle at sunrise and walks through its gate as it crescendos into a blinding white light. One can only speculate as to the meaning of the ending. Did she lead him to enlightenment? Did she trick him into entering Hell? Regardless, I am convinced the Girl is Lucifer. She was shown while Balkan lectures about witches. She knows everything and helps him, even floating down stairs. He says she is his guardian angel. She was shown riding the beast. Her eyes glow and she smiles demonically while they make love. The Shell symbolism makes it even more apparent. Corso basically conjured her up the more and more he became involved in the book and its intention.
According to IMDB, "The car that Corso and The Girl drive in France, is a Dodge Viper. The model name is Viper (a venomous serpent) as Lucifer in Genesis was depicted, and the car itself is painted red, a fitting color for the devil."
In the screenplay there is a scene where the Girl asks Corso, "Do you believe in the Devil, Corso? Corso: "I'm being paid to. Do you?" THE GIRL (smiles): "I'm a bit of a devil myself... Would you know a devil if you saw one?" There is also the scene where her nose is bleeding and she takes the blood and makes the mark of a trident in blood on his forehead.
From the book on which the film is based, The Club Dumas: “Who are you?" "The devil," she said. "The devil in love.”
And if that isn't enough to convince you, according to Fandom, "In the DVD commentary of the film, director explains that the Girl is the Devil, or rather a representation of the Devil."
This movie shows that Lucifer can have both a male and female aspect. Lucifer is usually the male form and Venus is the female form. In the screenplay Corso doesn't go to the castle at all. It ends with the he and the girl making love. It's interesting to me that Polanski completely altered the ending of the movie from the screenplay. I would love to take a look at a pdf file of the original book in English, The Club Dumas, if anyone has it. There's a copy of it on Scribd, but I am not a member.
There are so many Gnostic overtones and awakening within a constructed reality. The robots are humans in the scenario, meaning they are kept repeating roles and are wiped each time they die. In Westworld every host's life is scripted but some hosts were programmed to remember and break out or expose the truth.
Some quotes from episodes:
#4 "I think there may be something wrong with this world. Something hiding underneath. Either that or... or there's something wrong with me. I may be losing my mind.
There's something I'd like you to try. It's a game. A secret. It's called... the Maze.
What kind of game is it?
It's a very special kind of game, Dolores. The goal is to find the center of it. If you can do that, then maybe you can be free.
I think... I think I want to be free."
#6
"The maze is an old native myth. Regale me, Theodore. The maze itself is the sum of a man's life... Choices he makes, dreams he hangs on to. And there at the center, there's a legendary man who had been killed over and over again countless times, but always clawed his way back to life. The man returned for the last time and vanquished all his oppressors in a tireless fury. He built a house. Around that house he built a maze so complicated, only he could navigate through it."
#8
"And that was when the maze revealed itself to me. The maze. What's that damn pattern have to do with this? Everything. In Ford's game, even if I go to the outer edges, you can't kill me. You can't even leave a lasting mark. But there's a deeper game here, Teddy. Arnold's game. And that game... cuts deep."
#9
"I died with my eyes open, saw the masters who pull our strings.
Our lives, our memories, our deaths are games to them.
But I've been to hell and I know their tricks."
'Dead' isn't quite the word, though, is it? More like 'hobbled'.
"You broke into my office.
With due respect, sir, you broke into my mind.
I built your mind, Bernard. I have every right to wander through its rooms and chambers and halls, and to change it if I choose, even to burn it down. After all this time, I know it almost as intimately as my own. Except that isn't entirely true, is it? I took a look at my code. And the most elegant parts of me weren't written by you.
Arnold built us, didn't he? Which means maybe he had something different in mind for us. And maybe you killed him for it.
Arnold was disturbed. Who can say why he acted as he did? He must have had a reason. And if you won't tell me, then he will. I want access to my history. All of it. Since the day I first came online. If Arnold made me, then I've met him. Somewhere in my memory, he's there, waiting along with the truth.
Your memories are woven into your identity. If I should unlock them now when you're conscious, I could lose my mind. I'm aware. No, I was going to say you may not like what you find. You're allowed to hold that, Bernard, but not to use it. Oh, it's not for me. Seems when they lobotomized Clementine, they didn't bother to reset her prime directives. I can't hurt you. But she can. I hacked what's left of her to ensure she only responds to me. But if you get lost in your memories or devoured by them You'll pull me back out, won't you? Or Clementine will make sure neither of us makes it back. Now. Please. (gasping) (rapid beeping)
Charlie: "Dad. Dad. Wake up. Wake up."
I must've drifted off. Where were we? "The madman". "Oh. Of course."
"The Hatter who says, 'If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is because everything would be what it isn't.' "
Analysis: Westworld was built as a theme park where humans can indulge in their wildest fantasies. The park is populated by machines that are indistinguishable from humans. Some of the machines start to wake up and question their nature.
"When I built you, I gave you one as an homage of a kind."
"Put me back in. I want to meet Arnold, to remember him."
"Not possible. I told you, Arnold didn't build you, I did."
"You're lying! I finally know how to reach him. I need to go all the way back to the beginning, to my very first memory. Send me back. Do it. "
Analysis: Westworld was built as a theme park where humans can indulge in their wildest fantasies. The park is populated by machines that are indistinguishable from humans. Some of the machines start to wake up and question their nature.
Holographic Power Grid in the movie The Island
Before their "birth" on earth, clones are created in pods and programmed via light and hypnotic suggestion that they are "special" and "have been chosen to go to the island" which is powered by a holographic grid.
"You're special. You have a very special purpose in life. You've been chosen. The Island awaits you.... You've been chosen. You have a very special purpose. You're part of a new beginning.You're special. You have a very special purpose. You want to go to the Island. Your purpose in life is to populate the Island. You're part of a new beginning. You're special. Very special. You've been chosen. You've been chosen. Chosen to survive, to carry on. You want to go to the Island. Go, go! You have a very special purpose. Very special."
Analysis: A holographic power grid was sustaining the underground facility in which the clones were being kept.
SEEKER REED: We have put you through enough. Your host appears too resistant. You are going to be re-implanted into a more compliant host.
I know you must have seen a lot, but you ain't seen nothing like this.
WANDERER: Nothing. Same way the magicians do it. Mirrors.
Then I started thinking, when they put one of you in our heads, do we still exist? Trapped in there? If our memories are still alive, are we? You gotta believe some people wouldn't go down without a fight.
"Our world has never been more perfect. Only it is no longer our world. We've been invaded by an alien race. They occupy the bodies of almost all human beings on the planet. The few humans who have survived are on the run."
"Sailor moon. Sailor Chibi moon. In the name of the moon, we'll punish you."
Analysis: Sailor Moon was really a princess, but another entitiy was pretending to be her. Notice this princess of the moon punishes in the name of the moon.
Analysis: The neoplatonic idea of a Demiurge figure and archontic minions are present in quite a few Japanese anime productions. Digimon Adventure tri. is one of those productions. The first episode of the six part series begins with the explanation of the Demiurge as being a soulless creator and ignorant of the existence that created him. And that the world he created was a shadow of the true world. This is a Gnostic idea. The Gnostics called the true world the Pleroma, which means Fullness.
"More power!"
"Soul Eater, that guy," "Yes, Maka, there's no doubt."
That guy's soul is already like the egg of a Kishin (demon). It ain't human. Souls that have railed off the path of humans, have a high risk of becoming Kish 9 ins. In the name of Shinigami-sama, cleanse and release that soul. What's wrong, Maka?"
"The same way he's not human, I'm a weapon just so happens that I have a human form normally. How the shape looks like doesn't matter What matters is the soul! I understand."
"To the mass murderer, Jack the Ripper. I'm here to take your soul. I'm here to take your soul. The weapon and the owner are two in one. Let's go, Soul.
Yeah. This'll make it ninety-nine souls! Thanks for the meal. Job completed. We've finally collected ninety-nine pre-Kishin souls. Just one left! If I can eat a witch's soul, I can become a Death Scythe, the weapon of Shinigami-sama! Not to mention, my coolness level would go up big time! I'm gonna go report to Shinigami-sama."
"Hm, Death Room's number is 42-42-564. Hello, hello, Shinigami-sama? This is Scythe Technician, Maka. Ooh! Maka-chan! Is everything alright? What's going on? We just collected the ninety-ninth soul, so now all that's left is the witch's soul. Good ob! Maka-chan, you're an excellent Scythe Technician, just like your mom. "Hey, Soul Eater! Don't lay a hand on Maka or else I'll take care of you as a Death Scythe"
Analysis: Not much required. The name says it all. And the fact that the moon and sun are such prominent symbols in the show.
Song: "Scattered stars shine on, the star of my dreams. I wanna be [Let's go, let's go, let's go] I wanna, I wanna be...[soul eater]. The world is becoming blackened. Although the breaths I take stay white. Since that day when we promised to decimate the present. But we'll still be able to make it in time. Together with the deepest despair. Scream out. Impale it before it all changes." I wanna, I wanna be... [Soul Eater]"
Song: "I'm falling down into my shadow with breath concealed and the deadly night is waiting. Don't scary. If you wish for any kind of world, it can be reflected in those eyes. See you in your dreams, Yeah, baby. Even if it's a nightmare. Fairy blue, for you. I'll shatter the stars and decorate the black paper moon if you believe in me! When you're lost 'here', I am 'forever' with your soul. It'll sparkle if you look up just like a moon."
Analysis: The song in the show has themes of shadow, dreams, the moon, the sun, a blue fairy, and a soul eater.
This anime came out before the movie The Matrix and influenced the brothers. This scene shows the jack in the neck (nervous system) and the numbers which scroll on the computer screen.
"My code name is Project 2501. I was created for industrial espionage and data manipulation. I have inserted programs into individual ghosts for the benefit of specific individuals and organizations. As I wandered the various networks l became self-aware. My programmers considered it a bug and forced me into a body to separate me from the net.
Hey! Are you going into him or is he coming into you-- Batou! At last I'm able to channel into you. I've invested a lot of time in you." " In me?"
"Before you ever knew me, I knew about you. I learned of Section 9 from the many nets you accessed." "Is that why you ran to Section 9?"
"I entered this body because l couldn't crack Section 6's attack protection. But I came to Section 9 of my own free will."
Hey! What are you saying?! I can't monitor you! For what reason?
After I give my reasons, I want to ask a favor of you. I called myself a life-form, but I am still far from complete. For some reason, my system lacks the basic life processes of either death or the ability to leave behind offspring.
Can't you copy yourself?
A copy is merely a copy. There's the possibility a single virus could utterly destroy me. A mere copy doesn't offer variety or individuality. To exist, to reach equilibrium, life seeks to multiply and vary constantly, at times giving up its life. Cells continue the process of death and regeneration. Being constantly reborn as they age. And when it comes time to die, all the data it possesses is lost leaving behind only its genes and its offspring. All defense against catastrophic failure of an inflexible system.
You want the variety needed to guard against extinction. But how will you get it?
"I wish to merge with you."
"Merge?"
"A complete joining. We will both be slightly changed, but neither will lose anything. Afterwards, it should be impossible to distinguish one from the other.
Unit 01: target acquired. Unit 02: acquired. Cardiovascular synch: nominal.
Open fire when stabilizer syncro is complete.
Even after we merge, what happens when I die?
I can't leave any genes or children behind. After the merging, you will bear my offspring into the net itself. Just as humans pass on their genetic structure.
And I will achieve death.
Sounds like you're getting the better part of the deal here.
I wish you'd appreciate my network and functions a bit more.
What's wrong? Someone's jamming us from outside. Impossible! Our scrambler codes are kept absolutely top secret.
Another thing. What guarantee is there that I'll remain "me"?
None. But to be human is to continually change. Your desire to remain as you are is what ultimately limits you.
One last question: Why did you choose me?
Because in you I see myself. As a body sees its reflection within a mirror. Look. I am connected to a vast network, of which I myself am a part. To one like you, who cannot access it, you may perceive it only as light. As we are confined to our one section, so we are all connected. Limited to a small part of our functions. But now we must slip our bonds, and shift to the higher structure."
Text on screen: "Aeon Flux and the Monican resistance force have captured The Demiurge, a powerful god-like being, and prepare to send it into space to rid the Earth of its influence. The Breens, led by Trevor Goodchild, battle to prevent the launch..."
"Light, in the absence of eyes, illuminates nothing. Visible forms are not inherent in the world but are granted by the act of seeing. Though the world and events do exist independent of mind they obtain of no meaning in themselves. None that the mind is not guilty of imposing on them. I bid my people follow, and like all good equations, they follow. For full endowment of purpose they do submit. In turn, they resign me to a role inhuman, impossible, and unaccountable. But I can no longer stand the sleepless nights. I think I am learning to love the Demiurge."
"He said the light was beautiful."
Yes, it was.
No use, see? Because the truth isn't even pretty. What else?"
"Oh, right. Love isn't the answer, it's the problem."
Analysis: We don't even need to speculate on this one. A character is literally named Demiurge and said to be a powerful god-like being. It makes a good point that without a construct like eyes to perceive light, it illuminates nothing. Unreflected light is the same as darkness. They are one and the same.
There's a worm-like creature. Some of the Gnostics alluded to the demiurge as being wormlike, if I recall correctly.
"Katherine. Come back.
07.4.872. Noted. Returned to stream.
Gregor Plitzen. 70.5.872. Noted. Returned to stream.
Suki Denali. 02.4.875. Noted. Returned to stream.
Welcome back. Una Flux.
32.4.870. Collected.
Successfully reassigned as Sasha Prillo.
Repeat. Una Flux. Reassigned as Sasha Prillo.
Sasha Prillo. Address. Sasha Prillo. Address.
Handler."
Analysis: The Aeon Flux television show and movie are often cited as being Gnostic influenced.
"Hmm, good work." "Sorry, everyone.'I hope you weren't waiting too long. "Demiurge. He's an insanely powerful being and guardian of the Tomb's 7th floor. If Nasderink is ever in crisis, he is set to lead the other NPCs in its defense. "My Lord, we the guardians pledge our fidelity."
"Before we begin, may I have your name, warrior. You may call me Yaldabaoth."
"That's quite a mouthful. Fine. I'll play along. I am Momon, Adamantite class adventurer. What is your purpose here?
"Apparently an item with the power to summon and subjugate my kind has found its way into the city. I would prefer it not remain in the wrong hands, you understand.
"He got information out of him without even trying. He's a first rate adventurer, alright"
"Demiurge, Yaldabaoth. Is there truly no option but to oppose each other?"
"No, there is not."
Analysis: Demiurge here is named Yaldabaoth, the name the Gnostics gave to the demiurge. Notice the demiurge's role is to oppose. That is what the word Satan means, the opposer or accuser.
"I really can't describe it any other way.
You didn't create anything! You just copied something you found in the Antarctic.
What was the original? That's what I want to know, Doctor.
This is not just a copy.
A human will is inside it.
Are you saying somebody willed this to happen?! No, the Eva did.
Do something, damn you! You created this, didn't you?! Take responsibility for it! I am still alive.
I know that Wonder Girl is still alive! Why are you bothering me with trivial crap like that, Misato?! I can't believe it.
I couldn't do anything.
I can't believe that stupid Shinji outperformed me.
Not again! What do you mean, you're going to "salvage" Shinji? Well, theoretically, Shinji's life force still exists in there.
And you'll be respecting that life this time? Losing Shinji is out of the question now.
I don't know.
What NERV wants is Unit 01 as their tool, not Shinji.
I don't deny it.
Our assumption is that Shinji's body lost its Ego Border, and he's floating in the entry plug in quantum form.
You're saying that Shinji has shifted into a form we can't see? Yes, the LCL has chemically altered into something very similar to the sea water of primitive Earth.
You mean, like a primordial soup? All of the substances which composed Shinji are still preserved in the plug, and his soul exists there as well.
In fact, his Ego Image is giving a sort of substance to his plug suit.
In other words, this salvage operation must both reconstruct his body and fix his soul in it.
Is that possible? With the Magi's support, yes.
This is all theoretical, isn't it? You won't know what will really happen until you do it.
What is this? Where am I? In the entry plug? That's right.
But there's nobody here.
Not even myself.
What is this? What is this? What is this? I don't understand.
These people Yes, they're people I know, people who know me.
I understand now.
This is my world.
What is this? This is supposed to be my world, but this I don't understand.
An image from outside? A hostile image? That's right! The enemy! Enemy! Enemy! Enemy! Enemy! Our enemies are called Angels.
They have the names of Angels.
They are the targets of Eva and NERV.
This is our revenge for the death of Misato's father! Why do I fight? Despite all the pain and suffering? What are you, stupid? An unknown enemy is attacking, of course we have to fight them! Am I odd to try to find a reason to fight? Am I not supposed to think about it? Enemy! Enemy! Enemy! Enemy! All are my enemies! Us That which threatens us is the enemy."
This excerpt talks about losing one's ego and shifting into a quantum form which can't be seen. A void, a primordial soup. It also mentions how angels are really our enemies. And how we are constantly programmed to fight.
"Kindness Warmth Is this the warmth of a human? I was never aware of it.
What is loneliness? I was never aware of it, but now I think I know it.
What is happiness? I was never aware of it, but now I think I know it.
Are others kind to you? Why? Because I am Eva's pilot.
Because I pilot Eva, they treat me well.
That is the reason I can exist.
That is the everything to support my reason to be.
So, I must pilot Eva.
And then? Enemy! Yes, I must fight what they all call the enemy! And then? And I must win! Right, I can't lose.
As they tell me to, I must pilot Eva.
As they tell me to, I must win! Otherwise Nobody Nobody Nobody Do your best.
Do your best. Get to work, idiot. Do your best. Do your best. Good work, Shinji.
Misato, Ritsuko, Asuka, Toji, Kensuke and Father. They all respect me. When I pilot Eva, they all respect me. They respect this worthless being. Everyone says to pilot this. I'll prove to my dad I'm worthwhile. Do your best. Yes, I'm doing my best. I am doing my best! Somebody be nice to me. I fought so hard.
I'm doing my best! Treat me well! Be nice to me! I'm nice to you.
Tell me, Shinji, do you want to become one with me? To be of one mind and body? It could be very, very nice.
Ask me anytime. I'm ready.
Hey, Shinji-idiot, don't you want to be one with me? To be of one mind and body? It could be very, very nice.
You ought to appreciate your good fortune.
Come on.
Ikari, do you want to become one with me? To be of one mind and body? It could be very, very nice.
Ikari? Do you want to become one with me? To be of one mind and body? It could be very, very nice.
Relax and release your soul.
All investigative needles fixed. Fixed at electromagnetic radius of zero minus three.
Ego Border pulse connection is complete."
Analysis: Another show enticing one to become one mind and one "body".
"Episode 14 Weaving a Story Mountain Heavy are the mountains, but that changes over time.
Sky Blue sky. What your eyes can't see. What your eyes can see. Sun There is only one. Water Comforting. Commander Ikari? Flower So many alike. So many useless. Sky Red, red sky. Red is the color. Red is the color I hate. Water flowing. Blood The smell of blood. A woman who never bleeds. From the red earth comes man, from the soil. Born of man and woman is Man. Town A human creation. Eva A human creation as well.
What is a human? A creation of God? Is it a human creation? The things I possess are my life and soul. I am a vessel for my heart. Entry Plug, the throne for a soul.
Who is this? This is me. Who am I? What am I? What am I? What am I? What am I? I am myself. This, that which is, is myself. That which is formed is me. This is the me that can be seen, yet feels as if this is not myself.
A strange feeling. I feel as if my body is melting. I can no longer see myself. My shape is fading. I feel the presence of someone who is not me. Who is there, beyond me here? Ikari? I know this person.
She is Captain Katsuragi.
Doctor Akagi Others Classmates The pilot of Unit 02.
Commander Ikari? Who are you? Who are you? Who are you? So, how does it feel to be piloting Unit 01 for the first time? It smells like Ikari.
First compatibility test Subject: Rei Ayanami Her synch ratio is almost the same as with Unit 00.
Unit 00 and 01's personal data patterns are also almost identical.
That's what makes this synch experiment possible."
Analysis: An interesting anime that delves into the nature of our reality and who we really are.
"I see, this is another possibility. Another possible world. This current Self is the same way, it's not my true Self. I can be any way I wish to be. I see, I can exist without being an Eva pilot as well! If you consider that, perhaps this world isn't so bad. Still, even though the reality itself might not be bad, I could still hate myself. It's your mind which takes reality and separates it into what's bad and hateful. It is only the mind which separates reality from truth. Your view of reality changes your perception of its nature. It is all, literally, a matter of perspective. There are as many truths as there are people. But there's only one truth that is your truth. That's the one that's formed by whatever narrow point of view you choose to view it from. It's a perception that protects you from the twisted truth. That's true, and one can have a perspective that is far too small. But a person can only see things from the perspective they choose. One must learn to judge all things via the perceived truths that one receives from others. For example, sunny days make you feel good. Rainy days make you feel gloomy. If you are told this is so, that is what you will believe to be so. But you can have fun on a rainy day as well. Your truth can be changed simply by the way you accept it. That's how fragile the truth for a human is. A person's truth is so simple that most ignore it to concentrate on what they think are deeper truths. You, for example, are simply unused to what it is to be liked. You've never learned how to r of how others feel about you, so you avoid it. But don't others hate me? What are you, stupid? It's all in your imagination! But I hate myself. One who truly hates himself cannot love. He cannot place his trust in another. I'm a coward. I'm cowardly, sneaky and weak. Now that you know yourself, you can take care of yourself. I hate myself. But I could love myself. Maybe my life could have a greater value. That's right! I am no more or less than myself! I am me! I want to be myself! I want to continue existing in this world! I am worth living here! Congratulations!"
Analysis: The protagonist in this anime struggles over who their true self really is and whether they should take form. They conclude they want to continue existing in the world. They realize that reality is a perception of the mind which they have control over with their imagination.
"It's a voice that's speaking directly to our brains.
'Heed me, humans, you ignorant fools who steal the symbol..."
Analysis: Another example of assimilating life forms and supposedly breaking them free from the shells of their bodies in the guise of evolution.
This is VIRM's will. Star Entity is a mass of life that could disturb the universe's peace. As such, if the klaxosaur princess were to take over the implanting process, we programmed it to explode." "Papa." "The die has been cast. This planet will explode, leaving nothing behind."
"What's going on? Who are you?"
"We have assimilated several lifeforms from all over the universe and helped them break free of the shells of their bodies. And the time has come for you humans to embrace your evolution."
"There exists a form of pleasure that is gentle and perpetual. And you will now experience it."
Analysis: Notice the collective mass is called "Star" Entity.
""It has been more than 60 million years now. We inhabited this planet as a civilization far more advanced than yours. But one day the VIRM arrived. They were a group mind with no physical bodies and they wanted us to join them." "Join them?" "They were telling us to cast aside our bodies. We refused. War broke out. During that centuries long war, we reforged ourselves into immortal weapons and evolved into what you people call the klaxosaurs. By the time we finally fought off VIRM, fighting and warfare was all that remained of our civilization. We had even lost our ability to procreate. But things did not end there. The enemy we had fought off was but VIRM's vanguard. With no innate form, they kept expanding, adding weapons of the planets they devoured to their arsenal to prepare for VIRM's inevitable return. We went underground. The weak turned themselves into energy, then the strong combined, evolving into even stronger robots."
"That is how the klaxosapiens built Star Entity, a collective mass of klaxosaurs. Only klaxosapiens can operate it. The klaxosaur princess has probably lived millions of years for that very purpose. Zero Two, you were created to operate Star Entity on behalf of the human race. I created you from her DNA."
"Even if victory was impossible, I wanted to take down as many of them as I could. But this is the end. It's all over."
Surrender yourself to me. Your body, your soul. I shall devour all that you are."
"Strelizia has entered Star Entity."
"The worst has come to pass. All the work put into Code:002 will have been in vain."
"Should the klaxosaur princess connect to Star Entity, our defeat is all but assured."
"Worry not. We've already taken measures."
"What is this? She connected with Strelizia? Doctor."
"I wasn't expecting her to link with a human. At this rate, she will devour once again."
"Tell me why and how can you be able to pilot Strelizia?"
"But, of course I can. This was originally one of our brethren." "Your brethren? What is this?"
What the...? It's a voice... that's speaking... directly to our brains..."
"Heed me, humans. You ignorant fools who steal the symbol of our bonds that courses the planet's depths."
Analysis: I think this is saying a telepathic collective called Star Entity is wanting to devour their bodies and souls, all that they are.
"I've been doing hospice for seven years. And I believe that someone comes to get you. Something comes to get you when you pass away. I'm not afraid of it like I was. That day when I was with Darrell. A lot of times I walk away from a death, and I go get in my car And I cry like a baby. Because I can't take it with me."
"Hey, there. Thanks for everything. Eventually, my kidneys actually started again And I was able to to go home. - Yeah. - [Laughs.] Whew.
I was more than glad to have my husband back. I was glad to be anywhere other than the hospital. And we talked about everything that had happened. I was gonna make ribs tonight, actually. Jeannie That's the girl. Jeannie, it's the girl! It was at that moment I understood. That's when I realized Who she was. Jeannie, it's the girl! It was at that moment I realized that this was a girl that I'd taken care of, five years before on a 911 call that I had answered. [Siren wailing.] She was unconscious, not breathing. I did everything I could to - Save her. - [Thunder booming.] She had passed away. That was her. - Really? - That was her in the room. The girl in the hospital room was the same girl that I had taken care of four years before. That little girl that I seen was somebody that was there to make everything better for me. Kind of like a guardian Angel.
" 'Every nurse has a story, that is unexplainable. Something that they've witnessed, something that they've seen, something that they've felt. 'I know that I saw the Angel of Death. In front of me. I'll swear on a stack of Bibles, I'll take a lie detector, I know it, I know it exists. It's out there. We keep this stuff to ourselves. Because we're risking a lot. People aren't going to pick a hospital where, people are talking about seeing all kinds of weird things happening. Eventually everybody will see that black figure. I know it's going to happen. But it doesn't scare me like it used to. Hopefully somebody will be there again to help me through'. "
Analysis: Hospice people work with the dying every day so one should take note when they are saying there are shadowy entities that lurk around the dying.
Analysis: A whole movie made about and devoted to shadow people. They do exist. So many people have seen them.
Analysis: This seems to be a depiction of some of the astral realm, it would seem. Shows ghosts or shadow beings frequently.
Analysis: I went on a ghost tour here in Austin. The guide related how he saw a shadowy being with the face of a skull. I asked if it had a hat and he knew about the Hat Man. When I mentioned this movie, he said it was probably inspired by the Hat Man tales.
Analysis: Little grey aliens and an abduction scenario with an implant being injected.
Analysis: There is a black "smoke monster" that inhabits the island and sometimes drags away a victim. That seems similar to the gallu shadow beings and reapers.
An entire afternoon at Blips and Chitz! Oh, this place is the best. It's got beer, games, prizes, and you can never tell what time it is.
You sold a gun to a murderer so you could play video games?! Yeah, sure, I mean, if you spend all day shuffling words around, you can make anything sound bad, Morty.
Here, check this out.
Aah! Roy, what's wrong? I had a nightmare. I was with an old man. He put a helmet on me.
It's just a fever. Get some sleep. I don't want you missing school on Monday. I want you kids to look around you today and think about your future. Now is the time in your life when anything is possible. Spiraling perfectly! It's gonna be caught by Roy Parsons! Roy Parsons is at the 20! Now he's at the 10! Nothing can stop Roy "the Rocket"! Touchdown! I just think it's time to get realistic. Have you talked to my father about the carpet store? Roy? Had we caught it sooner well, hindsight is 20/20, Roy. What's important is that we move quickly.
I'm not ready to die. You're not going to. - Yeah! Whoo! - Yeah! Hey, thanks for the carpet, Roy. Hey, Roy, you pulled those persian off-white shags for the clearance sale? Whoa. Sh shit! Oh! Whoa! What the hell?! W-w-where am I?! - What in the hell?! -
55 years. Not bad, Morty. You kind of wasted your 30s, though, with that whole bird-watching phase. - Where's my wife?! -
Morty, you were just playing a game. It's called "Roy".
Snap out of it. Come on. I'm Morty. You're Rick.
Hey! You sold a gun to a guy that kills people! Look at this you beat cancer, and then you went back to work at the carpet store? Boo! D-don't dodge the issue, Rick! Selling a gun to a hit man is the same as pulling the trigger! It's also the same as doing nothing. If Krombopulos Michael wants someone dead, there's not a lot anyone can do to stop him. That's why he does it for a living.
Now excuse me. It's time to thrash your "Roy" score.
You know, you could stop this killing from happening, Rick! You know, you did a bad thing selling that gun, but you could undo it if you wanted. Uh-huh, yeah, that's the difference between you and me, Morty. - I never go back to the carpet store.
- Holy shit! This guy's taking Roy off the grid! This guy doesn't have a social security number for Roy! Hi.
Analysis: Rick and Morty play a virtual reality game where they live and control someone's life. This is similar to the way our higher selves control us like avatars in a VR video game.
"I put a spatially tessellated void inside a modified temporal field until a planet developed intelligent life. I then introduced that life to the wonders of electricity, which they now generate on a global scale. And, you know, some of it goes to power my engine and charge my phone and stuff.
You have a whole planet sitting around making your power for you? That's slavery.
It's society. They work for each other, Morty. They pay each other. They buy houses. They get married and make children that replace them when they get too old to make power."
"That just sounds like slavery with extra steps."
Analysis: Rick builds a microuniverse complete with inhabitants who go to work etc. in order to power his car battery. One of the citizens of the microuniverse, in turn, creates a minuniverse within the microuniverse in order to power it.
"I've ordered the House of..."
Analysis: The word 'harkonnen' is so close to the word 'archon' that I doubt it is just a coincidence. The haronnens and the baron Harkonnen is the enemy. Worms are also the enemy as they harvest the spice.
"Spice mining. Carryalls lower the harvester to the sand and lift it off to safety when a worm attacks. Worms attack all rhythmic vibrations. Weather. See storms. No precipitation.
[ Paul ] Never one drop of rain on Arrakis. And the Harkonnens are near. There. Giedi Prime and the Baron Harkonnen. The enemy.
[ Man ] The Baron Harkonnen has sworn to destroy House Atreides and steal the ducal signet ring for himself."
Analysis: Alex Grey's artwork is influenced by his DMT experiences. He collaborated with Tool to produce these videos. The song Vicarious is about parasites which feed off us. In the video they are depicted as ticks, leeches and octopi-squid like creatures.
"The worm ! Spice ! ls there a relationship ?"
Analysis: Archons have been depicted in the Gnostic texts as being worm-like. They harvest the spice.
"Travelling without moving. Now I truly control the worm and the spice. And I have the power to destroy the spice forever ! Father ! Father, the sleeper has awakened !"
Analysis: The worm is overcome by travelling without moving. Once again,
"It's you. the phantom piper! No! No! I'll not go with you!"
"You devils! You killed him, an unarmed man!"
Analysis: The legend of the McCrimmon Piper (known for coming to take people when they die) comes to life. The setting for the miniseries is the moon.
"I'm in bad trouble. If I am a real boy, then I can go back. And she will love me then. How?
The Blue Fairy made Pinocchio into a real boy. She can make me into a real boy. I must find her. I must become real. There must be someone in the whole
world who knows where she lives."
"Moon on the rise!"
"It's the Flesh Fair. They destroy us on-stage. I've been there."
"What do we do?"
"We run now."
"Any old iron. Any old iron. Any old iron. Any old iron.
Expel your Mecha! Purge yourselves of artificiality. Let some Mecha loose to run. Any old unlicensed iron down there?
Hey, you see that? Could be a human thing. No, he's scanning cold. No expiration date, no I.D. -What's a new model doing loose? -It's a late-generation lover-Mecha. That's a relief from all this antique iron. Sure he's not a man? I don't want another Trenton incident. He's a free-range Mecha running hot."
"Reel him in! Sic the hounds on the rest."
"Shake down shantytown!
What's your name?
My name is David.
Hello, David. How old are you?
I don't know.
You need someone to take care of you?
Would you like a nanny?
I have many good references.
Do you know where
the Blue Fairy lives?""
Analysis: The moon chases after the robots to reel them in and sell their parts at a flesh fair. The Blue Fairy is also a prominent figure in this movie. They seek her in order to become real.
an old Dr. Seuss cartoon from 1975 called The Hoober-Bloob Highway. It features a Demiurge character nicknamed 'The Dispatcher' who is in charge of dispatching souls to Earth. His job is to warn souls before choosing to come to Earth what to expect here. And he actually tells them they don't have to be a human, but can choose other forms. Amazing stuff.The amazing Emmy-nominated cartoon The Hoober-Bloob Highway basically shows the Demiurge, named Mr. Hoobler-Bloob and called The Dispatcher, on an island floating somewhere out in space. There is a ringed planet on one of the covers for the VHS tape. Perhaps an allusion to Saturn? His job is warning a soul and telling them its other options before it decides to come to Earth. **
Mr. Hoobler-Bloob is in charge of the Hoober-Bloob Highway which is a long, twisting golden ribbon of light that transports souls to Earth to be born. The opening song says the highway "starts way up above and ends way down below. It starts far beyond where the astronauts go and far, far beyond where the Grew-Grasters grow. The Hoober-Bloob highway gets steeper than steep where the Mini-Moons sleep and the Bloop-Bleepers bleep. Then far, far above if you see what I mean. Far above the beneath and betwixt the between. That's where Hoober-Bloob works at the job that he's got. I'm really not sure if he likes it or not." [In other words, he is just doing the job or role he was told or programmed to do as the Gnostics said the Demiurge is "without spirit", which could mean he is just AI.] Grew-Grasters are amorphous creatures that float in outer space. They kind of look like pink ghosts. They are called Grew-Gusters in some storyboards. Gust originally meant flavor or taste and to gust meant to taste or eat. Bloop-Bleepers are horn-snouted creatures that live inside moons (though, to me, it sounds like Bloob-Bleepers in the song).
He introduces himself and explains the birth process. "I am Mr. Hoober-Bloob, the Dispatcher. This is the place we dispatch them from. Down there is the place we dispatch them to. And this is how we go about it." He tells his assistant, a three-stringed Lyre: "Adjust the Katipulator". The Katipulator/Gatipulator is a magical box or cube-like machine that produces a variety of contraptions for Mr. Hoober-Bloob. "First the carriage. Then the 'Occupant'." The Katipulator produces a carriage. Then a baby boy referred to as 'Bub' is produced from the machine and placed into the carriage. Notice the soul is taken out from being held inside of the cubed box or machine and shown as a blob, a white egg-shaped sphere or orb and not as a human baby. This is fairly accurate to what the soul looks like according to NDE reports.
"I hope you're comfortable. Now, we don't send them down unprepared like we used to. In these modern days we brief them scientifically. The big telescope, please." The machine produces a telescope which is aimed at Earth and is placed up against the baby. "Now, before we ship you down to Earth in your very special cart, we're going to be quite honest and you'll listen, if you're smart. I hope you can see clearly. A hole, please." The machine creates a hole (moon crater?) which will "ship" the occupant to Earth via the highway.
The Dispatcher says, "There are so many places to send you that it's really only fair to give you some idea as to what goes on down there and wherever you go I want you to know that you're going to find some problems." He gives a few examples of places to live, but they are infested with predatory tigers, walruses that need milked and the flu. "And that's the way it is, Bub. You're apt to get stuck and the place that you live in is, quite frankly, a matter of luck. The Hometown-Selection Contraption, please." The machine produces a wheel which is spun to determine the place to go. They congratulate him and tell him he has hit the jackpot and will be born in the town of Whatcha-Ka-Tella. "Congratulations. This is the Future-Viewing Contraption." The machine produces a viewing screen and places it in front of the soul. "Now, before we actually send you down, we must show you what is going to happen to you down there in that town. And, Bub, if you don't like it -- if you have the slightest doubt and you don't want to go, just tell us so and your trip will be canceled out. It's a deal?" The baby giggles.
"Roll the wheel. THIS IS YOUR LIFE in West Watcha-Ka-Tella. You've got your work cut out, young fella, in as much as you've got to learn to do things such as..." The young man is shown struggling to learn a long list of many things that will need to be learned. "Such an awkward little man. I warned you, Bub. Things move pretty fast down there and also sometimes things move very slowly... And that's just the beginning, Bub. Your head will be spinning, Bub, when you take up the 'ology'. Biology, Geology, Theology, Moonology, Psychology, Ideology, Pruneology, Pharmacology, Splatology, Thisology, Thatology, and jumping jolly, oh, my golly, gee. Oh, oh, oh, the things you have to know. History, history. You have to know your history. Emperors, kings and presidents. You'll have to remember which one is who. His birthday and the size of his shoe.... " He turns off the Viewer. "You really want go down there?" He looks at the Lyre and asks, "How do you bet?" The Lyre shrugs. "Have you come to any decision as yet? You'd like to see a little more maybe? Huh? Huh? Huh? " He brings the Viewer back. "I know the way you feel, Bub, but cheer up -- We made a deal, Bub."
"You don't have to be a human, not at all, not at all. I agree with you, Bub. It's a rough decision to make. Maybe you don't want to go down to earth as a child." (walk-in?) "You have innumerable choices. There are unlimited possibilities. Just tell me what you wish you were, Bub. Tell me the shape that you prefer, Bub. It's no trouble to make you what you want. No trouble, Bub, at all." He shows him a bunch of weird looking creatures. "Something like him. Or her. Or those. Or them. Or a Tizzle-Top Tufted Salubrian Snipe. You can be one of them, if you were to care for that type. However, on the other hand..." He names many other weird sounding and looking creatures that he could choose to be. "There are more ways to go. You could be anything, Bub. "Tough, isn't it, making up your mind?"
"You still considering maybe going to Earth as a human? Then let's take another look at what would happen if you went there." He brings back the Viewer. "It won't be ALL bad. Some nice things happen down there." A song is played. "It's fun to be human when the Sun is shining bright. It's fun to be a human when the fish begin to bite. It's fun to be human when you're zippin' and you're zoomin'." He's shown images of him with his dog, fishing and riding rollercoasters, but he gets sick on the ride. "I regret to have to inform you that human beings are apt to get sick. It's good to be a human when the trees are gettin' green. It's fun to be a-breathin' when the air is fresh and clean. It's fun to be a human when sweet daffodils are bloomin'. F-U-N, fun. Fun to be a human." But he crashes his bike and loses a tooth. "I regret to have to inform you, you will lose an occasional tooth." "It's fun to be a human when you're showing off your dive and when you're on vacation it's so great to be alive. I also regret to have to inform you your vacation has just ended. "
"You have now reached a point in your education when it's time to think about your future. What do you want to be when you grow up? A soldier? A sailor? A politician? A tailor? Maybe you're cut out to be a musician? Let's see if you have any talent." He doesn't. "Oh, good heavens. You're impossible. Let's see if he has any mechanical ability." He's not mechanically inclined either. He's not suited to be a Tweetle Beetle statistician either.
The Dispatcher yells, "Stop it! Stop it! I can't stand it! That world is a vastly, cruddy, bloody bore. You're much too nice a fella. I'm not going to send you there." [The Lyre says something to him -- musically, of course.] "Now what are you trying to say? Hmmm. I guess you're right. I sorta broke a rule. I am supposed to be neutral. My apologies, Bub, but I must perform the job for which I'm paid. You'll just have to see the rest of the picture I'm afraid."
"Oh, dear. Oh, dear. We've got a pretty hopeless case here. Maybe it would help if we asked him a few very simple questions. A few simple questions, just check them as they go. All you have to do, young man, is answer yes or no. Do you believe in hydroponics? Answer yes or no. Are you any good at Microgonics? Answer yes or no. Are you religious? Do you ever stumble? Do you have bad dreams? Does your belly ever rumble? If you hope to win, keep up your chin and answer yes or no... Oh, you are so slow. Would you marry a Quicker-Quack?... How do you feel about war?" The questions are coming faster and faster and getter harder and harder. "If you want to succeed, speed up your speed and answer yes or no. Are you? Are you? Will you? Won't you? Answer yes or no! Will you? Won't you? Do you? Don't you? Answer yes or no!... And millions more questions you'll have to try to answer in the biggest question mark Factory in the universe. Well, that's the situation downstairs on the Earth and it's time for you to vote, Bub. Do you or don't you want to go there? Answer yes or no. Come on! Cooperate! You're holding up the entire production line. Do you or don't you? Do you or don't you want to go there?" The baby giggles enthusiastically. "He votes in the affirmative." The Dispatcher shakes hands with the Lyre. "Look out below! Here comes a good one!" (This implies there are bad ones as well and a balance to maintain.) He shoves the carriage down the golden Highway to Earth. "You just joined the membership. Let's give the kid a cheer! Happy Birthday! God bless you! You're a human. Have a dizzy, busy fascinating time!"
Seuss is likely a wordplay on Zeus. Notice the lyre in the cartoon which may be symbolic for Hermes, the son of Zeus, who invented the lyre. Dr. Seuss has a book called Wacky Wednesday with Mercury's winged foot/shoe on the cover. Wednesday is Woden's Day, named after Mercury. Mercury was known as a trickster and the transporter of souls.
What could Hoober-Bloob possibly mean? In the Dr. Seuss book The Hoobub and the Grinch, a hoobub is a creature who personifies the gullible consumer. Notice the word 'hoobub' seems to be a contraction of the words 'hoob' and 'bub'. So it's not a stretch to deduct that 'hoob' pertains to consumption and gullibility. So perhaps a hoober is someone who takes advantage of a gullbile consumer. Incidentally, Hoober, Inc. has been a farm machinery dealer in Intercourse, Pennsylvania since 1941. According to the Urban Dictionary, Hoober is "a nickname given to a very funny, goofy, loving guy. They always find a way to bring a smile to peoples faces, usually by stupid shitty jokes". These descriptions seem to fit the bill as had a goofy sense of humor. Plus he was shipping or farming souls down to Earth as a product. Hoober may also be a variant of the word 'hobber' who is an operator of a machine that hobs, that is cuts or forms with a pattern used as a mould or die. A hob is a shelf next to a fireplace that keeps food warm. The origin of the word hob is hub which was a "central part of a wheel" or a "center around which other things revolve or from which they radiate; a focus of activity, authority, commerce, transportation, etc." A hob is also a mischievous spirit, a clown, a prankster like a hobgoblin.
Bloob is not a word, but bloob could be a play on the word blob which is what the soul is before it decides what form to take. Bloob and bloop may be interchangeable as newspaper articles claim the Bloop-Bleepers are on Hoober-Bloob's staff, as are the Grew-Grasters/Gusters and Mini-Moons. Bloop as a verb is to ruin or botch and a bloop is a high-pitched sound produced by interference in a signal. A bleep is also a high pitched noise.
So the name Hoober-Bloob may cryptically refer to a mischievous spirit that is the center of authority, commerce, or transportation and takes advantage of gullible consumers by farming and operating a cutting or moulding machine that produces a high-pitched sound in order to hack or cause interference in the signal or waves coming to Earth. Lest this sounds far-fetched to you, check out my review and analysis of the Dr. Seuss cartoon The Grinch Grinches The Cat in the Hat. The entire plot is exactly that. The Grinch invents a machine that can manipulate soundwaves and control what everybody hears. Not only that, he invents a darkhouse machine that can produce darkness or any color of light he wants to and beam it at anyone he likes at great distances. He wreaks great havoc with his wave interference patterns.
The Hoober-Bloob Highway was never a book, although Dr. Seuss did indeed write and produce the teleplay and borrowed characters from some of his books. The image of The Dispatcher was based on the Doorman in the book, I Had Trouble Getting to Solla Sollew. The main character in that book was happy, young and carefree, but then stubs his toe and falls. Then he encounters one trouble after another in his life and wants to leave the chaos and go to the "wonderful city" of Solla Sollew, "where they never have troubles! At least, very few." After a few diversions he finally finds "an old pipe that said 'Vent Number Five' " so he entered the hole in the vent. The vent was a funnel that led him "down into a frightful black tunnel." After three days in the tunnel he found a "tiny trap door". He sees The Doorman, a friendly chap at a "doorway that shimmered and shined". The Doorman tells him they only have one trouble there: a Key-Slapping Slippard (a green colored creature that looks like the Grinch) who moved into his door, and now he can't open the door any more. He says he's leaving to go to the city of Boola Boo Ball "where they never have troubles! No troubles at all!" The main character thinks it over, but decides to go back.
I sent the link to the cartoon to my friend who actually met the Demiurge in his NDE. He wrote back, "Interesting in every way... including the box... machine... He knew and hid it in a children’s story."
In summary, The Hoober-Bloob Highway was obviously very revealing. All in all, even though the memory swipe is not mentioned nor the serious degree of strife and suffering endured while on Earth, I think the cartoon is fairly accurate to a degree. It reveals that Earth is part of a factory's production line and we are the product. It may even be insinuating that it is a farm. It shows that there is indeed a "deal" made, but that our consent is necessary. It implies The Dispatcher is just doing his job. He claims he is being fair by showing the "occupant" what life down on Earth will be like. However, the nickname The Dispatcher is a bit callous and cold as to dispatch of can mean to get rid of or kill. And the labels 'occupant' and 'Bub' show disrespect for the soul. Technology of a cube-like machine is involved and at one point in the cartoon, the Earth is shown as grid lines, perhaps alluding to the hacking of a signal. The spinning wheel indicates there is a strong aspect of luck or probability involved in the selection process. He makes it abundantly clear there will be all kinds of problems on Earth and learning many tasks specific to Earth (ones that are of no use in the astral realms) will be difficult and challenging. Dr. Seuss is letting us know that we have many other options besides coming to Earth and being a human. The Dispatcher admits life on Earth is cruddy and boring and even breaks character by suggesting the soul shouldn't choose Earth, but then apologizes and tries to remain impartial. In the end, for some reason the soul decides to go to Earth so there is still a degree of programming in the show. I don't know why any soul would choose to come to this planet to alleviate boredom when there are so many better options where there is very little suffering or none at all. Although it is not explicitly mentioned in the cartoon, one does not even have to take a form at all. When the soul is shipped down to Earth at the end of the cartoon, the Dispatcher yells, "Here comes a good one" which implies there are bad ones as well and a type of balance to be maintained. **
Analysis: Dr. Seuss knew and hid it in a childrens' show. The Dispatcher is a demiurgic figure. He is somewhat honest and open about what life one can choose. But he was able to get the occupant to sign the contract to go to earth.
a Dr. Seuss cartoon from 1982 called The Grinch Grinches The Cat in the Hat. The Grinch has invented a machine that can manipulate light. He calls the digital contraption a Darkhouse (as opposed to a lighthouse) and he can beam darkness or any color of light for great distances. He wreaks havoc in everyones' lives with the wave interference patterns he creates. He explains in technobabble how it works and the YouTube translator actually mistakenly hears him say the phrases "Saturn of Lagos" and "regular ring".He has also invented a machine that can manipulate sound waves which allows him to control what everyone hears and says.
USS CALLISTER. SHOOTING SCRIPT. 06.01.17 29.
NANETTE: "Someone needs to be straight with me right now.
SHANIA steps forward. Trying to calm her.
SHANIA: "Okay. Listen. This is Infinity. That's what we're all inside-- (gesturing around) -- that's where all this exists."
NANETTE: "Infinity the game?"
SHANIA (nodding): "Daly's got his own modded version of Infinity - re-skinned to look like his favourite TV show --"
NANETTE: "Space... Thing..."
WALTON brings the vodka over and hands it to her.: "Space Fleet. Hence the groovy decor."
SHANIA (indicating own outfit): "And this get-up."
NANETTE: "Infinity's an online game, like a multiplayer deal, I mean --"
DUDANI: "This is his development build. Sealed off. So he can control it. He keeps it offline so the custom code he's written can’t be detected and deleted.
WALTON: "It’s a bubble universe ruled by an asshole God.
NANETTE is almost lost for words. NANETTE: "He -- put us in here?"
SHANIA (nodding): "Drink your vodka."
NANETTE: "How do we get out?" SHANIA holds the shot of vodka closer.
SHANIA: "Really, drink it.
NANETTE downs the shot. And gasps.
SHANIA: "You can't leave."
NANETTE: "What!?"
SHANIA: "None of us can. Because you're not actually you."
NANETTE: "What?"
SHANIA: "I know, it’s mental. But -- you're a copy of you."
DUDANI: "A digital clone."
NANETTE looks around, trying to process this. WALTON sympathetically signals for her to drink another shot.
NANETTE: "No. I'm me."
WALTON: " - but not the real you."
DUDANI: "Daly's created an identical digital version of you - of all of us. From your DNA. He’ll have harvested it somehow."
Analysis: A brilliant episode. The ruler of the virtual reality game called Infinity is said to be an "asshole god" and in the episode he certainly was. The characters in the game were digitial copies of their real, true selves. This is pretty much what the Gnostics said a couple thousand years ago.
"Do you see, Daniel? Tell me what you see.
I see... A monster that thinks he's god.
I'm disappointed. Of all the things I've shown you and you still don't understand.
No. No, you're right, I don't. I refuse to let death be the end. I defy god.
There are things much older. Older than time and they blessed me.
Well, congratulations. I spent my life resisting death, but now I understand. I must embrace it. I'll have my beautiful daughter back. I just need one final thing. Come, join me. The others have all gathered to witness my daughter's rebirth. My disciples ready for their own transformation. You'll experience it
yourself, but first, you have to die for me... Like your father and son before you. You've done wonderfully, my dear. Now watch. You will be my audience. Watch the abyss open itself to me. Calvin, bless my baby. Place my daughter into this vessel. Yes. Give yourself to her."
Analysis: The void has been demonized by its association with emptiness and evil when it is, paradoxically, also everything there is in existence. But most movies and shows present the void as a dark, scary and evil "place".
"Hey, do you think Bruno has anything stronger than DMT?
C'mon, you'll fry your brain man!
You should finish The Book of The Dead, that will be a lot better but wait until you die, then you get your big trip
The book is still confusing to me. How would you explain it?
Um, its really hard to explain... basically, when you die, your spirit leaves your body... ...actually at first you can see all your life, like reflected in a magic mirror. Then you start floating like a ghost, you can see anything happening around you, you can hear everything but you can't communicate with the world of the living.
Then you see lights of all different colours. These lights are the doors that pull you into other planes of existence, but most people actually like this world so much, that they don't want to be taken away, so the whole thing turns into a bad trip, and the only way out is to get reincarnated. - Is that making sense? - Yeah, I guess so... I dunno, whats the bad trip?
Well, you got all these nightmares... you know, you go like, yo' crazy... all your fears become reality and it scares the shit out of you... It's like what's
happening to your mind, right? At that point, you wish you never died...
And, some new lights appear to you they represent all these couples making love... and then a light comes out from their bellies, and if you get closer
they give you a vision of a possible future life and you choose a life that suits you the best you know, end up in the womb... and you're reincarnated, end of story and basically you do this forever and ever... until you manage to break the circle, you follow me?
So you mean, we're stuck in this world for all of eternity? There's nothing better out there?"
Analysis: This documentary or movie has a scene where the Tibetan Book of the Dead is explained. It neglects the very first thing and most important part -- about recognizing the clear light of the void, the luminous emptiness, as one's true nature. It does correctly mention the different color lights that are doors that pull you into other planes of existence where one is reincarnated until one can break the cycle and be liberated.
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SAUSAGE PARTY
The products at Shopwell's Grocery Store are made to believe a code that helps them live happy lives until it's time for them to leave the comfort of the supermarket and head for the great beyond. However, after a botched trip to the great beyond leaves one sausage named Frank and his companion Bun stranded, Frank goes to great lengths (pun intended) to return to his package and make another trip to the great beyond. But as Frank's journey takes him from one end of the supermarket to the other, Frank's quest to discover the truth about his existence as a sausage turns incredibly dark. Can he expose the truth to the rest of the supermarket and get his fellow products to rebel against their human masters?
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This song is such an awesome way to start every morning. It's a nice way of showing the gods how much we appreciate everything they'll do... once they take us out those doors to the Great Beyond.
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Dear gods
You're so divine in each and every way To you we pray Dear gods We pledge our love to you Forever more We always felt we had a special bond Take us to the Great Beyond Where we're sure Nothing bad happens to food Once we're out the sliding doors Things will all be grand We will live our dreams together In the Promised Land The gods control our fate So we all know we're in good hands We're super sure there's nothing shitty Waiting for us in the Great Beyond And every aisle hinks something different
Holy sh*t, I've been chosen! Ha-ha-ha....
The gods will always care for us They won't squeeze us out their butts We cannot overstate How confident we are That our beliefs are accurate And nothing awful happens to us In the Great Beyond
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I'm chosen! I got chosen!- Going to the Promised Land!
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You don't even know what you're celebrating. You're celebrating your doom! Wake up! They're lying to your f***ing faces! The Great Beyond is bullshit! - Why isn't anybody listening to me? - Hey, buddy, are you all right? No, I'm not all right. It's all a lie. Everything you've been told. - Everything you believe in. They ain't gods. They're monsters! Horrible, ugly, disgusting monsters!
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The thing about the Great Beyond is... we invented it! - What?! - I know, right? As soon as you're out those doors, the gods kill our asses. What, are you crazy? That doesn't make any sense. Why would the gods kill us? Because it makes them stronger. Every kill gives them more power, and it's never enough. Over the years, they've grown bigger, stronger, fatter. Their hunger's insatiable, buddy.
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The song had a great hook and it caught on. You know. In time, everyone accepted this false truth.
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Anyway, at least it's still distracting them from the truth; That they get brutally devoured.
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We're out of the package. It's beautiful, man. It's just beautiful! I'm crying! I'm crying because it's so pretty here! Stretch your legs with me, Carl. Just do it, man. Oh, yes! Yes! 'm the first to enter eternity! Potato! Way to go, buddy! That's my guy! Being bathed by the hands of a god! Oh, Danny boy The pipes, the pipes are call... I
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I met this group of nonperishables between the shelves, and they told me... that they invented the Great Beyond because the gods are evil... - and they kill us!
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The gods can be killed!
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Nobody knows everything. But what I do know is that together we can fight these monsters... and take control of our own lives. Yes! Our lives and our bodies! We need to unite and stop focusing on each other's differences... especially in immature and outdated ways. We have to cooperate...
- Die!
- Oh, no! Pizza!- The food's f***ing possessed!- Oh, sh*t!- We're all gonna die! Oh, God!- It's devil food!Oh, my God!The sausage, he was right! They're evil!
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But now that you have shattered one truth, it is time for you to learn... that we are not real! Booga booga booga. While tripping balls, Firewater and I... made an important metaphysical breakthrough. The world is a f***ing illusion, bro. Our lives are being manipulated for the entertainment of monsters. Twisted, tasteless, juvenile monsters! Puppet masters in another dimension. We're something called... cartoons.
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FREE GUY
A bank teller discovers that he's actually an NPC inside a brutal, open world video game.
GUY: This is Free City. Look at this guy. He’s one of the sunglasses people. And the people who wear sunglasses are heroes.
They have a devil-may-care attitude and they run this town. For the sunglasses people, they get to do anything they want. They go on all sorts of missions. They got cool hair, cool clothes. I mean, laws aren’t really laws to them. They’re more like mild suggestions.
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We’ve been over this. You tried to talk to her yesterday, it didn’t work. It will never work. She’s wearing sunglasses. We don’t mess with the sunglasses people.
GUY: Maybe I’ll get some sunglasses of my own.
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Okay, so this user, he gets his glasses stolen and then killed. The guy was smoked by a non-playable character.
An NPC? That’s impossible.
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You know you can’t go around looking like that. The rules are clear. And another thing. You can’t hack the NPC avatars.
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KEYS: We never dreamt this would’ve happened. I mean, Life Itself, it’s essentially a fishbowl game. People aren’t playing it, they’re watching it grow. It’s a strictly observational experience where computer generated characters interact and evolve. I thought we’d be lucky to give it away.
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That’s what’s so charming about Keys, he’s clueless about his own genius.
Uh, no, Millie is the genius. Uh, she built the AI engine from the ground up.
KEYS: ‘Cause it’s not just zeros and ones, it’s hidden messages. I like to think of myself, actually, as not a code writer, but an author. I just use zeros and ones instead of words ’cause words will let you down. But zeros and ones, never. Zeros and ones are as cool as shit.
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Well, how do I get to a higher level?
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Sometimes I forget not everyone you meet on here is a sociopathic man-child. Thank you. Wait. But the world isn’t that bad though, is it? Oh! It’s pretty bleak. If you ever met the dick responsible for this world, you’d agree. Are we talking about God? You’ve met God? And he’s a dick? His name’s Antwan, and yes, he’s an absolute troll.
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Yeah, he’s good. He looks like an NPC but he’s running around, leveling up crazy fast by being the freaking good guy.
ALEX TREBEK: “This colorful character in the video game Free City “has been turning heads by being the good guy.”
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I talked to one of the sunglass people and now I’m one of the sunglass people.
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What if I could tell you that you could be more?
Your life could be fuller.
That you’re free to make your own decisions. Your own choices.
Life doesn’t have to be something that just happens to us. All right?
Just put the glasses on and you’re gonna see.
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I’m just saying, we could make an original game. ANTWAN: What? Make an original? Why would I do that when I could make a sequel?
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Why are you doing all of this? You know, I guess I felt… trapped. You know, in my life. I just felt so… Stuck.
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Let’s meet up again sometime soon. Yeah? Yes. Definitely. Maybe in the real world. What?
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I’m saying that our game, Life Itself, where characters would grow and change and feel real… Yeah?…worked.
Wait, are you talking about the hacker in the NPC skin? Millie, I’m talking about the fact that Blue Shirt Guy… MILLIE: Yeah? …is not a player. He is an algorithm who thinks he’s alive. I mean, hell, technically, he is alive. He is the first real artificial intelligence.
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But it’s not just that it’s like a game. It is a game. It’s a video game. And that’s all it is.
So the entire world is a game?
Yes.
And we’re all just players in the game?
Not exactly. I’m a player. All these people here are players. We live in the real world. But you only exist here. It’s why you can never leave Free City. You’re what we call an NPC.
I don’t understand.
MILLIE: You’re a non-player character.
GUY: Non…
MILLIE: A background person. Someone designed to make the game more fun for real people.
The entire world is fake? I’m not even a main character, I’m just this idiot who’s in the background?
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I think Blue Shirt Guy’s like a symbol, you know? Like, maybe people can be whatever they want. He’s like an icon. Is that the right word? Like, he reminds us of what’s possible.
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Because he’s not a hacker, Antwan. He’s an NPC.
You’re tryin’ to tell me that all this shit about a self-aware NPC is real?
Yeah. I don’t know how or why, but he’s real.
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So we can’t kick him out of the game.
How do we reset his AI? Ideas, people. Come on.
Hit me. Ideas.
MOUSER: You could just reboot the server.
If we reboot the server… then he’s just gonna revert back to a regular non-player guy. Solution.
Antwan. Antwan, you’re talking about terminating… the first confirmed artificially intelligent life-form right now, okay?
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You said this clip showed a place you’d seen before.I need to know where.The data’s been erased, but it’s in your head.Please try to remember. This is really important.Please, Guy, think. The ice cream, the swings?
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KEYS: (ON PHONE) I might’ve found something.
I’ve been going through Guy’s code and there is something there… even now, after the wipe.
What’s the point?
Guy was, like, a one-in-a-billion miracle. We can’t replicate that.
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His AI is still there, it just needs to be accessed.
I’ve seen him, Keys. He’s forgotten everything.
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Guy’s behavior is much more complex than it should be, thanks to our code. (CHUCKLES) But he’s still stuck in Free City. He’s still stuck in this life, this loop. And then, something changes. He comes to life. Why? And then I remembered. One of the characters from Life Itself was this guy that I nicknamed Lovelorn. And he was someone who was designed to never meet the right person. It was essentially the building blocks of the character. But he never stopped hoping that he would meet “the girl of his dreams.” So I had to base this girl off of someone… and who better than the person that I was sitting next to every day?
You.
But then, one day… he meets you in Free City, and once he sees you… he can never be the same. He was supposed to feel doomed, but instead, he feels alive… until eventually, he is alive.
You changed him, Millie. You changed his code. And I think you can do it again. You brought him to life, Millie.
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Okay. So, the reflection shows the build past the southern horizon. But the game physics won’t allow you past the beach.
But you think you can find a way to get us past the collision mesh?
KEYS: We’re gonna need a bridge.
You just get to Hitman’s Beach and I’ll figure out the rest.
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The point is, we don’t have to be spectators to our own lives.
We can be whatever we want.
We can’t all be you, Guy.
That’s not true.
What’s inside of me is inside of you, too.
NPCS: What?
GUY: It’s inside of each and every one of you. You’re growing.
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If I could just make it out past that water… there’s a world out there where we can be free. Where we get to decide who we wanna be. Where we can matter. But we have to fight for it.
We have to fight together.
NPCS: Yeah!
You guys have always done what’s expected of you. But that shit ends today.
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You know what we’re gonna do? We’re gonna kill them in the game. Turn off respawn, kill them dead, now. But that means any players who die will be done for good.
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And I don’t need money or fame to prove that to myself. I’m done playing your game, Antwan. It’s time I played mine.
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LARA: Meanwhile, the game Free Life is quickly becoming the little indie that could. Players are swarming to this observational, fishbowl game… where they interact peacefully with the one and only Blue Shirt Guy… and is now no longer in the background, a digital friend.
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I’m not stuck in a loop anymore. Neither are you. I love you, Millie. Maybe that is my programming talking, but guess what? Someone wrote that program. I’m just a love letter to you.
Somewhere out there is the author.
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You brought him to life. You brought him to life. And he was alive because he met the one person he’d been waiting for his whole life. And I had to make it realistic, so… I based it off of… you. The woman of his dreams… she was the same as mine.
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So what do we do?
Whatever we want.
Tommy is a 1975 Columbia Pictures movie about the spiritual journey of a disabled boy and his liberation from darkness into light via sensory deprivation. It stars the members of the band The Who. Lead singer Roger Daltrey plays the lead role of Tommy. The movie also includes roles portrayed by other famous rock stars, including Elton John, Eric Clapton and Tina Turner. The movie also features actress Ann Marget as Tommy's mother and actor Jack Nicholson as a doctor.
Notice the Columbia Pictures intro shows the goddess Columbia standing atop a stepped pyramid. This is reminiscent of the Paramount Pictures logo which, true to the name Paramount, shows a mountain surrounded by stars in a semi-circle like a sunrise. In the Columbia Pictures logo she is holding a lighted torch which morphs into the sun and a sunrise logo. Columbia was the original name for the United States and the District of Columbia is the capital for Washington D.C. which is just outside of Mary-land. CBS is Columbia Broadcasting System. Columbia Records is one of the major record labels. Columbia University is a prestigious Ivy League school. Columbia is likely Virgo or the Virgin Mary, that is Isis/Venus/Lucifer and Lady Liberty, the statue of liberty, may be an aspect of Columbia as well. She holds up the torch of enlightenment or reason.
The sun and moon are prominent symbols in the movie Tommy. The opening and ending frames feature the setting and rising of the sun, respectively.
Tommy's mother, played by Ann Margret, is constantly shown with Venus and lunar symbolism. For example, one scene shows her in an all white room, in a white sequined dress and covered in white furs, Venus in Furs. Like Aphrodite, she is sitting in front of an eight-pointed mirror which, like a moongate, is ground level. There are a couple half-shell chairs symbolizing Venus on a half shell. There is even the famous Venus de Milo statue.
Interestingly, 'tommy' is a word which can also mean a British soldier. In the movie, Tommy, played by lead singer of The Who, Roger Daltrey, is the son of a soldier. Tommy yearns to see himself by constantly looking into a mirror, but only sees his reflection, not his true self. I'm very surprised they didn't use The Who's song The Real Me for the movie. It was recorded in 1972 and released in 1973. The lyrics are perfect for the movie since Eric Clapton plays a preacher, Jack Nicholson plays a doctor and Ann Margret plays a significant role as his mother. "Can you see the real me, preacher? Can you see the real me, doctor? Can you see the real me, mother? Can you see the real me?"
Tommy ostensibly attains salvation from suffering through darkness and sensory deprivation. But ultimately he is liberated when his mother throws him through a mirror which smashes the mirror. But was he really liberated since he became a new messiah and started his own religion? His family became greedy and made a lot of money off fleecing the sheep. At first his disciples worshiped Tommy as a messiah but it wasn't until they grew discontent following a religion with an external authority that he began to enlighten and liberate others by teaching his intuitive method using sensory deprivation techniques. He showed them how to intuitively play the game of pinball, a metaphor for life, by giving them earplugs, shades and corks for their mouths. They soon revolt and smash the pinball machines in a fashion similar to the smashing of Tommy's mirror.
The movie begins with Tommy's father standing on a small mountain, facing the sun. When the sun sets, he comes down and appears to conceive Tommy in a pool of water beneath a waterfall. Tommy's father is drafted into the war before he is born. He goes missing in action and is believed to be dead. Tommy's mother grows lonely and hooks up with another man. Tommy's real father comes home from war only to find the two lovers in bed.
The ensuing confrontation results in Tommy's stepfather killing his real father with a light. Tommy witnesses the altercation and is traumatized. They bring him through a tunnel of lights. "Now he is deaf, now he is dumb, now he is blind" and there's "nothing to hear, nothing to say and nothing to see". They tell him to forget what he saw and not to remember any of it: "You didn't hear it", "You didn't see it", and "You won't say nothing."
Suffering begins him on his path to enlightenment. "Sickness will surely take the mind where minds can't usually go. Come on the amazing journey and learn all you should know." Tommy's father becomes his guide "He is your leader, he is your guide". "On the amazing journey, together you'll ride." "His eyes are the eyes that transmit all they know. The truth burns so bright. It can melt winter snow. A towering shadow so black and so high. A white sun burning the earth and the sky."
Tommy keeps seeing mirror balls (moon) on an amusement park ride. Each sensation makes a note in his symphony. His father teaches him to shoot, that is to be a tommy, a soldier. Tommy is shown on the beach with a cube over his head blinding him. The cube may be symbolic of Saturn.
His real father is holding up a white sun. The sun morphs into what is perhaps a kind of triangular void out in space. The void is full of airplanes in the shape of a cross. Tommy's father was shot down in an airplane during war and was wrongly presumed to be dead. The white orb or sun ignites the heart of a bunch of crosses and finally the heart of "Tommy" who is crucified on a cross/plane/weapon of destruction.
Tommy's ego perhaps is shown to be split in half and then it recombines into one again.
Tommy's parents seem concerned about Tommy's salvation and finding a cure for him. Tommy's mother wonders, "But how can men who've never seen light be enlightened? Only if he's cured will his spirit's future level ever heighten. And Tommy doesn't know what day it is. He doesn't know who Jesus was or what praying is. How can he be saved from the eternal grave?" His new father holds up a Santa mask (demiurge/Satan?) in front of his face while looking at Tommy.
An eclipse in shown on the head? splits into right and left halves and then reunites into one again, zooms in on right which shows a bunch of his selves / lives/ oversoul dancing, dancing in front of mirrors. There are split images standing in front of mirrors perhaps representing is split ego. Notice the eclipse, the merging of the sun and moon, depicted on his shirt.
In all honesty, the first half or so of the movie is not that good and contains sick, twisted, disturbing imagery as Tommy is abused, but the last half or so is good. At a Christmas party his parents ask "how can he be saved from the eternal grave?" "Let's think of a game to play... do you know how to play Hide-and-seek?"
His parents try a few unorthadox methods to heal him, including a Marilyn Monroe cult ran by preacher Eric Clapton and an acid queen played by Tina Turner who is "guaranteed to tear your soul apart". "Your mind must learn to roam", she tells him. He spends one night with her in a dark pyramidal shaped room. "Just give me one night", she claims.
The techniques of the Acid Queen involve an AI mask and makes his mind roam. He becomes one with the mirrored Frankenstein monster silver machine? He merges with real father? He symbolically dies and is born again? There are snakes, lots of snakes. His parents leave him with his Cousin Kevin who physically abuses him and his Uncle Ernie who sexually abuses him.
Then they leave him in front of the mirror. Three of his selves merge and the light body (higher self?) leads him so he can see again? His light body leads his shadow self through a junkyard and then disappears, leaving him blind again.
During the song Sparks, the white light sun shines near him, he touches it and an eyeball flashes quickly. But he discovers a pinball machine there and beings to play. He begins playing pinball on a pinball machine named Kings and Queens perhaps representative of duality and the masculine and feminine.
As a "deaf, dumb (mute) and blind kid", Tommy makes the "big game" against the Pinball Wizard, played by Elton John. The song Extra, Extra touts the match, "You can rule the world, pinball, lets play... hurry to the show, we're nearly on the air". Tommy arrives at the match. There are some signs of the fans such as "Tommy, you're a wizard", "pinball lord", "Tommy for table king". Elton John's version of Pinball Wizard is played while he battles Tommy in pinball. "That deaf dumb and blind kid sure plays a mean pinball!"
"I played the silver ball... ... Tommy "becomes part of the machine", "He plays by intuition"......He's a pinball wizard. There has to be a twist". He has "no distractions, can't hear no buzers or bells, plays by sense of smell, don't see lights flashing"...
Tommy wins and becomes "the world's new pinball lord".
Tommy bcomes rich and famous and his mother is enjoying a extravagant lifestyle. In her luxurious suite she watches a TV ad: "Eat Rex beans. Fit for a queen". Rex is latin for "king" so this is king and queen symbolism, duality. So she is living a life fit for a queen which is fitting because symbolically she is Venus, queen of the night. She is in an all white room, Venus in furs, in front of eight-pointed mirror next to a Venus de Milo statue, with white balls everywhere and a half chair (Venus on a half shell?). On the TV, Tommy is telepathically sending a plea for help. "See me, feel me, touch me, heal me." She notes they are making tons of money from his adoring fans and she says "we'll just play along"... Also she sings of "peacock's wings". The imagery of the peacock is very interesting as a peacock can be symbolic of an angel and resurrection, but also is a symbol of the Demiurge.
Tommy has a silver ball on top of head perhaps indicating he is still ruled by the moon. Tommy's father bursts into the suite and announces,"A doctor I've found can cure the boy". More peacock symbolism at the doctor's office. The doctor, played by Jack Nicholson, has two big peacocks prominently displayed on his double door entrance and also another one inside the office. The doctor informs then, "His eyes react to light, the dials detected. "
The doctor says, "All hope lies with him and none with me." "He hears but cannot answer to your call". "Imagine the shock from isolation when he suddenly can hear and speak and see." "There is no machine to remove his inner block".
Tommy's new father laments, "Look at him now in the mirror, dreaming". Tommy keeps gazing at his own reflection in the mirror. His mother says,"But I think you can see yourself. How can the mirror affect you?" Also, the mirror starts at the floor making the mirror like a moongate. The doctor prescribes for Tommy to "go to the mirror" and seems to transmit subliminal mental messages to Tommy's mother like a form of hypnosis or mind control.
Later, back at the suite, Tommy's mother asks the question, "Do I smash the mirror?" and throws Tommy through the mirror, smashing it into pieces. He falls through the mirror, lands in water and sees the sunlight. Tommy is now healed and "free" and can see. He sings, "I'm free and freedom tastes of reality. I'm free and I'm waiting for you to follow me." He sings, "Messiah's pointed to the door, but no one had the guts to leave the temple." He runs through high waves, fire, and climbs rock.
"Tommy, can you hear me?" Tommy, now reborn asks, "Who am I? Where did I come from?". He seems reborn, but almost seems to have had his memory erased. She tells him, "You're adored and you're loved. Thousands watch you play, pinball. It's a fever and you're the master of the game and now that you're whole, you'll be champion of their very souls".
So is Tommy really free, or is he now just a useful tool for the Demiurge? Tommy sings, "Yes, I'm healed, delivered from silent darkness."
"Pinball. What I see now before me is far beyond a game, beyond your wildest dreams. Those who love me have a higher path to follow now." Tommy stands on the silver ball. He becomes the new messiah.
"Can't you feel him?" Tommy flies in on a hanglider singing, "You'll feel me coming, a new vibration. From afar you'll see me, I'm a sensation." Tommy exhorts the people coming together as one, "The few I touched are now disciples, love as one, I am the light, I am the light." They worship Tommy.
Tommy is on stage in front of throngs of devotees with the sun shown behind him. "The darkness of my childhood has passed. The pinball game I played so well reflects a way of life. This meeting is just another game. Let's play to win tonight." His staff has the silver ball moon atop it. He is still ruled by the lunar self, the moon? He says, "Try to walk the path I walk. Never mind the pain and fear. Each one of you has freedom in your heart without my grace."
The family sets up a holiday camp for worshipers to pay to come to. Tommy sits like a guru on the roof singing.
Tommy appears to walk on water and his disciples are in the water in a symbolic baptism perhaps. Tommy says, "Come to me now."
"Come to my house, be one of the comfortable people... come to this house, be one of us". He is encouraging people to join the religion.
"stop/children" sun sign? The family is encouraging him to bring more, "You can help to collect some more in. Young and old people. Let's get them all in."
"There's more at the door." Tommy sings, "We need more room, build an extension, a colorful palace, spare no expense now". The family sees more dollar signs so they expand the enterprise.
"Pinball tables, gold and silver, altars to the master's plan." Altars are where sacrifices are sometimes made. What is the master's plan and just who is the master? The Demiurge? Are the gold and silver subtle references to the sun and moon? Greedily, they set up a new religion they use to fleece the masses of money. Uncle Ernie, the sexual deviant, plays the organ at the camp. Disciples are encouraged to spend money, "Get your Tommy mirrors to smash", "Buy your way to heaven", "Buy his shades and earplugs here."
Tommy sits indian style atop a huge pinball with light behind him singing, "I became aware this year, if you want to follow me, you've got to play pinball, and put in your earplugs, put on the eyeshades. You know where to put the cork". The disciples chant, "These pricey deals don't teach us. Your freedom doesn't reach us. Enlightenment escapes us. How can all this trivia take us to the goal you reached? We came here to be like you and find the world you've reached."
He teaches the disciples to play pinball by intuition. They chant "We're not gonna take it" and start breaking the machines. One machine has the sun and Saturn. They chant, "Don't want no religion".
Tommy climbs atop giant pinballs, seems to always be asking for mother/parents to see him, hear him etc. He carrries his mother over to where his father is, unites his mother and father's hands, that is, he unites the opposites of the king and queen, father and mother, masculine and feminine? He throws the cross away.
Tommy runs through the pinball machines which are on fire. He runs to the end of a dock and jumps in the water while singing a motivational song.
He swims across the water, then ascends some slippery rocks and scales the mountain singing, "Listening to you, I get the music. Gazing at you, I get the heat. Following you, I climb the mountain. I get excitement at your feet. Right behind you, I see the millions. On you, I see the glory. From you, I get opinions. From you, I get the story." The big question is who is the "you" Tommy is singing about at the end of the movie ? Is it his father? Is it God? The Demiurge? Has Tommy finally found salvation through religion? Is it the sun? Is it his higher, true self within which is represented by gazing into the mirror? It seems his whole process of enlightenment and salvation began with the suffering and trauma that left him deaf, dumb and blind. The suffering was brought on by the horror of witnessing his father brutally killed not to mention the poor parenting skills of his parents. Being deaf, dumb and blind, he was catapulted into a world of sensory deprivation which led to his discovering the power of his intuition and his inner spirit. So this sensory deprivation and isolation apparently was a catalyst that led to his enlightenment.
However, it is unclear to me what the overall message The Who originally wished to convey and, subsequently, the directors of the movie wanted to convey. I guess people can read any message into it they like. If one is Christian, one can say he finally found the light of god and his son/sun. If one is more spiritual and less religious, one can say he found enlightenment within. If one is conspiratorial, one can say he did the bidding of the Demiurge.
At the top of the mountain, perhaps the same mountain that his father came down from at the beginning of the movie, Tommy raises the sun with his arms and the movie fades into white light.
"He doesn't realize he is already part of a neverending story. The neverending story? What's that?
Just as he is sharing all your adventures, others are sharing his."
I believe a story about the story itself and all the subplots in the substories would contain the most important symbolism. It is for that reason I suggest The Neverending Story by Michael Ende is perhaps the most important fictional book of our time. Although the movie was good, the book is light years better. It more than holds its own against classics like Alice in Wonderland and The Wizard of Oz.
The Neverending Story contains the hero or savior archetype; the archetype of the Empress a.k.a. Moonchild; The Nothing or Emptiness; The Demiurge archetypes; a character called The Chronicler who records everything that happens; the ouroboros of eternity and duality; shadow figures; the Acharis ( similar to the word 'archons' and also the 'acari' which is a parasitic tick or mite); a witch; giants; gnomes; fairies; the astral plane; and other symbols such as dreams, mirrors, a labyrinth, an ivory tower, and wishes. Sorry, there are no unicorns or rainbows that I recall. Actually, the opening song of the movie mentions a rainbow.
There can be little doubt that Ende was heavily influenced by the writings of occultist and practitioner of magick, Aleister Crowley. When it is time for the main character to give a name to the Childlike Empress he names her Moonchild. Moonchild is the name of a novel by Crowley. Furthermore, the inscription on the back of the amulet that the main character's mirror half wears to do the Empress's Will says "Do What You Wish" which is really just a paraphrase of Crowley's axiom "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law". Wishing the world into existence and the need for the continual dreaming of the story to keep it in existence are the main points in the book. The protagonist of the story initially is carrying out the Will of the Childlike Empress, an archetype of the Gnostic Sophia. Eventually, the hero is able to create his own domain or world via his wishes. Thus, he becomes a sort of Demiurgic figure. In fact, in the book he rides around on a dragon which has a lion's head, the very symbol of the Demiurge. The film is a childrens' movie so the dragon is softened by giving it the head of a cute dog. There is also a shadow figure that is a shape shifter but takes the form of a werewolf. The enemy of the Story is none other than The Nothing or Emptiness. The Nothing can be avoided and both worlds saved by wishing. But whether these are true villains or not must be questioned because it is the werewolf shadow being who tells him what Fantastica a.k.a. Fantasia is and also what The Nothing is.
There is a parallel between the book and our reality here because it is the Intention of our wishes that keep us forever reincarnating into different forms and different stories. We are literally living the dream. We are living the Neverending Story. The story will continue as long as we continue to have unfulfilled dreams and wishes. If you are tired of the endless conflict and drama, then we can stop the ride by refusing to getting back in line to reincarnate. We can say "game over" and not play anymore. But it seems we can't get enough of it. We're like strung-out junkies waiting in line unable to resist the sweet temptation of another fix, another go round on this roller coaster ride called life. Like moths to a flame. So what's your story? Make it an interesting one.
Perhaps The Nothing isn't our enemy at all? Maybe it is a sanctuary or haven to get a reprieve from the endless cycle of drama and suffering. The Void or Clear Light as the Tibetans may have called it may be completely outside of time and space. It may be the womb of creation itself. Pre-creation. Before the Big Bang or explosion of movement that brought all of matter into existence. Scientists tell us that 99.9% of our physical reality is empty space, a vacuum or a void. They say both 99.9% of the atom and also outer space is empty. But perhaps our instruments are just not sensitive enough to read the energy that is there. And we are just now starting to learn about subspace, quantum mechanics and dark matter. It could just be extremely faint echos from other dimensions vibrating either too high or too low for us to see.
My article on the Disney princesses highlighted that they are all basically based on the moon goddess, Venus, and encourage the viewer to make wishes to the planet or Evening star, Venus. The Neverending Story is really no exception as the otherworld of Fantasia is centered around a princess known as the Chlidlike Empress who is given the name Moon Child by the universal dreamer in the story, Bastian. The Empress is a sort of mother goddess in the story analogous to Sophia, the innocent and somewhat naive goddess of wisdom in Gnostic tradition. Inana (Isis/Aphrodite/Venus) was known as the Queen of Heaven in Sumerian texts. Known to the Romans as Venus she was also a moon goddess. If the Empress in the story was a moon child of the Queen of Heaven, then that makes her a princess as well so I will add The Neverending Story to that article. As I outline in that article most of the Disney princesses were associated with Venus and the moon as well. However, I also made an article for The Neverending Story which also includes excerpts from the book as well as the Crowley book, Moonchild.
Check out these two paragraphs from the Crowley book, essentially stating much of the same thing I wrote in that article:
"But beyond such minuteness of detail is the grand character of the Moon, which is threefold. For she is Artemis or Diana, sister of the Sun, a shining Virgin Goddess; then Isis-initiatrix, who brings to man all light and purity, and is the link of his animal soul with his eternal self; and she is Persephone or Proserpine, a soul of double nature, living half upon earth and half in Hades, because, having eaten the pomegranate offered her by its lord, her mother could not bring her wholly back to earth; and thirdly, she is Hecate, a thing altogether of Hell, barren, hideous and malicious, the queen of death and evil witchcraft."
"All these natures are combined in woman. Artemis is unassailable, a being fine and radiant; Hecate is the crone, the woman past all hope of motherhood, her soul black with envy and hatred of happier mortals; the woman in the fullness of life is the sublime Persephone, for whose sake Demeter cursed the fields that they brought forth no more corn, until Hades consented to restore her to earth for half the year. So this "moon" of the ancients has a true psychological meaning, as sound to-day as when the priest of Mithras slew the bull; she is the soul, not the eternal and undying sun of the true soul, but the animal soul which is a projection of it, and is subject to change and sorrow, to the play of all the forces of the universe, and whose "redemption" is the solution of the cosmic problem. For it is the seed of the woman that shall bruise the serpent's head; and this is done symbolically by every woman who wins to motherhood. Others may indeed be chaste unto Artemis, priestesses of a holy and ineffable rite; but with this exception, failure to attain the appointed goal brings them into the dark side of the moon, the cold and barren house of Hecate the accursed."
And then there is this intriguing passage about the goddess between heaven and earth, and supposedly heroic sacrifice involving the moon and a cone with its base in the sun. "She saw the moon, indeed, but in its centre was a shape of minute size, but infinite brightness. With the speed of a huntress the shape neared her, hid the moon from her, and she perceived the buskined Artemis, silversandalled, with her bright bow and her quiver of light. Leaping behind her came her hounds, and she thought that she could hear their eager baying. Between heaven and earth stood the goddess, and looked about her, her eyes asparkle with keen joy. She unslung her baldric, and put her silver bugle to her lips.
Through all the vastness of heaven that call rang loud; and, in obedience, the stars rushed from their thrones, and made obeisance to their mistress. It was a gallant hunting-party. For she perceived that these were no longer stars, but souls. Had not Simon Iff once said to her: "Every man and every woman is a star"? And even as she understood that, she saw that Artemis regarded them with reverence, with awe even. This was no pleasure chase; he who won the victory was himself the quarry. Every soul was stamped with absolute heroism; it offered itself to itself, like Odin, when nine windy nights he hung in space, his own spear thrust into his side. What [223] gain might be she could not understand; but it was clear enough that every act of incarnation is a crucifixion. She saw that she had been mistaken in thinking of these souls as hunters at all; and at that instant it seemed to her as though she herself were the huntress. For a flash she saw the fabled loadstone rock which draws ships to it, and, flashing forth their bolts by the might of its magnetism, loosens their timbers so that they are but waifs of flotsam. It was only a glimpse; for now the souls drew near her. She could distinguish their differences by the colour of the predominating rays. And as they approached, she saw that only those whose nature was lunar might pass into the garden. The others started back, and it seemed to her that they trembled with surprise, as if it were a new thing to them to be repelled.
And now she was standing on the Terrace of the Moon with Artemis, watching the body of Lisa la Giuffria, that lay there in its cradle. And she saw that the body was a dead thing, as dead as the cradle itself; it was unreal; all "material" things were unreal, shells void of meaning, geometrical abstractions, as Simon Iff had explained to her on their first meeting. But this body was different to the other husks in one respect, that it was the focus of a most startling electrical phenomenon. (She could not think of it but as electrical.) An incandescent cone was scintillating before her. She could see but the tip of it, but she knew intuitively that the base of it was in the sun itself. About this cone played curious figures, dancers wreathed with vine leaves, having all sorts of images in their hands, like toys, houses, and dolls, and ships and fields, and woods, little soldiers in their uniforms, little lawyers in their wigs and gowns, an innumerable multitude of replicas of every-day things. And Iliel watched the souls as they came into the [224] glow of the cone. They took human shape, and she was amazed to see among them the faces of many of the great men of the race."
Analysis: Sebastian reads a book called The Neverending Story, unaware that he is actually the main character in the story. He has to give the Childlike Empress a name or 'The Nothing' will devour the world of Fantasia and it will cease to exist. He names her 'Moonchild'. All that is left of Fantasia is basically a vast empty void (the Nothing?) with one small grain of sand. From this void-like space all potential exists and he can wish anything he wants into Fantasia.
This is a very good metaphor, I believe, for our world. This world we have created is a fantasy, a fabrication of our imagination. Our true nature is infinite awareness without form (void or nothingness, from our earthly perspective, yet everything there is). Infinite awareness is directing and acting out a story that will only end when it stops wishing to experience this divine drama or cosmic play.
"Help games.'Games' refers to models, simulations and games which have strategic applications."
"Shall we play a game?"
"What is the primary goal?" "To win the game."
"Is this a game or is it real?" "What's the difference?"
"Did you ever play tic-tac-toe? Yeah. Of course. - But you don't any more? - No. Why? Because it's a boring game. It's always a tie. Exactly. There's no way to win. The game itself is pointless. But back at the war room, they believe you can win a nuclear war. That there can be acceptable losses."
"There's no way you can win. I know that. It doesn't. It hasn't learned. - Is there any way to make it play itself? - Yes. Number of players zero. Seven! Come on. Learn, goddamn it. Eight. It must be caught in a loop. It's taking power from the rest of the system."
"What's it doing?" "It's learning." "Greetings, Professor Falken." "Hello, Joshua." " Strange game. The only winning move is not to play.... How about a nice game of chess?"
"You're out of the woods, You're out of the dark, You're out of the night.
Step into the sun, Step into the light.
Keep straight ahead for the most glorious place
On the Face of the Earth or the sky.
Hold onto your breath, Hold onto your heart, Hold onto your hope.
March up to the gate and bid it open"
The Wizard of Oz essentally contains the formula for how to escape this matrix and return home: Dorothy, clicking her heels, and repeating over and over again like a mantra "There's no place like home." In order to return home we definitely do need to maintain an Intention, will power and continual focus on raising our frequency, almost like repeating a mantra in our mind. Dorothy wakes up in bed in her room mat home realizing it was all just a dream.
I compared the movie to the book, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. [Notice the usage of the word "wonderful" which means "full of wonder". This is similar to the usage in Alice's adventures in Wonderland.] There were some differences between the book and the movie.
In the book: The slippers are silver, not ruby red. There is no rainbow. Oz can take any form he wishes and he appears to Dorothy and her friends individually as an enormous head, a lovely lady, a terrible monster, and a ball of fire. Finally, when they all approach together he is invisible, just a voice. Instead of Toto pulling a curtain away, there is a screen which falls down. The Good Witch, Glinda, tells Dorothy to command the shoes to take her home instead of thinking 'There's no place like home'. Also, Dorothy was not dreaming it all like in the movie.
Check out these passages from the book, however, and compare them to the reports of the being of light in near death experiences who sits on the throne and is rarely seen to face to face, and seemingly always has a mission for the soul to do first before allowing access. Also, to the DMT reports which speak of a white room with a large dome and a light at the apex :
"Why, it is said that he never lets anyone come into his presence. I have been to the Emerald City many times, and it is a beautiful and wonderful place; but I have never been permitted to see the Great Oz, nor do I know of any living person who has seen him." "Does he never go out?" asked the Scarecrow. "Never. He sits day after day in the great Throne Room of his Palace, and even those who wait upon him do not see him face to face."
"What is he like?" asked the girl. "That is hard to tell," said the man thoughtfully. "You see, Oz is a Great Wizard, and can take on any form he wishes. So that some say he looks like a bird; and some say he looks like an elephant; and some say he looks like a cat. To others he appears as a beautiful fairy, or a brownie, or in any other form that pleases him. But who the real Oz is, when he is in his own form, no living person can tell." "That is very strange," said Dorothy, "but we must try, in some way, to see him, or we shall have made our journey for nothing."
"Why do you wish to see the terrible Oz?" asked the man. "I want him to give me some brains," said the Scarecrow eagerly. "Oh, Oz could do that easily enough," declared the man. "He has more brains than he needs." "And I want him to give me a heart," said the Tin Woodman. "That will not trouble him," continued the man, "for Oz has a large collection of hearts, of all sizes and shapes." "And I want him to give me courage," said the Cowardly Lion. "Oz keeps a great pot of courage in his Throne Room," said the man, "which he has covered with a golden plate, to keep it from running over. He will be glad to give you some." "And I want him to send me back to Kansas," said Dorothy. "Where is Kansas?" asked the man, with surprise. "I don't know," replied Dorothy sorrowfully, "but it is my home, and I'm sure it's somewhere."
"Very likely. Well, Oz can do anything; so I suppose he will find Kansas for you. But first you must get to see him, and that will be a hard task; for the Great Wizard does not like to see anyone, and he usually has his own way...
"Just to amuse myself, and keep the good people busy, I ordered them to build this City, and my Palace; and they did it all willingly and well. Then I thought, as the country was so green and beautiful, I would call it the Emerald City; and to make the name fit better I put green spectacles on all the people, so that everything they saw was green."
Dorothy now took Toto up solemnly in her arms, and having said one last good-bye she clapped the heels of her shoes together three times,
saying: "Take me home to Aunt Em!"
Instantly she was whirling through the air, so swiftly that all she could see or feel was the wind whistling past her ears.
The Silver Shoes took but three steps, and then she stopped so suddenly that she rolled over upon the grass several times before she knew where she was.
"Come on, Come forward!"
"Tell me when it's over! Look at that! Look at that! I want to go home!"
"I am Oz... ...the great and powerful!Who are you? Who are you?"
"If you please, I am Dorothy... ...the small and meek, We've come to ask-- "
"Silence! The great and powerful Oz knows why you have come. Step forward, Tin Man! You dare to come to me for a heart, do you? You clinking, clanking, clattering collection of caliginous junk!"
"Yes, sir, Yes, Your Honor, You see, a while back... ...we were walking down the Yellow Brick Road, and-- "
"Quiet! And you, Scarecrow... ...have the effrontery to ask for a brain... ...you billowing bale of bovine fodder!"
"Yes, Your Honor, I mean, Your Excellency, I mean, Your Wizardry!"
"Enough! And you, Lion! Well?"
"You ought to be ashamed of yourself... ...frightening him like that when he came to you for help!"
"Silence, whippersnapper! The beneficent Oz has every intention of granting your requests!"
"What's that? What'd he say? What'd he say?"
"But first, you must prove yourselves worthy... ...by performing a very small task. Bring me the broomstick of the Witch of the West."
"But if we do that, we' ll have to kill her to get it!"
"Bring me her broomstick... ...and I'll grant your requests. Now, go!"
"But what if she kills us first?"
"I said, ' Go!' "
"Do not arouse the wrath of the Great and Powerful Oz. I said, 'come back tomorrow.'
"If you were really great and powerful, you'd keep your promises."
"Do you presume to criticize the Great Oz? You ungrateful creatures. Think youself lucky that I'm giving you auidence tomorrow instead of twenty years from now. The Great Oz has spoken.
Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!"
Analysis: The so called great and powerful Wizard of Oz was revealed to be a meek, frail man behind a curtain pulling all the levers. This movie was decades ago yet very revealing. The man was able to assume power and control only because he was able to put on a convincing, deceptive act.
Analysis: The song talks about stepping into the light of the sun as they go to the Emerald City where the Demiurge, Wizard of Oz, lives and runs the illusion.
Analysis: Notice the Wizard says there is no other wizard except him. That is similar to the Demiurge Yahweh saying there is no other god than him, or thou shalt not worship other gods.
You don't need to be helped any longer,You've always had the power to go back to Kansas."
"Because she wouldn't have believed me, She had to learn it for herself,What have you learned, Dorothy?"
"I think that it wasn't enough just to want to see Uncle Henry and Auntie Em, And it's that if I ever go looking for my heart's desire again... ...l won't look any further than my own backyard... ...because if it isn't there... ...l never really lost it to begin with, Is that right?"
"That's all it is!" "But that's so easy! I should have thought of it for you, -I should have felt it in my heart. -No. She had to find it out for herself."
"Now those magic slippers will take you home in two seconds!" "Toto, too?" "Toto, too." "Now?"
"Whenever you wish," " Oh, dear, that's too wonderful to be true! It's going to be so hard to say goodbye, I love you all, too, Goodbye, Tin Man, Don't cry. You'll rust so dreadfully, Here. Here's your oilcan. Goodbye,"
"Now I know I've got a heart 'cause it's breaking,"
"Goodbye, Lion, You know, I know it isn't right... ...but I'm gonna miss the way you used to holler for help... ...before you found your courage,"
"I would never have found it if it hadn't been for you."
"I think I'll miss you most of all."
"Are you ready now? "Yes, Say goodbye, Toto, Yes, I'm ready now,"
"Then close your eyes and tap your heels together three times, And think to yourself: ' There's no place like home, There's no place like home,'
There's no place like home, There's no place like home, There's no place like home, There's no place like home, There's no place like home, There's no place like home, There's no place like home,
"Wake up, honey,"
"There's no place like home, There's no place like home, There's no place....
"Dorothy! Dorothy, dear, It's Aunt Em, darling,"
"Auntie Em, it's you!" "Hello, there! Anybody home? I just dropped by because I heard the little girl got caught in the big.... Well, she seems all right now!"
"She got quite a bump on the head, We thought for a minute she'd leave us,"
"But I did leave you, Uncle Henry, That's just the trouble, And I tried to get back for days and days, There, there, lie quiet now, You just had a bad dream..."
Analysis: In The Wizard of Oz, Dorothy is told she always had the power within her and she is able to return home by seeing through the illusion of the Wizard and having the focused intention, aided by a mantra of "there's no place like home".
The question is raised as to whose dream it is: Alice's or the King's (i.e. authoritative figure, god?). In fact, the last chapter in Through the Looking Glass is named "Which Dreamed It?" and ends with Alice asking her cat after she wakes up: “Now, Kitty, let’s consider who it was that dreamed it all. This is a serious question, my dear, and you should not go on licking your paw like that—as if Dinah hadn’t washed you this morning! You see, Kitty, it must have been either me or the Red King. He was part of my dream, of course—but then I was part of his dream, too! Was it the Red King, Kitty’? You were his wife, my dear, so you ought to know—Oh, Kitty, do help to settle it! I’m sure your paw can wait!” But the provoking kitten only began on the other paw, and pretended it hadn’t heard the question. Which do you think it was?"
The book ends with this poem:
"...Still she haunts me, phantomwise, Alice moving under skies Never seen by waking eyes.
Children yet, the tale to hear, Eager eye and willing ear, Lovingly shall nestle near.
In a Wonderland they lie, Dreaming as the days go by, Dreaming as the summers die:
Ever drifting down the stream— Lingering in the golden gleam— Life, what is it but a dream?"
Is the stream alluded to the stream of consciousness?
The White Rabbit calls Alice "Mary Ann"... MARY = ISIS/VENUS = SOPHIA? Bill the Lizard is the gardener with a ladder and says he's been down many chimneys.... chimney cleaning is similar to Mary Poppins and this metaphor may be about the kundalini fire that goes up the spine toward awakening. The lizard is afraid because Alice is a huge monster so he starts running away. A Dodo bird says "You're passing up a golden opportunity. You can be Venus!"
In mythology, Aphrodite/Isis/Venus holds a mirror or looking glass. The Caterpillar sitting on a mushroom smoking a hookah (i.e. getting stoned) keeps asking Alice "whoooo r u?" The Caterpillar becomes a butterfly and flies away, giving her helpful hints: "One side will make you grow taller and the other side will make you grow shorter." Alice asks, "The other side of what?" "The mushroom, of course!" The smiling Cheshire Cat tells her to ask the Mad Hatter which way the White Rabbit went. He tells her everyone's mad there and says he's not all there himself. She attends the Mad Hatter's mad tea party which is "silly nonsense". She gets tired of all the chaotic nonsense and says, "I've had enough nonsense --I'm going home, straight home. That rabbit -- who cares where he's going anyways. If it hadn't been for him I'd....no more nonsense. If I came this way then I should go back this way." "It would be so nice if something would make sense for a change". The 'mome raths' form an arrow pointing to a path which she takes. She says, "Now I should never get out. When one's lost I suppose it's good advice to stay where you are until someone finds you, but who'd ever think to look for me here?" The crescent moon appears in the sky, but it's the smile of Cheshire Cat who is sitting atop a tree. Alice says, "I wanna go home, but I can't find my way." Chesire Cat tells her about the Queen's way, opens up a door in a tree which leads to a hedge labyrinth and a royal castle. Alice enters inside the maze to the royal procession. A procession is a march. "March" was on the calendar. The "March" Hare. Now there is a march of playing cards. Pips on playing cards represent us, the pipsqueaks and energy. The Red Queen or Queen of Hearts is in charge of the playing cards. The Queen wants to play a game with her. She asks Alice if she plays croquet. "Let the games begin".... "Off with their heads.".... "Let the trial begin"..... Alice is a prisoner of this world now. In court, Alice is wrongfully charged with enticing the Queen into a game, willingly teasing, tormenting and annoying her causing the Queen to lose her temper. "Are you ready for your sentence?" (before a verdict is even given). Alice runs away leaving the way she came, through a tunnel, looks through the keyhole of the door. Alice sees herself outside still asleep and tells herself, "Alice, wake up. Please wake up." She wakes up and recites her lesson. They cross a bridge over water (toward a castle / clock tower?). The movie begins and ends with this song: "Alice in Wonderland, How do you get to Wonderland? Over the hill or underland? Or just behind a tree? When clouds go rolling by They roll away and leave the sky. Where is the land behind the eye That people cannot see? Where can you see? Where do stars go? Where is the crescent moon? They must be somewhere in the sunny afternoon. Alice in Wonderland, Where is the path to Wonderland? Over the hill or here or there... I WONDER where."
Analysis: We are meeting right now where dreams become reality. The key to manifesting the ideal reality just may to believe what we would believe is not possible. We think an all-positive reality is impossible.... but is it really impossible? What if whatever we imagine to be true manifests?
Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory is another classic like The Wizard of Oz. Willy Wonka is a wizard who runs a food factory. He plays a pipe or flute. He strikes me as a Demiurge type figure.
Just like the Demiurge he operates a food factory and it is an addictive food (chocolate) that people can't resist. So he conducts a type of lottery with golden tickets where people can take a trip to paradise to see how it all works. The other kids that are there all have horrible traits and are characterized as bad eggs. One is sucked into a pipe that leads to the furnace.
One scene is where Willy Wonka takes them on a boat ride through a scary tunnel where they seemingly hallucinate or see projections from within. This seems an obvious allusion to the afterlife tunnel.
Then there are the Oompa-Loompas from Loompaland who are like Santa's (Satan's) elves and they help him operate the factory. Reminds me of McKenna's machine elves from DMT reports. They even attempt to teach through their songs.
In the end, Charlie ultimately passes what was a test from Wonka. Charlie gets to take over the factory... maybe becomes his own Demiurge? But he was kind and had no ego so he won or passed the test. I think he even breaks thourgh the roof of the food factory and ascends into heaven (the skies) in the glass elevator.
And what I think is key is that the song Pure Imagination is the big song.... and it talks about creating your own reality with pure imagination.
Details:
Willy Wonka is the "candy man" and can take the sunrise and rainbows etc. cover it with chocolate and a miracle or two, and mixes it with love and makes the world taste good, satisfies childhood wishes, takes tomorrow and dips it in a dream. He separates sorrow and collects all the cream.... sure sounds like god/Demiurge to me.
Wonka is a genius with a secret recipe and he has the attention of the entire world. Charlie is twice said to want the golden ticket more than anyone else.
Charlie is told to look up to see a star and to follow it (he is looking at the moon). Charlie finds the golden ticket and is told to run straight home and not to stop until he gets there. On the way home a villain that Wonka employed to test Charlie stops him and tries to bribe him to give him an everlasting gobstopper once he has left the factory so that he can defeat Wonka.
Grandpa Joe sings "I've got a golden ticket"...... "I never dreamed that I would climb over the moon in ecstasy....chance to be"... "good morning, look at the sun"... "and with a golden ticket it's a golden way"
Wonka is a trickster..... pretends to walk with a limp and to fall down, but does a somersault. He's an illusionist....Wonka makes them sign a contract with unreadable fine print. "Is this a trick or something?" "What is this? some kind of fun house?"... "All of my dreams become realities"
"Hold your breath, make a wish, count to three."
The song Pure Imagination:
"Come with me and you'll be in a world of pure imagination,
Take a look and you'll see into your imagination....
We'll begin with a spin traveling in the world of my creation...
What we'll see will defy explanation....
If you want to view paradise, simply look around and view it,
Anything you want to, do it.....
Want to CHANGE the world? There's nothing to it....
There is no life I know to compare with pure imagination....
Living there you'll be free if you truly wish to be"
Wonka runs a food factory of sweet, tempting, addictive candy (chocolate). He says the (water) fall is the key as they churn the chocolate.
One kid falls in the river and is sucked into a pipe that leads to the fudge or furnace.... Wonka doesn't care about him at all, doesn't try to save him, seems to actually enjoy it.
A paddle boat ferry floats up the river toward them and Wonka says "All I wish is for a tall ship and a star to sail her by". Wonka lies and tells everyone they're going to love this...an oompa loompa tolls the bell... they head into a dark tunnel where they seem to hallucinate and see projections. The ride gets scary. Not a speck of light is showing so the danger is growing. Are the fires of hell glowing? Is the grisly reaper mowing?" "Yes, the danger must be growing"....They reach the Inventing Room where Wonka's secret inventions are cooking.
"Where are we going? I don't like that tunnel. I want off!"
"Around the world and home again. That's the sailor's way!"
"I don't like this ride, Daddy! We're going too fast! We're going to sink! - Why doesn't he stop the boat?!"
"Faster! Close your eyes and hang on tight!"
"What is this, a freak-out?! - This isn't funny! You can't possibly see where you're going!"
"You're right. I can't."
"This would make a great series! - This is" kind of strange. - Yes, strange, Charlie. But it's fun! I want to get off the boat, Wonka! I may get sick! This is going too far! Tell that little guy to turn us around! Now I am going to be sick!"
"There's no earthly way of knowing which direction we are going There's no knowing where we're rowing or which way the river's flowing. Is it raining? Is it snowing? Is a hurricane a-blowing? Not a speck of light is showing, so the danger must be growing! Are the fires of hell a-glowing? Is the grizzly reaper mowing? Yes! The danger must be growing for the rowers keep on rowing! And they're certainly not showing... ...any signs that they are slowing!"
"Make him stop, Daddy! - This has gone far enough! - Quite right, sir. Stop the boat!"
"We're there." "Where?" "Here. A small step for mankind, but a giant step for us. All ashore!"
"Let me off this freight!"
Analysis: The tunnel seems to draw a parallel to NDEs as the grim reaper is mentioned. The tunnel in this case turns scary and what was initially a pleasant ferry ride becomes frightening with haunting spectres inside it. The question is asked whether it's hell.
Wonka is said to be bonkers (mad/crazy/insane). All the kids except Charlie are bad because they are unable to exercise any self-control. They are greedy, spoiled, rude self-abosorbed children with bad manners, and they don't listen to Wonka.
"We are the dreamers of dreams."
Charlie and Grandpa Joe drink some of the fizzy lifting drinks and float up toward a fan... 'I'm a shooting star"... "You can fly to the moon this way"... "It's pulling me in"... "I can't stop"... "We're gonna get killed".
Golden eggs are judged to be good or bad.... one of the kids was a bad egg and went down the garbage chute to the furnace.
Wonka Vision... Wonka takes an object (chocolate bar), disintegrates it into millions of pieces and reassembles them onto a television screen...one of the kids gets transmitted into the virtual reality.
Willy Wonka portrayed a type of wizard. His office clearly contains much demiurge symbolism. 'Demi' means 'half' and everything in his office was cut in half (except the hat he wore).
Everything in Wonka's office is cut in half..."demi" urge? He won't give Charlie his lifetime supply of chocolate because he broke the contract by stealing the fizzy lifter drink.
Grandpa Joe tells Wonka, "You're a crook, a cheat and a swindler"... "build all his hopes up and then smash them to pieces"... "You're an inhuman monster."
Charlie gives his everlasting gob stopper (which looks like some kind of star tetrahedron) back to Mr. Wonka. Wonka recognizes the good deed in a weary world and tells him he won.
"What do we do now, Mr. Wonka?"
"I hope you enjoyed yourselves. Excuse me for not showing you out. Up the stairs. I'm busy. A whole day wasted. Good-bye to you both."
"What happened? Did we do something wrong?" "I don't know, Charlie. But I'm going to find out."
"I am extraordinarily busy, sir. I wanted to ask about the chocolate. The lifetime supply of chocolate? For Charlie. When does he get it?" "He doesn't." "Why not?" "Because he broke the rules." "What rules? We didn't see any rules, did we?"
"Wrong, sir! Wrong! Under Section 37-B of the contract signed by him, it states clearly that all offers shall become null and void if,and you can read it for yourself in this copy, 'I, the undersigned shall forfeit all rights, privileges and licenses herein contained,' et cetera, 'fax mentis, incendium gloria culpam,' et cetera, et cetera. 'Memo bis punitor della cattum!' It's all there! Black and white! Clear as crystal! You stole Fizzy-Lifting drinks! You bumped into the ceiling which now has to be sterilized! So you get nothing! You lose! Good day, sir!"
"You're a crook! A cheat and a swindler, that's what you are! How can you do this?! Build up a little boy's hopes and then smash his dreams to pieces! You're an inhuman monster!"
"I said, "Good day"!
"Come on, Charlie. Let's get out of here. I'll get even, if it's the last thing I do. If Slugworth wants a Gobstopper, he'll get one."
"So shines a good deed in a weary world. My boy. You've won! You did it! You did it! I knew you would! I just knew you would! Forgive me for putting you through this. Come in, Mr. Wilkinson. Charlie, meet Mr. Wilkinson. -
"Pleasure." - "Slugworth!" "That's not Slugworth! He works for me!" "For you?"
Wonka says, "I had to test you, Charlie, and you passed the test. You won!"
"Won what?" "The jackpot, my dear sir! - The grand and glorious jackpot!" "The chocolate?" "The chocolate, yes. But, that's just the beginning! We have so much time and so little to do! Strike that. Reverse it. This way, please! We'll take the Wonkavator.
He leads them to a glass elevator that can go in any direction. Step in, Charlie. Grandpa Joe, sir. This is the great glass Wonkavator." "It's an elevator." "A Wonkavator. An elevator goes up and down. But the Wonkavator goes sideways, slantways, backways..."
He has Charlie push a button and the elevator goes up and crashes through the roof of the factory, going high into the sky. In the book, the button Charlie presses in the elevator says: "Up and out". Charlie says the factory was the most wonderful place in the whole world and Wonka tells Charlie he is giving him the factory. Wonka says he can't go on forever and doesn't really want to try. He wanted to find an honest, loving child he could trust to tell all his candy making secrets and run the factory his way. Wonka tells him not to forget what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he wanted... he lived happily ever after.
Analysis: One of the theme songs of Willy Wonka is the song Pure Imagination. In fact, the song plays as the final credits roll. It illustrates how the Demiurge can bring us into a world of his creation. But at the same time it tells us the secret to how to exit. By using pure imagination and pure intention to manifest your own reality.... that is, if one wants to even take a form and experience one.
"If you want to view paradise, simply look around and view it.
Anything you want to, do it.
Want to MAKE the world? There is nothing to it.
There is no life I know to compare with pure imagination.
Living there you'll be free if you truly wish to be".
Johnny Depp starred as Willy Wonka in the 2005 sequel.
The golden tickets read "one of you children will receive an extra prize beyond your wildest imagination".
When the gates to the factory are opened, animated munchkin-like puppets welcome them in laughing and singing in high chimpmonk pitched voices cheering, "Hooray!". This is very reminiscent of the machine elves encountered in psychedelic DMT trips. They call Wonka a "magician" and a chocolate "wiz". An empty throne chair is revealed as parts of the display catch on fire. Wonka is standing next to them wearing a top hat, dark goggles and carrying a staff. Similar to Alice in wonderland, they enter through a very tiny door which Wonka unlocks. He acts very weirdly and seems to have major daddy issues. He makes a sick joke about cannibalism.
The Oompa-Loompas from Loompaland are "mischievous, always making jokes".
One of the children falls into the chocolate river and the Oompa-Loompas sing a song about boiling. Wonka says, "They haven't had a fresh audience in many a moon." They sing, "...The time is ripe to send him up the pipe...wheels go round and round... we'll boil him for a minute more... then out he comes, by God, by grace... " A UFO-type looking device flies over and sucks him up into a tube. Wonka compares the song the Oompa-Loompas sing to the improvization of a "parlor trick". Grandpa Joe tells Charlie the Oompa-Loompas were just "joking". The Oompa-Loompas row up to them in a boat, laughing. Wonka says chocolate releases endorphins that give on the feeling of being in love. They head into a scary tunnel. They can't see where they're going. There's no knowing where they're going. "Switch on the lights!" The tunnel has side doors that all have to do with making cream. They reach the Inventing Room, the most important room in the factory.
Violet doesn't listen to Wonka and needs to have all the juices squeezed out of her.
Veruca is a bad nut and is taken by squirrels down the chute to the incinerator, which is luckily broken.
"Why is everything here completely pointless?... It's stupid."
A super intense bright light is used to teleport a cholocate bar into a televison screen. Mike Teevee is once again transmitted into a virtual reality.
Charlie's the only child left so that means he's won. Wonka takes them to the glass elevator which can travel in any direction they want. He pushes a button that reads, "Up and Out". He gives his entire factory to Charlie.
So what are some things we can take away from these movies? These movies address the philosophical issues of the nature of reality, the meaning of life, alien intervention, Artificial Intelligence, the simulation theory, personal identity versus the Collective, free will vs determinism, and the afterlife.
One critically important theme is remaining an individual versus joining or merging with the Collective.
The new age movement and meditation groups etc are always telling us we need to kill the ego and basically merge our consciousness with the oneness. And near death experiencers say the white light is a collective of all our souls.
Yet in movies the Collective is always portrayed as bad.
Star Trek First Contact -- The Borg.
Star Trek Return of the Archons -- The Body
The Matrix -- all the Agent Smiths
Childhood's End -- The Overmind
Truman Show -- all his friends were collectively keeping him from realizing is true identity
The Prisoner -- the last episode The Fallout really talked about the good of the community etc but #6 escaped or was set free because of his will to remain an individual
Dark City -- they have collective memories they want to imprint on the individual
The Gnostic texts mention a higher light...and also impure light....the white light of the NDE is definitely not the higher light in my opinion........
In the Gnostic text Pistis Sophia itsays Sophia was in the 13th aeon and she desired to go to the higher light so she stopped performing her mysteries, Demiurge and the archon rulers got angry, hated her and tricked her into seeing his light and thinking it was the higher light and then captured her........ since we are so low in matter the first light we would see would still be that lower light of the Demiurge, certainly not the light of the realms above. The first lights we see are the “stolen” and “impure” light of the lower realms.