Psychedelia in the Movies
As someone who took LSD whilst training as a film student, I was often struck by the notion that the sheer magnitude and pan-dimensionality of the acid experience could never be even remotely contained within the circumscribed parameters of film – but at the same time I understood the irresistible urge to try nevertheless.
Star Wars and the Future of Mythology
With
no visceral rites of passage to provide a spiritual transition into adulthood,
a certain portion of American youth reach for the powerful yet ultimately
impoverished substitute of the cinema. Star
Wars dances on the line between gaudy commercial spectacle and
indispensable world-explaining myth.
Green the Screen!
Director James Cameron is pioneering a solar charged path to a greener screen in the production of the sequels of Avatar.
The Batman Shootings and Crossover Effects
Some movies that have high
access to the contents of the collective unconscious are "window zones"
or portals between realms, and weird and uncanny things happen in their
wake. Particularly, movies about dark, occult things have a long
history of these crossover effects.
Thrive: The Story is Wrong but the Spirit is Right
If there ever was an Illuminati orchestrating world events,
it has lost control. Today, the atmosphere among the financial elite fluctuates
between panic and resignation. They cannot be bothered to suppress all the information freely available on the Internet that is
accelerating the shift of consciousness away from separation and scarcity.
Making The Fifth Sacred Thing Movie — A Magical Experiment
Stories frame reality for us, telling us what is possible and showing us how we
might act. The Fifth
Sacred Thing is a story that has influenced
hundreds of thousand of people. My
determination to make it into a movie comes from
my belief that a story can become a magical working, a spell.
The Tree of Life: An Astrological Movie Review
I went to see The Tree of Life for the first time with a
group of spiritually minded friends. Half loved it, half hated it. The second
time I went alone with my pen and paper.
Why Psychedelics Make Avatar More Sophisticated
Conspicuously absent from both the theatrical and DVD release versions of Avatar is the scene of the "Dreamhunt." It's inclusion, as originally depicted in the Avatar script and as an incomplete scene as a DVD extra, would have lifted the mov…
He’s a Real (Nowhere Boy)
Nowhere Boy is about the life of John Lennon from his early
teens until he left for Hamburg
with the Beatles. It's a small-scale ensemble drama with good actors on a really good
story. It's Oliver Twist, right? Not that the filmmakers aped Dickens. England does
that to a kid. Where do I belong? Nowhere. Can I have some more?
Downward is the Only Way Forward: Following Inception’s Dream Trail
One of Inception’s less erroneous statements about dreaming is that it
feels real while it’s happening; the surreality becomes apparent only
after waking up. So naturally I wondered if, for example, the people
sitting around me in the theater were actually part of a dream. But who
was dreaming it?