New Course: "Mythology & The Movies"
Beginning on Saturday, March 18 at 2 pm MST for 8 weeks, we will read my scene by scene books and discuss the semiotics of seven great films: 2001: A Space Odyssey, Star Wars, Apocalypse Now, Alien, Blade Runner, The Shining and Videodrome. These films are all motivated by the mythological imagination and we will get down into them and chew on them.
The influence of Gnosticism on Videodrome. The Golden Bough and Apocalypse Now. The Hero with a Thousand Faces and Star Wars. Gilgamesh and Blade Runner. Alien and the Descent to the Mothers. The Shining and the astral plane.
We will discuss ALL of these ideas and much much more! Come play with us for 8 weeks beginning on March 18. Here is the link to enroll:
Some thoughts:
Gnosticism doesn’t exist and never did. There seems to exist a wide gap between academic consensus and what’s available from YouTube content uploaders.
Also- Kubrick synched Eyes Wide Shut to The Shining. The co-vid revelation is a real thing. Imagination is a truth bearing faculty. Stacked transparencies of inspired art and film reveal fourth dimensional intelligence/ contact. It’s kind of a big deal.
Luke removes the lightsaber speck from 3po’s eye in the a new hope lightsaber reveal scene- looks closely- this is Christian symbolism, not kiddy Campbell’s new age broth for the no souls.
If you look close, you’ll see the linen on Obi-Wan’s shoulder appears to have been ripped and patched. Looks like Obi-Wan lost his stripes. Probably for hanging around these little kids.
Yoda (Yoga/A Goy) is obviously a creepy hebephile in exile. The entire Jedi order temps damaged children into their order in the pattern of the Catholic Church.
“I can’t, it’s too big”
“Size matters not. Judge me by my size, do you?”
Lifts filthy mud packed phallus shaped ship from swamp.
Maybe Luke was exiled for the incestuous contact with his sister.
The rampant hebephilia and sexualization of teens in Hollywood symbolism is disturbing.
The finale of the most recent season of HBO’s adaptation of “his dark materials” turned what looked like an interesting story of inter dimensional spiritual warfare into a bait and switch where Christianity is blamed for oppressing our heroic particle physicist’s (go materialism!) sexuality/love as secular and atheist viewers immediately following watch voyeuristic animal demons hide in trees and observe teenagers lose their virginity.
The language and symbolism of blade runner 2049 suggests the Nabokov references to pale fire and “skin jobs” / “skinners” (prison slang for child molester) and the hidden memory of KD hiding his Pokey in the orphanage basement are also symptomatic of this trending co-creative mythopoetic imagination everybody has opinions about lately.
So many myth interpretations but nobody hears her.
Pistis Sophia…
Reel Pissed