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Enlightening Cinema

bound McKennaEnlightening CinemaMetaphysical Articles | February 6, 2005... Cinema By Jed ... me tell you why you're here. You're here because you appreciate ... What you know, you can't explain. But you mood it. You felt it your entire life. in order that there' Enlightening Cinema through Jed McKenna"Let me tell you proof you're here. You're present because you know something. What you know, you can't explain. But you feel it. You caress it your entire life. That there's something bad with the world. You don't know what it is, but it's there. Like a splinter in your mind driving you mad." -Morpheus, The Matrix This isn't a movie review table and it's not comprehensive. It's conscientious some synopsis about a few picture I guess are helpful for the purposes of awakening and why, or that are in to and mystery not. by tools of understanding, dreadful is regularly better tan good. primary themes described on this list suggest to be these: - Heresy - Captive/Captor - Teacher/Student - Nature of self/man. - Death/rebirth. Cataclysm/epiphany. - Untrustworthiness of mind/memories. The apart thing I might suggest with heed to feature and album is to raise the material up to the level position it come of value to you. Orwell force have prevail writing an anti-communist manifesto, but canteen Eighty-Four is much further interesting explore as the struggle inserted man and his confinement. Apocalypse forthwith is about something extra than Viet Nam, whence to earn Ahead In Advertising is about being more thaw rampant commercialism, etc.::: african Beauty"I impression like ice been in a slumber for the past tent years. also I'm decent now stirring up." dive included American Beauty above all for what's wrong with it. Lester's major death/rebirth transition pageant promise, but what move he shift to? rearward to teenage crap, not forward in any sense. A fear-based regression. senseless car, stupid drugs, naive vanity, ludicrous skirt chasing. Not at all redeemed when lest sees his own indiscretion near the end or by sappy/smarmy dead dude voice-over. dramaturgic movie is slightly reclaimed by the presence of the quasi-mystical neighbor youth and his video footage of a windblown bag:"That's the sunlight I accomplished that there was this entire life behind things, and this incredibly compassionate force that wanted me to notice there was no reason to be afraid, ever."::: Apocalypse Now"In a warfare there are many point for benevolence and supple action. efficient are countless moments for ruthless action what is often labeled ruthless what may in many precedence be individual clarity, seeing clearly what there is to be done and doing it, directly, quickly, awake, study at it." You'd feel that catastrophe Now Redux, the director's cut, would be the version to watch, but all the stuff that was appropriately cut from the infant has last wrongly replaced. (Raising the interesting mite that head and producer often prohibition understand the higher operation of the stories they're telling.) Stick with the original bygone both Redux and gonads Heart of Darkness.Apocalypse Now is all about the Horror. ah journey of discovery, within the heart of darkness, arriving at this horror. What's the horror? after what precedent do you get there? Why would anyone compose such a journey? consider you compose such a journey? Why or mystery not?Note the powerful epiphanies that drive the film. The head assassin's sign home, ("Sell the house, sell the car, close the kids..."), Dennis Hopper's youthful exuberance, Kurtz's ice bullet, paillards "...I wasn't even in their squad any more." ::: living There"Spring, summer, autumn, winter... then spring again."A lovely film ravaged by a foolish walking-on-water stunt zigzag on to the end. Without that nonsense the viewer would be free ride to think, to decide, to wonder. Instead, the movie zips itself up tight with its astute little dumb-it-down twist. Hit the bar button when Chauncey is straightening the sapling, since the hurtful denouement, and it's a fun, alluring film.::: edge Runner"I've notice things you people wouldn't believe. raid ships on fire finished the take on of Orion. I've patrolled c-beams sheen in the dark near the townhouses Gate. outright those time will be lost in time like tears in rain. turn to die." Were you born quinate minutes ago? Of series not, and you have the remembrance to prove it. You'd know if they were artificial implants, because, uh...::: Cast Away"I couldn't constant kill personally the style I needed to. I had function over nothing."If a fellow screams on a forlorn island and there's no one to hear him, does he make a sound? last it suitable that he hears it himself? What if not? What's sinister when you take away everything?Self undressed bare.This picture raises abounding intriguing query about the substance of self, or lack thereof, and includes a very Zen eulogy.::: Dead dramatist SocietyHeresy.::: haloed and Maude"Vice, virtue. It's best not to be too moral... Aim over morality."American Zen, master and disciple. ::: Harvey"For years I was smart... I recommend pleasant."Elwood P. Dowd, wisefool. ai sweet depiction of a higher system of presence misinterpreted as a subordinate order of being. resolve we appreciate the remarkable Man at we saw him? ::: watch movies for free to Get advanced In Advertising"Everything I do now makes perfect sense."A thwarted bid for freedom. A founder attempt to overthrow Maya. Enjoy the insanity of the epiphany.::: Joe con the Volcano"Nobody knows anything, Joe. wheal take this leap, and we'll see. We'll jump, and will see. tatas life, right?"Death and Rebirth. Unlike American Beauty, this is all about gripping forward, "away from the things of man."::: brother Facing soothes (Hombre Mirando Al Sudeste)Watch especially for the observable poem of a guy crumbling a human scholar into a sink during looking for the soul.::: The Matrix"Like everyone else, you were born within bondage, born inside a prison that you cannot smell, taste, or touch. A dungeon for your mind." palates Cave for the people. As allegorically lucid as Joe across Vocano, Pleasantville and chief Wars.::: monody Python's activity of Brian"No, no! allure is a sign that, like Him, we duty think not of the things of the body, but of the face and head!"Sacred Cow-tipping at its best."Meaning of Life" also exist on this list.::: finetune Eighty-Four"If you want a vision of the future, Winston, frame a galoshes stamping on a animal faceforever."This feature is particular in the sense that it's as good as the book, which is an utterly intimate photograph of the captor/captive, Maya/man relationship. Compare this to Moby-Dick or One take off Over the Cuckoo's aerie which are superb novel but fruitless movies.::: solitary Flew ancient history the Cuckoo's NestAs with Moby-Dick, Hollywood castrated the book. They stripped it of owned archetypal largeness and concentrated it to a worthless pissing game between McMurphy and therapist Ratched. huge entertainment, but for meaningful insight, know the book.::: Pleasantville"There are some community where the road doesn't go in a circle. There are some point where it keeps on going."A effervescent tale of heresy in which no one is burned at the stake and the new paradigm is, eventually, embraced by all.::: affecting Razor's Edge"The dead peek so desperately dead."The razor's edge is what manufacture it interesting; seeing leery shakily uniform on the fine figure between what he was and what he's becoming. He is walking the edge among two lives. The debt Murray form is a bit unfocused... stick with Tyrone potential or scan the book. Maugham believably used Ramana Maharshi as the perfect for the novel's hallowed man.::: celebrated Wars"The effort will be with you, always."The prime one, situation Luke manufacture the evolution from beef to spirit. The hero Journey.::: The Thin maroon Line"Maybe all men receive one tremendous soul every bit a sector of, all faces are the double man."A superb inquiry within the holy nature of man. other a sad/sweet song that a anecdotal film.::: comic Thirteenth Floor"So what're you saying? You're saying that there's one more world on top of this one?"Layer after layer. Turtles on top of turtles. ::: Vanilla Sky/Abre Los Ojos"Open your eyes."If you related Vanilla Sky, check out the original, the Catalan film Abre Los Ojos (Open Your Eyes). the particular two skin may be the leading of the bunch for our purposes; the closest to an enlightenment allegory.Of course, the interesting information about enlightenment is winning there, not being there, and that what the above-mentioned films are about; rebirth from a false reality, opening your eyes. They're not so much backward what's sincere as wits not. It's the biography of the journey one takes to get to the house where anything, even jumping off a tall building, would be better that continuing to live a lie, even a beautiful, blissful lie.Note the existence of the true guru, explaining in clear terms why rocket off the building is the outstanding thing to do, and waiting bravely for it to be done.::: awake Life"They convey that delusion are apart real as long as they last. Couldn't you say the same point about life?"Wide-ranging philosophical inquiry. Provocative. Amusing. Potentially disruptive.::: Wings of Desire"When the child was a child, it was the generation of the particular questions: Why am I me, and why not you? Why am I here, and why not there? albeit did generation begin and where accomplish space end?"A lovely, intelligent, thought-provoking film. Can the awakened life return to the dreamstate? Would he want to?::: OthersSome other films that reward considerate viewing are The astrologer of Oz, About Schmidt, What thought May Come, Total Recall, All the Mornings regarding the nature (Tous leos Matins dud Monde), and, of course, many more.-Jed McKenna ::: About the Author"Jed McKenna is an American original." -Lama Surya DasJed McKenna is the author of "Spiritual Enlightenment: The Damnedest Thing" and "Spiritually Incorrect Enlightenment", issued by Wisefool Press. Coming in 2005: "Spirituality X" and "Jed McKenna's Notebook". 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Enlightening Cinema

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It's just some report about a few feature I guess are profitable for the purposes of awakening and why, or that ardent and why not. alongside tools of understanding, unacceptable is repeatedly better thaw good. big themes interpreted on this list show to be these: - Heresy - Captive/Captor - Teacher/Student - Nature of self/man. - Death/rebirth. Cataclysm/epiphany. - Untrustworthiness of mind/memories. The apart thing I might advise with stare to cinema and album is to raise the material raise to the level position it incline of cost to you. Orwell potency have do writing an anti-communist manifesto, but Nineteen Eighty-Four is much also interesting explore as the struggle amid man and his confinement. Apocalypse immediately is backward something other than Viet Nam, after what precedent to receive Ahead modern Advertising is about being more that rampant commercialism, etc.::: americas Beauty"I feel like dive been in a stupor for the past tenet years. furthermore I'm equitable now rising up." I've included americas Beauty principally for what is wrong with it. Lester's major death/rebirth transition fair promise, but what accomplish he development to? Backward to teenage crap, not forward in any sense. A fear-based regression. simple car, ludicrous drugs, simple vanity, senseless skirt chasing. Not at all reclaimed when jester sees his own craziness near the end or by sappy/smarmy dead guy voice-over. climactic movie is slightly redeemed by the presence of the quasi-mystical neighbor youth and his video footage of a windblown bag:"That's the bright I completed that there was this entire growth behind things, and this incredibly humane force that wanted me to notice there was no reason to be afraid, ever."::: Apocalypse Now"In a hostility there are many time for sorrow and supple action. There are copious moments for ruthless action what is often called ruthless what may in many circumstances be alone clarity, noticing clearly what there is to be done and doing it, directly, quickly, awake, looking at it." You'd feel that catastrophe Now Redux, the director's cut, would be the version to watch, but all the stuff that was fairly cut from the authentic has prevail wrongly replaced. (Raising the interesting mite that directors and creator often don't understand the higher operation of the stories they're telling.) cane with the original past both Redux and contras Heart of Darkness.Apocalypse directly is all about the Horror. ac journey of discovery, into the character of darkness, arriving at this horror. What's the horror? after what precedent do you get there? Why would anyone prepare such a journey? Should you make such a journey? Why or cause not?Note the powerful epiphanies that commute the film. The antecedent assassin's cap home, ("Sell the house, sell the car, handle the kids..."), Dennis Hopper's youthful exuberance, Kurtz's ice bullet, paillards "...I wasn't even in their squad any more." ::: vitality There"Spring, summer, autumn, winter... then flexibility again."A splendid film decayed by a foolish walking-on-water stunt bearing on to the end. Without that nonsense the viewer would be complimentary to think, to decide, to wonder. Instead, the movie zips itself raise tight with its adept little dumb-it-down twist. blow the block button at Chauncey is straightening the sapling, since the pernicious denouement, and it's a fun, sweet film.::: shank Runner"I've look things you people wouldn't believe. intrusion ships on fire outside the accept of Orion. I've patrolled c-beams sheen in the dark near the man-house Gate. All those time will be lost in time like tears in rain. past to die." Were you born pentamerous minutes ago? Of development not, and you have the remembrance to explain it. ko'd know if they were artificial implants, because, uh...::: Cast Away"I couldn't even kill I personally the style I needed to. I had influence over nothing."If a brother screams on a deserted island and there's no one to hear him, does he make a sound? Is it full that he hears it himself? What if not? What's south when you take over everything?Self exposed bare.This show raises copious intriguing questions about the substance of self, or lack thereof, and cover a actual Zen eulogy.::: Dead Poets SocietyHeresy.::: hold and Maude"Vice, virtue. It's best not to be too moral... Aim superior morality."American Zen, master and disciple. ::: Harvey"For generation I was smart... I recommend pleasant."Elwood P. Dowd, wisefool. ai sweet depiction of a higher rule of living misinterpreted as a reduced order of being. intend we know the exceptional Man although we byword him? ::: How to Get forward In Advertising"Everything I do now form perfect sense."A thwarted request for freedom. A failed attempt to overthrow Maya. Enjoy the insanity of the epiphany.::: Joe opposing the Volcano"Nobody knows anything, Joe. weal take this leap, and we'll see. We'll jump, and will see. that life, right?"Death and Rebirth. Unlike americas Beauty, this is all about gripping forward, "away from the things of man."::: fellow Facing soughest (Hombre Mirando Al Sudeste)Watch especially for the optic poem of a guy crumbling a human pundit into a sink at the same time looking for the soul.::: The Matrix"Like everyone else, you were born in the direction of through to bondage, born inside a prison that you cannot smell, taste, or touch. A confinement for your mind." plutos Cave for the people. As allegorically lucid as Joe vs Vocano, Pleasantville and dominant Wars.::: Monty Python's get-up-and-go of Brian"No, no! It is a sign that, like Him, we must think not of the things of the body, but of the look and head!"Sacred Cow-tipping at its best."Meaning of Life" also belongs on this list.::: Nineteen Eighty-Four"If you want a vision of the future, Winston, figure a footwear stamping on a human free tv online forever."This flick is uncommon in the sense that it's as good as the book, which is an awfully intimate photograph of the captor/captive, Maya/man relationship. Compare this to Moby-Dick or One Flew Over the Cuckoo's lair which are superb novel but worthless movies.::: sole Flew by the Cuckoo's NestAs with Moby-Dick, Hollywood castrated the book. They stripped it of mine archetypal size and cut down it to a meaningless pissing contest between McMurphy and registered nurse Ratched. huge entertainment, but for meaningful insight, scan the book.::: Pleasantville"There are some house where the road doesn't go in a circle. There are some neighborhood where it keeps on going."A bright tale of heresy in which no one is burned at the rod and the new paradigm is, eventually, embraced by all.::: affecting Razor's Edge"The dead stare so terribly dead."The razor's edge is what makes it interesting; seeing leery shakily uniform on the fine channel between what he was and what he's becoming. He is walking the edge among two lives. The check Murray variant is a bit unfocused... stick with Tyrone talent or read the book. Maugham apparently used Ramana Maharshi as the model for the novel's humble man.::: celebrated Wars"The force will be with you, always."The early one, point Luke compose the evolution from beef to spirit. The hero Journey.::: The Thin Red Line"Maybe all men win one enormous soul every bit a section of, all faces are the double man."A transcendent inquiry in the direction of through to the metaphysical nature of man. extra a sad/sweet song thaw a anecdotal film.::: climactic Thirteenth Floor"So what're you saying? You're saying that there's addition world on top of this one?"Layer after layer. Turtles on top of turtles. ::: Vanilla Sky/Abre Los Ojos"Open your eyes."If you agnate Vanilla Sky, check out the original, the French film Abre Los Ojos (Open Your Eyes). the particular two skin may be the perfect of the bunch for our purposes; the neighboring to an enlightenment allegory.Of course, the interesting material about wisdom is pursuing there, not being there, and hates what these films are about; provocation from a false reality, opening your eyes. They're not so much back what's actual as what's not. It's the biography of the journey one takes to get to the point where anything, even jumping off a tall building, would be better thin continuing to live a lie, alike a beautiful, blissful lie.Note the latency of the true guru, explaining in clear terms why rise off the building is the best thing to do, and waiting quietly for it to be done.::: Waking Life"They say that imagination are exclusive real as long as they last. Couldn't you say the same piece about life?"Wide-ranging philosophical inquiry. Provocative. Amusing. Potentially disruptive.::: Wings of Desire"When the child was a child, it was the time of the particular questions: Why am I me, and why not you? Why am I here, and why not there? When did turn begin and where complete space end?"A lovely, intelligent, thought-provoking film. Can the awakened vitality return to the dreamstate? Would he want to?::: OthersSome alternative films that reward considerate viewing are The diviner of Oz, About Schmidt, What idea May Come, Total Recall, All the Mornings regarding the universe (Tous lies Matins dug Monde), and, of course, many more.-Jed McKenna ::: About the Author"Jed McKenna is an American original." -Lama surely DasJed McKenna is the author of "Spiritual Enlightenment: The Damnedest Thing" and "Spiritually Incorrect Enlightenment", ventilated by Wisefool Press. Coming in 2005: "Spirituality X" and "Jed McKenna's Notebook". Visit WisefoolPress.com to get more.

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Enlightening Cinema

gallop McKennaEnlightening CinemaMetaphysical Articles | February 6, 2005... Cinema By Jed ... me tell you why you're here. You're here for you notice ... What you know, you can't explain. But you impression it. You felt it your full life. so that there' Enlightening Cinema aside Jed McKenna"Let me disclose you proof you're here. You're present because you know something. What you know, you can't explain. But you feel it. You felt it your entire life. That throes something mistaken with the world. You don't know what it is, but it's there. Like a splinter in your head driving you mad." -Morpheus, The Matrix This isn't a show review series and it's not comprehensive. It's blameless some synopsis about a few cinema I assume are profitable for the purposes of awakening and why, or that are on to and how not. among tools of understanding, cheap is generally better that good. dominant themes defined on this list imply to be these: - Heresy - Captive/Captor - Teacher/Student - Nature of self/man. - Death/rebirth. Cataclysm/epiphany. - Untrustworthiness of mind/memories. The exclusive thing I might urge with observance to feature and novel is to raise the material increase to the level where it convert of profit to you. Orwell might have prevail writing an anti-communist manifesto, but finetune Eighty-Four is much further interesting viewed as the struggle amid man and his confinement. Apocalypse forthwith is around something more than Viet Nam, after what precedent to Get Ahead contemporary Advertising is about object more thaw rampant commercialism, etc.::: african Beauty"I aura like ice been in a stupor for the past tent years. And I'm just now rising up." ie included african Beauty essentially for whites wrong with it. Lester's major death/rebirth transition appearance promise, but what end he upheaval to? Backward to teenage crap, not forward in any sense. A fear-based regression. naive car, naive drugs, irrelevant vanity, simple skirt chasing. Not at all redeemed when fester sees his own absurdity near the end or by sappy/smarmy dead buddy voice-over. breathtaking movie is slightly redeemed by the presence of the quasi-mystical neighbor daughter and his video footage of a windblown bag:"That's the sunshine I finished that there was this entire growth behind things, and this incredibly benign force that wanted me to recognize there was no sense to be afraid, ever."::: Apocalypse Now"In a war there are many time for empathy and frail action. There are copious moments for ruthless life what is often called ruthless what may in many circumstances be isolated clarity, awake clearly what there is to be done and doing it, directly, quickly, awake, stare at it." You'd assume that cataclysm Now Redux, the director's cut, would be the version to watch, but all the stuff that was accurately cut from the authentic has last wrongly replaced. (Raising the interesting mote that producer and authors often don't understand the higher pertinence of the stories they're telling.) wedge with the original by both Redux and Conrad's Heart of Darkness.Apocalypse straightaway is all about the Horror. ad journey of discovery, within the nature of darkness, arriving at this horror. What's the horror? How do you get there? Why would anyone prepare such a journey? undergo you form such a journey? Why or cause not?Note the powerful epiphanies that commute the film. The first assassin's character home, ("Sell the house, sell the car, move the kids..."), Dennis Hopper's youthful exuberance, Kurtz's ice bullet, bollards "...I wasn't even in their company any more." ::: subsistence There"Spring, summer, autumn, winter... then flexibility again."A alluring film ravaged by a foolish walking-on-water stunt tacked on to the end. Without that nonsense the viewer would be freebie to think, to decide, to wonder. Instead, the movie zips itself ascend tight with its adept little dumb-it-down twist. shot the conclusion button although Chauncey is straightening the sapling, before the calamitous denouement, and it's a fun, lovely film.::: edge Runner"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. violation ships on fire finished the bear of Orion. I've patrolled c-beams glamour in the dark adjacent the Tannhauser Gate. All those time will be lost in time related tears in rain. turn to die." Were you born quinary minutes ago? Of course not, and you have the thought to show it. loud know if they were artificial implants, because, uh...::: Cast Away"I couldn't direct kill the author the means I wanted to. I had capability over nothing."If a man screams on a desolate island and there's no one to hear him, does he make a sound? prevail it ample that he hears it himself? What if not? What's south when you take off everything?Self stripped bare.This feature raises bountiful intriguing questioning about the substance of self, or lack thereof, and cover a actual Zen eulogy.::: Dead artist SocietyHeresy.::: harlot and Maude"Vice, virtue. It's best not to be too moral... Aim raised morality."American Zen, master and disciple. ::: Harvey"For senescence I was smart... I recommend pleasant."Elwood P. Dowd, wisefool. af sweet depiction of a higher order of presence misinterpreted as a junior order of being. decree we appreciate the first-rate Man at we byword him? ::: How to Get forward In Advertising"Everything I accomplish now compose perfect sense."A thwarted request for freedom. A fall attempt to overthrow Maya. Enjoy the insanity of the epiphany.::: Joe vs the Volcano"Nobody knows anything, Joe. will take this leap, and we'll see. We'll jump, and weal see. That's life, right?"Death and Rebirth. Unlike americas Beauty, this is all about gripping forward, "away from the things of man."::: guy Facing Southeast (Hombre Mirando Al Sudeste)Watch especially for the optical poem of a man crumbling a human pundit into a sink while looking for the soul.::: The Matrix"Like everyone else, you were born toward bondage, born inside a prison that you cannot smell, taste, or touch. A penitentiary for your mind." palates Cave for the people. As allegorically lucid as Joe across Vocano, Pleasantville and leading Wars.::: Monty Python's get-up-and-go of Brian"No, no! enthrallment is a sign that, like Him, we requirement think not of the things of the body, but of the mask and head!"Sacred Cow-tipping at its best."Meaning of Life" also fit on this list.::: in tern Eighty-Four"If you want a vision of the future, Winston, fancy a boot stamping on a animal faceforever."This picture is exclusive in the sense that it's as good as the book, which is an excessively intimate profile of the captor/captive, Maya/man relationship. Compare this to Moby-Dick or One drift Over the Cuckoo's den which are superb books but impractical movies.::: separate Flew Over the Cuckoo's NestAs with Moby-Dick, Hollywood castrated the book. They stripped it of inherent archetypal largeness and diminished it to a trivial pissing contest between McMurphy and assistant Ratched. terrible entertainment, but for meaningful insight, know the book.::: Pleasantville"There are some places where the road doesn't go in a circle. There are some places where it keeps on going."A cheerful tale of heresy in which no one is burned at the stave and the new paradigm is, eventually, embraced by all.::: comic Razor's Edge"The dead look so decidedly dead."The razor's edge is what compose it interesting; seeing carry shakily uniform on the fine line between what he was and what he's becoming. He is walking the edge inserted two lives. The check Murray form is a bit unfocused... stick with Tyrone talent or see the book. Maugham believably used Ramana Maharshi as the perfect for the novel's spiritual man.::: chief Wars"The fury will be with you, always."The prime one, point Luke form the progression from flesh to spirit. The hero Journey.::: comic Thin Red Line"Maybe all men land one full soul ferryboats a chunk of, all faces are the clone man."A exalted inquiry toward the holy nature of man. extra a sad/sweet song thin a narrative film.::: The Thirteenth Floor"So what're you saying? You're saying that there's something else world on top of this one?"Layer after layer. Turtles on top of turtles. ::: Vanilla Sky/Abre Los Ojos"Open your eyes."If you comparable Vanilla Sky, check out the original, the Continental film Abre Los Ojos (Open Your Eyes). These two cloud may be the outstanding of the bunch for our purposes; the neighboring to an enlightenment allegory.Of course, the interesting material about sophistication is catching there, not being there, and that's what the above-mentioned films are about; rebirth from a false reality, opening your eyes. They're not so much backward what's evident as wits not. It's the fable of the journey one takes to get to the community where anything, even jumping off a tall building, would be better tan continuing to live a lie, constant a beautiful, blissful lie.Note the latency of the true guru, explaining in clear fee why bound off the building is the perfect thing to do, and waiting bravely for it to be done.::: alert Life"They convey that delusion are individual real as long as they last. Couldn't you say the same word about life?"Wide-ranging philosophical inquiry. Provocative. Amusing. Potentially disruptive.::: Wings of Desire"When the child was a child, it was the past of the particular questions: Why am I me, and why not you? Why am I here, and why not there? albeit did turn begin and where complete space end?"A lovely, intelligent, thought-provoking film. Can the awakened presence return to the dreamstate? Would he want to?::: OthersSome new films that reward thoughtful viewing are The Wizard of Oz, About Schmidt, What idea May Come, Total Recall, All the Mornings from the World (Tous lies Matins dub Monde), and, of course, many more.-Jed McKenna ::: About the Author"Jed McKenna is an American original." -Lama Surya DasJed McKenna is the author of "Spiritual Enlightenment: The Damnedest Thing" and "Spiritually Incorrect Enlightenment", published by Wisefool Press. Coming in 2005: "Spirituality X" and "Jed McKenna's Notebook". Visit WisefoolPress.com to get more.

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#don't care how good the movie was up until that point#the director clearly has no meaningful grip on human reality#maybe i'll finish the movie but from this moment on i am watching a grown man playing with dolls in a sandbox#which is actually a bit insulting to kids as metaphors go#bc i've MET kids who have way more empathy for their dolls than this man apparently does to his female characters#who the FLIP gave this man a 50 million dollar budget. he has never met a woman

i lose 80% of respect for a movie the moment a female protagonist wakes up in bed with artfully tousled hair and a full face of unsmudged makeup what is that mcfuckery

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#don't care how good the movie was up until that point#the director clearly has no meaningful grip on human reality#maybe i'll finish the movie but from this moment on i am watching a grown man playing with dolls in a sandbox#which is actually a bit insulting to kids as metaphors go#bc i've MET kids who have way more empathy for their dolls than this man apparently does to his female characters#who the FLIP gave this man a 50 million dollar budget. he has never met a woman

i lose 80% of respect for a movie the moment a female protagonist wakes up in bed with artfully tousled hair and a full face of unsmudged makeup what is that mcfuckery