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yo yo. Welcome time to cover another Hollywood stream. We haven't done
Hollywood stream in a while. We did Pirates of the Caribbean. That was
a lot of fun. I did make a mistake. That happens once a
year, Dad joke, write it down because it ain't gonna happen for another
year. I made one mistake. I forgot that part four a Pirates of
Caribbean is about the Fountain of Youth, and we meant to go back and
rewatch all of them, but we didn't end up having time, so we
only got through the first three and then four does contain the Fountain of Youth.
And there's a sort of grail, almost a grail mythology, and they're
about eternal life. And I guess Captain Jack Sparrow got in Jack Sparrow am
I Brooke, And I guess he's eternal now because he drank. He drank
from them Florida water fountains that we got that make you live forever, if
you would hit like and shared. Welcome tonight. We're gonna cover some movies.
We're not gonna do it we're gonna spend a little bit of time breaking
down creator, since I did get to see it and it was everything that
I expected. In fact, on the way over there, I told Jamie
exactly how it would go, and that's exactly what happened. I knew just
from like thirty seconds of the trailer the entire movie, and so there will
be spoilers. But it's not that amazing of a movie. So there's a
lot of critics that are promoting it, a lot of people talking, a
lot of jibber jabber going on about, oh, finally we've got a new
sci fi epic, and uh nah, it wasn't that good, very predictable.
But I also know some elements and some weird things that this movie didn't
talk that most people didn't talk about when they reviewed it or when they wrote
about it, because I was looking at some reviews earlier. There is a
lesser known Arthur C. Clark's story that I think influenced this buddhist Ish plot.
So we're gonna have when we get a creator will notice some platonic elements,
gnostic elements, Buddhist elements all in one, and that'll be a fascinating,
deep dive. But first we're gonna talk about some of the other forgotten
Plato's allegory, the Cave, Gnostic Platonic messages in films. What are some
of the most platonic allegory of the cave films? This is its own kind
of little genre. I've been meaning to do the stream for a long time.
We won't hit every one of them, but we'll hit some of the
key ones and some of the ones that are forgotten. Some of the Plato's
allegory the cave, the stories that you probably have seen or haven't seen.
A lot of reuse of this narrative. And not every sort of Platonic story
is identical to the Gnostic story. There's a lot of overlap. Let's give
a little bit of a caveat. I understand for the philosophy nerds out there
that Neoplatonism is not identical to Gnosticism, And I understand that Platonist wrote against
Gnostics because he disagreed with the idea that the existing world was an evil trap.
But he did think that the existing world was the lowest of the emanations
and that we needed to get out of this one and back to the original
monad hinosis or to the original one, and so both of them share an
idea of a diminished status of the world that we inhabit. The difference being,
of course that Platonist doesn't think that our world, which is the lowest
sort of emanation and as you scale your way back up the emanations to the
one to achieve perfect unity, doesn't think that ours is bad. It's just
the lowest. But for the Gnostics, as you, I'm sure no,
this world is a prison. Our bodies are prisons that are created by an
evil, bumbling, buffoonish, old crotchety ass man known as Yalda Baiof,
the demi Urge or the Creator God. So just a brief refresher here.
Gnosticism comes from Gnosis having knowledge, and so their view is not really focused
on morals and ethics. It's mainly about secret knowledge and so a lot of
parallels to secret societies and gnosticism. Now, I've done lectures in the past
on the history of Gnostics stuff. We went into Iranaus's Against Heresies which was
one eighty a d. You can find an old lecture that I did through
Urinais and against Heresies, and I covered which you know the first two or
three undred pages of Against Heresies is this deep dive into all the multitudinous gnostic
sects that existed in Iranaus's day. It's very dry, very boring, but
it's also a very bizarre at the same time, because there's so many of
these sects and he covers all of them in a wide swath of view.
Some of them more licentious in their living orgiastic, some of them more repressive
and ascetic, kind of a radical almost Brahminish yogi asceticism. So they're all
kind of all over the board. But as the General Wiki introduction notes,
their collection of religious ideas and systems that coalesced in late first century amongst Jewish
and Christian sects. The various groups emphasize personal noses knowledge above the public Orthodox
proto Orthodox teachings, the traditions, and the authority of the institutional church.
Nastick causmogeny, that is, the where the universe came from and how that
came about generally presents a distinction between a supreme, hidden God and the malevolent,
lesser deity usually associated with the Creator God of the Bible. This creator
God is responsible for the material universe, like we said, a prison.
Again. You see then the soma same of the body as a prison,
as Plato said, some some parallels with Plato. Consequently, the Gnostics to
consider the material world flawed or evil, so evil gets substantial existence as matter
or the material prison world of time and space, which are these prisons?
The element and salvation essentially is that knowledge of the secret deity, of the
secret the hidden God is attained through mystical esoteric insights that might come about through
drug use, It might come about through rituals. It might come about through
altered states of consciousness, through fasting, meditation, other sorts of weird practices.
Any of those might be the means by which the secret nosis comes about.
So there's no consistent there's not one type of Gnosticsism, and so it's
very relativistic. It's very all over the place, but one but the commonalities,
as we said, are escape from the material world, escape from the
here and the now. It's a prison. The Bible is a secret code
that you come up with all these wild meanings. For it's not anything to
do with a historical savior or the person of Christ. Rather, Jesus is
a symbolic liberator figure. He liberates you from morals, from constraints, from
the body, and from time and space, and then you get, you
know, the Pistus Sophia various nastic presentations where the story of the Bible is
reinterpreted into this mystical cosmology of the feminine archetype making her way back to the
masculine archetype from which she's he's exiled from her. And so the the alchemical
idea of the masculine and feminine principles being reconciled oftentimes comes up in a lot
of this mythology. So we won't go into all the different types of groups.
There were the Valentinians, the Sethians, there were the Manicheans, the
Mandeans. Many of these groups, as we said, even gave Satan himself
a kind of honorific privileged status. Satan becomes a kind of liberator of man
in a lot of these views. So, by the way, if you
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a gnosticism let's talk about some of the movies that are laden with this that
you may or may not remember, or may or may not have seen.
So one of those the first one that comes to mind, and we'll do
a little bit of just kind of summarizing, because I know we have a
lot of movie fans in this audience that have probably seen all these but there
might be people who have not seen some of these other ones. Right.
I wanted to show the confession scene because that's one of the most profound scenes.
There was, of course, the comb pods scene, which I'm sure
everybody remembers. There is a there is an amazing comb pod scene literally in
THX one one three eight. This is one of the earliest of I just
went blank freaking Star Wars, Dorky Soil Wars George Lucas, one of George
Lucas's earliest films. As of course, it's t h X one one three
eight. It is a really good film, but it's also pretty hoops.
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band if I've ever heard of one. Goat Mange. Goat Mange again.
Look at that. So te three eight Platonic allegory of the Cave story.
Now, if you don't know the allegory the Cave, I'll tell you that
really quickly, because again you're gonna notice it relates to playton to nastosism as
well and platos allegory. The Cave is a famous story that in summary,
we in this world inhabit a kind of prison structure. It's a it's like
living inside of a cave, and we are chained to a kind of a
wall where we're forced to watch a play playing out. That is a bunch
of shadows projected on a wall by a movie theater. Dude behind us,
who's just up there playing with fire, and he's got fire and he's like
making puppets with the shadows. Can you see the shadows behind me? See
that behind me? So you're sitting there watching the shadows on the wall of
the cave, and you're entranced by the shadows. You're you think the shadows
are just the bees knees. You you love shadow play. That's your that's
your show, right, that's your programs. My stories and my programs.
I got to watch my stories. You watching them shadows stories, that's your
program like Netflix. So you're entranced by this. And the philosopher is the
dude that has gone out of the cave and he's seen the actual source of
light itself, which is the sun, because he walks outside of the cave
and he says, Hey, there's a whole world out here. There's the
reality of the things like the horses and the battles and the trees and the
shapes and the people. Right that you were watching the shadows of on the
cave. Those are the shadows that are the exemple the types of the anti
type, the prototype, which is the really existing thing upside outside upstairs,
outside of the cave. Right, So you go outside of the cave,
you get up there and it's reality where the sun is. You've seen the
light itself. You've had a direct perception of the light, which is the
sun. And so when you go back down into the cave, as the
enlightened philosopher. First thing you want to do is tell your buddies. Dude,
y'all a bunch of uh you know, reddit men down here in the
basement. Get off of the shadow play, get out of the basement.
Put down your cheeto fingers, you know, put down the hot pockets.
Get outside, boy, fla boy, we're trailing in my rule fai.
Boy, shout out to silver chair. Get outside. Five boys, you're
down here losing it in your mama's basement. Get outside, because then you'll
see the reality that's Plato's allegory, the cave. But then there's more to
the story, because when you start to tell everybody, you think, oh,
everybody's gonna want to get out of the cave like me, And then
no, they love the cave. They love the lie, the deception,
the trickery, the illusion of the pseudo world that they're entranced with, of
the shadows. And so ultimately the philosopher, as the enlightener or the attempted
enlightener, gets punished stone that man because he's trying to take away our cave
pod. I'm cave potting right, trying to tell you to get out there
and get the real thing ain't nothing like the real thing? He whose things
that I don't even know ain't nothing like the real thing. Baby. That's
the allegory of the cave. Now, so we have that basic structure,
and then you can see how the allegory of the cave then fits into the
overall narrative of many Hollywood stories, including dystopias, including a lot of the
films that we've covered recently, where the control structure of the dystopian government right
equilibrium, for example, that's identified with the Creator God and so you gotta
flee this in some sort of secret Miss Sickle transcendent noss is that Marvin is
that Marvin fake? And Gray is that who sings that song? Ain't nothing
like the real thing? Baby Bear? The real thing. I don't know.
I don't know any Marvin Gay songs. I know a Barry White song,
get it Together, the baby, Oh, get it together, the
my my baby bear girl, I do what I won't how about that?
How about some Verry White. I don't know Marvin Gray, but I know
Barry White. So the create let's say, no, we're not ready for
Creator. So we're talking about excuse me, I do really appreciate so many
elements of THHX, even though it's a very bizarre film. So if you're
respecting an exciting dystopian movie, that's not what you're gonna get with this.
You're gonna get a very it's a gritty slow burn, as they every critics
says since twenty ten. This is a gritty slowburn. But it's a very
well done film. And when George Lucas made this, he was definitely influenced
by nineteen eighty four and Brave New World and probably many other dystopian stories.
There's also actually forgotten is it Anthem, and Rand actually has a decent dystopian
future story that is also a Plato's allegory of the Cave story, and I
think it's called Anthem. But you know, of course everybody, everybody loves
to hate on An Rand, and certainly there's immense areas for criticism, but
you know, not everything an Randon is terrible. I mean that her book
on Aesthetics is good. Her dystopian story Anthem is also good, so you
know, we won't have to hate everything and every every author. She actually
has some good, some good stuff. But so in THHX, Robert Duvall
is the main character. He's sort of the Winston, right, he's the
Winston who wants to kind of get out of this nightmare system. And he
does better than Winston. I mean, Winston doesn't fare too well in his
adventures, but Robert dwell Devol affairs better. But when you watch this,
I really recommend it because this scene is very profound. Where the control structure
of the future, where they're all underground and basically everybody's job is to just
build the robots that uh, you know, spank them and imprison them.
Literally spank them and imprison them. So everybody's job it's this weird. It's
the circular economy. It's just b is a circular economy. There you would
creates, bolts ver spank you. So there's the circle, right, you
create the bots, the bots bank you, you create more bots, perfect
circular economy of Klaus and Company. So it's very profound in that way,
and because that's where we are right we're entering into basically THHX one one three
eight world. Everybody's got their tracked and trace number. Everybody's controlled by big
pharma drugs, so you get your daily allotment of protein cubes, and you
know big Doctor Mario pills every day that should basically your breakfast is a bunch
of Doctor Mario pills. But Robert Davall goes on an adventure, rebels against
the system, and if you haven't seen it, spoiler alert, he does
escape. So he escapes the prison planet Escape Fund. He escapes from the
underground facility of the future Dystopia, And what do we see when he emerges
out of the ladder and the throws open the pot the the manhole, but
he beholds a giant sons He's never seen a sunset. That is Plato's allegory
of the cave presented in THHXE. But I also like this element of the
AI system that runs and controls everybody in this underground facility. Somehow was perceptive
enough to be programmed by the elites or whoever. We don't know who created
this horrible underground prison, but they were perceptive enough to know that they would.
The control system needs a religion, and so they have an AI Jesus
that you confess your sins to. But it's also a way for the AI
to keep up with what you're thinking and what you're up to you see,
So it's sort of a it's a mind control keeping tabs surveillance AI thing,
and Robert of all eventually begins to figure this out right that he's confessing to
AI Jesus who is basically just surveiling him and knowing his thoughts. So it's
thought control that is actually pretty profound because they are actually rolling out. By
the way, if you haven't seen, there was a Lutheran Protestant church that
is rolling out AI bots that you can confess to. I'm not joking,
and you know, five years ago, I would have said, oh,
this will never happen, that's crazy. But nowadays now I think anything's possible.
So they will probably roll this out eventually where you just confess your sins
to the new future AI god that they want to roll out, and that
will tie into Creator, because Creator is going to be about the AI god
or goddess, I should say, coming AI goddess. Why would it be
a goddess? What will explain why it's a goddess? Here in a little
bit. So that's my first one is THHS one one three eight. Let's
this is another one. I think Jamie and I covered this. This is
a fun one. It's one of the better David Cronenberg movies. Cronenberg actually
has quite a few good movies. I don't. I'm not a Cronenberg hater.
I was not a fan of the recent Vigo Mortenson movie that where people
are evolving to eat plastic. I mean that was gross. And there's usually
some gross elements in David Kronenberg films, but it's a grotesque that I could
tolerate. But I mean Vigo Mortenson having gurgle guts bubble guts when he was
trying to eat plastic. I mean that was just grossing me out. Or
no, he was eating normal food, but he needed to eat plastic.
That's what it was. So no, I don't. I don't need to
see a movie about people getting diarrhea from eating plastic. I mean, it's
just no. Hey, I got an idea from a movie. Everybody's eating
plastic and they got diarrhea, bubbleguts. No, I don't want to watch
that. Not a good movie. So this one is fun because if you're
not seeing existence e X I s T E n Z right after the Matrix
basically, and the Matrix comes out in ninety eight, I think David Cronenberg
puts out his his version of the Matrix. You could say, with Jude
Law, I am, I was Jude Law. Jude Law is the protagonist
who signs up to be a part of a new cutting edge virtual reality game,
and he gets roped into this because he thinks, well, you know,
I think he's had he needs money or something, and he's like,
well, maybe I can get some you know, student funding or something.
I forget exactly what it is, and so he signs up for this VR
game which taps into your brain and you go into this completely you know,
simulated matrix type of world, and there he embarks on this wild adventure with
Jennifer Jason Lee. Again super dupernostic, especially when we get to the end
of the film where it literally ties it into the sort of Creator God mythos
and the Creator God is the evil imprisoning figure who is trying to keep Jude
Law in the Matrix. And it's one of those it's got one of those
good twisties where you think he's out of the matrix, but is he really
out of the matrix? And then he is he really really out of the
matrix or is he still really really really inside the matrix. You see.
It is a it's a fun mind bender from nineteen ninety nine. I actually
think this is a good film. But it has that again totally neognostic narrative
of the game maker, the architect of the game, and it's some kind
of like Silicon Valley. Dude, right, is the stand in for the
creator God. And usually in these narratives, the dark hero archetype figure the
one the liberator figure, the protagonist who liberates himself or others or the revolutionary
movement from the imprisoning world. Typically he has to unite with his feminine archetype
companions. So again, the rejoining of the masculine the feminine together is what
supposedly can defeat the over writing ARCon deity that's imprisoning everybody. So if you're
not seeing Existence, I do recommend Existence. It is a good movie.
Not every one of these, by the way, is good, but quite
a few of these are pretty good. Nineties for some reason, was rife
Let's get these nasty people out of the chat, gross dude. The nineties
was rife with a lot of this technocratic hacker gnostic theme right in a lot
of films. Again, Existence is right after the Matrix. I should mention
the Matrix just because we're not going to spend too much time on this,
because everyone has seen the Matrix. This has been discussed and dissected, delved
into many many times. I've written chapters on it. We've done many breakdowns
of the trilogy. But of course, the Matrix has the Architect as the
creator figure, the old white haired dude that must be rebelled against by the
anarcho Communo, you know, Eastern mystic influ luenced Neo right. Neo is
the luciferian figure who fights against the imprisoning structure of the Matrix, and everybody
knows the story how it goes. He eventually has to sort of allow Agent
Smith into himself. Sometimes then people argue that Smith is actually the liberator in
the end and not Neo, or there's a synthesis of Neo and the Matrix
right to produce eventually the overturning of the Architect and the liberation that occurs.
I'm not even gonna go into Matrix resurrections. But do you believe do you
want the red pill or the blue pill? What is the real? That's
my Morpheus for the night. Whoa, that's my neo for the night.
I need a gun. If you watch john Wick, which literally has maybe
four lines, I think I think neo has four lines. I need a
gun. I'm gonna need a gun. That's that's I remember the lines because
there's only like one or two in john Wick. But don't forget that a
lot of the matrix has Far Eastern Buddhist zen Ish influence, because if you
remember when he when he meets that little that little that little doughnut Pilgrim's dough
boy, right, a little remember the little bald doughboy that says, don't
bingdish spoon bind the reality around a spoon? Right, That's all a bunch
of you know, Gnostic slash Far Eastern mysticism, which will play heavily into
the Creator when we get to the Creator. So we've I've broken down the
matrix many many times. We're not going to go into that. Everybody knows
the matrix. But also from late nineties again, nineteen ninety eight, mid
to late nineties packed with neo gnostic, platonic hacker matrix simulation world's films.
And we're not even done. There's many more. Next we come to the
classic from the late nineties with Rufus Seul and Jennifer Connelly Dark City, and
I'm sure that you are familiar with Dark City. I won't go into too
many details, but we start to notice here. I think this is in
the Matrix too, But in Dark City, if you don't know, Rufus
Suil wakes up and he doesn't know how he got to the place that he's
in, and there's there's like bloody spirals everywhere in a room, and he
looks like he's killed somebody. So he's being blamed for something that ultimately we
know he didn't do, and so he embarks on this neo noir sci fi
journey to figure out what's going on. Why is he imprisoned in this world?
He has amnesia, he doesn't remember. The amnesia element is also an
important Platonic and even at times Gnostic element, because a lot of the for
example, Platonic philosophy is based on the idea that we were once in the
realm of the forms, with the monad or with the One, and so
Plato's explanation for how we got to where we are is reincarnation. And if
you went back far enough in the reincarnation cycle, you would image if each
eventually get back to the beginning of all, to the One, to the
monad from which everything sort of sprung forth. And so our goal in getting
out of the cycle, the cycle of creation or the Hindu cycle right of
reincarnation and rebirth, is to get back to the One, to ascend out
of this dimension or this reality, back to the One, to the Monad.
And you'll find that same idea present in a lot of world religion,
ancient Hinduism, et cetera, at meditating or achieving enlightenment, to return to
the unity, to the absolute, to the One, to thusness right,
all of that, well, a big part of what Platonism posits is the
remembrance from whence we came. So the mysteries of Platonism. Platinism is a
mystery religion in my view. If you don't believe that, We've got into
that in my philosophy course lectures that we did with Richard Grove, and you
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So back to the to Dark City. These black clad bald figures that
you see here, these are essentially what we would think of as the archons.
These are the controlling entities out of nastases and the arcons or the beings
that are tasked with serving the Creator God, the bumbling, fool, buffoon
tyrant God who has this mindless horde of arcons that are sent out to control
reality for him because he's jealous and envious and all this stuff. And so
the Creator God has all these, you know, sort of creepy bald uncle
fester dudes running reality. And as rufus Sewel goes on this journey of discovery
and enlightenment, he goes through an actual process of initiation. As I argue,
and when I analyze this film in the past to eventually facing off against
the Arcons and then overcoming them through his own innate apotheosis. And this also
I think parallels with his union with Jacon, So he needs Jennifer Connolly as
his feminine principal archetype, and in this union he overcomes it and basically escapes
the matrix. He realizes shocker or spoiler alert, that Dark City is actually
a superstructure alien entity in space. So it's this giant city that exists floating
in space as a spaceship, and he's really in prison on this thing.
And when he overcomes the Archons, he now becomes the Creator God. He's
achieved apotheosis out of this Dark City. So if you've not seen Dark City,
I recommend it because it is a super neoonostic film. And in fact,
the director in interviews himself has said this is absolutely a neoonostic film if
you've not seen it. So also, once again, if we're getting from
like ninety seven, eight nine was just loaded with simulation neoonostic enlightenment motifs,
another one of these, another neo noir, just like Dark City, just
like Existence, neo NOA. SI five is thirteenth Floor from Roland Emerick.
And this one is a little different because even though it's a simulated reality,
it actually takes place thinking like the thirties of the forties, and so it's
thirties or forties Los Angeles. But we know from the outset that this is
a simulation that the guy's going into, and so spoiler alert, it's gonna
it's another one of those I've woken up, But have I really woken up?
Am I still in the simulation? Are we just millions of simulations down
like infinite turtles? Or are we ever actually out of the simulation? I
won't spoil it for you beyond that, but it's most of the film takes
place, you know, in like forties LA. So it's not really it
is a science fiction story, but it's more of a detective drama taking place
in a simulation in like the nineteen forties. So but it is a good
film. I wouldn't say it's the best film ever, but it's it's worth
watching. And of course the main character has the same sort of awakening process
and you know, figures out, well, maybe I should actually live in
a simulation where I get Gretchen Mall right, the forgotten nineties chick, who
I think was like they thought she was going to be like the next you
know, A list or woman, and then Gretchen mall basically got sort of
forgotten. I don't know why. Maybe she didn't like Hollywood, who knows,
but quite a few figures from the nineties era that were, you know,
sort of like, oh, here's the next big A list gal and
then for whatever reason, they sort of disappeared. But I do recommend Thirteenth
Floor if you're interested in just a sci fi of this same platonic sort of
narrative. I forgot to put this one on the list, but i'll add
it now. The Giver. This is a famous book that I think a
lot of people young adult readers have read. I don't remember when The Giver
came out, but you've got basically Jeff Bridges. I forgot Taylor Swift is
in this for maybe a minute. Maybe she's not in it for very long.
I don't recall. But future dystopian world and everything's controlled. I think
that's a there's a genetic control. It's okay, it's not that great.
It's kind of a corny movie in certain ways, but it is okay if
you're interested in the narrative. I don't I don't remember Taylor Swifting in it,
but I think she only has a brief role. There is the Giver
if you're interested in that. I never read this book, so I can't
speak to it too much. I think we covered it years ago on a
boiler room or something. But it has some interesting platonic themes, and once
again, it's the escape from the from the k It's the allegory of the
cave Old Tom koomb over here, you boy, Tom koom over here.
In Vanilla Sky, we did an entire Vanilla Sky breakdown. I'm not going
to repeat all of that, but essentially, once again, you've got a
simulation or it's sort of like put it being put in a cryogenic state.
Right, So, if you never seen Vanid Sky, I just ruined it
for you. But I'm guessing that that has scientology underpinnings in regard to croyogen
I don't know. I'm discussing that because it's a film about cryogenically freezing yourself
and you get a Tom Kombs sickle like Jimmie had talked about when we covered
this. You know, you gotta let you gotta let that Tom Koon thaw
out. You can't have it hold, you gotta let him thaw out.
But we did this one in depth, so I'm not going to rehearse it.
But that's what you got there, and if you're looking for our breakdown
of it, I'll link it for you right here, right hurt. So
we were doing yeah, okay, so we paired up video Drone, Vanilla
Sky lawnmower Man and Existence, the David Cronenberg movie that we just mentioned a
minute ago in this podcast here If you want to go back and watch,
Jamie and I cover that one in depth. If you want the deeper podcast,
it's not what we're doing today. Truman Show. Everybody knows Truman Show.
Once again. Ed Harris plays the creator God and it's interesting that they
stuck this right next to Hollywood right. Ed Harris is the creator gods slash
director producer for The Truman Show, which is a completely fictionalized created reality that
exists for Jim Carey, which he thinks is real, thinks is reality,
but he's being broadcast to the rest of the world in this fictional scenario of
a TV show inside a completely controlled environment. Once again the allegory of the
cave, the Enlightenment. Just give me the simulation environment, right. Eventually
he breaks out, as we know, he sees a light bulb or a
light that falls out of the sky from the dome and it says serious on
it and so here it is right here, it falls down, and then
he begins to notice that this reality there, it is so the dog star
is serious, serious, which is for him the lights in the sky right.
For him, sky and space really was facing gray right. And then
he finds this, which again begins to make him question his entire reality.
Another theme in a lot of these films, by the way, is where
they're trying to get. This is both in Truman Show and in Dark City
is to shell Beach. So shell Beach is always kind of this stand in
for heaven or whatever, right, because they always want to get out of
their controlled reality and get to the beach, and they never can. They're
always they're always distracted or something happens where they can't get out of there,
and those distractions are sent by the system, by the you know, the
architect, the archons, by the creator God to keep people in prison,
to keep them from waking up, and that's exactly what happens here. And
eventually he confronts at Harris and I'm sure everybody's seeing Truman Show. So but
the command center that they have ed Harris and Company right where that's running this
matrix simulation to keep him in there. You'll notice how it's this this giant
sort of producer's room for the TV show, which is a giant reality show,
which again reality shows were just beginning to kick off in nineteen ninety eight.
Again ninety eight, another one of these years for simulation, environment media,
fake world scenarios. Truman Show is one of the classics. Again absolutely
the platonic story because as you know, when Jim Carrey sails the boat to
the end of the dome, he hits a wall and there's a staircase which
does look like a Masonic staircase by which he exits. Here it is right
by which he exits the control structure. But you'll keep in mind too,
one of the ways that they kept Truman from from leaving the show was because
they knew what his fears were. So they knew he had a fear of
drowning and of the sea and so that was that was actually a way to
keep him controlled that they knew that he wouldn't swim out of there, but
so he had to overcome his fears to get out of his matrix. So
again one of the classics sort of Hollywood neognostic narratives Truman Show, and yes,
if you're interested, I have a lengthy breakdown that I did many years
ago to where I did Truman Show and Groundhog Day in this deep dive way
back then when I was eight years ago, when I was really bad at
podcasting and talking. So there's that if you want. And I went pretty
deep in a Groundhog Day too, which I think is a Nietzsche and eternal
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past, and they would watch it and it had like Jeff Daniels, it
was the early nineties comedy. But there's something to have in front seats on
like the end of the world type situation. So I don't see it as
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to the films here. Maize Runner is interesting because it deals with a lot
of genetic and experimentation, genetic serimentation done on the youth. This is when
that era of young adult stuff was popping off, right, Like there was
Scorched Trials and there was Hunger Games with Jay Law, right, remember all
that in the twenty tens. I forget exactly what year this came out,
fourteen fifteen, somewhere in there. It's an okay film, But again,
the narrative here is being placed into a facility and the teenagers are forced into
all these trials that they have to overcome, and their environment is a completely
synthetic crea an environment, and it has to do with a future where the
world has been heavily depopped. And again it's a very kind of teenager ish
movie, but it's not terrible. It says I, actually I told the
story. I bumped into the dude that wrote it, the Scores Travels author,
when I was working at a bookstore and he came to do a talk
and I was interested in meeting him, and I got to work later or
something, and and then we were in the bathroom. And every time I
told the story, I was supposed to say, like, how did you
meet that? I was like, well, we were peeing together. And
then I have to explain that because you can't talk about how you bumped into
somebody in the bathroom. Andre like what were you doing we were peeing together,
because it sounds like you were both having like co peeing, Like,
oh, I went with him to the bathroom like girls do to go peet.
No, we just went. I just went to pee and he happened
to be in there and I look over the stall and he were peeing together,
and I'm like, oh, you're the Sports Trials guy, but you
can't really have a conversation, you know, peeing together. It's it's awkward,
but you're still kind of hey, you're that dude. And I've told
the same story where I had the exact same thing happened with John Lennell or
John Flansburg from they might be giants peeing together, but not in a in
a in a gay way, in a hetero way. Just just add the
stalls all. I mean, yeah, Maze Runner exactly, Maze Runner scorts
Trials. That's the first one. The Little Finger, remember the Little Finger,
the Rettle Finger Cozy. The little Finger is the bad guy again.
And here we have the story of getting out of the synthetic environment. But
I do like the fact that this is basically a deep government experiment of figuring
out who's got the right genetics and all that so much like uh, you
boy, Michael Bay, y'all remember him, the dude that likes to blow
stuff up. I mean, when you type in Michael Bay, the first
thing that comes up as explosions, you know what I mean, Michael Bay
explosions. I mean, he's he's a meme of explosions. But I just
went blank. What's the Scarlett jahahaha movie with you and McGregor and Michael Bay.
And it's actually not that bad of a movie, but it's kind of
just Brave New World. You know, I did a whole breakdown of it
and I went blank. But it's also a escape from the Matrix slash neo
platonic kind of story. However, y'all help me out, what's the name
of that movie? I just want blank? The Island, Yes, thank
you so much. I'm on an island with Michael Bay the real meaning of
the island, So I have a full breakdown right here if you want a
fuller breakdown. But yeah, The Island is kind of a mix of a
lot of dystopian stories, much like we saw with nineteen eighty four Brave New
World, so it's in that same vein. But The Island does have a
section where when they're talking about the cloning procedure and what they do is the
clones all exist in a childlike idenic slash controlled environment where they're told that when
it's time for them to be free, they win the lottery and they go
to basically shell Beach or whatever, right, But in fact they're actually killed,
and they're killed because they're harvested for their organs for their elites in the
real world in a future dystopia who have bought a clone to have organs when
their organs fail, And there's actually a statement in the plot in the narrative
where they talk about the eugenics laws that were passed to allow the elite to
do this, So I would recommend checking that out if you've not seen The
Island. I'm sure everybody remembers the Lego movie. Some movies kind of annoying
to me, But if you don't remember, the Lego movie has who as
the gnostic archon trying to keep the people in the Lego universe and under control.
Will Ferrell. Will Ferrell more than once plays the controlling creator God y'all
debay off. Not just in Lego movie where they find the Little Spark,
right, Chris Pratt basically is the liberator figure who gets them out through finding
whatever that little spark is, Spark of Freedom or I don't remember exactly what
it is, but you know, it's totally a neo gnostic narrative. Everything
is awesome, Everything is cool when you're part of a team. Everything is
also remember teguing it, Sarah, so spoil the show. Where's all the
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thinking Reach for the Top as a movie. You know that's Richard's video.
Yeah, Barbie, So once again, just like in the Lego movie,
Will Ferrell plays the archon creator God who attempts to keep Barbie in the matrix
as well, this one was super gnostic feminism. As you know, as
we covered that's not telling you that's nothing I want this trailer yet. You
know, we did a whole breakdown of this. I'm not going to repeat
all that, but once again Will Ferrell playing the gnostic creator God who,
when he's not able to put Margot Robbie back in the box of being a
traditional woman, the Barbie figure goes back to barbie imaginal land and reinstitutes the
feminocracy, the gynocracy, if you remember. So. It's the most super
ultra feminist movie I've ever seen. Anybody saying that this is Christian and not
feminist is completely dumb. I mean, here's Will Ferrell as your ARCon creator
God, patriarchal figure trying to keep the women down, and then Barbie goes
back. Once Ken has become a manosphere guy, Barbie has to come back
and set things straight. She has to put him back in line, right,
because he becomes a manosphere dude. Literally it's actually referred to he checks
out books on men's rights. Ken does, and then he goes back and
the manosphere setting up the patriarchy means laying around watching football, drinking beer,
just you know, lame shit, right, and then Barbie and the women,
the Barbies reinstitute the feminist feminocracy. And so you'll see that parallel as
we just covered between a lot of the feminist ideology and liberation oftenties into gnostic
philosophy and liberation philosophy as well, because the idea is that to invert all
of the patriarchal structure, you need to raise up everything that supposedly is oppressed
women and so forth right, they need to overturn the now actual order to
achieve liberation and freedom. And we covered a lot of those lunatic female deluded
savior figures on the Fourth Hour, Lord Voldemort the other day from the Fire
and in the Minds of Men book, where I mean it should be pretty
obvious that the rise of feminism in the eighteen hundreds, of the more radical
versions of where it really starts to kick off. Most of the proponents of
it, like Flora Tristan, these these women like this, they had these
delusions that they thought that they were a female Jesus, I'm not joking.
And so Barbie is basically a kind of female gnostic archetype figure. And that's
exactly what I covered with was it me and Jamie forget it? We did
the whole Barbie stream about what we did the dark goddess savior archetype here right
with Ghosts and Michell and other films like that. And you'll notice that nasticism
was prevalent in those films as well, just like when we did the transhumanist
films where we had what John Depp top fifteen Hollywood AI transhumanist films. Well,
guess what, they're also also gnostic films. So there's those. If
you didn't if you didn't even know, if you didn't even know. So
now let's get to the creator. I think I covered most of the here's
my list that I came up with that I thought was pretty right. There's
also Pleasantville. I'm not a huge fan of play. I mean, I
don't think it's that good of a movie. Is kind of boring to me.
But you have the basic idea that once there's sin that's introduced I think
by the Reese Witherspoon character, right, then the world of Pleasantville becomes colorful.
So you need sin supposedly in order to have fun or to have you
know, vibrancy, life, creativity. Color comes through basically through sin.
So I mean, that's actually what the story is about. That's literally the
narrative of the movie. That's not my interpretation, that's actually what it's about.
So again, where my superchatter is that, yes, you could also
do a fifth Element. We did a whole breakdown a fifth Element as well
tonight's list. I don't guess it's completely exhaustive, because there's always it's always
another gnostic narrative somewhere. A lot of the Black Mirror episodes, which we
covered here in this podcast, you could find there. But we did Fifth
Element in three years ago. Here's me and Jamie doing Fifth Element right here,
and it's absolutely agnostic as well. Miladjovich plays Leelu, who is the
incarnation of the goddess figure she is the fifth element, which is love,
which is also incarnated as Lulu, and so she's the source to overcome Gary
Oldman, the gnostic archetype figure. Again, over and over and over,
you'll see the same narratives, the same structure, the same parallels. There's
also one more forgotten film that we have mentioned. I'll just mention it here
in Passing with Sorcia Ronan and Bill Murray. It's a young adult film as
well, but it's also I think it pretty good. It's a pretty good
film, same story. You have a time capsule where there's a secret that's
been hidden from everybody and the youth discover the secret of the underground city.
It's very similar to THHX one three eight, but it's also a lot of
really well done art direction, really good cinematography, So of a secret society
narrative going on to keep the suppress the truth, and then when they discover
what's really going on there, you have, as you can see the path
out of Plato's allegory of the cave basically right, So it's another allegory of
the cave structure story. I recommend it just if you're looking for a decent
film but again neognostic parallels. Now, let's talk about the Creator, because
everybody's talking about this as if it's this sort of great new sci fi ap
I mean, it's getting some hate, it's not getting total love, but
the critics for the most part, really love it. Obviously, it's it's
about a six or a seven on the woke scale in my view. But
I do want to mention before we get to it, a lesser known story
that I bet, I bet now maybe one or two people I've read it,
But have you ever read the Arthur who was himself an aluminist creep?
Have you read his story The Nine Billion Names of God? One day,
Jamie and I came up we were we were researching Arthur Clark's stuff. We
came upon a sort of a random obscure Arthur C. Clark's story, the
nine Billion Names of God. And we'll go into this a little bit because
it's relevant to this Creator movie. I don't know if the writer or the
people that came up with it were familiar with this or not. This is
just my own, my own association that this is what it reminded me of.
And we're going to notice the parallels to the Buddhist thought in this,
as well as parallels to other Arthur C. Clark a sort of aluminist philosophy.
Of course, Clark wrote twenty one, a space Odyssey, The Sentinel,
a lot of what went into you know, the Kuberc story. Crib
changed the plot a little bit for two thousand and one, but Clark wrote
three twenty ten, which is all about Luciferian initiation, and three thousand and
one, which is about full on transhumanism because Howl and Bowman unite to become
Hallman in that story. Arthur cy Clark also was reported to be kind of
chilling and hanging out in the Crowley circles. So I don't know if that's
ever been I don't know that's for sure, But I don't know if he
actually went to the Abbey of Thelema, but I wouldn't be surprised. I
think there's rumors that he did. But that's not surprising because of course Crowley
was also hanging out with Huxley and partying together with Huxley. So again,
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talk about the overall structure of this story, which we have basically this brother
who is is on a sort of a black Ops mission. Right, He's
sent on this Black Ops mission. As far as we can tell, we
don't know exactly what's going on, and he's got him a nice Asian lady
that he has put a bun in the oven with, and we think everything's
going good. We think they're having a nice time, and then a bunch
of would look to be future marines invade and basically blow everything up, and
we find out there's a giant drone which is known as Nomad, which is
run by the new reconstituted America of the future. And the reason that they've
created this Nomad drone is because at some point in the near future from US
from where we are today, there was an AI nuke that went off and
basically it destroyed La. La was nuked, killed a million people, and
so the American government reconstitutes and bands AI. AI finds refuge in Eurasia,
particularly in China, and so the US declares war on China over AI,
and the US creates, as a product of the military industrial Complex, this
giant mega drone, which is a weapon that kind of floats like a giant
sort of neuralink over countries and it basically can bomb any place as a super
mega decapitation weapon. So it's a giant drone that basically can just move over
any place and then bomb the crap out of you. With tactical nukes,
and so the US has basically declared war on AI. Now all of this,
I think is a pretty interesting plotline, right. This is not the
standard kind of sci fi gibber jabber that we get with AI, but stories
and narratives. But you know, so far this was pretty good, And
for the first third of the movie, I was like, this is a
lot of potential to be pretty pretty badass. Then we find out that,
no, there's more to the story because, and I have to say,
I called it right from the get go. I said, spoiler alert,
the young child that is the mcguffin of the movie. The child mcguffin is
actually the offspring of a kind of the Brother Man and the Asian woman,
and this child is the future Savior who will synthesize and reconcile the humans in
the AI that are in battle together. What do you know, I was,
I was right from twenty to thirty seconds of seeing the trailer, I
already figured out the entire plot. How did I know that? Well,
because they don't typically put out blockbusters like this that aren't gonna have propaganda in
them, and not all propaganda is over. You can have very subtle propaganda.
For example, Spielberg's AI, which definitely influenced this film quite a bit,
has a very anti human narrative to it. It's basically, the AI
are the victims and the humans are the perpetrators of all evil, and so
AI and cyborgs or whatever they need human rights and that will be that will
come in the future. I don't believe that AI and robots are sentient,
but the establishment will run a giant scam and they will tell everybody that cyborgs
and androids and bots and AI are alive and they're all equivalent, and they
all have rights, and they will eventually because the Establishment is completely anti human.
They are Malthusian and they are the architects of AI. They will then
say that humans are the bad entities that need to go away. So basically,
they're all depop Malthusian transhumanists. That is the antish point from which this
film comes. Absolutely. Now, the film is not actually presenting the need
for all of the humans to die, So I will give it one point
because it's not explicitly a deepop story. Because you think early on that the
AI want to depop everybody, right, you think, oh, the AI,
it's Skynet, it's Terminator. So the first third half of the movie
was pretty good because you're thinking that it's that kind of a story where,
oh, this is going to be another Skynet. You know, Skynet's trying
to take out all the humans. We've seen this story before, and then
it flips. Turns out no, but this is kind of obvious in my
view. The humans fake flagged the AI and blame the AI for the nuke
when it was not the AI. It was a human error, as is
later explained by the bots, a human error encoding caused the to go off.
Oops oops oops, I put in nuke go off, dot exc and
I hit return My bad and the nuke went off. Whose fault? Does
it? Blame the bots? So Pentagon blames the bots, and then the
bots later explain to our protagonist character that no, it was a fake flag
and we AI bots, we are innocent, we love you, and so
the story flips. But that was all obvious. It was so obvious that
it wasn't the bots that did this. No, it was the humans fault.
And you see, humans are bad, and that's what the bots then
say. We are virtuous, we don't make errors. You make errors,
right now, that's the overall plot. And then we find out, as
you spoiler alert, that the child of the Ai, the child of the
black guy and the Asian woman, is not exactly his child, but she
took from the baby that they were gonna have, and she modeled a new
fetus that would be an Ai that could grow and mature. It's another it's
almost a female type of annunciation Jesus incarnation, right, So it's you have
a kind of mirror of the annunciation to the woman. And as we've seen
many times over, dark goddess savior archetype. It's not a guy. It's
a female gnostic goddess who gives birth to a woman, the dark goddess Savior
archetype once again. And so the child that she gives miraculous birth to,
it's it's actually described as an Ai miracle. Here's the other interesting point.
The Ai have a religious belief, the Ai and their compatriots and religion who
are Eastern Asian Buddhists. I'm not joking. The Ai religion is Buddhism and
Buddhists together, because you'll notice they have Buddhist monks and it looks like Tibetan
Buddhism. I'm guessing. I mean, I'm pretty sure that by the end
of the film, when they get up to the top of that it looks
like Himalayas or whatever they find that Buddhist monastery, it looks like Tibetan Buddhism
because of all the carved architecture. The Tibetan Buddhists have actually carved an Ai
bought as one of their deities or symbols of deities. Right now, if
you don't know, Tibetan Buddhism is different than mainline Buddhism. Tibetan Buddhism is
a specific Buddhism is very still attached to the older indigenous animism and paganism that
was prior to Buddhism. And so, for example, a lot of Tibetan
Buddhists really try to meditate and into and reached the gods, so they actually
believe in like demons and gods and spirits and stuff, right, So they're
not as atheistic as a lot of other types of Buddhism. Now, again
this is not my field of study and not any kind of expert in Buddhism.
But I do know more about Buddhism and relationship to intelligence operations, actually
because for many who are not aware, Tibetan Buddhism has also been an operation
that the CIA has relied a lot upon. For example, the particularly the
character of the Dalai Lama at least as late as the seventies and eighties was
receiving a lot of CIA money. Openly, this is an open thing.
It's covered in La Times and as well as many other publications. I first
heard about this because Ingdall covers it in for Full Spectrum Dominance. The's a
whole chapter on CIA use of Free Tibet. Free Tibet, for those that
don't know, was a famous CIA operation and it had to do with geopolitical
strategies against China. And it's all public. This is not a conspiracy.
Well known. I've known about this for at least ten twelve years. CIA
Tibet program was an anti Chinese Covide operation spanning twenty years. It consisted of
political action, propaganda, paramilitary operations facilitated by with brothers of the fourteenth Dalai
Lama, who was not initially aware of them yet, right, I don't
believe that the State of Goal program was to keep the political conception about autonomous
Tibet alive within the region amongst several four nations. The program was administered by
the CIA and in coordination with the State Department and the DoD. Public record
right of nineteen sixty four was two million dollars have been spent on the Tibet
operation. This goes back to the Nixon era out missus, old school stuff.
And for those that don't know, this is also why tiny Mustache man
he had people making connections with the Dalai Lama, our buddy Mark Hackard.
This goes actually goes back to the era of the original Great Game and older.
So if you don't know, this goes back to the Tzar. The
Czar actually would send envoys and spies. Why is that networking? Hopefully espionas
history archive isn't down anyway, but there's a there's an article at Espiona's history
archive on the Tzar and Tibet. So this isn't actually an old geostrategic strategy
for any empires to try to have influence in this region. Obviously. Why
it's I mean, it's an amazing it's a very important locations what I'm trying
to say, And it doesn't just go back to the CIA. Actually goes
back to World War Two with tiny mustache man wanting to have influence with the
Dali Lama at that time, and it goes back to the Czar, and
I'm sure it goes back even older into older olden times of spy stuff that
few of us even know about anyway. So that's the CIA to Thatt program.
You can find a lot of old articles that discuss this CI in Tibet
Small Small, Small Wars Journal. This is a famous journal covering this like
that. Redators are just figuring this out. Like two years ago, the
CIA find us a Diali Lama? What what? What? No way?
Wait? Yeah, because it was in public places, in publications like La
Times in the nineteen nineties. For much of the nineteen sixties, the CIA
provided the tibetan x All movement with two million dollars as operations against China.
Uh. In fact, the Dali Alumba got one hundred and eighty thousand dollars.
Now that's quite a bit in sixties money. And for those that don't
know, there is the there's a great book on Tibetan Buddhism by Victor.
I wonder if that's still online Tremunday, But that's no longer online, is
it Tramundi? I don't know if it's that guy. Let me see if
I can find that book. Maybe it is this guy. I bet it.
So this is so Victor Tamani. This is him. But that's in
German. So there used to be a website that had all this translated into
English. Here we go, this is it? Yeah, shadow the Deli
along. I think this is it. Yes, I can't believe this is
still up. So there's a whole book on this. I read this years.
This is probably rather long time ago. Now this doesn't get into the
intelligence stuff. This gets into critiquing the dark side of this, the religious
side of the Bat Buddhism. So here you see tantrasm male female weirdness.
There's quite a few fascinating chapters in Victor's book here. I wonder if this
is in English. I'd like to have this actual English trans Lesha can't read
his German. But if you're looking for a full on critique of the skull,
duggery and weirdness of Tibetan Buddhism. Here is Victor's English book, but
there's also I remember him covering a long time ago the Dalai Lama and the
relations to Tiny Mustache Man. Let me see, And you're saying, well,
how does that relate, Well, yes, it does relate to Himmler's
trip. Right, everybody knows about Himler sending the delegation to try to find
the ascended masters and all that, right, But there was also alliances,
or they tried to make alliances between Tiny Mustache Man and the Dalai Lama at
the time. That's not it anyway, And you could see why because right
that the Dalai Lama is in that region supposedly where a lot of the himl
mythology believes that we that the Teutonic Aryan race descends from, right, so
that mythology goes back to Himalayas and all that. That's why Hindler sends his
delegation. Thus, you could see the interest in the Dalai Lama. But
it's not just that mythology and stuff. I mean, I think Himler really
believed that mythology. But what I'm saying is that this region is also key
for geostrategic espionage. Purposes, right, And we know that Bolvatsky and other
people right were they would engage in espionage work under the cover of going to
try to find the ascended masters. And so the same things going on with
Dali Lama. Anyway, I don't know how do we get on Dolly Lama.
Oh, that all underlies a lot of the philosophy going on in this
movie. That's how we got to that so far eastern stuff. Right here
we have the notion not just of Buddhism and Gnosticism. But listen to the
story that Jamie and I read a couple of years ago. This is the
Arthur C. Clark's story the nine Billion Names of God. You say,
well, why would there be nine billion names of God? Well, one
thing that's interesting about the names of God is that in Kobbolism you have the
idea that the created order comes to be through the power names of God.
Right, And so if you, as an individual can master these symbols and
these names, you can become a creator, like God's a creator. That's
a bunch of magic. Who who do apparently? And again I don't know
a lot about Tibetan Buddhism and so forth, but Apparently there are similar parallels
to the deeper dark side of the Betan Buddhism with perhaps Cobblism. And that's
not surprising because a lot of the world religions oftentimes have a similar idea of
the structure of the world right coming to be through sound. And these are
again probably primal logo spermaticos. Right, They're traditions that ultimately do go back
to the Bible, but they get corrupted and turned into superstitious magical thinking right
where there's many gods, or you can become a god. Right. But
the idea, for example, that God speaks to created order into existence is
true. But some of the far Eastern religions then believe that if you can
find those frequencies and those verbal intonations, you can become a creator god.
Right, you can be palm Wi deep right, you can have the weirding
way right, which is again same idea. So here that was one of
the Buddhists. You see, here's the Buddhist The Ai are Buddhist monks,
many of them, but they worked together with Buddhists in the East. Because
Americans have decided to go to war. We blow him up, blow everything.
I do like this. They perfectly cast this general though. He was
one of the best, actually one of the best side characters, because he's
like this perfect sort of Kissinger. General guy even sounds like Kissinger and has
he looks kind of like younger Kissinger. That guy was a perfect General.
They cast him perfectly. Anyway, Nomad is the Drome, I think,
the big super drum, because that's supposed to be no Rad, right,
So Nora Rad gets reconstituted as Nomad, which is now this giant eye in
the sky and the Ai product miracle virgin birth child. I mean, it's
not a virgin birth, but the it kind of is, because the girl
is created on the pattern of the baby that the Asian woman had from the
Black guy. The synthesis of these two produces the future, which is this
Ai female girl who grows and grows to master her powers to even overcome the
created order, so she can basically meditate and tap into any robotic or computer
thing to either shut it off or destroy it or whatever. Right, So
she's a dark gnostic savior archetype. But it's a direct parallel to the incarnation.
And they even have this this sort of exodus motif of you know,
when Moses floats down the river as the child that's being protected from Pharaoh killing
the first born of Egypt, the you know in Christ and the Holy Family,
they flee go to Egypt to get around Herod's persecution. Exact same motif
here, exact same story, the Moses story, the Jesus story. But
now it's a girl. It's the female gnostic, dark goddess savior archetype,
clear as day. Pretty wild. Now what about this story that I'm talking
about, Well, how does it tell you? In The Nine Billion Names
of God, it is a short story by the British born science fiction writer
Arthur Clark. Arthur C. Clark published in nineteen fifty three in an anthology.
It's a short tale about religion, computers, and the apocalypse. The
nine Billion Names of God deserves its own analysis, and we're going to read
this. I'll link this analysis here in a minute. I guess I should
have just put it up on the screen for you guys, if you want.
But this is a literary professor, I think is an Now his analysis
here and so the word begins with the Dalai Lama making an unusual request of
a doctor Wagner who is it works in computing. The Lama wishes to hire
an automatic sequence computer from Wagner's company and have it transported to the Tibetan Mountains
so that it can carry out these unusual functions. The unusual function is this,
the monks have been trying for years, three centuries to find out all
of the names of God, having narrowed down the range to the possible letters
of nine. Nine by the way, and the occult is a number of
initiation the features in a special alphabet devised by these monks, they now wish
to discover all the various combinations by which God could be known. The computer
will mean that a tack the computer will mean that a task which was set
to take the monk's fifteen thousand years can now be done by the computer in
a much shorter time. The next scene where transported to the Tibetan Mountains,
where an American computer engineer named George Hanley's part of a team working with the
computer to complete the monk's request. The computer processes all the possible combinations of
the nine letters put in, the printing them out, and an electronic typewriter
on the paper which the monks then put into books. So here we have
a new Bible almost of the Ai right, so it's like Cobbalism, but
now it's Buddhist Ai Bible. And remember noiv all Harari said that Ai would
rewrite the Bible and give us a new Bible, which is exactly what Arthur
C. Clarke is talking about. The monks then scrutinize all the letter combinations
and the computer that the computer produces. Handley thinks that the monks are insane
for wanting to do this, and he's anxious to return to America and leave
this project behind. He talks to Chuck, who's another American working on the
project, and Chuck tells him that he's discovered that the monks believed this will
happen when all the various names of God are discovered, then will come the
end, So the apocalypse comes when this code is solved. They discussed delaying
the computer's completion so to consult coincides with their departure from the valley because they're
worried about the monks growing angry with them and their computer when nothing when nothing
happens once the computer has completed this task, Although I Hanley rejects this idea,
they go on with the plan. Seven days later, two men are
riding in their airplane which will fly them back to the United States, and
nightfalls. As they travel through the darkness with the aid of torches, they
discuss the computer will be putting the finishing touches on the calculations about this point.
And then Chuck notices something in the sky, and the two men look
up and the stars are going out, and thus the apocalypse ensues. So
we have a gnostic presentation that once this machine has processed and discovered the totality
of reality, namely the names of God, you get this apocalypse in the
end of the world because now the emergent the deusex Mashana has emerged from within
the machine, within the world. God has become incarnated within the world through
AI and the machine discovering all the secrets of the names of God, which
is how reality is constructed, constructed supposedly through the names of God. So
basically, the computer has now achieved full divine omniscience essentions. The literary analysts
will see, we'll see what he says. Clark's story focuses on the world
of modern tech and the realm of ancient mysticism. The Buddhist monks belief that
if they can discover the nine million names of God, the universe will end,
since the human race will have achieved what it was created to do to
find God. So God is not a personal being, it's a technology.
Many gnostic and world religions that are false do not believe in a personal God,
but a God that emerges from within a da usex mosion that is like
a technology. We might have said that the story fuses Oriental religion with modern
science. Clark devotes a substantial portion of the first section, which, by
the way, is what theosophy attempted to do, reminding us to Betan monks
don't have reliable access to electricity, for example, so they're lacking something.
So in other words, the fusion of the East and the West is what's
needed, and that's the synthesis. By the way of the movie, The
Creator, the Child is the dialectical synthesis between Eurasian communism and wholism in Western
technology and capitalism and individualism. Its synthesizes into this new divine, feminine ai
child that is produced the female Jesus, which is exactly by the way,
what the deluded feminist cult leader, woman Flora Tristan said, if you read
the Billington book, she thought she was the new synthesis and the new female
savior to save us from the tear any of the patriarchal gods of the past,
and that she would usher in a new utopia as this movie presents.
By the way, the peace, the time of Peace and Synthesis comes about
when the child who is also a weapon, the dark gnostic goddess savior type
savior archetype. She's taken on board the mass of drone, the Nomad,
and she meditates and helps destroy it right because she can hack into all attack.
But they bring a bomb up there as well. But but back to
this Arthur Clark tale is a tale apocalypse, the end of the world,
but rather than focused on the ecological disaster or nukes as much of the sci
fi at the time, did Clark's tales about the human race coming to nosis
knowledge of a mystical kind, which marks this supreme achievement of knowing God.
Now, it's not knowing God in the sense of a personal relationship that you
know a person. It's knowing God in a gnostic sense of mastering the factual
technological knowledge of a emergent God of Ai. You see totally different idea of
what it means to know God. Indeed, there is something of Louis Borges
fiction in The Nine Billion Names of God, especially in its Ryan playful fusing
of mysticism with something as surprising utilitarian as a computer the old one. This
is transhumanist right. The old line that an infinite number of monkeys hammering away
a tie perriers could visually produced Shakespeare is here given a kind of religious twist.
The Nine Billion Names of God plays in the idea that on Earth we
only partially know about God, or a god generic theism, not a personal
God, and we will only come face to face with this when we have
left this world behind, or when this world ends. And as since the
Buddhist monks of Clark's story are seeking to know God by word rather than by
image words or images, so I disagree with you, professor. But during
the conversation they draw a link between Tibetan Buddhisms and Buddhism and crack pop preachers
in Louisiana, who are convinced that the world was coming to an end.
So ironically, the evangelical in Times people are on the same page as the
Debutan Buddhist monks. The notion that the devout wanted to want to will the
end of the world so that they can come closer to God is found in
many religious texts. That's actually not I mean, we hope that the Christ
comes Marianatha, but we do not hope for the end of the world,
as if we want this destruction or chaos or that's ridiculous, right, this
light is really bright, so want to keep blinking. By the way,
the description of the apocalypse could not be more anticlimactic. In this story.
The world ends not even with a whimper let it alone a bang, but
a mere winking of the stars going out. What is Clark suggesting by this
ending, Well, one possible interpretation is that he's reminding us that one day
the world will end. Our sun is on borrow time, blah blah blah.
There's how does anybody know that the sun is winding down? I mean,
this is ridiculous speculation that they always talk about, Well, the sun
will the son will burn out while you're forty four billion. Of course,
it's unlikely that such rationalism as Clark's philosophy believe that such as Clark believe the
discovery the name's going to bring out the into the world, he doesn't really
believe this. Yeah, So again, I think this probably underlies this movie
to some degree because instead of it being the end of the world in the
sense of an apocalypse, when the Ai is basically saved in the Buddhist the
Tibetan Buddhist monastery at the end, that that's their refuge, right, so
they kind of hold up in their final refuge when they're all about to be
destroyed and the Mother has to pass away and they talk about her being being
reincarnated or whatever. It's sort of like the way that you see the Holy
City surround owned to buy all the enemies of God in the Book of Revelation.
But here it's not the church, it's this Buddhist Tibetan Buddhist temple,
which is really the future world religion. I guess you could say of this
narrative of this story, so Buddhism, then Tibetan Buddhism produces the true holy
family of Creator, Father, Friend, and Mother, and that's actually the
story is told in these these these patterns, by the way, if you
don't. So the first part of the movie is the Creator, which you
could argue is the black dude or the mom, because the Ai worship this
god they call Normata, and Normata means I forget exactly what it means,
but it's the god of the Ai. And you think this whole time that
it's some dude that they're trying to track down, but it actually turns out
to be the Chinese woman, right, the woman who's the father to the
woman that's that's with the black dude. So Creator and then father, who's
the black guys, those sort of the protagonists, and then there's a friend,
and then there's Mother, and so the narrative moves from masculine to feminine.
So we end with this synthesis again between East and West, between male
and female that produces the humanity of the future. And the film consistently refers
to evolution as the process that is that you can't stop, and so the
process that you can't stop that produces the apotheosis of man is a new kind
of being right, which has these divine powers, which is this synthesis being.
So it's absolutely Hegelian dialectics that produces the future god Child, who is
not Jesus but is a woman. There you haven't. That is everything that
we expected it to be. I called the plot within thirty seconds of watching
the trailer, and I even said that it'll be like a new Goddess figure,
right, I mean this is basically like what was the last Resident Evil?
Remember that one? It was the same thing where it was like Alice
becomes the Goddess, right, kind of like Leelu, because remember she played
the same thing. That's the game. I don't want the game. What's
I've already forgot the name of the last one? Right, Resident Evil movie,
Final Chapter? That's it. Yeah, so if you remember in final
Chapter, by the way, they explained that it was the Umbrella Corporation plan
to depop. Right, there's this sequence where is it Captain friend Zone.
Yeah, he's the one that runs the Umbrella Corporation and they made the decision
to do what he called Project Noah, right, which was to mass deepop.
But they don't care because actually Alice the whole time was the prototype of
the future human because she's a series of clones and Resident Evil one it began
as her as a mind controlled Black Ops person. Right, She's a she's
a Black Ops Private Security Force assassin who's mind controlled. And then it turns
out that she's cloned. And you never really know what the Umbrella Corporation is
up to with all this, but ultimately they're mutating humans through skynet AI all
this kind of stuff to create a future human. And then Alice learns that
she is the ultimate prototype of the future human. But when she discovers this,
she basically turns on Captain friend Zone. Right, Captain friend Zone from
Game of Thrones, Remember the guy that's constantly trying to get with Kalisi and
she's like, no, dude, you're in the friend zone forever. Well,
in Resident Evil final chapter, she becomes this quasi divine goddess figure.
She's a gnostic dark goddess savior archetype because as she's you know, at the
at the final sequence, she basically starts having like mind over matter powers,
right, so she's evolved to have mutated to have this almost goddess type power.
That's exactly what happens in Fifth Element. So basically Miladjovivic again another actress
that's typically in MK Ultra My Control altar films all the time, and then
she's also in these sort of clone goddess type films. So there you have
it. I hope you hopefully enjoyed this. And if you want to read
the literary analysis for the nine billion Names of God, you can read that
right here. My voice is going out, so I'll try to read these
supertists. Goat Mange three dollars, Thank you so much. Candle Jack five
dollars. Is it a coincidence or do you think that the specific Buddhist religion
is shown as the creator compatible with Ai and the point of them being AI
monks. Yes, I think that for the global elites, Eastern religions are
always more useful for collectivization and social engineering. In fact, you know,
Huxley says this in The Perennial Philosophy, and we know he's speaking from the
mouth of the elite that Perennial philosophy, and particularly in that he talks about
far Eastern philosophies are much more useful for getting every blend, everybody blended into
the blob for social control. And they actually say that they're going to have
to inculcate far more Eastern philosophy into the West to have much more controlled,
malleable mass population. So they always favor those kinds of collectivists views of religion
over any other, you know, Western types of religion, because in Western
theology, man is individual, man has made the image of God. There
is a there is a collective component, which is you know, found in
the church or within human nature in general. There's no imbalance between the one
and the many. But far Eastern philosophy as always focused on the one,
the collective, the unity. Western philosophy, at least since the Enlightenment,
has focused on what Spain calls Faustian man or is individual desire for individual transcendence
atimistic individual after you know, post Enlightenment. Ultimately, you know Orthodox theology,
there's should be a perfect balance between the one and the MANI. Now,
some Eastern philosophies do talk about a balance between the one and the mini,
but they actually talk about that balance being a kind of non being,
which is silly, right. No, No, the balance and the transcendence
of the one the mini is not the destruction and negation of the one the
mini. Okay, it's not non being, that's crazy, But no,
it is not a coincidence, DC Woodworking three dollars. Funco Pop fun thank
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