After the crushing saga that was Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight, expectations for writing a greater Batman film had become doubtful. Instead, Nolan's script for Inception, which took a total of almost eight years to complete, took the forefront as the next Nolan epic. Just as The Dark Knight defied the magnitude of its action movie predecessors, Inception now redefines any predecessor - delivering the ultimate twist in the collective human perception of reality.
Inception asks the question: What is a dream? In the movie, dreams are set apart from reality with the following:
1. The dreamworld is affected by the gravitational situation of the dreamer.
2. The 'spinning top' token will spin forever in a dream.
3. Dreams contain paradoxical shapes and stairways.
4. The dreamer's subconscious supplies the people, while the architect's dream supplies the realm.
After seeing Inception, your reality will never be the same. Daily sequences of events, strung together in a linear order, will become blurred and tangled by the constant questioning of reality that brought Cobb, played by Leonardo DiCaprio, and his wife Mal played by Marion Cotillard, off the brink of sanity. When the division between real life and the dreamworld enters the mainstream foreground of society, many of us will require more clues to understanding where to go next.
What merit does the aspect of dreaming hold to the modern American culture? First of all, dreams, unlike most other human endeavors, cannot be measured in any value that the waking life holds. Today, opportunity cost is the most frequent measure of choices that any recession-hit society endures. To me, this entails equating friends, activities, love interests, and other intangible aspects to terms of time and money. What is the most favored decision when deciding what to do? That activity which yields the most value. With groups of friends in almost any area shifting their concerns to money, with today's heightened level of staggering national debt, true, shared human ideals are being swallowed whole by the concern generated by wealth. To overcome these lost ideals, especially for a post-recession/depression world, a global awareness must transpire. According to researcher David Icke, that is precisely what is now unfolding.
Albert Einstein, considered one of the most brilliant minds of history, says this:
"...'Man'... experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us."
In the dreamworld, not only is the mind disconnected from these illusory templates of thought, but the switch for universal awareness and connection is established in its stead. The spiritual connection of the dreamworld can be obtained in the waking life naturally through meditation, and chemically through Dymethyltryptamine, a component of the brain endogenously produced by the human body at birth in the pineal gland. The pineal gland is the only component of the brain that does not have a symmetrical counterpart: instead, it is centered completely in the middle.
The pineal gland, along with the pituitary gland and the hypothalamus, create what is called the "third eye." The full extent of this gland is constantly being revised to include far more information.
With transcendental movies, music, comics and lore, this blog will be a catalyst to the changes in our collective consciousness. Just as Inception took us beyond the brink of understanding ultimate love, mainstream stories to a screeching halt. There will be every reason to follow these posts, especially the transformative information around each nook and cranny! So long as I continue to draw inspiration from the mind-crushing tales of transcendentalism, there will be much feasting to be had from the trough of intuitive wisdom! Stay tuned,
-SubTemplum
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