"And you know I've seen the future
And you know I've seen the past
And the human race is changing
Now we're living life too fast"
Once you begin to question what this reality is, like in Inception, you will begin with feeling disillusioned. Disillusionment is necessary in small increments in order to expand your awareness as a whole. David Lynch spoke of this earlier in the Creativity post. Some people will live their whole lives in the luxury box seats of the theatre, while the groundlings will find endless fascination and synthesis in the real, gritty thick of it. Keeping that in mind, it's not surprising that Orange Goblin has a song called "Your World Will Hate This." However, disillusionment can also be comforting, in that your mobility of thinking is no longer shackled down to a narrow frame of reference and you are free to explore anything and everything. This freedom to explore is the key to being alive, which is why the most "living" that people accomplish is at a young age of wondrous curiosity.Alex Grey's wonder:
While disillusioned, it is a key time to reconfigure your planetary bearings. Like plants, which grow around trellises instinctively, the human instinct is to be nurtured through ideas and creativity. Terrence McKenna prophetically says: "The imagination is the goal of history. I see culture as an effort to literally realize our collective dreams."
Establishing Blueprints
Artists with great intuition give powerful lessons of our universe. Their work oftentimes requires decoding. Training ourselves to recognize when an artist, director or author has such a message is one of the most important things we can do at this stage. In the continuum of movies and books there are bloated amounts of information. Our common purpose is to spread the words of unifying concepts like transcendental peace and unification. Now must train ourselves to select such movies, which contain information arranged much like a blueprint, that are revealed through concepts, plots, and metaphors. These movies we select must have the seeds to enlightenment. All that is required is fertile minds. We must ensure that the movies that we immortalize for future generations bear the juiciest of fruits.What is a blueprint of transcendentalism? Let's look at the roots.
Trans = Latin for "Across"
Transcend = Rise Above, Exceed.
Transcendental= The invisible fabric of the universe's interconnectivity absorbed subconsciously in humans but, when "going across," obtaining higher levels of consciousness. In a way, leaving the human experience to understand metaphysical reality.
Guidelines For Blueprints
1. The story or album should begin the same way it ends. Watchmen is the classical graphic novel blueprint for this component, as it begins and ends with the Smiling Doomsday Clock with a blood splatter. The Pink Floyd Album "Dark Side Of The Moon" is the standard for this musical blueprint, as it begins and ends with a beating heart. Beginning the same way a story ends signifies that the incidents of the story were set into motion before it even began. Directors that understand this wish to blow your mind.
2. The character or subject should undergo a journey or internal struggle that questions reality along the way. The book "The Hero With A Thousand Faces" By Joseph Campbell is the blueprint for this requirement. It explains how in nearly every hero's journey, the realm of nonordinary realities delivers a vital lesson the hero needs to fulfil his task. As in reality, this can be done through internal realization or externally through a special chemical compound found in magic herbs or potions, usually given to the hero by a seer. In the Roman Poem the Aenid by Vergil, Aeneas travels to Hell in search of the epic shield. Badass characters can also be a requirement if you want.
3. Nature is illustrated as the source of enlightenment. In Aronofsky's "Pi," a spiral conch shell, and the perfect arrangement of an Ant's body are the catalyst moments to universal understanding and fulfillment.
4. Death is only the beginning. A classical example would be Star Wars: A New Hope when Obi-Wan sacrifices himself, out of understanding of the interstellar nature of death and to be the guiding force required for Luke Skywalker's dangerous mission. Joseph Campbell actually consulted with George Lucas on his initial movies.
5. Nature and Pure Characters have a symbiotic relationship. Once again, Alan Moore's Swampthing.
6. The struggle between good and evil (ying yang) is a neverending process.
7. Material greed is overcome and destroyed.
8. Righteousness of any kind.
Some basic blueprints that will help you with your own ideas for blueprints:
- Psychoactive Concepts as they relate to religion and spirit:www.erowid.com
- Paintings In order, of the Human Experience through transcendental vision:www.Alexgrey.com (click on Paintings, then click on the Progress Of The Soul)
- The blueprints for living healthy:www.cleanairandwater.net
- The blueprints for our galaxy:www.youtube.com (search Carl Sagan)
- Black Sabbath's early Ozzy years, with anguishing vocals and heavy bearing-filled rhythms:
"Long ago I wandered through my mind / in the land of fairy tales and stories / innocence and love was all I knew / Was it illusion? / Lost in the wheels of confusion / Hiding in everyday fears"
Though it is an unusual suggestion you don't hear often, disillusionment is an important phase in being alive. After your reconfiguration holds new structures of thinking, a bearing to Earth will be achieved. The band Om holds the blueprints to reconfiguration, obtaining bearings, and ascension, wrapped in confusing riddles:"Approach the grid substrate the sunglows beam to freedom."
"Stillness breathes apex supreme - groundates toward the mountain."
"Centripetal core of soul sojourns the field vibrates to absolution. I climb toward the sun to breathe the universal."
Alex Grey's Transfiguration.
-SubTemplum
God is good.
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