Movies And Books As Magic

The audience believes more in UFO's, the coming 2012 event prophecy, and ghosts than it does in Spirituality or the inner core of itself.

This inner core of people reading books and watching movies is a part of creation, whatever actually powers the universe, and people's lives! . The audience senses this part of itself, but can't find it. Neverthe less, the audience instinctively desires to express it's own creative potentialities, its inborn courage, it's humanity, and to connect with the unseen forces which shape its Life. In the past, movies helped or aimed people along these lines.

The audience's desire is instinctively strong for instruction in a method that will enable them to sense or experience that indefinable power or principle that informs the universe and enables their lives. They are aware that they crave a vocabulary of actions, not words from some unreality. They don't want sterile symbols or blind ritual, but it stops there, because they don't know what to do next. Movies formerly attempted to provide guidance through this wilderness.

Today's audience can only spectate the hero on the screen or book page, rather than engage in self-actualizing acts by emulation. They can't find the way, the courage, or even an inner reflection of that energy of creation, and so they are not inspir! ed to let loose on a personal quest. This debilitates them.

Today's mostly specious movie scripts substitute exhibitionism for import, dishonesty for integrity, preaching for fun. Movies become more spectacle than symbolic, more annoying than inspiring. American acting is so full of silly, stock mannerisms and slogans that is is completely inauthentic, without any spiritual resonance, no truly universal cues to prompt the unconscious in beneficial directions.

How many times can we listen to, a vacuous, "Hey...are you OK?" How many times can we watch an actor roll a cold glass across his (apparently) feverish brow? How many more times can we watch an actor fill their own dead air with "The Snort" as they clear their nose for some unknown reason, or watch them scratch, or do bizarre finger/hand "acting," where they hold the gun sideways?

If I see one more actor pretend to be chewing food, instead of just biting a sandwich, I may myself vomit.
Scenes become more and more just plain stupid or vulgar. Wh o wants to watch two people trying to eat each other's lips off? It's wacky. Who cares? Get a room.

Without the brilliance of a sincere, positive, and grand, iconic mythology in books and movies, culture perverts itself and collapses.

Movies and books offer possibilities: a clear-cut morality with spiritual values, via the actions of the hero; a vocabulary of action, which the audience can grasp, and lessons they can take with them, steps onto the path toward self-realization of their own relationship to the universe and the power that informs it. This is what consciousness intuitively craves.

Movies and books can be modern prophecy. This, as opposed to offering a mere spectation of sterile ritual or petrified symbols.

We consciously or unconsciously seek a way of reconciling being alive in time and space. However, in this era, there is no black and white morality myth to guide us, as in past epochs, only a gray bl! anket smothering the way. Science replaces religion for some.

In the 1950's, we saw what we feared: Earth VS The Flying Saucers.

Next, George Lucas showed us what we thought probably was: Star Wars, and Stephen Spielberg, what we hoped for: E.T.

Then, Mel Gibson showed us his hero's way: The Passion.

These movies were smash hits because the audience sensed the mythic mythic universality of their messages.

The next step is to show a way of action, a path relative to our complex era. This is what Star Wars came close to doing, why people still talk about The Force, and The Dark Side.

These are quasi-religious effects, pondering the nature of the universe, the eternal, where does the energy of space and eternity originate? What was There before here daddy?

Where is our Guide through this sea of darkness and Unknown? Where is our blueprint, our priest, our Way into the experience itself, not the talkin! g shadow of it.

Words are sterile symbols of what is, but c annot express it. The Poetry of books and movies can leap the gap. The artist speaking with immediacy, or painting on a cave wall beneath the earth, or in light on the silver screen cuts past passive words, to action.

Movie making and books can tap the brain-wired pathways of myth, dreams, and fairy tales buried deep in the whale-black contours of the unconscious. It is here where we reconcile the prods and demands of flesh, where we are maybe when we are asleep, or dead, or not born yet.

Art, poetry, picture-making, and books---they are the tools of the modern Shaman. He uses them to experience his eternity, and to pass on to his people, pitching them out physically into the experience itself.

The Shaman author and film maker is a way of action. His job is to give people the experience itself, not to just talk about it. This is the destiny of the movie-maker. We watch and we read and we should breathe out the word...

                    ...shaman...

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