Requiem for a Dream (2000). Spiritual Movie Review

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Requiem for a Dream (2000): Do you know what is the biggest problem in the western world? 
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Redemption. Excerpt Four

 

Ann with her AI pal Rob

I'd like to present the fourth extract from my novel Redemption. 

In this discussion, Rob explains to Ann which intangible values affected her Spiritual Choices in her first two lives.

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“I don’t understand it, Rob,” said Ann as she stepped out of the shower. 

“I had expected these nightmares to stop after going to the psychic. Several weeks have passed but - if anything - the dreams are more worrying than ever. It’s gotten worse instead of better.”

“That is all part of your journey, my lady,” Rob replied, looking out from the screen of the E-A device sitting by the sink. 

“Consider the Buddha’s path from the golden palace to enlightenment or Jesus’ journey through the cross to the resurrection. The greater the destination, the harder the journey must be.”

Ann considered this while drying herself with a towel. 

“I guess I can accept that,” she said eventually, “but from what I’ve seen on my two visits to the psychic, my - what did she call it? - My reincarnation chain has hardly been a series of victories. In my first life, I lost my son days after giving birth to him and ended up killing myself. And in the second I failed to save the woman I loved and died of a heart attack. I achieved nothing!”

“Nothing?” Rob raised an eyebrow at this and shook his head. 

“But, my lady, sacrifice has always been a necessary part of the greatest journey.”

Ann stopped drying her hair to look questioningly at him. “Sacrifice?”

 
“Of course sacrifice! Or did you think you gave up those lives without reason?”

“Well…” she continued drying her hair as she tried to think. “Maybe,” she conceded. “But I didn’t really achieve anything. I didn’t get Wu back or save Alfreda. Even if I did sacrifice myself, what was it all for?”

“Answer this then: when you were living in the Stone Age, why did you die?”

Ann shrugged as she picked up the E-A device and headed back out into the bedroom. “Because I shoved a spear through my heart.” 
She winced again at the memory that sharpened stick pushing into her body and placed a hand on her chest.

“No,” said Rob, now watching her from the bedside table. “That was how you died. I asked why.”

“Because that big murdering bastard was going to get me!” Ann jabbed crossly at the SmartHome screen on the wardrobe, selecting a red trouser suit. 

A wooden panel slipped back and the requested suit slid out on a rail.

“And what was that ‘big, murdering bastard’ going to do with you?”

“I don’t know,” she said, pulling on the underwear that had appeared through another panel. “Rape me? Beat me? Keep me as a slave wife?”

“All of the above, no doubt. So why did you decide to kill yourself?”

“Well, it’s obvious, isn’t it? Death has to be preferable to such a life. I died for freedom.”

“For freedom!” Rob agreed. “And what about your death as the Roman priest?”

“Egyptian priest.”

“Indeed.”

“That was just a heart attack, wasn’t it?”

Rob sighed and gave her a long meaningful look as Ann pulled on her trousers and tucked in her blouse. “Again, that was how you died. Ask yourself why.”

“Because I had been running and pushed my body too hard?”

“Okay… and why had you been running?”

“To save Alfreda’s life, to rescue the woman I loved.”

“So why did you die? For what reason?”

Ann finished buttoning up her jacket and stood up straight, suddenly realizing what Rob was getting at. “I died for love.”

“Exactly!” said Rob with a beaming smile. “You sacrificed yourself for freedom and for love. That’s good karma right there, my lady, huge steps on the path to redemption.”

“Redemption?” Ann looked puzzled for a moment, trying to remember where she had heard that word recently. 

“The psychic mentioned that at the end of our last session when she was going on about reincarnation chains and other weird stuff.”

“Perhaps it would be worth talking with her again and finding out what she meant?”

“I’m not so sure, Rob,” she said, picking up the device and walking towards the front door of her apartment. “My past lives might not have been pointless, but that doesn’t change the fact that my nightmares have gotten worse since I went to see that old woman. I don’t want to risk them getting even worse!”

“That’s entirely your choice, my lady. It is your life—your journey—and only you can make that decision.”

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White Palace (1990). Spiritual Movie Review - Jacklyn A. Lo

White Palace (1990) 

White Palace (1990) is a highly entertaining and thought-provoking movie.

A key-phrase in this film is life's purpose.

mature soul

Max is a mature soul. He takes care of his mom, working hard, neat and well organised. Above all, he admires classical music and plays the piano.

He feels that his purpose is to become a teacher, but he doesn't have trust in himself to go for it.

Instead of teaching, he has a prestige job, which allows him to have a gorgeous apartment and a higher-class society's lifestyle.

opportunity for a change

But his life-scenario* provides him with an opportunity for a change.

Hot Nora makes Max's life more diverse by activating his root and sacral chakras.  
Max feels a responsibility for the relationship ( a feature of the mature soul) and tries to fix their social gap, but he is not able to see a problem in himself yet.

Nora faces challenges too. She supposed to become tidy, which was always a problem for her ( a feature of a younger soul). Besides making her apartment clean, she also learns ( education is a positive feature of any developing soul) a piece of new cleaning equipment.

Nora is not only an attractive woman, but she also has COURAGE, which allows her not only to defend herself in the surrounding of Max's friends but also express her own opinion about the world.

Nora sees Max's embarrassment for the relationship with her. Therefore she makes a firm decision to break with Max. So, she quits her job and leaves the city.

spiritual choice

Max gets time to think. This is a significant moment in his life - his Spiritual Choice.

Encouraging by his friends, he evaluates upper society and younger than Nora women.

However, starting a new dating looks pretty heavy "project" for him. He doesn't know for sure if a young and educated lady could provide him with the same energetic balance as "having everything that he needs" Nora.

values

Furthermore struggling along, Max compares things. He doesn't see any more values in his up class surrounding.

life's purpose

Using inner feelings, Max drops the established well being and clarifies his life's purpose.

Therefore, Max makes a robust mental statement - a relationship with Nora was given to him as a chance to become a teacher.

Although the decision was difficult and risky, this is his Spiritual Choice towards Light.

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Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014). Spiritual Movie Review - Jacklyn A.Lo

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014)

The keyword in the movie Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014) is duality.

Duality is a component of low consciousness, where spiritual beings divide the World into two different parts - BLACK and WHITE, GOOD and BAD, WE and THEY, etc.

Low collective consciousness. "Game of Thrones"

Low collective consciousness on the example of the TV- series "Game of Thrones".

  

The world described in this series is on a dense planet with a very low collective consciousness. The lifestyle and mindset are close to the Dark Ages in European history on our Earth.

These are several clear signs of low consciousness:

1. The system of values

a. Power and revenge vs. creativeness and art. Most of the people have significant mind pollution; they obsessively pursue revenge or seek to gain power via ownership of land, money or women.

2. The social and economic position of women

a. In general, women have a very low position in society. 

b. They do not use their higher conscious (vs. men) to improve things, as they are either occupied with household work or earning a basic living as servants or entertainers. 

3. Illiteracy and ignorance

a. Most of the people are illiterate.

b. Access to libraries is prohibited for women and children.

4. Low vibrations

a. People eat a lot of meat; some of them eat human flesh.

b. Excessive drinking.

c. Continuous fear.

d. Separation from each other, no goals with a focus on a common good.

e. Duality: “We and them” is the main idea of movement, with "them" being enemies, and war being the only tool for solving any problem.

5. Losing touch with Mother Nature

a. Due to low vibrations, people lose their sense of living nature.

b. People appreciate neither nature nor the spirits which inhabitant it.

6. Dark entities enter the World => White Walkers

a. As a virus becomes active only in a body with low immunity, the Dark entities enter this physical world due to further degradation of the collective conscious.

b. Because of the continuous degradation of the consciousness and distancing from nature, the population of the land collides with true Evil, called the White Walkers.

However, there are sparkles of the highest intangible values. A very few people in this dark world are driven by Courage, Honor, Love, and Justice. That lifts the meaning of existence in that world and provides Hope.