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The Analyst (and the Merovingian)

Quietly yearning for what you don’t have, while dreading losing what you do…. Desire and fear, baby. Just give the people what they want, right?

The Analyst

You have to release everything, and pass between the pillars of fear and desire, above the blackened sky of the world, out of the world and into the timelessness of being, so that nothing — nothing — can make you do what you do. There becomes only will: the will to go back down below the clouds into the … Continue Reading

I keep editing the previous three, and I will, until they coalesce into what they need to become. They’re leaning into it. At a point, I’ll move them all into one thing. For now, I want to put this content placeholder here:

The Analyst

A lot of what he says sounds legitimate but is in fact ways to make outsiders feel like their concerns aren’t valid or heard.

And we’ll also get back to this:

Mercury, the Bridge

I worked through … Continue Reading

Tom’s Modal

BUGS – Something’s happening here. Something important.

There’s Tom, working as he should in his cubicle.

The end, right? This is the end. There’s really nothing more to say. We get a shot of Tom at his desk, his past accomplishments, his accolades, and some sense that everything we knew about the previous films was bogus. It was all a Matrix in itself. Warner Brothers has had us. The end.

There’s Tom’s hands on the table. Obedient.

But no. No! Wind … Continue Reading

Sulphur, the Savior

Where there is a divider, a definer, there is a uniter. This is Vishnu energy. I made a lot out of Neo as Vishnu before, and his move from a sixth to the seventh incarnation. Vishnu is communion and wholeness, what makes clear that separateness — and choice — is an illusion. This is reiterated in Resurrections:

BUGS – The choice is an illusion. You already know what you have to do.

Wait, let’s take a second to talk about what’s meant by binary. Immediately … Continue Reading

This has turned out to be a lot to write all at once. I have a lot to say. So I’ll do it in pieces. It’ll all make sense at the end of this road, I promise.

Salt, The Creator

I’ve always been fascinated by the choice of “Smith” as a name for the co-created antagonist of Neo. The name “Smith” is a craft-name. It’s a smith, a forge-worker. A forge in a volcano, if you will. A lot like the figure of the carpenter, the smith gets themselves dirty. It’s … Continue Reading

Godslaying (Part 1) In the month of March (before it was called by that name), the Greeks celebrated Anthesteria. During Anthesteria, the dead were believed to cross over into our world and traffic with the living. The eponymous Roman god Mars, who was not the god of war but an agricultural deity with blood-spilling tendencies, was frequently accompanied by his female counterpart Bellona, who is described by Virgil as bearing a blood-stained whip. What does she do with that whip? She drives soldiers into a battle-frenzy. By whipping them. This is Springtime in antiquity. The story runs so: The bloodletting of war is … Continue Reading

Here is something that I have wanted to do for a long, long time, which is to blogify the pile of philosophy notes I still have left over from university. I was a marvelous student, but aimless. I blundered into graduating with two majors that I didn’t know what to do with, and made the bewildering choice to decline a minor in philosophy even though I had the credits to do it. Anyway, I am reasonably sure that with very few exceptions I took all the philosophy courses that were available at my little country alma mater. The other perplexing thing about … Continue Reading

People without religious faith are often flabbergasted by the things believers say in defense of their beliefs, not least because what can come out of their mouths is unequivocally false.  Atheists will joke about “lying for Jesus” — the idea that Christians, or people of any faith, would deliberately lie in order to prevent believers from doubting, or to bring doubters back into the fold, or even better to convince the unbeliever to believe. Could they not know they are lying? Well, it’s possible, but as far as I can detect they’ll continue to employ the lie even after the … Continue Reading