Entertainment Does Not Truly Exist
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- Опубликовано: 2 ноя 2024
- When we seek entertainment, what are we really seeking? In this video, I explore how entertainment is more than just titillation. It provides a way to create a peaceful, magical life.
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These vlogs have a really cozy vibe to them lol
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fr he has me feeling like i need to sit down in a sweater and drink some tea while listening lol
I like longer forms of your videos. Truly love how your mind works, you give great new perspectives on abstract things and your way to open them, explaining is relaxing to listen! Thank you sir!
Blessings to reader🙏🕊️💜
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Fantastic video Brother!
Entertainment only serves our need temporarily, so we do it often, like doing lots of roller coasters.
You explained it well.
I appreciate the topics, and your calm and neutral way of entertaining us with the information or wisdom surrounding it. Thanks! Move on, Love x Scanty Walnut
"Whatever is rejected from the self, appears in the world as an event."
CG Jung
Great video once again. Thanks.
Oo! Nice quote!
Deep.
This is why taxes are inevitable
I had to listen carefully at what it is you’re conveying. I found this subject interesting as I am a student of acting. The thing I am constantly taught in my acting class is finding out my characters point of view and where that lives in me. In that same vain who are the other characters and in what way am I affected by them. All these movies you have talked about I have watched. When I watch a movie what really keeps me interested is the choices and emotional growth of the characters and how they deal with their physical and emotional circumstances. I really enjoyed this video. 😊
If you are an actor I hope for your sake you don't make it big, there are many strings attached to being a big hollywood actor.
As a kid Fantasia (the Sorcerers Apprentice) fascinated me but as I got older it seemed like the ultimate metaphor for Holly-Wood and entertainment in general.
Walt Disney recognized that paganism and magic had been repressed by Christianity for a few centuries, and he realized he could profit off of it by repackaging it as mere entertainment. Smart guy.
Thanks LTC. The picture is from Rocky 4. By this point Rocky has conquered his personal demons, the overarching conflict is between USSR and America, both fighters representing and embodying their nations hopes and ideals respectively
Aw, man! Thanks for the correction. Just goes to show how sequels miss the mark.
This was a rly good video, had a couple good aha moments
Another masterpiece Mr Christopher. I enjoyed it enormously. One of my two favourite hidden meanings films is Akira Kurasowa's Seven Samurai , a timeless classic. My second choice is The Exorcist. I laughed out loud when the 'possessed' young girl grabbed the psychiatrist by his balls. I have met some wonderful psychiatrists working in mental health and I met also a head psychiatrist who was full of his own self importance. Every time I saw him I imagined him being grabbed in such a fashion which made listening to him more tolerable. The other aspect in the same film was the promotion of the Catholic faith. It struck me that only Catholics can be cured of demons and it was that religion which had demons which doesn't say much for their oppressive regime. The film however caused an influx of lapsed, terrified people. I've never heard of Buddhists in need of an exorcist. My Muslim friends told me about the jinn but the spokesman for the group in a bar said that their favourite is gin and tonic. Thanks again. Regards from 🇬🇧
Thank you for this!
Last night I watched 'Patterns', a movie written by Rod Sterling, and it resonated deeply with what you're saying.
On top of that, you've put a whole new philosophical spin on my favorite movie, 'Jaws'; now I'll have to watch it again! 😄
Great job as always
Oddly enough, this is the one that caught me the most off guard. The timing almost had me looking over my shoulder. But the message here helped me understand a rather profound issue. One I have been wrestling with for nearly 3 years and heavily this last 6 months or so. Last night I had no sleep at all in its pursuit, as a resolution was needed.
I needed coffee, so decided to pick some up around 6 am by driving to clear my head, and received a word.
It is rather funny how these things happen sometimes.
May you have peace according to your way. Thank you
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brilliant! TY brother 🔥❤️
Nice, thank you for your videos!
on transformational movies, 1917, had a scene where the unnamed protagonist falls into a babbling river. when they are eventually overcome by fatigue and stops fighting the flow of the water, the water eases up and they are able to gather strength.
Quicksand allegory??? Tao!
The weather here in Arkansas has finally broke
And it's not as hot as it was in my house anymore .... I'm so happy to be able to practice my rituals again
My only retort and I take this retort to heart and respectfully quote (with admiration for the perfomer and depth of character and writing, and also respect to your sharing ofbyour individual perspective and processing in your own way), "Why So Serious?!" And hop along with the sentiments wisely provided independently, without my context, by Buddhist author and actor luminaries, "have fun." We're not all detached intellectual observer judges of humanity. We're part of humanity and if we are indeed embroiled in some way in a gnostic existence, heck, bemoan, but don't forget to have fun along the way. And realzing my English teacher was simply providing me with Socratic questions for me to tussle in my own free time on what i saw as the genius layered complexities of Pulp Fiction. Yes, but also simply a movie to entertain and to entertain notions. Other than that, what's for dinner, you know?
Yes, the ability to dismiss a thing as "That's just entertainment" is a useful mental management tool--mainly as a means of protecting oneself from the initiatic experiences that a work of art offers us. When we are not ready to be eaten by the shark, we delay the inevitable by dismissing _Jaws_ as "just a good bit of fun." That's why these films haunt us and remain classics. Because the initiatic experiences are still lurking out there, waiting to slip past our "That's just entertainment" defenses and eat us. And on some level, we know it.
@lyamchristopher2393 now you're saying I'M the one dismissing entertainment? You know what? Whatever, bro! You're just bored and wanna start an argument and turn it around so we can tussle, whatever, bro. You're a shrink (pejorative) with an ego tryna find an argument to twist for some useless wannabe Socratic back n forth. Maybe you've seen too many movies of the adversarial approach to teaching. Like it's your last hurrah in your old age (which is not even). Your book could easily speak for itself, and you could open up so many mysteries to ponder on, yet you choose to "gotcha!" individuals, so you can turn to the class of 4 other students and wax on about the cautionary example right there. Ultimately, it doesn't matter in itself. Only what you do with it. That's why I'm keen on actual serious teachers not taking themselves or pronouncements seriously, but their work sincerely. Except you take your work seriously, evidently yet decide its important to tussle with a dumbass student instead of putting yourself above all that. Sure, shrink, we're not worthy or ready for the big time. Plus, basing your future content on some pissant commenter just makes you more "hello, fellow kids" collegial yet less professorial and authoritative. So, it's not the best of both worlds.
It's crazy, I was literally just talking about this exact topic yesterday with a neighbor.
Evil minds think alike. 😈
Good day - thanks for the upload
thanks lyam :)
The jaws segment left an impression, very spooky. It made me think of people who have multiple tattoos for display like Quint with is trophies of unresolved trauma.
Some people own their tattoos, and others are _owned by_ them. Also, watch the movie _Psycho_ (the original version). Notice how the first victim dies before she is able to redeem herself. Notice how that deepens the horror immeasurably!
@@lyamchristopher2393 will see that, also the part of the mother and sun dynamic reminded me of Telemachus. Both outcomes lead to a different defeat around the mother's partnership. Your videos are a great way of seeing how unnecessarily crude I am to myself, thank you very much Lyam.
I'll check out The Wisdom of the Myths and Goodreads. Thanks for the suggestion. It looks really good.
It's to your credit that you see the potential in it. I think that the title of the book is terrible! I wonder what you might think a better title would be.
The title is pretentious, for sure. I see it as click bait. Considering all who will glance at the cover, sometimes appealing to our pretentious side gets a reader in the doors of their perception... for better or worse.
If the book is about the myths of Ancient Greece, then perhaps a more accurate name would be The Wisdom of Greek Myth.
I digress, though.
All the woulda, shoulda, coulda thoughts won't change what is.
More into choices that have yet to be made, from one perspective.
There's a part in Children of Dune, (the book after Dune: Messiah)
where Paul's son, Leto, has taken the water of life and is beholding all possible futures and all ancestors yip yapping in the background.
He chooses an ancestor as a template to be possessed by, and chooses the one and only path he doesn't see with his prescience. This leads to him becoming God Emperor of Dune, which is the name of the next book, coincidentally...
Not sure exactly why I chose to type this. I know on the surface I hope to sell the idea that Dune is too cool for school.
In truth, I firmly believe one could become "enlightened" from its study, especially with the help of the narration of Princess Irulan and others throughout the millennia that the books span.
Gonna see if I can go to the Diablo 4 conversation. Restarting the phone and router from time to time helps. 🙂↕️🤪 but really, I just see it as "now is the time" and "here's your sign". Also opera...
@@DrDuckDrDuck-jh7ki I tend to think it's not click-baity enough. Does anyone lacking wisdom really want it? The subtitle is, maybe, a little better but not provocative enough. It can be fun to stew over this question as we read the book. Gives us a means of summing things up for ourselves.
@@lyamchristopher2393 I have Goodreads but I'm not sure how to add you. Found your book and the "about author" section. I'll keep looking.
Do you have any recommendations for someone who struggles to document their work and journal about it? I feel as if I'm still struggling to focus on the structure and consistency in the magical work, but I regularly receive results for the LBRP and LIRP. I have taken to occasionally banishing or invoking an elemental pentagram when I clearly feel some imbalance, but it feels like I'm jumping the gun and not following the curriculum, however helpful it has been.
Rule #1. Do not look for results from your daily work. Just do it.
In your journal, for now, you can simply treat it as a diary and write about your day. The only difference is that you might include the rituals performed that day and the phase of the moon.
@@lyamchristopher2393 My issue is motivation to even open the journal and write. Perhaps I am not attaching enough meaning to recording my experiences? I struggle to simply pick up a pen everyday. I am not looking for results, but they certainly do seem to appear.
@@arcanus_illuminare See the video about motivation. Learn about the FOMO instinct and the gossip instinct. Consider that we are allowing ourselves to be entertained to death, exhausting our dopamine systems. Killing motivation. Also, you might want to book a consultation in which we explore how to read and write. Smartphones and computers have caused us to forget how to read and write as we once did. And we can can reclaim that ability.
Wow. That Jaws example really went deep! That's the best example of trauma materialising I have heard, it's beautiful. And it's really a sad end, dying from your own karma when you have the power to change it around. Are there any older myths related to this (trauma/karma) you would recommend?
Also funny you said "It's an international best seller - don't let that discourage you" because I relate to that! It does discourage me when I see it 😅
Ridley Scott's _Alien_. Remember that childbirth has been a potentially traumatic (and bloody and lethal) experience for about a million years now.
The Showtime series _Dexter_. A blood-spill demon that drives the main character to kill over and over again. Almost everyone is haunted by this demon. In the series, it gets evoked through the horrifying death of the main character's mother.
Another good psychopath: The character Montresor in the Poe story "The Cask of the Amontillado." The brick wall used to kill the victim (between the two characters) represents the hell of psychopathy itself.
In _The Silence of the Lambs_, Hannibal Lecter is driven by a "survival of the fittest" demon which was evoked when he was traumatized by cannibalism as a child.
In Poe's "The Telltale Heart," we have a demon and an angel: the cataracted eye represents a psychopath's inability to "see" his own mental illness. A flaw that the murderer tries to kill away from himself by killing a representation of it in the outer world. The "beating heart" could be seen as an angel, the murderer's own heartfelt compassion trying to get through to him via an externalized hallucination.
The movie _Dragonslayer_. In European myth, dragon's are manifestations of tyranny and greed. For many men, slaying the dragon to get the girl is an opportunity to face one's own tyranny, greed, and control-freakishness. But if you take the monster literally, you're fucked. And so is the girl (and not in a good way).
@@lyamchristopher2393Thank you so much!!
What the shark killer would have done to make peace with his demon ? I don't understand
@@pall8142 How could killing a shark over and over again help make peace with what happened? That's the really hard thing to understand. And what was all the killing an attempt to truly keep at bay? The shark? Not bloody likely. There is a truth in what happened that the ego does not want to face, and it will use violence to distract itself away from facing it.
lovely video :) thank you (:
I feel like the most interesting part of the Harry Potter franchise is the conflict between Harry and destiny and how the story is written as more or less two opposing paths of confronting mortality. (Voldemort's name being derived from French to mean "flight from death" and his decision to become a mass murderer as an attempt to escape his own mortality versus when Harry learns that he has to die in order for evil to be vanquished and he accepts it). At the very least it is a neat retelling of the Osiris/Christ/dying god myth. If I'm not mistaken Harry would have also had a Leo sun in his birthchart, so take that for what it is. Perhaps a bit more subtle than The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, but that's a fun story, too.
Thanks once again for the teachings!
Talking about entertainment, do you plan making a video talking about video games? How do you see the influences of these over the initiates imagination for example? is it something which could be potentially used as a tool to develop one's capabilities in the magical work?
Thanks!
Everything whatsoever can be used as a tool in the magical work.
Yes, video games came to mind (but the topic of entertainment is so big). The main thing about video games worth pointing out right now is that most of them feed on a natural instinct: the social-dominance orientation. The urge to "level up." And of course, you might notice that the leveling up that happens in video games is basically a counterfeit version of the kind of leveling up that our biology is seeking.
This does not mean that video games are inherently problematic. It might just be worthwhile to notice how our instincts are being played upon for a buck. All of "entertainment" does this, of course. It is the initiates job to notice and to make the best use of it all.
To what end? Complete freedom from all forms of compulsion, of course.
That was so interesting.
Deep content
The Count of Monte Cristo is one of my favorites. Such a good revenge/justice flick. I wonder what you think of the character "Batman"?
Batman is a good example of a familiar spirit, the karmic force of which will eventually exhaust itself. But for the time being, it is powerful as it unravels.
Is there somewhere an article or video you made that provides an answer to the question of "is it okay to masturbate" when it comes to magick?
Yes, it is true that celibacy can help store semen as energy and move it upwards, etc. But the biggest problem is personally that there's so much sexual energy that sometimes is really hard to know how to express, and currently personal porn addiction has been defeated and is continuously being fought, but masturbation just feels good sometimes on its own.
If some ritual requires celibacy such as for purification reasons, then that would surely be useful. But when one isn't usinh all that energy, how bad is it to enjoy masturbation? Do you personally masturbate? Do you have any thoughts on this?
Masturbation seems instinctive, and it seems to have evolved mainly to help men refresh their semen supply-without having to reabsorb sperm. Is it necessary? No. Are men able to stop masturbating? Usually not. And when they do, I suspect an emotional hangup.
The sperm have a lot of mitochondria (energy-making creatures) in them. When a man is “full up,” he can feel their static electricity tingling in his scrotum. However, each nerve in the body has many more mitochondria. Being low in semen does not deplete you of a significant amount of energy.
The benefit of abstinence from masturbation (and sex) seems to be more of a dopamine issue. A motivation issue. Too much self-indulgent or self-gratifying behavior depletes dopamine-and possibly leads to a gradual decline in the number of dopamine receptors all over the body. The result, over time, is apathy. There may still be plenty of energy available. Just not the spurring kind of energy.
Rather than stop masturbating, it might be better to delete almost every social media account, limit smartphone use to a couple of hours in the evening, cancel all cable TV and streaming services, stop watching TV, and watch only a one movie a week. You can make exceptions for education (but social media does not count). For reading, only read paper-and-ink books. In regard to masturbation, use porn that only consists of still images-and eventually ween yourself off of it and switch to imagination.
@@lyamchristopher2393 Ohh, spurring energy, that's interesting. Maybe that's the reason everyday things like getting out of bed or into shower is hard, because the motivation of spurring energy is absent and makes it harder for our bodies to care?
Thank you for responding, even though you don't have to. Your videos are a new program routine for me, going to watch them all instead of TV shows.
Forgive me if I ask too much. It is hard to find a proper practitioner to ask that is willing to respond to the filthy, unworthy hollows pathetically creeping from the Neophyte Grade (kidding), and there isn't always a book on very specific questions because they are very specifically tailored to personal practice. Everything you do is a blessing, and you do it for free too❤ You are doing The Great Work. If only people like you were in my environment surroundings to be friends with and progress together...
What about the Realismo Mágico literature and cinema in Latin America?
I find magical realism exists in just about all literature that's worth reading. And the term "magical realism" is boobytrapped. It's away clinging to realism and defending oneself against "the nonsense of magic." Talk about superstitious! 😏
Interesting.....
The recent DUNE movies are a great example of transformational entertainment, even though ultimately it ends up being a story about spiritual narcissism and revenge, but leading up that the movie really creates a specific state of mind, like you have mastered the 'desert' which represents the barren waste land of the untended inner world. Those movies appear to have a lot of Jungian symbolism, though I don't know if it was directly intended that way.
That's nice to hear. I suspect the the movies are better than Frank Herbert's books--mainly because they bring in more of the internal conflict. Much of the conflict in the Dune saga is political--which to my mind is only of minor interest.
@@lyamchristopher2393 I couldn't make it through the books either. They written in such a strange and boring way. The movies are fantastic though, quickly became one of my favorites. I highly recommend giving them a chance.They mainly focus on Paul and his awakening and becoming the Lisan Al Gaib. Apparently the story was originally meant to be a cautionary tale against messiah figures but Herberts writing was so confusing that no one seemed to catch that point. There is still one more movie going to come out called DUNE: Messiah and its supposed to really go into this.
Haven't finished the video yet. Got compelled to look at comments during Oedipus Rex. (Theme really is immediate, and I'll get back to the Kirby conversation soonish)
As a dude who has read all the dune books at least three times, (Read some dune books more than others)
I will say a couple things real quick. Take it how you will.
Frank put his name on the cover, but he is never alone. Beverly wrote more of those books than Frank did, especially on the Bene Geserit. In truth, they wrote it.
They are both "permanently enlightened". They are both fully remembered when the first book is written. The themes played out in Dune are not apparent at first glance, just like the themes we play out in "real life".
Wheels within wheels within wheels.
The whole series is about one dude, and it's not Maud'dib or the God Emperor Leto II... from one perspective. There's a plethora of perspectives to engage, from Bene Geserit sisters training in front of a prison cell with a chimera monstrosity constantly attempting to get free and eat her. She only passes the test if she remains reactionless... to the power dynamics of blind leaders...
@@lyamchristopher2393 I want to ruin it so bad... 😇🙉🙈🙊
Hi Lyam, after I started incorporating the LBRH rituals I began to lose all sense of conceptualisation, naming, wording. It all felt totally futile to bother using words, the second id want to name or word something it would lose its essence instantly. I realised the emptiness of everything - word, thought etc. it all became formless. My mind would note instantly and things would dissolve, leaving NO-THING. With this came a deep sorrow, divinations stopped making sense, rituals felt pointless and gone past, it felt like if i were to do those, it would be a regression back into form - what is this? Currently it is coming and going, I see Ego even trying to attach itself to that and even attach itself to not attaching and vice versa. Everything feels very slow wave and thicker, with a sense of sorrow that all that was was maya, and still is, and always will be. It all seems like substance-less fluff now but I see them for the pointers they are to the physical state. I think this may be the Ego’s last few games. I simply do not want to be in any more archetypal cycles. It’s brought me to a deep state of submission and humility of the egos limitations in understanding. I have seen through them over and over. Its as if silence is the only thing to come close to representing this. Your thoughts?
Is part of you still holding out hope that some kind of lasting happiness is possible? It's not. Turn your back on the idea of happiness as something that you must achieve. Immortality does not exist in time and space. And neither does joy. It is everywhere present AND NOWHERE ATTAINABLE.
@@lyamchristopher2393Thank you! That was exactly it.
Twilight series conflict could be ordinary vs strange/extraordinary. Bella is so appalled by her own ordinary mediocrity that she submits to a dominating, controlling, immortal weirdo. Eventually, Bella becomes even stronger than Edward after he transforms her into a vampire & puts her through all kinds of strife. She had a strong desire to get away from being ordinary and wanted Edward to bite her the whole time lol. In the last of the movies/books she kicks some serious ass which is cool I guess 😂
The narcissism of the main character is very telling. Gosh, she's just so special. When she tried to kill herself, I joked that no one would care, or even notice she was gone. 🤣
@@lyamchristopher2393 true 🤣🤣🤣
The good and negative side of greek gods/planets shows us the virtueous as well as the excess or the shadow of our psyche, right?
There is no negative side, really. Just an overplus of a planet, which can appear bad.
Try some Terry Gilliam films.
this comment is from before watching the video. How i see it:
entertainment -> enter chain ment
you enter a different something and then are chained to that something and the whole hollywood industry knows this and tries to keep you chained
Yes, that is the advertising element at work. What you point out here particularly applies to video games. A big wanring about video games is that they feed your need for "leveling up" in life. But they feed it in (mostly) counterfeit ways. There are some games, however, that have transformative dimensions to them.
Maybe it's to do with being autistic, but I always hated and rolled my eyes, even from childhood, at the tropes in films to do with what you call "higher" conflicts, most of the time, anyway. I feel only frustration with the characters who fail to conform themselves to reality quickly and need a transformation process. I'm bored by the needless inclusion of love interests in action films, and the predictable fight scenes that are only used to "tell a story" rather than technical recordings of fights, even if choreographed. Mostly I prefer semi-biographical, almost-a-documentary type films, or something approaching that. That's even easier to do with shows. Reality is often a better storyteller than fiction, which is why people enjoy sports, I guess.
In the 19th Century fiction was often more of this style, eg Jules Verne (the original books). In the Bible it's the opposite, with action scenes reduced to single lines (Cain slew Abel, the Israelites slaughtered Edom with great slaughter, etc.). I think films that present reality as an initiatory process in a stilted way aren't magickal, this takes us away from ceremonial magick where we exist with stability in a state and proceed with initiation and ceremony.
You would probably find the novel "Interview with the Vampire" boring. I wonder how you might feel when people label you incorrectly.
I thought Van Helsing was pretty good for what it was tbh
Wrong. I don't want to be transformed at all. I want to feel a connection. And to be just entertained by the fact that a thing is interesting. Why would you come to such a weird conclusion? I think this is just you buddy. Maybe you don't like yourself.
Ad hominem aside, that's an interesting conclusion. You might want to consider that transformation does not necessarily mean going from bad to good. Also, nothing is ever "interesting" (or attractive) for no reason. What does the attraction _itself_ want? And what does it truly need? And how will it feel when it gets what it needs?
@lyamchristopher2393 No. You're making it way more complicated for no reason. Like turning right three times instead of left once. No, it's just like a thing to make boredom leave.
@@53luxornanaelcamio17that is sorta what magicians do… turn right three times (well, more) instead of turning left 😂
I feel like the reason you're rejecting this so hard is because you know he has a point
@luketj You think lots of wrong things I'm sure. No. I'm not the only one who doesn't like to be projected on. Just because he wants that from entertainment doesn't mean we all do, and it's definitely not what most people want from entertainment. It's annoying when people assume everybody thinks like they do.
i’m not racist by any means but i do think the woke movement is missing the fact that groups, black people included, progressed way more when segregated integration basically benefited no one. so totally agree culture vs. culture ends up being boring because the real truths are rarely explored.
I think this is a classic example of confusing causality with circumstance. Key factors (political and social) were adjusted to cull that progression to reduce agency, it wasn’t merely these cultures integrating with eachother. There were other ways it could’ve evolved.
You have now expired that word.
Which word?
Hahaha TITILLATING. It’s now a drinking game - a shot every time you say it!
I really like your videos. I’m about to pull out the Complete System and correct my technique.
@@andriabaunee Haha. I challenge you to come up with a better word for it...
please buy a microphone.... hearing every noise from your mouth and nose is a tad distracting, though your vids are great
I am normally sensitive to such things, but I don't find Lyam's audio to be that bothersome. Perhaps some are just used to all the professional streamers with Sure microphones.
Damn... I didn't even notice til I read this and now I can't un-hear it
I'm tempted to create a truly horrifying video in which I do nothing but eat potato chips...
@@lyamchristopher2393 😨😱💀
@@isaaccardin Someone complains about his headset mic on almost every video. Interestingly I've never seen anyone mention the out of focus camera.