How Do Movies And Television Affect The Consciousness? Options

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Samael Aun Weor was explicitly clear about the relationship between consciousness and projected images (movies, television, and internet):

Since the invention of television, the unity of the family has been lost. In other times, when the husband arrived home from work, he was welcomed by his wife with much happiness; yet, in this day and age, the woman no longer welcomes her husband at the door because she is busy watching television.

Yes, within modern homes, the father, mother, and children look like zombies before the television screen. Now the husband cannot talk with his wife about any of the problems of the day, about work etc., because she looks like a somnambulist watching yesterday's movie, or the Dantesque scenes of Al Capone, or the latest fashionable dance of this new age, etc.

Children who grow up in these new ultramodern homes think only of cannons, pistols, and toy machine guns, in order to imitate and relive in their own manner all the Dantesque scenes of crime, just as they have watched them on the television screen.

It is a shame that this marvelous invention of television is used with destructive purposes. If humanity would use this invention in a dignifying manner—for the study of natural sciences, or to teach the true royal art of Mother Nature, or to give sublime teachings to the people—then this invention would be a blessing for humanity, and it could be intelligently used in order to cultivate the human personality.

The agents of crime propagate their criminal ideas through television and cinema. Yes, on a daily basis, on the screens of televisions and cinemas, as well as through magazines, etc.—using infantile cartoons and caricatures —new generations of children receive a very strong dose of poisonous information about murders, shootings, terrible crimes, etc.

Television can no longer broadcast without displaying words filled with hatred, bullets, and perversity. The governments of the Earth are not doing anything against this propagation of crime.

This is how the minds of children and youngsters are now guided by the agents of crime along the path of delinquency.

This idea of killing is already so propagated, so diffused via the cinema, tales, etc., that it has become completely familiar to all the world. The rebels of this new generation have been educated for crime, they kill for the pleasure of killing, they delight in watching others dying. Yes, they have learned all of this on television, at the cinema, in novels, comics, and magazines.

So, crime reigns everywhere, and governments do nothing in order to amend this instinct of killing from its very roots.

It is up to teachers in schools, colleges, and universities to vehemently complain, and move Heaven and Earth in order to correct this mental epidemic.

It is essential for the teachers in schools, colleges, and universities to give a shout of alarm, and ask all the governments of the Earth for the censure of cinema, television, etc.

Yes, crime is multiplying terribly due to all of these spectacles of blood; thus, at the rate we are going, the day will come soon when no one will be able to walk freely on the streets without fear of being assassinated.

Radio, cinema, television, and bloody magazines have become broadcasting devices of crime; they have given so much propagation to the felony of killing that they have made it very enjoyable to weak and degenerated minds, to the point that nobody touches their heart before shooting or stabbing another person.

By dint of so much propagation of the felony of killing, weak minds have become too familiarized with crime, to the point that now they even give themselves the luxury of killing as an imitation of what they saw at the cinema or on television.

The human being stupidly wastes the sexual energy through the abuse of violent emotions, movies, television, football games, etc.

What is important in life is to not fill our mind with other people's ideas that are seen on television because with time they are converted into effigies.

The images that are seen on television reproduce themselves within the mind. These transform themselves into representations that take upon a psychological reality.

It is necessary to have the mind clean so that the Being can officiate in our psychological universe, free from the shackles of the ego.

Those who search for the Integral Revolution can see useful movies that are related to nature, related with palpable reality, so that they can obtain objective benefits for the superlative consciousness of the Being.

Subliminal images and exploits of Black Magic are abundant within the atmosphere of theaters, since the Black Lodge has them under its control. For instance, spectators contemplate actors performing pornographic scenes or listen to words with double or malevolent meaning. These tenebrous elements of depraved enjoyment hurt the retina and the ear and even penetrate the mind. Then, in the Mental Plane, the Psychological "I" of every person intervenes by creating mental living effigies that become absolute replicas of the stage images, which captivated the retina and the ear of the spectator. These effigies are endowed with consciousness and become true "Mental Demons" which (during the hours of normal sleep) fornicate several times with the spectator's mind. Obviously, this causes nocturnal pollutions (wet dreams). Cinemas are worse because within them these depraved elements are more abundant due to the extremely noxious popularity that film makers have impressed on their movies. Disciples should abstain from going to movie theaters.

Unfortunately, in this day and age, theaters and cinemas with their undercover corruption or evident practices of Black Magic are centers (because of their audacity towards perversion) that have been transformed into explicit and unmistakable Temples of Black Magic, which are unhealthy to the mental state of people.

For more information, read: Mental Representations

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Quotes from forum discussions:

Someone wrote this to me:

> I have gnostic friends that teach Gnosis through the
> vision and comment of "gnostic" movies. A very
> famous gnostic movie is the Clash of the Titans
> (1981). It needs a very detailed explanation, as
> Wagner's "Parsifal" does.
> My gnostic friends also teach the "Matrix" movies.
> The following is a summary of what I understood from
> the "Matrix" movie.
>
> We are all in the Matrix, we sleep all the time, and
> we can't see the reality [due to our psychological
> defects]. Neo is the One because he can secure his
> liberty [from psychological defects]. He feels that
> there is something wrong in his life. Not all of us
> have this feeling, because not all of us are the
> "one". We cannot see the Matrix because it is in us
> and around us [when the devil is inside us we loose
> our consciousness]. The Matrix is Evil, because it
> wants to absorb our vital energy [our psychological
> defects make us angry, envious, greedy, violent,
> lazy, and ultimately unconscious]. Christians call
> the Matrix the Devil or Satan. He keeps us sleeping
> and blind. He makes us believe that the real life is
> to hate, to envy, to be greedy, to worship
> ourselves, to enjoy eating and to be lazy.
> The Matrix doesn't want us to understand that we are
> slaves, it torments us with desire when it needs
> more of our energy, and keeps us lazy when we have
> an opportunity to understand. The Matrix betrays us
> every minute with our mind [like Pilate who betrays
> the Christ]. Our mind will never set us free,
> because reasoning is a mechanical-analytical
> process, that dumbs our consciousness. Nobody can
> explain you what the Matrix is like, you have to see
> it with your eyes. You have to walk the path, the
> road to freedom. Nobody can explain you how freedom
> is, until you are set free [from psychological
> defects or ego]. You have to take the red pill and
> go all the way down [want to understand how things
> work in the physical world]. Nobody can explain you
> what Love is like, until you are in love. Trinity
> represents the three Marys of the Gospel: the
> Mother, our Divine part and the Bride. Trinity never
> abandons Neo. She cares for Neo during all the film.
> She begets the new man: Neo [she is the
> gnostic priestess that works in the ninth sphere].
> Neo finds his road to freedom through Trinity and
> Morpheus. Morpheus is what the Christians call the
> Prophet or the Messiah. He sacrifices his life to
> help Neo to wake up and be born again. While you
> sleep you are blind because the Matrix makes you
> believe that what you are dreaming is real. The
> Matrix is a network of machines that feed on the
> electricity produced by the body of human beings
> [the psychological defects that absorb human
> energy].
> It makes you sleep, it keeps you in a prison and it
> makes you believe that your dreams are reality [it
> makes you believe that the psychological defects are
> a natural aspect of the human nature, which is a
> Satanic teaching]. You wake up only if you have good
> will and if you let Morpheus help you [the sword
> represents the will in Gnosis]. When you wake up,
> you see what the Matrix is like in reality [how life
> is without psychological defects, how disgusting is
> the ego]. The first moments of your real life are
> shocking and disgusting, because you see what the
> Matrix does to you and to other people. You see a
> boundless machine that keeps a great multitude of
> people asleep and that absorbs their energy through
> their energetic centers. You see wires connected all
> over your body while absorbing your vital energy.
> Those wires represent what in all cultures are
> called devils or evil spirits. If you can see what
> the Matrix is like, you are disgusted and you want
> to run away from it [the free
> essence is disgusted by its enemy: the ego]. If you
> cannot see how the Matrix is like, you don't want to
> be freed, and you want to keep on sleeping. Once you
> are set free from the Matrix, you have to face
> another danger: you have go back into the Matrix
> [and deal with people with psychological defects].
> When you go back in the Matrix you realize that it
> is everywhere and it controls everything and
> everybody that you used to know [the ego is very
> powerful nowadays, and black magicians have a
> tremendous power].
> When Neo goes back into the Matrix he has to learn
> how to fight against it. Fight against the
> psychological defects is inevitable, once you walk
> though the razor's path. The Christ drives the
> merchants out of the temple though fight. The
> merchants are the psychological defects, the Temple
> is the mind. The Christ violently and cruelly dies
> through the passion. The cross, the vertical union
> of two beams, represents the union of the penis and
> the vagina. Through the cross Jesus died to become a
> new man. The dead on the cross represents the dead
> of the ego, which is an aggregation of psychological
> defects. Christ represented in public an inner
> battle that we all have to fight if we want to be
> free from the ego. The Golgotha means the "skull",
> where the energy of the Kundalini goes, where the
> battle against the psychological defects is fought ,
> where the ego dies and a new man (with no ego)
> resurrects three days after the crucifixion. It is
> very difficult to see the Matrix once you go
> back in it, because the Matrix has control over
> your body and your mind. Your safety is in loving.
> Love comes from Trinity all the time, even if you
> don't realize it. Love comes from the Messiah, when
> Morpheus renounces his happiness and freedom and
> goes back into the Matrix to help the afflicted Neo.
> He represents the Buddha of compassion, the Master
> that incarnates a body to save the afflicted man.
> Morpheus scarifies his life to free the afflicted
> Neo, because of his great love for Neo. Neo
> understands the sacrifice of Morpheus through
> Trinity's love. Neo needs the love of Trinity to let
> the Christ be born in his heart. When Neo unites
> with Trinity, he becomes a divine creature. He
> realizes that Love and faith are the most tremendous
> magical powers existing in the universe. Love is for
> Trinity; faith is in Morpheus and in his sacrifice.
> Neo and Trinity fight together to rescue Morpheus.
> There is a lot of violence in the "Matrix" movie
> when the two become "one" and fight the ego.
> They represent the gnostic couple that works in the
> ninth sphere and is able to destroy the
> psychological defects [in the movie they fight
> against people that suppose to represent the
> psychological defects, hence gratuitous violence].
> Neo suffers and dies when he fights without Trinity,
> because being alone makes him weak. Trinity kisses
> Neo and tells him that she loves him. Neo resurrects
> to a new life and he is transformed into a new
> conscious being. From the inside of the Matrix he
> sees what the Matrix is like in reality: he begins
> seeing streams of numbers. Neo performs miracles in
> the Matrix: he is born again.
>
> Inverential peace,
> John

And I reply:

Hello.

I appreciate you writing out what
most people think is the case with the Matrix films.
Your description accurately conveys what is commonly
given as a "Gnostic" interpretation of that film.

Now, it is important to look deeper and penetrate into
the undercurrent, because it is there that one will
find the corruption. Because remember, no one will
eat rotten food, for it is clear that it is no good.
But the best poisons cannot be tasted or smelled; they
are subtle, and work insidiously to devastate the one
who ingests it. This is equally true of poisonous
ideas.

The best way to destroy an enemy is to use his own
weapons against him. Therefore, the best way to
sabotage Gnosis is to use Gnosis itself.

That is why the overall structure and theme of the
film seems so "Gnostic." This is a conscious effort:
to take Gnostic ideas, structures, and patterns, and
then rework them. How else did the Roman Catholic
Church come to be? By the same method. Little by
little, over centuries, the changes are made.

Just so, The Matrix is a subtle perversion of
essential truths. I do not dispute the themes or
obvious symbols present in the films. However, what I
do question is this:

1. Violence. War and battle is a part of Gnosis; The
Mahabarata must be fought by every Initiate. However,
it is another thing to stimulate the animal mind
through grotesque, extreme and very sensual violence.
This is a crime.

2. Lack of Divinity. God plays no role in these
films. It is all up to the "man." There is no Inner
Being, no respect for the Divine, no humility before
the Creator, no Love or respect for the Superior
Intelligences. (BTW, if Morpheus was the Being, then
he would never lose Faith., But the Morpheus character
(who is the Greek God of Sleep, by the way) does lose
faith.)

3. Lack of Sanctity. There is no need for "Neo" to
destroy his Pride, his Lust, his Vanity, his envy; in
fact, these are encouraged by the film, and he is
driven to use the "courage of a beast" in order to
accomplish his goals. This courage is founded in
Self-will, rather than the will of the Divine. This
is exactly what Samael Aun Weor describes in
Revolution of Beelzebub, where he demonstrates that
the initiations in the black lodge do not require any
moral progress: they only require the courage of the
beast to overcome physical circumstances. This is
what Neo is always doing: using his Self-will. On the
contrary, initiations of the White Lodge always
require supreme repentance of the ego in question,
humility and the death of each self-willed ego. Neo
never demonstrates such qualities, nor does our
society encourage them. Things are quite the opposite
these days.

4. Desire for Sensation. All of the films display a
running theme of sensation as a measure of progress or
success, but none more vividly than the 3rd. In this
film, the inhabitants of "Zion" have a giant orgy
before the "big battle." This is supposed to be the
symbol of the Celestial Jerusalem! If this does not
demonstrate the degenerated nature of these films,
then I do not know what else could be more clear.
Likewise, in the same film, one of Neo's "opponents"
uses desire for sensation to enslave others (the cake
scene). This is a clear manipulation on the part of
the filmmakers, who are demonstrating the powers of
black magic to manipulate others. No White Magician
would ever show how to do such a thing.

5. Tantrism. The root postulate of black tantra is
that the orgasm is a means to Realization. This film
supports that claim, and it is shown quite clearly in
the 3rd film.

And if this does not convince you, then how could this
gentleman make a positive, truly Gnostic movie:

"As you may know Larry Wachowski (one of the directors
of the Matrix trilogy) is probably transsexual (and
probably plans to undergo a transgender operation).
Thus the preference for leather and latex (in the
movies). And thus the story about domination and
control. In fact 'Matrix' could be a cousin word of
'Latex', 'Dominatrix' and 'TransX'.

"Here is what Jake Miller has to say (Jake Miller is a
female-to-male transsexual (after a sex-change), and a
companion of Larry Wachowski at the Matrix 1 premiere
in Los Angeles):

"Jake Miller: "[Larry Wachowski] is obsessed with
Marilyn Monroe and likes to wear a blonde wig, pink
dresses and stiletto heels prior to being punished by
his mistress and acting as her slave.... [Larry] has
been cross-dressing for years and everybody knows
it... When Larry walked down the red carpet... he was
probably wearing a bra and panties under his suit"

"On the Matrix set, Larry was visited (for weeks) by
Karin Winslow (aka Ilsa Strix, wrongly called Ilsa
Stix). The Mirror (a British tabloid) calls her a
"well-known sado-masochistic dominatrix". Karin
Winslow seems to have become the girl-friend of Larry
Wachowski (who wants to be called Lana Wachowski?)."

"He who has an ear to hear, let him hear..."

I have spent enough time on this. I know that there
are plenty of people who are too much in love with
these movies to see through them, but perhaps someone
will take their DVD and throw it away for the trash
that it is.

The one who's Being is leading them back to the path will be able to receive many impressions that remind him/her of their purpose.
These impressions or influences of the initiatic principles are not mechanical, they are like arrows that are shot at a target, from the Inner Being to His child. Obviously there is wind, distance and our minds are moving targets-but the quiver of the Monad that is pushing the essence is always full of arrows.
A word spoken by a stranger, a sound, a feeling all can be the influences of subtle forces at work.

Yet, for one to make such a movie, the vast majority of individuals in this humanity are not receptive to the influences of the superior worlds. Instead, they like violence, sex, and mind control.

This movie, the Matrix, made a GRAVE ERROR when likening the Architect to the "Guardian of the Threshold"! That is pure black magic working in the collective mind of the hypnotised individuals who have watched this movie.

When watching this movie, children have the inclination to become more powerful, stronger, better, more in control... But they don't worry about their own egos and definitely don't consider submitting to the Intimate.

Behind this movie is the black lodge, plain and simple. May the Gnostic students of the world be able to transform impressions and always be inspired to return to the Intimate on any occasion of life.
Awakening through mind and not the consciousness is black magic.
Believing that the Grand Architect of the universe is the Guardian of the Threshold is black magic. Don't believe me, read "The Revolution of Beelzebub".
Believing that you must submit yourself to a vampiric, seductive witch, kissing her in front of your dear spouse, as an initiation on the path is BLACK MAGIC (and totally disgusting)!
This movie is powerful in the mental plane, you know that. You also know that the most power black magicians are in the mental plane.
This movie is truly ANTI GNOSTIC.

"Instead it has inspired millions of people to accept the teachings that Gnosis promotes and (hopefully) filter out all of the hollywood junk that is in it."

Millions huh? Where are these millions that have accepted Samael's doctrine due to the influence of this film? Millions? Most Gnostic students don't even know how to transform impressions well... So how are lay people supposed to filter the Hollywood garbage and subtle psychological influences from the black magicians in the mental plane?

The initiations of the black lodge and their process of awakening is very similar to that of the White Lodge. Master Samael explains this in "The Revolution of Beelzebub". He is very clear about this and the distinction, discernment and definition that a Gnostic student must make in order to avoid subtle problems.
Do as you will, in heaven or in hell. Just remember that we all must answer for our deeds in the end.