21 Dec 2002 @ 19:12, by Craig Lang
This afternoon, we went to see the Two Towers. What a spectacular movie. At the end of the movie Gwyn and I walked out of the theater in awe and a sense of mystical wonder. I also felt a deep overriding sense of destiny and apocalypse. I felt the idea of powerful invisible forces, opposed to eachother, deep within the foundation of our reality - a deep seated duality that afflicts our world.
One thing that I noticed immediately was how the movie seemed to fit into the endless chain of synchronicity that centered around the Twin Towers theme. As I wrote in several articles, both here and in the PSI room, this theme seems to be an all pervasive one. I can only think that there must be a deeper link, which the story only hints at, but which seems to thread its way through present reality.
JRR Tolkien was truly a master of metaphor. But I also get the sense that he was writing much more than an entertaining fantasy. The story seems to be symbolic of many things in contemporary reality - including those that were well in the future at the time he wrote the trilogy.
The overpowering sense that one gets from the movie - and from when I read the books years ago - is that of a deep underlying current of events. There is a flow of destiny that seems to guide our reality - for good or ill. There is also the sense of deep mystical interconnectedness, at so many levels - again, for good or ill.
What struck me the most was a comment that Alana made at the time of the first movie - about how the story was one of deep seated duality. It shows the clash of opposing forces at the most fundamental level of our reality - that both build and destroy our foundations.
Deep beneath physically perceptible reality seems to flow these rivers of history - from the distant past toward the uncertain future. And in a little boat, floating on the turbulent waters of current events is our world. Do we have our hand on the tiller? Are we good at running the rapids? And even better, can we still the waters? I guess only the collective mind of humanity can answer that queston.
Again, the degree of synchronicity involving both the movie and the many events that myself and others have noted seems extremely symbolic. The "Twin Towers" theme, seems to be a surface manifestation of these deep currents to our reality.
I often wonder what Tolkien really saw as he wrote the books. Was he thinking in symbolic terms of the world of the 1950s/60s? Was he thinking about the pre-history of Europe, which many say he is describing in some way? Or was it both? Or neither?
Whatever his thoughts were, he seems to have done a great job of metaphorically capturing the sense of struggle and destiny that seems to make up reality, both ancient and modern.
And not only that, it's a great movie too...
Namaste,
-Craig
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