the shooting gallery
(photo natalie payne)
at the current evolutionary stage of humanity, violence is still not only all-pervasive but even on the increase, as the old egoic consciousness, amplified by the collective pain-body, intensifies prior to its inevitable demise. if films show violence in its wider context, if they show its origins and its consequences, show what it does to the victim as well as the perpetrator, show the collective unconsciousness that lies behind it and is passed on from generation to generation (the anger and hatred that lives in humans as the pain-body), then those films can fulfill a vital function in the awakening of humanity. they can act as a mirror in which humanity sees its own insanity. that in you which recognizes madness as madness (even if it is your own) is sanity, is the arising awareness, in the end of insanity.
such films do exist and they do not fuel the pain-body. some of the best antiwar films are films that show the reality of war rather than a glamorized version of it. the pain-body can only feed on films in which violence is portrayed as normal or even desirable human behavior, or that glorify violence with the sole purpose of generating negative emotion in the viewer and so become a “fix” for the pain-addicted pain-body.
- eckhart tolle
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