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Welcome to the Nouveau Shamanic Cinema, where films are portals into the depths of being.
For each episode we watch a movie, immerse ourselves in its themes, and let it resonate as if it was a dream or an imaginal practice. We then explore the nature of reality from this perspective and discuss how this relates to dharma.
This format unearths deep and precise insights into the nature of reality. It is also an invitation to engage with the world in a new way, where everyday meaning and resonance are a portal into the depths of truth.
As of Season 2, we have recorded some episodes of 'Imagina
For each episode we watch a movie, immerse ourselves in its themes, and let it resonate as if it was a dream or an imaginal practice. We then explore the nature of reality from this perspective and discuss how this relates to dharma.
This format unearths deep and precise insights into the nature of reality. It is also an invitation to engage with the world in a new way, where everyday meaning and resonance are a portal into the depths of truth.
As of Season 2, we have recorded some episodes of 'Imagina
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We watched this on the same evening as The Lion King. Both animated movies are about a mystical experience that was catalysed by the death of a parent, and we enjoyed the contrast of very different expressions of similar themes.This Studio Ghibli animation felt much more yin in its depiction of the mystical, and we enjoyed discussing the themes of undefinability, moral ambiguity, and strangeness.“Humans have both the urge to create and destroy.”Hayao Miyazaki
Life emulates movies emulates life emulating movies in this multi-layered reality-bending episode. We watch the film I Saw the TV Glow, in which two characters get deeply absorbed into a TV show, and it starts to spill over into their lives, leaving questions about what is real.For the episode, we also watched two TV episodes and wove together themes and resonances from them all, including disconnection, connection, and what feels most real to us.(TV episodes: Season 3, Episode 1 of The White Lotus and the Euphoria Special Episode, ‘Trouble Don’t Last Always’)
For the second episode of Imaginal Gaming, we played some of the game Animal Well and talked about living in an alive Universe and Awakening as a giant interactive puzzle game.If you haven’t played the game you can watch this short review video to get a flavour of it.If you want to learn more about Rosa’s approach to awakening (that resonates with Animal Well), you can find out more here.
In this double header we discuss the richness of connecting with sovereign energy and how this relates to time and non-self.We spend most of the time talking about the famous scenes from each of the movies. If you haven't seen the movies, or you haven't seen them for a while, it's worth watching these two scenes beforehand to get the context and the vibes.Avengers: Endgame Portal SceneInterstellar Black Hole Scene
We watched Rosa's favourite film – the ever-magical, soul explosion Moulin Rouge!
We discuss the power of love and sincerity, romantic love as an opening force and falling in love with the whole of experience through the imaginal realm.
Once again we are joined by guest David Lassiter, this time to discuss the short film that he wrote and directed – The Opportunist.
You can watch it here: https://vimeo.com/74296226
We also discuss Tár and the common themes that both films portray, of psychopathy and predatory behaviour.
I mention an imaginal meditation exercise from this retreat, by Ken Mcleod: https://unfetteredmind.org/the-warriors-solution-passivity-and-freedom-4/
We went to watch Francis Ford Coppola's latest film at the cinema, with guest David Lassiter, and reflected on the creation of the movie as an imaginal journey.
We host an episode of a new podcast that looks at the deeper resonances that are in video games.
For this episode we discuss Shadow of the Erdtree and the way that it feels like a collective soul realm.
Music by Sunlight Altar
We talk about all the mythic resonance that overflows from this film and its archetypal depths. Some short videos that we discuss:Galadriel's evil modeGimli destroys the ringIntroducing characters as threats
The Nouveau Shamanic Cinema season one wrap-up, where we reflect on the 14 movies we watched in season one, the paradigms they immersed us in and the revelations each one inspired.
In Paprika a machine that allows you to enter people’s dreams goes missing and everyone starts dreaming and living in the same dream world.The film inspired amazing conversations about emptiness and form; creativity and boundaries; dream work and the animistic roots of experience.We mentionSteve Aizenstat's dream tending, andRiver Kenna's dream return practice.
We watch the Hollywood epic, the Last Samurai, and reflect on the themes of warrior energy, psychedelic therapy and full masculine power.
We discuss evil feminine power, the many ways that it can manifest and how those ways are depicted through the horror film Suspiria.
We watched the Green Knight; we start by introducing the concepts of phenomenal opacity and transparency and discuss getting your head cut off as a metaphor for being in a non-dual flow state with meaning.We engaged with this film as a soul-realm transmission about letting go of control and finding the courage to step into the flow of life.
We watched Sunshine, with guest David Lassiter, and resonate with the themes of life and death, opening to the full raw intensity of experience and the importance of staying in touch with humanity on the spiritual path.
We watched the Witch and explored themes of how religious beliefs can shape experience as well as evil and the many different forms it can take.
In the podcast where we watch movies as if they are dreams or imaginal practice, we watch Annihilation.
We discuss its themes of reality unravelling, refraction of experience, naturalness and the Goddess journey as an alternative frame for experience.
'Dreams and imaginal practice allow the body to speak the language of the mind,' Rosa & Joost
For this episode we watched Dune; it inspired conversations about contrasts of realities, the Dune Universe being less sci-fi than consensus reality in some ways and working with mythic content and visualisations.
Some of the things that resonated for us were walking through the fire and staying with the pain to ignite a mystical connection, exploring what the core of humanity is and existential therapy for chosen ones.
We watched Midsommar, a horror film about a cult, after a day of retreat and practice together and explored the themes of community, toxic cultures, the risks of collective hypnosis and, of course, love as the antidote to all these things.
For this episode we watched IT - a classic from Joost's childhood that has visited him in many nightmares since.
Engaging with it as if the movie is a dream or imaginal practice opens up discussions about alternate realities, loneliness, empowerment of the feminine life-force energy and separation as a fuel for individuation and ultimately connection
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