Visions of Hyperspace, forecourt of Reality, the Gateway of 5-D Cinema and Mental Film Making

Are our visions of Hyperspace happening in the forecourt of our mind and is higher dimensional art a super-conscious perspective view of our Reality?

At 5DLux we engage with the deepest questions of reality, its fabric, the ability to mould and manipulate it and the results of such manipulation, and all through film techniques.  As such we ask very thorough questions and explore higher and lower realms, deeper dimensions and we become honorary citizens of Hyperspace.  After all, to understand the Universe is to understand the mind - as the Universe is mental.  The understanding of the mental universe is of key importance to the ability to shape personal and collective reality through cinema: the very concept of 5-D Film.  So let us investigate the place that is Hyperspace and how to get to it, as reflected in media, culture, philosophy and religion and as found in person through deep meditation. After all, finding the access / exit point that is the singularity is the grand prize - but where exactly does it lead?

Hyperspace in Big Hero 6. The robot touches the human boy, teaching him
about trust, faith, sacrifice and evolution through hyperspace dwelling.

God reaches out to Adam: the creator of our mind, a Universe in and of itself, reaches out by means of projection,
creating a self-image and consciousness in the process.  Creation becomes self-referential.

The artist is an Avatar of the Threshold Guardian, a Trixter agent.  Dancing between chaos and structure, between madness and seriousness, between play and work, between left brain and right brain.  The Monkey King is lost in his own game, does not realize his potential and power or is happy to play and let his true power be for what it is during the game.  Perhaps it is a game of limitation, of self-frustration.  The Monkey King, Loki, Esu.  The 13th month, the 73rd name, part of the game and not, standing with one leg in the physical realm, one in the spirit realm.  Shaman, Bird Man (the Eagle transcends, landing on Earth and roaming the Sky), Rain Maker, Wizard, Me-Sin, Merlin.  The artist tells the story exposing our 12 parts, explaining who we are in all our brightness and darkness and to do this, he must travel the road, journey the wheel, see and live all parts and eventually stand in the center.  The center is a void, totality, potential, no part and all parts of the great story at once. He who can live with this paradox and keep a playful yet focussed mind, will be a great artist, an entertainer, a healer, a world builder and destroyer.  The sand painting that makes up the illusion of stability, harmony and construct must be wiped out to wake us up from the dream and start again.  Because where is the joy in a frozen dance?

Culture is ritual - stories, characters, all representations of our body, mind and soul parts. Ritual serves a purpose - to understand ouselves better, to understand the world, to control oursleves and to control the world around us. Understanding the purpose of the ritual is key, central, vital - not knowing what you are doing or why is not only ineffective, it is potentially dangerous and it will most likely lead to dissolving of culture as more focused, purposeful and understood rituals (cultures) come in.

Trixter: Joker, Esu, Loki, Monkey King, Hanuman, Fool, link between left brain and right brain,
on the crossroads between physical and spirit realm, between work and creativity,
between life and death, beginner and ender of the cyclical game.

Meeting the Trixter - through art, meditation or in a moment of vision - is a moment of coming up for air, a brief moment of sanity, of clarity through the expression of chaos.  The point is that there is no understanding of the self (Who Am I) but the understanding that this is an unknown, that 'one is' and 'one can't be' all at once, and that that is OK. There is no resolution, not end station, no escape or next stage. The appearance of another place is what keeps the whole thing going - us reaching for the next thing, the next level, the way out, the way in, whatever.  I am not saying: abandon all hope, but just to be aware of what that reaching for the next thing is so that you can find the origin of that desire and find the desirer - the core of you / I.  Stepping through the door: Yin checking out Yang.  The door is the first and only gift / investigation by the paradox.  The door isn't and is at the same time, very paradox, because is the door the frame, is it the wall around the frame or is it the hole? And how can there even be an angular frame because an angle cannot be defined, is infinite in itself.  That is the only way it can be. And subsequently, if you want somebody to run circles and never go through a door, you turn the angle into a circle - another infinite shape that had no finite measure.  You cannot escape an egg, a torus, a Moebius circle, by running on its surface.  Only by looking up can you realize you are in a looped space and only by looking down can you see the ground leading to another side.  Not the way out but at least another side.  'Out' is the void space other than the surface you are running on - non-existence in the form of perceived 'space'.

Once you go through the door you have started the journey because you have believed there is a door to go through and there is an other place to go to, an other way of being, another idea and new input.  The Gate of the Sun - that is why there is a Gate at the Lake Titicaca site.  It is a place where the concept was tried out with success and here we are.  A Paradox experiment.

Hanuman as the Trixter, the Monkey King, Son of the Creator and of Man, Self-proclaimed King of Fools,
face of the Great Fractal of Reality.

Behold an image of 'The Self-appointed King'. The crown on the head of the God being the crown of the Fractal.  A self-crowned consciousness but the kingdom is within itself, infinitely deep but by far not infinitely large.  When you look at a typical Hindu image such as Hanuman the monkey king, Trixter extraordinaire, he wears the Fractal as a crown on his head, holds the physical plane in his hand like a toy and wields the sceptre of self-appointed kingship.  A king of his own creation or the lunatic running the asylum with no parents in sight.

Hyperspace

So what does hyperspace look like, how has it been depicted by artists and how does that place tie back into our mental space?  After all, we are most interested in cinematic experience - something happening inside the heads of our film audience and ultimately within the conscious experience and reality projection of the individual and collective audience members.

The Domed space in which Zion lies - the human city in the Matrix film trilogy.
Notice the dome as referred to by all those astral traveling out of our 3-Dimensional reality,
the Quadrant layout of the Four Elements (the 12-Zodiac), the central light powering the construct
and the clever reversal of having the dome cracking announcing the invasion of the machine-angels of death
and the inevitable reset of the illusion / reality story.

If all art is an attempt to picture the artist's internal world then picturing the place commonly defined as the Sanctus Sanctorum - the gateway to the Source of all thoughts and projections, the bridge to the higher self, the domed Hall of all potential - then it is indeed incredible relevant.  It is, in that case, the only question.  Do we ask ourselves, however, what we would do, say or ask once we have crossed the bridge, entered the portal, penetrated the veil, traversed the wormhole and conquered the vortex?  The movie series The Matrix puts it well in the meeting of Neo, representative of the One who manages to step out of the construct, Trans-Cosmic Man, with The Architect, The GAOTU, Vishvakarman, Ptah, programmer of the fractal algorithm of our reality:

"The Architect: I am the Architect. I created The Matrix. I've been waiting for you. You have many questions, and although the process has altered your consciousness, you remain irrevocably human. Ergo, some of my answers you will understand, and some of them you will not. Concordantly, while your first question may be the most pertinent, you may or may not realize it is also irrelevant.

Neo: Why am I here?"

GAOTU - The Great Architect of the Universe, AKA Vishvakarman or Ptah

Interestingly, the gateway to the central place, the higher realm and even the other side, is normally depicted and told to be in the Underworld or rather, in the Watery Deep - accessible from the underground.  Its ruler is Osiris, father of Horus (the Son, the One, Adam Kadmon), husband of Earth Mother goddess Isis.  Bifrost, the Rainbow Bridge to Valhalla lies in Hel, the underworld.  In Alice in Wonderland Alice goes down the Rabbit Hole, underground, into the dream realm that appears to mimic real life but in a more archaic way.  Is this a journey to the Higher Self through the subconscious?  Is the access to Heaven to be found in our dreams - in a very specific body and brainwave state?  Yes, it is.

The Triskele - the three circles - is a trinity and vortex symbol found throughout the world, finding its source in the timeless space of the Innerverse and the Mental Plane.

In the movie 'Big Hero 6', as in 'Stargate', '2001: a Space Odyssey', 'Star Wars', 'Star Trek' and 'Interstellar', hyperspace is a wormhole or higher-dimensional space through which one can travel and possibly find higher dimensional-dwelling entities as well.  Truth and purity appear to be defining factors to be found by lower dimensional entities (humans and robots) in these higher dimensions.  The entry point looks different in all these movies, from a ring to a square door to a globe, while the location of this doorway is either on the planet's surface or in space, not so much in the Underworld - unless the regions of Saturn and Jupiter are to be considered Underworld locations (and they can easily be in fact).

2001: a Space Odyssey hyperspace.

Point is, these wormholes are not singularities but more shortcuts through higher-dimensional space, not so much throughways to those actual higher dimensions themselves.  In the case of wormholes, the higher dimensions themselves remain inaccessible.

Current scientific representation of a wormhole.

The most important part of dreaming is the acceptance of the dream world as real and/or forgetting the reference of the framework of the real world around one.  This has nothing to do with the visual detail, realism or any kind of recognition of shapes and characters.  We accept the dream as real in the moment of the dream because a mechanism has been switched off – or on – in our mind to accept the reality presented as 100% real. The same mechanism applies to our waking reality.  As we perceive from within this experience we call reality, we have no reference point, no framework to verify how real this reality of our actually is.  And it doesn’t matter because we accept it as 100% and go on with our lives within that acceptance.  Accepting one’s environment as real has therefore everything to do with removing or activating a mental mechanism.

The only way to confirm the existence of the place across the bridge is to cross the bridge (the gateway, the wormhole, hyperspace) to the other side.  While on the bridge, neither side can be confirmed as being real, while only memory serves to assert the place you just came from was real.  Once crossed, however, only the current side can be confirmed as real again, as the side you came from is now nothing but a memory.  It is the memory of a moment ago that serves as a touchstone of reality and a sense of self.  The bridge, the Corpus Callosum at the center of the brain, then, is the physical starting point to truly work with this reality machine.

Vishnu dreams the great dream: the Lotus Flower of reality, Maya, the Great Illusion, the Mental Construct,
The Matrix, the currently Dualistic Cosmos.  Lying on the great Naga King in the Sea of Infinite Potential.

This depiction of Vishnu, too, is a depiction of Hyperspace, but much more ancient than that of modern film productions.  Film productions refer to this type of imagery gladly, without necessarily implementing its power.  In this Hindu image of our reality bubble, Vishnu is dreaming the great dream, the illusion that is Maya, and it emerges as a Lotus flower connected to an umbilical cord to his navel.  Lying on the sea of pure potential, with Lakshmi by his feet, being more real than the dream, but Vishnu is focused on the dream, enchanted by its kaleidoscopic refracted mirror image. Notice the umbilical cord to Vishnu's navel: the Vishnu Nabhi, the singularity leading back to Source, the Point of Origin, the Central Sun, the Big Bang Omega point outside of Space and Time.

Being a sea of pure potential, anything and everything is possible.  There is no structure or limitation and any sort of laws of physics or dimensions do not apply.  It may not be a place to hang out for a relaxing time (outside of space, time, existence, identity, being, *any*thing) but to operate from this space clearly means any physical or mental application, adjustment or addition is absolutely no issue at all.

So how is this relevant to cinema, to film and television making?  Storytelling IS opening the portal to Hyperspace, film making IS visualizing the dream for the wakeful state. As said, pretty much all films and television programmes produced to day may refer to this type of knowledge and understanding, its depictions and its narrative explanations, but working with and from this higher dimension 99.9% of film makers do not do.  Since you are reading this, you may actually be interested in doing so, so do drop us a line!

The 2001 gateway: the Black Monolith.  Gate of the Sun, symbol of Isis: Ashera of the Rings.
Standing on the Lion, personification of the Tree of Life, gateway to consciousness.

In the Tron movie the other world is an electronic one, no less real for it however, but equally populated with shadow copies of the characters in the 'real' world (containing the electronic world).  The access point is a laser beam (a concentrated light source generated through an EM field) and the way out is through a tower come pyramid structure come stargate / gateway in the outer reaches of the Tron Universe, accessed and operated through the user's identity disc (DNA, memory, consciousness, soul memories, Akashic records).  Tron hints at the existence of other dimensions as previous or future realities or thought experiments of a (flawed) creator.  But progress is possible and new realities are built upon the old mistakes through complete internal destruction, reset or external reboot / reprogramming.

TRON as a creation story and a hint to the way in and out of Creation

Remaining underground, the Matrix movie trilogy introduces a reversal of sorts (or is it?) and puts the dome (Cosmic Egg) of 'reality' labelled 'Zion' deep underground.  It is a bubble of human existence under a world of machine-rebuilt upper ground world - a world that is still underneath a constant cloud cover that the machines cannot get through.  Machine and Man fight in between these two levels and then also engage each other in a virtual reality, adding an extra layer of heaven as a sandbox for engagement and creation.  Within the bubble of the dome, a beam of pure light as per Shiva's column of light within the Cosmos, powers the human city.  This city has the layout of Adocentyn: the Four Gates, 12 sections, the Zodiac, the clock and the calendar.  Saturn, the Time Keeper and Grim Reaper, rules here, for this is the domain of the dying flesh.  Outside, the eternal machines rule as angels (brutal, human-killing and abusing angels) but the machines cannot exist without the humans and so they refrain from destroying them altogether, having turned their backs on their human creators.  To get out of the virtual reality, Neo needs to take the Red Pill - a reference to Alice in Wonderland and DMT-related revelation of reality illusions.  To get out of the bubble of the human reality, Neo needs to take a Merkabah ship out into the machine realm, and to escape this he needs to take the Merkabah above the cloud cover.  However, in order to truly see beyond all these confines, Neo needs to be blind and see with his internal eye to observe and control the pure energy nature of all of the worlds between which he travels.

Sentinels from The Matrix: notice the many tentacles and eyes, the serving
without question of the absolute master to uphold top-down order and
survivalist cyclical existence. Angelic attributes.

A gateway offered by Duality in the form of the Trinity

Duality produces the possibility of the 'other', of the 'new', the child, of evolution, of combination and rejection.  It is no surprise that to live in non-duality is considered to be the greatest good in Buddhist practice, as to be truly non-dual is to jump out of our reality altogether to a place of Oneness.  Duality is the construct on which our reality is based because duality (a binary system of 1 and 0, of black and white) enables possibility versus non-possibility.  How can a point exist if non-existence isn't there to contain it - within the same dimensional space, that is?  A particle needs a vacuum to be in, even if that vacuum cannot be defined in terms of the particle - and nor can the particle be defined in terms of the vacuum.  Still, the two polarities co-exist and allow each other to be.  These two opposing or complementing forces, then, allow for the creation of a Third option by combining their aspects.  The Mental Plane is projected as a third level and Mentalism becomes possible: The All is Mind, the Universe is Mental (Hermes Trismegistus).  The great illusion as a dream, taking the shape of a Lotus flower springing from the navel of the Great Dreamer (Vishnu).  Those are just names - the dreamer eventually turns out to be you yourself.  You are the observer and the observed, the dreamer become the dream, the projector looking at its projection.

Mystery schools talk about three Suns, three lights, two pillars and a central staircase up to the Dove of consciousness, all observed by the great Eye.  That is Duality creating the opportunity of a third, and also the opportunity to observe and exist from outside of the two possibilities, well above and beyond it.  To be above the polarity, not to swing with the pendulum, not to be dragged along by the swirling vortex that appears to offer no alternatives - but to be in the calm of the center of the storm.

The Rebis as a representation of the Third Light: the physical and the mental light producing the spiritual light:
Super-consciousness.  Awareness of one's duality, of one's polarity, awakened to the combined power
and the higher potential result of both sides of the paradoxical alchemical marriage.

When we extend the concept of the Third Way as super-consciousness, above the system, from 2+1 to 3+1 and 4+1 it becomes clear all these different meditation systems and ways to describe reality are pointing in the very same direction.  The way out of the swirl, seeing the forest for the trees, find a little piece of heavenly rest in the madness of the eternal Game.  And a way to control the game rather than being a blind player in it - a pawn of duality.

The Third way extended to the Fourth Way and the Fifth Element.  Also, a hint by Michelangelo about projection
and reality creation and where that Third Eye may be located physically, if not the focal point of consciousness itself.

Realizing the totality of the self (Atman) and the completeness within and without ourselves is taking a step into the center of the circle, of the projected sphere or Egg around us.  The center of the storm - the Eye of the Storm, the singularity of the vortex.  Stepping behind / out of the observation and then the observer himself and finding out a selfless, boundless, non-dual non-local core.  Is that the way 'out'?  Is non-existence, non-identity the place to go?  It is a realization that will allow for complete acceptance, power over the self and your direct environment and then also a shaping of reality with the greatest ease and comfort.  And that realization can be presented through film to an eager audience.

The Great Cycle in Man: from Conscious to Super-Conscious, to Unconscious and Sub-Conscious.
From wakefulness during the day to unawareness during the night, both literally and symbolically.
Also: the tentative link between AIO as a name of God and Man - is the aware human like a God
and/or does he or she project a God as a thought form to become a real energetic super entity?

Man (human) IS the Creator and the Creation all at once.  Observation is creation, the Cosmic Egg forms around our perception.  The boundary of our Universe is the edge of our Higher Self, our soul.  Maybe we are a brain in a jar in a cruel lab or maybe we are wearing a VR helment and we can't find the OFF switch - or perhaps we are a holographic echo of a Universe once real, now swallowed hole but a singularity at the end of time.  For now, though, we will just keep it at being in a Cosmic Egg of our own expanded consciousness in a Sea of infinite potential.  All roughly the same thing, in the end.

Man as the Cosmos Vortex, as Time and Space itself in ultimate Correspondence but also in Pandeic reality:
Consciousness as the One and only experience. In Hindu / Vedic terms: the mind of Vishnu (the Illusion, the Dream)
as the body of Shiva (The Cosmic Consciousness), as the playground of Krishna (Conscious lifeforms
within the Cosmos on the physical plane)

All is vortex, all is inward and outward spin. At the center a singularity point, a point of realization, consciousness, awareness, now, the center of time (and space).  Observe the hints all around you - more often than not right in your face.  It is pure simplicity in the form of ultimate complexity - how Paradox.  Perhaps the door is the frame around it, perhaps it is the hole in the center, but most likely it is the realization there is a door rather than just a random set of meaningless factors.

 

The Singularity and the Cosmic Egg

How do you like your Cosmic Eggs in the morning?  I like mine with a Spiderwoman's kiss.  What's with the vortex and the two balloons?  A clever little trick illustrates the game's construct:

A fun little vortex game...

Let's make some 5-D films now.

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Written by Alexander Lentjes of 5DLux.

5D Kids TV: Philosophical education, Mental excersize, Quantum science and Lifestyle choices for Childrens' Media

The curent state of Children's Media

Current Children's television works from a core of entertainment with an add-on of educational content, social values and artistic qualities.  Producers of Children's entertainment more often than not tell themselves they are only interested in entertaining their child audience and making a buck doing this and try to steer away from any deeper thougths, abstract concepts and promotion of critical thinking.  Childrens Media industry paublications will only discuss profitability of content and likelihood of Wallmart merchandising sales - even artistic merit is no point on the agenda.  After all, television programs are there to entertain (keep kids glued to the screen) and sell toys (yes, today that included public broadcasters' IP) and children have enough on their plate to not have to sit through mental stimulation in their television programming as well.

The programs ARE of course plenty stimulating mentally, just of an unstructured kind without much thought having gone into the impact of narrative content and structure, psychology and spiritual interpretation of the translation of archetypal energy visualization.  One cannot run away from correspondence - it is there regardless of opinion or intention.

The human family like a tree: a fractal connecting all,
a repeating pattern throughout space and time

Just looking at what is entertaining to children, we find stories based on parabels, fables, myth and folk tale.  Stories laying out human nature, core concepts of social structure, psychology, phisiology and a promise of natural and supernatural powers, besides mental gain.  And certain patterns and pretty colours work better than others.  Why?  Because they tap into exactly these areas as well: structure, construction, opposition, addition, purity, organic and energetic flow.  There's no hiding from the fact story is metaphorical psychology and all story does work on an alchemical tranformational level.

Childrens' television try to avoid dealing with questions in anything but physical, superficial realms.  Very few will really wants to answer questions like: "What happens when I die?" and "Where is God?", which are questions children do ask practically from the moment they can talk.  Do we turn on the Christian, Muslim or Hindi kids channel for these questions - should their answers resonate with our internal truth as parents?  Very few parents will do and because there is no other entertaining philosophical alternative, these questions will not find a place where answers may be postulated on television.  We tell our children their dreams can come true but not to worry when they are scary because they are not real.  So what are we telling our children about the borderland of fantasy and reality, exactly?  It is tricky territory without the right verbal tools and without support from the school system and the general television and film industries.

Screen time for the little ones is increasing year on year

Soul nourishing content

As reported in industry publications and research papers, today's Western teens and tweens state they feel they have nothing to live for.  That is a very sad state of affairs as these people are on their way to becoming a lost generation.  They have chased Twitter tallies and Instagram followers and they have stared into the bottomless abyss of digital distraction and plastic utopia consumerism.  This generation of people cries out for a feeding of their soul, for a purpose in life beyond the next generation iDevice.  Mass media like television, film and the digital space are able to provide more depth and to point people in the direction of self-improvement, furtherment of mental and soul studies and a hint at a possible relationship with the self, the higher self and the highest self.  Sadly, finding a program or channel that actually provides these qualities is neigh impossible.  Perhaps that is because in a commercial world we can't work with concepts that don't sell in a jar or in a download, but are found within and in the space between loving people.

A kaleidoscopic image as found on Baby TV:
potentially an expression of Dharma at its best

As a society we should seriously be discussing the implications of Quantum Mechanics in the shaping of our realities.  This discussion starts with our children - literally - as they will carry the subject further than we ever have been able to.  That is, as long as they are considering the subject at the earliest possible media-consuming age.  These days, that's Baby TV.  As the squares and circles on the screen bounce around merily, the deepest philosophical question can already been posed: can the circle be squared?

From a perspective of pure neurology and froma standpoint of Tabula Rasa (a clear slate mind), if you try to deliver information at an age later than the great neural pathway build, that does not fit in with a preconceived perception and belief system, the average person’s mind cannot deal with this.  This is mainly because of the key factor of understanding. The brain's dictionary needs to contain the concept or information and its cross-referencing system has to make the logical connection to process the information.  Anything outside of the parameters of familiarity cannot be comprehended or processed easily and properly and understood or utilised and will not be integrated into one's belief and perception system.  It will not become a permanent change, or influence one in a profound way.

Tabula Rasa: the mind as a blank slate

However, this purely physical and rather antiquated Enlightenment view (Voltaire, Locke, rebelling against a Magical world view) does not take into account real world every day evidence - anybody with multiple children, especially twins, triplets or quads, knows no two minds are alike and nature is incredibly strong compared to nurture, although both very much apply.  Conscious brain building through education is but one of three factors shaping our inner world, driving our throughts and actions - all is based on trinities.  The subconscious mind has an enormous impact on our actions and thoughts and this behemoth of decision making bases its conclusions very much on perceived social importance and acceptance.  This subconscious mind is also fed by the shared consciousness / the field of morphic resonance found within the Earth's Electro-magnetic field.  Thirdly, there is the Soul's knowledge and understanding that is timeless, irrepressable and often finds expression in that famous 'Gut Feeling' - an instict preceding conscious decision making that often turns out to be right, especially when ignored.  What we have to do is to allow the full trinity of voices to come through, to be listened to counsciously and not to repress our inborn or learned wisdom.  In order to do this we first need to know the sound of all three voices and not allow one particular voice to shout over the others.  This is ultimately the greatest gift we can posibly give to our children's generation - a tool for balanced, human, natural, educated and divine reasoning.

Take the deeper meaning of the Kaleidoscope as a representation of the mandala: an expression of the concept of Dharma.  Dharma is the proto reality in from of the fire in Plato's Cave: we humans only see its shadows on the cave wall.  Only introspection can reveal this proto world as the outside world we observe (or rather project) with our eyes is already within the realm of the shadows.  Understanding this concept and working with it will allow our children to step over the confusing metaphors we have created and cut to the chase, drill down to the core, resolve the issues of today and tomorrow by working proactively with causes rather than reactively with results.  This deeper undertanding goes down to Quantum levels and the great atomic agreement, leading to sympathetic vibration and the law of correspondence.  All these concepts start with the 100th monkey or sheep story.  The laws of physics are what they are because of an agreement, not because of pure random chaos.  Randomness would mean constant change, agreement means stability until a better way is found or until an argument is started.  This viewpoint also means there is a structure and reason to life, the Universe and everything and there is no excuse for mindless excesses, abuse, rape and pillaging of other human beings, life on Earth and the planet itself.  There are ethical rules, there is a higher law, there is higher consciousness and there is spiritual agreement.

Buddha Mandala: Kaleidoscope 2.0

Why not stimulate the mind and nourish the soul of our youngest viewers?  Should we be bitter, angry and cynical and teach them only the merits of consumption, individualism and the abandonment of hope, with only a plastic toy as a reward for good TV viewing?  Of course we don't set out to do this as an industry, but what DO we tell our children through the television content we serve them at the moment?  Be happy, be yourself, be creative, think and explore your world.  Right, so the core principle of the message is an external version of of the Third Way as taught by Buddha but why do we not also give our children the tools to investigate these paths of discovery internally?  Our children have thoughts and dreams, they ponder life and death, concepts of heaven and reincarnation, spirits, energies and superpowers.  Modern media taunts children with the concepts of superpowers but no tools are provided to investigate their real world equivalents.  Superficial hapiness, social popularity and an industrious work ethic are not superpowers, they are fleeting ideas that do not satisfy and lead to a desire to consume more and thus endebt oneself more.


Inappropriate


A common remark heard within the Children's industry is: "These types of subject are not appropriate for children's media".  Where do we draw the line then on what subjects we use to entertain?  Where is the etheric neutrality in telling an African folk tale on how the elephant got his trunk, showing a mythological history of Thor and his hammer Mjolnir and interdimensional aliens helping boys to become men by giving them matter-transforming technology?  It is better to grab the big white elephant in the room by its tusks and tell these same stories with constructive humanist, psychological and spiritual consciousness.  The story will still entertain - in fact better than ever - but this time the side effects are pure, core mental growth.

Ben 10: interdimensional matter-bending fun

As entertainers and parents we have to answer Humanist and deeper ethical questions  Children are naturally curious and they will ask you how things work and why.  So how DO we explain big concepts of the Universe to children, when is a good time for what level of information and what do we say they themselves can do with this information? 

A Christian might have trouble explaining to a four year-old where exactly Jesus lives - in the rafters of the church or maybe up on the cloud overhead, in a little chamber in the Heart perhaps.  And what exactly is his relationship with Santa Claus?  Are both magical and if not, how are they different?  And what happens when you child comes home from school with candy celebrating Eid or Diwali?  As a parent you are going to have to engage with complicated issues of difference in opinion on belief.  Even an atheist parent will find him- or herself in a difficult spot when a child asks what caused the Big Bang, what lies beyond the Universal bubble we can see, what hapens in those other dimensions and parallel universes, how come there is no definitive end to the number Pi and what quantum mechanics really says about our reality.

The Amplituhedron: simplifying QM calculations

Schooling

Take a schooling subject that has become controversial recently: Evolution Theory.  In school we teach that animals evolve through natural selection.  How the process happens is not known - which is why it is called a theory - and supplying our children with a framework to consider multiple possiblities would be a healthy route to take.  We could say that the animal decides to change tact and allows for his or her children to grow a new bodypart, but does this subconsciously rather than consciously.  The change in body part might happen as a random mutation and the animals living with this mutation survive better than the ones without, but the change happens.  So the possiblities are that the change happens either completely randomly, after a subconscious decision or after a conscious one.  And then there is option four where the change doesn't happen at all and the animal was created in a particular way by a greater consciousness.  To give our children the tool of consideration is a great gift.  At that point they can contemplate the workings of consciousness and its interaction with the quantum potential field or ignore this possiblity.  But these thoughts open the door to contemplation of the potential power we hold within ourselves to shape our own bodies through higher frequency DNA activation, epigenetics and the morphogenic field.  If it is possible we certainly must investigate the possiblity and learn to work with it consciously rather than allowing our subconscious to run the show for us.  The bigger point is that all theories change and will continue to change at an ever a faster rate in a post-classical physics world so what will count for our children is an ability to disseminate and postulate, theorize and think outside the box completely, not just quote theories that are outdated within a week.

Earth is not flat and Space is not flat etiher. Illustration by Nassim Haramein of the Resonance Project

Earth is not flat and Space is not flat etiher. So why depict it as a flat surface? It requires a different
frame of mind completely to illustrate Space in a shape approximating reality.  Here lies a potential task of Children's Media: supply the concepts that promote true three- and four-dimensional type of thinking.  Why is this relevant?  One great example is the programming of a Quantum Computer: currently, scientists are not sure Quantum Computers do what they think they do, nobody truly understands just how they calculate their data and every calculation requires complete reprogramming of the computer.  Future operators of the QC will be able to calculate solutions to problems unfathomable to us but a new way of thinking, understanding and intuing is required.


Current examples

There is a handful of childrens television shows that dip their toes into the pond of deeper philosophical and mystical questions.  One can wonder whether this happens consciously or unconsciously, although that doesn't matter as much as the question of whether etherics are employed simply to sell a few more toys or whether the intention is one of helping children discover themselves on a deeper level.

Take pre-school show Waybuloo: the four animal creatures in this mixed CGI-live-action series practice Yoga from time to time although their bodies are the worst possible design to communicate Yoga positions.  When a state of Nirvana is reached - after about one pose - the cat, bear, rabbit and monkey float up and fly around hapily.  Fantastic to see Yoga promoted this way, absolutely.  Perhaps it is nitpicking to complain about the character designs making it impossible to see how the Yoga position is to be executed but yeah, it doesn't help much.

Waybuloo: Yoga for toddlers

One example that made it to live-action big budget Hollywood feature film remake is Avatar: The Last Airbender.  Fantastic to see the power of employing the Four Elements explained, albeit in a rather violent way.  Attacking with water rather than inviting it to cleanse and protect one internally.  It is great the concept of the Elements is introduced to a young viewing audience and certainly interesting to introduce the connection between Elements and the Four Corners of the Earth and its peoples.  It is certainly possible to do this as well with our current world and its cultural and political boundaries.

Avatar - The Last Airbender: elemental magic

A Malaysian animation series proposition is 'Mask Masters' which bases its premise on the metamorphosis principle as often seen in Japanese Manga and Anime.  The metamorphic stories find a base in shamanic culture and although these animated examples are literal or suit-like transformations into the Elemental animals, in shamanic practice one can invoke animals to give strength, protect and advice.  Animal (spirit) guides, in short.  It is such a deeply engrained and powerful concept that we don't see the totems and talismans we carry around with us for what they are any more.  A lot of the potential power of the talismans then disappears, which is a big shame.  Strength, confidence, guidance and purpose can be part of every child's and adult's life - why take away these qualities for the sake of denying a deeper and higher truth to our reality to satisfy a reductionist, nihilistic scientific desire?  Freud, Jung, Darwin, Einstein and Planck themselves would certainly NOT agree with the way we have taken away all this spiritual power.

Mask Masters: the Elemental Animals of the Quarters

A great example of an attempt to teach children the merits of Chi Gung (very similar to the better known forms of Tai Chi and Kung Fu) is 'Tree Fu Tom'. It's basic electro-magnetics and energy flow through the body, which is of course step one to reconnecting with our energetic body.  Try it for yourself and feel the energy flow.  A caffinated sugar drink will NOT do the same thing for your energy levels, sharpness of mind, vitality, hapiness and general wellbeing.  Yoga and Chi Gung should probably be part of everyday school but no chance of this hapening when the teachers, governors, councillors, ministers and senators making up the curriculum don't understand about the merits.  So again the media: television, film and online digital media & Apps can help to lay the base for a brigter future for energetic humanity. 

Tree Fu Tom shows how to move your Chi on the iPad

And then there always is the violent application of energetic concepts.  'Chakra the Invincible' is a new kids show developed in India with Stan Lee on board, highlighting the chakra energy centers in a purely physical, violent way.  Is that all wrong?  Well, at least the concept of Chakras is highlighted by the show and perhaps some of the information of where they are and what they represent may stick with children.  But the fact that their energy accumulation is used to fight rather than to balance out the energy flow within the body is somewhat questionable.  Still, it definitely beats a glorification of nuclear waste as a way to gain superpowers.  And the desire to have superpowers is quite simply part of being a child - and an adult for that matter.  If only the message were more in the direction of: you can have mental superpowers and be physically super healthy and strong but in order to retain those powers and the balance, a focus needs to be obtained and held through meditation in a physical, in a mental and in a spiritual way.

Chakra: weaponizing the energetic power of the Chakras

And then there is the delightful 'Adventure Time', which appears to be a free-flow of creative energy or it may actually potentially be a penning down of adventures on the Astral Plane (at least one of them anyway).  Fantastic to behold and very important for kids and grown ups to abandon the logic of our rigid physical plane.  Living the dream!

Adventure Time: Free flowing concepts from one Astral Plane

Fate or Destiny

We, as media producers and parents, have to allow our children to take control of their fate, without losing control of their destiny.  Because that is exactly the place we find ourselves in as a species right now and we're going nowhere fast.


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