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| Third Contact movie |
This year I
have had the opportunity to see the questions of life and death projected into
the screens and scripts of two featured movies: one of them was the documentary
The Act of Killing, and most recently, the thriller Third Contact. Today I will
explore points that I realised while watching the latter.
This low
budget movie touches upon the issues of bipolarity, depression, immortality,
life after death, memories, past lives and traumas through visual communication
and interlinked stories of the characters that we come across. This blog post
is not so much a movie review but rather my sharing of the points that came up
while watching it. At some point, I thought: what if that person (or someone
going through the same mental turbulence) was to apply self-forgiveness on the
memories of the mind, on the anger, on the sadness, on the experience that one
is creating to oneself and others, on the past, on the self-definitions, the
multiple personalities, the fears and on thoughts that are against oneself?
Would this not be a form of re-birth? Are we not all desiring to kill the
thoughts in our own minds that keeps us going on in circles and ultimately our
own physical death?
I found that
it is not a coincidence that the image of suicide is often related to bullet in
the head, not in the heart - one is actually killing the mind, the thoughts,
the addictions that we have never been educated to deal with. The heart is the
physical organ that distribute the blood and the oxygen throughout the body,
the same with the lungs that feel the body with the air we breathe, however,
none of these organs are associated to suicide, because these are not supposed
to be stopped while they are functionally working! Why would a human being kill
its own body when is fully functional and healthy? Nevertheless, the body will
stop working when the mind takes control. This has to do with our own
acceptances and allowances, our misdirection and our distractions that keeps us
away from our own self-honesty as Life. So, the act of suicide that pops up in
the mind appears to be a "solution" to a Life that was never fully
lived.
Back to the
movie Third Contact, were these deaths real? Or was it the end of the
personalities? Or even the end of memories that hold people back? How would life be if we were to let go of the
past?
I then
considered that a quantum life, lived in every moment of breath, consists of a
quantum death of personalities that must be cleared if we are to know
ourselves.
Our physical
existence allows us to birth in every breath we take, and to die in every
out-breath. An opportunity to change who we have been so far. And I agree with
the quote from the film, where she said: "Your concept of death is
outdated", because at least for the majority of the people in the
developed countries, death is not a consequence of physical hunger, or lack of
healthcare or even physical abuse against human rights. Death here can appear
as the idea of the mind that one cannot stand anymore, or that one does not
have strength to face the problems in Life, or that one is emotionally fragile
due to the end of a relationship, or that the loss of money took away one's
pride and therefore life does not make sense in that person's mind.
For others,
it is actually the concept of Life that has been disregarded and needs to be
recreated - those are the ones that are starting to be aware that Life does not
necessarily need to be a fight, or a struggle, or a proof to go to heaven,
because life on Earth should be Heaven for Every single being. This is the group of people where I stand and I have been realising that a mind-death is actually a process of re-birthing from the physical within the
realisation of who we are and what Life can be. The physical death, when it is not caused by physical accidents, it's the
consequence of the self-abuse from within, as the physical body can only handle
that much... And as I mentioned earlier, the act of Self-Forgiveness is one of
the most revealing tools that I could ever come across to help myself, to face
my mind, to get to know me, my fears, to stop allowing the depression within
me, the polarity of lows and highs of the mind, the excitement and the
passiveness, the paranoia and the movies in my own mind.
The director
of the movie overcame his own resistance by living the decision of making this
movie. As he said during the Q&A session, it was a priority that he gave to
himself and directed himself to do it, without procrastinating anymore. We can learn from him! It is
true that, at some point, we cannot stand our minds anymore and something must
be done. Considering the pre-programme of the mind, we will go through the same
cycles over and over again, even repeating our parents' patterns, until we stop creating and participating in such
cycles of thoughts and actions.
As I got
older, I could see the patterns manifesting in my different relationships and
in different situations of my life. I couldn't see it by myself - it was just
impossible because nothing in my reality was pointing me to a way out. My
religion in Portugal was not helping either, quite the opposite. My friends did
not know how to help and I was creating consequences around me. I wanted to
understand what was going on and why the patterns were repeating. Where were
the fears coming from? I also wanted to understand where my accidents were
coming from. Was there a god punishing me? Was there a devil punishing me? What
was the common element in all of these patterns? Was it me punishing myself?
Was I creating my own thoughts and fears? Well, if I got the questions and I
must have the answers. If I was creating these thoughts to myself, I should be
able to delete the thoughts. If I was killing myself in such a state of mind, I
must be capable of rebirthing myself in full self-awareness and start again. I
can see this now. I couldn't see it before I was introduced to Desteni, their
articles, the interviews, the forums and the videos. Even today I still ask
myself how the hell was I able to hear them, considering that my mind is so
complicated and suspicious. So I realise that I am the example to myself: if I
was able to slow my mind, to start forgiving myself and to let go of my
self-distrust, then this is the proof that I am able to change myself.
It is
interesting that in the Third Contact movie, people shaved their heads when they were ready
to "die". When I shaved my head for the first time I remember to
think that I never thought I could do it, because I was not ready to LIVE
myself, free of judgments! I could see other people doing it but not me. It
was easy for others, but not for me. It was OK for others, but not for me.. The
same with making movies: I thought that others could do it, but I couldn't.
Until I took the decision to make my first video-clip.
I thought
that others could be self-honest but not me, until I started to write for
myself in complete openness and vulnerability.
I thought
that others could write themselves on blogs but not me, until I started my
blogs.
I desired
others to change themselves but never considered that I could only change
myself - until I took the decision to walk the Process of self-honesty and go
through my deepest patterns, secrets, paranoia, memories and fears.
I did not
have to literally kill myself to start seeing this; I did not have to ascend to
a sky/heaven in order to be in peace with myself; I did not have to create
conflict with others in order to see change around me - because my change is
coming from within and is then manifested in what I say, write and do Here.
My physical
reality is an indication and cross-reference of my own Process, as within so
without, Life within, Life outside, in Oneness and Equality. So my own ideas of
life and death must be challenged, questioned and changed. We have
underestimated the potential of Life so much that death became the apparent
easy way out, when the majority of the suffering is coming from our own minds,
and this is unacceptable, considering that we could be doing much better in
actually working on ourselves and then working together to make this Earth and
Life an enjoyable place to be. Aren't Wars the projection of our own
self-destruction? Isn't Poverty the manifestation of our own greedy mind
separated from the others? Isn't this world a mirror of our own lack of self-responsibility
for our own creation?
The process that I am walking is a
Quantum process to be lived moment by moment, breath by breath, point by point,
while walking the various layers of the mind. When a thought comes up, I take a
breath and check within self-honesty what is my starting point, where is the
reaction coming from or the fear, and I focus on clarifying it within me,
self-forgive and let it go, so that when that point comes up again I am able to
correct myself and not give in into the cycle. It is amazing to see that so
much of my time on Earth is spent in the thoughts and concerns of the mind that
really block me to look at other things in this world. It is also fascinating that
since I started to sort out my own mind-mess I have been finally started my
Masters in diplomatic studies and I am more than ever keen to work in this
world to participate in its change for a better place for all, through common
sense and solutions that are the best for all, me and the people.
Would you go
back to the mind-paranoia if you were to discover yourself as your own direction,
as Life Here?
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