Pans Labyrinth
Posted On : Nov / 21 / 2008
Pan's
Labyrinth (Spanish: El laberinto del fauno, literally The Labyrinth
of the Faun) is a 2006 Spanish language fantasy film[2][3] written
and directed by Mexican film-maker Guillermo del Toro. It was
produced and distributed by the Mexican film company Esperanto
Films. Pan's Labyrinth takes place in Spain in May and June, 1944,
after the Spanish Civil War, during the Franquist repression. Also
present is the main character Ofelia's fantasy world which centers
around an overgrown abandoned labyrinth.Harry Potter
Posted On : Nov / 21 / 2008
Harry
Potter is a series of seven fantasy novels written by British
author J. K. Rowling. The books chronicle the adventures of the
eponymous adolescent wizard Harry Potter, together with Ron Weasley
and Hermione Granger, his friends from the Hogwarts School of
Witchcraft and Wizardry. The central story arc concerns Harry's
struggle against the evil wizard Lord Voldemort, who killed Harry's
parents in his quest to conquer the wizarding world and subjugate
non-magical (muggle) people to his rule.H.P. Lovecraft
Posted On : Aug / 22 / 2008
Lovecraft's
major inspiration and invention was cosmic horror: the idea that
life is incomprehensible to human minds and that the universe is
fundamentally alien. Those who genuinely reason, like his
protagonists, gamble with sanity. Lovecraft has developed a cult
following for his Cthulhu Mythos, a series of loosely
interconnected fictions featuring a pantheon of human-nullifying
entities, as well as the Necronomicon, a fictional grimoire of
magical rites and forbidden lore. His works were deeply pessimistic
and cynical, challenging the values of Enlightenment, Romanticism,
and Christian humanism. Lovecraft's protagonists usually achieve
the mirror-opposite of traditional gnosis and mysticism by
momentarily glimpsing the horror of ultimate
reality.J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis
Posted On : Aug / 10 / 2008
When
we discuss the matter of the secret societies and the Illuminati,
it's inevitable to make the comparison to Tolkien. Sauron is of
course Satan/Lucifer with his occult power, and Gandalf is a member
of a Brotherhood called "The Wizard's Council", which is a secret
society in itself with magic rituals and esoteric wisdom. The
hobbits would from this viewpoint be the ignorant homo sapiens, who
don't want to get involved and don't know very much about what is
going on around and above them anyway. Just like in the world
today, ignorant people are used for "greater purposes" by the
secret societies, without knowing that they are being used.Wizards
Posted On : Aug / 02 / 2008
Wizards
is an animated post-apocalyptic science fiction/fantasy film about
the battle between two wizards, one representing the forces of
magic and one representing the forces of technology. It was
written, produced and directed by Ralph Bakshi. The planet Earth
has been badly damaged by a nuclear war instigated by terrorists,
and it has taken two million years for the radioactive clouds to
once again allow sunlight to reach the surface. Only a handful of
humans have survived, while the rest have changed into mutants who
roam the radioactive wastelands of Earth. In the good land of
Montagar, fairies, elves and dwarves (the true ancestors of man)
have returned and now live happily in the good
areas.The Golden Compass
Posted On : Aug / 02 / 2008
The
story concerns Lyra, an orphan living in a parallel universe in
which a dogmatic theocracy called the Magisterium threatens to
dominate the world. When Lyra's friend is kidnapped, she travels to
the far North in an attempt to rescue him and rejoin her uncle. In
this parallel universe in which a person's soul resides outside the
body in the form of an animal called a
"dæmon".Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Posted On : Jul / 30 / 2008
Indiana
Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is a 2008 adventure film
directed by Steven Spielberg, from a story co-written by executive
producer George Lucas. Set in 1957, the fourth film in the Indiana
Jones film series pits an older Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford)
against agents of the Soviet Union, led by Irina Spalko, in the
search for a crystal skull. The
skull is elongated in the shape that indigenous peoples formed
their own skulls into, but the Soviets believe the skull, which
magnetically attracts even non-ferrous objects, is from an
extraterrestrial life-form and holds great psychic
power.The John Titor Enigma
Posted On : Jul / 24 / 2008
John
Titor is the name used on several bulletin boards during 2000 and
2001 by a poster claiming to be a time traveler from the year 2036.
In these posts he made numerous predictions (a number of them
vague, some quite specific) about events in the near future,
starting with events in 2004. He described a drastically changed
future in which the United States had broken into five smaller
regions, the environment and infrastructure had been devastated by
a nuclear attack, and most other world powers had been
destroyed.Robert Anton Wilson
Posted On : Jul / 09 / 2008
Robert
Anton Wilson or RAW (born Robert Edward Wilson, January 18, 1932 –
January 11, 2007) was an American novelist, essayist, philosopher,
psychonaut, futurologist and libertarian. Wilson described his
writing as an "attempt to break down conditioned associations—to
look at the world in a new way, with many models recognized as
models or maps and no one model elevated to the Truth." . . . "My
goal is to try to get people into a state of generalized
agnosticism, not agnosticism about God alone, but agnosticism about
everything."Ezra Pound
Posted On : Jul / 03 / 2008
Ezra
Weston Loomis Pound (Hailey, Idaho Territory, United States,
October 30, 1885 – Venice, Italy, November 1, 1972) was an American
expatriate poet, critic and intellectual who was a major figure of
the Modernist movement in the first half of the 20th century. Pound
was the driving force behind several Modernist movements, notably
Imagism and Vorticism. He was an outspoken opponent of organized
banking and the federal reserve.Cafe to Cybercafe
Posted On : Jul / 03 / 2008
The
local cafe......... populated with students, professors, artists,
writers, and musicians, had gone, replaced by yet another chain
offering a prepackaged and franchised atmosphere that could be
found anywhere on the planet. The former rows of books, everything
from novels, poetry, and drama to philosophy and social
science....... had been replaced by, well, nothing. Emptiness.
Mirrors reflecting back the image of the consumer to himself. In
the place of books, there was now wireless Internet access......
Rather than coming in for a discussion with other flesh and blood
people facing you across the table, the tables were full of laptops
as the customers carried on their virtual life oblivious to those
around them.Alex Jones
Posted On : Jul / 02 / 2008
Alexander
Emerick Jones (born February 11, 1974) is an American
paleoconservative radio host and filmmaker who is known for his
outspoken opposition to internationalist organizations such as the
United Nations and World Bank. He is described by many as a
conspiracy theorist, and has been accused by left-wing groups of
being a disinformation operative diverting the disaffected toward
far right conspiracism.George Carlin
Posted On : Jun / 25 / 2008
George
Carlin (May 12, 1937 – June 22, 2008) was an American stand-up
comedian, actor and author who won four Grammy Awards for his
comedy albums. Carlin was especially noted for his political and
black humor and his observations on language, psychology, and
religion along with many taboo subjects. Carlin and his "Seven
Dirty Words" comedy routine were central to the 1978 U.S. Supreme
Court case F.C.C. v. Pacifica Foundation, in which a narrow 5-4
decision by the justices affirmed the government's right to
regulate "indecent" material on the public
airwaves.The Work of Carlos Castaneda
Posted On : Apr / 09 / 2008
Carlos
Castaneda (December 25, 1925 – April 27, 1998) was a Peruvian-born
American author. Starting with The Teachings of Don Juan in 1968,
Castaneda wrote a series of books that describe his training in
traditional Mesoamerican shamanism. His 12 books have sold more
than 8 million copies in 17 languages. The books and Castaneda, who
rarely spoke in public about his work, have been controversial for
many years.Bob Dobbs, Holeopathic Retrievals, and Synchronistic Linguistics
Posted On : Mar / 31 / 2008
According
to Bob Dobbs everyone died in 1945, leaving behind a world of
"holeopathic retrievals." "Holeopathic," he explains, is a mixture
of "homeopathy" and "hologram." Homeopathy is a form of medical
treatment where the physician takes the essence of a substance and
dilutes it, the theory being that the tinier the dose the more
potent it is. A hologram is an artificial environment
indistinguishable from the reality upon which it's based. Dobbs
claims it was the implementation of what he calls "the solar
government" in 1945 that caused the disappearance of Earth's entire
population, who were then replaced with holograms. This means that
succeeding generations are mere holograms of holograms of
holograms, ad infinitum. The tinier the holograms, the more
realistic and engaging the artificial environment becomes, hence
the term "holeopathic retrieval." In order to break out of this
program, he claims we must become what he calls "menippean
satirists."The Comedy of Bill Hicks
Posted On : Mar / 21 / 2008
Hicks
stripped away the lies and deceit our governments have woven for
us, laying bare grim truths, laced with his biting, trademark wit.
Bill's humour though sometimes harsh, was not intended to upset,
more to bring people together: "The best kind of comedy to me is
when you make people laugh at things they've never laughed at, and
also take a light into the darkened corners of people's minds,
exposing them to the light. I thought the whole point of it was to
make you feel un-alone."Resident Evil Extinction
Posted On : Mar / 18 / 2008
The
Umbrella Corporation appears to be the only organized society of
humans left in the world, its remnants forced to live underground
in Hive-like constructs dispersed around the world. Dr. Sam Isaacs
(Iain Glen) believes that he can develop a permanent cure to save
what is left of humanity, as well as tame the zombies so as to
create a viable workforce by using blood from the original
Alice.They Live
Posted On : Mar / 10 / 2008
Part
science fiction thriller and part black comedy, the plot deals
satirically with the perceived notion of a declining economy,
within a culture of greed and conspicuous consumption commonly
associated with the 1980s. It posits a world in which some of the
monied elite (i.e., the "yuppies") are actually aliens oppressing
the poverty-stricken lower classes through subliminal media
advertising.The Cave
Posted On : Mar / 10 / 2008
Deep
in the Romanian forest, a team of scientists stumble upon the ruins
of a 13th century abbey sealed away by a long forgotten priesthood.
On further inspection, they make a startling discovery: the abbey
is built over the entrance to a giant underground cave system.
These scientists are Dr. Nicolai and his associate Bacovia Radescu.
Local biologists believe the cave could contain an undiscovered
ecosystem, so they hire a group of American spelunkers to help them
investigate its depths.The Matrix Decoded
Posted On : Jan / 31 / 2008
The
Matrix trilogy has so much symbolism packed into it that I can't
help but to reference it as an example when trying to explain many
things. Many times I've said, "Like in the Matrix where..." Well,
I'm not gonna do a complete breakdown, or even a chronological one.
So to get on with it, here's some stuff I have noticed in the
films. It is interesting to note that the blue pill and red pill
are perfectly analogous to the Blue and Red Lodges of Freemasonry.
Those in the Blue Lodges (1-3rd degree masons) are deliberately
misled and know very little truth about their organization as a
whole, but those who are initiated into the Red Lodge (4-33rd
degree) learn incrementally more about the truth as they progress
up the chain.Sacred Order of the Stonecutters - The Simpsons
Posted On : Jan / 31 / 2008
"Homer
the Great" is the 12th episode of The Simpsons’ sixth season. It
features the Stonecutters, a fictional secret society which is an
overt parody of the Freemasons. When
Homer notices that Lenny and Carl are enjoying unexplainable
privileges at the nuclear plant, he investigates and discovers that
they are part of an ancient secret society known as the
Stonecutters. When he tries to join, he learns that in order to
gain membership, one must either be the son of a Stonecutter or
save the life of a Stonecutter. While extolling the Stonecutters at
the dinner table, he discovers that his father is a member and is
admitted. After joining the Stonecutters, Homer takes great
pleasure in the Society's secret privileges, such as an underground
byway past Springfield's traffic jams and the Society's drinking
bouts.The Super Mario Brothers Story
Posted On : Jan / 31 / 2008
Reptiles
from another dimension invade and corrupt the sacred
kingdom.....Mario and Luigi head deeper into the caves following Daisy's screaming and discover an interdimensional portal through which Mario and Luigi follow Daisy. They find themselves in a strange dystopian parallel world where a human-like race evolved from Tyrannosauridae. It is claimed that they are decended from a T. Rex population that escaped through the interdimensional portal. Iggy and Spike turn out to be lackeys (and cousins) of the other world's evil and feared dictator, King Koopa. However, the two have failed to also bring Daisy's "rock," a meteorite fragment which Koopa is trying to get in order to merge his world with the real world that separated from Koopa's world during the "Big Bang".
Chitauri - Marvel Comics
Posted On : Jan / 30 / 2008
The
Chitauri are an ancient technologically advanced race of
extraterrestrial fanatics dedicated to controlling all other life
in the universe, eradicating that which they cannot control.
Determined to bring harmony to the universe since the dawn of time,
they regard themselves as the universe's immune system, purging
diseases such as chaos, disorder and independent thought. Dubbed
the Chitauri
by Africans who encountered them on Earth,
these aliens have been known as the Annakui or
Skrulls on other worlds. Within their own society, they have little
use for individual names or personalities, functioning as a
collective with shared goals and values; however, they do assume
identieis while infiltrating the races of other worlds. They have
replicated the appearance of other life forms, but must consume
teir victims first in order to assume their shapes. In their
natural state, the Chitauri are eight feet tall and reptilian in
appearance. At least some of them posses enhance strength,
durability, senses, and regenerative powers. Their ruling class
apparently possesses these traits in greater abundance then the
rank and file. They reportedly spend at least part of their lives
in realms beyond three-dimentional space, but use their
shape-shifting powers to assume forms better suited to three
dimensions when operating within our
reality.V for Vendetta
Posted On : Jan / 30 / 2008
V
for Vendetta is a 2006 action-thriller film set in London, England
in a near-future dystopian society. The film follows the mysterious
V, a freedom fighter seeking to effect sociopolitical change while
simultaneously pursuing his own violent personal vendetta. The film
is an adaptation of the graphic novel V for Vendetta by Alan Moore
and David Lloyd. V for Vendetta was directed by James McTeigue and
produced by Joel Silver and the Wachowski brothers, who also wrote
the screenplay. The film stars Natalie Portman as Evey Hammond,
Hugo Weaving as V, Stephen Rea as Inspector Finch and John Hurt as
Chancellor Sutler.Black Lodge of Twin Peaks
Posted On : Jan / 30 / 2008
The
Black Lodge is a "fictional" place in the television series Twin
Peaks. It is an extradimensional place which seems to include the
"Red Room" as seen by Agent Cooper in a dream early in the series,
where he sees himself 25 years older sitting in a chair. In the
series, the Native American policeman Deputy Hawk says that the
Black Lodge is from the mythology of his people. One entrance to
the Black Lodge seems to be located in Ghostwood Forest surrounding
the town of Twin Peaks. A pool of a substance akin to scorched
engine oil, is surrounded by 12 young sycamore trees. This area is
known as Glastonbury Grove. It is said that the key to gain
entrance to the Black Lodge is fear. This is in contrast to the key
to the White Lodge, which is love.The Neverending Story
Posted On : Jan / 30 / 2008
The
story of the book starts with fantastic creatures in the world of
Fantasia discovering that a strange force called "The Nothing" is
starting to take over their world and make things disappear. The
group consists of Teeny Weeny and his racing snail, a Nighthob and
his "stupid" bat, and a giant Rockbiter. They make their way to see
the Empress of Fantasia at the Ivory Tower and ask her for help.
Unfortunately, the Empress is deathly ill. The Empress has summoned
a great warrior from a tribe of the Plains People named "Atreyu."
Atreyu (Noah Hathaway) arrives, and is given a magical medallion
called the Auryn, which acts as both a guide and a symbol of the
Empress' authority in requesting
assistance.