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Watched the 1980 movie Altered States last night, and found it both terrifying and curiously fascinating. It's the story of a brilliant quantum physicist, Eddie Jessup, played by William Hurt, who becomes obsessed with uncovering "the meaning of life" through hallucinations induced by floating in an isolation tank.
All hell breaks loose when he ups the potency of the hallucinations through the ingestion of psychedelic mushrooms. He regresses back into his primordial simian, apelike self, and finally, a mass of swirling atomic particles. In his attempt to uncover some truth that is immovable, constant, unchanging, he condemned himself to an absolute abyss of total self-destruction, nothingness.
Only the love of his wife, whom he has never been able to say "I love you" to, brings him back from the abyss.
Makes me want to be a very warm, loving person! We, each other, are all we have! Brings to mind this searching we all have for truth and meaning in our lives. I hope we never go to such deeply obsessive lengths as Eddie Jessup through regression therapy to uncover the same truth of nothingness that he ultimately uncovered! Just a body for sex with a warm heart of love is sufficient for me. Maybe produce some offspring who will fondly remember me as one of their ancestors to continue to bloodline and the train of genetic memory.
Discuss if you like.
All hell breaks loose when he ups the potency of the hallucinations through the ingestion of psychedelic mushrooms. He regresses back into his primordial simian, apelike self, and finally, a mass of swirling atomic particles. In his attempt to uncover some truth that is immovable, constant, unchanging, he condemned himself to an absolute abyss of total self-destruction, nothingness.
Only the love of his wife, whom he has never been able to say "I love you" to, brings him back from the abyss.
Makes me want to be a very warm, loving person! We, each other, are all we have! Brings to mind this searching we all have for truth and meaning in our lives. I hope we never go to such deeply obsessive lengths as Eddie Jessup through regression therapy to uncover the same truth of nothingness that he ultimately uncovered! Just a body for sex with a warm heart of love is sufficient for me. Maybe produce some offspring who will fondly remember me as one of their ancestors to continue to bloodline and the train of genetic memory.
Discuss if you like.
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check out that smoke ring. It tasted really good. I smothered it with Maulls BBQ sauce which is Local to St. Louis and one of the best I ever had.....
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I was recently separated from my wife of 33 years and it's complicated. Anyway I rented a room about 15 minutes away and I see my kids about once a week. I see the people who own the house I live in once in a while but other than that I stay in my room where I do my cooking, wash dishes in the shower, read, color, and sleep. I get out at least once a day. I grocery shop and I attend 2 meetings...
It's kinda fun to contemplate on it, but just realize it's like trying to wrap one's brain around the concept of infinity.
There's a scene in Life of Pi where the character has gone through all his neurosis to finally sit back on the park bench and say to a little girl who asks him a maths question.. 'Oh.. I don't know...'
He learns to be at peace and find balance. To just 'be' so to speak. I don't think the message is to stop inquiring, but to not let it become an obsession
I think the real truth is far too complex, mind-boggling and haphazard for our mortal minds and souls to grasp. Universal creation is violent!
OK, I'll be quiet now and let others continue to discuss if they wish.
I'm currently reading it. The Trip is a bit different than "The Four Agreements" but my impression is both books deliver you to a similar way of thinking about life.
In college and into early adulthood I searched for the meaning of life, ultimate Truth, etc. and it drove me to a breakdown. I agree with the post that said we should not attempt to delve too deeply or obsessively. There is also a verse in the Bible that says that now (on this earth) we see through a glass darkly, but then (after death) we see face to face (with our Creator). Another verse, which carries a lot of emotional power, says "I WILL SEE MY GOD, AND NOT AS A STRANGER."
Not going to lie, I had a fair few feelings like that when I took LSD. :P
I think love gives meaning to life and makes us feel fulfilled.
Although I am still searching for my own soulmate, somewhere out there in the universe, I survive by knowing I will find her when I least expect it.....as long as my ego doesn't get in the way.
~~~Peace~~~
Everyone KNOWS the ultimate answer is 42.