Trauma’s slogan: Apocalypse now. What is it, and how does it affect us? How does trauma lead to trouble?
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Trauma’s slogan: Apocalypse now. What is it, and how does it affect us? How does trauma lead to trouble?
A brief analysis of “Unlocked” (2023): a film about death, consumption, transformation, and horror in our present-day technological landscape.
‘We can only love what we know, and we can never know completely what we do not love.’ Aldous Huxley
‘Reason is like an officer when the King appears; the officer then loses his power and hides himself. Reason is the shadow cast by God; God is the sun.’ Rumi
If you see through fear, see that what you thought was a snake is really a rope, what you imagined was a beast is really a frightened person, you create space for life to sprout new growth, a possibility for change.
‘Nietzsche says that what is important is not the news that God is dead, but the time this news takes to bear fruit.’ Deleuze & Guattari
‘Everything is this act of embracing the present moment, the felt presence of experience, and then moving on to the next felt moment of experience. It’s literally psychological nomadism is what it is.’ Terence McKenna
‘Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.’ Ursula K. Le Guin
‘Freedom is not guided by our efforts; it comes from seeing what is true.’ Buddha
‘Self-being is only real in communication with another self-being.’ Karl Jaspers
‘There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours.’ Jean-Paul Sartre
‘A soul cannot develop and progress without an approximate body, because it is the physical body that furnishes the material for its development.’ Franz Hartmann
‘Nature’s intent is neither food nor drink nor clothing, nor comfort, nor anything else from which God is left out. Whether you like it or not, whether you know it or not, secretly Nature seeks and hunts and tries to ferret out the trace in which God may be found.’ Meister Eckhart
‘While we go with the stream, we are unconscious of its rapid course; but when we begin to stem it ever so little, it makes itself felt.’ Fénelon
‘Here we are,’ said the fool. He paused and looked as if to be admiring something.
‘Do not be deceived: God is not to be mocked. Whatever one sows, one will reap in return.’ Galatians 6:7