Strange Timing & Motive In Polanski Arrest

[Helen Reyes]

Hearkening back to EWS again, I'd like to link to to an analysis of Kubrick's film by one Rob Ager, called "Unseen Reflections" (http://www.collativelearning.com/EYES%20...lysis.html), in which he says that the character Bill Harford played by Tom Cruise lives in a dreams state (Kubrick based his film on the German novel Traumnovelle, which translates as "Dream Story". That is until after he attends the Somerton ritual and is forced by events to wake up. Ager's essay is interesting and insightful but, imo, he misses the deeper pulse that I think Kubrick was exploring.

I cannot help but wonder if Kubrick chose the subject of Bill being asleep in order to echo the state of the Fool in Tarot cards - or in the Arthurian Cycle which would, I imagine, equate to Sir Perceval who was brought up in a forest (i.e., he was wholly unconcious) by his Mother (complex) who ensured he was kept unworldly. But in full time it is Perceval (Parsifal = the pure fool) who attained the Grail (Sir Bors being the only other one to do so).

Yes, as I read that I imagined I understood why Kubrick selected two actors who were living in trance states to play the major roles. Manson was just a clear; Tom Cruise is the world's first Operating Thetan. Ziegler makes a fine Klingsor as well.

In place of merely modernizing a Wagner opera, Kubrick with his trademark pregnant silences, colors, lighting and geometries might have been saying something about the ultimate nature of reality, beyond the obvious New World Order implications. For the sake of argument, try taking Poe's poem question literally and answerable in the affirmative:

Take this kiss upon the brow!
And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow—
You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.

I stand amid the roar
Of a surf-tormented shore,
And I hold within my hand
Grains of the golden sand—
How few! yet how they creep
Through my fingers to the deep,
While I weep—while I weep!
O God! can I not grasp
Them with a tighter clasp?
O God! can I not save
One from the pitiless wave?
Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream?


-- THE END --


for Orpheus. Eurydice. Hermes. And Barbara with infinite love as I falter on the road to Ithaka

The new-born starts out unable to grasp anything, like the fool, and the man ends unable to hold on to any of the grains of sand, so 0=21. Poe is making a larger statement though about life as phantasm I suppose.

David said:

I think, because the 21st Tarot card, The World symbolizes accomplishment and wholeness, which is the entire purpose of the process of integration of the split parts to create the whole.

I don't know if Jung wrote or said anything of the kind, I was just saying what he said about rainbows connected in my mind with that card, the circle coming full circle.