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I downloaded "The Invisibles" and haven't read it yet, but here is the included summary. I will probably upload the series in sections on divshare, then give the links for anyone else who wants to read it.

[Comics] The Invisibles ("The dopest shit ever")

What if every conspiracy theory you ever heard was true?

No, wait, what if every crackpot idea you ever heard, conspiracy or not, was true?

No, no, wait! What if every idea, period, you ever heard was true?

If you can stretch your brain around that concept, you would probably enjoy comic book amuteur Grant Morrison's epic series, "The Invisibles."

The Invisibles is a mind-blowing mix of drugs, occultism, UFOs, voodoo, sexual excess, Witchcraft, sadomasochism, body modification, movies, government conspiracies, Lovecraftian horror, numerology, Gnostic cosmologies, anarchy, Mad Science, time travel, superheroes, Freemasonry, the Apocalypse, plus some stuff that's just plain weird.

Morrison (who has moved on to do mainstream comics like the X-Men and the Justice League) drew on an extremely diverse set of sources for his epic, including the Gnostic writings of early Christianity, the drug-fueled speculations of Terence McKenna, Mayan and Aztec religions, the Roswell crash, the Holy Grail, the Cathars, legends of the Knights Templar, the rituals of Freemasonry, Maya Deren's writings on Voudoun, the mad science of Wilhelm Reich and Jack Parsons, the cool '60s spy stylings of The Prisoner, the metaphysical posturings of Aleister Crowley... well, the list goes on.

The Invisibles was an interactive experiment as well. In one letter column, Morrison called on readers to take part in a magic activity designed to boost sales and keep the series alive, which involved charging a magical symbol (sigil) by masturbating. As he explained, "the good thing about the Masturbation method of sigil-charging is that it allows you to jerk off in the name of spiritual advancement." (The series made it all the way through the end, so presumably the experiment worked.)

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I downloaded "The Invisibles" and haven't read it yet, but here is the included summary. I will probably upload the series in sections on divshare, then give the links for anyone else who wants to read it.

I, for one, would appreciate that very much FYM.!

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We all know how impactful this movie was. We all like to think we know why. Some consider it "cool" just for the moves and some are interested in it because of the analogy it uses that is very very similar to the situation as channeled sources present.

But my reason for posting this is for a different reason. The sequels to the initial movie is where my concern lies. Did any of you notice how #2 + #3 declined 200% in creativity and innovation compared to the original? Almost like the REAL Matrix Control System said, "enough of this", and affected the makers and producers of the sequels to completely sell out. "Sell out" is actually the best way to describe it if I didn't consider the conspiracies that could be discussed to maybe conclude that further elaboration of the "The Matrix" was cut-off. As if the original artistic merit of the initial was intentionally being ignored for the following two.

I'm rambling, but did others notice this? They went from "HOT" to "COLD", with a small transition that makes me wonder.

I thought that the Matrix 2+3 lacked the feeling of awe from the 1st one. All of a sudden there are ghost, vampires, sexual deviants. I wanted more of the mythos from the 1st movie.

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Martial Arts / Matrix

Morihei Ueshiba

In 1904 war broke out between Russia and Japan . Morihei enlisted in the army but was rejected for being a fraction under the minimum height requirement of five feet . This infuriated him . Eager to serve his country , he trained vigorously , alone in the mountains , and even hung for long periods of time by his arms from tree branches hoping to stretch his height .
With his second application he was accepted as a reserve . His hardworking attitude and extraordinary skill soon drew the attention of his superiors , and he was quickly promoted to sergeant . His skill with both the sword and bayonet guaranteed his promotion , yet the same skill kept him - against his wishes - off the battlefield : he was not sent to fight because he was considered too valuable as a teacher for other soldiers . When after repeated requests he was eventually sent to the front lines , he amazed his comrades by running directly into the attack . He claimed that when close enough , he could see the path of the enemy's bullets - a flash of light just before the bullet arrived . The bullet , he said , would follow the path of that light and if he dodged the flash of light , the bullet would miss him . This was the first evidence people had of his extrasensory ability .

Extract from "The Spiritual Foundations of Aikido" William Gleason  http://shobu.org/sensei.php

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Gman wrote:

I thought that the Matrix 2+3 lacked the feeling of awe from the 1st one. All of a sudden there are ghost, vampires, sexual deviants. I wanted more of the mythos from the 1st movie.

I think the idea of the matrix was great, but was originally deviated in the first episode.

Even if this movie makes you think, why would you want to wake up, when the other side is darker and makes you more unhappy than the illusion?Do you remember that scene when they eat disgusting food, and one of them says something like: "I don't see the point of getting out of the matrix"?
When I watch the movie, I have the same feeling: what's the point anyway?

I think this movie brings that idea in your subconscious, especially for those sensitive people who feel there is a trick in the way we are told reality: "Waking up is worse than sleeping guys!".

When I "extract" my mind from the matrix in meditations, I just feel love, and I can feel how love is deviated here in this matrix and used in the wrong way.

The movie tells you: "Illusion feels good, reality is cold and dark", when truth is just the opposite!

I think most of us were caught by this lie, because our mind classifies automatically this movie as "good".

Thank you Lucifer, another one of your subtle trick...

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I suppose that's the point,..... of waking up.
When you realise how good waking up is and how dark the illusion is.
The balance does not allow you to yourself, be melancholy because the realisation
of the state of being overwhelms the darkness.
That's when things begin to make sense and the senses begin to reject the illusion.
Here opens new senses and you begin to see the world through different eyes.
You draw further and further away from the despair and darkness of the illusion
and become more aware of who you are.
The saying, "The truth will set you free", to me, is far more powerfull than people imagine.
The point of waking up is to experience the truth for which you will not be ungratefull and
which will sweep you away to a more joyous, higher sense of being, existence and realm.
As sight returns to a blind mans eyes he has never protested but rather expresses loudly
his joy.

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...regarding the Matrix trilogy(and the Animatrix shorts) versus Dark City, yes, I own them all, but the only one I felt I needed to see on the big screen was Dark City. Oddly enough, it wasn't because of the quasi-Gotham City look of the town or the overall themes...it was because I had been dreaming about being able to fly just as the Strangers did. Most people, when they fly in their dreams, fly horizontally as a superhero would. For many years, I had been flying in my dreams, and it was always as if I was standing on a horizontal plane and simply hovering along, as if I was on an invisible platform. When I saw the ads, That's what drew me in. The film hit me over the head hard, and unlike many others, I remembered every detail perfectly (it could be that I had been a seriously silly Discordian for a long while, and was skilled at seeing the fnords where others couldn't.). When the Matrix films came along, I collected them on DVD and checked them out...but Dark City was still the film that woke me up.
...oddly enough, I had a very hard time tracking down a DVD copy of Dark City. It was only this year that a friend of mine found one in Toronto and whipped it off to me as a birthday prez. I've never found any others. Somehow, I've been kept from having one...until now. ( Twilight Zone theme )...

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