The Conscious Movie-of-the-Month for April 2019 is The Matrix (1999).
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The Matrix (1999) |
Welcome to the first Conscious Movie-of-the-Month exploration.
If you have not already joined our free Conscious Movie-of-the-Month Group/Club, you can still join us anytime by signing up for a free membership at the
Conscious Good Creators Network.
If you are already a member, you are invited to watch
The Matrix on your own and feel free to share your thoughts, reflections and musings about the movie in our group's online discussion forum.
At the end of the month, on
Thursday April 25th at 7:00pm Pacific Time we will have a video conference call where I will share my reflections on the movie from a conscious, integral and transpersonal perspective and you will have the opportunity to share more of your personal reflections and ask any questions.
Thanks to group member Harry LeBlanc for suggesting
The Matrix.
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The Matrix seems like a great movie for us to start with because this month is the
20th anniversary of the film's release and because it represents various different forms of what constitutes a conscious movie...
The viewing experience of
The Matrix has given many viewers a
consciousness raising experience, myself included. I vividly remember the first time I saw the film. I saw it opening week back when it was released in theaters in the Spring of 1999. It just blew me away and gave me a deep and profound altered state of consciousness. When the movie was over and I came out of the theater, everything seemed so much more real...the twinkling stars in the early evening sky, the subtle spring fragrances wafting through the air, the collective dance of the movie goers streaming in and out of the theater, and so much more...and at the same time I was contemplating deep questions about the nature of the reality I was seeing and the life I was living.
The Matrix was also
consciously created to effect viewer consciousness...the creators, The Wachowskis, studied Integral Theory and were attempting to apply the integral structure of consciousness to the narrative, visual, auditory and time-based expressive elements of the movie in order to elevate viewer consciousness.
The Matrix is also of major historical significance in that it introduced a more complex form of cinematic storytelling into pop movie culture, which has had an
influence on collective consciousness by advancing the evolution of
cinematic consciousness and helping to catalyze a shift in the
co-evolution of cinematic consciousness and viewer consciousness.
Cinematic consciousness as I define it comes from my research into the relationship between the moving image, consciousness, culture and society. This research suggests that human beings project their structures of consciousness into their creative works. This in turn appears to create similar composite structures of consciousness embedded in these works. In a sense these embedded consciousness structures create a kind of cinematic consciousness that lives within the constructed cinematic reality of these moving images. And this cinematic consciousness in turn effects viewer consciousness.
I will be sharing more on the film during the month here online and on our video conference call on the 25th. I will also be sharing with you a
Conscious Movie Viewing Practice for you to play with if you feel so moved to do so.
Thank you for joining me on this adventure...time to take the Red Pill and see how deep the rabbit hole goes...