The new movie, Lucy"with Scarlett Johansson, is the story of a young woman, who by a freak event, can use 100% of her brain. As a result she discovers the truth about the universe and existence. Don't get me wrong. This movie is very entertaining and you should absolutely go see it.
Besides the fact that someone who understood the totality of the universe probably would not run around killing people and causing freak car accidents, I was disappointed that it perpetuated the myth that enlightened people have no emotions and lose their connection with life.
This myth is one of the biggest reasons why people hold on to the devil they know, which is their current life, and don't go all the way into the unknown of spirit. To fully know yourself is to be fully connected to life because you are life. People use the term awakened because they feel completely aware and alive.
Throughout our lives, we have sort of mini awakenings. That moment when you figure something out and a light bulb goes on in your head and you now clearly see what was hidden from you. In that moment, the clarity makes you feel more alive and alert. I love the term, "ah ha moments" coined by Oprah Winfrey. The confidence that comes with an ah ha moment propels us forward in action. It gives us a place for a new beginning.
An awakening is a huge new beginning. It is an all encompassing ah ha moment. The aha is about everything around you. It is seeing everything clearly. Wonder comes back into life. Being awakened is to be fully human and to be fully spirit. It is not a denunciation of either one.
It is the ability to see your emotions and feelings for what they are and using them as instruments to experience life rather then letting them control life.
Did you see Lucy? What are your thoughts on it regarding spirituality and knowledge?
I just watched Lucy, the interest being the concepts looked like something I recognised from my yoga and meditation practice. I never thought i would recognise as many elements of the insights I have seen over the years in the movie, and thats why i looked online to see if anyone else had seen the same link to this tonight.
Central is the way Lucy can go beyond the physical, from the mere codifications we give to the world, to the ability to go through time. I especially love the way she became ‘everywhere’ at the end. ‘everything’ would have been better, but I got the idea.
How many of us have come out of a yoga or meditation session and felt like they can feel everything (“I feel everything…”), had greater insight into others thoughts (the thought reading segment) or felt an enhanced control over the world around them, like you have enhanced efficacy. Suddenly the old laws and the old fears don’t apply.
I actually do see a sense of disconnect when you gain insight. its deeper than just not connecting to things, its seeing through them, they lose their form, cohesion, power. Suddenly you realise how arbitrary existence is, and thats what i think Luc Besson was possibly getting at.
A lot of what Lucy went though I recognised as insights I have had myself, not from some spurious power fantasy, but a genuine realisation that the physical world that we know isn't the whole story. As I wrote the other day after a session in which I again saw the world how it was, without the human bits we put on it (again from lucy), I wrote ‘Nothing is as it seems, Anything is possible’. Its almost a manifesto for Lucy. Surely I'm not the only one?
Posted by: Dane | December 06, 2014 at 04:09 AM