Monday, March 9, 2009

Death and Reality





















I have a great scripts from movie 'waking life' one of my favorites.
This relates a lot of you guys talked before such as hypnosis, lost memories, dreams, ect.

also, it's a very interesting dialogue.


Even though, Im from Korea, in East Asia, I never believed that I have previous life before I was born. First of all, as a Christian, I created by God with important reasons as a me itself. God planed me in the begging of the world. That's what I believe.

Anyway, the following scripts are very reasonable and interesting thinking. Enjoy~

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(A couple are in bed talking -- Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke)


I keep thinking about something you said.

Something I said?

Yeah. About how you often feel like you're observing your life from the perspective of an old woman about to die. You remember that?

Yeah. I still feel that way sometimes. Like I'm looking back on my life. Like my waking life is her memories.

Exactly. I heard that Tim Leary said as he was dying that he was looking forward to the moment when his body was dead but his brain was still alive. You know they say that there's still six to twelve minutes of brain activity after everything else is shutdown. And a second of dream consciousness, right, well, that's infinitely longer than a waking second. You know what I'm saying?

Oh, yeah, definitely. For example, I wake up and it is 10:12, and then I go back to sleep and I have those long, intricate, beautiful dreams that seem to last for hours, and then I wake up and it's ... 10:13.

Yeah, exactly. So then six to twelve minutes of brain activity, I mean, that could be your whole life. I mean, you are that woman looking back over everything.

Okay, so what if I am? Then what would you be in all that?

Whatever I am right now. I mean, yeah, maybe I only exist in your mind. I'm still just as real as anything else.

Yeah. I've been thinking also about something you said.

What's that?

Just about reincarnation and where all the new souls come from over time. Everybody always say that they've been the reincarnation of Cleopatra or Alexander the Great. I always want to tell them they were probably some dumb fuck like everybody else. I mean, it's impossible. Think about it. The world population has doubled in the past 40 years, right? So if you really believe in that ego thing of one eternal soul, then you have only 50% chance of your soul being over 40. And for it to be over 150 years old, then it's only one out of six.

Right, so what are you saying? That reincarnation doesn't exist, or that we're all young souls like where half of us are first round humans?

No, no. What I'm trying to say is that somehow I believe reincarnation is just a - a poetic expression of what collective memory really is. There was this article by this biochemist that I read not long ago, and he was talking about how when a member of our species is born, it has a billion years of memory to draw on. And this is where we inherit our instincts.



I like that. It's like there's this whole telepathic thing going on that we're all a part of, whether we're conscious of it or not. That would explain why there are all these, you know, seemingly spontaneous, worldwide, innovative leaps in science, in the arts. You know, like the same results poppin' up everywhere independent of each other. Some guy on a computer, he figures something out, and then almost simultaneously a bunch of other people all over the world figure out the same thing. They did this study. They isolated a group of people over time, and they monitored their abilities at crossword puzzles, right, in relation to the general population. And they secretly gave them a day-old crossword, one that had already been answered by thousands of other people, right. And their scores went up dramatically, like 20 percent. So it's like once the answers are out there, people can pick up on 'em. It's like we're all telepathically sharing our experiences.

4 comments:

renee_v said...

Man why do I wish that Julie Delpy was not in this movie?
Sorry, got a bit off track. I will write something psychology based though, I promise.

Kimin Kim said...

What do you mean Renee?

The man and woman in this animation is Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy.

In fact, they are acted themselves and it shoot on a film. And then, it converted real-movie to animation.

renee_v said...

No, no, sorry Kimin. I know that, I just posted something totally irrelevant about the fact that Julie Delpy gets on my nerves. Maybe it was that 15 mintues I was forced to watch Before Sunrise that left a bad taste in my mouth.
But I heard this was a good movie.

Kyuwon Lee said...

I truely do not believe in a previous life. I only believe in aftermath. It may be superstitious to psychology but this is my strong belief. I should look more into this!