[MEGA THREAD] Good movies, shows & novels which question the nature of reality

[EternalForest]

Please suggest any fictional stories which made you question reality for days after you finished watching. Anything that made you philosophize about the true nature of your world and your purpose here is welcome. I'd also love to hear why (no spoilers!)

I'll start off with a few late 90s classics:

The Matrix - Even more relevant today with the speculation about simulation theory.
Fight Club - So many great quotes in this one. I especially like "The things you own end up owning you."
The Truman Show - Incredibly relevant today with mass surveillance, and begs many questions about the world in which you believe you live in your direct experience.

[Forestluv]

Nice choices. 

I’ll add: Inception (movie) and Westworld (series)

[EternalForest]

@Serotoninluv Pretty much anything Christopher Nolan while we're at it haha!

[PsiloPutty]

Groundhog Day

A cranky and harried man, caught up in the web of ego, attachment and aversion, finally finds liberation through surrender, kindness and love.     Ha, that's my take on it anyway!

(if you've seen it before and didn't squeeze anything spiritual out of it, watch it again with a new perspective. It'll play out completely differently to you.)

[Conceptually-made]

Interstellar 

[Himanshu]

Samsara. If you want glimpses of tier-2 / Yellow, this is a great movie to watch. It's beauty, perspectives and open-mindedness combined with an insane budget and hi-res cameras. 

[Seiden]

Actually WestWorld S1 helped me to meditate much more seriously (of course after watching Leo’s video on meditation like 4 or 5 times to keep myself going).

Although I wouldn’t recommend season 2. Season 1 is enough for self development porpuses.

https://youtu.be/SxN5ShX896E

[Big Guru Balls]

Kymatica
 

 

[AleksM]

Google: 300 mind expanding documentaries 

[Big Guru Balls]

Watching the  Kymatica movie again after a couple of years I had forgotten how deep it really is.
If you have the time I highly recommend watching it. The section on Law at 24:07 is very revealing.

[K VIL]

Gattaca

[andyjohnsonman]

I Origins a movie about science vs spirituality

[brugluiz]

The Little Prince (2016).

[Zigzag Idiot]

Novels were included so I figured science fiction allegories ok.

 

A One Thousand and One Words Review Of Beelzebub’s Tales to His Grandson by Will Mesa

The purpose of Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson is stated by the author at the very beginning of his book: "To destroy, merciless, without any compromise whatsoever, in the mentation and feelings of the reader, the beliefs and views, by centuries rooted in him, about everything existing in the world." 

There is no question that the author, from his very first word, strives merciless in order to fulfill the purpose of his book. 

The Tales are the “Unofficial Story of All and Everything,” of God, Creation, the Universe, Earth and Man. Unofficial because it is not the account given to us by official history and the official philosophies, sciences and the arts; and official religion as well. It is the hidden story, the one rejected by the ancient Greek fishermen turned philosophers-scientists.

The story is told by Beelzebub, a three-brained being from a planet close to the Center or Most Holy Sun Absolute, the chief Place of Residence of our ENDELESS CREATOR. Long time before the story actually begins, this Beelzebub is forced, because of a transgression of his youth, to live in exile in a remote corner of the Universe, our solar system. Instead of complaining and dwelling in self-pity, Beelzebub spends his thousands of years, (time in the story being relative to the place of birth of the observer), of exile learning about All and Everything, including the reason for his exile. Because of his meritorious work and indirect service to our UNI-BEING OMNI-BEING COMMON FATHER ENDELESS CREATOR, he is eventually pardoned and allowed to return home. He is now recognized in the whole Universe as a distinguished Sacred Individual and He is invited to a special conference in the solar system whose sun is the "Pole Star." While flying through space in route to the conference in the "transspace" ship Karnak, Beelzebub tells his twelve years old grandson Hassein about All and Everything he has learned during his years of exile. Of special interest to Hassein are those strange three-brained beings breeding on the planet Earth, where Beelzebub spends great part of his exile. With time and attention, we the reader become Hassein. 

Everything we have heard of is elevated or brought in the story to unexpected levels. 

Entropy, we are told, is Time, the Merciless Heropass, the "Ideally-Unique-Subjective-Phenomenon." It is precisely because of Time's Subjective-Merciless action that the CREATOR has to create the present universe. In this way Entropy is vanquished, in such a way that even Maxwell's clever demons could not have remotely figured it out. The secret, we are told, is very simple: "The Trogoautoegocratic principle of existence of everything existing in the Universe by means of reciprocal feeding and maintaining each other's existence." This principle of existence our COMMON FATHER ALL-GRACIOUS LORD SOVEREING ENDLESS ENDLESSNESS CREATOR actualizes by altering the functioning of the two primordial sacred laws, making them the two fundamental laws of World-creation and World-maintenance: the Sacred-Heptaparaparshinokn and the Sacred-Triamazikamno. 

Hell is elevated to a state of voluntary suffering; suffering itself to a cosmic necessity arising from the operation of the Laws. Good and Evil are impersonal forces operating in conformity to World Laws. Man's fall is caused by the "unforseeingness of Most High Sacred Individuals." Chiefly among them are the Great Archangel Sakaki and the Chief-Common-Universal-Arch-Chemist-Physicist Angel Looisos. They are responsible for the implantation in Man's ancestors of an organ with very astonishing properties, among which that of making them to perceive reality topsy-turvy: Kundabuffer. Although Kundabuffer is later removed, the consequences of its maleficent properties are still with us. 

The story at times gets very provocative. 

We are told about "that completely formed Arch-Vainglorious Greek, the future Hasnamuss, Alexander of Macedonia." We learn that the Divine Teacher Sacred Individual Jesus Christ is resurrected not in His physical but in His Kesdjan body. Judas is not a traitor but the "most faithful and devoted" of all the disciples of Jesus Christ. Darwin, in the words of the very wise Mullah Nasser Eddin, "is very successful, though not without luck, in finding the authentic godmother of the incomparable Scheherazade on an old dunghill."Mesmer is a humble and honest learned being who, had he not been pecked to death by his contemporaries, might have saved Man from the consequences of Kundabuffer. Mendelejeff is "a contemporary comical earned chemist." Atlantis is a place of the highest learning. A university "is just that `hearth' on which everything acquired during decades and centuries by preceding beings is burned..." America is, during the present flow of Heropass, "the fundamental source of the issuing of new causes of abnormality." Among Americans is the largest percentage of beings with "possibilities for the acquisition of Being nearer to the normal Being of three-brained beings in general." And much more we are told. 

Man himself is elevated to a Being with the possibility of attaining Objective or Divine Reason and thus becoming a conscious laborer of our ALOVING ALMIGHTY COMMON FATHER ENDLESS ENDLESSNESS ETERNAL CREATOR ALL-MAINTAINER, a cell in GOD's Brain. 

But Man, we are told with great sadness and great sorrow, is now asleep to his innermost essence, to the Divine Impulse of Objective Conscience, the REPRESENTATIVE OF THE CREATOR in Man. He takes the ephemeral for the Real. He can no longer Love with the "Love of Consciousness," Believe with the "Faith of Consciousness," and Hope with the "Hope of Consciousness." This is "The Terror of the Situation." Consequently, Man can no longer fulfill his highest destiny. The chief particularity of his strange psyche is to periodically engage in the process of reciprocal destruction or war. 

Everything is elevated or brought to unexpected levels in the story; sometimes with great humor; all the time with great humanness. Even the concept of everything itself is elevated, becoming the "common-cosmic Ansanbaluiazar: Everything issuing from everything and again entering into everything." 

After having read the book three times, following the author's indications given in his Friendly Advice, one wonders: Have we been doped by the "official story of all and everything?"