Goodbye Kiss for Camera (Wonderland Addendum)

Addendum to Wonderland III;

Anonymous said...

I've read your posts and i think i follow you.
I still don't understand what the point is.
Am I missing something?

October 10, 2009 5:52 PM

the puzzle [piece] is icing on the cake

Anonymous- I know exactly what you mean. In fact, it was my own search for a "point" that inspired this research. After my discovery of synchromysticism [via the Comic Book Cycle], I tried desperately to share it with those around me. Whenever I was able to get someone to suspend disbelief long enough to follow the logic, without fail, your question was the first one they'd ask. What's the point?

In a word: context.

Without the context of a Third Eye, the L'oreal advertisement above is just a picture of a pop star seemingly very happy with her makeup. Context is the envelope in which messages reach us, and how we make sense of them... how we see the "point" of them. My last "addendum" was Speechless: Medium is Message. As I see it, context is the medium, and therefore is the true message.

On this blog, I try to point out the prevalence of symbols and archetypes most of us see in media, and find the meaning within their context. For example, one of the first patterns outlined here was the Woman in Red [waaay back in Mother/Mater/Matter]. I got The Matrix's message about the system and distraction, but I just felt there was more.

Once I dug past the obvious surface context of the red dress representing sex and temptation, the symbol came to point towards the sacred feminine as a connection to the inner drives and passions at the core of humanity. Looking deeper, I found patterns involving Red Riding Hood that connected those inner drives to intuition [here]. That path led me to new ideas about psychic mediums, and soon enough I found myself at Medium is Message, and right back to the Woman in Red.

Mad Men, Season 1, Episode 6, "Babylon"

"To deny our own impulses is to deny
the very thing that makes us human."
-Mouse, in defense of the Woman in Red


Madonna's Red Queen Wedding Dress


see wonderland 3


peep the doll; more on that later

A large part of the "point" of all this is to tap into the intuition/impulse of the reader to sense the depth of context behind a pattern; to get a reader/listener to begin asking themselves "what's the point" of the coincidences he/she is already aware of.

Sometimes, it doesn't take much to get the subconscious alarms going...

Lady GaGa was escorted to the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards by Kermit the Frog. As she exited her limousine, she turned back, leaned in, and in a perfect paparazzi moment, kissed Kermit on his velvety lime-green puppet lips. Another pop star trying desperately to be seen? Definitely. However, it didn't take long for appropriate patterns to start begging questions...

This holiday season, Disney will be releasing a 2-D animated film featuring the first-ever black Disney Princess. I can find plenty of reasons to be offended by this film, but first among them is the fact that Princess Tiana had to make out with an amphibian to get on the squad. The original well-known fairy tale is a Brothers Grimm story, and has no discernible connection to African American culture. Could this questionable move by Disney and Lady GaGa's red carpet stunt simply be coincidence?

Doubtful.

Lady GaGa going green


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VxFJCutYrU

This is where that feeling comes in. I'm beginning to learn that when the splinter comes, it's not long before the pattern in question reaches back into previous explorations.

Anika Rose and her doll alter-ego

The actress voicing Disney's new princess is Anika Noni Rose. Anika's last major film role was alongside Beyonce and Jennifer Hudson in Dreamgirls. Her appearance here completes the trinity; Jennifer Hudson's role in The Secret Life of Bees [mentioned here] paved the way to the Bee-yonce patterns due to the duo's Academy Award performance in twin red dresses.

http://thepatternist.blogspot.com/2009/03/thebeeyonceknowles.html

http://thepatternist.blogspot.com/2009/08/wonderland-part-2-entering-bizarro.html

Now all three dreamgirls have appeared at The Patternist, and all three brought their own context to the table. In addition to the fact that her last name is Rose, Anika starred in a stage production of Carmen Jones, a play mentioned here in Beyonce's connection to the Woman in Red in the(Bee)yoncé(Know)les.

King Henry VIII's favorite ship was called The Mary Rose

The Princess and The Frog (which is a Bizarro world reversal of the original story's title, The Frog Prince) is set in New Orleans, so naturally the storyline will be drenched in sugar-coated nods to the vodou culture kept alive there by the descendants of African slaves; the main villain is a witch doctor and our main character gets guidance from a blind seer-mother. The vodou angle points to the previously-covered concepts of channeling, possession and the female medium (oracle-seer), and also resonates with the use of vodou dolls in Coraline [discussed briefly in Wonderland 2] and 9.

Here it is again. I feel there is more significance to the patterns of dolls and embodied spirit as they relate to the Wonderland series; my image search turned up more than a few interesting examples. Most notably there were some strange connections involving dolls, spirits and the wedding dress mentioned at the beginning of Wonderland 3...

The Corpse Bride; living dolls playing dead people


Jennifer Tilly gets reverse-possessed to get Mary'd

...but unless I want to keep writing all night, this is another digression that will have to get glossed over. These images just serve as further confirmation that Lady GaGa's place in the pattern is not without merit, and that her outlandish VMA outfits are somehow significant. In context.

In sharp contrast to the wedding dress, GaGa's kermit-kissing red carpet outfit consisted of an full-length feathered black gown and a gold mask covering half of her face.

P!nk and Kylie Minogue (again) half-masked

What is the deal with the pattern of the left eye? Ever since I started paying attention to the symbolism associated with pop stars, I keep seeing this imagery; one eye covered, or one eye emphasized... I see this as connected to the idea of a medium, perhaps as a representation of the strange relationship between medium and content, but this is one pattern -for example- that I feel has deeper context than I now see.

But, I digress.

EDIT: just had to add this...

I always thought there was something strange about Kermit and Miss Piggy...

Gnosis / Hypnosis / Hypocrisy / Heresy

[continued from previous chapter- Know / Now / No / Gnosis / Hypnosis..]

It's all in the eyes

In my last post, I tried to make some sense of the pop culture connections between Nick Cage and occult -"hidden"- knowledge, but I was sidetracked by the patterns around his ex-wife Patricia Arquette and her connections to the idea of a spiritual medium seen in her role in NBC's Medium and the movie Stigmata, which poses some interesting questions about possession and spiritual channeling undercutting the role of the modern christian church. There have been more than a few horror films based on the idea of demonic possession in the past few decades, and just about all of them use the virginal girl as the target, pointing to the meme of the mythic sacred feminine. The Virgin Mary was, in a way, "possessed" by God after all...

a girl and a tree

a girl and a tree in The Fountain

http://thepatternist.blogspot.com/2009/01/mother-mater-matter-matrix.html

Act 3: The Possession of Mary

"The movie is loosely based on the discovery of the Gospel of Thomas and a verse therein (verse 77: Jesus said: I am the light that is over them all. I am the All; the All has come forth from me, and the All has attained unto me. Split a piece of wood and I am there. Raise up the stone, an ye shall find me there.) ; a document which the Vatican and most other Christians have declared as being the product of a heretic Gnostic group."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stigmata_(film)

Patricia Arquette's divine possession; Is that a red hood?

The 1999 horror-drama-thriller Stigmata, starring our Medium-Messenger Patricia Arquette and End of Days' Gabriel Byrne, revolves around an atheist who receives six of the seven wounds of Jesus' torture, and becomes the blind conduit through which a deceased Brazilian priest relays the Gospel of St. Thomas, which -allegedly- are the actual words of Jesus Christ. The Catholic church spoke out, predictably, against the portrayal of the Vatican as sinister and oppressive, and Christian advocates voiced complaints that the scenes involving Arquette's divine trance looked a little too much like a demonic possession.

Arquette under the spell

The demonic imagery is blatant, and even I was struck by the violence in some scenes. Upon reflection, I was reminded of the infamous possession sequence of The Exorcist... as our main character experiences her first fit of divine demonic channeling, she happens to be taking a bath in an old style bathtub, reminiscent of Rachel Weisz's water-portal revelation with Keanu Reeves in Constantine and -to a more subtle degree- her bath scene with 2008 Oscar-host Hugh Jackman in The Fountain...

Weisz baptized in The Fountain


Exorcism in the Bath House with Shia LaBeouf in Constantine

bathtub wake-up from Inception

In both Constantine and The Mummy Series, Rachel Weisz plays a woman possessed, the holy/unholy medium... after Constantine's exploding bathtub scene (shown above), Weisz goes into a trance and blindly leads Neo to the answers he seeks...

...and in The Mummy, she shows the truth to Brendan Frasier by channeling a fictional princess named Nefertiri, synchronistically reflecting the famous wife of Akhenaton, Neferititi, popularly represented by an eerily one-eyed bust...

Weisz battling her dark reflection in The Mummy Returns

[ the eye ]

The predominantly european (roman-occupied) representation of Egypt in The Mummy is made more fitting by Weisz's next movie: in December 2009, Weisz will star in the historical drama Agora as the Roman Egyptian Hypatia of Alexandria.

Is she gazing at the tower's light or the moon-earth?




Staring directly at a partial eclipse can make you blind;
watching a full eclipse, however, is perfectly safe.

From Wikipedia:

"Hypatia of Alexandria ... was a Greek scholar from Alexandria in Egypt, considered the first notable woman in mathematics, who also taught philosophy and astronomy. She lived in Roman Egypt, and was brutally killed by a Christian mob who blamed her for religious turmoil. She has been hailed as a 'valiant defender of science against religion..."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypatia


Hypatia, elephants, triple-goddesses and even Pan

Izzie/Isis/Hypatia, the Astronomer in The Fountain

Hypatia (HYP-atia) was a staunch and well-educated gnostic...


Weisz's Hypathia in Agora

...and may have been the first recorded victim of a Christian witch-burning; either before or after her brutal murder by a Christian mob, her flayed body was set ablaze, similar to Arquette's Medium at the end of Stigmata, and Jovovich's Joan in The Messenger.

Joan of Arc was burned alive as a heretic, but through posthumous sainthood was later (hypocritically) reborn, reflecting Milla Jovovich's Alice from Resident Evil, the mythical phoenix and the telepathic red queen Jean Grey...

Just as Nicolas Cage is shown the pattern of catastrophic numerology in Knowing, Arquette and Weisz -as women- are harshly punished and associated with the unholy for being chosen to reveal the Gnostic knowledge, the Knowing, the secret ancient truth...

The irony of the nature of gnosis and hypnosis in these historical and pop-culture references tells a strange story. What are these modern and ancient mythologies teaching all of us about the concept of unlocked knowledge? Is there a reason for the demonization of the process of divination (the act of channeling the spiritual), and the desecration of the sacred feminine Vessel? The self-inflicted hypnosis of meditation can help us all attain a closer walk with the spirit; with the phoenix-fire of gnosis, sacred knowledge of all, and the trance-sition through the pineal water door, maybe, hypocritically, we can reach out by reaching in...

the fire behind her eyes reflects the moonlight

The woman's natural affinity for the spirit -some call it premonition- holds a significant connection to the revelation of generational memory, the living knowledge of the ancient undead. Unfortunately, it appears that for the established order to maintain power, the holy hypnosis of fiery enlightenment through gnostic knowledge must, hypocritically, remain heresy.

But then again, what do I kNOw...