The Philosophy Behind Shadow Beings (Movie Analysis)

Movie Outline

Outlines some points and connections of the movie's story that aren't necessarily obvious.

Scene Index: Prologue | Title Sequence | Park Lunch | Séance | Apocolyptic Dream | Bike Ride | Aliester & En'Kara Meet Homeless Priest |
                        Fractal Dream | Coffe Cup Anamoly | Enki Explains | Enlightenmnet | What Now? | Quest | Enki Explains Deja Vu |
                        Bike Ride Deja Vu | Beer and a Movie | Beach Dream | Coffee Cup Anamoly Deja Vu / End sequence

I. Prologue
      A. "Why do you weep? The source is within you and tis whole world is springing up from it." Jelauddin Rumi, a Sufi mystic
      B. "If ye have faith and doubt not, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing will be impossible unto you." Jesus, a Christ mystic
      C. "He seized the dragon, the old serpent, Hasatan, And bound him for one thousand years, And cast him into the abyss, and shut it, And sealed it over him, That he should deceive the nations no more, Until the thousand years were finished. After this, he must be freed for a short time." Revelation 20:2-3
           1. He = Brien
           2. serpent = the Evil Ones (the Deceivers)
           3. abyss = "in-between" the worlds
           4. "freed" = releasing the demons
II. Title Sequence
      A. opening parenthesis
            1. the whole movie is a parenthesis in Brien's existence
      B. First Wake-up
            1. all wake-ups are one and the same point in spacetime
      C. Shadow Play
            1. good against evil
            2. humans fighting demons, serpents
                  a. fighting the Evils Ones
                  b. fighting the giants of legend
                  c. fighting the nephilim
            3. it never ends, it goes on and on (thus crossfade)
            4. the "veil"
            5. shadow beings
            6. "puppets being controlled by the shadow government"
            7. the eternal flame
            8. veil of truth / shadows of reality
            9. "What is going on behind the scenes."
      D. Bookstore
            1. knowledge
                  a. orbs of light
                  b. books
                  c. searching
            2. store's address is '1'
            3. "Raw Vision" (book title)
            4. art (the movie)
            5. folklore
            6. mythology
            7. philosophy
            8. sleep paralysis (was actually The Key of King Solomon inside fake cover; King Solomon's control over demons)
            9. time on store clock 12:00
      E. Shadow Plays
            1. web in wind
                  a. shadow resembles flame motion
                  b. unseen force acting upon the web, like a liquid
            2. long shadow
                  a. shadow being
                        i. lurking (in the shadows)
                        ii. shaft of light
            3. tree shadow time lapse
                  a. shaft of light dividing top and bottom, above and below
                  b. light seperating two realms of darkness
                        i. cleving the shadow
                  c. shadows playing in-between
            4. tree shadow on rock
            5. time lapse of sun/shadow transition
                  a. path
                  b. passage of time
                  c. looks like prison bars (locked away in the abyss)
      F. Books in store window
            1. Harnessing the Power of the Universe
            2. Tai Chi
      G. Panning Books
            1. Oghams and Oracles
                  a. Celtic reference
            2. The Key of King Solomon
                  a. demon control reference
            3. The Book of Ogham
                  a. Celtic reference
            4. Philosophy of the Matrix
                  a. philosophy on reality reference
            5. The 21 Lessons of Merlyn
                  a. Celtic reference
                  b. mystical teachings
            6. Traditional Celtic Wisdom
                  a. Celtic reference
            7. Glamoury
                  a. Celtic reference
                  b. magic reference
            8. The Celts
            9. The Irish Celtic Magical Tradition
            10. My Jedi Journal
                  a. mystical study
            11. The New Magus
                  a. magic reference
                  b. philosophy on reality
                  c. "true nature of the universe"
            12. The Isaiah Effect
                  a. manipulating reality
            13. Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception
                  a. fake; false religion
            14. Celtic Magic
            15. The Secret Doctrines of Jesus
            16. The Mystical Life of Jesus
            17. The Urantia Book
                  a. alternate views on reality
            18. Forbidden Mysteries of Enoch
            19. Lost Books of the Bible
            20. Dictionary of Angels
                  a. extraterrestrials
                  b. otherworldly creatures
                  c. dimensional beings
            21. alternating credit contrasting
                  a. ghostly effect
      H. book changes your life / knowledge changes
III. Park Lunch
      A. water
      B. van
            1. brummagem
            2. jackalope
            3. 555-1964
      C. crow's caw marks lighting of cigarette
      D. fleeting glimpse darts from behind van
IV. Séance
      A. blood moon
      B. card reading
      C. Kat's tale
            1. the hagg
            2. hexen drucken
      D. En'Kara's tale
            1. abduction / close encounter
      E. "This is kinda creepy."
      F. vortex is a doorway
      G. creature
            1. genie out of the candle flame
            2. Djinn reference
V. Apocolyptic Dream
      A. Chaos :: Order
      B. past and future mixed
      C. revelation
      D. music when moon explodes = rock dropped into water
      E. Mars
      F. blood moon
      G. retina
      H. water > shadow beings approach out of water > choking under water > blood moon causing tide
            1. the universe is like a fluid
            2. the abyss
VI. Bike Ride
      A. another wake-up
      B. rides from light into shadow under bridge, an in-between place, then into light again
      C. hand of God behind Brien
      D. entering park / entering another world
      E. on looker disappears behind a tree (fleeting glimpse)
      F. "Create! Don't manipulate!"
            1. wisdom on changing reality
      G. missing keys
            1. keys to the knowledge of the universe
VII. Aliester and En'Kara Meet Homeless Priest
      A. search for knowledge
      B. Aliester subliminals
            1. devil-ish mask above crucifix
            2. metamorphosis (Escher drawing)
            3. you see Aliester's reflection in the drawings glass
            4. then he casts two shadows of different colors
                  a. duality
            5. shadow looks like a "gray" profile, then a shadow of his profile, then him
      C. "Curiosity kills the cat." (Kat)
VIII. Fractal Dream
      A. fractal nature of the universe
      B. fractal nature of neural nets
      C. fractal zoom: "as above so below"
      D. chaos theory / order out of chaos
      E. represents the omniverse / each node is another universe
      F. dream within a dream within a dream...
      G. (dream(dream(dream)))...
      H. universe is a fluid / shadows out of fluid (reference to Apocolyptic Dream)
      I. sleep paralysis episode
      J. looming shadow beings
IX. Coffee Cup Anamoly
      A. another wake-up
      B. coffee cup negative image (a spacetime point)
      C. van outside window / same van as in Park Lunch when shadow being fleeting glimpse occurs
      D. primary colors: cup (blue), candle (green), book (red (red-ish))
      E. 2:18
            1. 2+1+8 = 11, or two parallel lines
            2. altered time
            3. time warp
            4. missing time
      F. moving objects: beings trying to get our attention
      G. portal
      H. cup moves three times
X. Enki Explains
      A. Chase
            1. altered color = alternate reality
            2. the birds alert Enki to Brien's presence
            3. Enki's shot is less stable: Enki concealed, ellusive
            4. Brien's shot is more stable
            5. the book
                  a. reality check
                  b. continuity
                  c. sleep paralysis
                  d. dream?
            6. chasing knowedge
            7. the ellusive mystery (the book)
            8. rest at tree
                  a. wits end
                  b. when you dispare most, a piece of the puzzle reveals itself
                  c. when all seems lost, look, hope is right over there
                  d. twilight: an in-between place
            9. night
                  a. he just woke up, but here the sun has set
                  b. full moon: a light in the darkness
            10. smoke on mountain top
                  a. a sign
                  b. hope in the distance, hope found
      B. Meeting
            1. campfire
                  a. warmth
                  b. comfort
                  c. the light
                  d. gateway
                  e. focal point
            2. book: connection to reality
            3. full moon
            4. revelation
            5. rippling water
                  a. interference pattern
                  b. universe is like a fluid
            6. Ancient Ones opening portal
                  a. consciousness
                  b. enchanters of old
                  c. 7 monks
                  d. in a circle
            7. noise (grainy image)
                  a. subparticles popping in and out of existance
                  b. chaotic nature of the universe
            8. ancient text
                  a. later Aliester and En'Kara have it in an alternate universe
                  b. stolen from a museum in Iraq; actual event (actual book contents unknown)
            9. "stare into the fire"
                  a. gateway
                  b. focal point
                  c. mutable fire
                  d. purification
            10. flaming Brien
                  a. a spacetime point
      C. In-between the worlds
            1. portal
                  a. the mind's eye
            2. "the universe is the mind's clay"
            3. various iconic images
      4. perception
XI. Enlightenment
      A. the ancient Celts knew about the parallel worlds
      B. explaination of plot points
      C. in-between places
      D. "I always wondered what that would be like... you know, undead."
            1. Kat + curious = "Curiosity kills the cat."
      E. water
      F. close-up of talismans
            1. YHWH
            2. heptagram
      G. time on clock: 4:20
            1. in-bewteen place?
      H. kitchen pictures
            1. Elvis morph picture
            2. shroud of Turin
      I. shadow being at kitchen door
            1. based on a real life experience
      J. Kat is now undead
            1. becareful what you wish for
      K. shadow beings approach portal opening
            1. like the moth to the flame
      L. crucifix on wall
            1. encircled by demonic masks
            2. crucifix under demon
      M. the demons from the abyss don't know who Jesus is
      N. stabbed by crucifix / crucifix breaks
            1. killed by religion?
            2. broken faith
XII. What Now?
      A. shadow being encounter / another wake-up
            1. "stray one"
                  a. backwards audio from bluescreen shoot (gem)
            2. hypnogogic episode
      B. world being controlled by demons reference
            1. refers to Annunaki
            2. refers to fallen angels
            3. duration of or legacy of occupation
      C. homeless people "know"
            1. maybe they aren't crazy after all
            2. infers to the stereotypical homeless person talking to an "invisible" entity
      D. "left the door open"
            1. Brien's "original" opening is still active (from when he was eight)
XIII. Quest
      A. back story (will be used in subsequent movies)
      B. the journey / quest for knowledge
      C. doorways
            1. entering woods
            2. walk through tree "V"
                  a. womb symbology
            3. entering Nexus
      D. montages: the nature that will be destroyed if the Evil Ones succeed at bringing down the veil
      E. "haunted land"
            1. shadow being activity
            2. thin veil area
      F. known Aliester for "13 years"
      G. Brien looks at campfire remnant
            1. reference to Enki's teachings
      H. warping reality
            1. the veil is thin here
      I. the universe is the mind's clay
            1. Brien's will changes the very fabric of spacetime
            2. fire
                  a. a link to Enki's teachings
                  b. an in-between place for the mind
            3. the universe's fluid nature
XIV. Enki Explains Deja Vu
      A. a spacetime point
      B. Brien realizes his ability or participation in the contruction of reality
      C. we create our own realities
      D. un-doing reality
            1. shifting into another reality / parallel universe
            2. "be careful what you wish for"
XV. Bike Ride Deja Vu
      A. first reality alteration
      B. a spacetime point
      C. Homeless Priest now thinks that shadow beings are just his imagination
      D. subtle reality changes
XVI. Beer and a Movie
      A. TV shadow play
            1. shadow being encounter
                  a. are shadows sometimes beings?
      B. Brien's shadow is out of sync
      C. drift into a dream (an in-between place)
XVII. Beach Dream
      A. in-between places
            1. dream
            2. shoreline
            3. fog
            4. gray-ness of scene
      B. Who am I?
            1. (((YOU)))
                  a. you are the center of the parenthesis of the alternate realities
                  b. I AM
      C. contemplation
            1. he is a "shadow being"
XVIII. Coffee Cup Deja Vu / End Sequence
      A. another clue that he is in an alternate reality
      B. another wake-up
      C. this time no Enki
      D. Aliester and En'Kara are now black market criminals
            1. they have possession of the ancient text that Enkik mentioned
      E. M.I.B.
            1. shadow beings in the government
            2. hiding knowledge / cover-up
            3. peephole is a portal
            4. three M.I.B. / three shadow beings looming over Brien
      F. News Cast
            1. ancient text
            2. negative aspect of wishing
            3. KYMI
            4. channel 69 = yin/yang
            5. apartment building
                  a. "x" marks the spot
      G. light above Brien
            1. realization
      H. candle meditation
            1. fire
            2. shift to another reality
      I. cannabis witness
            1. play on Jehovah's Witnesses
            2. alterante reality #2
            3. "see through the 'veil' of the bureauocracy"
            4. obstacle illusion
            5. meaningful coincidence
            6. messenger
      J. apartment address is "A"
            1. alpha
            2. the one
            3. bookstore address is "1"
      K. Natasha
            1. alternate reality #3
            2. wish comes true (she's not dead)
            3. be careful what you wish for
            4. 3 days
            5. Natasha chokes Brien to death?
                  a."choking ghost" reference
                  b. a spacetime point
                  c. in-between the worlds
                  d. tie in from Apocolyptic dream
                  e. sleep paralysis
      L. ends with Night Paralysis book
            1. movie starts with the book
            2. full circle
            3. night paralysis, being choked and being in-between are all the same spacetime point
      M. fake credits
            1. alternate reality
      N. last wake-up / spacetime point
            1. another alternate reality / book is different
            2. was it all just a dream induced by the book Quantum Mechanics and Parallel Universes?
      O. ending parenthesis