Masamune
Jedi Council Member
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071615/
I watched this movie last night and it was loaded with esoteric symbolism and many interesting ideas but I didn't understand much of it. Apparently it was based partly on a book by one of Gurdjieff's students Rene Daumal. Has anyone else seen this one?
I watched this movie last night and it was loaded with esoteric symbolism and many interesting ideas but I didn't understand much of it. Apparently it was based partly on a book by one of Gurdjieff's students Rene Daumal. Has anyone else seen this one?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holy_Mountain_%281973_film%29#Inspiration said:The film is based on Ascent of Mount Carmel by St. John of the Cross and Mount Analogue by René Daumal, who was a student of G.I. Gurdjieff. In this film much of Jodorowsky's visually psychedelic story follows the metaphysical thrust of Mount Analogue. This is revealed in such events as the climb to the Alchemist, the assembly of individuals with specific skills, the discovery of the mountain that unites Heaven and Earth "that cannot not exist" and symbolic challenges along the mountain ascent. Daumal died before finishing his allegorical novel, and Jodorowsky's improvised ending provides a way of completing the work (both symbolically and otherwise.)