Blog #170--The Truth Is Out There

The title of this article is taken from a line all devotees of the television series X-Files know well. While the show never discovers the entire truth regarding possible extraterrestrial existence and visitations to Earth, or most of the other cases agents Mulder and Scully pursue, it always feels like there is a grander truth just beyond our grasp. Whether we ever find it or not, striving for its discovery helps us learn a great deal about ourselves and our world.

Books, movies, television and other media have at times dealt with concepts beyond our present level of understanding. Some have inspired deep thought among their devotees and led them to new discoveries, while others have gone relatively unnoticed or discredited by those who don’t wish to learn. One of the latest is a movie called “Lucy,” written and directed by Luc Besson.

Besson introduces some interesting concepts while pursuing a fast-paced story about illegal drug dealing and the violence common to that enterprise. Most reviewers have limited their comments to the action-thriller component, but I found relevance in the more metaphysical aspects that most either ignored or ridiculed. Certainly, there are aspects of the movie that differ from scientific fact, and some is mere speculation since none of us know exactly what it would be like to be fully conscious and capable of using 100% of our brains. But there are also points made in the movie that are consistent with comments and conclusions I shared in my book “It’s a Secret, So Pass It On: a Toolbox For Life.”

The movie needed an R rating and superstars Scarlett Johansson and Morgan Freeman to entice movie goers, and that is all most people remember about it. But I think Besson wanted more than to excite viewers with fast-paced action. For instance, scientists studying DNA found a common ancestor for all humans in an African woman who lived 3.2 million years ago. They named her “Lucy,” the same name as Johansson’s character, and Besson showed a definite connection between the two.

More than that, the movie referred to going back to the first cell of the body. A major premise of my book is the fact we get confused by studying what appears to be the complexity of life instead of realizing that complexity was derived entirely from a simple beginning. Studying the simplicity will give us the key to true understanding. When Johansson’s Lucy was finally able to utilize consciously 100% of her brain, she realized she was everywhere simultaneously.

We are exact replicas of all that is, so we can at some point begin to recognize we are everyone and everything at all times and in all spaces. I don’t believe our brains are what create that reality, or that our brains can control that reality for our own purposes. But when we connect to the universal sea of energy, we are capable of recognizing an existence beyond time and space.

Like all sources of enlightenment, there are limitations within the movie. After all, none of us knows everything, and even if we did, we couldn’t describe it precisely because our words are limited to the distorted views our egos provide us and the variable usages for those words. I also don’t believe someone with the degree of enlightenment Lucy discovered in the movie would wish to kill her enemies. Perhaps that would be true if the drug Lucy took only expanded her ego’s selfishness.

At first, that is probably what happened. But since the opposite aspects of her brain were both expanded exponentially, her conscious awareness of a connection to all that is eventually transformed her perspective. She definitely discovered her enemies and her are the same, although it doesn’t take 100% of our brains to recognize that.

For those who do grasp that concept, forgiveness and acceptance would likely be natural sequels. After all, killing others is literally killing ourselves as well since we are them.

The conclusion that time alone animates our world is an interesting one, but that presumes time is real. It may be, but no two people have the exact same perception of time. As we gain confidence in a situation, time slows down for us sufficiently to recognize and respond to minute details. Of course, during difficult times in our lives, time can also seem to slow.

If we doubt our abilities relative to some endeavor, time seems to move too fast for us. But if we have no doubt a situation will work to our favor, it seems the event ends far too quickly for our preference. Time is fixed only on a clock, and that is a man-made contrivance. At the end, Lucy realizes all time is simultaneous.

There are a number of other hidden sources of wisdom available within this movie for the true seeker. Our egos resist these truths, so writers like Besson must hide them within a larger context the ego will accept, such as drug-running and massive death and destruction. Perhaps Besson’s main goal was to add a fanciful subplot to aid his action movie. But whether he knows it or not, and I believe he has indeed glimpsed truths he wishes to share by hiding them within a familiar genre, his movie can aid our understanding.

The movie “Lucy” is an entertaining romp for those attracted to violent action, and it makes us think. But it doesn’t necessarily define how we might truly behave under the same circumstance. We must look for truth wherever we can find it and allow the rest to pass across us without becoming attached to it. There is definitely truth in the movie “Lucy” that makes it worth watching for those seeking enlightenment.

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