Just discovered this obscure Estonian produced, but English language, science fiction film called Infinite Summer (2024), and was impressed enough by the visuals, and the themes, many of which are directly applicable to this subreddit, to make a 10 minute cut of it.
Themes like: ennui/boredom, psychedelics, alternate perception, meditation/mindfulness (used only as a buzzword, really)...and an absolutely visually delicious depiction of darkroom-esque interactions with Inorganic Beings.
It's set in a theoretical future world where humans are more advanced in the biochemical sciences, and have augmented reality via direct brain-computer interfaces.
The main character is a teenage girl, who desires to have a “summer of experiences,” including some lesbian sex, who is handed a device constructed by a guy calling himself “Dr. Mindfulness.” 😆
Much of the plot is irrelevant and meant to appeal to young women, with "love being the thing which makes life worth living." Succinctly, the inorganics help humans, through the available interface of the mask at first, and then later without the need for it, to shift their perceptions enough to dissolve their physical bodies and leave earth as smoke-like incorporeal energy.
The saddest humans, that is. Which, according to the script of the film, are the queer people?
This might, in part, explain why it only has a 4.9/10 rating on IMDB.
The writers even had a character named Carlos in it, but who knows if that was intentional.
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It's also notable that while the guy who created it was the first to use it, it was the women he offered it to that had the strongest experiences with it, and that the first one to make the "shift" without the mask was also a woman
Here's a Cholita movie I liked so much that I bought the spanish language DVD.
But the ending is rather sad.
The mandragora squirming around in that bowl of milk is One of the best scenes in that movie -
one of my favorite movies too
I still have the dvd..
the worst scene is the frog that just deflates..
Well… I guess…
I used to crawl through a hole in the wall as a very small child, to visit the inorganic beings. I didn't know that's who it was, just that they gave off an exhilarating creepy feeling.
Cool! Ima look for it tonight.
Castaneda was, and possibly still is, big in Estonia. A decent percentage of the notes in our Wiki were originally in Estonian.
Eastern Europe to Russia he and his books were well received. In Russia they reproduced the books and passed them around cause the Soviets censored them.
I have frens whose parents are from Poland and read his books.
I think Carol was in Sochi for a bit, after CC passed away.
Do you see hands often?
In 2013, during the stress of the death of relatives, I had something similar. I woke up to an intense sensation in the top of my head. It was as if something was pulling. I opened my eyes and spun around. My eyes were definitely open. A woman's hand, white as snow, slowly sank into the floor. There was a skull ring on her finger. "Totenkopf". I had read an article about the history of fascism a few days before. I've never been so scared in my life.
I searched the Web for information about the condition of people immediately after waking up. Many people have hallucinations. That calmed me down a bit. But I was confused by a feeling in the top of my head. Since then, I've been afraid to open my eyes immediately after waking up. It's only now that I'm starting to fight this fear, seeing people's experiences.
At that time, I had already read Castaneda, but for me it was cool mystical literature. I was 25, and I had doubts about magicians and sects. My grandmother almost gave the Jehovah's Witnesses an apartment.
I'm a very bad player. I don't think I can stay silent for a second. Only techniques help and switching attention. Maybe a few seconds, lol.
What I saw (approximately):
If you want something uncanny, check out Rebecca Roanhorse's Between Earth & Sky series. It's set in a fictional version of the ancient Americas.
One of the central characters has a book about sorcery called dream walking, and they even talk about shadow sorcery. I was kinda skiing my head in disbelief the whole way through it. It's a great story.