August 28, 2025 • 22 mins
On today's episode of the Occult Symbolism and Pop Culture with Isaac Weishaupt podcast we have the August BONUS episode for supporter feeds! We dive deep into the occult symbolism of Danny Boyle’s Sunshine, exploring how the film functions as a modern allegory for death, rebirth, and humanity’s obsession with the solar deity. We unpack the story of Icarus as a metaphor for approaching the divine unprepared, and the recurring symbolism of the number seven as the union of spirit and matter. The crew’s obsession with staring into the sun becomes a study in ego death and the alchemical process of Nigredo, while the Black Sun imagery and cube-shaped bomb reflect Saturnian forces, time, and entropy. We’ll connect the hidden sun concept from Crowley and Kenneth Grant to Gnostic and Freemasonic ideas of oppositional polarities, and show how Pinbacker represents the ultimate adversarial initiator, testing humanity’s capacity to transcend mortal limitations. Ultimately, Sunshine is a meditation on facing death, confronting the constraints of matter, and creating a new sun within the sun—a ritualistic and esoteric journey encoded in a sci-fi epic.
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On today's episode, we're decoding the 2007 movie Sunshine, a sci-fi film that's really
(00:05):
in a called initiation ritual in disguise from the black sun and Saturn death cult symbolism
to Icarus myths, gnostic polarities, and Crowley's hidden sun will uncover how Danny Boyle's film
hides secret teachings about death, rebirth, and humanity's apocalyptic obsession with the solar
deity. Join me as we face death in this symbolism breakdown of Sunshine.
(00:27):
Now this is the uh this is the August supporters only bonus episode. That's right.
Only for the supporters. Every month I give you a bonus show because every month
you pledge and you keep this show alive. I say that I mean that. Thank you so much for your support.
Maybe someday I'll get a proper working studio. My goodness. Everything's fallen apart on me.
(00:49):
I'm trying out a new thing today. I got a teleprompter. Like the pros do. Look at me moving up.
That's at your Patreon dollars at work and today's my first try to work this thing and quite frankly
it feels a little out of sorts. All right but this way when I you know does I do a video version
(01:10):
of the show. I don't know if you know that. I'm moving into the the 2020s. I'm doing a video
version of the show that you can get the Tier 2 ad free video version of the show where I will
look right into your beautiful eyes right into your soul and we'll talk about all these crazy
occult ideas including this listener request for Sunshine. My goodness. So today we're going to talk
(01:39):
about this movie Sunshine and the occult symbolism. Exploring how the film functions as a modern
allegory for death rebirth in humanity's obsession with the solar deity we're going to unpack
the story of Icarus as a metaphor for approaching the divine unprepared and the recurring symbolism
of the number seven that we'll find throughout the film which represents the union of spirit and
(02:01):
matter and the crew on the ship they have it's a obsession they're staring into the sun right
and I'm going to tie that into ego death and alchemical process the negrado the black sun. You already
know where we're going with this maybe maybe you don't but I'm going to walk you through the home movie
plot spoilers of course and we're going to talk about all the symbolism that points to the
(02:22):
Saturnian death cults that we've been talking about for a long time now. It's my latest little
obsession and we'll connect into Alistair Crowley Kenneth Grant the hidden sun and symbolism of
narcissism the Freemasonic opposing polarities that's right go with the bobs and how how there's
an adversarial initiation here and it's going to be wild okay so if this is your time you know where
(02:52):
to go you know what to do you know where to sign up because I got the three options you already know
the drill and you'll unlock hundreds of bonus episodes hundreds am I going to add free early access
all the things we've always talked about all these years go to patreon.com/luminanywatcher it's the
crown champ of the three supporter feeds especially now that I've enabled a chat we can chat in live time
(03:13):
I get on there a couple times a day and see what you guys are up to in fact I was going to get on
there the other day I was I went to watch the Texas Chainsaw massacre releasing the theaters with Jimmy
the jackhammer and I was going to get on there but you know anyway it's stuff like that that I want
to try to bring you into the fold in my life I got to get used to that though you know I'm not one of
(03:35):
those content creators who likes to share every thing I'm doing every second of the day but I went out
for my patreon people maybe I'll do that I'll get this little chat thing popping of course apple premium
that's your easiest one if you use the apple podcast after you just mash the button and you're in
and then you got aluminum nuttywatcher.com VIP section is the cheapest if you know how to copy and
paste an RSS feed maybe you'll want to check that out but like I said patreon is the most popular
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it's uh you get get you the most bang for your buck less for less than a cup of coffee my god if
you're like hanging out with me a couple times a month consider this like coffee dues we're hanging
out you buy me the coffee you know I love it so there you go all right now let's talk about sunshine
first let's talk about the plot of this movie it's the year 2057 the sun is dying so what we do
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we do what America does best explosives all right this is like Armageddon all over again remember
that movie Armageddon actually you know confession here I actually tear up a little bit during Armageddon
I don't know what it is I maybe it was because I enjoyed the movie when it came out back in 98 or
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whatever year it was you know they play that aros miss song it gets me into fields I don't know why
okay but I feel like sunshine is kind of like a dark version of Armageddon there's no there's no
fun time at the strip club with the sunshine this is just pure cold outer space death all right
so what we're doing in the future here we're sending a bunch of astronauts on this ship called the
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Icarus we're gonna have to drop bombs on that hill on that sun because it's America and that's
what we do you throw enough explosives and bombs at something you're gonna fix it now as you
I give you my recommendation should you watch this movie I mean I liked it and it's kind of like if
you liked interstellar 2000 on a space Odyssey you like to annihilation this might be a kind of movie
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you would like because I obviously love all those movies it was a box office bomb pun intended
but if you're into space terror which I am anything anything space anything deep water terror like I'm in
I'm in but if you're not into that I don't know I don't recommend it that hard you know what I'm saying
the it's a hundred and seven minutes so you know doing pretty good on time about 17 minutes shy of
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perfection but hey not bad but the cast and crew is it's an all-star cast you know like I said this is
2007 before a lot of these were massive massive stars Danny Boyle was the director he did train
spotting slumdog millionaire the beach with my main man Leo did you see the new Leo interview oh baby
Leo don't miss because he's got a new movie coming out which of course I will go see
(06:27):
ironically I haven't seen the beach so on my to-do list 28 days later which is great 28 years later
which I haven't seen yet can't wait to watch it from what I read 28 years later is gonna initiate a
new trilogy of these zombie films can't wait for that he didn't do 28 weeks later which I thought
was a fine film I didn't hate it so Danny Boyle he had all of these all-star cast do method acting
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for this movie had them live together basically they were watching space documentaries they were
touring submarines they were operating flight simulators and so on then you had Alex Garland
writing this movie which Alex Garland's great he wrote 28 days later 28 years later he wrote the
beach the novel he wrote dread I haven't seen it he directed X Machina he then did annihilation one
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of the best movies of all time he did men which was fine they did Civil War which is a trash ass movie
I two thumbs all the way down for Civil War I hated that movie what a bummer that was
now the main cast in this we've got Killian Murphy I'm saying that right I should know how to say his name
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but Killian Murphy as Robert Kappa he is the physicist the bomb expert and irony is that he was also
Oppenheimer which was also about an atomic bomb now Sunshine is a stellar bomb which I'd look up
it doesn't actually exist it's basically a nuke though specifically for the Sun in order to trigger
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atomic reactions within the Sun to make it restart so Killian Murphy he did method acting for this he was
hanging out with a bunch of nerds up its stern for the role they say he did a great job he's very
physicist like apparently he was in his best stuff was Peaky Blinders and 28 days later
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then you've got Chris Evans he plays James Mace the engineer still very you know
Captain America E guys got leading hero written all over him of course then you got Michelle
Yow she plays Karazhan that's right just like Karazhan which we will talk about later she's the
plant nerd on the ship and she has got quite the resume let me tell you she's been in crouching tiger
(08:52):
hidden penis tomorrow never dies memoirs of a gaysha crazy rich agents everything everywhere
all at once one of my favorite movies of all time then you've got Mary Rose burn she plays Murphy's
love interest kind of sort of they were supposed to have a love making scene apparently Danny Boyle
scratched it because he was like I don't know about this space loved nonsense but when you watch the
(09:15):
movie you'd be like oh yeah clearly they're a thing right you don't get to see any action though
so but she was in 28 weeks later ironically she was in Star Wars Episode 2 she was in neighbors she
was in get him to the Greek with Diddy and Russell Brand to very problematic actors her best
(09:39):
films were insidious then you've got Clifford Curtis he plays Dr. Sir Sirl Dr. Sirl I should
how do they say to the movie Sirl he's the doctor he was in doctor sleep hated it blow great movie
training day great movie the Avatar sequel now fun fact this guy was actually a competitive break dance
(10:01):
or at one time pretty fun then you got hero Yuki Shimo Zala he plays Kaneda he's the captain of
the ship he's big in Japan as they say he was in John Wick 4 he was in Avengers he was in
Westworld he was in Japan's ring he did a ton of Japanese films then he got Benedict Wong he plays
(10:26):
Trey which is the ship navigator you would know him if you see him he was in Prometheus also a
navigator he was in the Doctor Strange movies he was in Avengers annihilation and this new movie weapons
that everyone tells me I gotta go watch so you know if I wasn't wasting your time watching
Texas Chainsaw Massacre maybe I could have watched weapons but I'm actually I think because every
(10:52):
year for Halloween I do a Halloween movie and I did Halloween one two and three and the sequels for
Halloween get pretty dumb after Halloween three so I'm thinking maybe I'll do Texas Chainsaw
because after I watched it I thought oh there's very much in a cult plot line in this movie
did you spot it do you know what I'm talking about well tune in because I'm probably gonna do the
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Halloween film analysis on Texas Chainsaw then we got Mark Strong he plays the captain of Icarus 1
which was the ship that originally was on this mission that failed he plays the captain his name
is pinbacker he was in a ton of stuff also he was in Sherlock Holmes kickass green lantern zero dark
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30 the shazam's star dust etc he didn't do any horror movies at all so he must be a pus I don't know
this this one is this one's kind of horror movie though to be fair he said he based the character off
of sergeant pinback from dark star which was a film by Don Carpenter and Dan O'Bannon which was
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basically the inspiration for Ridley Scott's alien because O'Bannon would later of course work on alien
now fun fact he was offered the lead in a movie called no country for old men but decided to do
sunshine instead terrible move he denies all of that though it says it's just a rumor I would
deny it too Paloma by by Aiza she plays cop a sister for all of two seconds she's married to Alex
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Garland who's the writer for this movie so let's get into the film plot spoilers coming if you're
ready take my hand come with me let us go into the year 2057 and it starts out and immediately it
tells us basically what this this is all about the narrator gives us a little speech about the
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mission take a listen our son is dying mankind faces extinction seven years ago the
Echorist project sent a mission to restart the sun but that mission was lost before it reached the star
16 months ago I Robert Kappa and a crew of seven left earth frozen in the solar winter
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our payload a stellar bomb with a mass equivalent to Manhattan island our purpose
to create a star within a star
[Music]
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eight astronauts trapped back up upon my bomb welcome takeers too
[Music]
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you hear him say he's creating the sun within the sun this is our first clue
that we got some illuminate to confirm the Echorist are always talking about a connection of the
inner to the outer the esoteric to the exoteric so to create the sun within the sun is a concept
we've heard specifically and I'll tell you all about why that matters in the exciting conclusion
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and if you listen he talks about how the acres one crew left seven years ago seven is the number
that comes up in this movie it's the number of divinity it's the number for finding God again
foreshadowing of what will be revealed by the end of this movie okay and the imagery that they show
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is literally the black sun symbol or you could argue it's the all-seeing eye it shows like an
eclipsing planet over the sun basically if you can envision that unless you're watching the video
version of the show then you see what I'm saying because I got the image right on the screen you know
what I'm saying so this ties into a Saturn mythology and it's um you know the polar configuration of the
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pillar of stacked planets before the cataclysm is how all this ties together all right like I said
I'm working on a Saturn d-bib where I'll explain to the best of my abilities how all this fits together
my last book I've got to read to provide you with a comprehensive analysis is called
the game of Saturn and it's sitting right over there and it's a massive $100 book so I got some work
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to do all right so expect that early 2026 but what it's all about here is creating a new sun
within the sun all right it's a regeneration tale it's the black sun symbolizing the inner forces of
the occult that which is hidden of course manifesting into reality so the movie starts out of course
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with the big speech and then we see Dr. Seal Seerl I can't say his name it doesn't matter
Dr. Seal he's staring into the sun in the observation room like Trump staring at the eclipse he wants to
he wants to like reduce he keeps telling the AI on the ship like reduce the filters because he wants
more sunlight in but the AI ships like hey you're gonna fry your dumb retinas he's a I don't care man
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he's addicted he's addicted to the the sun and if you if you listen to him he after he goes through this
sun observation room he goes back to the crew to explain his weird fetish to his crew mates and you
you just hear how obsessed he's was staring at the sun take a listen
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it's like taking a shower and like you lose your stuff in there like a rotation type actually no
what is it beef? chicken if you don't like it you take my shift next time
but I can test on deep space I ran a number of sensory depotation trials tested totally darkness
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on flotation and the point about darkness is you floated you and the darkness are distinct from
each other because darkness is an absence of something that's a vacuum but to light and
vampirms you it becomes you it's very strange I don't I recommend it strange sir because
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that you're the psych officer on this ship and I'm clearly a lot of the you are you talk about
losing yourself and this is a reference to the ego death someone else says it's like an isolation
tank which is a similar idea right we've got we're going back to john c lily and the altered state
story of blowing lines of k and hump and dolphins and stuff that is you sit in the depurvation tank
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the isolation tank and you float in the darkness and they describe it as the light becoming you in this film
and there's a major clue here that this movie isn't just about bombing the sun or restarting it
there's something more going on there's something hidden there's something occult to be found in this film
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alchemical process of mankind which ties into the opposing polarity discussions we always have
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(upbeat music)
On today's episode, we're decoding the 2007 movie Sunshine, a sci-fi film that's really
(00:05):
in a called initiation ritual in disguise from the black sun and Saturn death cult symbolism
to Icarus myths, gnostic polarities, and Crowley's hidden sun will uncover how Danny Boyle's film
hides secret teachings about death, rebirth, and humanity's apocalyptic obsession with the solar
deity. Join me as we face death in this symbolism breakdown of Sunshine.
(00:27):
Now this is the uh this is the August supporters only bonus episode. That's right.
Only for the supporters. Every month I give you a bonus show because every month
you pledge and you keep this show alive. I say that I mean that. Thank you so much for your support.
Maybe someday I'll get a proper working studio. My goodness. Everything's fallen apart on me.
(00:49):
I'm trying out a new thing today. I got a teleprompter. Like the pros do. Look at me moving up.
That's at your Patreon dollars at work and today's my first try to work this thing and quite frankly
it feels a little out of sorts. All right but this way when I you know does I do a video version
(01:10):
of the show. I don't know if you know that. I'm moving into the the 2020s. I'm doing a video
version of the show that you can get the Tier 2 ad free video version of the show where I will
look right into your beautiful eyes right into your soul and we'll talk about all these crazy
occult ideas including this listener request for Sunshine. My goodness. So today we're going to talk
(01:39):
about this movie Sunshine and the occult symbolism. Exploring how the film functions as a modern
allegory for death rebirth in humanity's obsession with the solar deity we're going to unpack
the story of Icarus as a metaphor for approaching the divine unprepared and the recurring symbolism
of the number seven that we'll find throughout the film which represents the union of spirit and
(02:01):
matter and the crew on the ship they have it's a obsession they're staring into the sun right
and I'm going to tie that into ego death and alchemical process the negrado the black sun. You already
know where we're going with this maybe maybe you don't but I'm going to walk you through the home movie
plot spoilers of course and we're going to talk about all the symbolism that points to the
(02:22):
Saturnian death cults that we've been talking about for a long time now. It's my latest little
obsession and we'll connect into Alistair Crowley Kenneth Grant the hidden sun and symbolism of
narcissism the Freemasonic opposing polarities that's right go with the bobs and how how there's
an adversarial initiation here and it's going to be wild okay so if this is your time you know where
(02:52):
to go you know what to do you know where to sign up because I got the three options you already know
the drill and you'll unlock hundreds of bonus episodes hundreds am I going to add free early access
all the things we've always talked about all these years go to patreon.com/luminanywatcher it's the
crown champ of the three supporter feeds especially now that I've enabled a chat we can chat in live time
(03:13):
I get on there a couple times a day and see what you guys are up to in fact I was going to get on
there the other day I was I went to watch the Texas Chainsaw massacre releasing the theaters with Jimmy
the jackhammer and I was going to get on there but you know anyway it's stuff like that that I want
to try to bring you into the fold in my life I got to get used to that though you know I'm not one of
(03:35):
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you're like hanging out with me a couple times a month consider this like coffee dues we're hanging
out you buy me the coffee you know I love it so there you go all right now let's talk about sunshine
first let's talk about the plot of this movie it's the year 2057 the sun is dying so what we do
(04:24):
we do what America does best explosives all right this is like Armageddon all over again remember
that movie Armageddon actually you know confession here I actually tear up a little bit during Armageddon
I don't know what it is I maybe it was because I enjoyed the movie when it came out back in 98 or
(04:45):
whatever year it was you know they play that aros miss song it gets me into fields I don't know why
okay but I feel like sunshine is kind of like a dark version of Armageddon there's no there's no
fun time at the strip club with the sunshine this is just pure cold outer space death all right
so what we're doing in the future here we're sending a bunch of astronauts on this ship called the
(05:09):
Icarus we're gonna have to drop bombs on that hill on that sun because it's America and that's
what we do you throw enough explosives and bombs at something you're gonna fix it now as you
I give you my recommendation should you watch this movie I mean I liked it and it's kind of like if
you liked interstellar 2000 on a space Odyssey you like to annihilation this might be a kind of movie
(05:34):
you would like because I obviously love all those movies it was a box office bomb pun intended
but if you're into space terror which I am anything anything space anything deep water terror like I'm in
I'm in but if you're not into that I don't know I don't recommend it that hard you know what I'm saying
the it's a hundred and seven minutes so you know doing pretty good on time about 17 minutes shy of
(06:00):
perfection but hey not bad but the cast and crew is it's an all-star cast you know like I said this is
2007 before a lot of these were massive massive stars Danny Boyle was the director he did train
spotting slumdog millionaire the beach with my main man Leo did you see the new Leo interview oh baby
Leo don't miss because he's got a new movie coming out which of course I will go see
(06:27):
ironically I haven't seen the beach so on my to-do list 28 days later which is great 28 years later
which I haven't seen yet can't wait to watch it from what I read 28 years later is gonna initiate a
new trilogy of these zombie films can't wait for that he didn't do 28 weeks later which I thought
was a fine film I didn't hate it so Danny Boyle he had all of these all-star cast do method acting
(06:54):
for this movie had them live together basically they were watching space documentaries they were
touring submarines they were operating flight simulators and so on then you had Alex Garland
writing this movie which Alex Garland's great he wrote 28 days later 28 years later he wrote the
beach the novel he wrote dread I haven't seen it he directed X Machina he then did annihilation one
(07:20):
of the best movies of all time he did men which was fine they did Civil War which is a trash ass movie
I two thumbs all the way down for Civil War I hated that movie what a bummer that was
now the main cast in this we've got Killian Murphy I'm saying that right I should know how to say his name
(07:41):
but Killian Murphy as Robert Kappa he is the physicist the bomb expert and irony is that he was also
Oppenheimer which was also about an atomic bomb now Sunshine is a stellar bomb which I'd look up
it doesn't actually exist it's basically a nuke though specifically for the Sun in order to trigger
(08:02):
atomic reactions within the Sun to make it restart so Killian Murphy he did method acting for this he was
hanging out with a bunch of nerds up its stern for the role they say he did a great job he's very
physicist like apparently he was in his best stuff was Peaky Blinders and 28 days later
(08:27):
then you've got Chris Evans he plays James Mace the engineer still very you know
Captain America E guys got leading hero written all over him of course then you got Michelle
Yow she plays Karazhan that's right just like Karazhan which we will talk about later she's the
plant nerd on the ship and she has got quite the resume let me tell you she's been in crouching tiger
(08:52):
hidden penis tomorrow never dies memoirs of a gaysha crazy rich agents everything everywhere
all at once one of my favorite movies of all time then you've got Mary Rose burn she plays Murphy's
love interest kind of sort of they were supposed to have a love making scene apparently Danny Boyle
scratched it because he was like I don't know about this space loved nonsense but when you watch the
(09:15):
movie you'd be like oh yeah clearly they're a thing right you don't get to see any action though
so but she was in 28 weeks later ironically she was in Star Wars Episode 2 she was in neighbors she
was in get him to the Greek with Diddy and Russell Brand to very problematic actors her best
(09:39):
films were insidious then you've got Clifford Curtis he plays Dr. Sir Sirl Dr. Sirl I should
how do they say to the movie Sirl he's the doctor he was in doctor sleep hated it blow great movie
training day great movie the Avatar sequel now fun fact this guy was actually a competitive break dance
(10:01):
or at one time pretty fun then you got hero Yuki Shimo Zala he plays Kaneda he's the captain of
the ship he's big in Japan as they say he was in John Wick 4 he was in Avengers he was in
Westworld he was in Japan's ring he did a ton of Japanese films then he got Benedict Wong he plays
(10:26):
Trey which is the ship navigator you would know him if you see him he was in Prometheus also a
navigator he was in the Doctor Strange movies he was in Avengers annihilation and this new movie weapons
that everyone tells me I gotta go watch so you know if I wasn't wasting your time watching
Texas Chainsaw Massacre maybe I could have watched weapons but I'm actually I think because every
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year for Halloween I do a Halloween movie and I did Halloween one two and three and the sequels for
Halloween get pretty dumb after Halloween three so I'm thinking maybe I'll do Texas Chainsaw
because after I watched it I thought oh there's very much in a cult plot line in this movie
did you spot it do you know what I'm talking about well tune in because I'm probably gonna do the
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Halloween film analysis on Texas Chainsaw then we got Mark Strong he plays the captain of Icarus 1
which was the ship that originally was on this mission that failed he plays the captain his name
is pinbacker he was in a ton of stuff also he was in Sherlock Holmes kickass green lantern zero dark
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30 the shazam's star dust etc he didn't do any horror movies at all so he must be a pus I don't know
this this one is this one's kind of horror movie though to be fair he said he based the character off
of sergeant pinback from dark star which was a film by Don Carpenter and Dan O'Bannon which was
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basically the inspiration for Ridley Scott's alien because O'Bannon would later of course work on alien
now fun fact he was offered the lead in a movie called no country for old men but decided to do
sunshine instead terrible move he denies all of that though it says it's just a rumor I would
deny it too Paloma by by Aiza she plays cop a sister for all of two seconds she's married to Alex
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Garland who's the writer for this movie so let's get into the film plot spoilers coming if you're
ready take my hand come with me let us go into the year 2057 and it starts out and immediately it
tells us basically what this this is all about the narrator gives us a little speech about the
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mission take a listen our son is dying mankind faces extinction seven years ago the
Echorist project sent a mission to restart the sun but that mission was lost before it reached the star
16 months ago I Robert Kappa and a crew of seven left earth frozen in the solar winter
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our payload a stellar bomb with a mass equivalent to Manhattan island our purpose
to create a star within a star
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eight astronauts trapped back up upon my bomb welcome takeers too
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you hear him say he's creating the sun within the sun this is our first clue
that we got some illuminate to confirm the Echorist are always talking about a connection of the
inner to the outer the esoteric to the exoteric so to create the sun within the sun is a concept
we've heard specifically and I'll tell you all about why that matters in the exciting conclusion
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and if you listen he talks about how the acres one crew left seven years ago seven is the number
that comes up in this movie it's the number of divinity it's the number for finding God again
foreshadowing of what will be revealed by the end of this movie okay and the imagery that they show
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is literally the black sun symbol or you could argue it's the all-seeing eye it shows like an
eclipsing planet over the sun basically if you can envision that unless you're watching the video
version of the show then you see what I'm saying because I got the image right on the screen you know
what I'm saying so this ties into a Saturn mythology and it's um you know the polar configuration of the
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pillar of stacked planets before the cataclysm is how all this ties together all right like I said
I'm working on a Saturn d-bib where I'll explain to the best of my abilities how all this fits together
my last book I've got to read to provide you with a comprehensive analysis is called
the game of Saturn and it's sitting right over there and it's a massive $100 book so I got some work
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to do all right so expect that early 2026 but what it's all about here is creating a new sun
within the sun all right it's a regeneration tale it's the black sun symbolizing the inner forces of
the occult that which is hidden of course manifesting into reality so the movie starts out of course
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with the big speech and then we see Dr. Seal Seerl I can't say his name it doesn't matter
Dr. Seal he's staring into the sun in the observation room like Trump staring at the eclipse he wants to
he wants to like reduce he keeps telling the AI on the ship like reduce the filters because he wants
more sunlight in but the AI ships like hey you're gonna fry your dumb retinas he's a I don't care man
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he's addicted he's addicted to the the sun and if you if you listen to him he after he goes through this
sun observation room he goes back to the crew to explain his weird fetish to his crew mates and you
you just hear how obsessed he's was staring at the sun take a listen
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it's like taking a shower and like you lose your stuff in there like a rotation type actually no
what is it beef? chicken if you don't like it you take my shift next time
but I can test on deep space I ran a number of sensory depotation trials tested totally darkness
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on flotation and the point about darkness is you floated you and the darkness are distinct from
each other because darkness is an absence of something that's a vacuum but to light and
vampirms you it becomes you it's very strange I don't I recommend it strange sir because
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that you're the psych officer on this ship and I'm clearly a lot of the you are you talk about
losing yourself and this is a reference to the ego death someone else says it's like an isolation
tank which is a similar idea right we've got we're going back to john c lily and the altered state
story of blowing lines of k and hump and dolphins and stuff that is you sit in the depurvation tank
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the isolation tank and you float in the darkness and they describe it as the light becoming you in this film
and there's a major clue here that this movie isn't just about bombing the sun or restarting it
there's something more going on there's something hidden there's something occult to be found in this film
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into twin peaks my goodness like in this particular episode about the sunshine we're going to talk
about the occult symbolism of icarus which ties into free masonry and a lot of the symbolism like you
see with the compass and square and so on and i'm going to walk you through the rest of the story
as we learn about the saturnian death cult guiding certain symbols into the black sun the
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alchemical process of mankind which ties into the opposing polarity discussions we always have
and more importantly it touches on this historical basis for the saturnian death cult and how this could
all be just a mass initiation of mankind through the annihilation into star dust every man and every
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woman is a star that old alistair crowley said and that's what we see in this film so unlock the full
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