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A good film about mystique in Bali. Some people caught up in trance and were trying to stab themselves with "keris", a kind of unique dagger but it seemed that they all were not injured at all. Wow! Take a look at this video...
The video as its title says is about materialistic world based on Darwin's evolution theory and Sigmund Freud's psychoanalysis. I like the way the guy in the video explained it. It's a little bit funny to me especially how he cynically told about evolution theory. By the way, in my opinion some of Sigmund Freud's theories are good to take a look. The parts which explain about Id, Ego and Superego. But I disagree to some of his other theories. I also disagree to evolution theory because it is illogical so far as I can think and it does not resonate with my intuition, hahaha :-) Intuition
Maybe yes maybe no... because IMHO the Westerners have also such mystical tradition as I read from books or magazines especially during middle ages? Maybe the Saint such as Saint Francis Asisi is one of the mystique from Western Civilization :-) Please correct me if I'm wrong.
it's true that in western civilization we have some similar rituals that were banned by Christianity.They still exist however even if the Vatican don't accept them but the basis from these rituals come from cultural roots and what I understand in my civilization because I know the history, it's more difficult to understand in other societies. It's not the question of the trance that I don't understand, it's why they perform those rituals. There's always some divinities or spirits that are invoked, some beliefs, some praxis that I don't know.
My personal choice is that I do not want to get involved in such a trance or hypnotic world because I know little things about those stuffs. Fearful and other feelings are mixed. Anyway, I am a product of current capitalistic world. Earning money for living can use up your times so that you haven't got time to linger on those culture anymore. It's just amazing that such cultures still exist in now modern world :-)
I'm afraid of loosing control. I know it's not difficult to enter a trance if you're in the right environment, with the right people. But that's something not well accepted by the so-called developed world. We are teached not to show our emotions and feelings, we shall always wear some kind of mask. Trances are not well seen in this materialist world, that's something that has the label "crazy", "psycho" or "lack of culture". And perhaps it could be a good way to treat psychological problems..
science or especially psychology sometimes also cannot explain what they call "crazy" is... so that they call everything they do not know or cannot explain with their science as "crazy" hahaha :-) I think that where the word "crazy" comes from...
There's a lot of things that we still don't know and perhaps will be never known by humans. That's why there are so many different religions. But would it be better to know everything? I really don't know..
many things that I do not know either. sometimes I just do whatever have to do...do the best I can and hope the best too. The result is the other story :-) You may fail, you may succeed
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Jul 14 02:46 am
There are many possible explanations: religious, medical, pshycological, societal. It all depends on religious believes. And nobody knows the full truth, what is indeed going on with the people's minds and souls.
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Jul 16 01:36 am
I would not put the cultural differences as the main separator between people. Customs may be dissimilar, but getting into trans is not limited by the certain culture or religion. I would say, that partticular way of auto-hypnotic state or deep auto-meditation causes complete release of certain body functions usually controlled by brain.
I don't say that culture is the main separator. I only say that when we don't know the roots of some cultural, religious or social events we can't understand those events.It's important to be integrated to fully understand everything.
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Jul 17 02:56 am
I just learned today that the repetative motions is one of the natural sources of the seratonin development in the brain. That explains, why religious transes and general prayers in some religions are accompanied by them...
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Jul 17 03:11 am
It is just a small fact, that gives a different perspective on the known things. Science still cannot explain much about human brain. So, I would prefer not to transfer everything to the scientific platform. G-d exists no matter what.
Common people call a sceptical person as an agnostic, isn't it? By the way, I am a sceptical person too but the experiences I have here in Indonesia sometimes say different and strange things. But it's good to be sceptical anyway, you have to check and recheck things :-) but sometimes it is time consuming...
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Jul 22 02:07 am
I do not claim that any of the official religions or any other cults, as a matter of fact, has anything in common with G-d. Mostly, they represent another kind of organizational institutions.
I agree with you. If we look closely to the catholic church history we can see how it's power has so little to do with the true christian values. And I think that all the other religions are the same. It's all a question of power on earth...
yes, it is. In religion as in any other human activity we can only see selfishness and when someone gets something he will desire always more and more. I can't almost see solidarity and other human values that I used to believe in...
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Interesting and well done movie. It's only a pity, for me as European, not to have some kind of explanation about the rituals.