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Ramsses II
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(12/3/05 7:10 pm)
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Balder: Hi, Rhonda,

Several of us have talked about our feelings about that mother ship scene!

Here are a few mentions of it that I recall right off the bat...

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Excerpt from A.H. Almaas' Spacecruiser Inquiry: When inquiry opens up the soul and orients her toward receptivity to guidance, one may experience the arising of the Guidance as a descent of presence. The Diamond Guidance descends, and it is as if a spaceship has just landed. The power and magnificence of the descent is not unlike what was portrayed at the end of the movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind, when the mother ship lands. The air becomes electrified; all is still and yet pulsing with a brilliance of dancing colors and qualities. One may hear the powerful hum of the spaceship’s engines. One can feel a sense of elegance and delicacy. Then consciousness begins to attain a quality of precision, a quality of brilliance, and a quality of exquisite, sharp clarity. It is no longer the normal consciousness that is inquiring but the consciousness pervaded and transformed by the pure light of the Diamond Guidance – the variegated, precise, diamond-like brilliance. One may become aware of a sense of divinity and purity, a sense of otherworldliness that has come into this world.

Balder wrote: I wanted to highlight this paragraph for personal reasons. It is interesting that Almaas mentions Pentecost a few paragraphs later, because watching the climactic descent of the mother ship in Close Encounters of the Third Kind is the only time in my life I have ever spoken in tongues! I was probably thirteen or fourteen years old, and the language just spontaneously poured out of me in my excitement and delight at that scene. I really relate to the balance of beauty, grace, delicacy, and overwhelming power that Almaas describes as the spiritual “message” of that scene. I have encountered such incredible balance and “grace” on a few occasions in my life, in visionary and ordinary experience, and it is truly wondrous.

MaryW replied: These last few posts -- Almaas's Spacecruiser Inquiry passage, the descent of grace during moments of darkness and anguish, even speaking in tongues during the final scenes in Close Encounters -- resonate deeply with several of my past experiences, and today I'm feeling wonder and gratitude as I see such "encounters" described so clearly here!

I had a great love for Close Encounters when it first came out. In fact I went to see it several times -- and I think it was during the time between high school graduation and freshman year in college. The ending scenes really thrilled and touched me -- they actually gave me adrenalin rushes, and at the time I was unable to articulate why.

Many years later I experienced an interior healing while watching the director's cut of The Abyss on TV. This is another film about benevolent beings from beyond -- but these are undersea beings rather than space aliens. Beings emerging from the deep sea, from "within," rather than space beings from "out there."

The director's cut has one major difference from the version that is usually shown -- near the end of the film there is a huge tidal wave approaching all the world's coastlines. The undersea beings, who have an advanced technology that enables them to control the oceans, have initiated the tidal wave as a response to an undersea nuclear threat.

Prior to this dramatic moment, a human character had been sent on a solitary mission to the ocean floor, deep at the bottom of a crevasse, to dismantle a nuclear weapon that had lodged there as the result of an accident. It's an apparently self-sacrificial mission; the man does not have enough oxygen to resurface. Just as this man is about to die, a luminous alien being approaches him, takes him by the hand, and swims him to safety inside their undersea craft, where he is resuscitated. The journey to the craft is similar to descriptions of near-death experiences -- a trip through a tunnel encircled with lights and a view of a spectacular luminous city.

In the meantime, while the man was on this "saving" mission, millions of people around the world witness a huge tidal wave approach, surrealistically pause in mid-air for several moments, and recede. I think the scene was deleted from the "regular" version of the movie because it may have seemed overly apocalyptic or even out-of-character for supposedly advanced, peace-loving undersea aliens. At any rate, I had already seen The Abyss in theaters, but didn't see the deleted scene until years later when the director's cut came on TV and I just happened to channel-flip to it. I was depressed during the time, near the depths of despair. Watching that scene somehow cleansed me -- it was as if my own tidal wave of dejection, just at the point of "breaking" all around me, pulled back instead, was "taken away." I had this very simple intuitive insight: you were in hell, and now you're going to be okay.

Interestingly I learned later that James Cameron, the director of The Abyss, was having nightmares during the making of the movie -- until he crafted that tidal wave scene.

Yours in the Mothership,

B.

Edited by: Ramsses II at: 12/3/05 7:14 pm
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