Category: Reviews & Revelations
Zeitgeist: the Movie | a review and discussion
On the very rarely found opportunity to kick back and lay on the couch on a Friday night, like many, I’ll watch a movie. While browsing Netflix for some time, the independent film ‘Zeitgeist’ kept maneuvering to the top of my various lists, so I gave it a go. Zeitgeist is a film by Peter…
Read MoreSealab | the untold stories that changed humankind’s place on this watery planet
A recent interview in the UT San Diego entitled ‘Underwater Space Race in Scripps Canyon’ discusses Ben Hellwarth’s new book about the 1960’s Sealab project – our country’s ‘innerspace race’ if you will. I’ve written about Sealab before here on ‘a New Life’, as it marked a pivotal time for human exploration of the ocean. This is…
Read MoreCommunion | a review
I finally picked up Author Whitley Strieber’s ‘Communion’, and could not put it down. I’ve walked by the book dozens of times in bookstores, at airports, and have seen the dark glossy eyes on the cover peering deep within me, almost hauntingly, to the point where I was somewhat afraid of the read. I must…
Read MoreThe Genesis Race | a review
Will Hart’s ‘The Genesis Race’ is a well developed compendium of thoughts and theories as to the origin of the human race and its propensity for evolving towards civilization. Hart emphasizes throughout the text that the sudden impulse towards civilization across the globe some 6000 years ago needed some organized and intelligent precursor to introduce the…
Read MoreAtlantis and 2012 | a review
Frank Joseph’s ‘Atlantis and 2012’ takes us on a deepened journey into Atlantean theory as it applies to the 2012 controversy. Much of the discussion builds on the Cayce readings, though ties in historical and archaeological evidence from early civilization, namely the Maya though also Native North American and other relatively advanced early cultures. The book…
Read MoreBorn to Run | a review
Christopher McDougall’s ‘Born to Run’ takes us back to our roots, where we may have in fact been born to run – out of necessity. McDougall takes us on a journey alongside the Tarahumara, a community living the Mexican mountainside that has very much remained off the grid and lives what we would consider a primitive…
Read MoreSanctum | a review
A NY Daily News piece reminded me to review the movie Sanctum here on ‘a New Life’. The news piece describes the recent death of two University of Florida students while caving in Georgia. Absolutely tragic, and a sharp reminder of just how unforgiving caving, and cave diving is. I saw James Cameron’s Sanctum this…
Read MoreEzekiel’s Merkabah | Knowing, Part 3
For this last installment of our review of the film ‘Knowing‘, we will discuss the reference to Ezekiel’s Chariot, and the prophecy that it conveys. Some background – Ezekial is the author and central protagonist of the Book of Ezekial in the Hebrew Bible which goes on to discuss his prophecies of the destruction of Jerusalem.…
Read MoreCodex of all Codices | Knowing, Part 2
In continuing this review and analysis of the film ‘Knowing‘, we must absolutely address the numeric sequence which was obsessively scribed by the character Lucinda Embry. The sheet of paper containing several hundred seemingly random digits was placed into an elementary school’s ‘time capsule’ to be opened some 50 years later. Upon opening and rediscovery of this…
Read Morerandom chance vs determinism | Knowing, Part 1
This post is a continuation of the analysis of my marathon movie weekend. As I escaped the creepiness, yet remained perplexed by The Fourth Kind, I found myself more deeply enveloped by ‘Knowing‘. The film followed my alien themed movie marathon, but more subtly, and emphasized a focus on our perceptions of reality. In the early part of…
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