Escaping Our Mental Prisons: What Psychedelic Movies Are Really About

Get Nebula using my link for 40% off an annual subscription: https://go.nebula.tv/lsoo Watch my nebula classes How To Analyze Stories and Enrich Your Own: https://nebula.tv/how-to-analyze-stories Help me make more videos! Support this channel: https://www.patreon.com/LikeStoriesofOld Leave a One-Time Donation: https://www.paypal.me/TomvanderLinden Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LikeStoriesofOld Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tom.vd.linden Twitter: https://twitter.com/Tom_LSOO About this video essay: An analysis of psychedelia in cinema, and of the philosophical and neurological insights it provides Content: 00:00 In Search of Dreams 02:09 Psychedelia in Cinema 03:55 The Psychedelic Mind 05:49 Primary and Secondary Consciousness 09:00 The Brain as an Interference Machine 11:51 The Void, Empty but Solid 15:10 Constrained By Ego 16:53 Experiencing the World Anew 18:42 The Journey Back 20:58 One Final Trip Listen to my podcast, Cinema of Meaning: iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cinema-of-meaning/id1611352831 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4n6zZZQjiKsLNfyldNAi8b YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@cinemaofmeaning Nebula: https://nebula.app/cinemaofmeaning Media used: 2001: A Space Odyssey; A Scanner Darkly; Altered States; Annihilation; Batman Begins; Beef; Embrace of the Serpent; Enter the Void; Everything Everywhere All At Once; Ex Machina; Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas; Inception; Midsommar; Once Upon a Time in Hollywood; Planet of the Apes; The Fountain; The Holy Mountain; The Matrix 1-4; The New World; The Perks of Being a Wallflower; The Tree of Life; The Wolf of Wall Street; The Worst Person in the World Further Reading: Like Stories of Old – The Complete Reading List: https://kit.co/likestoriesofold/reading-list 10 Books that changed my life: https://kit.co/likestoriesofold/10-books-that-changed-my-life 10 More books that inspired my thinking: https://kit.co/likestoriesofold/10-more-books-that-inspired-my-thinking My Camera Gear: https://kit.co/likestoriesofold/my-travel-camera-gear Business inquiries: lsoo@standard.tv Say hi: likestoriesofold@gmail.com Take your films to the next level with music from Musicbed. Sign up for a free account to listen for yourself: https://fm.pxf.io/c/3532571/1347628/16252