The encounter of the two main protagonist in the story in one way or another affirms to the discourse on the Encounter with the Sacred. The idea of applying the theme of encounter with sacred to movie occurred to me when I made a comment to the scene where the female protagonist suddenly cut herself while she was with the male protagonist. I made a comment on the scene by jokingly saying; “Woman, you are too much in a rush to meet with the Lord.”. It was later in the day that another thought grew from me making that comment, “Is the reason why some suicides fail, because the person who attempted suicide still wasn’t prepared to encounter God in death and is that why when there are those who succeed in their attempt comes so much of a surprise …show more content…
As much as I want to try and understand the female protagonist and her choice to mess with those men that killed, I will never fully do. If this is the case, it will be completely impossible for me to look at a mystery and know if that mystery ever had an encounter with another mystery.
The idea in the end of this reflection is that, maybe just maybe, others can view another person’s encounter with the world and with fellow human beings, and therefore be in themselves be in a certain encounter. Through this they may begin an encounter with the world, but an other can never view another’s encounter with the sacred. This encounter can only occur between the person and the sacred, if another would know about it will not be an encounter with the sacred.
To relate this to the movie, the notion of encounter with the sacred denotes the idea that all will be well when this encounter occurs. All the feelings of being limited, of being unloved, will be gone. This is why the female character attempted suicide and provoke her own death, because as much as she had a encountered the world and, what I understood to be, a genuine relationship with no lies, she still sought for things to be well or
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To misunderstand this, in end, is also understandable because the sacred will not be sacred if it was so easily understood. Now that I had thoughts that the female protagonist in movie did not show that she might have had an encounter with the sacred, though we will never know. Then maybe, in actually, it was actually male protagonist who did encounter the sacred.
There is this possible notion that, to end these thoughts of encounter, the male his encounter with and in the death of female protagonist in Mysterium Tremendum at Fascinosum. He was in awe in meeting the female protagonist she awed him with her way of living and as much as he did not want to agree to the marriage he was drawn to her and pushed through with it and in in her death he was overpowered with confusion and anger of what happened, even going after those that killed her.
In the end both were submerged by their own feeling of nothingness in contrast to the lives they were living. It lead both to each have encounters, with each other, on their own, or with their own self that has lead to where they were in the end of the movie. Is then considered encounters with the
Life is unpredictable that always contains the contradiction. Nothing appears to be fully good or fully evil. Based on that idea, Snyder invented a term “the other side of the sacred” in his books The Practice of the Wild. This term emphasizes the balance between the positive and the negative in every sacred thing. From that belief, Snyder affirms the importance of acknowledging the concurrent existence of the good and the bad to help humans survive and live a better life.
It looks as if this spiritual relationship intends to be more complete and sacred; aspiring to an awakening, and cooperation of one’s heavenly, higher self. One’s union with the Divine comes forth as an earthly reality; illuminating a freedom, and calmness within one’s spirit.
Look at the civilized, beautiful capital cities in every developed country all around the world which is the central of high fashioned and convenience facility. To live in the city, it seems like the nature surrounding is not important to us anymore. In “The Sacred Balance: Rediscovering Our Place in Nature” David Suzuki presents the connection between human and the nature and how we depend on the surrounding environment. However, within the past century, most of our modern technologies have been developed in order to provide people needs of goods and products (63). Many of the products we made are causing much more harm to the environment than the value that products provide. Technological development has damaged our environment to the point
The Holocaust was a genocide that happened in Germany throughout the years of 1933-1945. The Germans and their supporters massively murdered many Jews to protect and reach their goal of having an Aryan race. The novel We Are Witnesses by Jacob Boas is a collection of four diaries written by the four children that were victims of the Holocaust. In this novel the themes found are fear, humanity, appreciation, and survival. A running story throughout the novel is the idea of people being good or evil. Humans are capable of being good but choose to follow evil and make the good suffer.
The poem starts out with a mirror being personified “I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions. / Whatever I see, I swallow immediately. / Just as it is unmisted by love or dislike.” The mirror changes itself based upon what it sees regardless of what it is. Ironically the same can be said about humans that their environments also change them. Humans reflect diet through physique, smoking through tarred lungs, or self-esteem from social ranking. The poem then says, “It is pink, with speckles. I have looked at it so long / I think it is a part of my heart. But it flickers.” This poem is reflecting patterns of which emotional states also transform the person. When a man spends enough time in a given area, he or she develops an emotional attachment to it. Another transformation “Now I am a lake.” This direct shift from a mirror that gives an exact copy transforms into a lake in which gives a reflection that’s murky and hard to make out. It goes on “A woman bends over me, / Searching my reaches for what she really is. / Then turns to those liars, the candles or the moon.” This section calls into question the objectivity of the previous reflections. The mirror that is now transformed into the lake and is suspicious to those that give light, which also reveals the actual object. It also could reflect that mirror is only as accurate as the observer and perception distort reality. A
The term possession is widely accepted as being "influenced or controlled by something (as an evil spirit, a passion, or an idea)". (Merriam-Webster) There have been numerous cases of spiritual possessions that causes harm to peoples. According to the Spiritual Research Foundation, to be possessed by spirits means that "the physical, mental, intellectual or spiritual functioning of a person if affected or altered" by such spirits. In both definitions, there is a common ground that spirits take control of whatever they inhabit. Throughout history, there have been occurrences of spiritual possessions of mostly toys or humans. Due to the media's over exaggeration of these "true stories", our minds are warped into believing that we are paranoid over toys, mainly dolls and humans who act abnormally. These spirits still linger in our world because of their refusal to “crossover” to the otherworld. They are an enigma beyond our capability of controlling. We cannot see them, we can only feel their presence. Popular portrayals of spiritual possessions from media and literature are Chucky from Child’s Play, The Exorcist, Dead Silence, The Conjuring, and the Supernatural series. All of these forms of media share a commonality in which the spirits inflict violence towards people surrounding them. Evil spirits are commonly portrayed through the possession of a suitable vessel. These spirits are wicked and angry beings who try to return from the dead, causing chaos and mayhem. Whether it be possessing non-living objects or a body, we are afraid of these things due to our inability to take control over them. Our lack of control causes us to be vulnerable to threats from possessed objects. The more afraid we are, the stronger the spirit...
Mirrors, traditionally used for seeing a reflection, usually of someone’s true outer self. In Laurie Halse Anderson’s novel Speak, Melinda Sordino does not want to see herself. After Melinda was raped at a high school party by Andy Evans, she becomes severely depressed and unable to speak. In this novel, mirrors symbolize how Melinda despises her appearance, and show how she is unable to accept her own reflection after she was raped.
The story begins with a Native American family fighting a battle against Mr. Grief, who represents sadness and death. Their newborn son falls into a coma, dies three times and is revived three times in the same day and kicks Mr. Grief to the curb. When writing this story, Sherman Alexie was very clever by portraying Mr. Grief as an actual character because when reading this story for the first time it seems as if Mr. Grief is a real person. This made the story more realistic, which kept the reader more engaged. While newborn Abraham was still in the hospital, the father was in the restroom stall and overheard two men ripping another woman apart with their words. As he walked out, the two men astonished and ashamed of themselves when they learned that he heard the entire conversation. By incorporating this short bathroom scene into the story, says a lot on Alexie’s part. What is meant by this conversation is very simple, and that is to treat others the way one would like to be treated. This is because it is hard to judge what a person has gone through, or what they could be going through at that
To conclude, I believe that this novel gives a warning to the reader. I believe that it is telling us not to push the boundaries of reality and not to tamper with things that would perhaps be better left alone, because the consequences are unknown, unpredictable and unnatural. It tells us that death and birth are things that in the modern world we just have to accept, and that we should not even attempt to exceed mortal limitations: Playing God should be left to God.
...the narrator and all people a way of finding meaning in their pains and joys. The two brothers again can live in brotherhood and harmony.
...its shows how for hundreds of years man has been faced with the same dilemma of dealing with the truth in reality. Man’s manufactured society has changed, but there have always been people craving the truth and wanting to show others the truth of reality. It is amazing to think that people ignore the truth because they don’t want to know how short life is, but it’s so cool to think that when a person steps back they can see that the same fear has spanned hundreds of years. People accept what they want and reject what they don’t like, and people’s ignorance has caused them to fail to realize that they are no different then people 1000 years ago. It is so amazing that one story can still be TRUE thousands of years later, but it makes sense because people will always find the truth to be the unsettling reality that forces people to be aware of their place in society.
...ld. On the surface of the movie, we see two young Indian men, traveling south together on a journey that will lead to the healing of their friendship, as well as one of them coming to terms with his past. But deeper in the movie, we are left to find our own story, if we so choose; one that will vary from person to person if you care to ask.
Spirituality can be defined as ‘‘ways of relating to the sacred’’ (Shults and Sandage 2006, p. 161) that involve the experience of significance (Zinnbauer and Pargament 2005)”. (Jankowski and Vaughn, 2009, p.82).
In The Sacred & The Profane: A Nature of Religion, Mircea Eliade attempts to define the sacred by stating it is “the opposite of the profane” (pg. 10). Through out the book he tries to explain this statement through the concept of hierophany (the idea that one can experience, sensorily, the manifestation of the holy/sacred), however his main explanation of the sacred being “the opposite of the profane” is the comparison of a modern religious man and a modern non-religious man (a profane man). Eliade compares the two by explaining how each would react to space, time, nature, and life. This essay will explain the idea of sacred space, how a religious and a profane man would experience it, and how the idea of sacred space might be applied to the study of medieval art and architecture.
Death is depicted as an individual’s affair, in which, neither one’s closest friends or closest blood relatives can give a hand in. Upon receiving the tragic news Everyman first approaches his friend Fellowship. At first he is hesitant to reveal his sorrow to Fellowship for he considers it too tragic a plight. After cajoling and assurances by Fellowship to stand by him in whatever situation, Everyman finally pours out his sorrow to Fellowship. Upon realizing that Everyman has been summoned by death, fellowship turns his back on Everyman ...