Month: March 2023

Doors Of The Mind

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They say when one door closes, another one opens. And visa versa. And it seems to be used in relation to opportunity and describing being at a turning point, or crossroads in your life. Pick a road. Pick a door. But as a concept for a mental layout, I believe it also works well for some people.

Thinking of your thoughts as corridors and each decision you made or life event has a room added to the house of your life. Sometimes accessible as a memory, as if you can pop by and open the door. To glance in on what once was, for nostalgia. Or for purpose to learn from. But sometimes it is speculated, that we aren’t the only ones with access to those doors. And just sometimes, things can find their way through those doors from the other side. Either waiting for you to go back into that room, or may stray from the confines and be found wandering the hallways.

This is all talking of a waking conscious mind, there would be another layer of potential sinister when you factor in sleep and the subconscious. My article, A Quantum Leap, in Dreams may go into that more. But I am reminded of a couple of films around the above idea.

Monsters Inc – a film with very odd and creepy overtones, the doorways being a feature of how they travel to a child’s room. To scare them and steal their screams. Awake, and facing something terrifying appearing through a doorway.

Poltergeist – great films, and suitably terrifying. But appeared to have a problem with their walk-in closet I seem to remember, being the portal to another dimension.

Time bandits – it started in the wardrobe, they came out of it into Kevin’s room. Better than getting frightened for screams, he got to go on a super weird adventure.

Beetlejuice – the strange corridor they had to go down for their first meeting with Juno. Passing the caretaker, observing the room of ‘lost souls’. But this film also had the doorway to ‘Saturn’ where they were transported to when they tried to leave the house.

Coraline – a small doorway leads to an altered version of reality. Not dreaming, but while awake.

And then makes me wonder, if thoughts are perhaps portals to other places. They say you think things into existence, but maybe we just aren’t privy to all the different levels of where things exist or know where they are created. So what we believe might be random thoughts and ideas, really do create and destroy worlds, and all sorts in between. As well as there being a conscious realm, and a subconscious realm. Dreams are a strange subject too and it’s possible they could connect us to different thought dimensions, where we create worlds within them or can get sucked into them. Or all of the above, or none of them. We may never know for sure. But like I said, I do like to wonder…

(c) K Wicks

You Are What You Eat

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It’s one of those things you hear, and occasionally you might give it thought when it comes to trying to assess your diet or eat a bit healthier. Or it might be thought of when they maybe refer to overweight people eating fatty foods, or people who eat junk food. So they say, just think about what you eat.

But that’s not the saying is it. It’s ‘you are what you eat’. Funny if you imagine eating lots of doughnuts and turning into a doughnut, or like the character in Road Dahls Charlie and the chocolate factory, who ate the blueberry gum, and turned into a blueberry. But as with that last one, there was something so very sinister going on there. To show you how temptation can override even a warning, and it leads to being what you eat. Maybe that was the show and tell bit, by way of programming, but for something sweet and made into comedy or a fancy colourful musical. A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down for example.

But the obvious ease by which you can get someone to ingest something, especially if you sprinkle it with sugar and name anything dubious with a strange unidentifiable code, is quite scary. Lots of people suspected additives in food and drink decades ago was causing some issues for people. Makes me wonder if that was really the tip of the iceberg, as it has been with so much else recently. Food though, is a high priority and with good reason. My article If you control the food points out why if you hadn’t given it thought previously. But that is from an angle of keeping it back from you or rationing it by way of monopolising. This one is from a perspective of where it goes after, and would appear has been filtering through. A brief look at the ‘new meat’ we have coming our way was covered in Beyond meat, or beyond ridiculous? As usual though here, I will reference a couple of films, as they go down the road of it being people turned into food and unknowingly being fed to people.

Soylent Green (1978)

Cloud Atlas (2005)

Reality however, is starting to tread a very strange and dark path. A mainstream wave of gore, simulated human mutilation and cult type fetish has appeared. Is that just a mere coincidence? That a few decades on from a burst in the horror and gore genre in TV and film, we have an overtone of that same representation now being acceptable. Which starts to make other things acceptable in some minds too. Sexy up vampires, oh look, adrenochrome talk hits the streets. Familiar concepts are more likely to be scoffed at as ridiculous or embraced, rather than have to go through the phase of being accepted as a thought. Half the job is done.

You are what you eat. Back to that, and another thing I think of when I prepare food, about how food is supposed to taste better when made with love. Now, that may be all well and good, but I bet there are some people (myself included), who sometimes make something that tastes awful, or just goes wrong. But I did wonder, about cooking and the idea of spells, and how it ties together. How you could possibly transfer an energy as well as the ingredients. If possible, it would lend even more weight to the original saying but gives it more.

So, what do we eat? Processed food, pesticides, mechanically made items which must lack ‘heart’ to a point. So do we become soulless if we eat nothing but empty food, not just empty of calories, but empty of life and natural process? They say your body is your temple, treat it as such. It may stand to reason then that animals treated badly may pass on something, food cooked with hate too, tainted in some way by that process. Insects being on the menu next makes me think the same. Farmed insects with no natural environment at all, just another species to try and dominate and construct a ‘reality’ for. And today I see talk of it possibly being the case that aborted fetal tissue could have been put into food products. I’m not surprised, but people are not impressed, and rightly so. And maybe this will make more people start giving thought to the whole process of food production, ingredients and what happens to food along the way before it even gets to us. Because if what is being said is true, the title of this article suddenly becomes a lot more than just words.

(c) K Wicks