Another movie using techniques of manipulation is the recently released “Shrek: The Final Chapter”

From the beginning these sequels were filled with all kinds of strange messages,  putting a face to mediocrity. in the same way the gross character Shrek promotes the idea that being gross, primitive or ignorant is not such a bad thing, as if anyone was pretending that! Now the idea in this final chapter is even worse, in my opinion!

Some background information:  in the Tantric spiritual tradition the Supreme Consciousness has 10 fundamental manifestations or aspects, amongst them we find time, space, beauty, love… and one of them (named Chinnamasta in the Tantric tradition) is the Great Cosmic Power of Courage.

In human life this aspect of Superior Consciousness is manifested as the courage to confront yourself with your own limitations, the courage to stand up against your own mediocrity, the courage to say no to compromises. When this Divine energy manifests in the life of a person, that person has the courage to transform something and in the first moments of that transformation the person rebels against the old habits, the person suddenly has the revelation that his/her life is changing course.

This movie, shows the perspective of the main character ‘Shrek’ who faces a life of ‘eternal mediocrity’ and he stands up not wanting to accept it. Yet because he is tricked by some strange forces (the force here being represented by the character Rumpelstiltskin), he then realizes that his life could have been worse, and the life of all the people he knew would have changed for the worse without him.

Apparently this conclusion is right, we are here in this life for a reason and maybe without us things would have been worse. However using that as an argument for not doing anything in the spirit of evolution and transformation is strange to say the least.

The movie insinuates (in fact is almost “shouts”) that its better to blindly accept things as they are, otherwise things will end up being worse! Since the end of the movie is similar to the beginning, any intelligent person should ask themselves: “what will happen if the feelings of unhappiness return and there is no longer the alternative of Rumpelstiltskin, because that alternative was ruled out due to the previous terrible experience?”

Realizing what you have for the moment is not the reason for remaining as you are forever

Evolution will knock on door sooner or later and you cannot always hide under the idea that you have already everything you need because otherwise it may get worse!

The ideal world that is depicted at the end of the movie, with a false and exaggerated optimism that is actually based on ‘nothing’, reminds me of the ideal world that the freemasons want to create on this planet, their famous PAX MASONICA that is a remake of PAX ROMANA from ancient times. For the natural aspiration of people for transformation (transformation which will continuously transform the structure of power- dangerous idea for the establishment ) the freemasons come with the simplistic argument of  fear for the worst: “Take care, it could be worse”. This is the reason why sometimes they will allow a true independent democrat to lead a company, country or bank, because they then gather all the forces to make that person fail and to use the failure as an example to anyone who will try those revolutionary ideas again.

In the Shrek movie the real alternative which one will have when confronted with that moment of lucidity (depicted in the beginning of the movie when he realizes he is not happy with his life as it was), doesn’t appear at all.  The alternative of the spiritual of transformation is covered by the play of the characters even if normally, the one who is unhappy with his life as it is will not go back to what it was before, because “what it was” will lead (in absence of transformation) to “what it is now” closing the circle (as in fact the movie shows). The one confronted with such resonance with the Divine Courage and as a result dare to look into his own life and even to challenge its paradigms will be also given the alternative to evolve and to transform for good what it is instead of this black and white alternative: you like this or you loose it.
The dirty trick the producers of Shrek are playing with the minds of viewers is that normally one will not deny the present life unless able to transform it, and when transforming it then it will not be the same but it will become better. That is why the choice presented in the movie is not even the real choice life presents to us, its just the choice we are made to believe by most of the hollywood movies.

Of course some will argue that Shrek is not back to where he started because now he appreciates what he has. This is a superficial argument normally covering the refusal to see the problem. Even if you realize from another perspective what you have, still there is a lot to do in order to improve it. The subliminal message of Shrek is “go back to your life and be happy with what you have, even if that is being a looser otherwise it could be worse”. Is that a message that will uplift the soul or inspire a child to grow to his aspirations? Or it is the message to give to the sheep that you want no trouble from?

I am looking forward for the main stream Hollywood movies that give a positive and inspiring message without using it as a hook for some dirty subliminal messages.

See here Hollywood Manipulates through Movies – Part One