Occasionally there are movies that contain so much more than people realize. A few movies contain great spiritual lessons and people who see the movie do not even realize they are being taught a lesson. I recently saw a great spiritual movie masquerading as a Sci-Fi family movie, “The Last Mimzy”.
I would put “The Matrix”, “Dune” and both Star Wars trilogies in this category. There are spiritual themes in each of these movies that have reached hundreds of millions of people. People were learning about the matrix control system, bending reality, the Force, the dark side, etc. I saw “The Last Mimzy” on opening night in a mostly empty theater… and I was blown away. This movie caused my consciousness to shift and open doorways that don’t open that often. That has never happened to me in a movie before.
I almost didn’t go to this movie because I made the mistake of reading three or four reviews before the movie. But the baby sitter was already booked. Interestingly enough, the critics and everyone else called this film “sci-fi” and “eco-friendly” and compared it too “E.T.”, but not quite as good. I don’t think aliens that eating Reese’s Pieces are very interesting spiritually. Mimzy is. No one picked up on the fact that the much of the science in the movie is actually very advanced spiritual techniques.
The movie is based on the short story “Mimzy were the Borogoves” by Lewis Padget (a pen name for Henry Kuttner and his wife Catherine Moore). In the movie there are few opening scenes to layout the premise of the plot and introduce the characters. In one of the scenes, the young boy Noah (Chris O’Neil) and his friend are rinding a bus past the majestic Mt. Ranier. Interestingly everyone on the bus is taken up with their Gameboys, iPods, and Blackberries. The implication is that because of the pace of our society, no one is even aware of nature, or the negative effects man has had on nature.
The story really begins when a young boy Noah and his little sister Emma (Rhiannon Leigh Wryn) discover an enclosed case from the future at the beach at their Whidbey Island weekend home. The box contains several items including a rag doll rabbit named Mimzy, training toys from the future that will only work for young children.
Just like advanced spiritual knowledge, people who are fixed in their beliefs about what is possible, become crystallized; they can now longer accept that reality is a matrix that can be changed. In fact, people’s beliefs can be so strong that there brain will change what they see. If someone sees a modern spiritual master perform a miracle, and they were not capable of believing it was possible, they would not see the it. Their brains were see something different. Just like Noah’s mom in the movie thought the toy that opens wormholes was just a rock instead of a complex crystal with a game inside controlled by your thoughts.
Soon Emma is causing energy vortexes by spinning rocks and learning from her rabbit doll Mimzy and Noah is tuning into the vibrational state of reality. This state of mind Noah shifts into is a real state of mind sometimes called the In Between. Amazingly, sound is the best way of propelling yourself there, and in the movie, the sound from this futuristic sea shell propels Noah there. When In Between, everything looks very surreal and your awareness is very focused by sound. The movie did a fabulous job of portraying the sound.
I don’t want to include any plot spoilers, and there are more spiritual themes than the ones I listed here. But I recommend that any spiritual seeker see this movie and pay attention to the details. There are literally dozens of details that keep you contemplating spiritual knowledge for days.