The title is from a remark by a German fighting the British during World War I.  From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lions_for_Lambs

One such composition included the observation, ‘Nowhere have I seen such Lions led by such Lambs.’ While the exact provenance of this quotation has been lost to history … it is generally accepted to be a derivation of Alexander the Great’s proclamation, ‘I am never afraid of an army of Lions led into battle by a Lamb. I fear more the army of Lambs who have a Lion to lead them.’

Here is my favorite line from the movie:

Should I be doing more with my gifts?  Am I making the most out of my time on this planet?

- Professor Stephen Nalley (Robert Redford)

Rome is burning:

YouTube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1hQuzJPRDA

Engagement:

YouTube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_V00FIePek

We are the lions that guard the gateway… we must never sleep…

You are here for a purpose, finish what been started, gather yourself for you have great work to do…

- E.P.  6 Apr 2010

The Decisions:

YouTube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1jUjvFP978

The saying reminded me of one of my other favorite words, Namaste.  According to Wikipedia, it is “one of the few Sanskrit words commonly recognized by Non-Hindi speakers.”  Wikipedia lists several attempts to translate the full meaning of Namaste.

• “I honor the Spirit in you which is also in me.” …
• “I salute the God within you.”
• “Your spirit and my spirit are ONE.” …
• “That which is of God in me greets that which is of God in you.”
• “The Divinity within me perceives and adores the Divinity within you.”
• “All that is best and highest in me greets/salutes all that is best and highest in you.”
• “I greet the God within.”

This meshes with my belief that we are energy beings living in physical bodies.  At the conclusion of our lives, we return to the energy form.

The extension is that this energy form, a higher consciousness exists during our lives, and we can possibly learn to connect to this other intelligence.  Using logic, the way to connect to a non-physical intelligence is probably different than using our five physical senses.  If one developed their sixth sense, and then turned this sense inward, what might happen?

Here is an excerpt from page 23 of “The Golden Compass”

As I understand it, the Holy Church teaches that are two worlds: the world of everything we can see and hear and touch, and another world, the spiritual world of heaven and hell. Barnard and Stokes were two—how shall I put it—renegade theologians who postulated the existence of numerous other worlds like this one, neither heaven nor hell, but material and sinful. There are there, close by, but invisible and unreachable. The Holy Church naturally disapproved of this abominable heresy, and Barnard and Stokes were silenced.

This view of the universe presented by Philip Pullman is much, much closer to the real truth that the view presented by Church scholars and theologians. I expect this film to reach a wide audience and have a roll in evolving the consciousness of the planet in a more positive direction—away from dogma and towards finding and understanding the truth.

I don’t think so, yet. But I have thought about parallels between the Harry Potter world and the world of spirituality. I will try to explain a few of the similarities I see. An interesting question to ponder is how the author and self proclaimed non-believer of magic J.K. Rowling included such information in her fictional stories.

Eleven years old is a little young to enroll, a real life Hogwarts would have students from 15 to 70. A real life spiritual school might not have the same concept of a school year. People would show up for a weekend class, or a week or a month. Some students may stay for a year or two and eventually work their way up to instructors. Viewed outwardly the real school might appear normal and plain, but from an energy standpoint, it would be every bit as much unusual and unique as the castle in the books.

The stories contains two worlds, that of muggles and that of wizards. The muggles are blissfully unaware of the wizarding world. Just as our world contains people that operate as red cells and white cells. The red cells are blissfully unaware of the white cell world. While white cells strive to understand how our world works on an energetic level and what is possible.

The real equivalent of fictional magic is the manipulation of energy. It doesn’t work the way the books or the Hollywood movies portray magic. A wand and spoken words aren’t required. And the results aren’t always so instant or so visual. The proper application of energy is what achieves results. And one has to raise their own energy to have energy to use. Proper and consistent meditation will raises one’s energy.

We have a battle going on between the forces of good and evil. I don’t know the name of Lord Voldemort, but the effects of his work are visible. Evil works in opposition to God, seeking to eliminate life. If evil cannot eliminate life, it will attempt to control life, to make life uniform, to prevent growth, to eliminate individuality, creativity, differences. But since evil failed its take-over attempt in World War II, it has been working more quietly, under the radar. A wizard does brief the Prime Minister in one Harry Potter book. That makes me wonder what our President is briefed about, psychically speaking.

Instead of enrolling in Defense Against the Dark Arts, I recommend “High Guard: The Art of Energy Defense“. Since spells don’t really work like the movies, defending yourself against negative energy requires a different way of thinking. You learn to program your energy field to defend itself. Becoming aware of the things that drain your energy, is half the battle in stopping the drain.

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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.