- I believe comics are a
last link to an ancient way
of passing on history.
The Egyptians drew on the wall,
countries all over the world,
still pass on knowledge
through pictorial forms.
I believe comics are a form of history.
- I think it's fascinating that
now the comic book industry
has really crossed over
into the mainstream,
the cinematic adaptions of comic books,
the explorations of science fiction
on the streaming services.
I love these platforms 'cause
they give the collective
and personal unconscious,
an opportunity to explore ideas,
an opportunity to ignite the imagination.
Look at the possibilities
and express aspects of our consciousness.
So let's talk about this week.
We're looking at the one behind the mask.
And when I say mask,
I'm not talking about the COVID-19 mask.
I'm talking about the false personas.
Persona essentially means mask.
The masks that we play are
apart of a bigger play,
a bigger self.
I also love the Trilogy
by M. Night Shyamalan,
his first movie, Unbreakable in 2000.
I love this Trilogy,
it explores the main
character, Bruce Willis
in total denial of the
conscious mind, in control.
Not allowing the subconscious
or the unconscious
to have its power, to
have the possibility,
to explore the shadow,
to explore that he might be Superhuman,
that he might have the superhuman ability.
- Okay, I gotta be down on
the sidelines during the game.
You can get to your seat right now.
- The characters in comics
are often attributed
special powers.
invisibility, X-Ray vision,
things of that sort.
- Okay.
I don't wanna play this game anymore.
- It's an exaggeration of the truth.
Maybe it's based on something
as simple as instinct.
- [Narrator] It's a great
persona that Bruce Willis plays
as a security guy.
You can see the breakdown of the character
throughout the movie in total denial,
the conscious mind, holding
on to the very last moment.
When we explore the unconscious,
this opens up the window
for the super-conscious.
- [Woman] Have these individuals
through their suffering,
unlocked the potential of the brain?
Is this the ultimate doorway,
to all things we call unknown?
Is this where our sense of
the supernatural comes from?
- [Narrator] And I believe that's
what we're all here to discover.
The one behind the persona,
behind the mask is you.
And I mean, you, the authentic you,
not the one pretending to be the lawyer,
pretending to be the doctor.
The one that is here to
do extraordinary things,
the one that he's here to look
in an expanded perspective,
the super-conscious you, the super-self,
the true self.
That's the one behind the mask.
