Seven Souls

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Closet Land. Perf. Alan Rickman, Madeleine Stowe. Imagine Entertainment, 1990.

Closet Land is a 1991 independent film directed by Radha Bharadwaj and stars Alan Rickman as a sadistic, ruthless interrogator and Madeleine Stowe as a young author of children's books accused of embedding anarchistic messages into her particular book entitled: Closet Land, a story about a child who, as a result of bad behaviour, has been locked in a closet as punishment. The film exhibits the use of brutal and inhumane torture to coerce confessions from innocent victims. The human rights organization Amnesty International served as consultants for the film.

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Seven Souls
by 'Material', Seven Souls, 1997, spoken by William S. Burroughs, an American novelist, essayist, social critic and spoken word performer.

The ancient Egyptians postulated seven souls.

Top soul, and the first to leave at the moment of death, is Ren the Secret name. This corresponds to my Director. He directs the film of your life from conception to death. The Secret Name is the title of your film. When you die, that's where Ren came in.

Second soul, and second one off the sinking ship, is Sekem: Energy, Power. Light. The Director gives the orders, Sekem presses the right buttons.

Number three is Khu, the Guardian Angel. He, she or it is third man out...depicted as flying away across a full moon, a bird with luminous wings and head of light. sort of thing you might see on a screen in an Indian restaurant in Panama. The Khu is responsible for the subject and can be injured in his defense - but not permanently, since the first three souls are eternal. They go back to Heaven for another vessel. The four remaining souls must take their chances with the subject in the land of the dead.

Number four is Ba, the Heart, often treacherous. This is a hawk's body with your face on it, shrunk down to the size of a fist. Many a hero has been brought down, like Samson, by a perfidious Ba.

Number five is Ka, the double, most closely associated with the subject. The Ka, which usually reaches adolescence at the time of bodily death, is the only reliable guide through the Land of the Dead to the Western Lands.

Number six is Khaibit, the Shadow, Memory, your whole past conditioning from this and other lives.

Number seven is Sekhu, the Remains.
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[babbittd]

William S. Burroughs

[catsplay]

Yes, I stated that in the description of the video.

[miles2057]

i heard this song on the sopranos, start of first ep , season 6. the song and the scenes r really intense and like a lot of u guys i had to look it up. william s burroughs is the the narrator in the song.

[hughkelly1993]

Like If The Sopranos brought you here.

[marlito166]

H e l l o, this is A l a n R i c k m a n

[TRANCHPUNT]

Everything about this is awful. 

[ganxsta24]

SOPRANO :))))))))))))))))))))

[nkta1]

S.O.P.R.A.N.O

[Davidest627]

@hughkelly1993 I was expecting to see Sil hitten Fat Dom with a dustbuster...

[TheMoneymaker662]

i had to use my  shazam app to find out who sang this song after watching sopranos loll love it

[THRILLHOUSE85]

@dinnerbucket9 I think Burroughs probably would have enjoyed having this applied to a sappy Euro-trash perfume commercial. The ridiculousness acts as nice ballast for what otherwise borders dangerously on pretentious. Otherwise, the song might just float right away...

[soonermagic24]

what is this about? im confused