 Cloud Atlas tells the story of the soul. It is a story rich in symbolism and wisdom teachings, which spans across lifetimes of human experience. It was originally written by David Mitchell and adapted for the screen by the Wachowskis and Tom Teichwer. While this video will be exploring the film, we extend gratitude to the author for the original and complete telling in its written form. Cloud Atlas is a narrative on how the actions of individual lives impact one another in the past, present, and future. We see souls shaped through time, in one lifetime a killer, and later a hero. And how both the virtues and ignorance within the collective consciousness can ripple across centuries to inspire social systems and collective transformation. The entire movie seems to bear a deep spiritual truth that we find in the Emerald Tablets of Thoth. He writes, We can see this clearly described by the various generations of humanity depicted throughout Cloud Atlas, from the racist barbaric nature of the slavers in our oldest story to the barbarians we find in the most farthest story in the future. Wisdom is wisdom, and it is accessible to any and all who seek it out, at least one or two in every generation. But if we choose to ignore the hidden truths of the world, we remain at the same level of consciousness, and nothing ever changes. While we do see the development of wisdom and truths along this journey, we also see the same recurring human traits of greed, selfishness, and a lack of empathy that permeates the human consciousness. In fact, we might see that the most futuristic society, neo-soul, is the most disconnected, the most rigid society with the least amount of empathy or compassion. We must see this as a great lesson that technological advancement isn't necessarily the thing we should be striving for. In fact, just as we see, the future could return to a point of a barbarian-like consciousness. The seeds that lay the foundation of society must be steeped in love and compassion, truth and wisdom, or else we lay the seeds of our own destruction. To that end, the story really becomes a narrative about all of the different ways that human culture and society can go. We often look at life from the limited perspective of our individual lives, focused on our own joys and suffering, our pain and our pleasure, and rarely do we take the time to connect with the bigger picture of life on earth, with the story of humanity. And so through Cloud Atlas, we gain this beautiful insight on all of the possibilities of the depth and range of human experience, bringing us to a place of connection with humanity, and perhaps in that, inviting us to become more conscious participants in our lives, with the lessons and awareness that our actions and deeds on a day-to-day basis have an effect on the greater human story so much more than we comprehend. Now, speaking to Truth Bombs, Cloud Atlas bears a number of them, and I'd love to explore them for a moment here. This world spins from the same unseen forces that twists our hearts, a line exploring the intimate connection between ourselves as the creators of our lives and the events and circumstances that seemingly befall us day by day. From the invisible internal forces that guide our actions, so too do we see the results of those actions coming into form through us and everyone on the planet. Another Truth Bomb is this recurring lesson that by not acting is still taking an action, a very important lesson for all of us today, one that we must learn if we are to overcome our collective challenges. We must recognize that if we sit by in life and do nothing and let others steer and direct the course of our lives, then we continue to get more of the same. The only thing required for evil to prevail is if good people do nothing. Another one that is especially moving, a top-tier Truth Bomb if there ever was one. I understand now the boundaries between noise and sounds are conventions. All boundaries are conventions, waiting to be transcended, and one may transcend any convention if one can first conceive of doing so. In moments like this, I can feel your heart beating as clearly as I can feel my own, and I know that separation is an illusion. My life extends far beyond the limitations of me. There's a lot we could go into from this one passage alone, but in this moment let us explore just one sentence. One may transcend any convention if only one can first conceive of doing so. So often today we live in a world filled with I can't and that's impossible, and so as we believe it, so shall it be. But in this flash of insight, there is a deep knowing that comes forth, that whatever you're trying to do in your life, even if others tell you it can't be done, remember, you can accomplish anything that you set your heart upon. Now, Cloud Atlas has also incorporated the divine feminine into the story in a brilliant way. For most of the timelines, women are treated much as they have been for countless generations in the world, as secondary to the stories and dramas of men. But in the story, there are a few subtle lines here and there reflecting upon this in momentary conversations, and then pushing that to an extreme as far as you can go, with the production of slave women in the technopolis, Mio Sol, who are used for slave labor, prostitution, and finally, with their bodies being repurposed for food. However, the film very quickly flips this on its head, with the story farthest in the future, where women are treated differently. It's only after the fall we see a rebalancing of the feminine. We see this with the women who are honored as healers, explorers, and given the natural freedom to choose their own path, just as we all intrinsically have. What's more beautiful is that it was the conscious spiritual awakening of one of the slave women, Son Mi 451, that led to the fall in the first place, and the end of that old paradigm of life, that old mindset. But just as there are brilliant lights shining throughout the aeons, so too is there an undercurrent of darkness, who in the movie is consistently played by none other than Agent Smith. In his lifetimes, he is notoriously the one who beats down others with arrogance, with rigid ways of thinking, and encourages fear, control, and keeps people little. In this, he reflects a couple of lessons for us, that there is an undercurrent of fear and ignorance that runs throughout the human consciousness just as much as there is light, and it's up to all of us to see the truth and courageously face our challenges when they arise. He also reflects that sometimes, a soul's nature is to be that darkness, so that the rest of life can learn the lessons of fear and ignorance and hate. This might be why he appears in the future reality as a ghost, a figment of Zachary's imagination. It is the nature of his soul to be evil and fear-based, and it matters not if he incarnates in a body or not. He is a metaphor for the voice in our heads that spreads fear all the same. Now, the pinnacle of the film comes from the revelation of Son Mi, where she explains to the whole world, to be is to be perceived, and so to know thyself is only possible through the eyes of the other. The nature of our immortal lives is in the consequences of our own words and deeds that go on and are pushing themselves throughout all time. Our lives are not our own. From womb to tomb, we are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future. And much like before, there's a great deal of wisdom in these words, and if we can take the time to connect with them, we can begin to sink into the awareness of the interconnection that permeates all of life, weaving and binding us together. Son Mi's revelation reaches the world, and leads to the collapse of civilization, showing us the power of truth. Son Mi 451 literally dropped a truth bomb so big that it changed society forever. But yet, only 200 years later, Son Mi 451 is worshipped as a deity who came to the world and saved everyone. The wisdom of her words survived, but the truth of her being did not. With the truth revealed, it changes Zachary's understanding. He shifts into a higher state of awareness, and learns to trust someone who he didn't believe that he could. Towards the end, we are graced with still more wisdom. I believe we do not stay dead for long, says Frogisher as he goes to kill himself, already preparing for his next life. And Son Mi reveals that death is only a door, and when one door closes, another opens. For the idea that our consciousness exists beyond the body, moving from life to life, path to path, brings peace of mind to the question of death, and can even motivate or inspire someone to do great things in this life. We see this illustrated beautifully at the end of the story, where Son Mi and Heju reconnect with each other in different lives and different times. This also connects with the writings of Thoth, who describes that time is a circle, different points on a great wheel, and that our incarnations are all taking place at the same time, all interconnected, and that death is the passage we take to experience a shift in awareness from one to the other. Now, with everything that we've looked at, you might be thinking, gee whiz, that's a lot! But there's one more subtle thing throughout this film, which is the most important and monumental spiritual lesson, more than anything else, the importance and recurrence of the number six, a number commonly associated in numerology with love, family, and interconnection, and is the most stable number in the tarot relating with Tifaret, the heart center on the tree of life. But wait, why is that important? Well, the film itself is named after the song, the Cloud Atlas Sex-Tet, the legendary orchestral piece by Robert Frobisher, and a sex-tet is essentially a composition for six people to play together, or specifically, six people playing a little orchestra together. The film Cloud Atlas features six different stories spread out over nearly 500 years, weaving together a story that interconnects and weaves these souls together in a comprehensible manner, bringing deeper meaning to the term universe, one verse, one song. And the idea that all of the universe itself is a symphony of a story with nearly infinite notes, but each playing their part in telling the story of the greater whole, balanced and harmonized in the center, the harmony between above and below, which is the sixth center on the tree of life. But wait, there's more. The etymology of the word dream actually relates with music, and so we find that music is one way that we are dreaming our reality into being. Through listening and tuning in to the depth of music, we find it touches our hearts and guides us to inspired places, shaping our thoughts and actions as we live our lives. Of course, the Cloud Atlas is a song. The story is a song that dreams its way into our imaginations and inspires a tremendous depth of possibility as we open ourselves to truly listening at greater and greater depths. And so how then, you might think, can you dream the dream of humanity at greater depths and listen to the song of mankind across generations? I might recommend giving this a read, the new Aquarian edition of the Emerald Tablets of Thoth the Atlantean. You can get a free download of it at spiritmysteries.com. Thank you to David Mitchell, the Wachowskis, and Tom Teichwer for dreaming this story into being. Namaste. You guys are amazing.