 Ah, Interstellar. A simple, elegant movie about a farmer, his family, a bunch of dust, and a transdimensional Interstellar quantum gravitational space travel adventure. Seriously. So the basis of this movie is that in the future, the Earth has become a global dust bowl due to humanity being excessive. It's largely a commentary on monoculture farming, which we've explored in our food series. Essentially by farming the same thing on the same land over and over, you lose the majority of your nutrient base due to lack of plant diversity. You also lose a strong foundational root system, making it easy for winds to pick up and throw dirt for miles and miles. It's like Christmas in July with sand, dust, and sometimes chunks of cardboard. Interstellar begins with this warning. If we continue living the way that we are, this could be our world. So the film introduces us to our main characters, Cooper or Coop for short, and his daughter Murphy or Murph. Now there's an interesting thing in these opening scenes where we see Murph's teacher talking to Coop about his daughter's progress in school. She remarks about how the moon landings were fake, entirely propaganda from the US government in order to fool the Soviets into pouring their resources into a space program so that the Americans could gain an advantage in the war. It's so interesting seeing a Hollywood movie talk about this, because of course if you Google this there's massive conspiracies today that say the moon landing was fake. Then again, we also have ex-NASA officers and astronauts who publicly have said, basically, yeah, we went up there and met a bunch of aliens and it was so crazy that NASA hid it from the world and we never went back. Now you can learn more about that in our Sumerian Epic series. Ultimately, you have to decide for yourself on this one, but still interesting that we see it mentioned in Hollywood. Now in many storylines today we see this narrative of the hero's journey, which often begins with a call to adventure. Interstellar features this through strange gravitational anomalies vibrating Morse code patterns in Murph's bedroom, which Coop and Murph translate to be coordinates to a nearby location. They make their way there and find none other than NASA. In this movie, NASA is a driving force of the plot, providing the technology and the plans to execute a journey into a wormhole way out near Saturn. Now I'm not here to get into the drama and conspiracies against or for NASA, though certainly these exist out on the internet. Curiously, we even find a spiritual lesson about this in the film itself, and we'll come back to that soon. In these scenes, we see the opposing mentality of the many versus the few. Almost everyone in this future world are just concerned with farming. They're focused on survival and just getting enough to make it through to the next season, even though their crops are slowly growing smaller and smaller. The few, on the other hand, such as Coop, exclaim, we used to be pioneers, explorers, adventurers, not just trying to survive. And this becomes a question we can personally ask ourselves. Are we pushing the boundaries of what we know, or are we just trying to get by in life? So with the discovery of NASA, we learn about this wormhole, a link through the space time into another galaxy where there might just be a way to save their dying species. And so Coop, and Hathaway, and two other characters who don't make it to the end all get in the rocket ship and blast off into the universe with the intention of saving the human race, bringing with them some unique and friendly robots and a bunch of test tube humans that they plan on growing somewhere. And their intention is that if they can, maybe they can even transport some people to their new homeworld. Perhaps one of the most fundamental hidden spiritual truths of this movie is that the deeper you get into science, into the unknown, into the universe, the more mystical reality gets. We see this with the wormhole itself. What's amazing about this wormhole is that it was actually produced using the mathematics of an actual wormhole according to general relativity. The visual effects artists worked with renowned physicists, Kip Thorne, and used a mathematical representation of a massive black hole, and they plugged it into their VFX generator, and this is what it turned into. They even produced a scientific paper about it. So this is an actual wormhole simulation and not just a fancy visual effect. Now, maybe this is just me, but watching the sequence of going through the wormhole felt to me like my mind was expanding, like reality was actually being stretched, like more was possible than it was before. It feels to me like this was almost an encoded message for the audience watching the movie, implanting within us this idea of what it looks and feels like to actually perceive space time differently, getting us ready for our own transcendent evolution of consciousness, which is the underlying subplot of the movie. Now, on the other side of the wormhole, they have these three planets to visit in hopes of finding a new home for the human race. Their first guest takes them on a short trip to Waterworld, where they go surfing and chilling in shallow tide for the equivalent time of 23 Earth years. It doesn't go so well, and when they finally return to their ship, they're limited on fuel. So then there's this moment where they have to make a decision on which of the two planets to visit next, and they better pick well. It's at this point revealed that Dr. Hathaway is in love with one of the astronauts on one of the nearby worlds, Dr. Edmund. And there's this very rousing speech from her about following our hearts that love is powerful. It has to mean something. Love is the only thing we're capable of perceiving that can transcend the dimensions of time and space. Honestly, it's an overall very moving and emotional scene. It might even make you cry. And now, this is Hollywood. So of course, the man immediately takes control of the situation and steers directly towards the other guy, the legendary, the one, the only Dr. Man. Now, I give him a little hype just now, because this is how Dr. Man is portrayed in the film. He is a legend, the best of the best. He was the one who brought everyone together and made this mission possible. And then, well, this happened. Sorry, because I want to see you for you, Cooper. Dr. Man is a personification of the average human consciousness and our ego. I mean, his name is literally man. He is the one who could create miraculous things, but watch how quickly that personality can turn when it is filled with fear, dread and isolation. This is what happened with Dr. Man. He was isolated, stranded alone on a frozen planet with nobody else for the rest of his eternity. The last time he went into cryo sleep, he didn't even set a wake up time. This isolation and the fear of not surviving caused him to lie, caused him to send an alert to the other astronauts to come to his planet because it was the one. It caused him to betray his comrades and in arrogant defiance of the truth, even got himself killed. A valuable lesson for all of us. We must not arrogantly defy the truth, or we will suffer horrific karmic repercussions. With the power of persistence, determination and an undying faith in the universe and himself, Coop successfully reconnects his ship to the space dock, even with it exploded and spinning like mad. Herein lies yet another secret lesson. If we set our hearts upon doing something and we do it well, there's nothing we can't accomplish. Okay, let's take a pause for a moment and reflect briefly on the events back on earth. Over the course of the film, it's revealed that the head of NASA has actually been lying. Now an adult, Coop's daughter noticed that it looked like he was doing equations with two hands tied behind his back. And then it was revealed that he knew a long time ago that it would be impossible to save the human race by using science to negate gravity and lifting off into a super space station. He just couldn't reconcile quantum mechanics and general relativity. But he convinced everyone that it was possible and that he was working on it so that people would work on the technology and carry out the mission. This is actually the key to the whole NASA conspiracy thing that we mentioned earlier. Because look, there is some evidence and speculation that NASA is hiding something. But instead of throwing shade, the film reminds us this valuable lesson that even the people who are behind NASA and other giant organizations are just that people subject to human desires and emotions, the positive and the negative and are easily influenced to do things such as lie or create deceptions out of their own fears and insecurities. The NASA chief in the movie wasn't able to see beyond the solution to his own formula. He couldn't conceive of a quantum interdimensional answer, probably because there was nowhere for him to go and take ayahuasca. And so he fooled everyone in a way that he believed was safe. Jumping back to another galaxy and another timeline, Coop's new plan is to slingshot them around the wormhole and over to their last remaining planet where maybe they've got a shot at growing some new humans. In the process, Coop sacrifices their robot and then himself in order to make this happen. Truly, this was a scene of tremendous bravery and courage to let oneself die in order to save their species. And this is where Interstellar becomes a mystery school for us all. Cooper falls into a massive sphere inside the black hole and then it becomes these tunnels of lines revealed to be pockets of time. On the other side of the lines is his daughter's bookshelf where he connects to his radio with Tars, his robot buddy, also trapped inside the wormhole, who explains that he is inside a three dimensional manifestation of a fifth dimensional timeline. It's time represented as a physical dimension. And Cooper is able to manipulate gravity from inside this time matrix because gravity is the only thing besides love that can go forwards and backwards in time. Cooper realizes that the gravitational anomalies that he saw at the beginning of the movie were him all along, giving himself messages from the future. He realized that the whole time all of the astronauts have been thinking, wow, it was them who have been helping us all along, alluding to some higher dimensional alien species. But truly, that them was us. It was the evolved human consciousness who became fifth dimensional beings through conscious evolution and sent gravitational anomalies through time in order to help humanity evolve in the first place. What's especially amazing about this is that that's exactly what the channeler Bashar has been saying in his channelings for years, that who he is channeling is himself from the future, who along with the rest of humanity has evolved to a higher consciousness and he's sending back information from the future about human evolution and how to make it happen. Now, here's a fun question that the movie doesn't actually get into, or maybe it does secretly. Why did the wormhole bring him there? Why that moment in time? Why the other side of his daughter's bookshelf? Well, in the bigger picture of the story, it's obviously because his daughter was the genius who could actually finish the mission and get quantum gravity lift off to the Earth tech and save humanity. However, that's only half of the answer. The other half is because of something Dr. Man said. He said, when you're about to die, you push a little farther to connect with your family and live longer. The reason he went to the bookshelf was probably just as much because that's what his subconscious manifested for him, because his loved ones were what he wanted most in life. Almost all of his driving actions in the film were because of his love for his children, embodying the true spirit of the word husbandry, the original meaning of which speaks to the nurturing and supporting of everything around the masculine father energy. The film asks us, what is it we truly care most about in our heart of hearts? And to dig deeper into ourselves to find what lights us up on the inside. And so Cooper transmits the quantum data to his daughter through time using Morse code. And then he disappears into the void and wakes up in a hospital bed. A very long time has passed since he first left home and his daughter is now an old woman on her deathbed. But plan A is now fulfilled using the data Cooper was able to send through the wormhole. Young Murph was able to solve the gravitational propulsion problem to get plan A and the massive space station where Cooper awakens out into space. In an absolutely heart shattering scene, she tells him to leave her. She'll be with her new family now and that he should go and be with Anne Hathaway and start a new life on a new planet and raise a new generation of humans. And so that's what Cooper does, bringing this film to an end. But the hidden spiritual meaning here goes on. The foundational message of Interstellar is not what most people think. The greatest idea conveyed here is that of human evolution. That one day we will evolve into a higher dimensional species capable of perceiving time differently, fundamentally different than the way we do today. However, it will take us some time to get there and it's up to us to make it happen. Interstellar warns us we have to learn the lessons of caring and nurturing for each other and our world if we want to have a world to live on at all. We very well could destroy ourselves with our greed and excess. In other words, we've got to check ourselves before we wreck ourselves. One thing Interstellar does to make us feel this message is to take us through large jumps in time. After Coop's relatively short visit to the water planet where he's there for only a several hours, the audience and Coop both see their astronaut-comrade and young Murph age by 23 years. After he emerges from the black hole at the end of the film, his daughter is an elderly woman. These events show us viscerally that time is always passing and compels the audience to make the most of the time that we have and shows us the deep pain of missing out if we don't seize the day every day. But there is an even deeper message from this because even if humanity destroys itself, even if we're pushed to the brink of destruction, we can always find our way back. All that it takes is unshakable faith, love and determination to see it through and to do the things that are both scary and exciting. So get out there and evolve into a multi-dimensional being. If you like this episode and want to see more, make sure to like, comment and subscribe. And please let us know what else you'd like to see a hidden spirituality about and we'll make sure to cover it soon. Peace out and lots of love.