Nouveau Shamanic Cinema

We watch I Saw the TV Glow, in which two characters experience a lot of imaginal resonance watching a TV program, and it starts to spill over into their lives, leaving questions about what is real. For the episode, we also watched two TV shows: Season 3, Episode 1, The White Lotus Euphoria Special Episode, 'Trouble Don't Last Always' We weave together themes and resonances from all these places into our own experiences and explorations around disconnection, connection, and what feels most real to us.

The 2024 version of Nosferatu had a transformative effect on Joost when he went to see it last year at the cinema. We watched it together and discuss how getting in touch with your darkest desires can be a transformative shadow work process.

For the second episode of Imaginal Gaming, we played some of the game Animal Well and talked about living in an alive Universe and Awakening as a giant interactive puzzle game. If you haven’t played the game you can watch this short review video [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfuAd0fjZvo] to get a flavour of it. If you want to learn more about Rosa’s approach to awakening (that resonates with Animal Well), you can find out more here [https://rosalewis.co.uk/awakening-course/].

In this double header we discuss the richness of connecting with sovereign energy and how this relates to time and non-self. We spend most of the time talking about the famous scenes from each of the movies. If you haven't seen the movies, or you haven't seen them for a while, it's worth watching these two scenes beforehand to get the context and the vibes. ⁠Avengers: Endgame Portal Scene⁠ [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pFUP0HZwWM] ⁠Interstellar Black Hole Scene [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMxJnoPOFkg]

We watched Rosa's favourite film – the ever-magical, soul explosion Moulin Rouge! We discuss the power of love and sincerity, romantic love as an opening force and falling in love with the whole of experience through the imaginal realm.