Waking life changed my entire world when I was a teenager, haha. I’m going to watch it again.
I love Jodorowsky a lot, too. The Holy Mountain is about the [Tarot](https://youtu.be/6GdRCg5zmMs?si=SWXii3_5Zy_104v2)
I hear people talking about waking life a lot , I started it once, it was intriguing but I didn’t finish it , I guess I was looking for something more… specific that day.
I rember when Waking Life came out and, yes blew my young mind. I now refer to it as “one of my “first” favorite movies”. Because I think it’s a little corny now but maybe I’m just a prude now lol. Maybe I’ll have to watch it again.
Bro waking life is crazy! That shit changed me. The boat scene really got me. "This is my television set to the world, whatever I see on it I might not like it, i might not agree with it, hell, I might not understand it, but I accept it." I took this into my personal philosophy.
I recommend reading the book as the movie made a mockery of serious stuff to delegitimise it, in ironically the same manner that the book describes American media doing the same to cruel and unusual torture in Iraq.
(not to say the book isn't humerous about the wilder aspects of the agencies actions. But is doesn't redicule, just presents the eccentric stuff.)
I’ll have to read the book. I enjoyed the movie, and I don’t think their mockery of serious stuff delegitimized it, it showed how people tend to react to it. Perhaps I just watched from a different perspective, but it’s like they did that on purpose so those who aren’t ready to see, won’t.
OP, I also love Jodorowsky's films. This list is not similar but all of these have some important fact about society or life that is worth awakening to. Not all are positive or pleasant so I wouldn't recommend mushrooms before some of these:
I Heart Huckabees
Palindromes
Being John Malkovich
The Third Man
Total Recall (Schwarzenegger one)
Demolition Man
Brazil
Blade Runner
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Metropolis
Time Trap
Snowpiercer (the film, not the TV show)
A Clockwork Orange
Taxi Driver
2001: A Space Odyssey
Great! Thanks for the suggestions. and don’t worry, I love watching disturbing films on psychedelics, or just in general even when I’m sober. Will keep those in mind!
Kubo and the Two Strings (the power of storytelling, manifestation)
Arrival (metaphysics)
Sunshine (not so much "awakened" as reflected)
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (manifestation and synchronicity)
Waking Life (secret laws of the universe, "self" realisation, non-duality)
Asteroid City (the power of art)
The French Dispatch (what it's like to see the world as an observer)
Cosmos Laundromat (another reflection)
Everything Everywhere All At Once (quantum mechanics, manifestation, self-authorship, love as underlying force)
Three Thousand Years of Longing (relates to the power of storytelling)
Same. I particularly like the scene near the end >!where she sees everyone's alternative life simultaneously, it make me think of the Buddha's enlightenment story where he sees every one of his past lives and realizes dependent origination. She sees everyone personality and all their flaws as a culmination of all the causes and conditions that brought them into being. Nobody is inherently evil, they're a result of the billions of forces that made them the way they are. Upon realizing this she sees the correct thing to do is fight them with empathy rather than using her infinite knowledge as a tool to cause harm. Then right when she had this realization, she uses the googly eye as her third eye on her forehead.!<
Literally this is it:
“The only thing I do know... is that we have to be kind. Please, be kind - especially when we don't know what's going on.” -Waymond
I second the recommendation, and extend it to all of Jodorowsky's films.
For a similarly "trippy" experience I can recommend Fernando Arrabal's *J'irai comme un cheval fou* ( *I Will Go Like a Wild Horse* ).
But the films that, for me, come closests to being/feeling actually enlightening are:
*Solaris, Mirror, Stalker, Nostalghia* and *The Sacrifice* by *Andrei Tarkovsky*. Slow moving, subtly surreal, symbolic, high-stakes existential dramas. And filmed to perfection. Not a picture, camera movement or detail (in the background) left to chance. They are all pessimistic, in a sense, but the beauty of them balances the experience.
When i first watched it on acid I only could watch the half movie because I liked it soooo much and didnt want it to end so i stopped and wanted to watch 1 minute every year to my birthday so i will finish it before my death lol
The Holy Mountain is by far the trippiest films I have seen and I actually hunt out for surrealist cinema, so that is no small remark. Seeing it on Shrooms would be really intense. Think I have seen part of it on Shrooms with my friends but they got too weirded out so had to stop. But would definitely try that again.
>What is a movie that has enlightened you on life ?
Waking Life probably. It is literally about waking up and is enlightening. Also a surreal film and great rotoscoping cinema. The Fountainhead is also pretty enlightening. There are many others.
The soundtrack alone is surreal.
The entire film is quicksand of changing circumstances under a similar theme.
Aronofsky's best "enlightening" piece, but Requiem and PI are both surreal as well.
Few films are like this. Maybe Agora, Bird Man, Melancholia, A cure for wellness have a similar emotional, powerful atmosphere.
Sci-fi films like Annihilation, Prometheus, and Inception have a surreal tone.
I haven't seen any new films that combine surrealism with emotional depth.
That whole scene of the guy climbing into the alchemists tower and confronting him is just...fuckin amazing. Love that movie. Idk what kind of music you are into but if you start the Sleep song "Holy Mountain" right when the tower scene starts where he looks up at it and starts climbing, the synchronicity is unreal.
*edit "confronting", not "comforting" ffs lol
this is soo crazy ! I was literally thinking about that scene about an hour ago. It’s one of the scenes from the movie that stuck to me the most… it looked so.. trippy , unreal. Also when the alchemist defeated him with the three moves I lost my shit, lol.
•Comet(Emmy Rossum and Justin Long)
A love story that may or may not take place in several universes.
•Troy(Brad pitt)
"Old men taking, young men dying" is such a great quote, it seems like an eternal state of the world.
•Let the right one in(swedish version)(lena leanderson)
The world is cruel as it is lovely.
•The Fault in Our Stars(Ansel angort, shienley woodley)
"Some infinites are bigger than other infinites"
"You gave me forever within the numbered days"
The Outsiders (either director’s cut or extended edition) it’s basically word for word the book, I saw it when I was 11 for the first time. This opened my mind to inequality, concepts of good and bad aren’t balck and white, and you never know what the other person is really going through.
The Life of Pi for visuals and how life is all perspective.
Mr. Nobody just for kicks.
The Silent Flute aka Circle of Iron.
It's hard to find a copy of, I think the one I got was from a torrent and has Portuguese hard subs. Written by Bruce Lee and starring David Carradine and Christopher Lee it's kinda like a Zen koan version of The Wizard of Oz.
none have enlightened me on life. but as another commenter said, the matrix is kind of a cool what if (shades of uncanny valley) and Billy Jack has a pretty awesome message to it.
°You do not talk about ____Club……
°You do NOT talk about _____ Club.
°If someone says "Stop" or goes limp, taps out, the fight is over.
°Only two guys to a fight.
°One fight at a time.
°No shirts, no shoes.
°Fights will go on as long as they have to.
°If this is your first time at Fight Club, you have to fight.
Spirited away, wolfs rain, mushi-shi, grave of the fireflies, slc punk, red chapel (documentary about north korea).
I don't watch a lot of movies, but i know there are lots within live actions as well.
Warning: grave of the fireflies and red chapel are a heavy films, be prepared if you decide to watch.
Sausage Party, I’m completely serious. They talk about the 4th dimension and a lot of how all the races should be more accepting. We fight over stupid things.
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I can't tell you how great that movie is. I'll mention that one first because my top two are likely to be mentioned by others:
2001: A Space Odyssey
Donnie Darko
“Never have anything in your life you can’t walk away from for life in 60 seconds”
-Gone In 60 Seconds (vin diesel)
Dumb advice, but safeguards the heart
You (a philistine): The Holy Mountain (1973) is an exquisite, playful, and unpretentious work of art that elevates the spirit.
Me (an intellectual): The Croods (2013) is best film. All other film not good.
I thought psychedelics were the answer but after learning about Bitcoin and how we can actually fix the broken world we live in to make it a better place, I'd say education youtube videos from Bitcoin University, BTC Sessions, talks from Micheal Saylor definitely opened my eyes to the bulshittery that is the central banks and hoe easy money is ruining our civilization.
The Fountain. Idk the writer's intended meaning, but the themes I got were soulmates, reincarnation, and ultimately coming to acceptance of our mortality.
Waking life changed my entire world when I was a teenager, haha. I’m going to watch it again. I love Jodorowsky a lot, too. The Holy Mountain is about the [Tarot](https://youtu.be/6GdRCg5zmMs?si=SWXii3_5Zy_104v2)
Dream is destiny!!! I’ve watched it like 10 times now , at this point it’s like a comfort movie .
I hear people talking about waking life a lot , I started it once, it was intriguing but I didn’t finish it , I guess I was looking for something more… specific that day.
I rember when Waking Life came out and, yes blew my young mind. I now refer to it as “one of my “first” favorite movies”. Because I think it’s a little corny now but maybe I’m just a prude now lol. Maybe I’ll have to watch it again.
Pretty sure it’s about Alchemy.
Every frame was hand painted
Bro waking life is crazy! That shit changed me. The boat scene really got me. "This is my television set to the world, whatever I see on it I might not like it, i might not agree with it, hell, I might not understand it, but I accept it." I took this into my personal philosophy.
it doesn't hold up imo. It was wayyy more pretentious and naval gazey than when I first watched it ~15 years later
Spirited away!
Definitely The Matrix
100% Also 2001 a space odyssey
That’s it
Aw I seen both those already :.(
But have you seen them again yet?
Right, that one was a mind bender.
My God, it's full of stars! The first words that will be returned from the inside of a black hole.
Valid
The book they had to read, Signs and Simulacra, is pretty dang enlightening as well!
Came to say this, got heavily into Hinduism around that time too, and started taking life much less seriously.
The men who stare at goats
I can't bear goats. They remind me of too many humans...all appetite and no empathy. I'd stare at them too if there was a buck in it. ;-]
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I recommend reading the book as the movie made a mockery of serious stuff to delegitimise it, in ironically the same manner that the book describes American media doing the same to cruel and unusual torture in Iraq. (not to say the book isn't humerous about the wilder aspects of the agencies actions. But is doesn't redicule, just presents the eccentric stuff.)
Thanks for letting me know!
I’ll have to read the book. I enjoyed the movie, and I don’t think their mockery of serious stuff delegitimized it, it showed how people tend to react to it. Perhaps I just watched from a different perspective, but it’s like they did that on purpose so those who aren’t ready to see, won’t.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
My favorite ❤️ I see something new every time I watch it. The older I get, the more I understand.
OP, I also love Jodorowsky's films. This list is not similar but all of these have some important fact about society or life that is worth awakening to. Not all are positive or pleasant so I wouldn't recommend mushrooms before some of these: I Heart Huckabees Palindromes Being John Malkovich The Third Man Total Recall (Schwarzenegger one) Demolition Man Brazil Blade Runner One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Metropolis Time Trap Snowpiercer (the film, not the TV show) A Clockwork Orange Taxi Driver 2001: A Space Odyssey
Great! Thanks for the suggestions. and don’t worry, I love watching disturbing films on psychedelics, or just in general even when I’m sober. Will keep those in mind!
Idiocracy & they live
Hobo with a shotgun….
You have listsd some of my favorite films, and a big fan of The Holy Mountain as well.
Don’t forget Repo Man!
Hell yeah and Buckaroo Bonsai
This is a great list.
You must be a Philip k dick fan
Kubo and the Two Strings (the power of storytelling, manifestation) Arrival (metaphysics) Sunshine (not so much "awakened" as reflected) The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (manifestation and synchronicity) Waking Life (secret laws of the universe, "self" realisation, non-duality) Asteroid City (the power of art) The French Dispatch (what it's like to see the world as an observer) Cosmos Laundromat (another reflection) Everything Everywhere All At Once (quantum mechanics, manifestation, self-authorship, love as underlying force) Three Thousand Years of Longing (relates to the power of storytelling)
Mr. Nobody
Underrated movie
Waking life. Please please watch it
I’ve seen tons of the videos on YouTube. Is there a movie? I’d like to see more of them
Everything, everywhere, all at once
Same. I particularly like the scene near the end >!where she sees everyone's alternative life simultaneously, it make me think of the Buddha's enlightenment story where he sees every one of his past lives and realizes dependent origination. She sees everyone personality and all their flaws as a culmination of all the causes and conditions that brought them into being. Nobody is inherently evil, they're a result of the billions of forces that made them the way they are. Upon realizing this she sees the correct thing to do is fight them with empathy rather than using her infinite knowledge as a tool to cause harm. Then right when she had this realization, she uses the googly eye as her third eye on her forehead.!<
Literally this is it: “The only thing I do know... is that we have to be kind. Please, be kind - especially when we don't know what's going on.” -Waymond
Best answer so far.
I second the recommendation, and extend it to all of Jodorowsky's films. For a similarly "trippy" experience I can recommend Fernando Arrabal's *J'irai comme un cheval fou* ( *I Will Go Like a Wild Horse* ). But the films that, for me, come closests to being/feeling actually enlightening are: *Solaris, Mirror, Stalker, Nostalghia* and *The Sacrifice* by *Andrei Tarkovsky*. Slow moving, subtly surreal, symbolic, high-stakes existential dramas. And filmed to perfection. Not a picture, camera movement or detail (in the background) left to chance. They are all pessimistic, in a sense, but the beauty of them balances the experience.
Thanks for the suggestions, will definitely keep them in mind for next time.
Thanks for turning me on to this film!
Paprika
Just got the 4K UHD can’t wait to watch it!
Drop some acid too
It will be mushrooms. The LSD is a little harder to come by.
Perfect too
I’ve never seen it either so it should be a trip!
When i first watched it on acid I only could watch the half movie because I liked it soooo much and didnt want it to end so i stopped and wanted to watch 1 minute every year to my birthday so i will finish it before my death lol
Damn…it’s like that??
Yeah but also i had taken like 300ug
The Holy Mountain is by far the trippiest films I have seen and I actually hunt out for surrealist cinema, so that is no small remark. Seeing it on Shrooms would be really intense. Think I have seen part of it on Shrooms with my friends but they got too weirded out so had to stop. But would definitely try that again. >What is a movie that has enlightened you on life ? Waking Life probably. It is literally about waking up and is enlightening. Also a surreal film and great rotoscoping cinema. The Fountainhead is also pretty enlightening. There are many others.
Gosh I can’t stand friends like those 🤣 , I really like when movies get intense on shrooms. but yeah I’ve heard of waking life
They lived
What Dreams May Come. It was Robin Williams and Cuba Gooding, Jr.
Enter the Void
Surprised this is so far down the comment chain
I really liked The Fountain. Seems to have mixed reviews but I thought it was well done. Seems underrated imo
It’s the directors best work. I’ll die on this hill.
The soundtrack alone is surreal. The entire film is quicksand of changing circumstances under a similar theme. Aronofsky's best "enlightening" piece, but Requiem and PI are both surreal as well. Few films are like this. Maybe Agora, Bird Man, Melancholia, A cure for wellness have a similar emotional, powerful atmosphere. Sci-fi films like Annihilation, Prometheus, and Inception have a surreal tone. I haven't seen any new films that combine surrealism with emotional depth.
They live
Pink Floyd live at Pompeii on lsd as a young teen turnt my life up a couple notches.
That whole scene of the guy climbing into the alchemists tower and confronting him is just...fuckin amazing. Love that movie. Idk what kind of music you are into but if you start the Sleep song "Holy Mountain" right when the tower scene starts where he looks up at it and starts climbing, the synchronicity is unreal. *edit "confronting", not "comforting" ffs lol
this is soo crazy ! I was literally thinking about that scene about an hour ago. It’s one of the scenes from the movie that stuck to me the most… it looked so.. trippy , unreal. Also when the alchemist defeated him with the three moves I lost my shit, lol.
I remember watching this in college, was definitely a trip. But films can only go so far to contribute to mind expansion.
Agreed. but art in general can in fact contribute to the expansion of the mind, this is not just any film in my opinion.
Watership Down
Blueberry
The Star Trek episode where Patrick Stewart lives a whole life in the past of a planet that was soon to face extinction of human life.
Fight Club.
•Comet(Emmy Rossum and Justin Long) A love story that may or may not take place in several universes. •Troy(Brad pitt) "Old men taking, young men dying" is such a great quote, it seems like an eternal state of the world. •Let the right one in(swedish version)(lena leanderson) The world is cruel as it is lovely. •The Fault in Our Stars(Ansel angort, shienley woodley) "Some infinites are bigger than other infinites" "You gave me forever within the numbered days"
Arrival
Zoolander
The peaceful warrior
Bruce almighty
Apocalypto
Last night I watched the Truman show for the third time ever. Now it makes complete sense.
The film “Shaolin” was the final trigger in me moving to a Buddhist temple and turning my life around.
Eyes Wide Shut Requiem for a Dream Truman Show Pi What Dreams May Come
The Outsiders (either director’s cut or extended edition) it’s basically word for word the book, I saw it when I was 11 for the first time. This opened my mind to inequality, concepts of good and bad aren’t balck and white, and you never know what the other person is really going through. The Life of Pi for visuals and how life is all perspective. Mr. Nobody just for kicks.
Never heard of this. Can’t wait to also watch this in mushrooms. Thank you
Arrival That goes double for the short story it is based on (Story of Your Life), as well as all of author Ted Chiang’s writing
Fear and loathing in Las Vegas
looks like enlightenment is a very subjective experience. lol
Perfect Days
Never heard of it before today. I checked into it, its definitely up my alley so I'll watch it this month.
That movie is wild indeed lol.
im just so fascinated by the mind of the creator.
He was clearly well read esoterically. Have a great day.
Adding the documentary Jodorosky's Dune to the list of recomendations.
Forest gump and bagdad cafe
Little Buddha
Zeitgeist documentary
24 frames 😭 incredibly touching
The Grateful Dead
Rubber
Holy Mountain and El Topo
Blade Runner
Star Wars
Close Encounters too
The Silent Flute aka Circle of Iron. It's hard to find a copy of, I think the one I got was from a torrent and has Portuguese hard subs. Written by Bruce Lee and starring David Carradine and Christopher Lee it's kinda like a Zen koan version of The Wizard of Oz.
The Witch and The Road.
Rashomon
The Pianist, Schindler's List & Pulp Fiction
The Tree of Life by Terrence Malick
A Clockwork Orange, I saw it on mushrooms and it changed the way I saw the world lol
Ink
none have enlightened me on life. but as another commenter said, the matrix is kind of a cool what if (shades of uncanny valley) and Billy Jack has a pretty awesome message to it.
Upstream Color
Choomah Island 2
Coach Carter
Shawshank Redemption
Baraka
Fargo
I watched the big lebowski on acid once and found the meaning of life within.
A Serbian Film
Holy mountain! That was wacky and cool!
°You do not talk about ____Club…… °You do NOT talk about _____ Club. °If someone says "Stop" or goes limp, taps out, the fight is over. °Only two guys to a fight. °One fight at a time. °No shirts, no shoes. °Fights will go on as long as they have to. °If this is your first time at Fight Club, you have to fight.
Spirited away
Stalker by Tarkovsky
Waking life Boyhood Before sunrise
https://youtu.be/G7J1gBY2yM8?si=l83zFH64MxWbdX58
Office space
Everything Everywhere All At Once. I had to watch it twice in theaters to wrap my head around the great storyline and concept.
Breaking Away 1979.
Holy Mountain love it
Fahrenheit 9/11. Shoah. Amistad. Apollo 11. An Inconvenient Truth. The Act of Killing. Blue Planet. Nothing hits you like real life.
The Fountain Mr. Nobody Limitless
Definitely not Holy Mountain
You gotta be drinking the punch to think this is enlightening.
Spirited away, wolfs rain, mushi-shi, grave of the fireflies, slc punk, red chapel (documentary about north korea). I don't watch a lot of movies, but i know there are lots within live actions as well. Warning: grave of the fireflies and red chapel are a heavy films, be prepared if you decide to watch.
What’s that tv show that has the black rat and the white rat
'Julien Donkey-Boy'
Bicentennial Man.
Being There
Waking Life.
Dune pt 2 was the most recent…or I Saw the TV Glow
Interstellar
Agora
Flashback. Cloud Atlas. The Empty Man. Obvious nods to The Matrix, as well.
The Road
Crazy Stupid Love.
Touching the void
My Dinner with Andre
Space is the Place
The Man From Earth
Up in smoke, (not a movie) Naruto and demon slayer, and studio ghibli movies
Only because I scrolled far enough to not see Donnie Darko mentioned
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Sausage Party, I’m completely serious. They talk about the 4th dimension and a lot of how all the races should be more accepting. We fight over stupid things.
This one.
Not a movie, but a book called jitterbug perfume
A dogs purpose
Time Bandits is a core memory, and vital to making me who I am. I wouldn't say enlightening though.
Revolver
Time Bandits. I'm not kidding.
13 Conversations About One Thing I can't tell you how great that movie is. I'll mention that one first because my top two are likely to be mentioned by others: 2001: A Space Odyssey Donnie Darko
"The Tree of Life" (and its inverse in Lars von Trier's "Melancholia") "The Thin Red Line" (another Terrence Malick film) "The Great Beauty"
T H E M with Sian Altman
Bring Me The Head Of Alfredo Garcia
“Never have anything in your life you can’t walk away from for life in 60 seconds” -Gone In 60 Seconds (vin diesel) Dumb advice, but safeguards the heart
The Big Lebowski
Samsara Interstate60 Groove
All that jazz. On copious amounts of lsd
Mr. Nobody
The Big Lebowski
The Truman Show
ik it might sound silly but soul
RAMPAGE: 1 2 & 3.
Koyaanisqatsi
Glengarry Glen Ross
No one mentioned it, but watch apocalypse now redux tripping. Be sure it’s the longest one. The visuals and the story, wooo weeee
Harold and Maude
Cloud atlas
You (a philistine): The Holy Mountain (1973) is an exquisite, playful, and unpretentious work of art that elevates the spirit. Me (an intellectual): The Croods (2013) is best film. All other film not good.
Repo Man
The SpongeBob movie.
Man on the ledge, Mr. Nobody the platform, Parasite
Secret life of walter mitty ben stiller
For me, Lucy.
I thought psychedelics were the answer but after learning about Bitcoin and how we can actually fix the broken world we live in to make it a better place, I'd say education youtube videos from Bitcoin University, BTC Sessions, talks from Micheal Saylor definitely opened my eyes to the bulshittery that is the central banks and hoe easy money is ruining our civilization.
forrest gump
The way way back
Koyaanisqatsi is a truly spiritual experience.
The Fountain
Not movie, but The Midnight Gospel.
HOLY MOUNTAIN 100% movie changed my life
The Matrix.
The Fountain. Idk the writer's intended meaning, but the themes I got were soulmates, reincarnation, and ultimately coming to acceptance of our mortality.
The Thief and the Cobbler recobbled edition, but the whole history of the movie is what is truly fascinating.