NORTH SPIRIT HALSALL

'AFTER THE DECEPTIONS ARE REALISED'

Sensitive, Powerful, Original
(Illustrated Screenplay)

CONTEXT

Technology is a double edge sword, and always has been ever since our distant ancestors first ceased being hunter-gatherers.   Every step forward has also provided opportunities for exploitation, misuse and subjugation of our fellow peoples.   Emphasising 'THE SPIRIT' in this context, to restore balance in humanity's evolution and technological advancement, has always been the special work of those who can see both sides... be they Priest or Shaman, Mystic or Philosopher, Engineer or Poet.

But if we focus on all the negative of deceptions, we ourselves will be sucked down. Rather we must deliberately keep positive and bring our diversity together. This is an inspirational story!

One insidious 'deception' is Post-modernism...   When orthodox religions and orthodox science could not get concepts to fit together, the so called 'intellectuals' invented post-modernism, stating there is no unifying grand narrative!   ...This is clearly wrong, as everything on this planet is connected.
(Post-modernism originally referred to a new style of artist's painting, then incoherent intellectuals took the phrase for their own use.)

Told as a 'Creative Narrative' based on true events, with separate characters representing internal conflicts within the self!

SYNOPSIS

The classic hero's journey; two threads, two protagonists both disaffected with their lives – A young science teacher woman, and an older religious man, both struggling with the hypocrisy. They each go into the 'special world' of wild Lancashire and Yorkshire moorland meeting with unusual characters of multiple persona, including a nature spirituality woman, a holistic science geek of ambiguous gender, and a Jötunn (metaphysical giant pronounced 'Yo-tun'). It all eventually comes together, but they are now profoundly changed by the interactions, and a proposed group action emerges.

After the Deceptions are Realised
A Spiritual Odyssey

Back Cover PDF

Screenplay Version also available, see page: CALL TO ACTION

Published by: 'North Spirit Halsall'
Publication Date: 16 September 2022
Language: English
A5 size book, 224 pages with 70 colour photographs
Book Weight: 470 grams
Written and printed in Great Britain
ISBN: 978-0-9566311-5-2

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Together We Stand, divided we fall
Diversity together, we can glimpse the whole!

Only by putting seeming opposites together,
can we reach to a higher Plane!

'TO THINK DIFFERENTLY'

The story of one engineer whose gender could not fit the orthodox binary, resulting in a journey of discovery to an unexpected ending.

Commentary on Making "To Think Differently"

The film has two intertwining stories; two 'Log Lines' (see top of page)
     1. A human struggle between Gender and Religion.
     2. Gender challenging the incongruence of orthodox Physics.
The dialectic between these two stories is the magic of the film - itself a metaphor for its message: between the opposites wisdom can be found that is not a compromise - it is another way of seeing both!

The theme music 'Distant Lands' by Louise Byrne was chosen while the film script was still being developed. The slow beat of 40 beats per minute is very slow, this coupled with the opening image of a slow-moving quirky caravan in a scenic setting holds the attention, yet fulfils the need to slow our thoughts and go deeper. This contrasts markedly with films that open with an action sequence!

There are four characters: Protagonist, Reflection, Silent-Companion and Antagonist.   The Antagonist; the one-eyed monster whom we never see apart from an avatar image with its distinctive ominous signature notes – represents the view of the world through only one gender, and which has been so insidiously powerful.   It has nothing to to with physical blindness or loss of an eye.

The film is a 4-Act structure: being the conventional 3 Acts plus a fourth Act in the meditation ending with its lead-in.   Act 1 is the background; the circumstances that existed from childhood with its three Inciting Incidents. But there is a fourth Inciting Incident in the middle of Act 2 (the journey of discovery itself) with the shock that followed after Tom's email from America.

For the human story of trapped in a corner between Gender and Religion, Act 2 gives more esoteric technical detail than seems necessary, but for the story to enter into Act 3 (what is brought back from the journey), these details are needed to give credibility to the 'Big Design', which itself gives another way of looking at human problems! The details presented just summarize the critical stages of the journey.

You will notice that in the third Act, a three-way connection is made between the intellectual insights into new physics based on gender, with two practical examples in the lives and worldview of two different spiritual peoples on different continents. Both practical examples are people deeply connected with Nature and both being "Harmonious with the Big Design".   Both groups of peoples had tremendous dignity, yet both have been made to suffer. — Maybe a large part of why both those people have been abused, is that they could not articulate their gender-balanced worldview in a way compatible with western orthodox science and religion, therefore it was dismissed!   ...The film seeks to help address this issue by outlining how the western orthodoxy got it so wrong about Gender.

The final scene of Act 3 ("Scene 55"), does not zoom in to a close-up for the ending, on the contrary it zooms out to a wide shot of the filmmaking, thus throwing the emphasis over to You!   ...The incitement to make your own independent video!

Through the story, Emotion has been alternated with deep Thinking, to the point where the conditions necessary to enter the sublime spiritual meditation of Act 4 : to comprehend what words cannot express. ...Like the Jester enabling others to see things differently!

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