“Husker du den gangen da det å leie seg en videofilm var noe stort? Å få et avbrekk fra de ofte langtekkelige NRK programmene var en ny frihet vi aldri før hadde opplevd. Tenk og selv kunne velge hva vi ville se – når vi ville se det. Så kunne en ta opp favorittprogrammene sine og se dem igjen og igjen. Ja, videospilleren var fantastisk. Videosystemet ble populært av to grunner, fordi nå kunne vi se film akkurat når det passet oss selv, og følgelig velge hva vi ville se. Det andre var muligheten til å spille inn TV programmer man ikke rakk å se, eller gjerne ville se om igjen.”
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I begynnelsen av 80 tallet så poppet det opp videobutikker overalt. Man kunne leie filmer i malebutikker, på kolonialen (matbutikken), bensinstasjoner, i kiosker i fotobutikker, ja så og si overalt, da det på den tiden ikke var kommet noen lovreguleringer og avgifter på videoutleie. Det var flere som på den tiden reiste til England og kjøpte piratkopierte filmer som de leide ut i butikkene sine da det ga god profitt. Det var også flere forskjellige videosystemer, som konkurrerte om markedet, der VHS til slutt gikk av med seieren som det førende systemet.
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Jeg var ti år i 1981 da min far leide vår første videospiller hos Thorn På den tiden så hadde vi bare NRK og svensk TV1 og TV2, men fikk kun inn de svenske TV kanalene når det var dårlig vær (lavtrykk). Med andre ord så var vi sulteforet på film og underholdning, og kresne var vi ikke, B og C filmer var like sebare som store Hollywood produksjoner. I svært mange tilfeller så var det coveret (omslaget/bildet- se bildene i slutten av bloggen) på kassetten som gjorde at man leide en film, noe som medførte at man så en hel haug med filmer som ikke akkurat var av god kvalitet, men når man er ti år og har sett lite film, så har man ikke akkurat høye krav. Jeg har tatt noen gjensyn med disse filmene i godt voksen alder, og de fleste av dem har jeg slått av etter fem minutters titting.
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Den første videobutikken vi leide filmer hos her i Skien som jeg bor het Bentronic. Eieren var en danske ved navn Bent. Den følelsen man fikk når man gikk i en slik videobutikk var rett og slett magisk. Det var så mye spennende å velge mellom at man ble rent svimmel. Og det var i helgene man leide film, og hos de fleste videobutikker så kunne man ha filmene fra lørdag til mandag. Vi leide som regel to eller tre filmer i helgene, og det samme gjorde vår nærmeste nabo, så vi bytte lånte filmer med dem, og da ble det mellom fire til seks filmer man så i løpet av helga.
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Det var også veldig sosialt å se på film på den tiden. Som regel så var hele familien samlet rundt TV og så på de filmene man hadde leid, eller så var man i en kameratgjeng som så film sammen. I dag så er en film bare et tastetrykk unna, og det sosiale samværet som man hadde tidligere da man så på video er borte. Den magien og de forventningene man hadde til filmene man leide på den tiden er dessverre forsvunnet.
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“Videospilleren var en sensasjon, og betydde en frihet og kvalitetsfilmer vi slett ikke var vant med. Selv i dag kan jeg fremkalle følelsen en hadde i de tider med å ta med seg en spennende film som skulle sees i helgen til noe god mat. Vi verdsatte ting på en annen måte før alt ble en selvfølge, og det var gode tider der en kunne glede seg over de enkle ting.”
I can understand why people shy away from the prison planet theory, it’s not exactly a theory that puts you in a good mood. But if you don’t know what existence is about and that you are in a dysfunctional relationship with the creator of this world, then the abuse will only continue. And if you know how narcissists and psychopaths operate, the suffering doesn’t get better over time when you’re with them, it just gets worse and worse. And to end the suffering, you have to get away from them and have zero contact.
The simulation/prison planet theory is far from new. The Cathars, whom the Catholic Church tried to exterminate in collaboration with the Templars (the 2012 mini-series Labyrinth tells that story very well), also believed that we lived in a simulation and reincarnation trap created by an evil god, the god of the Old Testament, where we are repeatedly sent back to earth to live again. Not to learn and evolve from life to life, because that’s not possible as long as you don’t remember your previous lives, but to generate energy through emotions, called loosh, that the creator god and his cronies depend on to maintain the simulation. A modern retelling of the Cathar creation story can be found in the exciting films Tron 1982 and Tron Legacy 2010.
“Everything you think you know about this world is a carefully constructed illusion, designed to keep you obedient, blind, and trapped in an endless cycle of suffering. Since ancient times, powerful forces have ruled from the shadows, ensuring that humanity remains ignorant of the real nature of reality.
Who are these rulers? They are not gods, not angels, but Archons—interdimensional parasites that manipulate history, religion, and even your own perception. Their system of control is absolute, embedded in governments, financial institutions, and even the very fabric of time itself. The suffering you endure is not a flaw of existence—it is by design.
But there is a way out. Hidden in ancient Gnostic texts, long buried and erased from history, lies the forbidden knowledge that can break the cycle. The Demiurge, the false creator of this world, has kept humanity enslaved for millennia, feeding off fear and suffering. But once you see through the illusion, you can reclaim your true nature. The question is—will you wake up, or will you remain part of the system?”
From the book Base reality by Dr. Thomas Stark:
“The Archons seek to prevent souls from leaving the material realm. They are the agents of anti-gnosis. They want to keep you endarkened.
The Archons were often named as: 1) Yaldabaoth (also Saklas or Samael), associated with Saturn; 2) Iao (Jupiter); 3) Sabaoth (Mars); 4) Astaphanos (Venus); 5) Ailoaios (Mercury); 6) Adonaios (the Sun); and Horaios (the Moon).
The Archons do not want you to understand reality. They have invented everything under the sun to convince you that reality is anything other than it is. The less you know, the more they can control you. Your ignorance is their best ally.”
In this blog, I’ve picked out the videos I think give the best insight into the topic in an easy-to-understand way:
Introduction to The Prison Planet/Soul Trick theme:
“Dr. Melvin Vopson suggests a controversial theory that we may be living 52 million lives in a simulation, as one real-world lifetime could feel like 4.2 billion years in simulated time.
Dr. Vopson, an associate professor in physics at the University of Portsmouth, suggests that we might be living in a computer simulation, much like in The Matrix. He believes that certain signs in our daily lives hint that reality might not be what it seems. He explores the question: if we are in a simulated world, what is its purpose?
Dr Vopson makes scientific observations and measurements to support his theory. His theory is considered controversial which suggests that time can slow down in a simulation. Just like dreams feel long but last only a short time in real life, a whole lifetime in a simulated world could happen in just one real-world minute. This means a person could live many lifetimes by repeating these short simulations, potentially experiencing 52 million lifetimes in one human lifespan.”
“The human eye can perceive light within a specific range of frequencies, between 430 and 770 terahertz (THz), which is only a small part of the entire electromagnetic spectrum. Similarly, our ears can detect sound within the frequency range of 20 hertz (Hz) to 20 kilohertz (kHz), but this is only a fraction of the total sound spectrum. Both light and sound frequencies extend far beyond what we can sense.
For instance, there are ultraviolet and infrared light waves that are invisible to us, as well as sound waves below and above our hearing range, such as those produced by certain animals or machines. This means there are numerous signals and activities occurring around us, which we can’t detect with our senses. The world is filled with a variety of wavelengths and vibrations that are beyond human perception, yet they still affect the environment and life around us.”
The 1987 film The Hidden, starring Michael Nouri and Kyle MacLachlan, is a good analogy to Carlos Castaneda’s tale of the predator that came from the depths of the cosmos and took control of our lives, making us prisoners:
“We have a predator that came from the depths of the cosmos and took over the rule of our lives. Human beings are its prisoners. The Predator is our lord and master. It has rendered us docile, helpless. If we want to protest, it suppresses our protest. If we want to act independently, it demands that we don’t do so. They took us over because we are food for them, and they squeeze us mercilessly because we are their sustenance.
Just as we rear chickens in chicken coops, the predators rear us in human coops, humaneros. Therefore, their food is always available to them. They are the ones who set up our hopes and expectations and dreams of success or failure. They have given us covetousness, greed, and cowardice. It is the predators who make us complacent, routinary, and egomaniacal. The predators give us their mind, which becomes our mind.
The predators’ mind is baroque, contradictory, morose, filled with the fear of being discovered any minute now. I know that even though you have never suffered hunger… you have food anxiety, which is none other than the anxiety of the predator who fears that any moment now its manoeuvre is going to be uncovered and food is going to be denied.
Through the mind, which, after all, is their mind, the predators inject into the lives of human beings whatever is convenient for them. And they ensure, in this manner, a degree of security to act as a buffer against their fear. The sorcerers of ancient Mexico were quite ill at ease with the idea of when [the predator] made its appearance on Earth.
They reasoned that man must have been a complete being at one point, with stupendous insights, feats of awareness that are mythological legends nowadays. And then, everything seems to disappear, and we have now a sedated man.
What I’m saying is that what we have against us is not a simple predator. It is very smart, and organized. It follows a methodical system to render us useless. Man, the magical being that he is destined to be, is no longer magical. He’s an average piece of meat. There are no more dreams for man but the dreams of an animal who is being raised to become a piece of meat: trite, conventional, imbecilic.”
From the book Active side of infinity by Carlos Castaneda
“Everything you think you know about this world is a carefully constructed illusion, designed to keep you obedient, blind, and trapped in an endless cycle of suffering. Since ancient times, powerful forces have ruled from the shadows, ensuring that humanity remains ignorant of the real nature of reality.
Who are these rulers? They are not gods, not angels, but Archons—interdimensional parasites that manipulate history, religion, and even your own perception. Their system of control is absolute, embedded in governments, financial institutions, and even the very fabric of time itself. The suffering you endure is not a flaw of existence—it is by design.
But there is a way out. Hidden in ancient Gnostic texts, long buried and erased from history, lies the forbidden knowledge that can break the cycle. The Demiurge, the false creator of this world, has kept humanity enslaved for millennia, feeding off fear and suffering. But once you see through the illusion, you can reclaim your true nature. The question is—will you wake up, or will you remain part of the system?”
I don’t know if what is conveyed here is correct, but it is undoubtedly interesting and possibly pieces to the puzzle. Excerpt from the book The Forbidden Religion Professor Herrou Aragon:
“Who am I? I am an uncreated and eternal Spirit, chained up in the created and ephemeral body-soul, imprisoned in matter.
Why am I here? I am here to be used as a lab animal, in a crazy insane experiment conceived by an inferior god. This plan requires an Eternal Spirit to be imprisoned, in order to use Its antimatter power to impel the evolution of this impure and mortal monstrosity called body-soul. The power of a Spirit is essential so that man can at some point achieve the final objective for which he has been created: his transformation into the demiurge.
This antimatter energy, capable by itself of putting all creation in danger, is partly deactivated and diminished so as to be used safely. This is why the Spirit must be chained up and confused, so that It contributes only an extremely small part of Its potential to the sinister work of the demiurge.
What must I do in this life? I must wake up. I must become aware of my real situation and find a way out. Then I must liberate myself and escape from this prison.
Now that we have replied to the three questions we will take a look at what Gustav Meyrink, the great initiated Gnostic who successfully went through this experience, has to say on the matter.
Meyrink, in his most profound and extraordinary book “The Green Face”, gives us the key to the process of liberation of the Spirit: Let us review these issues here, because they are a perfect answer to the third question we asked regarding what we must do. Afterwards we will add various other points.
Meyrink says: “The second birth is spiritual”, “the second birth is when the spirit liberates itself”, “the second spiritual birth leads us to eternal life”. Meyrink gives us a technique and recommends a practice which we should adopt: “You must ask the spirit, because the only one who can hear you is the spirit”, “you must talk to it, ask only it”. Here, Meyrink is of course relating that the Unknowable God is very far from the common man, and the demiurge, who could maybe hear him, is a judge who would never change his karmic sentences to consent to an insignificant request by an insignificant man.
All that remains is to ask the Spirit. In the case of a man who has woken up and liberated himself, things are different; he indeed will be able to change wills, laws and destinies. But if a common man wants to be heard, he will have to talk to his Spirit. Meyrink says: “If you want to pray, pray to your invisible self, it is the only God who will listen to your prayers”.
He also adds: “If you want to speed things up, ask your spirit to lead you to the great goal via the shortest path, and it will do so”. So, to progress towards this “great goal”, you don’t have to look back, or around you or get distracted; the attention must not be swayed by the many temptations in the world. You must keep your eyes and will fixed on that great goal.
Meyrink has given us some good ideas which we can put into practice at night. Once in bed and ready to sleep we can mentally repeat sentences similar to the following: “I want to unite myself with you, Eternal Spirit”, “I want to wake up”, “lead me to the Great Goal”. Without fail, the following morning we will notice changes. But very few men speak to their Spirit! Yet most of them sleep like a log!
For Meyrink, “the liberation of the spirit is the only worthwhile thing a man can do in life, it is the only task that he should perform, there is no other single which justifies spending time on, all the rest are useless, this is the only task, indeed the most important one, to which a man can dedicate his life”
As the Spirit is liberated, the body and soul of man are Spiritualized by It. This is Meyrink’s “great goal”, that the Spirit transforms the body, that the body is Spiritualized and is transmuted by the Spirit.
How awful it would be for the demiurge if this happened! He created the body and soul of man for another purpose: for them to resemble him, to transform into him. And now man ends up transforming into Spirit! Not only has the prisoner freed himself but furthermore he is taking possession of a piece of the demiurge’s work! The demiurge created man so that he would evolve until he is transformed into a manifestation channel of himself, his creator!
And suddenly man is transforming into a manifestation instrument of the Spirit! The liberated Spirit is snatching away his most important work and spoiling his plans. The demiurge created man so that he would admire and adore him, and the opposite has happened: the body and soul of man have been transformed by the Spirit into terrible opponents of the creator and his work.
Meyrink says that as man is being transformed, he becomes aware of the absurdity of everything. He gradually notices that other men are nothing more than spectres and ghosts, and that he himself has always been one too. A man transformed in this way feels the most awful solitude imaginable. But slowly he will adapt himself to this new state, he will overcome all the inferior qualities and the solitude he felt at the start, and will arrive in a new kingdom: wakefulness. Meyrink says that “wakefulness is the awakening of the immortal and eternal self”.
Meyrink says the following: “if one man is profoundly transformed, his work will never die; he will have opened a hole which will never be closed again. Although the others do not realize it, he will have ripped apart the net which keeps mankind a prisoner.
According to Meyrink, when the Spirit takes control, the man thus transformed can live in various dimensions at the same time, since he has altered space and time. He is a king in these worlds, he has made himself a king of all this creation, he can transport himself from one place to another or he can be in various different places at the same time. Such is the power of the Spirit.
The Spirit in man represents the Unknowable God. The body and soul of man represent the creator god. This is what we must distinguish between: the good and the evil within man.
We have already said that man has two paths ahead of him and must choose one of them: the path of the Spirit or the path of the soul, enlarge the self or renounce it, be a reflection of the Unknowable God or of the demiurge. Whoever chooses the path of the soul will be dissolved in the demiurge. Whoever chooses the path of the Spirit will have to face the demiurge and fight him face to face, the only way to liberate the Spirit.
In this final battle, the demiurge will be the great solvent force, also called kundalini, the demiurge in man. If the warrior fails there will be no second chance in that manvantara. His self will probably be disintegrated into a thousand pieces. The warrior will die or go crazy. There are many such cases in mental hospitals: warriors beaten by the kundalini force of the demiurge. In the best cases, he will be converted into a permanent worshipper of the creator, or a “master” of the white lodge. On the other hand, if the self of the Spirit is strong enough, it will be able to defeat the demiurge-kundalini and liberate the Spirit forever.
The warrior will lose conscience for a short time and will resurrect later as Spirit. Furthermore, the warrior will be able to seize the kundalini force and use it against the demiurge himself. There have also been cases in which the warrior has been so imbued with Spiritual power that the demiurge-kundalini refuses to fight against him, and the warrior, by various means, makes him appear and fight. In this final battle, so essential and definitive, the warrior could lose everything during that manvantara or win everything for all eternity. Which warrior would not be anxious about getting involved in this battle?
If the warrior is successful, if he manages to build a bridge to the Spirit and liberate It from Its prison in matter, attaining True Salvation, two paths appear in front of him again. He has defeated the demiurge, he has caused an upheaval in the whole universe and he again finds himself in possession of the inherent powers of the Spirit, infinitely superior to those of the creator god. But he will once again have to choose between two possibilities.
One of these paths is to return to the kingdom of the Unknowable God from which he came and never return to the hell of the demiurge. In that case, he will go back to what he was before his imprisonment in matter.
The other path, which most of the liberated Spirits opt for, is to stay in this world to fight for the liberation of the other captive Spirits. Therefore, the successful warrior either abandons his body and soul forever and returns to the world from which he came, or decides to stay here and carry on the fight for the liberation of the prisoners of the demiurge. If he decides to stay he will have converted himself into a saviour of mankind and the world, an immortal and eternal divya, a new member of the Black Order of the Warriors of the Spirit.
When a liberated Spirit chooses to stay in the hell of the demiurge to continue the fight, until the last of the enchained Spirits have been liberated, he will have to use his body and soul as instruments. But his old body and soul, created by the demiurge, are not suitable to contain a Spirit which has broken out of the chains and regained Its powers. They would immediately be disintegrated. First, the Spirit will have to transform his body and soul. Originally impure, made from mortal demiurgic matter, the body and soul will be transmuted into divine and eternal matter by the Spirit: the indestructible vajra.
The mud and breath of the demiurge will thus become pure and glorious. They will form only one entity with the Spirit, inseparable and indissoluble for the whole of eternity . The Spirit will in this way be covered with vajra, the divine matter, which will allow It to act and to travel through space and time in the plane of the demiurge, and at the same time produce synchronistic phenomena almost constantly. Vajra, resulting from the transformation of impure matter by a liberated Spirit, is as red as blood and harder than a diamond. The vajra is indestructible and eternal; it cannot be destroyed by the demiurge when a manvatara ends.
The triumphant Spirit has seized from the demiurge part of his creation, a body and a soul, and has transformed them into divine matter over which the demiurge has no control. The created has been transmuted into the uncreated by the power of the Spirit! The demiurge created the body and soul of man to be used as a prison cell for the Spirit and the liberated Spirit now ends up using them as tools to oppose the demiurge’s work and plans! The time for the Spirit’s revenge has arrived.
We have said that the Spirit has become only one divine entity with his body and soul. Now it will always be a Spirit-Soul-Body, for all eternity. This entity will have the same physical features as did the warrior at the time of his transformation. Young, old, blonde, dark, the same physical features that he had at the time of his transmutation into divine matter of indestructible vajra.
In this process of liberation and triumph of the Spirit, it is said that the body and soul have died and been subsequently resurrected. The Spirit has saved them and has integrated them into Itself. The Spirit, now covered by the body-soul of vajra, has also become different to the other Spirits. It will never again be the same as It was before Its imprisonment by the demiurge: a free Spirit of the unknowable plane. It has decided to stay in the demiurgic hell and be invested with indestructible vajra for all eternity.
From now on, Vajra will always be the distinguishing mark and characteristic feature of the Spirit, the perfect proof of Its triumph over the satanic demiurge and the distinctive sign of Its transformation into Saviour of Mankind and the World. The body and soul, deified and incorporated by the Spirit, will be the trophy which the Spirit will flaunt eternally as a souvenir of Its triumphant passage through the perverse world of created matter.
In some of the Nag Hammadi texts we are told about the resurrection of the body after death. Only a liberated and victorious Spirit can provide true resurrection and salvation. In the Christian myth there are clear references to the work of the Spirit, proof of the Gnostic origin of this religion.
When we are told that they went to look for the body of Christ in the tomb and did not find it, they are clearly saying that his body was of vajra and that it had left with the Spirit. In other words, it was about a true Saviour of Man and of the World. This is the best proof. If we want to know if a guide for mankind is an authentic Messenger or Saviour, the best thing we can do is go and look for the body in the tomb. If we cannot find it, it is because the body was of vajra, and has left with the Spirit in perfect union.
Furthermore, it has never been stated in christianity that Christ was “merged with God” or “united with God”. On the contrary, it was always maintained that “Christ is with his body, seated at the right hand of God”. When they say “with his body”, we can add “of vajra”. These references are clear: Christ is a separate entity, and the God to which they are referring cannot be the creator god, the demiurge.
If the liberated and triumphant Spirit enters the unknowable plane, It will always do so with Its new body of red vajra, from which the Spirit will not be able to separate Itself for the whole of eternity. A man reborn in this way is “born twice”, “without death”, immortal and eternal. Such a man, who has liberated himself from the demiurge and his chain of reincarnations, who has definitively broken away from everything created and impure, will always cause an immense upheaval in the created universe.
When a Spirit liberates Itself, all creation is liberated a little. When a Spirit manages to liberate Itself and defeat the demiurge in a face to face confrontation, the latter loses power and the ties that imprison the other Spirits become weaker as well.
When a Spirit has decided to stay in the hell of the demiurge, It will fight tirelessly until all the Spirits have been liberated and will continue to fight until the demiurge, weakened, ends his perverse breaths of manvantaras and pralayas, until he can no longer create anything and ends up disappearing. In this way, all duality will have disappeared and the world will go back to being only one: the Eternal Kingdom of the True and Unknowable God.”
