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high state of consciousness


I wanted to let everyone know about a book that describes the movie from it's level of consciousness. The book is Power Versus Force, written by Dr David R Hawkins. He says "The movie itself has the capacity to put viewers into a high state of consciousness; the manager of one movie-house which showed it described audiences wandering out of the theater lost in silence or cryin with a joy which they could not describe.
The movie achieves an accurate depiction of the world's greatest deep-sea diver in elevated states of consciousness through the use of slow-motion photography. A subjective sensation of slow-motion, beauty and grace is frequently noted in higher states; time seems to stop and there is an inner silence despite the noise of the world.
We see throughout the film that Jacques Mayol maintains this state by the intensity of his concentration, which keeps him in an almost constant meditative condition. In this mode he transcends ordinary human limitations, enabled to achieve great feats through altered physiology; the deeper he dives, the slower is his heartbeat, and his blood distribution concentrates almost entirely in his brain (as does that of the porpoise). His best friend, himself a highly evolved athlete, dies in an attempt to match Mayol's feat because he has not reached the level of consciousness required to transcend the normal limits of the body."
The choice at the end of the movie to continue on in pure consciousness fits the story Jacques mentioned earlier about the mermaids. Of course this is a sad choice to those who think they only have one life, not eternal consciousness and awareness. Peace and Joy, David

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damn hippys

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^^ LOL you almost made me choke on my food from laughing

OP had interesting things to say though.

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LMAO!

My favourite movie if there had to be one left tho.

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