View The Fountain (a 2006 movie staring Hugh Jackman & Rachel Weiz) due Feb 4th. START Answer this: what are 4 “take-home” messages you learned from the movie relevant to our lives today? @@@Align you answers along these questions.@@@ What is the 16 Century Spanish conquistador, Tommas Verde trying to accomplish? What is current day neuroscientist Tom Creo trying to accomplish? What is the 25th century (500 years later) Tom Traveler trying to do? What is the function of the bubble? What is Xibalba (pronounced: Shee-bal-ba) ? How does the movie theme relate symbolically to neuroscience? Are you still feeling confused? What parts of the story are metaphor and which are more realistic? A map to the truth within: death as an act of creation: aging is a disease, “death is a road to awe.” The universal obsession of Tommy is: denial of ?????, and it is an end of Su………?? The film begins in darkness and progress to the light The filmed images start with triangle images and progresses into squares and then ends with circles. LAST QUESTION: The traveler bubble represents a ???? Consider…the Gita begins with the way of selfless action, passes into the way of self-knowledge, and ends with the way of love. P 49 The Bhagavad Gita 200 BCE https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhagavad_Gita
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