Uncover the Hidden Messages of Hollywood's Biggest Films Like no other title before it, Esoteric Hollywood delves into the deep, dark, and mysterious undertones hidden in Tinseltown’s biggest films. After years of scholarly research, Jay Dyer has compiled his most-read essays, combining philosophy, comparative religion, symbolism, and geopolitics and their connections to cinema. Readers will watch movies with new eyes, able to decipher on their own as the secret meanings of cinema are unveiled. Explore the occult influences in Kubrick, the transhumanist agendas in Spielberg, and the power structures revealed in Hitchcock. This is a game-changer for film analysis, inviting you to decode the hidden language of cinema. Jay Dyer is known for one of the premier film and philosophy sites on the net, Jaysanalysis.com. Jay’s graduate work focused on the interplay of film, geopolitics, espionage and psychological warfare. Jay is a public speaker, lecturer, comedian and author of the popular title Esoteric Hollywood: Sex, Cults and Symbols in Film , which made it to Amazon’s No. 1 spot in its first month of release in the Film and Hollywood Category. Known for his in-depth commentary and satire, he has appeared on numerous nationally syndicated radio and television shows. Jay is also the co-host and co-creator with Jay Weidner of the TV show Hollywood Decoded on Gaia TV. Esoteric Hollywood Sex, Cults and Symbols in Film By Jay Dyer Trine Day LLC Copyright © 2016 Jay Dyer All rights reserved. ISBN: 978-1-63424-077-2 Contents Cover, Title-page, Copyright page, Somatize a Great Nation, Glossary, Film as Ritual, Part One Hollywood Babylon and Kubrick, The Occult Empire, An Esoteric Analysis of Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut (1999), Kubrick Bears the Light: The Shining (1980), 2001: An Alchemical Spatial Odyssey, Part Two: Spielberg's Android Space Brothers, H.G. Wells, Science Fiction Propaganda and Spielberg's Mythos, E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial – An Esoteric Analysis (1982), Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) – Transhumanist Fairy Tale, Transition from Human to Post-Human Era, Oedipal Eden, Magical Mind Control Trigger Words, Flesh Fair Inferno to Robo-booty Rouge City, The City at the End of the World and the New Aeon, Minority Report (2002) – Esoteric Analysis, Part Three: 70s-80s Fantasy Dystopia, Logan's Run (1976) – Our Technocratic Dystopia Unveiled, Illuminist Symbolism in the 1974 Film Zardoz, Labyrinth (1986) – Journey Into Sarah's Subconscious, The NeverEnding Story (1984) – Esoteric Analysis, Alchemy and Eros in Ridley Scott's Legend (1985), Blade Runner (1982) – The Synthetic Future Revealed, Prometheus (2012) – Esoteric Analysis, Panspermiatic Cinematic, Part Four: 007 and Hitchcock, Deep-State Actors in Diamonds Are Forever (1971), Moonraker (1979) and the Breakaway Civilization, Bond Rebooted, Casino Royale Ca$h Options, Quantum of No Solace, The Sky Falls With Skyfall, Real-World Parallels, Secrets of SPECTRE, Occult MI6: Dennis Wheatley and The Devil Rides Out, On Her Majesty's Satanic Request, The Devil Rides Out Onto Film (1968), Hollywood Spies: North by Northwest, Vertigo (1958), Inside David Lynch: An Esoteric Guide to Twin Peaks (1990-92), Occult Brainwashing in Lynch's Mulholland Drive (2001), The CIA and Hollywood – A Dark Marriage, The Black Dahlia, Index, Contents, Landmarks, CHAPTER 1 The Occult Empire "The earliest gods were invoked by ritual act (dromenon = the thing done) such as a sacrificial dance, commemorating the fact that our life begins and ends when they call upon us. Subsequently the thing was said (legomenon) as well as done, and the dromenon was on its way to becoming the drama. Once speech within the temple precincts has been endowed with the power of word-magic, we have 'the invocation' properly so called." – Dudley Young, Origins of the Sacred: The Ecstasies of Love and War Hollywood might be understood in the sense of David Lynch's last surrealist nightmare production, Inland Empire – a kind of covenantal city-state of its own, with its own religion, including all the trappings of neophytes, acolytes, servants, agents, star saints, hierophants and hierarchs and holy sites. As Kenneth Anger noted: Professional do-gooders branded Hollywood The New Babylon, whose evil influence rivaled that of the ancient city: banner headlines and holier-than-thou editorials would equate sex, dope and movie stars. Yet for the vast public out there Hollywood was a magic three syllables invoking the wonder world of make believe. To the faithful it was more than a dream factory where one young hopeful out of a million got a break. It was Dreamland, Somewhere Else; it was the Home of the Heavenly Bodies, the Glamour Galaxy of Planet Hollywood. The religious verbiage of Anger is accurate: It is a veritable polis of initiatory esoterica where the holy sites