Kundalini, Enlightenment and the uncivilized behaviour of the Engineers

Windood
MemberOvomorphMay 06, 20121131 Views13 RepliesHaving read a lot of comparitive religion, and wacky books, the uncivilized behaviour of the Engineers is something I have found intriguing about the film.
There are a number of different spiritual systems in the world, that have as a possible goal, enlightenment. Much more is known about this now than in the 50s/60s when the ideas started to disseminate into the West via alan watts and many others came back from the orient etc.
There seems to be two distinct schools, in each culture, or system. Typically they get called the Fire Method or the Water method.
the Fire method is quick, i think symbolically you are meant to see how quick fire burns a path through something, to the goal. Whereas with the water method, water is slower, gentler.
The speed of the method(s) is important. If someone is using the water methods they have time to meditate and work on other aspects of their psyche/mind, this is taught at an early stage as methods of meditating on loving kindness. There is less emphasis on this in the fire methods.
Kundalini is a process of working with the bodies energy and moving it in arcs and circles around the body to gain some control over it. The final stage is moving it into the brain. This rewires the bodys endochrine system and is alleged to produce a diferent person. A complete person. What we are all capable of
The water method produces the same results, but in a more benevolent person.
The jedi/sith in star wars seem to mimic this idea, and its in taoism/buddhism. If anyone wants to read up on it there are books by glenn j morriss, mantak chia, and buddhist systems like dzogchen, vajrayana.
Onto the film..... the enlightened person, based on whether he/she used a particular method, sees things in a very different way to that in which others do, and the fire people are generally considered to be capable of atrocities, as they are more prone to seeing others as things of no consequence, the water method people generally take an attitude more akin to that in which we think holy people will take, to a degree. yet both see reality and nature in a different way.
What i find intresting is that Ridley has taken some aspects of this evolved being idea, and i wouldnt mind knowing if all Engineers thought the same way regarding the species they've created, or if there were differeing attitudes towards their creations, possibly causing schisms.