Discuss among yourselves:
Why 'Gilligan's Island' is a deeper bomb than you perhaps previously
suspected. Might it be possible that the enduring appeal of 'Gilligan's
Island' is that it tells in homerian allegory the story of the traumatized
soul separated from its source, its heart. Thus begins a journey of
abandonment, survival and hope. The soul is accompanied as always by
its seven centers, its seven dwarfs, its matrix. Portals through which
to communicate with time and matter. In order to survive the seven must
learn to accept the others and work together. The seven principle characters
in the show represent like the main chakra centers, a different aspect
of the survival mechanism that the ego adapts as a survival persona.
The seven are:
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1. root chakra SKIPPER
2. womb chakra GILLIGAN
3. solar plexus THURSTON HOWELL III
4. heart chakra LOVIE HOWELL
5. throat chakra MARY ANN
6. third eye GINGER
7. crown chakra SCIENTIST |
in order to survive the SKIPPER for example as the
root or the base center must maintain his belief
that he is in charge and that because he is, all will be well. He will
accept no challenges to his authority, as if he loses the plot the whole
thing will go to hell. He is susceptible only to the innocent charms
of his friend the womb or sacral chakra, represented by GILLIGAN. The
further fact that GILLIGAN sometimes carries a monkey expresses the
umbilical attachments the second center often works with. His survival
strategy is to maintain at all costs his faith in his creative ability
to survive all obstacles as well as the naïve belief that come
what may, he will always wind up on his feet. The third chakra as the
will, is represented by the irrepressible THURSTON HOWELL III. Though
admittedly he's a little scared out of his wits, he also refuses to
believe that he won't survive because as long as he remembers who he
is and keeps his love close to him, all will be well and send the bill
to his lawyer. LOVIE HOWELL is the 4th or heart chakra who survives
by maintaining a refined detachment from the uglier portions of her
experience and assumes it to be some kind of adventure from which she'll
awaken at some point. Her instincts are in any case to stick close to
the will or her husband. The practical survivor, hardy and steadfast
is the fifth chakra character MARY ANN. This chakra strategy for survival,
as the throat center, is to eliminate any obstacle to clarity of vision
and perception, effectively clearing its throat. It survives by keeping
it simple, direct and being the filter in keeping mental debris out
of the sixth center third eye, represented by the dreamy and glamorous
GINGER. Her survival strategy is to use all that she imagines herself
to be in order to rise above all barriers to accepting her charm her
grace and her right to exist as she is. She would naturally be the bridge
between the practical 5th and the scientific 7th whose survival technique
is to use all that he has absorbed from where he is now to move himself
forward in time. He maintains by reminding himself that the experience
is just a creative challenge. The scientist and the skipper would be
natural allies in survival endeavours.
Question: who among your MySpace crew would you cast as these 7 castaways?
Because of your top 8 maybe you could choose an 8th as discrete crew
personnel!
Blow it out!
Sananda
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