The visual effects in this video are quite remarkable. It occurred to me that it could serve as the visual stimulus for a stunning LSD trip - just take 250 mcg of LSD, start this video, turn off the sound, and turn on a recording of Handel's Sonatas for Flute and Oboe with Frans Brüggen, and enjoy.
As to the message of the video, the director and narrator would be the first to agree that there is nothing new here - it is a restatement of the famous epiphany that has occurred to people of a spiritual temperament for thousands of years - that the ordinary perception of reality in terms of the duality of subject/object experience is an illusion; in fact, the entire cosmos is all One single living Being, in which all apparent dualities are resolved into a merger with the divine unity.
The problem with this message, however, is that it is easy to assume that this epiphany is True and Correct, while the ordinary perception of duality is all False and Wrong. But that is like a celebration of Yin (movement in toward the center) as the perfect answer to all problems, relegating Yang (the movement outward into novelty) as all Wrong, if not actually the Devil himself. On the contrary, any good Taoist would understand that both the Yin and Yang are complementary aspects of the divine experience, and enlightenment consists of an appropriate balance between them. In other words, yes, the consciousness of the Unity of all Being is true and correct, but the ordinary experience of the duality of subject and object is also true and correct. More precisely, both ideas are true; both ideas are not true; both ideas are both true and not true; both ideas are neither true nor not true. "Mystery upon mystery, the gateway of the manifold secrets." (- Tao Te Ching, by Lao Tzu)
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