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Join us this week as we vivisect the cult cinema classic “Jacob’s Ladder,” the psychological-horror thriller which inspired the “Silent Hill” video game series and tastefully borrows from various esoteric traditions to give artistic vision to the nightmare realities one faces while attempting to wholify themselves during life’s catastrophes and even death. We focus on the biblical symbolism given in the film and relate it to the Tibetan Book of the Dead from which the thematic content of the script was derived. While we briefly reviewed other brilliantly made commentaries we accomplished our own research and came to some solidly argued conclusions that were quite different from anything else we had heard. This one pulls no punches and we had a lot of fun making it. Please check out “Jacob’s Ladder” and join us in the discussion!
On this week’s show we discuss:
-The Silent Hill Connections
-Creator Influences and LSD
-Deleted Scene
-Biblical Symbolism
-What is Jacob’s Ladder anyway?
-Luis, the Cherub
-The Pineal Gland
-Isis
-Angels versus Demons
-Connections to the Bardo Thodol
-Redeeming the Jezebel
-Vajrayogini
-Necromantic Bone Flute
-Chod
-Lots of Sex Stuff
During the extended episode available at www.Patreon.com/TheWholeRabbit we discuss:
-The Dog Chester
-Cynocephalic Saints
-Hermanubis
-Sad and Sadpu
-Orion, The Psychopomp
-Santa
-The Hospital Scene
-Dukkha
-The Final Wound of Christ
-Charon
Special thanks to research assistant Heka Astra for providing exquisite research and study toward this episode.
Sources:
Jacob’s Ladder:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob%27s_Ladder
https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/jacobs-ladder-screenwriter-bruce-joel-rubin/
Kangling:
https://www.damaruworks.com/kapala-mala/bone-kangling/
Vajrayogini:
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Vajrayogini
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vajrayogini
Tibetan Book of the Dead
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5A2erZXJx8&t=1259s
https://www.amazon.com/Tibetan-Book-Dead-Padmasambhava/dp/139881024X/ref=asc_df_139881024X/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=532779770075&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=12607244979974054893&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=1014157&hvtargid=pla-1376666127292&psc=1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2CogVMp5_E