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Jeremy Narby Jeremy Narby is an anthropologist and writer. Narby grew up in Canada and Switzerland, studied history at the University of Canterbury, and received a doctorate in anthropology from Stanford University. Narby spent several years living with the Ashaninca in the Peruvian Amazon, which led him to the writing of "The Cosmic Serpent", the first of three books that try to make the Western world aware of shamanism. Duration: 47'00" Notes

	John Major Jenkins John Major Jenkins is an independent researcher who has devoted himself to reconstructing ancient Mayan cosmology and philosophy. Since 1986, he has travelled to Mexico and Central America and has lectured at The Institute of Maya Studies in Miami, The Maya Calendar Congress in Mexico, The Esalen Institute, etc. Duration: 49'05" Notes
	Ralph Ellis Ralph Ellis (born 1958) is a British writer and pilot. Ellis' prime areas of interest are ancient mysteries, megaliths, and 'revisionary' theological history. He is known for having a lateral, open-minded view on history and religion. One of the main themes running through his books is that the early Israelites were the Hyksos pharaohs of Egypt. Duration: 47'20" Notes

The Eager Dead

Deborah Blum’s Ghost Hunters and Archie E Roy’s The Eager Dead focus on the so-called Cross-correspondences, which in the eyes of some is definitive proof that we survive death.

Star Wars: Beyond the Force

Star Wars is considered to be one of the all-time favourite series of movies. But beyond this theatre success lies one of the most intriguing use of hero mythology and archetypical casting that Hollywood has ever seen...

The Wicker Man: the Return of the Pagan World (1973 edition)

The Wicker Man is a remarkable story of the duality between the Christian and pagan ways, set against a Scottish background. In recent years, the story of the movie itself has been used as the struggle between the old Christian establishment and the reintroduction into Western society of “pagan movies”, of which The Wicker Man was one of the most shining examples.

The Ninth Gate: The Ninth Gate Opens

The Ninth Gate is the movie version of The Dumas Club, a book in which the quest for raising the devil is interwoven in a rich decor of esotericism and ancient books - some of whom indeed set out to awaken the devil - or lead him back to Hell?

The Matrix trilogy: Matrix Constructs

The Matrix trilogy stands as one of the classic movies that redefined film-making, both technically and script-wise. It carefully played and transformed symbolism, hiding it behind a layer of “kung fu fighting”, which at the same time made it more accessible to an entire generation of filmgoers.

Dune: The Sands of Time

A desolate planet, Dune, holds the key to a spice, which is able to bend space and time. But this is merely one aspect of the vast Hermetic canvas that Herbert painted in his novels.

Stigmata

An atheist woman suddenly displays stigmata, setting an inquisitive priest on a quest to discover lost gospels. Hollywood brought together various trends into one novel mixture.

Meet Joe Black: Death visits Earth

Meet Joe Black uses the classical mythology of Death as an entity and an Otherworldly realm, but has turned the imagery upside down. Rather than a hero’s descent to the Underworld, Death ascends to Earth…

The Twelve Monkeys

Twelve Monkeys is a 1995 movie that deals with time travel. More than a decade on, trying to stop the Army of the Twelve Monkeys is considered to be one the best visual attempts to portray time travel.

Twin Peaks

In 1990-1, the question of who killed Laura Palmer caught the television audience by storm. The answer was to be found in a bizarre, other dimensional reality.