In the first enlightenment issue by MagCloud there was a cool fictional story about a father driving a big rig whose daughter grew up enlightened, and there are one or two other stories similar to this--stories in which a child never accepts the usual dualistic indoctrination and only sees oneness.
My favorite enlightenment related movie is "The Razor's Edge" with Bill Murray. The movie was based upon a book by Somerset Maugham. It involves a guy who goes in search of the meaning of life, and it deals with all of the characters that are part of his life. The honors program at our local university used to show that movie to incoming freshmen as an introduction to mysticism and non-duality. "Groundhog Day" is another good movie because it shows the progression from unconsciousness to consciousness in a totally different way.
The TAT foundation publishes lots of enlightenment-related poetry, and you could read through some back issues to get a sense of how various people have artistically approached the issue.
Several artists have dealt with the reality/existential issue in uniquely different ways. Some of the surrealists, for example, created art that pointed to the truth. At the moment I can't think of the artist's name, but one of the surrealists painted a picture of a pipe and wrote on the canvas below the pipe "this is not a pipe." I liked that painting so much that I bought an identical-looking physical pipe and had it mounted under glass in a frame with the words "this, too, is not a pipe." LOL
There are various performance artists and artists who do "conceptual art" that approach the truth issue uniquely.
Carlos Castenada wrote fictional works that purported to be non-fictional, and his books dealt with all of the common themes that we discuss on the forum (breaking the habit of internal speech, the falseness of conventional identity, moral relativity, looking at the world non-conceptually, etc).
I'd recommend starting with "The Razor's Edge." In my opinion, the Bill Murray 1980 version is better than the original that came out in the 1940's.
My favorite enlightenment related movie is "The Razor's Edge" with Bill Murray. The movie was based upon a book by Somerset Maugham. It involves a guy who goes in search of the meaning of life, and it deals with all of the characters that are part of his life. The honors program at our local university used to show that movie to incoming freshmen as an introduction to mysticism and non-duality. "Groundhog Day" is another good movie because it shows the progression from unconsciousness to consciousness in a totally different way.
The TAT foundation publishes lots of enlightenment-related poetry, and you could read through some back issues to get a sense of how various people have artistically approached the issue.
Several artists have dealt with the reality/existential issue in uniquely different ways. Some of the surrealists, for example, created art that pointed to the truth. At the moment I can't think of the artist's name, but one of the surrealists painted a picture of a pipe and wrote on the canvas below the pipe "this is not a pipe." I liked that painting so much that I bought an identical-looking physical pipe and had it mounted under glass in a frame with the words "this, too, is not a pipe." LOL
There are various performance artists and artists who do "conceptual art" that approach the truth issue uniquely.
Carlos Castenada wrote fictional works that purported to be non-fictional, and his books dealt with all of the common themes that we discuss on the forum (breaking the habit of internal speech, the falseness of conventional identity, moral relativity, looking at the world non-conceptually, etc).
I'd recommend starting with "The Razor's Edge." In my opinion, the Bill Murray 1980 version is better than the original that came out in the 1940's.
