So Little Time, So Much Said
For me, it is rare to come away from a one hour TV program feeling energized even to the point of uplifted. This is particularly true subtracting ad time of approximately ten to fifteen minutes. And when the forty five minutes each week continually triggers gratifying feelings the source is notable. Once such source of unexpected but thoroughly appreciated gratification is Joan of Arcadia. I will cut to the chase.
So Little Time, So Much Said
For me, it is rare to come away from a one hour TV program feeling energized even to the point of uplifted. This is particularly true subtracting ad time of approximately ten to fifteen minutes. And when the forty five minutes each week continually triggers gratifying feelings the source is notable. Once such source of unexpected but thoroughly appreciated gratification is Joan of Arcadia. I will cut to the chase.
Joan, a truth seeking adolescent high school student, believes that God directly communicates with her. This communication takes the form of any one of a number of human appearing beings {God incarnate} presenting her with the challenge of the week. The challenge always tests her capacity to stretch herself in highly complex philosophical, spiritual, occult, scientific, and psychological ways. For example in one episode she has to take physics, a subject that is impossibly difficult for her to master. In fact she gets her first D on a test and is utterly devestated and confused. To make matters more complicated, her failure comes in the context of her best girlfriend having been knifed to death in a preceding program. Joan not only feels like a personal failure but she also feels that God is a failure as well. Disconsolate, she ambles along her downtown area apparently deeply depressed. Her attention is sparked by a sign advertising a fortune teller. As if pulled by an invisible force she enters what is made to look like every cliche in the book with respect to tarot readers, crystal balls, heavy set, gypsy like, kerchiefed women fortune tellers. The price of the reading is considerably more expensive than the five dollar bill that Joan is prepared to give the women for a tarot reading. She asks Joan what she wishes to know. Joan says she wants to understand the nature of physics. Bruskly the fortune teller says that she will make Joan an exeption and give her a compressed understanding of physics for only five dollars. The fortune teller then states that the nature of physics is as follows: the past, the present, and the future are all happening NOW. If you then add consciousness to this fact "this is where the action is." {Time = Libido} This is powerful writing and speaks to my direct experience. I wonder how many others feel the way I do about this carefully written and well acted thought provoking program. For me, this program week and week captures what I believe to be the the essence of "spirituality" a concept not easily defined nor generally portrayed with the respect it deserves.
December 25, 2004 in NOTABLE and/or QUOTABLE | Permalink | Comments (0)
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