Jacob's Ladder: The Choices We're Given and the Choices We Make (Part 1 of 4) 

Jacobs ladder is one of the best films ever made

I have not discovered your name, but to the person or team that created this video series and this channel are phenomenal. I adore learning of the philosophy behind these movies, these ideas that plague the human experience are necessary to learn and you do an amazing job of introducing your audience and I to new philosophers and teachings with a medium that we consume on a daily basis. Thank you, and please please continue creating. I look forward to your every video!

Why am I so attracted to this movie? It’s scary - I wonder often if I have lived my whole life in depression and this movie just allows me a way to confront it through someone else’s story and see and hear it and not just feel it - it’s both horrifying and comforting - to think I’ve never known anything for this darkness and always living with my head just above the surface taking breaths. I want to look away and let it take me down but what’s below is just as frightening and what’s above

This series is wonderful! I have revisited the Jacob's Ladder film as an adult. Because I remember the unnervingly grotesque symbolism and insinuations. I ultimately fell down a rabbit hole of studying the parallels of horror movies and faith based religions. I went from being uneasy to finding beauty and understanding of my salvation and redemption in Jesus Christ. The depression and grief is subsiding as I grow increasingly thankful for my life, a sound mind, grace and the mercy God has placed over my life and soul. Thank you for this video. It aligns with my study of biblical scripture this week. I choose heaven through Jesus Christ, The Truth, The Life and The Way!

On the subway, he is reading The Stranger by Albert Camus- depicts the ironies of enforcing meaning in a void... absurdity and detachment.

This is my favorite horror movie, the closest anyone got to silent hill on cinema. Thank you for your wonderful analysis.

This human experience is the limbo itself. We are all souls trying to rise above it. This is the reason humans are obsessed with life after death

Jacobs Ladder 1990 was is a great movie great story. When practical effects were special. And films could resonate in one’s mind body and soul throughout time. Real Magic 👁

Hell yeah RDP covers my favorite movie of all time let me get the popcorn

Thank you for this explanation. My grandfather fought in vietnam, he said jacobs ladder was the most accurate depiction he had seen of his experience. Unfortunately i neglected to watch the film before he passed, one of my biggest regrets. I wonder how much of the film matched his experiences exactly. Extremely mysterious!

Way underrated chanel

Hell is not a singular place of suffering but a place of our own devising by the guilt we have not shed in our life or by the acts we are unrepentant about. Our own Hell is a place to make us repent and become worthy of our place in eternal peace. If we are at peace at the time our passing then we will enter into the next life and see the people we have loved and lost who will guide us into our eternal peace.

Glad to see you back to work. I need more.

The best Silent Hill movie ever made was created before Silent Hill even existed. Jacobs Ladder. And yes, I know this was one of the main inspirations for Silent Hill.

honestly, this video makes me think of the main dilemma in my life that is my current main source of anxiety and depression. I want to believe in religion, but find myself unable to. i personally believe anything could be possible, even the possibility of nothing after death. I want to believe there's something after death, for two main reasons, i want to be me forever, i don't care to live forever, but i want to keep my sense of self, i am me, i know what i like, and dislike, i know my moral code and thoughs on matters, i don't want to lose those. the second reason is because i don't ever want to be seperate from the woman i love, i never want to think that when one of us passes, that it will be the last time we ever are together. some sort of afterlife is my hope, but nothing after death is the most logical. I find it hard to believe in god or any religious belief because i have no personal reason to do so. god exists, but i have nothing in my own life to tell me he does. god is loving, then why have those i cared for, who strongly beleived in god, go through painful and sad deaths in their last moments where they aren't even conscious for the majority of it. i want to believe there is something, but i have nothing in my life to base that belief on. now the nothing of death is so ingrained into my mind that it haunts my every waking moment. i want tot exist after death but nothing tell me i will. now because of this i find myself in this inescapable mind set, i want to believe in god and an after life, but i can't believe in the best outcome, without coming to terms with the most likely out come: that there is nothing. for me, in order to believe in the best, i need to accept the worst possibility. and i find that impossible right now.

this film as the nearest definition of what we know as heaven & hell......and one of the most ignored and underrated films ever made.

when i broke my neck, drowned, and died it was just like passing out or falling asleep without a dream.

Thank you so much for making this series of videos, Jacobs Ladder is one of my favorite films. I truly appreciate this. Pls make more videos on Jacobs Ladder, if possible

Awesome ive been waiting for someone to do an indepth analysis of this amazing movie. Thank you for all the great work!

Proufoudly beautiful posting of 4...choices...great perrenial spiritual wisdom.In these times...a documentary such as this is surely needed for humanity.A tribute to a great movie..also.Safe Passage....”Cling with all your Heart to Him.” -Saint Clare -

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Plot twist: Jacob's Ladder and Home Alone existed in the same universe.

Fantastic video, thank you for your time

"If you're holding on, you can see those demons as angels." Paraphrase the line from the film. The opening part of this video is exactly what Ive been thinking of lately ..

GREAT VID! i might use this to teach my son about the Lord.

One of the best movies of it's time!

Oh yes.. Score. Finally, somebody took to task on this one. Thank you. We will make use of these.

Great series

Didn't you already do this entire analysis or am I experiencing some Mandela effect?

Our senses help us perceive and construct our reality in this realm. The Lord commanded no necromancy because we do not hold the knowledge or senses to navigate a spiritual realm. I believe something is added to our consciousness when we die as move forward into the next reality/realm/life/world to exist and navigate. Our earthly minds cannot phantom heavenly wonders. I enjoy how you cover a wide variety of scenarios and theories. Get the wheels turning.

Great work your channel is one my favorites. I was finally able to watch Jacobs Ladder and I was blown away.

Thank you for reuploading! Great film and great study.

Incredible movie , one of the best best depictions on what happens after you die, whether you realize it or not lol

havnt watched on of your videos in a while but had a strong urge to autopilot to my bed n watch these to hear u bring up the same dmt afterlife theory i just shared with my friend the other day. this game so surreal most the time n it makes me nihilistic as i watch my body do what its supposed to thinking i can somewhat alter that. i overdosed last year and had a crazy near death coma where i was ripped from my flesh to a realm i cant even put down into words. i was in this cage like thing with millions of other beings of awareness all begging for help and screaming in suffering. i felt nothing and was nothing. after what felt like eternity i came back to my body covered in bodily fluids barely breathing. took me a while to come back to reality and mabye a couple days to kinda unpack what happened. still feel to this day im not really here anymore and still a little traumatized by the whole thing. i have a feeling that my soul was corrupted by my drug use and apathetic behavior and sins towards others and led my soul to be darkened leading me to a dark place once i left my body. ive been clean since and been rebuilding relationships hoping i can brighten it a little before i leave again.

Man, your channel so much underrated!

Have you considered covering 2009's 'Triangle'? That would be right up your street

"To those who have actually gone through a near death experience, they are absolutely convinced they've been to a different reality." No surprises there, everyone is. Some see the tunnel, others the pit, others see flashbacks of their lives, others see heaven, or whatever their preferred afterlife is... The brain is very versatile.

You need more videos. Love your analysis.

Underrated video and channel. You earned a subscriber. Thanks for your work on this.

I am loving this channel

Fantastic essay. Although the framework for the film is obviously Biblical, I think concepts in Buddhist philosophy do a slightly better job of explaining the metaphysical journey of Jacob - i.e. the story is not about Jacob accepting or rejecting God, or the temptations of devils and angels. Jacob is already in paradise, and the devils and angels are the same. His battle is against himself - Jacob's moment of transcendence is when he is able to realise the illusory nature of his own perception of the world and transcend his suffering. This is a pretty good approximation of the core Buddhist journey to enlightenment.

I've only had one experience that I would declare other worldly. We played the hyperventilating game. While past out I vividly remember climbing a net to a battle ship. This was before color moves but more importantly I'd never tasted the salt of the ocean. How could an Indiana youth of 9 years old imagine such a thing? I have no answers.

Amazing video, man

Great videos mate

I love the way you break down movies brother, KEEP IT UP ! 🙌

Considering that dreams and psychedelic experiences can subjectively take you to another reality, not objectively but subjectively, it's completely in the realm of science that you can visit such places but they are only in your mind. Hell and Heaven can exist only in one's own mind.

As a kid, this movie terrified me. As an adult, it just made me sad.

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Profound stuff!

Love this movie! It is at the top of favorite movie list!

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jacob also wrestled an angel over a prayer of luck for the ladder ahead. mortal being physically beat a heavenly body.

I'm a Christian but, I absolutely do not believe people's stories of visiting heaven or hell. Nobody dies and comes back, that's a misconception. True death does not occur until both the heart and brain cease to function.

Me: looks for long analysis of jacobs ledder RDP: made a video Me: ah shit it's just 27minutes RDP: Part 1 of 4

I came up with a theory the other night, I will try and explain it as it occured, apologies if it sounds odd: What if the universe formed not to produce "life"; physical entities that interact, eat, procreate and pass on our genetics, but formed to design something to contain consciousness? I know I'm not making sense, it's hard to put into words.

I was born into a christian household and I and my family lived in the most insane and hellish cycle of willful ignorance and pointless suffering. I wish it was as simple as "choosing" the right beliefs.

Amazing!!

Limbo exists. It’s mentioned in the Bible. Limbo is this existence we experience right now. Where we can choose between eternal destinies. Purgatory is now! Choose wisely!

This is about everything EXCEPT Jacob's Ladder.

Interesting video. One of my favorite movies. One point to make, at 13:41, by "dreams" if you mean flashes-back to the only "real" scene of his past (apart from the flashing moments with the fading heart beat with his son towards the end.) That moment is not so much a real-time choice of "Heaven" to pursue. In that scene he had a memory of a moment with his wife and later with his kids, before the war, where he tells his wife of having a dream, a prophesy of the hell he is currently experiencing during the course of the movie. His nightmare then was actually what would be the process of his dying later in his life.

7:07 ...we're given the choices we make.

We think we're alive, but what if, this thing we call life and this activity we call living is punishment? Maybe for you life is good, life is easy, but for people who are forced to live miserably, living in continuous pain, mental and emotional torture, to those people, life is equivalent to hell. We like to think that we have control over our lives, but when you ride the bus, the train, when you ride your car and travel on the road, do you still think you have full control over your life? Can you control that car fast approaching your car about to put you in a car accident? When you ride a boat or a plane, do you think you have control? We blame others for the miserable life they are in, thinking that they have full control over their life and that their choices are what led to their misery, but how sure are you that they were just not as lucky as you were. You have a loving parent and siblings that support you, some of you were even luckier to have uncles and aunties, grandmothers and grandfathers that help you and protect you, but not everyone is as lucky everyone else. What if being alive, is just another way to die?

Why did you change your name. Took me forever to find you. These were beautiful videos. You totally sold out.

10:56 the inevitable problem with presuming causation in this case, is that while those drugs or substances may very well be causing those types of hallucinations, experiencing an authentic afterlife event (if there be such a thing), may also trigger the same things in the brain. There is not really a way to test that.

Perfect to post on 4/20/20

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Great series! what is that adam and eve movie you keep using clips of?

All things are as they are fated to be; choice is sort of an illusion, like how people playing monopoly, or more fittingly, The Game of Life, can choose what to do in the game from a specific set of rules, and nothing else. In the end, somebody wins and somebody loses. These are just truths of life.

I've died.. intentionally.. It was just a warm infinite blackness, but I was conscious of it

The extreme rush triggers a dream-like state based on the mood left in during the initiation?

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Please do The Witch next ^^

Bro how do u do your research???

As someone whose taken DMT, I can say, unfortunately it doesn't exactly manifest as advertised in this video.. At least not in my experience. When I experimented with it, I barely even knew what it was supposed to be, besides a psychedelic.. having smoked salvia and K2 before, I figured I would temper my expectations as someone whose had a fair amount of experience with all forms of combustibles. In spite of my cousins warnings, I went in with the intention of pushing myself to the limit with the experience, so I told her to turn on the most demonic looking music video I could think of at the time: a lil peep video. Bunch of fire and obnoxious music I didn't really care for, should make for a fun trip! I remember feeling like throwing up, having a hard time saying anything, forcing my cousin to turn the video off and grab me a waste basket.. But I will admit, I definitely felt a "comforting presence" and despite the desire to run to the toilet (which I was completely incapable of doing, all movement and speech was, again, difficult) I felt really comfortable and even happy... Lights were a pleasing variegate in constant motion. Overall I would say pretty good, nothing I would try more than a few times ever if the opportunity presented itself, but having come after the lose of my brother, it may have really been the perfect the for such an experience.

This "reality" is terrible--and it's NOT because of responsibility and making choices either; but we are in trouble.

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“When they come forth from the body, such a soul is given over to the powers created by the rulers, bound in chains, and cast into prison again. Around and around it goes until it manages to become free from forgetfulness through knowledge. And so, eventually, it becomes perfect and is saved.” --Secret Book of John "But there is evil after this world which is truly evil - what is called "the middle". It is death. While we are in this world, it is fitting for us to acquire the resurrection, so that when we strip off the flesh, we may be found in rest and not walk in the middle. For many go astray on the way." --Gospel of Philip

This movie is based on Buddhas religion not christianity. Im neither but its kinda annoying that you are pushing christianity down our throats It is based on the Bardo Thodol if you are interesed to research

you have to do Shutter Island I think it will bring you lots of subs and because that movie is one of my favorites.

An endorphin rush can go from the heart to the head, just pray to the Holy Spirt.

I once preyed to sell hell and matches that guys experience of falling in a n endless black abyss

Longtime fan here, but I'm not really enjoying this video as much as the others sad to say. I just watched the film and I found it powerful and distressing, but like Soul Survivors (2001) it's view of the decadence of pleasure becomes less convincing when you look at it in merely binary terms that reduces our experience of the material world. While I appreciate this classical view of human nature and the biblical subject of choice, there has always been a gaping hole concerning the conditions that enable that choice that religious and Jungian views seem to dismiss that are essential in our postmodern world. I'm particularly galled by the fact that Jacob never seems to reflect on the ideological position he took up when in Vietnam, and how the use of the drug that led to his death is a consequence of a government's evil intentions and not a western form of imperialism. Given how the video on The Shining (1980) made this point I'm disappointed in how it disappears here... As for freedom as a binary, I'm more intrigued by ethics involving how to be human. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-AILpwUTPRGQ.html

4:00 yes, I took shrooms this is the truth, I saw them

RDP: Raises profile of obscure movie Viewer: Purchases the DVD/Blueray *copyright strike* RDP: Fair use *copyright strike* Viewer: Fuck it. Send it back; let's find a used copy later.

I couldn't help but laugh at the edge lord's biography at the start

One correction Dimethyltryptamine is produced within the lungs not the pineal gland.

Whoa

The trip to thae go through on DMT R hallucinations nothing more it triggers a part of your brain that recognises a phone ringing in the next Room and you think I know what that is it's the same thing

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Original Sin is Pride. Pride came before the fall, and after it, man had to cover his shame. Individuality is defined by separation. The many are separated from the One by the perceived potentiality manifest as Pride. In a sense, it is Pride that manifests the Will. Shame is the opposite of Pride. Man is ashamed of being born out of his lower nature (sex) and opposites are in fact corolaries. If one extreme rises, the other must follow suit and hence, with pride comes shame. Ofc Christianity tries to monopolize this as they do with individual salvation. It doesn't mean they're wrong though. We're born of sex, but Adam could not come to "Know" Eve unless he _didn't_ know her up to that point. The male and female aspect of consciousness then came into communion because they were torn asunder by the act of rebellion to the will of God (all knowing but undiscerning/unseparated consciousness). By partaking in communion they engaged in separation. They were innocent up to that point, in denotation (=unknown to each other)

Monotheism: the religions of dualism

I can't believe I sat through this while you try to make it religious religion is the only hell

That's your problem you can't handle the fact that life is the point And just because there is no afterlife or religion is fake does not take away any meaning

Step one: eat a nearly astounding amount of edibles. Step two: eat some acid. Step three: accept it all. You just might witness this all first hand.

Why are you showing clips of the mouth of madness

DMT is not an endorphin.

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Since demons and angels are not real I say a hallucination