Hollywood producers finally caught on to something that mystics and philosophers have known about for millennia.
Director Darren Aronofsky is well-known for award-winning films such as The Wrestler (2008) and Black Swan (2010), both as graphic and disturbing as one of his earlier works, Requiem for a Dream (2000). It was Aronofsky’s 1998 film that made me an instant fan. Pi: faith in chaos explores the mathematical enigma of pi. The film’s main character is chased by Wall Street thugs who want to predict the stock market and Hassidic Jews who desire to learn the true name of God. This may have been the first big screen full-length film to address these subject matters.
Smaller, independent films such as 11:14. (2003), starring Patrick Swayze and Hillary Swank, further illustrate the synchronicity of numbers, as several characters’ lives converge at the time of 11:14 p.m.
Even a few television programs, such as “The 4400” and “NUM3ERS” include number synchronicity in their stories.
In 2004, a disturbing film Hell’s Gate 11:11 did not fare as well at the box office, garnering little if any recognition due to the pure absurdity. and unnecessary violence. This Canadian film by director Michael Bafaro, was also released under the title 11:11 The Gate. The film presents horror for the main character who is searching for meaning after she sees 11:11 written in blood on the floor next to her dead mother, then faces a series of paranormal events.
As a remake of the 1976 film The Omen, 30 years later Omen was heavily marketed with haunting billboards stating “The signs are all around you” and was released on June 6, 2006 (06-06-06) playing off the well-known 666 mark of the beast featured in the story. Other 2006 blockbusters included The Celestine Prophecy and The Da Vinci Code, both of which featured numerology and recognition of numerical patterns.
A lesser known 20-minute short film written and directed by Esther Peres in 2006, 11:11 Eleven Eleven actually plays backwards, with the tagline “Sometimes love plays better in reverse.”
Notice that the numbers for the full date July 7, 2007 (7+7+2+0+0+7) adds to 23; a fact the producers of The Number 23 were likely well-aware of. Although not particularly big at the box office, the Jim Carrey film, The Number 23 has propelled this phenomenon into the Hollywood mainstream. Unfortunately, the film is reduced to violence, obsession, and paranoia.
The 2007 film starring Nicolas Cage, National Treasure: Book of Secrets, was a sequel to the 2004 film National Treasure exploring Freemasonry. Both are an excellent introduction for anyone unfamiliar with numerology and Masonic philosophy especially as they relate to early US leaders.
As we approach November 11, 2011, it’s no surprise that some in Hollywood have capitalized on this significant date. Again, we have a film 11-11-11 directed by Darren Lynn Bousman, that follows an author plagued by traumatic events occurring in Barcelona on 11-11-11.
Another 2011 film, titled slightly different as 11/11/11 with slashes instead of dashes, promises to be even more gruesome, especially with the central figure being a young boy becomes a gateway to the Apocalypse on his birthday 11/11/11.
A more light-hearted story is told by Rocky Costanzo in 11:11. Set in two different time periods and locations, two young friends reuniting in a new life, with themes of reincarnation, the one link between them and their previous lives is the synchronicity of 11:11.
There is numerology for personal entertainment and enrichment, and there is serious numerology — recognized by intellectuals, mystics, and philosophers — which reveals the nature of the universe.
If you think this number phenomenon is nothing more than mindless Hollywood entertainment…think again. It has much broader applications and implications.
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