Kudos to Clint Eastwood for his new film, “Hereafter” where he takes the age-old question of man-kind, “What happens after we die” and brings introspection of the afterlife to the screen in a way that doesn’t overly exaggerate its ordinariness. Because Eastwood doesn’t create a lot of misrepresented sensationalism about the afterlife in his film, critics fail to see the film for what it is: a solid reflection of our speculation of the ultimate metaphysical issue - survival after life as we know it. After seeing the trailers for the movie, I’m eagerly joining the ranks of those movie goers with an insatiable appetite for the supernatural.
In an almost eerie cosmic prelude to the movie, my husband, who is on the road, called to discuss his own encounter with the inexplicable. Let me preface this by saying my husband lovingly tolerates my fascination with things the mind can tune into that are beyond the ordinary. And while he agrees we certainly don’t use the full capacity of our mind and what I do through hypnosis certainly assists people to do so, he stops short of believing that we create our own reality and reality as we see it is an illusion of our own projection. I know this projection keeps us safe and comfortable and so for most people encountering the paranormal is uncomfortable and, therefore, abnormal to observe. For him, the world is of solid matter. What you see is what you get. There’s nothing more.
