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In this week’s episode we grab our “They Live” glasses and descend down into Kane Parson’s summer blockbuster horror hit: “The Backrooms” to explore its clever symbolic use of Jungian archetypes and Eastern mysticism to create a cerebral and spooky allegory with the same narrative depth we find in masterpieces like Kubrick’s The Shining, Lynch’s Twin Peaks or Owaku’s Silent Hill 2 but with a retrowave drip that weaponizes nostalgia in a tour of the collective unconscious with obscure doorways straight into Buddhist hell. In the free side of the show we discuss Clark and the symbolism that haunts him, the Backrooms and his shadow; breaking down what it has to do with the infinite, changing and cyclical nature of the Backrooms itself. In the extended side of the show we discuss the Capn Carl, Tarot symbolism, the shadow of the retrowave aesthetic and how the Backrooms are a perfect allegory for the Bardos of the Tibetan Book of the Dead. Join us next week for part 2. That gives you a whole other week to go watch the movie before listening! Thank you and enjoy the show!

In this week’s episode we discuss:
Origins of the Backrooms
Clark Character Analysis
Water Symbolism
The Helm and the Wheel of Karma
Samsara, Maya and Dukkha
The Biology of Memory and Repetition
Bird symbolism
Carl Jung’s Psychological Shadow

In the extended episode available at www.patreon.com/TheWholeRabbit we go deeper down the rabbit hole to discuss:
Black Mirrors
Descending Into the Unconscious
Weaponizing Nostalgia and the Retrowave Aesthetic
Tarot: Two of Swords
Gematria
Davey Jones Locker
Mary and the Window
Navigating the Bardos

This episode was written by Tim Hacker, Mari Sama and Luke Madrid with additional commentaries by Heka Astra.

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