The Shining analysis - part 25: The formation of New Jerusalem

In order to connect the chthonic triad discussed in part 25, with the planned establishment by the evil parties (evil hermaphroditic Jews, etc.) of a 'New Jerusalem'/Zion (i.e., a utopia), we start with the screencap of Danny shown below; we are interested in the position of his hands around his eyes. To derive the chthonic triad from the position of Danny's hands, we first recall from earlier in the analysis that the little finger represents Mercury, the thumb represents Venus, and the ring finger represents the sun. Then, we draw three lines radiating outward from the point of intersection of Danny's left pinkie with his right pinkie (shown by point 'A' in the screencap). The first line runs from 'A' through point 'B', which is located at the intersection of the base of Danny's left ring finger with the webbing between this finger and the pinkie. Since the ring finger represents the sun and since Danny represents Sol, this line becomes the 'son' line, with Danny himself being the Son. We then draw a second line from point 'A' through point 'D', which lies at the intersection of the base of Danny's left pinkie with webbing that we could imagine circling around from the pinkie directly to the thumb; and the latter, as we said, represents Venus, in turn represented in the movie by Wendy. Thus, this line becomes the 'mother' line. Finally, we draw a third line from 'A' through point 'C', this line runs (diagonally) along the pinkie itself. Since the pinkie represents Mercury, indicating Mercurius, this becomes the 'rebis' line. To see how all of this matches up with the geography and certain other aspects of the new Jerusalem plot, scroll down.

Above: The map from part 7 of the James Michener analysis (on the Can Analyze blog), here edited to the degree necessary to see how the clues offered by the position of Danny's fingers, match up with aspects of the New Jerusalem plot. The three black lines on the map were derived in the Michener analysis, and as indicated there, the endpoints of these lines (with the exception of Independence, Missouri) are the locations from which the evil parties (hermaphroditic Jews, certain high-ranking Freemasons and Mormons, etc.), plan to get five of their groups of North American Native peoples who will inhabit New Jerusalem. Independence, Missouri was the location for Zion as originally intended by the Mormons. The line drawn from Michener's fictional town of Toledo, Mexico (from Michener's novel, Mexico; the location of Toledo is labeled 'Central Mexico' on the above map), to Independence, is a 'confirmer' that the other two black lines do, in fact, intersect at the point shown (when drawn on a flat map; but see below). This line is not only a 'confirmer', however, because the evil parties do plan to get one of their groups of North American Native peoples, from central Mexico.

To connect the locations indicated by Michener, with the clues in The Shining regarding the chthonic triad, we first draw a (blue) line connecting Independence to Jamestown, Virginia. Then, using a little algebra and trigonometry, we make the following derivations: The line from Jamestown to Independence passes near Milltown, Indiana, at the actual current planned location for New Jerusalem (i.e., the planned utopia) that was determined in the Michener analysis (see google map here).[a] This blue line is the son line from the screencap of Danny above, and has been labeled on the map accordingly, by the word 'son' below the word 'Jamestown'. Next, we extend this line approximately west-northwest into Colorado. Then, we draw a (blue) line between a point a few miles to the east of Cap-Haïtien, Haiti (one of the points determined in the Michener analysis), and Miami, Florida (were Dick Hallorann keeps a winter home), extending it northwest until it intersects the extension of the line between Jamestown and Independence that was just drawn. The intersection of these two lines is the location of the (fictional) Overlook hotel from The Shining, and is located near the city of Estes Park, Colorado. The indication is that in real life, black female indigenous persons from the Caribbean are to be part of the New Jerusalem plan. In fact, the 'incestuous' union of these women, with men from the area of Jamestown, Virginia who grew up in dysfunctional families, is to produce the evil parties' 'rebises'. The rebis line is the line through point 'D' from the screencap of Danny, here drawn (in blue) from the Overlook to Charleston, South Carolina, where the 'rebises' are to be raised. As described in the Michener analysis, Charleston was at one time a planned location for New Jerusalem. The conclusion from all of this is that the evil triad discussed in part 20 of this analysis, is the one formed by gathering the son, mother, and rebis from the locations indicated on the map. This is the triad that the conspiratorial parties plan to use to fill out their evil ogdoad. The other five entities of the ogdoad, which in total consists of eight members, are to be the five native North Americans groups gathered from the five areas determined in the Michener analysis as described above.[b]


a. The blue lines on our map are intended to be drawn on a flat map, as we have drawn them; but the two longer black lines shown on the map are ultimately intended to be drawn on a globe, as described in the Michener analysis, and when they are, they intersect near Milltown, Indiana, at the site of the planned New Jerusalem. The evil parties themselves must have used both a flat map and a globe to plot locations, in an attempt to obfuscate their intentions as to geography.
b. Map of North America from the Global Overlay Mapper suite at the 'mapability' website, URL = http://www.mapability.com/ei8ic/.


   

The Shining analysis - part 24: The chthonic triad

Recall from part 5 of the analysis that in his paper "The Phenomenology of the Spirit in Fairytales" (from The Collected Works, Volume 9, part 1), Carl Jung says that the Holy Trinity has a counterpart consisting of a lower, chthonic triad. (The word chthonic is used here to denote things having to do, at least metaphorically, with the deities or spirits of the underworld, i.e., with those of Hell.) In the below, we make further use of "The Phenomenology of the Spirit in Fairytales".

Beginning at paragraph 246, Jung says, "Between the [numbers/quantities] three and four there exists the primary opposition of male and female, but whereas fourness is a symbol of wholeness, three is not. The latter, according to alchemy, denotes polarity, since one triad always presupposes another, just as high presupposes low, lightness darkness, good evil. In terms of energy, polarity means a potential, and wherever a potential exists there is the possibility of a current, a flow of events, for the tension of opposites strives for balance. If one imagines the quaternity [quaternities typically represent wholeness] as a square divided into two halves by a diagonal, one gets two triangles whose apices point in opposite directions. One could therefore say metaphorically that if the wholeness symbolized by the quaternity is divided into equal halves, it produces two opposing triads. This simple reflection shows how three can be derived from four...In psychological language we [could] say that when the unconscious wholeness becomes manifest, i.e., leaves the unconscious and crosses over into the sphere of consciousness, one of the four [elements of the quaternity] remains behind, held fast by the horror vacui of the unconscious. There thus arises a triad which, as we know - not from [fairytales] but from the history of symbolism - constellates a corresponding triad in opposition to it - in other words, a conflict ensues."[a]

Top left: To see the fundamental nature of present-day evil in our society that has resulted from the formation of the opposing triads Jung speaks of, we start with the square, which has four sides (and four apices) and therefore represents wholeness. Top right: We then draw a diagonal to divide the square into two triangles, representing two triads. Above left: We move the lower triangle to the upper left until it overlaps the upper triangle. Above right: When we rotate the resulting figure forty-five degrees clockwise, we see that it is a Star of David with a disproportionate extension in the horizontal direction. Since the horizontal represents the conscious of the dreamer (Susan Robertson),[b] the symbolism here at a societal level is that our conscious minds are contaminated by 'evil Jewishness".


Continuing in the same volume of Jung from above, but now in the section titled, "Psychological Aspects of the Mother Archetype", "When, in 1938, I originally wrote this paper [Jung is here writing in a 1954 revision], I did not know that twelve years later, the Christian version of the mother archetype would be elevated to the rite of a dogmatic truth. [Jung is here referring to the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary] The Christian "Queen of Heaven" has, obviously, shed all her Olympian qualities except for her brightness, goodness, and eternality; and even her human body, the thing most prone to gross material corruption, has put on ethereal incorruptability. The richly varied allegories of the Mother of God have nevertheless retained some connection with her pagan prefiguration in Isis (Io) and Semele...[The] question naturally arises for the psychologist: what has become of the characteristic relation of the mother-image to the earth, darkness, the abysmal side of bodily man with his animal passions and instinctual nature, and to "matter" in general? The declaration of the dogma comes at a time when the achievements of science and technology, combined with a rationalistic and materialistic view of the world, threaten the spiritual and psychic heritage of man with instant annihilation. [Jung is here referring to the atomic bomb]...

"Understood concretely, the assumption is the absolute opposite of materialism. Taken in this sense, it is a counterstroke that does nothing to diminish the tension between the opposites [the opposites here are spirit and matter], but drives it to extremes.

"Understood symbolically, however, the assumption of the body is a recognition and acknowledgement of matter, which in the last resort was identified with evil only because of an overwhelmingly "pneumatic" tendency in man. In themselves, spirit and matter are neutral, or rather, "ultriusque capax" - that is, capable of what man calls good or evil. Although as names they are exceedingly relative, underlying them are very real opposites that are part of the energetic structure of the physical and of the psychic world, and without them no existence of any kind could be established. There is no position without its negation...The dogma of the Assumption, proclaimed in an age suffering from the greatest political schism history has ever known, is a compensating system that reflects the strivings of science for a uniform world-principle. In a certain sense, both developments were anticipated by alchemy in the [chemical marriage] of opposites, but only in symbolic form. Nevertheless, the symbol has the great example of being able to unite heterogeneous or even incommensurable factors in a single image. With the decline of alchemy the symbolical unity of spirit and matter fell apart, with the result that modern man finds himself uprooted and alienated in a de-souled world.

"The alchemist saw the union of opposites under the symbol of the tree, and it is therefore not surprising that the unconscious of present-day man, who no longer feels at home in his world and can base his existence neither on the past that is no more nor on the future that is yet to be, should hark back to the symbol of the cosmic tree rooted in this world and growing up to heaven - the tree that is also man. In the history of symbols this tree is described as the way of life itself, a growing into that which eternally is and does not change; which springs from the union of opposites and, by its eternal presence, also makes that union possible. It seems as if it were only through an experience of symbolic reality that man, vainly seeking his own "existence" and making a philosophy out of it, can find his way back to a world in which he is no longer a stranger."[c]

Putting all of this together with what was has been said earlier in the analysis, about the death of the Holy Spirit, and the mother-son-rebis triad, with the mother being a sort of chthonic Virgin Mary (essentially a whore), we see that this evil triad is to be completely unopposed by an upper one. What modern man needs to do is to restore a system of symbology, preferably alchemy, and ensure that the third stage, the citrinitas, is included in the overall four-stage process. For it is in this stage that the chemical marriage takes place, and without the chemical marriage, the Philosophical Mercury cannot be obtained, and thus, the final stage of the process (the rubedo) cannot take place, implying that wholeness cannot be achieved. If this symbolic reality (the chemical marriage) can be restored in its proper form, as a union between woman and man,[d] and accompanied by a restoration of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit (all as archetypes) within our psyches,[e] there will come about a healthy quaternity, i.e., true wholeness, thereby helping save our society from destruction.


a. Jung, C.G. "The Phenomenology of the Spirit in Fairytales" in The Collected Works of C.G. Jung, Vol. 9, part 1. Princeton University Press, 1980. para. 426.
b. Jung links vertical height with the unconscious, and he links the horizontal (i.e., width) with the conscious: Jung, C.G. The Collected Works of C.G. Jung, Vol. 12. Princeton University Press, 1968. paras. 287, 291, Google Books. URL = https://books.google.com.
c. Jung, C.G. "Psychological Aspects of the Mother Archetype" in The Collected Works of C.G. Jung, Vol. 9, part 1. paras. 195-198. Emphasis in original.
d. "Chemical marriage" is the same thing as "chymical wedding." That Jung regards the chemical (i.e., chymical) wedding as a union between man and woman, is evident from his Psychology and Alchemy: "Here the supreme opposites, male and female (as in the Chinese yang and yin), are melted into a unity purified of all opposition and therefore incorruptible." (--Jung, C.G., The Collected Works, Vol. 12, para. 43.) A union between mother and son does not consist of supreme opposites, because the son has some of the mother in him; and similar reasoning applies to other forms of incestuous unions. Also, gay unions obviously do not consist of supreme opposites, nor do unions between transsexuals, since a person cannot be surgically or otherwise modified such that he or she acquires all of the traits and characteristics of the opposite sex.
e. These archetypes are within all of us; Kubrick isn't saying that the members of the public need to acquire a belief in the Christian Holy Trinity, or become religious, or anything of that nature. Kubrick himself is often said to have been an atheist. That Jung considers these archetypes to be universal is evident from his "Psychology and Religion": "[Christian] dogma owes its continued existence and its form on the one hand to so-called "revealed" or immediate experiences of the [religious knowledge] — for instance, the God-man, the Cross, the Virgin Birth, the Immaculate Conception, the Trinity, and so on, and on the other hand to the ceaseless collaboration of many minds over many centuries...[T]he Christian images I have mentioned are not peculiar to Christianity alone (although in Christianity they have undergone a development and intensification of meaning not to be found in any other religion). They occur just as often in pagan religions, and besides that they can reappear spontaneously in all sorts of variations as psychic phenomena, just as in the remote past they originated in visions, dreams, or trances. Ideas like these are never invented. They came into being before man had learned to use his mind purposively. Before man learned to produce thoughts, thoughts came to him." (--Jung, C.G., "Psychology and Religion" in The Collected Works of C.G. Jung, Vol. 11, Princeton University Press, 1969, para. 81.) In accordance with the foregoing, ideas such as the Trinity are effectively archetypes, i.e., they are elements of the collective unconscious, and as such, are shared among all human beings.


   

The Shining analysis - part 23: The poisoning of Jack Torrance

Above left and right: Wendy does all of the meal preparation and serving in the movie; she is putting some form of mercury in a heated liquid Jack is drinking.


Recall that earlier in the analysis, we said that Wendy is poisoning Jack with mercury. To determine what form(s) of mercury Jack has been ingesting and/or inhaling, let us first list some of the possible symptoms of mercury poisoning, then examine Jack's behavior to see if he is suffering any of these symptoms.

a. Among other symptoms, poisoning with elemental mercury (by breathing it in) can cause insomnia, irritability, mood swings, and lowered cognitive functioning.[a] Exposure to elemental mercury can also cause vivid dreams and hallucinations.[b]
b. The symptoms of poisoning by inorganic mercury compounds, such as mercurous chloride (aka calomel), can include irritability, insomnia, loss of strength in the legs, and a metallic taste in the mouth.[c]
c. Some of the possible symptoms of poisoning by organic mercury compounds, such as methylmercury, are lack of coordination of movements, impairment of speech, and impairment of walking.[d]

Above left: Jack experiences hallucinations while at the Overlook, for example, he 'sees' Lloyd the bartender, as well as glasses and containers filled with alcohol. Above right: Jack also experiences vivid dreams - recall that he falls asleep at his writing desk, then when Wendy, hearing his screams, wakes him up, he tells her about a horrible dream he had in which he murdered her and Danny and then cut them up into pieces.

Recall that Jack is somewhat irritable and sarcastic during the Torrance family's drive to the Overlook - this is evident from his facial expression and tone of voice, when he comments on the fact that Danny learned about cannibalism by watching television.


Jack also experiences mood swings while at the hotel, for example, he becomes extremely upset when Wendy disturbs him while he's writing (see below left screencap), yet he is calm and collected while speaking with Danny in the Torrance bedroom (below right screencap). During this latter scene, Jack tells Danny that he is unable to sleep, indicating that he is suffering from insomnia.

At certain points, Jack experiences lowered cognitive functioning, for example, his state of total confusion (see screencap at left) when Wendy accuses him of having choked Danny.

Above left: Jack suffers from lack of coordination while driving to the hotel for his interview, as indicated by the fact that he has strayed into the oncoming traffic lane after exiting a tunnel (click image to enlarge). Wendy had already started poisoning Jack with mercury prior to his interview trip. Above right: Jack senses some kind of unusual taste in his mouth, as suggested when he opens his mouth wide and sticks his tongue all the way out, while looking in a mirror, in the scene in which Wendy is serving him breakfast.

While shouting out for Danny while chasing him in the hedge maze, Jack exhibits slurred speech, which is a form of impaired speech.

Above left: Jack suffers from impairment in walking during the maze chase, to an extent that cannot be accounted for solely by his leg injury (recall that he injured himself when he fell down the stairs, after being hit by Wendy with a bat). Above right: After Danny has escaped from the maze and he and Wendy have left in Hallorann's snowcat, Jack sits down in the snow to rest, even though he doesn't sound like he's completely out of breath. This indicates that Jack is experiencing weakness in his legs.

We see from Jacks's behavior as described above, that he must be taking into his body all three forms of mercury (elemental, inorganic compound, and organic compound). Noting that Wendy has a very light facial complexion (see screencap at left), it must be the case that she's using a skin lightening cream or lotion, some brands of which (at least at the time) used calomel (mercurous chloride) as an ingredient. Wendy has been putting some of this lotion in Jack's drink (by implication, she was using a kind of lotion that was at least partially soluble, in a heated liquid such as hot coffee or tea, and it must not have had any prominent taste or odor once dissolved). The presence of the dissolved calomel-containing lotion in one or more liquids Jack was consuming, resulted in his ingestion of mercurous chloride, the second type of mercury listed above. Furthermore, excess elemental mercury, in the lotion itself and/or that resulting from the partial breakdown of the mercurous chloride when it dissolved into solution, accounts for the elemental mercury Jack was inhaling (as a vapor from heated liquid). And, methylmercury can form when mercuric choloride interacts with some kinds of bacteria, at least one of which must have been in the local water supply or in another liquid, such as coffee creamer, that Jack was ingesting. The mercuric chloride was another product of the breakdown of the mercurous chloride in solution (in addition to the elemental mercury).

As stated, that Jack was taking into his body all three forms of mercury, accounts for his symptoms. Alcohol withdrawal was not a factor in any of these symptoms, because symptoms of alcohol withdrawal last for, at most, up to a few weeks after a person stops drinking, and it has been longer than this since Jack himself quit drinking. Since the two bar scenes only comprised hallucinations Jack was experiencing (due to the mercury poisoning), Jack did not actually consume any alcohol while at the Overlook.


a. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. "Health Effects of Exposure to Mercury - Elemental (Metallic) Mercury Effects".
b. Rustagi, N. and Singh, R. Mercury and health care. National Institutes of Health - Indian Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. Indian J Occup Environ Med. 2010 Aug; 14(2): 45–48. [Article]
c. Weldon, M.M., Smolinski, M.S., Maroufi, A., Hasty, B.W., Gilliss, D.L., Boulanger, L.L., Balluz, L.S., Dutton, R.J. Mercury poisoning associated with a Mexican beauty cream. National Institutes of Health - Western Journal of Medicine. West J Med. 2000 Jul; 173(1): 15–18. [Article].
d. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. "Health Effects of Exposure to Mercury - Methylmercury Effects".