Saturday Stories
June 17, 2017
One of the first books that I've read over and over when I
was a child is Reader's Digest: Into The Unknown, the now-classic
one-volume encyclopedia on supernatural phenomena. As I grew up, I began to get
more deeply involved into the world of the so-called occult.
Yet though I have no hang-ups about
such things, I avoid discussing it with those who relentlessly inflict their
moral judgments instead of actually listening, smugly convinced that they
already know everything.
I'm familiar and comfortable with
the ideas of spirits and mystical healing, of reading minds and channeling of
nonphysical entities.
Then I saw all of those elements
come together when I saw Seklusyon, the story of young men going
into seclusion before becoming full-pledged priests.
But I also realized how much my
worldview has changed about the nature of what people call the "battle of
good versus evil."
Eric Matti is one of my favorite
movie directors. As someone who appreciates the process of actually creating a
film, I admire the way he tells a story by making me feel like I'm in the
actual scene.
Yet I have to say that my idea of
fun is not being locked up in a monastery where religious statues come to life,
and where dead people would crawl out from under the bed.
I'm not even at ease sitting across
a little girl who is the incarnation of God Almighty Himself.
Photo courtesy of RandomRepublika.com
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