You probably heard the trailer for Alex Garland's latest apocalypse-fest Civil War dropped on Wednesday. It's made quite a splash, for obvious reasons.
What do you say we get into some of the less-obvious ones?
Before we get into it, let me just let you know that we're going for the deepest dive on Eyes Wide Shut this weekend at The Secret Sun Institute, so if you've been on the fence about enrolling, this is a good time to dive in.
LITMUS TEST
I've watched the trailer a few times and haven't detected any obvious partisan bias or Woke brainwash - which I can sniff out immediately these days - but that hasn't stopped the usual suspects from crying foul. It's understandable, given the subject matter and these hyper-polarized times. But I do wonder if there's a bit of premature kneejerking afoot.
From Newsweek:
When the trailer was shared on social media on Wednesday, a number of people veered away from critiquing the film to instead share their belief it contained a bold message of what Americans will be facing in the near future.
Using this theory, many have tied Civil War to the new Netflix film Leave the World Behind, which is partially produced by former President Barack Obama's Higher Ground and follows two families forced to work together amid a nationwide blackout. As the threat grows, both families must decide how best to survive the potential crisis, all while grappling with their places in the collapsing world.
Taking to X, formerly Twitter, conservative political commentator Jack Posobiec shared the trailer, adding the caption: "A new 'Civil War' Movie is coming out ahead of 2024. This is Predictive Programming."
"Predictive programming" is a conspiracy theory that the government, or other forces in power, use fiction (whether books, movies or some other medium) to make a population accept future events that have been planned by people in power.
For all I know the film itself will be a total Obamoid globo-wankfest, but I just don't see that in the trailer. There's also that fact that the rebels are the "California-Texas Alliance," something everyone's been scratching their heads over.
But maybe that's intentional - Garland may not want to get lost in contemporary partisan weeds, which are always subject to change.
Plus, it's gotta be said that Texas and California aren't really all that different once you get out of the hoity-toity liberal urban enclaves, which would immediately melt like butter once any real fighting ever started anyway.
So let's wait and see.
Liberal outlets seem to have been a bit bemused about it all, but also excited in their usual weird and neurotic ways. Today's Hollywood exists solely to reinforce and perpetuate their beliefs and lifestyles, so they'd have no reason to believe that Civil War wouldn't be an orgy of Kulak-bashing like The Purge films are.
But again, let's wait and see. Garland's talked about quitting the picture racket, so maybe he intends to do something that's actually subversive before he gets out of the Hollywood madhouse.
Plus, who gives a crap about political nonsense when there's scrying to be done?
THE ENGLISH SYBIL WAR
Very little has been released about the film, but just based on what we've learned I can tell you that the Sibyl-force is strong with this one. Just a passing glance at some of the key players will tell you that.
A no-brainer, to start with...
We've looked quite a bit at Kirsten Dunst in the Fraserological underground. She's definitely a High Frequency Frasenator (meaning someone who shares an unusual number of syncs with the Sibyl), but one whose Fraseliness is more of a second-degree nature (ie., having a number of once- or twice-removed Frase-syncs).
The Siren stuff sure is interesting, too.
Equally interesting is the role Kirsten played as the mother of an ultraterrestrial hybrid (or something) in the must-see Midnight Special, not unlike the role the Sibyl sang in The Millennium Dome Show, or the role Gillizabeth Anderfrase played on The X-Files.
For my money, Kirsten's greatest claim to Fraserly fame is her starring role in The Outer Limits* episode "Music of the Spheres," a story that essentially encapsulates my basic thesis about the Sibyl.
Meaning that some unimaginably powerful and unknowable outside force - most likely from the Heavens - is speaking through the Sibyl's music as to communicate with us on some higher or deeper level of consciousness, in order that we may avoid some looming catastrophe that threatens our very existence.
That's the whole point of all this madness, in case you were wondering.
The proof for the Hypostasis of the Sibyl is overwhelming to the point of absolute overkill. There's nothing that even comes close. I need you to understand that.
I spelled it all out in a post on October 6th, which I hope you appreciate the immense significance of.
Everything about the Sibyl is immensely significant at this point in the timeline.
Kirsten's costar Cailee Spaeney is a major candidate for Ultra High-Frequency Frasenator, though for reasons we will not speak of right now. But do note she played the lost daughter (or Persephone, if you prefer) of Fairuza Balk's character in The Craft: Legacy, along with David Duchovny, inevitably.
And also make note that Cailee was made up to essentially look like Elizabeth Fraser Junior in the film.
Bonus factoid: Cailee first rose to public notice as a singer.
It should go without saying that Fairuza Balk is a serious Cocteau Twins fan as well. "The Spangle Maker" is especially appropriate in context.
Then there's this mind-shredding enigma: Cailee wearing a see-through top that eerily resembles the ritual markings that big-screen sibyl Samantha Morton was daubed with in her breakthrough role in Cracker.
A story for another time, but hard to write off as coincidence.
Civil War has Nick Offermann as the President. He starred in Devs - a discussion in and of itself - and also as a gay strawberry farmer in The Last of Us, alongside Bella Ramsey as "Ellie."
We see strawberries pop up a lot in this work, of course.
Bella Ramsey also costarred with Samantha Morton (in Two for Joy, which has a drowning subplot), and also played the young Matilda in the highly-Frasejacent Netflix folk-horror miniseries, Requiem.
Another story for another time.
DON'T NEED YOUR SIBYL WAR
We in the Sibyllist community strongly suspect that Alex Garland is a Crypto-Fraserfarian, or "Crypto-Frase" for short.
Meaning one who is dedicated to Our Lady, but works clandestinely or unconsciously on her behalf. Whatever the case may be, the Sibyl-syncs with this cat never stop coming.
But let's get back to the topic at hand:
It was announced in January 2022 that Alex Garland would write and direct the film for A24, with Kirsten Dunst, Wagner Moura, Stephen McKinley Henderson and Cailee Spaeny cast to star.
In a May interview with The Daily Telegraph, Garland described the film as a companion piece to Men, and stated it is "set at an indeterminate point in the future – just far enough ahead for me to add a conceit – and serves as a sci-fi allegory for our currently polarised predicament".
I wrote about Men - starring Jess Buckley, of all people - last year in the post "Alex Garlands Goes Full-Frase with Category 6 SynchroStorm." You can read it for yourself, but Garland claiming that Civil War is a companion piece to Men leads me to believe that Civil War too will be filled with high-test Sibylology.
It's also possible that Garland is being directed by these same forces and that Civil War may be a cautionary tale for us all. I will be updating on this as more information comes to light.
It's also possible that Garland is being directed by these same forces and that Civil War may be a cautionary tale for us all. I will be updating on this as more information comes to light.
THE SMOKING GARLAND
Any argument as to Alex Garland's sibyl-service must focus on Annihilation, starring Ne Plus Ultra-High Frequency Frasenator, Natalie Portman.
Or as I like to call her, "Natalizabeth Portfrase."
Men shall know nothing of this mind-crushing synergy for now, but you WILL believe on the day that particular truth becomes known. I'll bet everything I own on it.
Either way, Annihilation is enough for now. Let's start with Stalker, the 1979 Russian film that's the inspiration for Garland's sci-fi masterpiece...
... because it was also the inspiration for the record cover of Head Over Heels, which recently celebrated its 40th birthday.
The mind reels with the possibilities.
There's also the alien contagion which Garland called "The Shimmer." It's a nebulous cloud of prismatic light, just like the ones you can easily find on any number of Cocteau Twins record covers and music videos.
And "Shimmer" (or "shimmering") is probably the most common adjective used to describe the Cocteau Twins.
And as some of you may remember, Garland filmed the Shimmer scenes in the same exact location that the Cocteau Twins' "Pearly Dewdrops' Drop" video was filmed.
I have an extremely hard time chalking that up to coincidence.
CIVIL SYNC
In a fascinating sync, another Scot - writer Mark Millar - has been making headlines for the civil war he's declared on the social-justice warriors who single-handledly motherfucked the entire comic book direct market to death.
Actually, Millar didn't declare that war. It's been raging for several years, but only one side has been fighting it - the SJW side, backed to the hilt by all those delicious Soros and Blackrock ESG/DEI megadollars - and the normal/sane person side has been getting absolutely slaughtered.
Do note Millar hails from Coatbridge, a mere half-hour's drive from Grangemouth, hometown of the Cocteau Twins. Must be something in the water there. Or beer.
Also note that Civil War was Millar's big break into comics superstardom.
Mark Millar has also been getting into trouble with one of the most evil and insane people ever to work in the comics business. That's not my opinion, mind you - I never met the guy. That's the opinion of people who've worked with him. At least based on what I've heard through the grapevine, going back to the 1980s.
Do note that both opposing generals in this Civil War are named Mark, which derived from Mars AKA the Roman god of war.
Apropos, wouldn't you say? The gods are ever with us.
Oddly enough, your humble host did a lot of artwork for the Captain America: Civil War quasi-adaption, including this piece here.
Another lifetime ago.
IT NEVER LETS UP, SO STOP RESISTING
Twitter (I refuse to call it X) is the primary venue for all this funnybook infighting, and it probably wouldn't be had Elon Musk - the world's richest man, they say - not bought the social network and fired all the mentally-sick MAPs and sexually-confused bluehairs who were ratfucking anyone a micron to the right of Pol Pot all the livelong day.
I myself was shadowbanned for years, so I can speak with some authority to this.
And do remember that the Sibyl's celestial harmonies have insinuated themselves right into the very heart of House Musktreides, through Elon's babymama Lady Gressica.
Just stop resisting, OK? It doesn't make you look cool. It just makes you look obstinate.
Lest we forget that World War Three started mere hours after Our Lady and her consort announced their Sun's Signature auguries.
More recently, Our Lady was immortalized in the Heavens, hours before some of the worst flooding New York City (AKA Nova Babalonia) has ever seen. Not a promising augur for this Neo-Neo-Babalon of ours.
SPEAKING OF ASTEROIDS...
Betelgeuse (AKA Beetlejuice) was recently occulted by a passing asteroid, which was a big deal to astronomy nerds. Some expect Betelgeuse to go supernova, which absolutely would be a HUGE deal to elite stellar sorcerers.
Hard to imagine anything much huger, actually.
Betelgeuse is the shoulder of Orion and is the ruffian's blow to the shoulder in Masonic lore. Orion is arguably the most important constellation to certain esoteric and occult orders, and is locked in his own eternal civil war, with Taurus, the Bull.
The occultation of Betelgeuse took place on the 11th, and at 11 AM today (three days later, corresponding to the three stars of Orion's Belt) a runaway bull magically appeared on the tracks at Newark (New Ark - "New Covenant") Penn Station.
I don't know if you've ever been to Newark Penn Station but there aren't a lot of cow pastures around. It's a grim concrete nightmare, one of the most thoroughly urbanized areas in the country.
So how did that bull get there? They say he escaped from a slaughterhouse or something, but no one seems to know where exactly.
A real mystery, alright. If I were one of those crazy conspiracy theorists I'd say it was part of some ritual connected to the occultation.
Crazy conspiracy theorists.
BENEDICTION
"Do not forsake Sophia, and she will protect you;"In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you." John 14:2
Love her, and she will watch over you.
The beginning of wisdom is this: Get wisdom.
Though it cost all you have, get understanding.
Cherish her, and she will exalt you;
Embrace her, and she will honor you.
She will give you a garland to grace your head
and present you with a glorious crown.”
Proverbs 4:6-9
* I should note that the Sibyl was born less than three weeks before the original Outer Limits first aired. That episode was about an alien that came to Earth via radio waves.
