Subversive
Comedy Queries If Movie About Channeling
Can Be Modern
Shamanic Guide
By Victor Goss
A new narrative feature film
APOCALYPSE (according to Doris) by hollywood-expatriate
director, Victor Goss, takes a look at channeling, prophesy, and our obsession
with the Mayan End Time and 2012, warning the dangers of predicting the End of
the World.
This apocalyptic comedy swept
the Akasha Metaphysical Film Festival in Carmel
recently with the top SPIRIT IN FILM AWARD, was selected as a script finalist
in the very first SUNDANCE WRITER’S LAB, and launched on video-on-demand at
11:11am the morning of December 21, 2012, when the Mayan Calendar came to an
abrupt end after a long cycle of 26,000-odd years.
Goss states: “It has been my
positive statement to release this film on the day that many believed the world
would end. This is a good opportunity to have the last laugh with Doris —
because we will continue to roll out our video-on-demand release to additional
platforms throughout 2013.”
As described by Sydney
Le-vine of IndieWIRE magazine, Apocalypse (according
to Doris) is “Both funny and emotional, dealing with the paranormal, and
conscious awakening — challenging us about who we are, how we act, and the
meaning of our existence.”
What is this business of
channeling? Where do channels get their information, and what does it mean to
those who don’t understand? Should we expect this “new way of
knowing” to provide solutions for real-world problems? Or does this
point to new powers being revealed within all humanity?
In this story of an unknown
housewife living on the edge of the desert, Doris involuntarily channels
predictions of earthquakes that will bring about the end of the world, and
becomes an overnight media sensation. She opens her door to true-believers and
nut-cases alike, turning her dysfunctional family inside out for the whole
world to see, including an unscrupulous reporter who infiltrates her group and
has the tragic secret of his life exposed by this psychically-gifted woman.
Understanding channeling and
other involuntary psychic experiences is what Doris struggles hard to integrate
into her life as she walks a virtual tightrope of paranormal experiences amidst
a difficult family situation in an environment of national chaos. She shares
these experiences with us by celebrating the awakening and evolving human
consciousness we now are experiencing worldwide.
Viewers see Doris as the
ordinary person she is, not branded with the stigmatizing label of “psychic.”
She is a sensitive and thoughtful woman with everyday problems, struggling and
stumbling with conflicted gifts of paranormal perception. This complication
ultimately guides her through a life crisis to a turning point where she must
break free from routine and her past to become the butterfly she imagines
herself to be, unfettered by criticism and negativity.
Channeling is becoming
familiar around the world. Common sense melts into chaos trying to understand
what this phenomena might be, if it is phenomena at
all. If one acknowledges that a person can embody external separate
personalities and voices, then our current paradigm of psychiatry and
physiology is out the window. Yet in view of the overwhelming evidence, it’s
hard to deny.
Prominent West Coast channel,
Nora Herold, who is a popular counselor and teacher,
describes it by saying, “We are operating on the AM band, and they are
operating on the FM band.” It is about “...raising of
the personal level of consciousness frequency state to be able to communicate
directly with beings who exist already in a higher vibrational
state themselves. They work on lowering theirs a bit because they want the
communication to happen... we meet in the middle and have a conversation.”
Channeled information can
often be misleading, conflicting, or false. Nora adds that those who are
listening to a channel also participate in the value of the message equally, “...And
the way to authenticate as well, is to pay attention to what you’re
experiencing in your physical body and in your own intuition as you’re
receiving information.
“Guides will often give
information to manipulate,” Nora suggests. “Because the
guide’s intent is to offer guidance and a transmission of energy and love.
The guide’s intent is not to ...give predictive information.
“So you’ve got two levels of
consciousness here. You’ve got the consciousness of the being that’s coming
through and then you’ve got the consciousness of the channel who
is bringing the information through which acts as a filter. If the channel has
it in their consciousness that they really want to give prediction, they will
force that predictive kind of experience using the energy of the higher beings.
It’s not that it’s false, but the channel themselves will begin to access future
timelines held within the consciousness of the higher beings and bring that
information through.
“The intent of the Guides is
to offer guidance and love for all of humanity at this time in our development,
but they have always been here. Channeling is not a new phenomena.
Channeling is growing in the consciousness because of our collective shift in
consciousness but there is nothing new about it.”
She concludes by reminding us
that channeling is not something you can believe. It’s not an intellectual
construct. It’s something you must experience.
Apocalypse (according to Doris)
can be seen anytime after 11:11am, December 21, 2012
on streaming rental VoD release and download to own
on the Distrify worldwide platform located at:
http://doristhemovie.com/streaming.html
Apocalypse has won the
following awards: Script Finalist - 1st Sundance Writer’s Lab; Top Prize
Winner, Spirit in Film Award - Akasha Metaphysical
Film Festival, Carmel, CA and Best Feature in the Spirit Film Festival.
The cast includes: Jaime
Gomez (Nash Bridges, “24” CSI: Miami, Crimson Tide, Clear and Present Danger)
as “Felix” and Elise Robertson (Grey’s Anatomy, Six Feet Under, Two
& a Half Men,) as “Doris.”
Contact the Starving Film
Students at 140 N. Encinal Ave., Ojai, CA 93023, call
(310) 740-2044, or email: vg@starvingfilmstudents.com
© Victor Goss 2012