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Monday, October 22, 2018

The Stranger Things 2 Autopsy - The Weird



"The Lord said to Satan, 'Where have you been?' And Satan said, 'From going to and fro in the Earth, and from walking up and down in it.'"

-JOB 1:7
The Bible

"And the king said unto her, 'Fear not; what have you seen?' And the witch said to Saul, 'I saw gods and spirits ascending from the Earth.'"

-1 SAMUEL 28:13
The Bible

"And He said unto them, 'I saw Satan, as lightning, fall from Heaven.'"

-LUKE 10:18
The Bible


"She is like a cat in the dark and then
She is the darkness."

-Fleetwood Mac
"Rhiannon"

"They are clouds without rain, blown along by the wind...twice dead...wandering stars, to whom blackest darkness has been reserved forever."

-JOB 1:13-14
The Bible

"In this book it is spoken of...Spirits and Conjurations; of Gods, Spheres, Planes and many other things which may or may not exist. It is immaterial whether they exist or not. By doing certain things certain results will follow."

-Aleister Crowley
Magick in Theory and Practice

"The single supreme ritual in the attainment of the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel. It is the raising of the complete mass in a vertical straight line. Any deviation from this line tends to become black magic. Any other operation is black magic."

-Aleister Crowley
Magick in Theory and Practice

Fuck waiting. 

INTRODUCTION

This is Part II of my exploration into the occult origins, as well as conspiracy theories, regarding "Stranger Things." You can find Part I right here: http://www.jasentdavis.com/2016/10/the-monster-in-stranger-things-weird.html

"Stranger Things 3" is not coming out until next year. I did not know this because when I'm not watching sci-fi horror shows on Netflix I live in a dungeon under a castle in Scotland. Which means that until someone tells me otherwise, I think there is going to be a "Stranger Things 3" and get all ready to talk about it, but nooo it turns the release date is 2019 so now I have to wait, like you, and it is as depressing as the Loch Ness when you are standing on a dark shore at midnight under a moonless sky, trying to summon the Monster, and it doesn't show up. If it does, I promise to put that shiznit up on YouTube.

This is MY safe space.

So now I'm going to do what I did last time...talk about the underlying themes in "Stranger Things 2," connect them to films and television shows that have also explored similar dark territory, and then show you, Dear Reader, the references to The Montauk Project, other conspiracy theories, and the occult. I'll avoid going into the obvious stuff, or things that have been discussed before by my august contemporaries, and instead show you the occult references, and the deepest, darkest truths of black magic and Hell, itself. Pass the popcorn.

The trick is to avoid hitting you with the obvious references. Gremlins, Creepers, Ghoulies, The Exorcist, Ghostbusters, Poltergeist...you get it, you got it, you know its good. Why cover that again? I'm not saying The Duffer Brothers are just copying what has been done before. No. Great literature references previous works, great films do the same. "Stranger Things 2" made very wonderful references, and then spun off into uncharted regions that defied expectations, kept things mysterious, and most of all, entertained immensely. Can't ask for more than that.

Nobody you know has ever seen this movie.

My hope is not to impress you all with my big fucking brain. The Duffer Brothers have done an awesome job of splicing a lot of crazy, important material together, and the references should be appreciated so they can get even more credit for their work. It must have taken many hours of research into the darkest abyss of the Internet and conspiracy theories, as well as the occult, to slice it all up right, and it is great fun for all to enjoy everything "Stranger Things 2" referenced by the end. I'm also hoping to bring more attention to 80's sci fi and horror films that most of you lovely people might have missed.

WHAT HAPPENED?

Eleven began to turn evil and had to confront her dark side, and the source of her trauma. Kali was introduced, and there's something about her that seems not good. Eleven's mom is a babbling wreck. Looks like she's going to need saving in "Stranger Things 3." An immense, demonic shadow hunted Will until it possessed him, turning him into Somebody Else. Will can see the shadow, called "The Thessalhydra" (which is a terrible description of what it seems to do, although it explains the reptilian nature of the Golliwogs), one of the kids finds a reptilian thing spat out by Will and they tunnel through the town, spreading pestilence, rot and ruin.

Eventually the little monsters grow up to look like Demogorgon and try to kill everybody by drinking their blood. Eleven comes back after a mental epiphany involving another girl with powers from the Hawkins Research Facility and finally has the power to shut the portal...although in the end, Will can still see something still exerting an evil influence. The game ain't over, yet.

"HERE I AM. ROCK YOU LIKE A HURRICANE."

MY WRONGS

I was totally wrong about Eleven's electrocuted mom being the source of her power. Sorry. Fucking sue me. Otherwise, The Duffer Brothers follow the path of H.P. Lovecraft and constantly don't explain things. The scientists and adults and children all have theories, but it's never enough. They can only figure out the tip of the iceberg based on their own, limited perceptions. If only they had talked to me. Just kidding. My point is that, just like in the original Stranger Things, nobody ever sat down and totally explained exactly what the frack was happening. They could only deduce a facet of The Unknown based on their perceptions.

Even if I was right, it would not matter. Since I am analyzing a facet of The Unknown based on my perceptions, it would not matter if I was right, based on the logic of H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos and The Duffer Brothers writing. Nobody is ever completely right about Cthulhu, Azathoth, Nyarthlotep or Hastur the Unspeakable. Unless they are insane.

'Member Dreamscape? Because The Duffer Brothers sure did.

HIGHER SELVES AND LOWER LOWS

One of the things I was right about was not only Eleven once again confronting her dark side, only to merge with it in the usual Hegelian Dialectic voyage of self discovery bildungsroman cinematic/literary plot arc (try saying that ten times fast while your killing somebody with an axe), but also that "Stranger Things 2" went deeper into ancient occult Kabbalah magic descriptions of the metaphysical, in both directions. There is an evil dimension, right next door, and it wants in our world to control, horrify, hurt and kill. Since the threat has no personality, the danger is impersonal, which makes it more horrifying.

While this other dimension could still be the future reality that got a hole bored into it from the past (google "The Philadelphia Experiment" and "The Montauk Project" for more details) the other dimensions experienced by the characters still correspond to the Shepiroth and the Qliphoth in the Jewish Kabbalah. These other dimensions also correspond to modern quantum physics, string theory and even actual scientific studies regarding teleportation, telepathy, telekinesis and 80's films about the U.S. Government conducting a scientific study to learn how to assassinate people in their sleep through dreams. That is what is so wonderful, and horrific, about The Duffer Brothers. No matter from where you stare, the nightmare is there, and it is still original, although the roots of their story dig deep into horror, science fiction, and all that cool old skool 80's funk.

A GODLESS UNIVERSE WITHOUT MAGIC

The people who exist in the Stranger Things universe are doomed. Just like the Zoroastrians, ancient Hebrews and Greek Gnostics described, they exist inside Demiurge. There is no religion. There is no occult or magic to free them from The Matrix that is Plato's Cave. All they have is science, willpower and each other. There is never a point where a Jewish rabbi describes other dimensions and how they relate to the problem the characters face. We never see a Catholic priest offer his services to exorcise the demon, and these people must have seen The Exorcist, right? It's like, the greatest horror movie ever, even back in the 80's.

Raise your hands if you love The Exorcist!

A Muslim holy man never shows up to point out that Will is possessed by a djinn, and if you look up "Muslims and djinns" on YouTube you will get some pretty spooky results, my friend. We don't see a witch offer to bless Eleven or throw out some cool Wiccan spiritual guidance, Anton LeVay doesn't fly out of the night with giant bat wings and explain the relationship between Pazzuzu and the Thassalhydra...you get it. "Stranger Things 2" carried on the same trend as number one. The best you get is a mention of, "religious mumbo jumbo" (how offensive to voodoo bokors possessed by the Baron Samedhi). Why?

One, to be different. Two, H.P. Lovecraft. In his universe, the people who explore the Cthulhu mythos are fuckin' doomed. They will either be killed, vanish, go mad, or vanish but it's pretty obvious something from another dimension turned them into crimson meat before carrying off the remains because there's blood everywhere. If a person does understand the occult, they are usually a sorcerer that becomes possessed, goes mad or vanishes, but it's pretty obvious that...yeah, you understand. Religion never helps anybody, when Cthulhu is involved.

H.P. Lovecraft was a logical, scientifically minded, rational materialist. In his own private journals he only admits to seeing a satyr in the forest as a young boy, and even then he thinks it was just a figment of his imagination. He was a total atheist, and if the rumors about his parents being members of a Satanic cult that practiced black magic so they ended up going mad and dying in a mental institution are true, I'd love to see some serious proof. It's just a rumor, but only the occultists I've read up on talk about it, and just ask a barbarian, magic-users cannot be fully trusted.

Run away! It's a Straight White Male!

The world of H.P. Lovecraft is pure science. Only, science doesn't understand that it is doomed. In a lot of his stories professors who teach at universities, well-grounded in chemistry, philosophy, physics and whatever gave them their education, have no idea what they are really up against and usually try to explain away clearly supernatural phenomena through the scanner darkly that is their materialistic worldview, right up until they die.

Even when they do see something horrifically alien to this dimension, they admit their minds couldn't even fathom what they just saw. These scientists don't believe in magic or the occult, and even the zany, psychedelic mystical nature of dreams his characters experience can be explained away as a hallucination. Probably too much absinthe or opium.

What goes up will also go down.

MY PREDICTIONS

"Stranger Things 3" will be the same way. All science, no magic or religion. I believe they are going to bring in even more science to deal with what's going on, maybe a little Valikovsky and more quantum physics, plus computers. Expect to see the children hacking government machines for the truth, or coming up with solutions using a Macintosh computer. You'll also see an old-skool telephone modem. Why not?

Eleven is going to still have problems and will experience hallucinations resembling UFO experiences. The 80's got into some serious UFO territory regarding aliens and extraterrestrial abductions, I mean, abductions by extraterrestrials, and she's also going to encounter an enemy that has mental powers, but works for the government, or a greater evil. She's confronted her dark side, now she has to take on her real Adversary. In literature and cinematic works worth writing about, the hero always confronts a villain that is their polar opposite, their dark half, in the form of an antagonist that personifies everything they oppose. I predict it will be Kali. Eleven's father is also still out there, according to episode 7.

The real secret of Netflix's success? PRODUCT PLACEMENT.

THE KING AND THE LAND ARE ONE

Eleven never met Kali. She exists, but they talked to each other in their minds, on the astral plane, while Eleven was sleeping on the train back home. I'm going to prove that, too. Eleven is going to save her mother in the psychodrome, but be opposed by that hideous shadow in a different form while she is doing it. Why? Aside from the film Dreamscape, H.P. Lovecraft talked a lot about The Astral Plane in The "Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath." Televisions will probably be a factor.

Will still has problems. The hole might be closed, but the rot remains and Eleven is still the source of this entity, unless her mother is. That rot in the ground (biological waste from the Golliwog's probably caused it, since they used the tunnels to move around) is still there, so expect it to mess up everything and cause death, madness and worse. This is a very, very, very common theme in Stephen King's books. Something Horrible arrives that the town turns terrifyingly evil. I don't think Will is going to get possessed again, but other people will and he is going to be able to detect it. Many of the people working for the Hawkins facility sure seem possessed. Or mind controlled.

It happens in The Tommyknockers, The Mist, It, Needful Things, The Shining, all throughout The Gunslinger series, in Salem's Lot and The Dome and Maximum Overdrive, I mean, the short story, "Trucks." If the town doesn't go crazy, (and by that I mean the people are affected by the Thessalhydra in a mass mind control way), the Something Horrible that arrives usually destroys the whole damn town, but not before people go crazy along the way to help out. This is why, at the end of the series, I predict the whole damn town is going to be swallowed up by the hole Hawkins opened.

Run away! It's a Straight White (and Green) Male!

"THAT INNSMOUTH LOOK"

Remember, the rot is everywhere. The Sheriff getting a blast of spores is a great candidate for a Juju Zombie, straight out of AD&D, straight out of The Monster Manual II. I'm going to predict more strange, pseudo-scientific, blood-drinking related behavior from the supernatural forces the kids are going to face next in "Stranger Things 3." Zombies, ghosts, ghouls, vampires...and serial killers. Demonically possessed, mind-controlled serial killers, as well as government entities that, like Will, are possessed...but aren't trying to fight it at all. You see, in D&D the undead are discussed quite thoroughly. When the kids encounter the new threat, their RPG background will benefit them.

FROM NAHEMAH TO LILITH TO GAMALIEL

There were plenty of films in the 80's that had everything I've just described. Serial killers, Satanic cults and child abductions were also very big at that time, with books like Communion becoming national best sellers that brought the subject of UFO's and aliens into mainstream culture in a major way. However, it must be remembered that The Duffer Brothers are very intelligent when it comes to repackaging the horror from the 80's in a major way.

You are here. Forever. Da'ath is basically a wormhole. Thanks a lot, Da'ath!

Sure, I predict zombies, ghosts, ghouls, vampires and demonically-possessed, mind controlled serial killers, but it is going to be reprocessed and delivered in a very fresh, extremely alien way so as to be unrecognizable, just like Demogorgon, the Thassalhydra, the Polliwogs, etc. It won't be a vampire exactly, but it will be a human, influenced by dark forces from beyond, that does evil and drinks blood for personal power. Possession and mind control will certainly be factors. Billy sure went fuckin' crazy and tried to kill everyone after his parents showed up. That happened in It and The Shining. Mind controlled, possessed people, possible government agents, killing everybody. Fun times.

THERE SHALL BE MORE

That will be all for now. There will be more very soon. I'm re watching the series, going on YouTube to study the fine works of my august contemporaries, drag them screaming to my torture chambers until they tell me the bloody truth (I personally enjoy listening to Iron Maiden while shoving somebody inside my iron maiden). Soon I shall have something dreadful for you to enjoy, Dear Reader. Will, Kali, Eleven, Billy, the Golliwogs, the Thassalhydra...there is so much to talk about, and by the time I'm done you're going to know why going somewhere over the rainbow can be so very important for a mental epiphany, personal enlightenment, and most of all, finding your dark side to become one with it.


The Official Site of Stranger Things