Embrace Of The Serpent

Hello all people, what I have to say many won't accept what I have to tell but it is important and while I am just like you what I am going to tell you warrants you open your heart and mind. When I was 24 I flew into Peru with my guide Kenda we traveled up the Leaving from Iquitos we went into the jungle-after three days we came upon a clearing-Kenda told me to wait here. but first the reason for my being here-I was intent to gather plant samples-my degree is in Pharmacognacy (we study plant extracts to develop new medicines). Anyway after several hours Kenda returned and told me the Elders wish to see me -I entered the village and all of the tribe had formed 2 lines in parallel. All heads turned facing the ground.-I was welcomed into the hogan of the Elders-Kenda already explained my reasons. all turned their heads down except their Shamen Kenda said to follow-I did-He prepared a similar drink(yahee, vision vine-ayawaska ) A form guided me - I saw the instant of creation-through to the end (our end)-My message to all If we carelessly continue down the path we are on our fear,pain and loss it ends everything-I waited this many years for I didn't fully understand His gift to me not the shamen (Ana) but the guiding form-I now see almost an exact replay-and just like dominoes events are taking me from then to now-Please open your eyes and mind-ask anyone-we are close to tipping the first domino-WE HAVE A CHANCE TO CHANGE- terrorism is the same as a plague-It affects weaker,hateful and now when we attack after a terrorist it causes collateral damage (this feeds the plague-we have the ability to alter it all-One path is try to eradicate the terror plague-since 911 we have tried it it seems to not be working--of all our leaders I have yet to hear one ask the the question what they really want-my visions haunted me for years and brought me here to share my story. We have lost something -most have lost everything we are losing our compassion,our ability to choose and to think unencumbered . Most of all almost everyone has lost something or someone-to the terror gripping this planet-myself included. All through history aggression/war ended when a single man on one side said enough and meets an adversary and they talk find out they are not so different-with a handshake a cure of the plague is found. One Christmas in the 1940's American GI's met a group of German Soldiers-had a dinner ,talked, and silently made bonds of friendship-only hours earlier they intent on killing each other-why did this happen?? Maybe there was someone like myself initiated it? or both sides found out they were not so different after all. I was born American and I love my country and ALL it's people! I deeply respect our fragile world-and we have no escape if things go really wrong. We constantly pride ourselves to the fact that we are the first creature (unlike the dinosaurs) that have the ability to fend off risks that can end our world--caution -- what if the end starts with in.. Nuclear nations have the ability to end all life on Earth-thousand time over (MAD-mutually assured destruction-a very correct acronym)-WHY?? The form that guided me in Peru said pass the test--What? I didn't get then but I think it meant we as a whole are being tested---we aren't doing very well. All of us have work to end what is happening- Thinking one person can help-maybe one can start the change. This time it is for life or extinction. If the radical individuals won't talk-or change the first domino falls- they are trying to force us into a endgame I stand with you and our Government-it is one path that causes my nightmares-I cry and have a heavy heart for all our soldiers that gave their lives to protect us-and innocent victims around the world. Such loss -(911, gulf wars, terrorist reactions- a young boy detonates himself in what was a day of celebration- again why? I am a regular person like you--I saw the second path- a golden world prosperous-war and terror are a dim memory. The terrorist must stop or we all fail the test-If we are to pass the test and the terrorists,(radicals-whatever you call them ) we need to back our government and especially the soldiers and in the end we may be successful. I don't have an answer as how to get to the other path- but I have seen a prosperous kinder world.and we must start with you and change hate and fear in you into a fading memory-you might be surprised what replaces it.. As far as Peru went in three weeks the villagers helped to bring several samples they use for medicine-My initiation to the tribe was to do the ceremony--in their culture if you survive the vision you become one of the PEOPLE. All I ask is to just try to lift yourself above the terror and hate. I can leave this world with a light heart, happy. One thing I didn't mention is I have a progressive autoimmune disorders (several- with no cure). and I apologize that during the vision I saw the two paths but I was given no answer to end a horrific path and find the fork in the paths to walk the path of peace-it was wonderful-I don't think it was just a drug induced fantasy. -Some time later Kenda told me what the elders said--The message you received is to be sent to those who will listen We (elders) can't go they said they are not even real people-no one would listen to us but you have seen and go back to your world and if we pass the test-maybe we will see each other again. Maybe in your hut in the northern lands--When the terror is gone I hope I live long enough to hear a knock at my door of my hut-lol We have to try to pass the test I have faith in us all, and we can change- I did -and you don't have to vision ceremony-I already did and I brought you the information and I have nothing more-------------------Good Luck-----------Rob

So I am taking a class at the university. The professor insisted we watch this movie. I am eternally gratefully that he did.Karamakate meets two foreign explorers years apart. His interactions with these men encompass the main story line. This film addresses genocide as well as colonialism and the damage it causes.There is, for me, a strong metaphysical bent to this film. And the camera work is exquisite.

A tremendous film! Many people will not like it, though. The story is based on the diary account and letters of a scientist-explorer who visited and researched the Amazonian peoples in the early 20th century. He gathered some of the native peoples tools and artifacts to take back to Europe along with all his notes. There were various tribes at that time, many of whom were kept as slave laborers for the rubber barons, the Colombians, or subjugated and tortured by Christian missionaries. The film simply re-enacts those events that the explorer witnessed and noted.While that story is unfolding, another parallel story also unfolds that takes place about 40 years later: Another explorer is seeking the native guide, now quite old, who the first scientist describes in his diary. This guide had talked of the spiritual healing powers of an indigenous plant that grew on the rubber tree and caused the rubber tree to produce the purest rubber; the second scientist claims he wants to experience the spirit-opening result of ingesting that sacred plant so that he will be able to dream. He claims that plants have been his whole life and he wants to gain the wisdom the plant will give him.While these two time-separated stories slowly unravel, the viewer sees an intertwining of lives. The story is filmed almost entirely in black & white; it is subtle, honest, forthright, tragic, mystical, and inspiring. While the horrific nature of the true events related in the story leave one shaken to the core, the depth and sensitivity of how the story was presented leave one feeling profoundly moved. The ending was perfect.A quiet, intelligent, sensitive film that won the 2016 Canns Film Festival, "Embrace of the Serpent" is a film that will undoubtedly go down in time as one of the greatest films in history.

Beautiful Black & White film shot in the North Western Amazon. An intertwining tales of two explorers, 40 years apart, guided by the same shaman, the last member of his tribe, in search of the same healing plant, Yakaruna. The time-lapse in these superimposed journeys, documents the pillaging of the rain forest and the concurrent enslavement and degradation of its indigenous peoples. So much pain in so much beauty. Great film!

Je recommande, d'autant plus que la filmographie de ce réalisateur s'étoffe. Le scénario change de la niaiserie de bien des prix des festivals internationaux dont le festival de Cannes qui va de mal en pis avec sa bien-pensance et ses invités qui semblent complètement dépassés par leur suffisance affectée et leur ego démesuré.

DVD neuf livré dans les délais.

This is simply one of the best movies I have ever seen. Sumptuous black and white footage of the Amazonian rain forest, filled with memorable scenes and characters. Completely bewitching.Please take a chance. Buy and watch this movie without knowing anything. You'll thank me later, I think.I really don't think we've seen the last of this director.

Not the movie that you want to watch, but that you need to watch.