Join Rob when he will be on Life in the Hologram radio show! Program debuts live this Thursday, November 29, 2018 airing on KCOR Digital Radio. Show airs at 12:00 pm (noon) EST (9:00 am PT) and streams globally across the internet; to listen click banner:
Rob’s appearance on Issac Weishaupt’s Conspiracy Theories and Unpopular Culture is now stationed on YouTube! Check it out!
New Podcast! Listen to Rob talk esoteric movie symbolism on Isaac Weishaupt’s Conspiracy Theories and Unpopular Culture! Rob talks Black Swan, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, The Shining, Suspiria, and the satori of Ed Wood. To listen click image:
Rob’s November 14, 2018, appearance on Swamp Gas is now archived on their website. Listen to Rob talk all his books and the Mandela Effect. To listen click image:
Destined to become a classic, Rob’s November 7, 2018 appearance on Beyond the Veil is now stationed on YouTube. Listen to Rob talk Freemasonry, Cinema Symbolism, A Pact with the Devil, and the Mandela Effect. Check it out!
In case you missed it Rob’s November 2, 2018, appearance on Hyperspace is now archived. Listen to Rob talk September 11, 2001 and its nexus to Spies Like Us, The Simpsons, and Fight Club. Rob also talks horror films and the mystical holiday of Halloween. To listen click banner:
Join Rob this Friday night, November 2 (All Souls’ Day), when he will be on KCOR Digital Radio on Hyperspace! Program debuts live at 9:00 pm PT (midnight EST). To listen click image:
Currently writing Cinema Symbolism 3. Here is an excerpt (rough draft) for your consideration.
Bates Motel was one of this author’s favorite television series. It aired on the A&E Network for five seasons from 2013 to 2017. The show was a modern retelling of Hitchcock’s Psycho with hardcore Easter eggs turning up during its entire run. The eggs served to pay homage to Hitchcock and Psycho (1960). Psycho is replete with esoteric symbolism, so it is no wonder Bates Motel followed in its footsteps.
(Left) Susanna and the Elders oil painting by either Frans van Mieris the Elder (1635-1681) or Willem van Mieris (1662-1747), Frans’ youngest son. The painting, based on a story from the Bible, shows three men, like Norman Bates, spying on a bathing woman. In the Biblical tale, the men accuse her of erotic blackmail; in Room 1 of the Bates Motel, Norman qua Mother brutally stabs the naked woman. (Right) During Psycho’s climatic grand finale, Norman assumes Susanna’s same posture as he is being subdued by Sam Loomis.
For instance, the oil painting Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins, 1932-1992) uses to cover the secret peephole in the Bates Motel parlor symbolizes his repressed sexuality. Voyeuristically watching Marion Crane (Janet Leigh, 1927-2004), his passion brings jealous “Mother” to life; she, not Norman, seals her fate. The image is a replica of a painting called Susanna and the Elders. It depicts a story from the Bible–Book of Daniel, Chapter 13–in which three old men spy on an innocent woman as she gets ready to bathe, but when they find themselves overcome with passion, they accuse her of sexual blackmail. Later, when he is caught by Sam Loomis (John Gavin, 1931-2018), Norman’s position mirrors Susanna’s from the painting: his clothes are torn while his head is thrown back, and his right arm lifted high in the air. Stripped of his mother’s dress and his cheap wig, Norman is finally seen “naked” for all he is: mother and son, female and male, guilty and innocent.
Copyright Robert W. Sullivan IV, Esq., 2018.
I’ve been very busy of late writing five books at once. Currently, I am working on Cinema Symbolism 3, the sequel to A Pact with the Devil, a commissioned work (bound by a nondisclosure agreement), Volume One in a series titled Tale of the Black Flame, and Freemasonry and the Path to Babylon. Stay tuned……
Rob was on Aeon Byte Gnostic Radio! This was one of my first interviews and is one of my favorites. Check it out! Eckhard saw Hell too……
Robert W. Sullivan IV 