Beloved Community,
Have you ever sensed that certain films carry codes of remembrance beneath their surface stories? That they serve not only as entertainment, but as portals into deeper awareness, collective archetypes, and soul evolution?
We invite you to a new offering for 2026:
Through a Whale’s Eye: Discovering the Larger Patterns Embedded in Film
Like a sacred book club — but cinematic — this monthly Zoom gathering invites you to watch a film on your own beforehand, and then join a curated circle of consciousness explorers to dive beneath the surface.
Each month, we’ll swim into the mythic, symbolic, and spiritual layers of a selected film — using the lens of expanded consciousness and archetypal mapping to uncover the deeper story beneath the story.
Here are some of the questions we’ll explore together:
What is this film really saying — beneath the surface?
What initiatory or archetypal themes does it activate?
How is it whispering (or roaring) to your soul’s journey?
What shadows or luminous truths is it illuminating?
What collective myths is it reinforcing — or rewriting?
How is this film affecting the collective mind-field of Earth?
And how might that be shaping our shared reality?
This will be an interactive experience — not a passive webinar. You’ll be warmly invited to share your own insights, visions, and inner stirrings. We’re not just watching — we’re alchemizing meaning together.
This is a space to train your vision to see “through the Whale’s eye” — vast, wise, and attuned to the unseen currents of collective transformation.
Join us for our voyage:
Featured Film: “Collateral Beauty”
Collateral Beauty serves as a reminder that pain and beauty coexist. This film offers several profound spiritual lessons about grief, connection, and the human experience. The spiritual journey of the film is about moving from angry resistance against the universe to a state of profound surrender—accepting that while we cannot control tragedy, we can choose to look for the grace, connection, and love that remain in its wake. The film follows Howard, a grieving father who retreats from life after the death of his young daughter. In his anger and sorrow, he writes therapeutic letters not to people, but to three abstract concepts: Love, Time, and Death. When these three concepts literally manifest in his life (portrayed by actors hired by his friends, though layered with mystical ambiguity), Howard is forced to confront them. On this call we will be deepening together around these important concepts to face off with and come to terms with in a human life.
We send out a synthesis before the call so that even if you have not watched the film before the call, you can be a part of the lively discussion around the spiritual content of the film. Join us to enjoy diving into this moving film.
Date: Tuesday, July 14th, 2026
Time: 12PM PST
Location: Zoom
Bring your open heart, your notes, your questions, your wonder. This is not about critique — it’s about communion.
Let us gather in the temple of shared vision — not to analyze, but to re-member.
With joy and cinematic wonder,
Ariel
