The Neverending Story Series Mind Kontrol

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The Neverending Story movie series is based on a novel by the author Michael Ende. He grew up during WWII in Germany and his father, Edgar Ende, was a Nazi and a famous painter.

Edgar Ende (1901–1965)
He went through a very special inner process to find his ideas. He retreated to the dark room, a quiet, darkened space. He wanted to remove all external stimuli and distractions. Even his own mind should not contribute to discovering new ideas. Edgar Ende waited until his consciousness was completely empty, a place in which ideas for images emerged. He captured these fleeting insights with an illuminated writing tool of his own making. He would draw the contours and shapes, every now and then assigning a color to a certain area. He collected these “dark room drawings”, as he called them, sometimes leaving the ideas for a while. He would wait to see if the image spoke to him again.

Red shoes on the shelf

When Edgar met the founder of surrealism, André Breton (1896 – 1966), the father of surrealism, he declared he was a surrealist. Surrealist automatism is a method of art-making in which the artist suppresses conscious control over the making process, allowing the unconscious mind to have great sway. "Pure psychic automatism" was how André Breton defined Surrealism. He played the surrealist game Exquisite Corpse with other famous painters at the time. It is: Game of folded paper played by several people, who compose a sentence or drawing without anyone seeing the preceding collaboration or collaborations. The result is a collective work which, in theory, is free of the limitations we face as individuals. One person would draw the head, for example, while others sketched the upper body, lower body, etc. Together, the unique parts, make up an “exquisite truth” which could never be arrived at alone.
Here are some of his works:

André went to Haiti to connect surrealism with the ritual practices of Vodou possession. He said "Haitian painting will drink the blood of the phoenix. And, with the epaulets of [Jean-Jacques] Dessalines, it will ventilate the world." He was referring to the work of painter and Vodou priest Hector Hyppolite (1894–1948) , who directly depicted Vodou scenes and the lwa (Vodou deities). Breton integrated this artwork into the increased surrealist focus on the occult, myth, and magic.

Hector Hyppolite (1894–1948)

Voodoo Ritual, look familiar?

 

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Michael Ende

Some quotes:

• “When it comes to controlling human beings there is no better instrument than lies. Because, you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated. The power to manipulate beliefs is the only thing that counts.”
• “Only the right name gives beings and things their reality. A wrong name makes everything unreal. That's what lies do.”
• “Strange as it may seem, horror loses its power to frighten when repeated too often.”
• “You must let what happens happen. Everything must be equal in your eyes, good and evil, beautiful and ugly, foolish and wise.”
• “Once someone dreams a dream, it can't just drop out of existence. But if the dreamer can't remember it, what becomes of it? It lives on in Fantasia, deep under Earth. There are forgotten dreams stored in many layers. The deeper one digs, the closer they are. All Fantasia rests on a foundation of forgotten dreams.”
• “If you have never wept bitter tears because a wonderful story has come to an end and you must take your leave of the characters with whom you have shared so many adventures, whom you have loved and admired, for whom you have hoped and feared, and without whose company life seems empty and meaningless.”
• “People never seemed to notice that, by saving time, they were losing something else. No one cared to admit that life was becoming ever poorer, bleaker and more monotonous. The ones who felt this most keenly were the children, because no one had time for them any more. But time is life itself, and life resides in the human heart. And the more people saved, the less they had.”
• “You wish for something, you've wanted it for years, and you're sure you want it, as long as you know you can't have it. But if all at once it looks as though your wish might come true, you suddenly find yourself wishing you had never wished for any such thing.”
• “If you stop to think about it, you’ll have to admit that all the stories in the world consist essentially of twenty-six letters. The letters are always the same, only the arrangement varies. From letters words are formed, from words sentences, from sentences chapters, and from chapters stories.”
• “Life holds one great but quite commonplace mystery. Though shared by each of us and known to all, seldom rates a second thought. That mystery, which most of us take for granted and never think twice about, is time. Calendars and clocks exist to measure time, but that signifies little because we all know that an hour can seem as eternity or pass in a flash, according to how we spend it. Time is life itself, and life resides in the human heart.”
• “Those who still think that listening isn’t an art should see if they can do it half as well.”
• "Is it very painful?" Atreyu asked. "No," said the second bark troll, the one with the hole in his chest. "You don't feel a thing. There's just something missing. And once it gets hold of you, something more is missing every day. Soon there won't be anything left of us.”
• “He wanted to be loved for being just what he was. He no longer wanted to be the greatest, strongest or cleverest. He had left all that far behind. He longed to be loved just as he was, good or bad, handsome or ugly, clever or stupid, with all his faults - or possibly because of them. But what was he actually? He no longer knew. So much have been given to him in Fantasia, and now, among all these gifts and powers, he could no longer find himself.”

Other books he wrote:
Momo, also known as The Grey Gentlemen or The Men in Grey
Momo is a little girl who is illiterate and cannot count, and she doesn't know how old she is. When asked, she replies, "As far as I remember, I've always been around." The Men in Grey are paranormal parasites stealing the time of humans and appearing in the form of grey-clad, grey-skinned, bald men. The sinister influence of the Men in Grey affects the whole city: life becomes sterile, devoid of all things considered time-wasting, like social activities, recreation, art, imagination, or sleeping. In reality, the more time people save, the less they have; the time they save is actually lost to them. They consume time in the form of cigars made from the dried petals of the hour-lilies that represent time which is necessary for their existence.

The Mirror in the Mirror: A Labyrinth.
"If one claims to have 'understood' something or to be able to 'explain' something, that usually means nothing more than to reduce it to something known before, to something familiar. While writing this book I intended to invite the reader to something of a free game, where the content of imagination or consciousness is constantly destroyed or transformed so that it becomes impossible to cling to it."

The Goggolori
A Bavarian fairy tale. Piece in eight pictures and an epilogue
Michael Ende tells an old Bavarian legend: The farmer Irwing makes a pact with the goblin Goggolori at the time of the Thirty Years' War. The Goggolori promises to give the farmer of everything in abundance. In return, he demands from farmer Irwing the first part of the harvest, the cattle and the happiness. But soon the farmer and his wife are to regret the pact: The Goggolori goes one step further and also demands Irwing's daughter Zeipoth. In her desperation, Irwing's wife calls the Ullerin, who is in league with dark forces, to help. A destructive battle between magical powers is looming.

 

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Do What Thou Wilt

The Neverending Story anniversary cover art which says, "Tu was du willst."
The Auryn from the TV series says, "Do what you wish," on the back.
The Snake hisses at Bastion II.

The snake on the cover is an ouroboros, a snake eating its own tail. The ouroboros is often interpreted as a symbol for eternal cyclic renewal or a cycle of life, death, and rebirth. The skin-sloughing process of snakes symbolizes the transmigration of souls, the snake biting its own tail is a fertility symbol in some religions, and the tail of the snake is a phallic symbol, the mouth is a yonic or womb-like symbol.

The Neverending Story II
This starts with Bastion being frightened of diving off a high board and imagining he was facing raging waterfalls. At home, his father is not supportive and tells him his sweater is ugly. Bastion says It was made by his deceased mother and his father forgot. Bastion goes to the old man’s book store, steals the Neverending Story book (again) and runs away. The Auryn on the cover comes to life with red glowing eyes and hisses. He becomes hypnotized with a drawing of the Child Like Empress and he goes to Fantasia.

Meanwhile - In Fantasia, the evil sorceress Xayide calls her spy bird Nimbly. When he looks at her he is surprised that she does not have a face which she then puts on.

Her servant Tri-Face explains his invention called the memory machine. Whenever Bastion makes a wish with the Auryn he will lose a memory. The memory becomes *liquid in his head* and is expelled in a glass ball. Once all of his memories are lost, he will be *empty* and forget his life and his mission to save the Empress. Xayide says “that’s when I will bring order to the chaos (she repeats this line later) that they call dreams and stories.

Nimbly is sent to trick Bastion to make wishes. He accompanies him to the Silver City where monsters attack them. They escape and as Bastion is saying, “I’m safe,” he falls back onto a hidden slide and goes to the bottom of the ship. The characters there tell him he is in the Ship of Secret Plots.

Here Bastion speaks to the Empress. She wants him to give the evil force destroying Fantasia a name. The beings there are creatures of human fantasies that need human dreams and stories to exist. Bastion is the only one who can heal both worlds of fantasy and reality. He later names the evil force, "The Emptiness," but this does not change anything.

Meanwhile – Bastion’s dad Barney is looking for him and goes the bookstore’s address on the book. The old man says there is no address as it has disappeared. Barney says, “I’m an engineer. I see what I see when I see it." (he repeats this exact phrase later). The old man tells him he may find the reason Bastion has disappeared in the book.

Meanwhile – Bastion tries to rally the freaks of Silver City to help him but they are cowards and refuse. Nimbly talks about going to the hand castle AKA the Seeing Hand AKA Horok castle where Xayide lives that can only be reached through flight. Bastion wishes for a dragon for transport but it ends up terrorizing the people. Falkor helps to chase the dragon through a mountain tunnel with an evil laugh and the dragon is killed by the hand castle.

Atreyu & Bastion:

• Bastion Get real
• Atreyu but I am real, what do you mean by getting real?
• Bastion it’s a joke
• Atreyu being real is a joke in your world?

They go to the hand castle, monsters attack and Atreyu stays behind to distract the them. He says, "It’s a good day to die." Xayide says she’s trying to bring order to chaos in Fantasia. Atreyu says, “Perhaps she feels it’s a good day to die.”(a second time) They agree to see the empress together.

Meanwhile – Barney goes back to the bookstore with a cop and finds it for sale. He tells the cop it is one sophisticated operation they are running. The cop says it must be the wrong address. Barney says, “Look I’m an engineer and what I see Is what I see when I see it” (second time)

Xayide gives Bastion a gold belt with one eye that makes him invisible. He is scared he can’t see himself. Xayide pushes him to make a wish and he reappears. They make a stop so Bastion and Atreyu can speak. Atreyu shows Bastion how they are actually travelling in circles and not going to the Ivory tower. Xayide is impatient with them and Atreyu reminds Bastion she is their prisoner. Later Bastion asks see a coin trick Xayide did again. She said she showed him a million times. He is apologetic and says it’s the smoke in the carriage and its hard to remember things.
Xayide: Why remember things when you can wish for them?

Atreyu and Falkor are discussing the situation. Wearing the invisibility belt Bastion eavesdrops on them say they need to take the Auryn from him. He confronts Atreyu who tells him about the memory machine in the carriage and in a few more wishes the emptiness will possess him. They fight and Atreyu is thrown to his death. Bastion sees the memory machine and is horrified. Falkor leaves with Atreyu so Bastion takes Artex. He tries to jump across a chasm but Xayide send a magic hand that grabs him by the head, making him fall from the horse, down into rapids.

Xayide travels to the underworld and travels at the speed of darkness which is faster than the speed of light. Bastion survives and is now laying parched in the desert. He is exhausted and “possessed” by a deep dreamless sleep.” Nimbly appears and says he is there to help him. Bastion asks if he expects him to believe him. Nimbly answers, "Yes you have to. " Nimbly tells him how to get to the Ivory tower. Bastion asks him to come but he says, “I got the part of a spy in the story. And he who spies who flies away lives to spy another day.” He flies away.

Silver city is a blackened heap. Atreyu is dead and Bastion’s final wishes will cause him to lose memories of his mother and father. “My mother would have wanted it this way”. He wishes for Atreyu to live. Now he has lost the memory of his mother and Atreyu is outraged . He uses his last wish for Xayide to have a heart. She cries explodes with the monsters and everything is restored.

The Empress tells Bastion the emptiness could not be destroyed it had to be filled with love. She says the Auryn is a mirror of what’s inside him. Courage comes from the heart, not from symbols. If he has found courage he can go home and heal both fantasy and reality.

The world crumbles in front of him and he is again facing the raging waterfalls. The only way to get home is to dive, he hears his father’s voice encouraging him so he jumps off the cliff into the waterfalls and is reunited with his father.

Cut to the Neverending Story book where the Auryn is beamed back onto the cover.

 

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Neverending Story II

Triface and background character of the first movie look similar to a costume at the Rothschild's ball.

Masked characters who stare and move around in the background at the Silver City.

Eyes wide shut masked ball

 

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I wanted to post pictures of the actors but there are a lot of pedo type themes. Yuck.
This is Barrett Oliver with the producer or director of the Neverending Story.

 

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Some things from Neverending Story I

The Magic Mirror Gate - The mirror shows who you really are and some people run away screaming. Atreyu sees Bastion and is able to pass through the mirror.

Bastion in the attic of his school. Skull and bones behind him. Another skeleton by the window.

Bastion criss crossing his fingers.

 

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Psychological impact of naming new self-states
Assignment of names to self-states is central to mind control, as it was to Tien’s electrolytic love therapy. Abusers quickly assign names to define new self-states, such as “Evil”, or “Lolita”. Self-states tend to perceive themselves as belonging to whomever named them. If the programmer delays in assigning a name, and the self-state can name, it may be able to elude the trainer. Names allow programmers to call self-states forward. Survivors often guard the names of self-states to prevent their being summoned.

Gresch (personal communication, 2009) explains, “The art of mind control is the art of controlling attention”. Names are a means for programmers to manipulate this attention.

 

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I found this amusing. This article was taken down and the link redirects to a different Neverending Story article.
He was being honest!

Original link: The whimsical fantasy that traumatized a generation is back to ruining childhoods on streaming
Web Archive : The whimsical fantasy that traumatized a generation is back to ruining childhoods on streaming

 

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It's so sad how so many tv shows/movies have horrible symbolism and meanings to them. The Neverending Story is a movie I've loved for years. It's crazy what's actually associated with it.

 

[Vmort]

@Sibi Thank you! We shoudn't be surprized to see NS as MK ULTRA script.