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The Holy Mountain (1973)
★ 7.5 · 1,011 ratings on TMDB
The Alchemist assembles together a group of people from all walks of life to represent the planets in the solar system. The occult adept's intention is to put his recruits through strange mystical rites and divest them of their worldly baggage before embarking on a trip to Lotus Island. There they ascend the Holy Mountain to displace the immortal gods who secretly rule the universe.
DirectorAlejandro Jodorowsky
GenresDrama
The emergence reading
The Holy Mountain keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing religion, capitalism, power, spirituality.
zero-distanceUSreligioncapitalismpowerspirituality
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Same subject, different rung
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
Same people
Shared director or cast.
