I want to write bit on what Heath Ledger had meant to me and maybe in doing so come up with some deeper insights into life and synchronism's. I first came across him as the son of Mel Gibson’s Character in The Patriot, in that movie you really get close to the character and him in understanding who he was, and he played the part great.
Where he really struck home with me was in the second film and one of my favorites A Knights Tale. It was in this film that I saw that I didn’t need to live the same life I had been. I could "change my star’s" and young William Thatcher said in the movie. He didn’t know that was his path, he didn’t know that by being a squire for many years he would have this opportunity, he didn’t work and work and work in the hope’s of becoming a Knight as that is not how that happened in those days. You either were Nobility or you weren’t, there was no middle ground on this. He, after being in the position to pretend for a day, took the opportunity which was better than never even having it at all. This turned into a whirlwind of fortunate events that opened doors for him to become something he was not born into but something he was born to become.
"We are not creatures of circumstance; we are creators of circumstance." -Benjamin Disraeli
This really struck me in the sense that I always felt that I was on the outside looking in to becoming something I had always wanted to be, but never having the opportunity or sometimes the guts. This was in many aspects of my life at the time, previously and since. Now looking back it is amazing to think what an actor can do to put your mind into that realm of opening doors for yourself. This is why we revere them so much, much like musicians. It isn’t so much the story but the story we take from it to become something better. Are we born into something, are we born to do something, be something, strive for something.
I have been reading a lot about synchronicity and understanding them, this is why I feel this strikes such a cord with me as well. I feel this is a waking point as well as an ending point, it is time to shed the old and wake to the new. Those who have come before and are no longer with us were here to teach us something, as well as learn for themselves, when that teaching and learning was done in this life they moved on. What is good or bad right or wrong depends on the time in which you lived, weather you left your mark is left to the time that is yet to come. I think that most will see they have learned much from those that have come and gone in their lives.
I don't usually like nerding out this much but I recently read an article about how energy can not be destroyed it can only be changed. A great metaphor for what happens after we die is placed nicely in the Lord of the Rings; when Dumbledor the Grey becomes Dumbledor the White. He is the same yet he is on another plane of consciousness. Even though you may see him in the same dimensions, he has changed his entire mind and in this it has given him more knowledge and also more power. I think that as we grow we grab onto new things and gain levels just like this, on the outside we may change slightly but everyone still recognizes us as the same. We move up to different levels, we are able to do different feats and becomes something new.
Reality is in a constant state of flux and is very fluid, so much so that we sometimes don’t recognize it and become stuck in a swirl of currents going different ways. I find myself challenged to find direction and move forward and get out of the swirl to get onto the next level of consciousness, and to a new stage in life.
From a Knights Tale:Wat: You have been weighed.
Roland: You have been measured.
Kate: And you have absolutely...
Chaucer: Been found wanting.
William: Welcome to New World. God save you, if it is right that he should do so.
-JB
