Barak Shavit

First of all, I want to bring to people’s awareness that we are consciousness beings. I feel most of us live 90% of the time in our minds – planning the future, reflecting on the past. We do this automatically. We have so many ideas about ourselves but little idea about the mind. Usually we think that we control our mind. But in some situations, like in meditation, you soon realize it’s the other way around.  It’s very simple to test this; try not to think of anything for 30 seconds. If you try it, you soon realize that the mind has a will of its own and you can’t stop it, not even for 30 seconds. The mind is simply working, regardless of what powers you think you have over it. When you realize this you can start to see the space between who you are and the mind. And then there are question marks about us being just mind and body, you get a glimpse to a different point of view.  This is what we explore in iSyndrome.

I’m aiming for a certain experience the viewer would have, of somewhat of a shift in the personal point of view. I know it sounds a bit clumsy in words, and this is exactly why I want to make a movie, because on top of the messages we’ve discussed above, you can create an experience that has no equivalent in words.

Is there any other real change we can create? Over most of the things in our lives we have no control and can’t change them. I can’t change my dad, I can’t change the weather. The only thing that I have control over is my attitude or perspective, and that also sometimes seems impossible to change. I love Rumi quote about this: “He Who Looks Outside, Dreams; He Who Looks Inside, Awakes“. I believe true change is an inner one, and that is what generates a change in the outside world.

All of the above 🙂 (that would be a good start) 🙂

I think we can start by understanding who and what we are not. I love how they present this in Fight Club – “You’re not your job. You’re not how much money you have in the bank. You’re not the car you drive. You’re not the contents of your wallet. You’re not your f**king khakis. You’re the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world.”  And I continue this by saying – you are not your body, you are not your thoughts, you are not your feelings, just keep on digging.

Wow, I think this could be an entire article just by itself 🙂

It’s something to aspire to. When I hear “wellness” or “enlightenment” I always ask like a kid “Are we there yet?” It seems to me like the ultimate state to be in.

The way I see it, there are many levels reality is being expressed in and perceived in. Some are physical, some are metaphysical, and most of them we don’t understand. I had a lot of trouble defining it because all definitions are products of the mind, and at a certain point it seemed to me that in the “real reality” these definitions have little to do with what is really happening. I think that if we try to define reality again and again, it’s kind of beating the purpose – how would you define what gives you the ability to define in the first place? It’s like playing the same video game over and over again believing it somehow will make you understand its programing better. If you want to understand the programing – you should stop playing. I prefer to be more practical about reality, and focus on what I can change.  In the day to day level, reality is what you believe it is. If the voice in your head is always complaining and unhappy, you could be in the most beautiful day with wonderful people, and not even notice it let alone enjoy it. Or you could be in a lousy place all alone and be happy. What you can change about reality is your perspective of it. I think that this naïve attitude is the best way to form your reality, because 90% of reality it is what you believe it is.