Severance Is a Gnostic Gospel About Your Forgotten Self

If the innie is the part of you that was made to forget, who is the one who wakes up: the one who was sent, or the one who was left behind? Severance gives its characters two lives in one body, and the Gnostic texts have an old way of reading that split. In this video you'll discover: • How the innie and outie map onto the Gnostic idea of a divided soul • Why Kier Eagan reads like a founder-Demiurge with his own scripture • What the Hymn of the Pearl says about a soul that forgets its errand • How the Apocryphon of John describes Yaldabaoth and the making of a false world • What the Hypostasis of the Archons offers for reading the rules and rooms of Lumon • How Heimarmene, the Gnostic idea of fate, shines a light on corporate control • A question to take home: who is the one who wakes up? Chapters 0:00 Intro 1:18 Two Selves, One Body 3:24 The Founder and His Book 6:04 The Rooms Built to Keep You Small 7:58 The Pearl and the Forgotten Errand 10:10 The Message in the Wrong Hands 12:19 The Truth Nobody Wanted to See 14:34 Fate With a Corporate Face 16:31 What the Door Opens Onto 18:38 The question, answered More from us [add five of your own videos under Rules, ReligionForSleep included] This video is commentary and criticism. Short excerpts are used under fair use for the purpose of analysis. All rights to the original work belong to its owners. #Severance #Gnosticism #GnosticCinema