The Stage 32 Videos: Stanley

This is Part 3 of my short-form video series (59 sec each), where I explore how film can reflect the deeper structures of archetypal symbolism. This time, I focus entirely on The Shining, and how the entire visual and narrative arc can be read as a hidden embodiment of The High Priestess — an archetype of silence, intuition, and concealed knowledge. The music comes from my original album based on the 22 Major Arcana. Each track was composed to capture the emotional essence of a Tarot archetype — in this case, mystery and stillness.

The creator of this video is Jay Myers. It was removed from YouTube and I rescued it from the internet swamp to re-share on appropriate platforms. I am now interested in sourcing a copy of the original Eyes Wide Shut screenplay to find out what was cut from the film, against Stanley Kubrick's wishes. “Eyes Wide Shut was not the movie Kubrick intended audiences to see. The studio cut 24 minutes from the film, and just few days later, the legendary filmmaker was dead. What was in those 24 minutes? And what happens at the REAL masked parties?" Join Jay Myers as he infiltrates the bizarre, high level hidden world of the Luciferian/Satanist.

"...the opportunity to talk about the writer's block is the release of the Extended Edition of Kubrick's masterpiece The Shining that after The Exorcist is the second in the world ranking of the most seen horror movies...” R.L.