The Curious Case of Stanley Kubrick
Or How I Learned to Start Worrying and Love Occult Symbolism
Most people know Stanley Kubrick as a perfectionist film-maker, one who was obsessed with control and realism, who pushed both technical and intellectual boundaries within cinema. His films are famously filled with esoteric symbolism and deeper, often hidden meaning.
But his work transcends mere entertainment, and ultimately functions as a series of occult architectures designed to reveal the hidden layers of the powers that be that govern our world.
Kubrick was born to Jewish immigrants on July 26, 1928 — in a hospital in Manhattan, during a time when 90-95% of births were at home. His father was a homeopathic doctor and his family was rather wealthy. His Wikipedia page for some reason notes that his grandfather immigrated to America at 47 years old, leaving behind a wife and two grown children to start a new life with a younger woman.
Kubrick wasn’t just a writer and director. He was an intellectual disclosure mechanism for the elites. After all, he directed some of the their most favorite films, from Lolita to the moon landing.
From 2001: A Space Odyssey in which he was “predicting” what space travel looked like before it was shown to the public, to the elite rituals disclosed in Eyes Wide Shut, Kubrick used religious and esoteric symbolism as a vehicle to not only disclose elite knowledge about the systems of transformation and control that shape our society — but to initiate an unwitting audience into the very occult systems it describes.
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