Wonder Woman 1984 Spiritual Movie Review, release the desire for More!
Wonder Women 1984 is probably one of the best spiritual awakening movies that directly demonstrates the “desire for more” of the Ego thought system while also showing the solution that is given by Jesus in A Course in Miracles: the power, speed and simplicity of choosing to release the “desire for more” from the mind through forgiveness. The desire or wish for more is the same as the desire for an experience of weakness and powerlessness. Diana Prince as Wonder Woman is a very clear example of taking full responsibility for the mind by accepting the correction. This is what Jesus means when he says, “Choose again.”
The ego’s thought system is a wish (desire) for an experience to be more than God– the idea that it is possible to be more than All that Is. This is the dream of separation in which characters seem to search in an endless loops for peace and happiness through the wish (desire) to get “more” in the dream. At the beginning of the movie, one of the main characters, Max Lord, says, “Life is good, but it could be better. Think about everything you always wanted.” The ego answers, “Why not have more?” This is the tiny mad idea that blooms out a world of hatred and fear. What need has the Son of God for “more” when God has given him everything?
Diana Prince (Wonder Woman) is working at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC. It has been about 70 years in her “timeline” since the first Wonder Woman movie where she met and “fell in love” with Trevor (played by Chris Pine) during World War I. Trevor died at the end of the first movie, and in her heart, below the level of her awareness, Diana “wishes” to have him back. The ego is an attempt to convince us that figures in the dream can fill the feeling of lack or loss, yet it must be seen that this is a trick. This is merely the reflection of the power of the mind to make “wishes” (miscreation) seem to come true and with this wish “Trevor” mysteriously appears in Wonder Woman 1984. Since this wish is a form of “wanting more” it is an unhealed grievance that must be seen through and released in order for full acceptance of the Love of God that is here now.
This powerful movie demonstrates the havoc wrought through wishes–desires–for a dream of trying to get more, which is the same as asking for an experience to be bereft in time from the Love of God. And in the fulfillment of this desire “for more” and the resulting appearance of Trevor, Diana believes she has found happiness and love. Yet as she looks more deeply Diana realizes that since Trevor “reappeared” she is weak and seems to be unable to fully fulfill her function. At first she is not willing to admit it, yet over time with the help of the Holy Spirit she begins to recognize that she is avoiding a deeper looking to see what is true and releasing the “death wish” to a miracle.
In most DC comic strip movies we see the hero/heroine of the dream fighting what seems to be an outer enemy. This movie is refreshingly different as it points to the power of looking inward to make another choice. At first Diana attempts to fight the other characters to save the world. Finally she recognizes that she is responsible for her mind, and must admit that it is impossible to clear the mind of chaos and attack thoughts as long as the “wish for more” is held in the mind. Ultimately Diana discovers that she can not “fight” something outside of herself, she must go within to release the wish for something “more”– she must release through forgiveness the desire for the mis-creation of a dream figure to attempt to compensate for the seeming “loss” of Steve (and illusion of loss of love) from the mind.
Diana sees that in “rescinding” or “taking back” her wish she is then able to extend the love that she is and can be in service by calling others to join her in the Light of Truth. All can celebrate as many join her in recognizing the only way out of death and chaos is to “take back” the death wish for “more”.
And in releasing this wish (desired experience for loss), all strength returns to the Son of God. Diana discovers that she can fly, a symbol of accepting her true function in full service to the whole. Once we accept the correction the symbols in form reflect the change of mind, and Diana sees that many will follow her lead and give back the wish for “more”. In answering the call to give back the wish, Max Lord discovers that wanting more was merely an attempt to compensate for the desired experience of feeling less, and that the ultimate solution of giving back the wish leads to the recognition that Love has been here all along.
This movie “takes it all the way!” As Wonder Woman says in the trailer, “Braveness is not what you think.” Braveness is facing the desire for more and releasing it to miracles.
The movie beautifully depicts his openness and willingnessto have his concepts of God and the world completely reinterpreted by the Spirit, and ultimately to see the truth of the presence of Love. In Spiritual Awakening the desire to know the truth must be held to be of greater value than maintaining the concepts of delusion.
