Lucy and gnosis

I'll definitely have to check that out! I wondered how deep they might go since the name of the movie is Lucy.  Based on those quotes you pointed out it looks like they did go there.  Its interesting that our orthodox mythology would lead us to believe that the desire for knowledge is the root of all evil and that evil personified is the "light bringer" which in Latin is lucifer.  This is supposedly based on one usage in Isaiah in the context of mocking a ruler.....and of course ignores the fact that Jesus is later described with the same word.  I think, really, this whole line of thinking comes from the fear that the fictional professor in that movie was expressing.....and then some sort of "evidence" in scripture was sought out to back it up.  So we end up living in a world of ignorance and darkness fearing knowledge and light.......which was pretty much how the ancient Gnostics described the zeitgeist here in the Kenoma.  

Of course there's a "false light" to watch out for but that seems to usually come from mistaking the messenger for the message.  Using two somewhat opposite examples: if a person finds inspiration from reading the Bible or from an experience on drugs, this person may mistake the inspiration to be proof that the Bible is the final word on everything...... and the drug user may feel the same way about taking drugs, as though it were the only way to experience inspiration.  Without any kind of self knowledge inevitably the inspiration both initially felt fades and they seek comfort in the idea that though they may not have the answers they are looking for...the druggie likes to think he's so much closer to it than the religious fundamentalist...and vice versa.  That's not to say that the insight or light that both initially experienced was entirely false. I believe I have experienced moments of Gnosis from both sources.....however, I've also experienced that it's VERY easy to mistake the spiritual for it's physical wrapper and get even more lost in the process.  Much like the version of the Sophia myth where she mistakes the true Light's reflection in the waters below for the Light itself and falls into the murky illusion below.  Ultimately though, the mistake comes from a lack of knowledge, not an over abundance of it.  This is something we are all guilty of in some way, shape, or form.  Fortunately, we are not alone in this.  I've also experienced that there is a loving hand reaching out to us to pull us out of the muck, that not just pulls us out but also allows us to make sense of all that we had experienced down there and to even help us find what we went searching for in the first place; often using those experiences as a starting point.  Of course, we have to be able to turn from our physical messengers that we've made into gods to see the Spirit reaching out to us!

I know this has been a wordy response to a movie recommendation but the name Lucy apparently stirs a lot within me.  Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds after all.  Clearly I'm still sifting through the light and the darkness from that time of my life.  I like the name a lot and considered it for my daughter but didn't due to the drug connotations....and I had a better one in mind.  Another surprisingly Gnostic film is the Lego Movie.  If you can get past the cartoony nature of it, it becomes clear that its a modern Gnostic gospel.  The male protagonist's name is Emmet (meaning "truth") and the female protagonist (whom you don't find out her real name until an important part of the film) is Lucy.  I don't want to spoil the end either but it involves a very thought provoking confrontation with the very obvious Demiurge character.  The more aware we are of the Light, the more we seem to notice it shining in surprising places!