Part 7: The Wall and its Doorway
Faith, on the other hand, is an unreserved opening of the mind to the truth, whatever it may turn out to be. Faith has no preconceptions; it is a plunge into the unknown.
— Alan Watts
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world…
— W.B. Yeats
“Have you ever seen the Truman Show?” I asked my therapist.
I was desperate to find someway to describe what it felt like.
Desperate to describe the experience of what happened to me that day.
The day I sailed to the edge of my world and discovered its true nature.
In the movie, Truman Burbank is a man who was born into a seemingly ordinary world and grew up living a seemingly ordinary life. Unbeknownst to him, however, he is the main character of a reality TV program called The Truman Show, and everyone in his world is a paid actor.
As time goes on, he begins to notice certain inconsistencies in his world.
Glitches in the fabric of the TV-program-constructed artificial reality he had always known.
He begins to question things, to become suspicious, to gradually test his doubts.
In the final scene of the movie, Truman faces his extreme phobia of water that had previously prevented him from leaving his manufactured island, and gets on a sailboat and literally sails to the edge of his world, the edge of everything he knows.
