The Dark Knight Rises in Baltimore

Current events in Baltimore seem to be following the script of the 2012 Batman film The Dark Knight Rises. 

[Note: These TDKR movie syncs actually began months ago with the crash of Flight 4U9525. See my previous post Bane of Existence and the post MC Bain-Marie at the Mask of God blog.]

In one scene, the movie shows Bane lifting Batman in the air, throwing him to the ground, and breaking his spine.

On April 15, 2015, Freddie Gray's spine was broken in an incident with the Baltimore police department.  He died from his injuries four days later on April 19th.

In the film, Bane traps Batman in an underworld pit, but Batman eventually escapes. When he re-emerges his fiery bat symbol rises up and appears in the sky.  

The imagery of Batman's "fire" rising in the film is meant to symbolize the energy of Kundalini rising up through the chakras of the spinal column in the human body.

This is further illustrated in the movie by the action that takes place on the Gotham City bridge. Just as Batman lies suffering in the pit with a broken vertebrae in his spine, the spine-like city bridge has a broken section.

After blowing out the section with a bomb, Gotham's militia troops stand guard to block citizens from escaping as they storm the bridge. 

This represents a blockage in the chakra system preventing Kundalini energy from rising from the root chakra (at the base of the spine) to the crown chakra (at the top of the head).

Similarly, National Guard troops were called in to the city of Baltimore as its citizens rioted following Freddie Gray's death.

Police and National Guard troops in Baltimore

Chakras are often depicted as flowers, and the flower of life symbol consists of 19 interlocking circles.

The number 19 is also significant in numerology.  It is highlighted several times in the film and the Baltimore events, most notably in the fact that Freddie Gray died on April 19th.

Gotham football players wearing numbers 91 and 99 (left). Player #19 (a cameo by Pittsburg 
ex-mayor Luke Ravenstahl) kicks off the ball as Bane bombs the stadium (right).

The political rhetoric in the film and those surrounding the events in Baltimore are similar, too. In the movie, Gotham's mayor holds a press conference where he calls Batman a murderous "thug".

In reaction to the Baltimore riots, Baltimore's mayor and President Obama both held press conferences condemning the rioters as criminals and "thugs".

Gotham's Police Commissioner Gordon intentionally hides the "truth" from the people.

President Obama calls for the Baltimore police department to tell the people the truth.

In another noteworthy Batman sync, Baltimore's police commissioner is named Anthony BATTS.

Baltimore Police Commissioner Anthony Batts

A pivotal scene in the movie takes place at Gotham's football stadium. Right after the opening kickoff, Bane detonates a bomb that traps the city's entire police force in tunnels underground.

This was echoed in the Baltimore Orioles baseball team playing to an empty stadium for the first time ever during the riots, and Maryland's state attorney bringing charges against the offending police officers while calling for justice.

Is any of this real, or just an elaborate commercial sponsored by Under Armour?

Regardless, this is another interesting example of synchronicity that begs the question: Does Art imitate Life, or does Life imitate Art?

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UPDATE: Star Trek Deep Space 9, season 3, ep. 11 & 12 (airdate: Jan. 1995) could be seen as a mash-up between the 2006 death of Sean Bell and the recent Baltimore riots. (credit and thanks to J. Bauers for discovering this)

The Star Trek crew accidentally travels back in time to 21st century California and ends up in the middle of the "Bell Riots" during which the death of a black man and the plight of the homeless helps inspire the country to make great social changes. On the show, the fictitious Bell Riots began on September 1st (9/1)...another 19 reference. 

Sync to the 5/5/15 LAPD shooting of unarmed homeless man Brendon Glenn.

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Here's a positive message for chakra healing:

Fire and Ice in Atlanta—An Alchemical Marriage

The city of Atlanta is currently covered in ice following a rash of syncs symbolically connecting the city to a phoenix rising from the fire (see my previous post Atlanta Snowpocalypse and The Hunger Games).

On February 12th news headlines declared Atlanta and other parts of the deep South to be "Frozen In" and shrouded in darkness without electricity thanks to Winter Storm Pax.

Yet, despite its name's Latin meaning Winter Storm Pax is not bringing peace but a sword. The head gamemaker is dead and real life hunger games ensue as Atlantans struggle for access to food, transportation, and heat in the unseasonably cold weather.

Meanwhile, "Girl on fire" Jennifer Lawrence is on set filming The Hunger Games: Mockingjay in Atlanta while simultaneously the movie Frozen continues its reign at the top of the movie and Billboard music charts.

 

This dissonant clash of opposites in fire and ice has all the hallmarks of an alchemical marriage.

The Alchemical Marriage

 A New Being, A Man-Woman

Scene from the new Spike Jonze film "Her"

Notice the movie's Fire and Ice imagery during the dialogue between Theodore and Samantha as their relationship transmutes:

The Process of Dissolution

Fellow synchronaut @strangeeye noted how the pattern in the releases of the movies Frozen and Noah implies melting.

Many of us are individually undergoing the turbulent reconciliation of our inner opposing forces at this time.  We are painfully growing, changing, transcending ourselves. 

And, as a result, our inner drama is playing out on the outer level through the Collective Consciousness via the weather mechanisms of the Polar Vortex.

Philip K. Dick wrote of a Vortex which equals us with our minds freed from illusion...a Vortex of the will.

"I can come to no other conclusion. Reality is a field onto which our senses have falsely locked and which now coerces us and must be demonstrably broken from outside in a way in which we can witness. ("a perturbation in the reality field, a VORTEX).  

The vortex seemed an extension of me-as-a-field, or at least close to me: tangent to me — and also in me: a presence which entered me from outside, bringing with it a non-me personality. It attacked this world on my behalf to unchain me and to reveal to me the truth and to aide and extricate and inform me and speak for me as if it were me, disguised as me."—Philip K. Dick, Exegesis, Folder 11, pg. 462

And I saw my reflection in the snow-covered hills
'Til the landslide [read: Vortex] brought me down
—Landslide, Fleetwood Mac 

Firebreather: Reptilian Hybrid Fun for the Kiddies

"He's Half-Human, Half-Dragon, All Hero!" 

Looks like there's some good old-fashioned Reptilian Hybrid fun for the whole family in Firebreather the Movie.