'Wonderland' is really about a window to an emerging understanding of the Universe. Right now we're entrenched in a Descartian and Newtonian mechanistic world view that seeks to explain everything by reducing it to matter.
But this paradigm is eroding as more and more evidence that cannot be explained by the physical universe model emerges. There's a huge amount of documented evidence into ESP, UFOs, telepathy, the sense of being stared at, etc etc. Going into that evidence is another story, but will play a small chapter in this one.
But these things do not happen to everybody, and so it is easier to believe the pervasive paradigm than accept a few unlikely testimonies. However we all have experienced synchronicity; and each and every one of us can - if we choose - look through this phenomenon as a window to a completely different way of understanding and interacting with the universe.
Robert M. Pirsig once said:
"We build up whole cultural intellectual patterns based on past 'facts' which are extremely selective. When a new fact comes in that does not fit the pattern, we don't throw out the pattern. We throw out the fact. A contradictory fact has to keep hammering and hammering, sometimes for centuries, before maybe one or two people will see it. And then these one or two have to start hammering on others for a long time before they see it too.
"Just as the biological immune system will destroy a life-saving skin graft with the same vigor with which it fights pneumonia, so will a cultural immune system fight off a beneficial new kind of understanding…with the same kind of vigor it uses to destroy crime."
This film does not want to be a hammer, drumming away at the collective conscious. Rather it wishes to explore what the emerging world view is and what it means, and how it might benefit us today to give it some pause.
Just as the Ptolemaic Earth-centric model of the solar system, though very efficient at explaining the movement of celestial bodies, had to be replaced by the Copernican revolution, so too does our world bled of meaning have to embrace a new world view that can incorporate the unexplainable.
The primitive cultures of our ancestors, and some indigenous peoples today, lived in a world alive with meaning. In our world we have lost that, where physical matter becomes tradable commodity and has no room for sentience. Synchronicity is a way back into that world full of meaning. It is a confounding force that challenges our entire world view, and given real consideration promises us that life is much more meaningful and important than our culture would have us believe.
'Wonderland' seeks to explore the possibility that the universe is not lifeless matter, but is alive with sentience and meaning in ever corner, and that it speaks to us through synchronicity, guiding us into a higher order of living. And that if we can understand this, and learn to harmonise with it, we can radically transform our lives to become much more happy, useful and productive people.
