Eight/Man and His Symbols/Jung/Popular Culture and the Collective Unconscious

When this baby hits 88 I think we're
going to see some serious s#it

My movie ticket for last night's movie
 screening of 'Eight'. 8:15?

I finally got to see the locally shot movie 'Eight' last night at a special screening of the movie which the Queensland Theatre Company had backed.

I had also started reading the last book that the great Carl Jung had input into before he died, titled 'Man and His Symbols', a book I have owned but haven't read again for about 30 years.

I started reading it again with fresh eyes (I'm still reading it at the moment) when Chris Mackey mentioned the man on the cover standing with his arms raised in the shape of the Psi symbol, which is also on the side of Mackey's book titled, 'Synchronicity: Exploring Your Life with the Gift of Coincidence'.

 Psi symbol on a sculpture
at Chris Mackey's practice

Chris Mackey is an Australian psychologist who like me is into the work of Jung and you can read more about Chris and his work at his blog where he posted this article on December 8th, 2015 -
Synchronicity, the lost soul of psychology and psychiatry

Eight?-)

My main reason for going to see the movie 'Eight' though was because I had seen a play called 'Grounded' staring Libby Munro (who has 8 acting credits at the moment on her IMDB page, by the way;-), an actress who grew up in a one-horse town my cousins grew up in named Millmerran.
A town I've never been to in my life.
I wrote about Libby (and updated the post last night) at this link below -
Libby Munro: A Grounded Actress with High Skies Ahead of Her

I've also written a post about reading Chris Mackey's book at this link below to give you an idea how I stumbled across Chris and his work -
Chris Mackey's Synchronicity Interview with Mitch Foy
I couldn't help noticing all the symbology in the movie 'Eight' (deliberate, or otherwise) as I sat through the watching of this movie.
For instance, the movie is titled 'Eight', because it is about an OCD patient who is being treated by a psychologist because her compulsion of cleanliness and fear of the outside world contaminating her world makes her do things eight times over, like she is caught in an infinite loop.  

Infinity?
The ∞ symbol in several typefaces

The infinity symbol looks like an eight that has fallen over on its side.

The infinity symbol appears on several cards of the Rider–Waite tarot deck.

It's also on the eighth card of the Rider–Waite tarot deck, the Strength card, ironically enough. 
Of course, as far as symbols and numbers go 8 is considered a very lucky number in Chinese and Asian culture and I noticed in the movie that there was a large Chinese type character above the kitchen sink, not that I knew what it meant though.
Also, when Libby's character makes it out to the footpath on her street, we see the house number is 35 (3+5=8).
I also liked how the bottles of dish-washing liquids over the kitchen sink appeared to have dartboard's printed on them.
Dartboards Again?
Dartboards always fascinate me when I see them turn up on a movie set. 
But it wasn't just the symbols and eights in the movie and its associations with the infinite I found intriguing, there were other Jungian themes in play, as well.

Like when Libby said in the Q&A after the movie, that her next play for the QTC will be a post 911 themed play called Disgraced.
When I got home and was wondering how many tickets were sold on the night for the movie screening of 'Eight', I saw there were 119 tickets sold, which is the number 911 reversed.

Reverse 911s in 'Back to the Future'?

I had some input into a little You Tube that went mildly viral around November last year with a few sync-head pals of mine, which posed the question, "did 'Back to the Future' predict 9/11?".
BACK TO THE FUTURE predicts 9/11
We weren't implying that the makers of this film knew about the events consciously, we were showing it on a Jungian "Collective Unconscious" level.
But I do maintain that the BTTF trilogy carries a very obvious sub-theme about the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and growing up in the shadow of The Bomb.
9/11, Synchromysticism and Back to the Future,1, 2 & 3? (Part 2)

8:15 that's the time that it's always been?

Not only that, but 8:15 in the morning was the time the bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, which I make reference to in that post you read, if you click on the above red link and the ticket I was given tonight says that Libby's movie runs from 6:30pm to 8:15pm.

I like how the play 'Disgraced' is going to finish on Nov 6th in its run at the Playhouse also, as that is the day after Marty travels Back to the Future ... Nov 5th ... remember?-) 
And of course, let's not forget that Libby's birthday is the 11th of November (Remembrance Day), too.

Libby Munro (born 11 November 1981)
(Remembrance day)

Which seems kind of appropriate on some Jungian level, don't you think?-)

UPDATE 12th April, 2016 
Here is an interview with Libby from a Brisbane radio program this morning.
Just click on the link below to go to the radio site and listen -
Brisbane actress studies people living with OCD for role