Henry Liddell's (pseudonym Lewis Carroll) books Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking Glass (1871) are both classics. The allusion to aland or a land of wonder hints that the story is aboutand wanting to have anor entertaining. The stories seem to me to parallel Gnostic teachings of the fallen goddess of wisdom,. Both fell because of desire andas a result of wishing to create their own world. Alice eventually gets so tired of all theandthat she uses reason ortoThe first book was purportedly written three years after the author went on a boat ride down the river Isis (Thames) with his three daughters, one named Alice, and a Reverend who told the story of aAlice desiring to go on an. The journey began atBridge and ended at Godstow (God's tow).

The story is a metaphor for how this nonsensical world or dimension we are living in is a, anmade ofand theof what true reality is. It is a search to find one's self. Alice says, “Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.” Her world is: “If I had a, everything would be. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?” “Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's.”

Alice isand must find her way back. But heris notand doesn't have enoughpower at first. Alice: "Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?" The Cheshire Cat: "That depends a good deal on where you want to get to." Alice: "Iwhere." The Cheshire Cat: "Then it doesn't much matter which way you go." Alice: "...So long as I get somewhere." The Cheshire Cat: "Oh, you're sure to do that, if only you walk long enough.”

For Alice to return home shethat. The Door: “Why it's simply impassible!" Alice: "Why, don't you mean impossible?" Door: "No, I do mean impassible. (chuckles)

The whole story is very psychedelic (strange creatures, talking doorknobs, talking animals. talking flowers, talking teapots, etc..) as a metaphor that we arethis reality. Everything in that world is anthropomorphic. There are no inanimate objects. Everything is alive, sentient, intelligent and can speak.

The question is raised as to whose dream it is: Alice's or the King's (i.e. authoritative figure, god?). In fact, the last chapter in Through the Looking Glass is named "Which Dreamed It?" and ends with Alice asking her cat after she wakes up: “Now, Kitty, let’s consider who it was that dreamed it all. This is a serious question, my dear, and you should not go on licking your paw like that—as if Dinah hadn’t washed you this morning! You see, Kitty, it must have been either me or the Red King. He was part of my dream, of course—but then I was part of his dream, too! Was it the Red King, Kitty’? You were his wife, my dear, so you ought to know—Oh, Kitty, do help to settle it! I’m sure your paw can wait!” But the provoking kitten only began on the other paw, and pretended it hadn’t heard the question. Which do you think it was?"

The book ends with this poem:

"...Still she haunts me, phantomwise, Alice moving under skies Never seen by waking eyes.

Children yet, the tale to hear, Eager eye and willing ear, Lovingly shall nestle near.

In a Wonderland they lie, Dreaming as the days go by, Dreaming as the summers die:

Ever drifting down the stream— Lingering in the golden gleam— Life, what is it but a dream?"



Is the stream alluded to the stream of consciousness?

In the 1951 animated Disney movie Alice in Wonderland, Alice is in asetting with green grass receiving a history lesson and she. She is looking at herin the water (a mirror or looking glass) and says, "If I had a world of my own, everything would be..." She sings: "I keepit could be that way because my world would be aland." With her hand she sends ripples (waves) out into the water. She sees a white rabbit with a pocketwatch who's late for a party, a very "important" date, running into a rabbit hole (tunnel). The rabbit is one of the trickster figures of Native American folklore. She follows it into the rabbit hole and says, "We haven't been invited ande." She falls downward into the hole. It's a crazy, nonsensical mad world of.... time is important there and illusions are numerous. It's an. Alice frets, "What if I should fall right through the center of the earth... oh, and come out the other side, where people walk.” She goes into the Hall of Many Doors that progressively become smaller and smaller and exclaims, "". She drinks a bottle that makes her very small so she can enter further into that dimension. The door is locked so she has to eat something that makes her big again. The door guard was worried that she was "going out altogether like a candle" (reference to nirvana or the void perhaps?) In the Garden, Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee representas theimages are shown side by side. They recite to her the poem The Walrus (Satan?) and the Carpenter (maker/creator/god?) The Walrus plays his cane like a flute and leads the oysters on land (against the elder oyster's advice to stay) like the pied piper (Devil). The Walrus and Carpenter prepare to eat "oysters on the half-shell". The oyster is very symbolic in Gnostic tradition as can be seen in The Hymn of the Pearl describing the exile and redemption of the soul.

The White Rabbit calls Alice Mary Ann... MARY = ISIS/VENUS = SOPHIA? Bill the Lizard is the gardener with a ladder and says he's been down many chimneys.... chimney cleaning is similar to Mary Poppins and this metaphor may be about the kundalini fire that goes up the spine toward awakening. The lizard is afraid because Alice is a huge monster so he starts running away. A Dodo bird says "You're passing up a golden opportunity. You can be Venus!"

In mythology, Aphrodite/Isis/Venus holds a. The Caterpillar sitting on a mushroom smoking a hookah (i.e. getting stoned) keeps asking Alice "whoooo r u?" The Caterpillar becomes a butterfly and flies away, giving her helpful hints: "One side will make you grow taller and the other side will make you grow shorter." Alice asks, "The other side of what?" "The mushroom, of course!" The smiling Cheshire Cat tells her to ask the Mad Hatter which way the White Rabbit went. He tells herthere and says he's not all there himself. She attends the Mad Hatter's mad tea party which is "". She gets tired of all the chaotic nonsense and says, "That rabbit -- who cares where he's going anyways. If it hadn't been for him I'd..... If I came this way then I should go back this way." "It would be so nice if something wouldfor a change".

The 'mome raths' form an arrow pointing to a path which she takes. She says, "Now I should never get out. When one'sI suppose it's good advice to stay where you are until someone finds you, but who'd ever think to look for me here?" The crescent moon appears in the sky, but it's the smile of Cheshire Cat who is sitting atop a tree. Alice says, "" Chesire Cat tells her about the Queen's way, opens up a door in a tree which leads to a hedge labyrinth and a royal castle. Alice enters inside theto the royal procession. A procession is a march. "March" was on the calendar. The "March" Hare. Now there is a march of playing cards. Pips on playing cards represent us, the pipsqueaks and energy. The Red Queen or Queen of Hearts is in charge of the playing cards. The Queen wants to play awith her. She asks Alice if shecroquet. "".... "Off with their heads.".... "Let the trial begin"..... Alice is aof this world now. In court, Alice is wrongfully charged with enticing the Queen into a game, willingly teasing, tormenting and annoying her causing the Queen to lose her temper. "Are you ready for your?" (before a verdict is even given). Alice runs away leaving the way she came, through a tunnel, looks through the keyhole of the door. Alice sees herself outside stilland tells herself, "Alice,. Please wake up." She wakes up and recites her lesson. They cross a bridge over water (toward a castle / clock tower?).

The movie begins and ends with this song: "Alice in, How do you get to Wonderland? Over the hill or underland? Or just behind a tree? When clouds go rolling by They roll away and leave the sky. Where is the landThat people? Where can you see? Where do stars go? Where is the crescent? They must be somewhere in theafternoon. Alice in Wonderland, Where is the path to Wonderland? Over the hill or here or there... Iwhere."In the 1985 TV movie, Alice in Wonderland (1985), Cheshire Cat tells Alice she'sand there's, but Alice says, "and I'll find it".Through the Looking Glass (1998) -- Alice is going to read the story to her daughter. Her daughter asks, "What is a?" and Alice tells her alike that one there. The daughter says she's seen that room through the mirror and it's. Alice goes to look in the mirror, but says she can only see her. "You're not looking hard enough. You've got toit before you can see it." She tries again and then goes through the mirror.

The Red Queen takes Alice to the top of a hill where she can see the world. Alice says, "There's a greatof chess being played all over the world." Alice is ain the game. When she gets to the 8th square she'll be a queen. When she becomes a queen she needs to "". Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee take her to see the Red King who is asleep. They tell her he'snow. If he woke up she would be nowhere because she is "only just a sort of thing" and if the king were to wake up she'd disappear. They tell her, "" She says if she wasn't real she wouldn't be able to cry real. She meets a woman who lives her life. Alice says, "One can't". The woman tells her she can. She practices a half hour everyday. She tells her to "draw a long breath and close your eyes." "Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast." The monstrous Jabberwocky must be slain. Alice is a, but will be queen once she crosses the next brook.

She says, "", then. The ending poem is read aloud:

"...Still she haunts me,, Alice moving under skies Never seen by waking eyes. Children yet, the tale to hear, Eager eye and willing ear, Lovingly shall nestle near. In a Wonderland they lie,as the days go by, Dreaming as the summers die: Ever drifting down the stream— Lingering in the golden gleam—Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016) -- Another Disney feature, starring Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter.The Demiurgic figure in this version is the personification of, a malewho wants to keep Alice from traveling back in time in a time machine called the Chronosphere./Satan = Father Time. This is a metaphor for leaving a timeless place and traveling into a world bound by time or traveling through time. Alice is a sea captain sailing on her ship, The. "."... "Time is a thief and a villain" "I once believed I could do six impossible things before breakfast."

Ending:Hatter: "In the gardens of, in the palace ofthat is where you and I will meet."Alice: "But."Hatter: "But who's to say?"Friends: "You did it, Alice:."Alice's mother: "Alice can do whatever Aliceand so can I."In summary, the Alice in Wonderland series of books and movies pretty much detail our story. We were in a paradise setting and were. Due to ournature we desiredand a world ofso through wonder orwe created andinto this world of, resulting in a lower frequency and a drowsy consciousness. Weand are seeking a way to. When we tire of all thisdown here we will regain our senses and, and throughbecomeenough to-- whether we are dreaming it ourselves or are just characters playing various roles in-- and. We musteven though it seems impossible right now in this. **