Your surroundings around you as you sleep are remarkably similar. It is similar in respect to the idea of a ‘physical’ mirror image of your waking life. Rose finds that “ Insidious depicts the astral plane in similar levels. “The Further looks like your surroundings, but a different lighting shade of it,” says Emi Rose, a psychotherapist and founder of Paragon Solstice. Elise believes the boy, being only a child, couldn’t tell the astral projection from a dream and had no fear about going too far. The cinematic spiritualist doesn’t believe Dalton fell into a coma because he slipped off a ladder in a creepy attic. In Insidious, the paranormal hunting psychic Elise explains that Dalton is a “traveler,” who was born with the ability to pierce that veil. “When our consciousness pierces the veil of our ordinary, everyday scope of perception, there are infinite other realities one might experience, not just one ‘astral plane.’” “The term ‘astral plane’ is a poetic description, at best, or more accurately a misnomer,” says Zeena, a Tibetan tantric Buddhist yogini, and iconic occult authority and artist. But it’s probably best known as the astral plane, a shallow tag in itself. Among true believers, “the Further” is also called Liṅga Śarīra, Akasha, and prana. Through sonics, these artists ventured happily into the transformative aspects of the Further.
George Harrison melodically rhapsodizes about the extracorporeal aspects of certain Hindu practices in the Beatles’ song “The Inner Light.” The Moody Blues harmonize on the idea that “Thinking is the best way to travel” on their 1968 album In Search of the Lost Chord, itself a musical blueprint for transcendental journeying. Musicians have always been pioneers when it comes to gray areas of society and spirituality, and rockers chose to embrace the Further. The first comes in a box of missing sheet music. Renai, who is a songwriter, experiences two initial contacts. In the film, the first person to put the notes together is Renai, the mother of young Dalton (Ty Simpkins), who falls into a mysterious coma early in the first act. It is a concept rejected by scientists but beloved by filmmakers and other artists. But for all the purported cosmic intelligence culled from out-of-body incidents, practitioners have found no way to scientifically measure if a spirit leaves or enters a body.
The concept that the soul can leave the body during dream states is ancient. The psychically gifted supernatural expert, Shaye’s Elise, explains the hauntings are not a feature of the multiple houses, but the results of a family member embarking on nocturnal astral projection missions which he believes are dreams. When the property progresses from ominous to hazardous, the family move into an even spookier house, fire their real estate broker, and contact an astral travel agent. It opens shortly after Renai ( Rose Byrne) and Josh Lambert ( Patrick Wilson) move into a spooky new house with their three children.
Insidious starts off like a fairly typical haunted house movie. Many mystical practices are divided into black and white magic out of fear and superstition, but there can be room for both. The map to the Further is not limited to shadowy studies. They focus on the malevolent realm of incubi, succubae and the Red-Lipstick-Face Demon. Horror films have made a spiritual ghetto out of the universe which lies between dream, sleep and death. It was how he was able to evoke the most terror from the nether regions of soul and thought. “It’s a dark realm filled with the tortured souls of the dead, a place not meant for the living.” Director James Wan saw the astral world through the eyes of fear. “The Further is a world far beyond our own, yet it’s all around us, a place without time as we know it,” Elise Rainier (Lin Shaye) explains in the 2011 occult horror film Insidious.