I watched this remarkable 2025 film last night.
I find it incomprehensible that leading actress Amanda Seyfried's portrayal of visionary Shaker leader Ann Lee did not receive the Oscar for Best Actress: she wasn't even nominated!
Her performance is staggering.
This morning, not ten hours later, I happened on a scientific paper titled "The neurophenomenology of a self-induced transcendental visionary state: A case study."
Above and below,
brain imaging of the paper's subject before, during, and after her self-induced transcendental visionary state.
Somewhere Ann Lee is smiling.
Wait a sec — what's that song* I'm hearing?
*398 million views since being uploaded to YouTube 15 years ago. Why, that's more than the total of all the views ever of my cat napping!
I went to school in New Lebanon NY that took over an old Shaker community. My dorm in my senior year was "Ann Lee". Darrow School is still there. Covid wiped out the commune on the same road, also in Shaker buildings. https://www.shakermuseum.us/mount-lebanon-historic-site It's almost on the NY/Mass border
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