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I had just been evicted from

an apartment that I lived in.

And I was living out of my car.

I came across a flyer that was on the community board.

I was going to Berkeley,

and I guess it's a bit of a cliche,

but I was living in a co-op.

And somebody I was living with at the time mentioned it.

My friends, they were doing a lot better than me.

They were fuckin' rich kids.

And they all said, "Hey, we're gonna go to Burning Man."

I was in the middle of the playa

and I started to have a huge panic attack.

What the fuck was I doing with myself?

I spent all my fucking money.

I'm out here in the middle of the desert.

I've lost my friends.

And that's when I saw him.

It was as if he was walking out of the sun towards me.

And he just took my face in his hands.

He said, "You're home."

I just started crying. I just started crying.

When I met Osiris, he gave me an overwhelming feeling

of safety which I hadn't felt before.

And that was like, very nice and very meaningful for me.

And he made me feel like I belonged somewhere.

You could see that he'd gone through a lot of pain.

I felt like something had hit him once upon a time.

Something about him, like he had been through so much

that his heart was just open.

Yeah, I could see how it would seem weird

that he was recruiting younger people.

A running joke was that he was Santa Claus, actually, so.

And he just kind of embraced everybody

that kind of came through his door.

I thought, how can I be like him?

So, I drive up and suddenly there's

people walking around in light garb.

There's animals running around.

I mean, we had all kinds of animals there.

It was almost like a wildlife refuge.

Pheasants and cockatoos.

There were llamas, alpacas.

When I first got there, it was a lot different

than what I was used to.

I mean, it looked like summer camp, kind of.

But with this Egyptian theme going on.

It was a bit of a culture shock, you know?

I mean, I lived in a high rise and then I went

to living in essentially like a yurt.

Which is unusual, right?

Because they're like Egyptian or whatever.

They were like, very confused, I felt.

What is your brand here, really?

Of course, by the time I got there,

most of the lodgings were already filled up.

So, I was sleeping out of my car.

That was a small price to pay, I think,

to get out of the rat race and be part of this community.

On the first day, we got to pick our own names.

Like there was this big book of Egyptian names.

Like gods and stuff.

I am the youngest child of five.

There's this god, Horus, I picked Horus.

He was the youngest of the first four Egyptian gods.

And I was like, close enough, you know?

So, I picked that one.

So, I thought the Egyptian stuff was kind of cool.

You know, I didn't get super involved in it.

I got that it was Osiris' thing.

They'd rediscovered what the Egyptians knew.

And I mean, they built the pyramids

like thousands of years ago.

And they clearly, like, knew stuff.

I think Egyptian culture is for everyone.

I think he just happens to be white.

We'd often get up and do like

a 10 minute kind of meditation prayer.

There were jam sessions that would go on,

it felt like for days.

You know, a lot of us guys were contractors

before we came to the collective.

And one day, Father took us out to this barn,

this old barn in the center of the property

that wasn't really being used anymore.

And he said,

"Gentlemen, today we're gonna build the family tomb."

And we gutted that place.

And we built it out into this amazing ancient Egyptian tomb.

It might sound a little bit creepy to build the place

where you're eventually going to be buried.

If you come to the collective to be part of it,

you're presumably gonna die there too, right?

And I think we had all made peace with that.

When I was with the Osiris Collective,

I worked as our outreach specialist.

So, I'd go to different college campuses.

I went to different co-ops.

When I look back at the photos

and videos that we did for those outreach campaigns,

I'm just smiling, I look so happy.

And I mean, clearly I was happy there

for a lot of the time that I was there.

But toward the end, that's definitely not how I felt.

I almost don't recognize that person.

Father Osiris shows up to the commune, right?

And there's this guy behind him

and I'm just like, who's that guy?

You know? Like, what's his deal?

So when he first introduced Anubis,

it wasn't really remarkable to me at the time.

He kind of fit in at first.

Anubis was someone who you kind of heard about

before you saw him.

Because he spent all of his time with Father Osiris,

so people would just start talking about,

there's this new guy, Anubis.

Almost like they were kind of scared to talk about him.

It felt kind of secretive.

Like when you went over to them,

they kind of paused their conversations.

So it felt like you were intruding.

So you never really felt welcome to hang out with them

when they were together.

And all of a sudden, it's just like Anubis this

and Anubis that, and spending all his time with him.

You know, it's like hey, we're you're children, right?

You know, he had all these radical ideas

that he slowly started to expound upon over some time.

But I never really, he kind of rubbed me the wrong way.

He brought a sense of tension

that wasn't really there before.

So yeah, I never really liked him.

The collective never had a hierarchy.

It never had cliques.

That all changed.

If you weren't on Anubis' side,

you quickly became a pariah.

He just wielded so much influence over Father.

The exclusivity was weird, you know.

Like, it hadn't felt that way before.

Yeah, we all have our jobs

and he had all the jobs, apparently.

I feel like he started putting his fingers in all the pies.

And he just like, fucked all the pies.

But I didn't know who was with him

and who wasn't with him.

And it was a dangerous kind of line to walk.

He would go around and give people orders.

And then just act like he was

the most important person in the room.

Even though he had literally just gotten there.

He definitely kind of propositioned some of my friends

and like, proposition is weird to say when,

you know, he's like so close to the leader.

There was always drug use in the collective,

but when Anubis came it was more pervasive.

It was constant and it was just different.

He turned around and he grabbed me by my shirt

and he lifted me up like a foot off the ground.

And he was like, "What are you, a little baby?"

"Are you a little, tiny baby?"

And I mean, for whatever reason,

I just started weeping.

I think when Anubis showed up,

it was the beginning of the end in a lot of ways.

Father Osiris meant the world to us.

And I...

I couldn't handle it at first, when I found out.

People were all just rushing into the main hall.

And I ran in there and everyone at that point knew

that Father Osiris was gone.

Yeah, I was there when he died.

I mean, not when he died.

Only Anubis was there.

He and Osiris are going off on one of their jaunts

up to Mount Shasta and then Anubis comes down

and everyone's like, what's going on?

What's going on? Where's Osiris?

Anubis says, "Oh, he died."

And his final words were that he's the leader.

Like, what?

Yeah, that seemed uh, suspicious to put it lightly.

A bunch of us organized a little search party.

We kind of went behind Anubis' back to do that.

To bring father's body back down.

You know, to bury him in the tomb,

like he would have wanted.

We looked on Shasta for days

and we didn't find a body.

I just cried, because I couldn't believe it.

That he would leave everything to this dark man.

It wasn't the same place.

Everywhere that I went,

I felt like I had a knot in my stomach.

And I was like, when was the last time

this has been a good place to be?

And then I left.

Which to me was like, oh,

this is exactly the kind of environment that I left.

I can't be here.

I don't wanna be here.

So, I left.

I had left everything behind.

So I had nothing to go back to, right?

But this was no longer my home.

What about you?

What is your interest in all of this?

So people keep asking me,

why I'm making this documentary.

And I've been trying to keep my personal life out of this.

But the truth is, um...

As a documentarian I think the ethical thing to do

is to be fully transparent about,

about my connection to the Osiris Collective.

This is Maddy.

We started dating in college

and immediately had a connection.

And I know, you know, young love.

We all have our different opinions.

But this was special.

We really had a connection.

I was head over heels for her.

And then one day she dumped me.

Said she was going north to join this thing

called the Osiris Collective.

I was shattered.

It totally caught me off guard.

And she was gone, I couldn't get ahold of her.

But you know, eventually I graduated, got over it, moved on.

Met Sara, started dating.

And eventually got married.

And things were great for awhile.

But then seven years later, seven years later,

I get this email.

And it's from Maddy.

And it says she misses me

and she's been thinking about me.

And she's still at the collective.

I guess has been working on her feelings

with some guy named Anubis.

It was a big deal.

I mean, I won't say that's what got between Sara and me,

but this totally changed everything.

So, I sent an email back.

And I got a bounce back.

I guess the account was deleted.

And I haven't heard anything since then.

But you know, as cheesy as it may sound,

I can't stop thinking about her.

So, I thought this might be a prank,

but it definitely isn't.

So it says, "Are you ready, Keith?"

And then it goes on to say that it's Anubis

from the Osiris Collective.

And he's heard I've been asking about him

and he's watched my work on YouTube.

And then he says he's inviting me.

He's inviting me to bring my camera and my vision

to the Osiris Collective where everything is happening.

All caps.

This just totally blows my mind.

And then, oh yeah, and then he included

like a photo of himself, I guess.

I guess to prove its him, or something.

I don't really understand that.

But that is all to say, I think I'm going north.

Been on the road about three or four hours now.

And I'm making my way north.

To the Osiris Collective.

It's totally weird that I'm saying that.

I really never thought this project

would actually take me there.

I'm curious to meet Anubis.

I'm interested to see what he's like.

I've been exchanging emails,

but he's not the type of person you can quite pinpoint.

From the interviews, you know,

and from everything I've read,

it seems like there should be about

a few dozen people still at the collective.

I'll be interested to hear their stories.

Curious too, of course, you know if...

You know, if Maddy is still there.

I guess she goes by Ma'at now.

Which is kind of a weird name,

but that's, I guess everybody gets Egyptian names

when they join the collective.

Some sort of theological Egyptian...

I don't know. I don't know.

But you know, I don't know.

Maybe she'll be there.

I haven't been able to reach anybody.

Most of the people I know have left by now.

There's a couple of people

that I'm worried about that are there.

But yeah, I can't reach 'em.

I don't know how anymore.

I mean all ways that I know of communicating

have been kind of cut off.

You know, I hope they're doing okay.

Off the freeway.

There's apparently about another

10 miles or so down this road, but uh...

Getting closer.

So this is the compound.

Where is everybody?

Here goes nothing.

Hello.

There's like, a bunch of cars here.

There's a bunch of fucking birds everywhere.

This is weird and I hope this hasn't been

a big fucking waste of time.

Wait, what's that?

Oh.

Shit, that's a person.

Um, hello?

Hello?

Um...

Hi, hello.

Hello?

Um... Anubis?

Keith?

Hey!

Hey, hey!

Hey, Anubis.

Ha, you found me!

Um, yeah, I guess I did.

I'm sorry, did I wake you up?

Uh, no, no. It's all good.

What time is it?

I guess it's like, two o'clock.

What day?

Um, Sunday, May 24th.

Are you filming right now?

Ha, yeah, sorry.

Is that okay?

I had mentioned in my email

I was hoping to do some filming.

No, it's great. - Okay.

You're gonna tell the real story. The truth.

Cool.

Oh, okay. Ha, ha!

Yes!

All right, this is just crazy.

I've heard so much about you

and yet to meet you in person is like pretty wild right now.

I hope you've heard good things.

I haven't had a visitor here in...

A while.

So, this is cool.

So, you're the only one here?

Right now.

It's kind of like a down season for us right now.

Okay.

But you know, I think this summer

we're gonna have a lot of people coming it.

So really, it's a good time for me to kind of

step back, relax, you know?

All right.

It's good. - I hear ya.

It's good.

I hear ya. - So you came from LA?

Yeah, yeah.

Um, yeah!

It's a long drive.

It's a little different here than LA.

Uh, yeah, you could say that again.

- You could say that. - I spent a lot of time in LA.

You do spend a lot of time in LA?

Not anymore.

Oh. - I haven't left here for...

Years.

This is like, quite the big property.

It's... it's special, you know.

I feel like I can really get away

from the real world, you know?

Ha!

Yeah, but you're right here by the interstate, too.

Is that distracting at all, or?

Um... okay.

Yes!

Oh my.

Um...

Oh, oh, it's a mushroom!

Yeah. - Wow, look at that.

This is more than a mushroom.

Oh my god.

We're gonna need that for later.

Anubis often times like would actually

walk through the commune and put people in their place.

You know, like stop doing that.

You're never gonna do that again.

You follow me to my room.

That kind of stuff.

And I was just like, man, this guy is a boss.

These are the abodes.

This weekend, it's all yours.

Wow.

Wow, this is uh...

Pretty nice.

If you need anything, you can find me.

Or ask little Anubis right there.

Ha, oh, okay.

A little tour.

Bedroom.

Okay.

A California king.

Jacuzzi tub.

Okay.

Kitchen, nothing crazy.

Table, fridge, stove top.

But we'll be covering your food,

so don't worry about that.

Wait, so I'm sorry,

are there other people here,

or is it just us right now?

Right now, just us.

But yeah, people are always coming and going.

It's very, you know, very free.

Okay.

Yeah.

Hey, so let's...

I'd really like to get this interview going,

if you don't mind.

I thought this was the interview.

Oh, I mean I guess it would be better

maybe if like, we did a sit down interview

where we just...

Sure, of course.

Okay.

So what I was thinking is maybe like over here

we could set you up.

Maybe kind of by this window or in this chair over here.

You wanna get that going?

Well, sure, yeah.

I could set that up.

What are you, um...

Woo, hoo!

Oh. Ha, ha.

Um, all right.

I guess it'll be a drinking interview.

It's a celebration, right?

All right, um... let's see.

Um.

Okay.

Maybe I'm interviewing you.

Oh, ha!

Oh! Ha, ha.

Yeah, that's... that's fine.

It's just kind of an expensive camera,

but that's totally fine.

Here, you look uncomfortable, you take it.

Okay, thanks.

Okay, so yeah, I think if we set you up

sitting right here, will that be fine?

And I'll just kind of get this set

on a mounted tripod or something.

You're the director.

Tell me what to do.

Okay. - I've got nothing to hide.

Um, great.

Um, okay.

Let's do this!

Woo! All right, very good.

Freshman year in college I was involved in a startup

that made me millions of dollars.

This was before streaming porn had a monopoly

and it was kind of the wild west.

JizzTube.

Like, sort of like a porn website?

I'm not ashamed.

Okay.

It's all natural, it's all natural.

After the success of JizzTube, I realized

how miserable being wealthy and successful can make you.

I was doing a lot of drugs.

And I was doing more drugs to counteract those drugs.

And these were not spiritual seeking,

psychedelic drugs.

These were hard drugs, oh yeah.

I hit rock bottom.

I needed to find answers

that I was not finding in money and sex and drugs.

I was living in San Francisco.

I started driving down to Esalen

almost every weekend.

I was going to a conference.

It was put on by kind of a new writer.

He was promoting the idea

that even a small amount of psychedelic mushrooms

was damaging, could cause psychosis.

And that this movement needed to be stopped,

just like any movement behind psychedelics

has always been stopped.

On the panel was Osiris.

And in the middle of this fucking bullshit doctor's speech,

Osiris just starts laughing.

Like a bellowing from the gut.

Like, a god laugh.

And he goes, "Sounds to me like you're afraid

of experiencing life in its entirety."

Osiris explains to him the light and the dark

are an equal part of our lives.

And if you're choosing to stay out of the dark,

you're hiding from it.

The light is just hiding from part

of our reality and part of who we are.

I was like, yes.

Yes.

Yes.

And then you had these other guys on the panel,

they start getting on Osiris' side.

And they were spouting off facts

about psychedelic mushrooms.

All valid, by the way.

And then Osiris starts fighting with them.

And he starts saying,

"I've never micro-dosed a day in my life."

"I've macro-dosed for the past 10 years

and I've seen the face of fucking god."

And everybody just turns on him.

It's like bedlam.

Everybody's yelling at each other.

Everybody's fighting, it's crazy.

As he's going down the steps I say, "Father."

And when he sees me, when we lock eyes,

it's like he embraces me.

My understanding is everybody here,

everybody that was here,

gave everything they had to Osiris.

And while there was this land

that you've been able to live on,

and this community I suppose you've been part of,

I hear that and I think, cult.

Do you smoke marijuana?

No.

Do you think it's illegal and wrong?

It's fine, that's fine

for people to smoke marijuana.

Okay, okay.

20 years ago marijuana was not something recreational

like this champagne here.

It was a drug. Drug.

Drugs are bad.

Scruff McGruff, the drug sniffing dog.

Okay, heh, I'm sorry.

I think we're digressing a little bit.

I'm just saying, cult is a word

that people in power use to shut things down

that they're afraid of.

I think though, that we need to get out of this room.

I think we've kind of built some tension in here.

We need to get out of this room.

Um, okay.

We can do this interview somewhere else, or is that?

- I think that's a good idea. - Oh, okay.

Well, geez.

Did you bring a swimsuit?

Um, no, actually.

That's not a problem, either.

Hey, don't be shy.

Okay, that's plenty, that's plenty.

Just right there, just right there.

All right, thank you.

You know, this place started right after

the economic crisis in 2008.

Most of the original members were young people.

They were displaced, economically speaking.

And that's where Father got the idea for the revolution.

We all needed to come together.

By we, I guess I mean them.

I wasn't in the group yet.

They all needed to come together,

look past their egos and start finding the answers

of how they should live their lives.

Separate from what we've been taught

from birth to do, which is form these very

specific false narratives about

what it means to be a man and a woman.

Do you know who Aleister Crowley is?

No.

The wickedest man in the world.

He carried out rites that hadn't been done for centuries.

Egyptian rites.

He made communication with what he believed to be...

Intelligences.

These are intelligences that we can access here

on earth anytime with the use of psychedelics.

So is this what the Osiris Collective believes?

Is this kind of thing?

Well, it's apart of our foundation.

What we see soberly, is only a very small part

of what's real and what reality is.

I'm just saying, factually speaking,

tens of thousands of people have experienced this.

I think it's ignorant to assume

that it's all an illusion.

Anubis.

Where is everybody?

I thought we talked about that.

Everything I've heard

is that people live here.

People don't come and go.

There's a sustained community here.

Where the fuck are they?

Uh, when Father died, as tragic as it was,

I took up the mantle.

He asked me to.

I told everybody...

Was that on Mount Shasta?

Yeah, yeah.

What happened?

Ha!

Fucking powerful shit.

We were hiking.

This was probably the 10th time

me and Osiris had summited Mount Shasta together.

We were literally three minutes from the top.

All I'm feeling is, I've gotta get there.

I gotta get to the top. It's obvious, that's what you think

when you're climbing a mountain for days.

And he stops and he goes,

"Isn't it better to appreciate

this moment than that moment?"

And as often happens with Father, I was like, fuck.

That makes so much fucking sense.

And we sat there.

We popped a bottle.

We started celebrating.

I don't think I've ever seen him as happy in my life.

I know he lived a long time before I met him.

But honestly, he gets up in the dark

to go take a piss.

We finished two bottles of mezcal.

I'm guessing he fell down.

I'm not entirely sure.

I was drunk too, I don't really know.

But personally I feel like the way he went was right.

I think he knew he had peaked, at that moment,

before reaching the peak of the mountain.

You know?

How did he die?

I guess, I don't know.

He fell down.

I really don't know.

I...

Did you see his body?

No.

I didn't see his body.

But it was clear he wasn't gonna return.

You know, I put signs up everywhere.

I did my due diligence.

Before he died, or whatever.

We were talking around a fire and he told me,

"Anubis, you are my son."

"My real son."

"You know what needs to happen."

"What I have done is all I can do."

"I need you now to continue to pass on my message."

That's what I do every fucking day now.

I uh...

I have no idea what's going on.

I think he's on drugs.

There's nobody here.

He won't tell me where they are.

There's at least supposed to be a few dozen people here.

Anyways, he's clearly out of his mind.

I want to ask about Maddy.

But um, this all seems very delicate.

Anyways, I guess the interview continues.

I feel like I was probably bad mouthed

a lot after I left.

And I think there were a lot of people

who didn't feel comfortable making contact with me anymore.

It sounds like it's just getting weirder and weirder.

I'm sure that people who come

to their senses, you know, leave when its time to leave.

Oh, wow.

Is that an albino peacock?

There she goes.

She knows what I like.

Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you!

Aren't the males the ones with the feathers?

Hey um, Anubis, I was gonna ask you.

Did you ever know a girl here named Maddy?

What about the name, Ma'at?

Does that ring any bells?

Turn off the camera.

What?

Turn it off right now.

Is it off?

Yes.

Are you sure?

Look, the lens cap is on.

What... what's this about?

It seems to me like an ambush!

So you do know her?

I'm not saying I knew Maddy,

but what the fuck's going on here?

This is not what we talked about.

What's going on?

I...

We were gonna do a fucking interview.

What's happening?

Are you cornering me?

Because I got an email six months ago.

Uh-huh.

From Maddy, talked about you by name.

How do you know this person?

What does it have to do with anything?

What the fuck?

I used to date her in college, okay.

What's so funny about that?

Oh my god! I'm so tired of this.

I didn't think you were one of them.

Okay, what...

One of the fucking snakes!

Just fucking spouting out lies!

These people, these fucking failures

that couldn't fucking hack it.

And they're crying and they're whining.

They were failures to begin with

and look at them now.

All they can do is try to bring me fucking down

because they couldn't fucking hack it!

And what, you're gonna take their word over mine?

Jesus!

Okay, hold on, hold on.

I'm not taking anybody's word.

I'm just filming a documentary.

And right now, with the camera off,

I'm just asking you, did you know Ma'at?

Did you know Maddy?

Did you know somebody who I used to care about?

I'm sorry to say that I didn't.

Okay.

I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

Okay.

There's been a lot of women

that have come and gone from here.

I don't like to brag, but some of them feel

like they know me better than I know them.

You know what I mean?

Yeah, okay.

Because of my status.

I never knew a Maddy, I never knew a Ma'at, okay?

Please, let's try to move past this.

I really can't stay in this vibration

for more than a minute or two max.

Okay, okay.

Come here, let's hug it out.

What, whoa.

Come here, come here.

Oh, okay.

It feels good to get it out, doesn't it?

I'm so proud of you, Keith.

I think we got this, you're the one, I knew it.

I fucking knew it.

Okay, it's not too late.

I mean, it's golden hour.

We can get some really good shots

in front of the temple.

The peacocks are really fuckin' stoked.

Right, okay so...

It's time to feed 'em.

We're doing this still? We're doing the shoot?

Of course! Come on, buddy!

Come on, let's go!

In the collective it was really common

for people to end up getting married.

We spent so much time together,

you'd meet and you'd make a connection.

And there was this one occasion that he came back

after one of the weddings and he was acting really weird.

It was like he was kind of showing off

and flaunting and some of us realized

that he was wearing a ring.

And it was kind of clear that he wanted us

to ask him about it.

And so, one of the girls finally asked him.

Anubis, what's going on with that ring?

Did something happen that we don't know about?

And he said, "Oh, I'm married to the collective."

And we didn't really know what to say.

So we just said, oh, okay, that's great.

So, I told you about my wedding ring.

Tell me about yours.

Well...

I'd say, I'm married but um...

You're married but?

But at this point,

I'm actually getting divorced.

And that's me being very open with you.

I'm really sorry.

I know that's hard.

Can I...

Can I take this?

Um, oh... okay.

Yeah.

I...

I really appreciate you telling me that.

I feel like for me this has been a little raw.

I've never been interviewed before.

So it helps for me to balance the scales just a bit.

I'm just wondering, genuinely,

what's your angle on our story here?

What's the opening of your movie gonna be?

What are you gonna tell the audience, you know?

I don't know.

I don't know.

I'll be honest, Anubis.

I came in thinking,

I would control this situation

and I'd uncover some big conspiracy

and that this would be some sort of sensational

interview documentary.

I thought I was gonna find, I don't know,

fucking bodies stacked somewhere or something.

Or you know, Osiris mummified at the top of the temple.

I know you're laughing.

No, no, no, no!

That's... keep going, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

Well no, what I'm trying to say is, Anubis,

like, I get you.

And I don't mean that to be simplistic or...

It's okay.

Anything like that.

I just mean like, I get it.

It's just what I always thought it was.

It's what it is on the surface.

Mm-hm.

Maybe this is a story about you.

This is a personal journey.

You lost somebody.

Nobody wants to watch that.

Nobody wants to watch that.

I do.

You lost somebody once.

You're losing somebody again.

I...

That seems... that seems compelling to me.

Listen, I...

We don't have to do this right now.

I just, I needed to know.

And I appreciate you being open and vulnerable with me.

Can you turn the camera off?

Okay.

Can you please turn the fucking camera off?

I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

Maybe I really am that cliche.

Maybe this is a documentary

about my own fucked up life, after all.

This place is...

Beyond weird.

But, I don't know, maybe there's something I'm feeling here

that I couldn't quite feel in LA.

I'm divorced.

I don't think I had said it out loud before.

This is not the day I expected to have.

Although, I'm getting tired of these things.

These are everywhere.

Hey, so I'm gonna keep filming, if that's cool.

I just feel like, it's what I came here to do.

I should just keep going with that.

Yeah, no, it looks like you're feeling better.

What are you making?

An Anubis.

Everybody's gotta have a drink, right?

Here, cheers.

I um, yeah, I don't know.

I really appreciate

you talking with me like you were before.

I feel like now we can communicate

and just open up a little bit more.

I feel like you had maybe negative feelings

about some of the things I was saying

about what we believe.

Many, many years ago there was a culture

that was building pyramids in accordance

with star systems that they couldn't see.

I mean, think about that.

They were mummifying bodies.

They were thinking in ways

that frankly, we can't understand.

And I feel like now, over the past decade,

Father's work, it's been about understanding that, you know?

Like, a textbook tells you mummification

is just basically a burial.

But we don't actually know that.

We don't know what they were trying to accomplish.

I mean.

This is pretty good, by the way.

Yeah.

It's the real shit.

Okay, but go on.

So, okay, mummification.

Do you believe in that?

Is that like...

Well, the thing is, I believe that everything

the Egyptians did held a very powerful

and significant role for their culture.

And I believe that we don't actually understand

what they were trying to do.

I think that they were more advanced

than we were, honestly.

Why would an advanced civilization like Egypt

make mummies and then we come along and we...

Oh god!

Oh, fuck.

Are you okay?

I'm sorry, uh...

Here, give me the glass, give me the glass.

Oh god.

Here, okay.

Um, do you need to go lay down?

You should go lay down. Come on.

Come on, bud.

Hey, no, no, no!

No, the bedroom here.

Keith!

Fuck!

Fuck.

Come on, you need to go to sleep.

Come on, you're gonna feel so much better.

You're gonna feel so much better, come on, come on, come on.

Come on, come on.

Come on.

Come on, buddy.

Come on, buddy.

You're gonna be fine.

Come on, bud.

Come on, come on.

Come on.

I don't know what's going on.

I've been fucking out, asleep for...

Fuck, I have no idea.

It's night now.

Something was in that drink.

I am so fucking positive of that.

I had the fucking craziest nightmares.

Jesus Christ, I don't feel safe right now.

And this fucking thing.

Wasn't fucking there before.

Okay, so it's been about an hour.

I'm feeling better, a little bit.

But I have no car keys, either.

They're not here.

They're not where I left 'em.

He must have 'em.

That's the only possibility.

So the fact is, I can hear the interstate.

It's about 300 yards.

And in any other circumstance

I would say 300 yards is not a big deal.

But...

What the fuck was that?

I've got a fucking knife!

Fuck this, I'm going.

Keith!

Oh god.

Oh my fucking god.

The ceremony is about to begin!

What the...

Woo!

What the fuck are you doing?

Shh!

You're still tripping.

Tell me what you saw.

What the...

Jesus fucking Christ, are you kidding me?

You just fucking drugged me!

Cheers.

No, I'm not gonna fucking cheers you!

I'm not gonna, fuck!

You're tripping out.

I'm going right now. I'm leaving.

I don't think that's a good idea.

You're on drugs right now.

I could call the police right now

and say, officer, there's a man

on my private property.

He's on illegal drugs!

I think he's a threat to himself and to society.

We're gonna sit down, I...

The man in fucking blue face paint

is gonna tell the police that?

And where the fuck are my car keys, by the way?

I have them.

Not on me, I know where they are.

You know this is kidnapping, right?

Are you a child?

This is kidnapping.

Are you a child?

Waaahhh!

I'm leaving right now.

Calm down.

Can we talk?

I have to confess something to you about...

About your ex girlfriend.

Maddy Elizabeth Wagner.

Born February 13th, 1987.

You knew Maddy!

You fucking told me you did not know Maddy!

That was a lie.

A little lie.

For your own good.

You weren't ready yet.

Now you're ready.

I want to sit in that chair.

I want you to sit down in front of me calmly with the wine.

You must drink the wine.

No, you're gonna tell me

what you fucking know right now and I am leaving after that.

I thought I could show you what we have seen

and that you could then handle

the information I want to give you.

Apparently, you can't handle that.

Maybe you should just leave.

You should get out of here right now.

Get out!

I want to know what happened to Maddy.

Are you ready?

Shouldn't we have better lighting for this?

The lighting is fine.

I want this to match up with what we did...

Tell me what you fucking know about Maddy.

You're so demanding.

I uh...

What happened to her?

Just, you know what, cut the bullshit.

What happened to her?

Me and Osiris chose her.

As we chose many like her.

Special people.

To go on our vision quest up Mount Shasta.

She was strong, she was very fit.

Halfway up she...

She got sick.

I offered to carry her down.

I told father he could continue up.

He could ascend and I would...

How'd she get sick?

Cold weather, she didn't bring the right gear.

I don't know how these things happen.

She didn't bring the right gear?

Weren't you fucking leading her up there?

I don't... I'm not in charge of anybody.

I never have been.

You know, I'm a guide but I don't tell them

what they can or can't bring on a journey.

That's their decision.

I offered to bring her down, she said no.

She elected to continue.

She thought she would push through it.

We were probably a day away from the peak

when it got worse.

And now it's my turn to ask you a question.

No, we're not doing that.

What was your vision?

What vision?

You drank exactly what I drank.

And god knows I had a vision today.

What did you see?

You mean when you drugged me?

If you want to use those terms, yes,

when I drugged you, what did you see?

I saw the temple.

I was the peacock.

The albino peacock.

Mm.

Someone else was there.

Maddy transcended.

Does that mean she died?

Who's to say?

Was her body dead when you left it?

The last I saw her body transcended on to another plane

to the intelligence that has been informing us all along.

I did not see a dead body.

Or I would tell you that she died.

You must drink the wine.

That's it, I've had enough.

Keith.

Keith!

Get the fuck away from me!

What the fuck is this?

Ma'at.

Oh my god.

Oh god! Jesus!

Fuck!

Oh fuck, fuck.

Fuck.

Ahhh!

Ahhh! Ahhh!

God, fuck.

Fuck! Fuck!

Ahhh! Ahhh!

Oh god, fuck.

Oh fuck.

Fuck.

What did you do?

What did you do?

Oh god, what did you do!

You let them out.

What do you mean?

I let what out?

You let them out.

What the fuck is going on?

Anubis!

Anubis!

Get it together.

People need to know.

People need to know what happened.

Keep it together.

They're all fucking dead.

They're all fucking dead.

They're all fucking dead.

All fucking dead.

Anubis, what the fuck?

What's the gun for?

Shh!

Anubis!

Shh!

Fucking mummies!

Ahhh!

Wait.

Oh no.

Wait.

Maddy?

Maddy?

Maddy?

Ahhh!

It was Maddy.

It was Maddy.

Keith.

Ah, there he is.

There he is.

Look at you.

Hey, Keith.

I know right now you are probably a little freaked out.

That is okay.

And I understand, I might be too.

Don't worry, everything I gave you is completely natural.

There's no reason to be afraid,

because frankly, you're paralyzed from the nose down.

It would be best just to relax

and accept

your destiny.

I know what you saw out there was upsetting.

And I hate violence more than anybody.

Those weren't people.

Those were failed experiments

that were getting us to you.

You are the result of their sacrifice.

And together, we're gonna do something so, so special.

When I first met you, I knew there was this guy,

this uncarved block.

So lost, so much potential that he was just not seeing.

With my help, you are going to transcend

to another level.

I see it in your eyes, you understand.

It's gonna be fast.

It's gonna be...

So easy.

Ahhh!

I don't know if I would do it over again.

If I could change anything,

I would have left sooner, I think.

Ah.

We made it.

Ah!

I can't believe we made it.

It feels so good.

And it was a lot.

That was a lot.

But I have no regrets now.

I mean, look at where we are.

We uh...

We had to experience

some of the more difficult elements of life.

Which is just another part of life.

Which I think is beautiful.

I think we are two days,

maybe even a day and a half from the summit.

Everyday I feel closer to you.

The presence is very palpable.

I know this time I did it right.

It takes practice, just like everything.

But this time I know, it's right.

When I was shooting those mummies,

I remember you and me, about four miles from here.

Shooting our shotguns for the first time.

You giving me directions.

Stern, but loving.

Endlessly patient.

Endlessly patient.

When I was killing my friends, then my creations,

I felt like they were grateful

to be apart of something so special.

Like they knew that their sacrifice

was gonna bring me here back to you.

That we're all apart of one whole.

It's not just about me.

And it's not just about you.

I'd be lying if I said I knew what it was about, but.

I feel like I can't put it into words,

but I know what it is.

It was getting dark there for awhile.

I will not pretend I wasn't afraid.

I felt so alone.

And then you brought me my new friend.

Our new friend, Keith.

Who was touched by some sort of...

Some sort of inspiration to make a movie

about what we've been doing.

I knew he was the one.

He will be the one.

What we're doing is right, I know it.

I'm gonna take his footage, flawed as it is,

and we're gonna make something special with it.

And through that, people will finally understand

what they're so afraid to understand.

But if you can tell the story in the right way,

nobody will be able to deny what we've done.

Keith?

Keith, are you doing it?

Hey buddy, how ya doing?

Yeah, there's my boy!

Nope, nope, nope!

No, no, oh, this way.

Come on.

There you go, spit that... Good.

Yeah, let it out.

We don't need any of that anymore.

Look at you! You're so much stronger than you were before.

This is a man.

This is a man.

You've got the Father in you!

Can you feel him?

Sound it out.

Come on, oooh!

Yes!

Yes!

Yes!

Ha, ha, ha!

You're doing it, it's working!

♪ I've been in your waters ♪

♪ Been knocking at your door ♪

♪ I know one thing for sure ♪

♪ I've never been so close ♪

♪ Before ♪

♪ You were truly my lover ♪

♪ But it was over so fast ♪

♪ Just one thing to discover ♪

♪ Oh no ♪

♪ It was never built to last ♪

♪ Ooh-woo ♪

♪ Oh, you just fall ♪

♪ In and out of love ♪

♪ You just fall ♪

♪ In and out of love ♪

♪ You just fall ♪

♪ In and out of love ♪

♪ Oh, you just fall ♪

♪ We stay indoors ♪

♪ While the lovers are on the street ♪

♪ And I know it ain't your fault ♪

♪ You just followed the heartbeat ♪