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“IT’S ALL CONNECTED”

A Manifest Theory
by Usagi042

What The Callings Actually Are, and the Show’s True ENDGAME.
Is THE Answer Spiritual Or Scientific?

Learn the definitive answer to EVERYTHING!


FOREWORD
I’ll start this by saying that, firstly, sorry for the clickbait title, and secondly, this
will be long.
Don’t worry, there is a TL;DR version at last page. But I would say give it a
chance first. I’ve got this mad idea about what the whole shabang is truly and
finally about. And it will only make sense if I walk you through all of it.
Thirdly, a lot of this will read as if I am some creepy and unhealthy Manifest
obsessor. But, trust me, I’m not. I just wanna put out first how I know so much
about anthropology, theology, and… [sigh] “storytelling.”
I’m a film school graduate and I’ve been for half a decade working as a
creative writer for TV, Internet and Film, I also had a job as a novelist in the
past. I make a living out of being creative, so please don’t act as if I’m high for
going through all the effort. I’m just imaginative. Not that this keeps it from
sounding like pretentious nerd-rumbling, though.
But I’m trusting you with this: I am paid to be constantly inspired. But not paid
by NBC to make this (fourthly).
Annnd, I’m a part-time Tarot reader (out of love). Fortune telling is a topic that
Manifest, as in story-wise, loves to incorporate (as it will prove as we go further
down). Knowing extensively about ancient iconography, esoteric reasoning
and trivia is also just part of my job, and something I, humbly, believe could
benefit this community as we progress into the rest of the show together.
It should go without saying, this still is only a theory and nothing more. It could
be wrong as in any other well-speculated guess, and I acknowledge that.
Let’s not complicate any further. It will be worth your time. I promise.
PART 1: WHAT IS MANIFEST EXACTLY?
No. Seriously.
What even is Manifest?
Is it a science-fiction show? Is it a supernatural drama? Is it a series? Or is it a
soap opera?
Lots of question marks, right? But I guess that’s the point of every mystery
story.
Manifest, in itself, is a mystery not just to its audience, but to the tv catalog too,
seemingly. I’ve seen it being labeled as supernatural in on site, thriller in
others, the IMDB episode listing is debatable, and sometimes it just has the
stink of a shameless cop-show (*cough*Jeff Rake’s The Mysteries Of
Laura*cough*).
But what if we were given the define answer first and watched all of the show
again through the perspective of this single lens?
That’s what we’ll do today.
My guess about “will it be spiritual or scientific” isssss…
None! And both as well!
Manifest has an esoteric-centered mythology.
If you Googled “esoteric” (or anything around “occult”), it would tell you
“intended for or likely to be understood by only a small number of people with
a specialized knowledge or interest.” And you’re left with even more questions
(just like Manifest, yaay!). What knowledge exactly? What are those small
numbers of people?
The answers to this would also be broad, with no definitive points, which in a
lot could be merely speculation. Just like an ongoing mystery series, flooding
down into its box of theories. Generally speaking, it would be the Freemasons,
the Rosy-cross, the Hermetics, the Gnostics, those guys. But it also could be
said it applies to Hinduism, Judaism and Buddhism. And, also, our little old-
gud’ cutesy Christianity.
However, the word in this occasion exactly would be one: Theosophy.
Theosophy, according to Wikipedia and my copy of Jung and Tarot: An
Archetypal Journey: “preaches the existence of a single, divine Absolute. It
promotes an emanationist cosmology in which the universe is perceived as
outward reflections from this Absolute. Theosophy teaches that the purpose of
human life is spiritual emancipation and claims that the human soul undergoes
[wait for it] reincarnation upon bodily death according to a process of karma. It
promotes values of universal brotherhood and social improvement.”
The most interesting thing about the esoteric, at least to me, is that its beliefs
are not only perceived through faith-logic blindly. Occultists believe that their
religious stepping stones should also be sustained by some degree of
reasonable, earthly logic, sometimes toeing closer to pseudoscientific, and
sometimes even scientific laws itself. Say whatever you want, but there’s more
than one pseudoscientific theory which ended up elevating its status to true
science. Heliocentrism and the Tectonic Plates are good examples of fringe-
science that was ridiculed at first and is widely accepted today. The Tectonic
Plates example being a more fascinating one, taking into consideration the last
aired episode of Manifest right now (3x08 “Destination Unknown”) touched on
this subject with the driftwood emerging from the inner push of an ancient
volcano.
Some of our ancient scholars contributed for this belief, many of them even
before the term was invented. Plato, Aristoteles, St. Augustine, just to name a
few. The freemasons, during the Medieval Era, would cross an entire continent
just to keep the documents of their scientific/divine knowledge intact, and in
secret from the Church. For centuries, alchemists and paganists were seen as
magicians when they were actually just discovering natural science in a period
where people rebuked any other explanation for the mysteries of the world that
wasn’t superstitious in nature.
As society evolved, this belief evolved, too. And soon enough it became
apparent to the followers that Theosophy (as well as every single religion and
myth ever conceived) was actually a way to understand the laws of the
Universe, that faith and science were practically equals in nature (That’s why
some groups today don’t even consider themselves religious anymore, like the
Rossy Cross, which calls themselves now a philosophical school), and that
every single belief system gravitated around this same core idea.
And through symbols and ideas, this knowledge grew within many different
religions and diffused culturally all around the globe. Natural Science is
reinterpret even today through myths, legends and sacred scriptures.
Because, as we’ll see here, it is indeed all connected. And in more ways than
you might think.

Ever heard of the saying “All is One”? Turns out this whole concept has a
name: Prisca Theologia (or "ancient theology").
“Prisca theologia is the doctrine that asserts that a single, true theology exists,
which threads through all religion and knowledge, and which was anciently
given by God to man.”
Now hearing “ancient theology” is particularly interesting to us. Because there
is one character in Manifest who openly follows this doctrine. Can you
remember who it is? I’m sure we saw the name Prisca Theologia at least once
in the show.
Yusuv Al-Zuras.
Since Al-Zuras is a fictional scholar, we’ll resort to his fictional Wikipedia page
the show gave us to snoop around.
This is from 2x06, Return Trip:

Look for the last paragraph on Early Life.

Showrunner Jeff Rake told us in his Happy 828 Day video that the episode
where Olive and Ben go to the Buddhist temple was put there because they
(the writers) didn’t want the concept of faith to be seen blindly through
Christian standpoints.
During one of his first Comic-Con interviews for season one, the creator was
asked if “science vs. faith” would be a recurrent theme on Manifest, to which
Rake responded something along the lines of: “Yes, not exactly science
versus faith, more like science equals faith.”
This is literally the creator telling us how we should approach the themes and
mysteries of the show.
The writers don’t want us to look at Manifest through a faith-lens or a science-
lens.
They want us to look through both lenses.
In short, Manifest is an esoteric show. Not only mythical, not only science-
fictional. Both of the genres should be taken into account if one wants to
understand the whole point and core of this story.
So let’s keep both of our eyes open and proceed on what the Callings truly are
through using the two halves of our brains.
PART 2: ALL THINGS WORK TOGETHER

And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been
called according to his purpose. Romans 8:28

Let’s speculate about the Callings for a bit. On what exactly they are.
And, no, I don’t mean what we think the Callings are or seem to be. It’s human
nature trying to understand a phenomenon through being biased.
Let’s analyze the situation as a “real scientist” would. What exactly is happening
here?
The passengers of Flight 828 are hearing voices, having visions, and having
acute intuitions of past as well as future occurrences (or tragedies as is in most
cases).
But if you were a real scientist, you would not stop analyzing at that. You would
notice the patterns, the further similarities between each individual event those
people are experiencing.
You would notice, for example, that are not any voices the 828ers hear—all of
the times (and I mean all of them) it’s their own voices, or the voice of the other
passengers themselves. When they hear sounds, it’s always things that they
could have heard before, or sounds that other passengers could have (or family
members connected to this respective passenger—family and bloodline also
seems to be a big deal for the mythology, remember the blood marker and the
Callings able of being genetically passed on? I’ll get into that later.). A good
example for this is what happened during the beginning of Season One (around
episodes 2 and 3), where Ben was hearing a violin song that was being played
at the exact same time by ANOTHER PASSENGER at the whole other side of
New York City.
Speaking of time, the visions. From a scientific point of view, time seems to be
the biggest player in the phenomena. And we can see that not only in the fact
that everybody who disappears in the show basically time travels, but in the
visions they have right after the time jump. In season one, episode 4, Unclaimed
Baggage, Saanvi sees Bethany (the 828 flight attendant) and Thomas (her
stowaway, a man who’s fleeing Africa because of the continent’s intolerance
against gay people). The Callings lead to the Bethesda Fountain in Central Park
(the one with the angel), the place where Thomas was hiding after fleeing the
hospital. Thomas knew this exact place in NY because he had been there with
his boyfriend before, and the way the Callings told Michaela and Saanvi about
this was through showing them something buried deep inside Thomas’s mind,
it showed them the statue.
In other words, the characters of Manifest who are being called are having
visions of memories of other called characters (be it a past memory, a future-
to-be memory, or even a present-forming memory). These memories are—of
course as all memories are—deeply tied to the characters’ emotional core and
social nature, some memories can be stronger than others, as it can represent
traumatic events (tragedies) or their most well-cherished moments in life
(tugging at the heart-strings, the soapy part of the drama).
We can see examples of this being reinserted and reinvented throughout every
single Calling that as happened on the show. Even in the most recent episodes.
One thing that caught my attention as I watched the arc of the meth heads and
their trial. Every single Calling they had was either about some trauma in their
past, or about something that was happening to one of the 828 characters.
Remember, in 3x06 (Graveyard Spiral), Jace was having Callings of Cal playing
basket, the booming of the ball on the concrete avoided him from murdering
Michaela. In 3x03 all three men had a mutual Calling of Cal singing the treasure
hunt lullaby, which foreshadowed to them and to us the bloodbath about to strike
the mid-season finale.
There are two things interesting about this info.
ONE: The Callings are selective towards what memories they send out to their
people. The Callings are scavenging inside each Called psyche for memories
which could be used as alert messages of future events to come that should be
avoided or followed, upcoming tragedies to stop or heart-string lessons,
promoting values of universal brotherhood and social improvement just like the
ancient theology preaches. Michaela herself couldn’t have said better in 3x08,
“Justice wins.” The Callings are basically a powered-up intuition.
TWO: Since the Callings are picky, someone or something at least intelligent-
esque is in charge of sending them. But to get to that question we should ask
ourselves first, why does it affect only this specific groups of people who
disappeared and returned? And what is its Endgame? What is it trying to avoid
or create so hard anyway? What’s its point?
Keep in mind that the phenomena not only happened with the ones on the plane,
but with the meth heads, Griffin, Zeke, Al-Zuras, and Grace (through genetic
passing). At least, those are the only victims we know of at time of writing (I
might have more than one speculation about who the other victims could be,
historically speaking. I’ll get to that soon.).
Now, to the reason for the Callings and how its system of functionality logically
could work.
It comes as simple as two words: Dark Lightning.
PART 3: ON LIGHTNINGS THAT STRIKE MORE THAN TWICE,
AND BIRDS WITH GOD’S EYES.
Dark lightning is a rare occurrence. Imagine it like Halley’s Comet, but with no
discoverable date to strike.
In the show’s universe, as my theory puts, it has struck multiple times, in many
different spots over the world… and many different living beings.
As right now, the one thing, the closer we could get to an accusatory pattern,
the single lead to what caused the time jump and the calling effect is the
preconceived notion that every single called character was struck by the same
meteorological anomaly to an extent.
Canonically, it struck the cave Zeke was trapped in. It struck the 828 aircraft. It
struck the lake where the meth heads drowned. Al-Zuras’ journal had
documented (in text and drawing) a lightning striking close to his sailing boat.
It appeared so many times over the course of the show it wouldn’t be hard to
convince us the lake Griffin was in was struck by it too.
But what is dark lightning exactly?
According to science, “Is a release of high-energy gamma radiation—sources
include supernovae and supermassive black holes—that is completely invisible
to the human eye.” (futurism.com)
According to esoteric symbology, Gamma is usually associated with the
everlasting, all-continuous force that weaves through all living and unliving
things together. It’s the uniqueness, unmeasurable and untouchable power of
our thoughts (the untouchable bit won’t exactly apply to our characters as we’ll
see). It can even be said it serves as a representation of our hypothetical soul.
And according to Manifest, it’s not only both of these things, as it seems to be
also the driving wheel of Time and Reality itself.

Artistic representation of Dark Lightning.


It kinda resembles a brain cell or neuron, right?

The Gnostics even gave it a snobby name: Divine Spark, “the portion of God
that resides within each human being.” Christianity readapted it through painting
a white dove and calling it the Holy Spirit. But generally speaking, it can be
merely represented as a bright, warm light.
Lights like this are everywhere in Manifest. Cal saw a blinding light while inside
828. Al-Zuras described a flash of light in the sky as the “silver dragon” passed.
When Zeke was resurrected after beating his Death Date, a shimmer of light
echoed from inside him right before he came back to life. Ben saw a light during
the season 2 mid-season finale when he was rescuing Olive from the club on
fire.
Now look at this, two different people, from two different timelines saw the
lightning event and its supposedly invisible light at the same time. And was that
light which inspired Cal, as if infatuated by its magnitude, to unconsciously
whisper “Is all connected.” Because if there was one thing that had enough
energy to connect those two distinctive events at the same place in time, it would
have been the explosion and subsequent shock of gamma radiation.
Time travel, as an actual scientific theory, is said to be only possible if somehow
us, as inventors, were able to create a device capable of capturing and
manipulating light itself. Because light is the only matter which stays the same
during any period. If time travel will ever be possible or not, one thing’s for sure:
light would be the conduit.
Now hear me out:
Knowing all victims of the time jumps and Callings were living and unliving things
that were struck by dark lighting (and its history as a time constant and inner-
thought guidance), what if the event somehow made the minds of all of these
subjects conjoin into a single consciousness? And the visions, sounds and
feelings the characters are having are a metaphysical collateral damage from
sharing the same mind? The Callings are scattered impressions and
manifestations from memories of the lives of everyone affected, off the
responsibility of adapting to chronological order.
Just stay with me.
Introducing the strongest evidence of this theory yet.
I call in Exhibit A… The Peacock.

“This whole Ancient Symbolism thing is kind of my jam,” said Olive, me, Jeff Rake, Dan Brown
and no one else ever, really.
It should be obvious by now that the peacock is an integral piece of the puzzle.
If it was just a random subplot, it would have been completely dropped at this
point as many others already have.

We saw it the first time during the season one mid-season and we’ve been
spotting it ever since. 1x09 was a physical manifestation of the bird. In season
two it was in one of the passenger’s compass, and in Al-Zuras tarot card of The
Star (more on this soon). And in 3x03 it was brought all over again with Maat’s
peacock feather all the way up to its magnificent physical return. Damn, if we
count the NBC logo as a meta-wink-wink then we’ve been staring at it during
the whole run of the series!
However, it was the 3x08 mention of a peacock that changed everything.
The Eureka team discovered that, on the driftwood piece the Vatican has of the
Noah’s Ark, was found traces of gamma radiation intertwined with the DNA of a
peacock.
As soon as I heard this, it all clicked.
They’re implying the peacock (and I mean THE peacock, it was a single one all
along) was also one of the victims of the time jump. The hypothetical Noah’s
Ark’s peacock was struck by the same exact lightning that connected the
828ers’, Al-Zuras’, Zeke’s, Griffin’s and the meth heads’ lives in one
metaphysical knot.
The dark lightning and peacock are our biggest constant.
Peacocks, in iconography, are seen as symbols of eternal life, divine
providence, and royal blood lineage. The reason for it to be a motif of the divine
are many, but the most interesting one is the fact that their biology literally
cheats death. Most peacocks won’t die from snake venom, quite on the contrary,
they can use the properties of the poison to make the colors of their exuberant
feathers glow even brighter [showy motherf*****].
During ancient cultures, the iridescent dots on their tails were labeled as “the
watching eyes of god.” And as it was a rare bird to find, it would be common for
royal families (or as the medieval times would call, “the lineages chosen by God
to rule”) to display many peacocks on their gardens, and if they couldn’t get their
hands on one, they would at least paint themselves alongside one of these
luxurious birds.
On left, a royal depicted with a peacock. On right, the peacock depicted as the alchemical
concept of the Philosopher’s Stone (Alchemy was an old pseudo-scientific practice, and the
Stone was the goal of the alchemists, it could represent immortality or clearance of mind, the
full understanding of the godly laws through practical, mundane tools—see how it is trapped
inside a test tube? Spirituality and Science conjoined).

Taking into consideration that once one particular peacock was struck by dark
lightning, as well as the other called characters did, I think it’s safe to assume
that their bodies absorbed a huge amount of Gamma radiation. And if we choose
to see it through not only sci-fi/supernatural lens, but through both of these
lenses, we can reach the conclusion that gamma rays are rudimentary what
we’re calling “God’s fingerprint.”

“God” = LIGHT (divine spark, gamma ray) which controls and = TIME
(and the great part of time which leaves within us, humans, is our
memories, our intellect)

In 3x08 (Destination Unknown), Saanvi comes to the conclusion that the


compounds found in the passengers’ blood when summed up as one would add
to the chemical structure of the gem stone sapphire. (“It’s all connected,” she
said expositional as exposition can get). All is one. Prisca Theologia.
Now sapphire was an interesting choice. As some of you already stated on
reddit, sapphire is known for its prophetic attributes as well as its scientifical
ones. Legend says the “real-life” Holy Grail was made of sapphire. And sapphire
was also used to make watch crystals and electronic wafers as conduits, it’s
related to time and the transference of energy.
The characters struck by the light absorbed the light’s properties. And now the
191 souls of flight 828, an 16th century Egyptian scholar, a trio of meth heads,
Zeke, Griffin and a 6,000-year-old bird have the god-like power of Time literally
running inside their veins! They are all able to hear, see and feel the “scientific
compounds of human mentality” to a higher degree than most other humans
normally can’t. Remember, we can only see and make memories because our
eyes filter light rays and shapes images into our brains. And now the, with the
lightning-struckers’ organisms simultaneous reacting to gamma radiation, they
can occasionally see abstract gamma rays of the other hosts, through a new
and unified perspective.
Time is always running and weaving between us, organic matter, but it is unseen
to our naked eyes. The Dark Lightning Effect allowed seeing the current of Time
and Mind possible to our characters.

Not every light ray is visible to us. Look at how far Gamma is on the charts. How much stuff
are we not seeing happening around us every day?

And just like time/light is the matter which hypothetically stays the same
throughout all ages and controls and dictates the lives of every single living thing
on Earth, it would be safe to assume an energy like this would be god itself. And
as one unchanging matter, it made the minds and bodies of its victims mangled
into a metaphysical collective cat’s cradle of memories of the lives of said
victims.
When they say it’s all connected, is because everything is literally connected
by the same driving force.
The Annunciation, by Carlo Crivelli, 1486. Pay attention at how the light emerges from the
sky and directly selects Virgin Mary as the carrier of Jesus, the carrier of The Light. And there
is the peacock again, and white doves, and archangel Michael. It’s a party, the whole Calling
crew is here!

The Carrier of The Light.


A Hinduist depiction of god. The peacock keeps the snake under its claw, life prevailing over
death. The god in itself is a jumbled collection of many types of different living beings, males
and females and its animal-counterpart, the one with the eyes of providence. I can also make
a case for the ocean in the background. As a Tarot reader, oceans are usually a symbol for
what’s deep inside us: it represents our emotions just as our minds and intellect, our common
good, our inner wide-ranging worlds.
In Christianity, Mary, one of the many chosen, is also often depicted stepping on a snake (this
one looms ominously over the globe, Mary’s stopping evil from spreading and harming Her
people). As previously stated, every belief system is—at their core—the same.

Alchemical engraving.
Also shows an androgynous figure stepping on a snake-like being over the globe.
The Masonic sigil. Bird kills Snake over the Globe.

Call it whatever, “destiny”, “god’s plan”, if you want to be nerdy and still act as if
this is a 100% sci-fi story then call it Synergy.
The principle of Synergy states that some ends can only be achieved through
the collective mental effort of a task. In the esoteric we also have something
similar—it’s called Synchronicity (term created by the psychiatrist and
anthropologist Carl Gustav Jung). Know the saying “everything happens for a
reason”? It comes from the belief that every coincidence in our reality it’s not
there by mere chance, but is part of a complex, interconnected chain of events
that lead to a result directly connected to the Universe’s will, the Cosmos. A
cuter way of saying fate.
Romans 8:28, or the literal definition of Cosmic Synergy.

So the characters of Manifest were selected by Cosmos himself to help in the


salvation of Humanity and the prevalence of life on Earth.

“We were called to be agents of the apocalypse,” and he couldn’t have said it better. The
828ers are part of Father Time’s staff of helping elves.

But how can we be sure this is the Callings’ masterplan? What exactly those
people are getting when they decide to following the trials? What does the
Universe get? Could there still be other relevant historical figures who were
called to be agents in the show’s universe? Let’s revive the episodes once more.
Synchronicity is also said to be the pseudo-scientific explanation for the answers
given through a Tarot card reading. The most chilling evidence of the Callings
being a shared state of mind in the thread of time and memory came from the
season 2 Al-Zuras Tarot subplot. More precisely at 3x07 (Emergency Exit) and
in 3x09 (Airplane Bottles).
Right after saving Olive from the burning club, Ben comes across the Al-Zuras’
manuscript, with the shocking depiction of himself carrying his daughter drawn
on the very first pages. It happened at the same moment Ben saw the Light.
(Mental note on the star drawn above Ben’s head)

What this means for us, as observers? It means not only that Al-Zuras and Ben
both saw the same glow, but that both of them saw the same time, they shared
one same state of mindfulness in memory-form. The Light is what’s tying all of
the characters together, as it is the fabric of reality itself!
Cal looks at the
Gamma Light
through the window
at the same time it
strikes the aircraft
and Al-Zuras’ ship
in the 16th Centrury.

And witness the previous hosts they’re being connected to in the past.

“It’s all connecting!” — Cal (Airplane Bottles)

Now would you look at Al-Zuras’ interpretation of it?


See how the lightning spawns from a Star? As in Star of the tarot card? As in
the stars on peacock tails? As in the watching eye of god.

=
Symbolically and geographically, stars represent our main compass on Earth.
Our main method of guidance. In a Tarot reading, it rudimentary says to a client
“keep calm, it’s all going according to plan.” The Star card also represents “the
feeling of calm before the storm.”

(1x09 and 3x03) Don’t tell me this isn’t the same bird. Look at his feathers, they’re a unique
pattern. Peacock tails don’t normally look like this, you know?
The Peacock pattern is used to trace “mandalas,” a native representation of
the Universe, the dots are the stars in the blue of the sky—the eyes on the
endless face of god. Kinda relates to early examples of Astrology/Astronomy,
too.

Cal, who’s finally getting to fully comprehend what the Callings are telling,
finds the peacock feather in Tarik’s basement and deducts, “It’ll be okay [the
Star told me so].” God’s watching over him, the Laws of the Universe are in
charge and the problem is being taken care of, just hold on tight while they’re
at it, and help it too when needed.

We, the audience, as an observant receptor, are also receiving Callings from
our gods (the showrunners). The Opening sequence in Graveyard Spiral is a
reference to a famous alchemical engraving, the Flammarion Engraving, which
depicts a man crossing over god’s dome of stars and receiving the blessing of
seeing the planet’s working gears.
They were not shown a peacock because God felt like sending a cryptic,
metaphysical gag. But because the peacock (who was also one of the carriers
of the divine glow/lightning) was the only possible vessel for this divine force to
interact directly into the situation.
It must have thought, “Oh, Ben Stone has this daughter who knows about
ancient symbolism. If I show Ben Stone this random peacock I happen to be
able to summon into reality, he’ll probably talk about it with Olive later and
discover it means resurrection and immortality and that June is a relevant date
for his matter.”
It is trying to make direct contact to its receptors, but it is at the same time limited
by a select number of victims, therefore a limited number of memories and
psychical sensations to talk through. So it would need to get creative from time
to time. That’s why the show values symbolism so much, cause it can say a lot
about stuff just by showcasing a single object or imagery. And choosing Prisca
Theologia is the perfect way to do it, since it is one of the most rooted sums of
human knowledge, the same in every time, every culture, every part of the
world, and speaks to every people. Perfect for speaking with a 16th century
Egyptian merchant and a 21st century New Yorker Christian at the same time.
It’s the common linguistic denominator shared by them all.
In short:
The Laws of the Universe are trying to avoid the imminent end of humanity
through manifesting the lightning-struckers memories to warn them about the
apocalypse, and manipulate them into saving the world. Everyone who was
called is the carrier of the esoterically called Divine Spark (the unseen,
undiscoverable force that powers time and, consequently, feeds the mind and
memory of men) brought by a rare and random scientific event, which, as a final
result, interconnected all of these living beings’ minds and lives (in different
times and spaces) into a single, powered-up collective consciousness state
labeled by some of them as Callings, but worldly as “intuition”. The great
constant behind it is Synergy—in tangible reality represented through the
sapphire compounds—, the interaction which gives rise to a whole that is greater
than the simple sum of its parts… or “God’s promise of eternal life/time” for the
laymen.

It indeed is, TJ. Your minds, actions, times…


All of it in the name of the greater good.

The fact the Callings show past, present and future in order to strengthen the
characters’ intuition reminds me a lot of Tarot reading and its most popular
spread. The Three-card Spread, supposed to show the consultant their past
actions (1st card), which determined their occurring present (2nd card) and send
signals of upcoming events and best course of action to take (3 rd card).
This spread even was incorporated in the show’s writing when Olive drawn
cards for TJ in 2x06. Only they didn’t know that by reading TJ’s fortune (as a
passenger) they were obliviously revealing the whole Destiny of the ones
touched by gamma energy.
Olive’s tarot reading dictates the passengers’ destinies.
Check how similar the heart on Empress is to the religious representations of the Divine Spark.

NBC’s promotional material for Manifest also shows the depiction of the Divine Spark.

A Peacock inserted on a Star. Gods = CREATORS. What TV channels and TV devices do is


basically serve as a LIGHT conductor for the messages of those said creators. HMMM…

How much exactly God is inserted in our lives again? How much LIGHT is around us? It’s all
there is. Everywhere. That same light is literally on every single screen, inside every single home
of every single person on the globe! Media can act as God in nature. Meta-nudges! Yay!

This is how our planet should look like when we trace the lines of media devices. We are all
linked by threads of this same, often unseen, light of knowledge and the exchange of human
information.

Moving on to the reading itself.


The Past
THE FOOL:
Usually in Tarot the Fool marks the beginning of a journey. A journey that not
everyone can be ready to take, as the Fool can also indicate being oblivious to
danger and complexity of a situation, and taking risks not even imagining it could
have consequences. It’s the first card of the tarot, card number zero, the start of
the story. This represents the 828-crew falling deep into the most complex
phenomena the world has seen. The plane returning was sudden, erratic and
confronted everyone’s notion of normal. And the same could be said about Al-
Zuras, too. Look at how he decided to depict the starting card of the Tarot by
painting a jaunty guy with his back turned to an ominous-looking ocean (Al-
Zuras’s went missing at sea). The Fool can also represent an unlikely and crazy
occurrence, as The Fool in its many translations can also be called “The
Irrational One.”
The Present
THE WORLD:
Now the passengers are caught in a metaphysical mess great than life. The fate
of the world is at stake, the long dormant volcano at Turkey is awakening and
could endanger every life. The World card in fortune telling aspects means to
end a journey, as it is the final card of the deck. It’s about fulfilling your own
spiritual purpose and feeling in syntony with the rest of the Universe. Right now,
the carries of the light are running errands and trials to fulfill their destiny of
surviving and saving everyone. The inner, invisible strings of the World are at
work here to course correct the next biggest tragedy in human history.
The Future
THE EMPERESS:
Symbolizes love, harmony, and understanding the ones you care about. It talks
about new opportunity and the stability that comes with it. So I guess is safe to
say this show’s gonna have a happy ending and everyone will survive. Another
interesting aspect of this card is that it can represent pregnant women,
becoming a mother, or a great maternal influence in an outcome (Tarot books
tend to mention Mother Earth when talking about this card). My guess is as good
as yours. I like to believe that this is somehow tied to Grace, since she’s the
mother of Eden, a very special baby literally born from “god’s light”, as well as
Cal, the Holy Grail. Those two kids will be somehow essential in saving the
Earth, just like people born from Callings before in ancient history probably also
were, like Jesus Christ (the emblem on Al-Zuras’ tarot card also resembles the
Heart of Christ quite a lot, the Christian iconography points to Mary, Bringer of
God’s Son).
Synergy and Synchronicity urges the victims through symbolism, “Cal and Eden will be
important leaders in order to win!”

Quick trivia: Did you know the most important prayer for Mary in Roman
Christianity is called Mary, Mother of Grace? No, I’m not joking.

Ashes, ashes, we all fell down…

The assumption that chronology of time is irrelevant for the Callings to warn
about tragedies, this scene right up here makes me think they weren’t having
glimpses of the death they were resurrected from, but that this is a vision of what
their future could be if they don’t follow the trials correctly. The timeline would
resort to a simpler solution to course correct the time-knot, which would be by
killing the agents that were supposed to die at first.
Let’s resume to Ancient Egypt, the belief system the show seems to be giving
special attention right now.
Etymologically, the word “tarot” came from the name “Thoth”. Thoth is the
Egyptian god of magic, knowledge and writing, and he’s also depicted as bird.
According to myth he’s a being which learned who to absorb God’s light and
translate it into words, so the all humans can understand it easier.
Thoth was Maat’s husband. And we’ve seen her mentioned in Manifest.
The one thing the show didn’t tell us about Ma’at is that she’s responsible for
the cosmic balance. “Maat personified this concept, and regulated the stars,
seasons, and the actions of mortals and the deities who had brought order from
chaos at the moment of creation.” (Wikipedia)
In the Egyptian after-life, one’s souls would undergo a moral trial conducted by
Maat, who would use a plum from her husband to weight their hearts.

Learning from the past instead of letting it consume you is the key-part of the mythology.

If the heart was heavier than Thoth’s feather, the defendant would have their
heart (soul essence) thrown in emptiness of existence, represent by the demons
Apep or Ammit.

Apep / Ammit by Thoth’s feet (Ammit is his shape-shifting pet)


Apep was interpreted by Egyptians as being a snake made of pure darkness.
Just like the one we saw during the meth heads’ trial.
Our fellow former-Egyptians were so obsessed with this idea they even made it
into a spiritual boardgame called Senet for means of entertainment. Senet was
later readapted by us and became Chess.

BLACK and WHITE pieces cross the bicolored path of life in Senet matches.

And who is our favorite Chess expert?

Let’s be real if there’s one thing Eagan is on this show is a player. Chess gamers
usually have a shaper mind for detail. Essentially, Eagan is a player of Senet.
He knows how to invoke and handle the Light. Just like Al-Zuras used to with
his Tarot deck (Thoth’s feather).

Now, when I say “this is Apep/Ammit,” I don’t mean “Egyptian Gods were real
and there are literal magic monsters running the world behind the curtains of the
sky.” What I mean is, creating myths and legend for us—as a society prone
to understand their own reality through some extent of logic—are early
examples and records of natural science.
The point is not that it is a snake, but that it looks like one.
For Al-Zuras, the Silver Dragon was just a technology his society couldn’t
understand then. (The show’s asking: what if “God” is just another technology
we can’t yet fully grasp?)
Manifest plays on the theoretical notion that the visions and encounters
with gods people say they’re having since the dawn of time were actually
some in-our-face natural phenomenon that has been misinterpreted and
reinvented throughout Humans’ entire historic culture. And all of that only
because it is easy for us, as flawed as we are, to ignore stuff, to refuse
thinking further about something, or getting time to interpret the voice of
others who may sound too different from ours (the “voice of God” as said
by Al-Zuras). It’s a story about the dangers of limiting understanding and
fighting against acceptance.

Thoth on Ra’s Solar Barque fighting Apep = The Word Carrier repelling Evil from getting on
their Lifeboat under The Light’s orders.

The Khufu Ship, the real-life counterpart of “Lifeboat” (archeologist found it buried deep under
Giza’s Pyramid)

Ever heard of the saying “There is only one God”? It means there is only one
Time for all of us. No matter who you are, where you lived, or when you lived,
Time will take you away at the end. This is so certain it could be said Time
already took you, as He owns you omnipresently. Like the lights of the Sun and
the Moon. Male and Female. White and Dark. Yin and Yang.
The forces of Good and Evil perfectly weighted, the main goal of Buddhism.

It’s all about: Don’t shut out the voice of your intuition. Or your voice of reason.

The Anhk and the Three Man on the Final Trial. The Calling says, “Look, what’s happening to
you is the same that has happened to those other three people in the past. Learn from their
mistakes!”

Through Egyptian-perspective, if the meth heads successfully learned to equal


their morals (if the feather and the heart weighted the same) they would be
rewarded with immortality, what they called “Anhk” (☥).
What would “anhk” be in our perspective? Many things.

“X marks the spot. A circle with a dot. Spiders crawling up your back, blood gushing
down.” In the Alchemy, a circle with a dot was a symbol for gold (chemically saying),
the Sun (it was also the hieroglyph for Ra, God of the Sun and Maat’s FATHER), and
used to represent the final stage of purification the soul undergoes during a spiritual
journey, right before it reaches apotheosis (mythically saying).

“Apotheosis is the glorification of a subject to divine level and most commonly,


the treatment of a human like a god. The term has meanings in theology, where
it refers to a belief, and in art, where it refers to a genre. In theology, apotheosis
refers to the idea that an individual has been raised to godlike stature.”
(Wikipedia)
It sure does sounds like that’s what Zeke has become after beating his Death
Date. He has the power of pure and true empathy towards his common people.
And will probably live forever or something along these lines? In general, what
it means for science is that Zeke went through the whole process of testing and
adapting to a new source of energy, and became a more evolved human who
has the gamma radiation of Time running in his organism, allowing him to
overextend his existence (word and memory) for as long as he wants.
Karma is Earth’s moral Natural Selection.
Hmm… a man affected by unknown energetic properties which put him through
a series of trials to prove him worthy of carrying this energy eternally, which at
the end, even after dying, returned. And his light and word prevails shinning over
lower humans on Earth to this day…
Kinda reminds me of someone else we know who was supposedly part of our
history…

Was Historical Jesus another one of those people who got randomly struck by
lightning containing the power of time, which trigged the same traces of the
same (previously dormant) matter/potential inside their organisms?
Was Jesus, Mary and other disciples having Callings?
Was every single religious leader ever?!
After all, after spending 33 years on Earth, Jesus finally learned that him as
every other being is the blood and flesh of God (all is one), that to live well is to
live having empathy and helping others, and after his last trial on Crucifixion Day
he was promoted to his ankh status.
Was Buda a Zeke? Was the Biblical Ezekiel the original Zeke? Moses? Gandhi?
Aleister Crowley? The Ancient Egyptian pharaohs? Philosophers? Important
artists like Da Vinci? Fortune tellers? The royal family???
According to science, a dark lightning can strike 1000 times per day without we
even knowing about it. So, with how many more 828ers are we dealing with
exactly?
Depiction of the Biblical tale of Ezekiel’s Vision of God. OG Zeke apparently saw
a jumbled mass of beasts—hybrids of cows, lions, birds, and human beings all
connected to spinning wheels over a raging ocean. (Did Cal see something
crazy like this when he looked through the plane window? Was that what he
meant by “it’s all connected”?)

The same wheels also appear in the Father Time representations, and in the
Tarot card of the Wheel of Fortune—a golden wheel that keeps our earthly time
running unstoppably against our selfish will. It also has the same animals
Ezekiel saw drawn on it, they help by spinning the wheel alongside the angels.
The animals of the wheel also appear at the end of the journey, at the original World card.

Now, was Noah struck by dark lightning 6000 years ago and suddenly was able
to see the gamma radiation of moments shared by random animals, like the
Peacock, and a ship, as in Al-Zuras’, and assumed God was telling him to build
an ark and gather every animal?
Ezekiel, as many other biased, superstitious humans, bumped into the glimpse
of the undiscovered Law of Time itself and assumed it was some sort of
otherworldly experience/prophecy. But it was just the physical manifestation of
the cosmologic synergy making sure things are staying safe on this convoluted,
random and mysterious innerworkings of light.
Is the whole mystery just a big scientific phenomenon that was crazily
misinterpreted in History by hysteria? And just now, with the 828 happening in
a more scientific-wise world, we’re learning to learn about it correctly? (It kinda
speaks to the show’s audience reception too in a big meta-joke, taking into
account that we all can be misinterpreting it collectively).
Is this where Manifest is going? I don’t know, but it definitely seems like it.
Which brings us to our Epilogue.
PART 4: THE LAST TRIAL.
It was a blessing in disguise. Genesis 37:26

Where we misinterpreting Manifest?


Are we misinterpreting it just like Al-Zuras did with the 828’s vessel? He couldn’t
possibly know what an aircraft was at his period, but he could know (through his
perspective of thought, limited by time) it was how a mythical beast, like a
dragon, would work like.
Misinterpretation seems to be a big deal on this story.
How many times our characters brought dismay onto themselves just because
they interpreted a Calling wrongly?
It happened with the Death Date, when the symbols weren’t representing ideas,
but an exact number date (where Peacock + Gemini + Dragon = June 2nd, 2024).
It happened with the Lifeboat situation, where Jace, Pete and Kory lost to the
evil snake of the past. And will probably be happening again, and again, and
again, until they learn.
The writers even introduced us to Eagan as a character. So, when in moments
like in 3x03, when Ben, a man with a mind limited by science (a math professor),
says about a Calling: “It’s a frog,” and Eagan, as man with a photographic
memory (an esoteric, knower of symbols), promptly corrects, “Not a frog, a toad”
the creators are actually teaching us how we should be watching the show and
approaching the mystery, just as they are teaching their own characters to do
so, just like how God is apparently trying to do so with his meaty chess pieces
down here. Having to dissipate a simple message of love through complicated
texts, and reaching out through proxies through complicated methods. Because
we will never learn unless we continue to ask the question.
The 828ers, meth heads, ancients, and probably even Jesus Christ were all
getting it wrong at some point. They all ran in circles and F themselves just for
getting it wrong every single time.
“It’s no so hard,” Eagan had said at the same episode. “It’s just picking the
pieces and assembling the puzzle. What’s the problem with that?”
And to that now I say, “I know, right!”
Eagan is supposed to be the audience’s self-insert. He confronts our
preconceived notion of seeing everything through the protagonists’ eyes when
we should be seeing through the Eyes of God. And God’s language is the
language of symbol. Eagan mocks Ben’s need to resort to “cute names for
everything.” We mock the writers’ need to resort to cute names. But the thing is,
they have to resort to cute names, and to biased, easy knowledge like
Christianity, because the final trial needs to get through somehow.
It is just so complicated.
Look at how hard and convoluted was explaining all of this just to you, and most
of you will skipping straight to the TooLong;Didn’tRead section because you
didn’t “have the time.”
“We want the show to end!”
“I hope it ends this season!”
“It’s obviously dumb.”
For a student to reach the conclusion of a math problem, the teacher can never
give them the answer, it has to teach them how to reach it.
And to the final answer I think (with my particular world-view lenses) Manifest
will give us.

Is the whole mystery just a gigantic and elaborated cosmic


accident?

Only if you choose to see it as an elaborated cosmic accident.


I’ll own my truth and say I believe this show could be a potential pseudo-
intellectual little gem.
From what we analyzed, I deduced it all points towards the force behind the
Callings being an intelligent one to some extent. It deliberately chooses what to
show us and them and what not to. If it is benevolent or maleficent in nature, my
guess is that we’ll never have the definitive answer. My guess is that it could
very much be as neutral as any other force of nature is. A double-edged sword.
They’re just doing their job here and that’s all there is to it.
However, if the Callings have a deliberate propose then we must assume it has
an end goal. And its end goal seems to be definitely benevolent, morally and
humanly speaking, as it means saving the world.
My final resolution is…

The Callings are a natural, misunderstood phenomenon that happens around


random moments of time in our planet. It is somehow intelligent in nature, and
seems to be there in order to preserve some sort of cosmological balance
related to time and human longevity. Like Earth’s very own organic defense
mechanism, it acts up every time it foresees there’s an upending catastrophe
that could forever damage its very life.
Due to fulfil Earth’s salvation in shorter terms, it resorts to protocooperation
and deliberately intervenes through a select human or a select group of them
(or any other living thing) to further increase its own grasp over Earth’s
Butterfly Effect (or Law of Cause and Effect). And it somehow learned by
experience that it will get better results if disguised as some sort of divine
force, to make the victims believe they are fulfilling the will of their masters
(and they kind of are, though).
For that, you need to accept the fact the globe (as integral part of the rest of
the universe) is in itself a living, thinking organism, like humans and even
irrational animals in our ecosystem are. And the World is on a desperate,
constant battle for survival just like the people and birds are down here.
Cosmos, as a larger force related to thought, understands it needs us for Him
to live (and vice-versa), so it directly and indirectly forces us to do good for the
common environment through using the upper hand it has over us: Time.
Some of us noticed this cyclic pattern and named it fate or god throughout
history, art, science and mythos.

Michaela’s Calling about Evie is there to remind us of the Butterfly Effect.


Butterflies were also symbols for death and past lives in old Mesopotamia.
(And there’s even this entire scientific study which somehow tries to prove that
butterflies biologically tend to show up more in places where someone passed
away? (It is a whole thing, you see?))

What is Nature, if not a huge circle?

It all happened once close to the Great Flood; the force selected Noah in order
to save the DNA of every species in the world by giving him the idea for an Ark
(a technology method that would be available then and now), because the
world was soon to be destroyed.
It happened twice when Moses had to move the Egyptian population to the
“promised land” before the Plagues of Egypt attack. The Callings struck a tree
with dark lightning and made it catch fire in front of Moses. According to the
Bible, just by seeing the tree on flames, Moses acknowledged the presence of
a higher calling and his purpose in it.

Moses’s Calling

It happened later with Jesus. Joseph and Mary (most likely Mary) were called
and then had a baby together. This baby was a gamma radiation baby. This
means to them what it would also mean for Grace’s and Ben’s daughter, Eden
(The Garden of Eden, the first land, a new beginning, just like the Fool and
World cards made by Al-Zuras represented).

The intolerance and humiliation Cal and the other passengers suffer from the X-ers feels just
like the one Jesus underwent during his stay on Earth. History repeats itself, however the ones
who write it are unaware of History’s true nature.

Speaking of Al-Zuras, he was probably the one who was able to understand
the Callings the most out of all of them. He was the first and only one to notice
the Prisca Theologia connection and its roots in the occult philosophy. With the
technology he had available at the period, to closer he would get to study and
actually manipulate god’s/gamma energy was through messing with the laws
of synergy and synchronicity by playing with Tarot cards.
Through beating his own Death Date (Yes, I think he did it. Smart guy this one,
he actually listens), Al-Zuras’ word and knowledge was rewarded with “eternal
life,” which meant his work (the deck) becoming a famous retelling of the cards
that would be talked about throughout the subsequent times all the way up to
the 21st century—exactly like The Bible, the Torah and other creations made
through Calling-inspiration do.
And then comes the Stone Family.
Soon to be affected by the omnipresent consciousness of gamma rays through
Flight 828, they receive an important Tarot reading through the words of the
last relevant lightning-host before them. This would be important for the
Callings, as God would use the cards as a tool to help warn their new agents
about Earth’s next big tragedy from the standpoint of someone who had
understand and beat it successfully once.
One relevant example of the reason behind the time jumps: The Callings
needed Michaela to be kept far from Jared in order to fulfill the planned
outcome and leave the predetermined Cause and Effect intact. So they time-
jumped her five years later, enough time for Jared and others to move on from
their significant others.
But this apparently wasn’t enough, since they needed to bring her a new lover
to compensate. And in comes baby-boy Zeke. Everything is made so her and
the others believe they are soul mates, destined by god, and the Callings grow
their influence even further by manipulating synergy and making divine-like
coincidences happen around them (like the repetition of 828 everywhere,
referring to the Bible verse her mom used to tell her, pulling their puppets’
heartstrings).

“Oh, I need to send Olive a message about Noah’s Ark but I’m not human and don’t know how
to vocally talk like them, so I’ll put on their path this Noah’s Ark-themed jigsaw puzzle which
has an olive branch on it and hope they get it,” said the Calling and Jeff Rake (03x04)

The agents need to be entirely willing to give everything on them in order to


play their parts in Time’s tango. Even if it means paying with their own lives in
the name of Earth’s longevity. After all, emotional blackmail for something as
neutral as Nature is merely a means to its own survival.
“The only way to survive is to accept,” said TJ from Al-Zuras journal entry. By
accept, Al-Zuras meant accept that the force they’re dealing with is larger than
them and that they can’t fight it. Karma is a bitch and Justice is a blind hag,
they will kill you unmercifully if it means the rest will survive.
God tried time and time again to warn the 828ers about their fate. First, he
showed them a peacock, a petrograph of Gemini constellation, and made Cal
build a wooden dragon from the Chinese zodiac. But—like many other
countless humans over History—the passengers wouldn’t interpret it correctly.
So God brought in Griffin, a guy who was far from redemption, gave him a
small time-jump and made him cross paths with the Stone family. Making
Griffin die 8 hours and 28 minutes later was God’s way piquing the
passengers’ interest, and indirectly made them learn of their deadlines. Time
was running and He was impatient with the characters’ obliviousness at this
point. Putting a guy who couldn’t ever possibly beat a Death Date was
basically God spelling it all out (“Do I have to draw you a picture?”).

“It’s been right in front of us all along.” – Olive Stone.

While Olive learns about the Death Date through analyzing ancient symbology, Ben discovers
it through mathematics. Every line of knowledge is valid, provided it reaches apotheosis. And
through cleaver film directing, the creators tell us that, whether out of science or faith, the final
picture should look the same.
If the Callings are people who got struck by lightning seeing random moments in history from
other people who got struck, then this cave painting might not even be the Gemini constellation
at all. Someone in pre-historical times could have had a future vision from this moment which
Michaela and Zeke held hands underneath the starry sky and decided to paint it. It’s not out of
embellishment the showrunners decided to put the ray striking the petrograph the second they
hold hands. God is using every card he has to convince Mick and Zeke they cosmically belong
together. And they do, in oder to mantain the reproductive cycle of life on Earth.

However, as we would see, this still wouldn’t be enough for them to grasp the
entire concept of Time’s course-correcting system. The passengers of 828 still
were unaware to the fact that they should be working together for the Synergy
Law to apply and the world be saved.
So in comes the trio of meth heads, to teach them that no, just following the
Callings isn’t enough. You all have to do is stop resisting and denying. Is either
that or having your heart thrown to Apep or Ammit, thrown into The Dark.

THE OUTCOME OF THE TIME-BREW: THE LAST TRIAL


The next apocalyptic catastrophe, set to strike humanity on June 2 nd 2024, is
the eruption of the Mount Aratat volcano, in Turkey.

Look at both of these situations. Time is invoking on the characters the bodily sensation of
burning. The Callings urge, “This is what will happen to you if you don’t do as I say!”

If you count the showrunners as another active representation of God, it would


be also fair to assume Manifest—their creation, the show itself—would air its
final episode during 06/02/2024, at Season 6 (Wasn’t 6 the number which
defined the apocalypse according to the Bible? You know, 666. Six is
associated with “being chained to earthly factors” in numerology).
The characters are running against the rules from the God of Time (TV) to
save their in-show World, which is also the ending of the series for our off-
show World. It’s the daunting black screen of every single rolling-credits card
and every single tv device when shut off. In creative-writer terms, Manifest is a
show on the consequences of defying natural order, of going against the tide
of the planed outcomes, but how all roads—for as long, convoluted, and fragile
as they seem— will still prevail leading to the same destination at The End.

The Ouroboros (the snakes of Evil bite their own tails, hurting themselves while making a
symbol for infinity and conclusion) at Moses’s bush, brunt by the discharge of pure energy.

It’s almost like God is saying, “You should have died on that plane. I brought
you back. Now you owe me one. Show me you and the others are worthy of
the manifesting power I gifted you with. Give me one good reason not to let
your world die this time. Prove me humanity still rings true to my message of
collectiveness to keep the system going. Companionship, family and love must
always prevail or all there will be is destruction.”
For cable TV, an earthly manifestation, proving our worth means having
numbers. For God and other types of artists, proving your worth and
maintaining the plug on gets trickier.
God says, everyone should do their part on the system or the system won't
work at all. We all should be working together for a better world. Every single
action we take should be morally weighted first, because everything and
everyone counts, because they're embroidered in the quilt of Time. Because
everything is connected! Taking one piece off a Jenga tower can sometimes
make the whole Tower fall down.
Reimagined version of The Falling Tower tarot card. An obelisk (Egyptian symbol for
connecting Earth to the Higher Powers of sky) gets destroyed by the raging waves of
ocean and bossy lightnings from god. It represents “death of Mind Clearing.”
Darkness sometimes wins over light, as they are equals in influence.

Cosmic accident?? More like Cosmic Conspiracy!! Dun dun duuunn!!


No, but seriously. I have no idea what it means for Saanvi and the others
considering she genetically removed the compounds of God from her body.
(Wait. Is “compounds of God” just a fancy way of saying God’s Sperm? Ew.
You go, Saanvi.)
But really, though, Saanvi will be punished for this (the tailfin reappearing at
the ocean at the same time she murders the Major proves that), as the rest of
the crew will too, eventually.
I know much of this is nothing more than pointing out coincidences in the show
with real life, but isn’t that what the show have always done as a story? Isn’t
filmmaking just a way to capture what is in your mind through shot images
made of light? The whole point is to keep always guessing. Mise en Scene! on
film and TV is also just a fancy way of saying “let your on-set intuition guide
you on this.”
Finally, at its core, Manifest is a metaphysical allegory on the importance of
family, belonging, collectiveness, empathy, and selflessness. And it's about
passing down to the next generation this important lesson of collaboration and
social progress, be it through a fortune reading, a sacred text, a scientific law,
or even though a cheesy tv family drama. Why not? Whatever speaks to you,
man. It's all the same thing anyway, remember? 😉 as long as you’re taking
your time to pay attention to the signals, everything is gonna be alright.
It always has been and it always will be.
We're all in the same lifeboat.
Let's make sure it reaches the its next shore safe and sound.

Thank you for your time.


— J. J. Coelho
But, on the other hand, I could be wrong and the whole show is like Baby
Eden’s dream or something. Or it could get cancelled.
I guess only time will tell.

FINALWORD
So, yea, that’s mah ‘hole guess on what this show’s truly about!
It almost dips its toe close to the limit that separates it from being the inspired-
talk of a H. P. Lovecraft fanfic of Yog-Sothoth, but it is probably the best I can
come out with as in right now, the day before the airing of S03EP09 (“Bogey”).
I could talk about it for hours for anyone who also might be interested. But for
now, I’ll resort to keep the INTP-A gremlin that lives inside me sufficed.

But you guys see my point here now, right?

Right?!

BIBLIOGRAPHY
1. www.letussarcasticallyenjoyManifestalone.com
2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8cNBvzKdIE
3. Some Dan Brown book I don’t remember the name of
4. Taroooot, mah buddy, please come to Brazil!
5. #RenewManifest YO!
6. I swear, I wasn’t paid to do this.
TL;DR VERSION: it is all a blessing disguised as tragedy.

Oh, I’m sorry, you don’t get it?


Don’t worry, I wouldn’t either.

Actual depiction of Jeff Rake every time someone asks him a question.

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