Videos by Jim Overbeck

Jim Overbeck on Horror

Jim talks about what existence is all about on earth. He gives a list of the horrors of life. He discusses the ‘inner’ and ‘outer’ man. He speaks about the ‘god within’ and what is meant by ‘human’. He mentions ‘divine hierarchies’ and quotes from Origen on the way God communicates. He explains atheism by referring to their basic misunderstanding of what it means to be alive.

Jim Overbeck Goes to Hell part 1

The writer and artist Jim Overbeck describes his vision of Christ and experiences of hell. Jim describes his experience of deification and how the world looks from a great ‘height’. The descriptions of hell are dramatic and vivid and stand as a warning for those who deny its existence.

The Lost Genius part 1

Part 1 of ‘The Lost Genius’. A film about Jim Overbeck made by Angelica Landry. This well made film gives us an insight into Jim’s background, including some of the traumatic elements, side by side with views of his villa and gallery in Italy. Jim tells the story of his childhood and mysterious parentage. He also describes his time in the army and the IQ assessment by intelligence agents. There are also descriptions of some of the artworks.

The Lost Genius part 2 German subtitles

Part 2 of ‘The Lost Genius’. A film about Jim Overbeck made by Angelica Landry. In this section Sue Overbeck describes her experience of meeting Jim in Chelsea. Jim gives a brief outline of the scope of his mathematical studies and how they led to his discovery of the Divine. Ralph tells the story of meeting Jim and how it changed his life. Ralph and Sue give further biographical detail about their lives together. Gill talks about her friendship with the Overbecks and Ralph.

The Lost Genius part 3 German subtitles

Part 3 of ‘The Lost Genius’. A film about Jim Overbeck made by Angelica Landry. In this section Jim talks about politicians with reference to his painting ‘Supper with Satan’. Jim’s friends Ralph and Gill talk about Jim with particular reference to Jim’s book ‘the Autobiography of God Almighty’. We learn about Jim’s background and his discovery that the man he thought to be his father wasn’t his biological father. Sue explains how Jim came to be an artist.

Jim Overbeck on Death and Instinct

Jim Overbeck addresses the problem of man’s ‘murderous fury’. He discusses modern attitudes to Hell & Satan that don’t recognize the personification of evil. He attacks the idea of death as ‘nothingness’ by stressing that the god within does not die with the flesh. He deconstructs ‘materialism’ and views that place the origins of intelligence and consciousness in non-intelligence. Minds who promote views contrary to Christ are led by Satan. Only evil as ‘thinking force’ can account for the slaughter committed by subhuman mankind.

Jim Overbeck on Identity and Deification

In this film, Jim Overbeck reveals our true identity. He shows the weakness of atheist ideas on who and what we are. BRILLIANT and succinct. He gives the distinction between human and subhuman. Through transfiguration we become truly human as Christ is human. True identity is an illuminated being of immaculate splendour fashioned by God. Atheism is a kind of suicide that kills the god within. Earthly power fears deification as it will bring about the rule of God and the gods.

Prosopic

This is a film made by a talented film student featuring Jim Overbeck and his close friends. In this film there are interviews about Jim’s life and his thought. It is intimate and informal and brings us close to Jim and gives insight into his character. There is a lot of humour but also a serious element that gives an idea of the importance of Jim’s art and intellectual work.

The Diver’s Suit

Jim uses the metaphor of the diving suit to indicate the nature of the flesh. We wear the flesh as a ‘protection in an alien environment’. However we must not identify with the suit, as many do, but with the god within. The necessity for us is to get ‘high’, to rise above the hostile environment to achieve theosis and so prepare ourselves for the death of the ‘suit’ and our life as sons and daughters of God in our true home.

Jim Overbeck on ‘Port-Royal-Logic’

A talk on logic, humanity and divinity. He begins with an introduction to Port Royal Logic and necessitarianism. Are mortals simply automata as Calvin proposed? Are our thoughts controlled by a divine tyrant? Overbeck suggests a solution. Man is an incongruous similitude, a god trapped in a fleshy covering. The more identity with the flesh the greater the restriction on will. By transcending the flesh we free the immortality.

Jim Overbeck on Incongruous Similitude

Jim talking in front of his mural in the Art of the Thunderbolt gallery in Dolcedo. Jim discusses his use of inverse perspective, as used by iconographers, to show something ‘beyond the painting’. This leads to incongruous similitude which means the painting refers to a reality above this reality. A combination of immortal and mortal. God can add His energies to art. Transforming matter by ‘the immortal power of His genius’. The inspiration for Jim’s art is God’s visibility.

Jim explains his art part 1

Jim discussing his art works. Ralph asks about ‘Satan rising’. Jim discusses decline of art in twentieth century caused by spiritual darkness. He argues that those with the money and power repress genius and advance ugly art. The reality of art an an expression of the divine is negated. Jim discusses representation of ‘the power of the Holy Ghost’ in his art. There are questions about sexuality in his art and how that relates to the spiritual element. Jim describes his face to face vision of God as described in a text on the painting.

Jim explains his art part 2

Jim begins by discussing perspectivalism in iconography and in his work. He discusses the humanity of Christ as shown in his painting emphasizing how Christ was fully human and shared all aspects of ‘the human condition’. There is a section on man’s immoral origins and identification with base flesh. We become ‘a walking lavatory, serving a life sentence with execution pending’. Jim shows a biographical painting describing difficult episodes in his early life. The final point argues correctly seen and understood Jim’s paintings are transformational.

Jim Overbeck explains his art part 3

The final video in this series. Describes a humorous piece satirizing the Founder of Facebook. Jim gives a description of Hell in highly colourful language. In another work he describes ‘sex among the gods’. He makes a direct appeal to anyone watching regarding the truth of deification. Simply put only those who are made gods in Christ are the real gods. All the rest are fictions.

Jim Overbeck gives a tour of terrazzo and upstairs study

Jim gives a tour of the terrazzo and his upstairs study. We get a view of where the artist and intellectual lives and his surroundings. We also get a look at a mere fraction of the books and comics he has collected over his lifetime. The room is full of images, some created by him but many collected over the years.

Theosis equals Genius

Jim Overbeck explains the connection between genius and theosis. He discusses madness and the atrocity and evil of humankind. He touches on genius and prodigy and the comparison between himself and William James Sidis. He then reveals how theosis in Christ is the apex of Almighty Genius.

Why Theosis is Genius

In this video, Jim discusses the following: Transfiguration and metamorphosis, God’s gift of the crown of thorns, Leibniz and the reductio ad absurdum as it relates to the infinite, the goal of philosophy, Trinity and Super-Trinity, the role of art in visionary states and the visibility of God.

Jim Overbeck on Transfinite Deific Supernumbers.

Jim gives us more on how numbers can lead to the Divine. He also references Bertrand Russell and Ludwig Wittgenstein. He describes a meeting with Russell and a connection with a family name.