What happens if we apply the phrase "The Perfect Humans travel in light-form from the Galactic Centre to various locations" to the song I Drove All Night? Maybe Cyndi Lauper already did that...
(Note: some mature concepts)
The lyrical story seems to be almost a carbon-copy of Mihai Eminescu's "The Lucifer" (who is driven by desire). One of my friends has a recent art project: The Archangels, and several of them are women (yep, it's canon if you know where to look: it is titled "temperament" and/or "preferred form"). They may very well drive all night as we speak... The Galactic Centre is often referred to as a "City".
"... I mean that many of these Dark Ones have—sorry but I can't resist using this line—seen the Light and retired from their distorted perspectives and jobs being the "Bad Guys" during the past Evolutionary Cycle. During 2011 many of them just laid down their attitudes and bad-ass selves and willingly walked into the Light! Wow... what a trip that's been! Remember I mentioned recently that I'd been getting the symbolism of a big X lately? This big X has indicated there's polarity integration happening at higher levels. Said really simply, this big X shape I've been perceiving indicated that in 2011 many of the Dark Ones had to integrate enough Light for them to continue evolving too, or not, and be reabsorbed by Source. And if 2011 was this phase for the Dark Ones, then, unless I've misunderstood what I've perceived, 2012 is the year for the Light Ones to do the same and integrate enough Dark within themselves at the levels and dimensions they exist on now. And we down here in 3D thought it was just us having all the high drama, intensity and excitement! All of this is so everyone everywhere is free and clear and ready for the massive Cosmic Energy Imprinting of the New Evolutionary Cycle that will come through the alignment of Earth with the Milky Way galactic center one year from now." (2011)
I heard this tune in an ad for a car brand. What happened was not opting for that car brand. Instead, I looked up the full song and discovered the singer and her work, and learned more about Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star (like for example that it was originally written by W.A. Mozart). If I were to purchase a car, I would simply seek to know what features I need, and which car is the best for me, value for money, etc. These days all brands are similar in that respect, and look the same too - so in the end it would be a bit random - I would have to "think up" another reason in order to convince myself, and I would then identify with that reason in my head. The car brands do not put enough work into creating a specific image nowadays, either - there is nothing to "participate in", even if we wanted to. They have no personality, and there are no brand fanclubs the way there used to be when the automobile first came into being. You either get very large and opulent, or tiny, nimble or eco-friendly, and no song can tip the balance between what you identify with.
As for this clip, the mythological aspect is obvious, and the ad works on the principles of a music video. What happens is that the image sold is that of a "unique" product (the girl ignores other apples and goes for the one alone that calls to her specifically, and the audience is expected to identify with the girl and go for the perfume), but the mind immediately understands that any other perfume brand could have come up with the same Adam & Eve concept (likewise, why couldn't we go for other apples, if we are clearly not that particular girl?). So the final product placement is a predictable breach in the fantasy and as such dismissed by the mind. Besides: who in our technological, rationalistic world actually believes a perfume to be an "elixir" for real? The name can then only be used as interesting, exotic-sounding, not as a means to convince of its underlying magic. On the other hand, we get the promotion of dreams, "flying" and soulmateship through this ad. And of individuality: but IF this girl is an individual on account of this perfume ("perfume" is synonymous with "essence"), then we are individuals by doing something else...
So when watching ads, the effect they seek is often reversed. People buy the products by virtue of knowing and trusting the brands for many years, which is something much stronger than ads. Ads are often ignored, but when they are interesting, they hardly induce opting for that particular product - they are only admired as art, as finished products in themselves.
So why do people who come up with them believe that ads work the way they imagine? Their explanations often sound silly and ill-thought to me. But it's quite simple: the work they do as teams, as people who challenge one another to be more competitive, more creative, etc. gives the actual feeling of power; and it is this, not the promise of money, which keeps some people glued to working overtime. In those moments, the stress, the feverish anticipation, the imagined connection with large numbers of people (the "Market"), all combine to give a sense of being connected - part of something larger. As a result, they often assume that everyone must relate to their output in the same way. This never happens fully, however - it's more of a case of negotiation for the purpose of creating one's own image. They say that upon hearing the song, you will then think of the brand each time. Yes, perhaps - but I swear I can't remember the brands 3/4s of the times I like a song; and when I do remember, I sense it as an intrusion on my enjoyment of the song. I get repelled, not attracted.
Music in malls has a different effect, as music we like can lower barriers and the person then feels "plentiful" and open to spending a lot.
Someone here said that we should have a subject in school called "Deconstruction of Commercials", and someone else that competition should switch from image-making to solution-making: who comes up with the best possible solution to the problems we are facing, instead of inventing problems we never had in the first place. This is something I have noted for myself: how many people realize that they are trying to solve unreal problems, problems invented by those who wanted to sell you something? Is life supposed to be a zero-balanced equation, then?
She brought her to her ioyous Paradize, Where most she wonnes, when she on earth does dwel. So faire a place, as Nature can deuize: Whether in Paphos, or Cytheron hill, Or it in Gnidus be, I wote not well; But well I wote by tryall, that this same All other pleasant places doth excell, And called is by her lost louers name, The Gardin of Adonis, farre renowmd by fame. ... But were it not, that Time their troubler is, All that in this delightfull Gardin growes, Should happie be, and haue immortall blis: For here all plentie, and all pleasure flowes, And sweet loue gentle fits emongst them throwes, Without fell rancor, or fond gealosie; Franckly each paramour his leman knowes, Each bird his mate, ne any does enuie Their goodly meriment, and gay felicitie. (Spenser's "The Garden of Adonis", ss.29-41. See s.31 for the "Double Gates" and the procedure for passing through).
------- * Photo of "The Rite Of Spring" as performed by the Tokyo Ballet. But it seems such a shame to confine Love to just one season or ritual, so... let's have it all the time! * The ladies in the scene represent "Stars", and the story depicts the time when Ishtar (Eve) introduced Soul Love to the population.
"Love is not to simply join the human flesh Love must join the soul..."
The connection between this video and my 1991 drawing would be the transparent glass box (a stargate) by which the Illuminatrix travels. linked here Coincidentally, I had a dream just a couple of nights ago, before I looked for this video since the song kept following me around - in which I was watching a new video where a woman was playing the concept of "Attraction" (Magnetic). I was arguing with people who were saying that her act showed that she was Illuminated and who were recoiling from this. I said that just because someone shows inner knowledge doesn't mean this is projected upon her from outside, it is entirely possible for a person to be self-sourced - in other words, that she shines with her own light. This would be the original meaning of the word anyway.
Having said that, it is very interesting how several returning acts seem to display inside information when returning to the stage, like they have taken it to the next level. Where do they get it from and what is happening? We shall see...
The video in which Nadia Ali models the Mercurial Cloak of the Illuminati in the form of a spandex suit - for the New Generation?
Squee! This is very special! It seems these are multiplying, just a moment ago I saw something called, "Michael Jackson - Behind the Mask Project", which suggests 'Disclosure' when taken on the whole.
The Glory is the Lightbody, a.k.a. putting on the White Robes. Due to a spiritual energy descending from the higher regions, technically all people are now able to access this aspect in themselves. This is very exciting.
To explain further, the video is in the same tradition as "What A Feeling" (as in FLASHdance - being a Flash or Lightbody) by Irene Cara. However, I shall introduce our local version of it, "What Is Love". Back from the days when copyright was of no consequence in this country (see, some positive aspects to the ideal of Communism, lol). Stela Enache sings, "What is love to you? Why do you run away from it, and from me?". Apart from falling off my chair laughing at the choreography etc, I am amazed by the Syncs in place here: check out the "Stars" in the beginning and her appearing like the Purple Robed Isis, complete with golden ring and floating Orbs. And I can't believe my eyes how subvertive this video was, as you can see the attempts at portraying "The System" ("stay HERE, learn THIS, no fooling around or you get reprimanded!") being opposed by a freedom of imagination and spirituality, the "Alternative" represented by the Stage, or the "Escape" represented by the consciousness of Love. The System just allowed these things because they believed Love had no REAL power, and that dance movements were of no consequence. They censored everything else. But I find it interesting that the same lady plays both the System and Escape, both the restrictive teacher and the dreamy student... which is just another way of saying "We are doing this to ourselves". And if you look at the old logo of my country, from back then, you might notice Ishtar's Gate (not that anyone saw it as such)...
This started playing where I was shopping for my birthday party this year, and wondering about/testing a new theory on Song Sync... I wonder whether there is a need to explain, or everyone has already experienced and thus knows well the underlying feelings in this song. There is still such a deep rift where knowledge is concerned (I worry about these young people - at their age, I tried to find out interesting things all the time, and I still did not have enough time to figure out everything I wanted to. But they do not even show signs of questioning... It's funny, because the first guy I ever fell in love with in this life was the only one at the time who seemed, to me, to have had some sort of inner life...). However, it's always nice to hear about Awakening, no matter where it comes from. "In And Out Of Consciousness":
I am posting this in honour of the Baptism of my friend's baby (now nicknamed "Cosmic Baby" by me :). Another video about Cosmic Awareness and Soulmateship. They started quite a long while ago. Pertaining to my Stargate theme, we get a Doctor Who-type travelling box, the ferris wheel while the singer mentions "ultimate" or "divine" dissatisfaction, a cute umbrella trick, lots of Orbs and the cereal crop/Underworld reference. Plus a marked awareness of pollution vs. renewable energies (this is not just thrown in there like a statement to 'go recycle', it is an actual free energy/growth connection which ancient civilizations were based on).
"And the ray was the Guardian Angel of the mote: not a thing interposed between God and the creature, but God's very attention itself, personalized."~~JRR Tolkien I remember many years ago, the question was, "What's an aerosmith?!". I thought that was funny. True, what is an aerosmith! There were suggestions of a kite. Nowadays, I think I have finally figured it out. And yes, it's a kite - but a very unusual one. (As a point of interest, in my native language "kite" is the same word as a "daimon" or someone who pushes you to better yourself, the happiness in transcending your limits).
Hehe, very clever to put a human-scale Aerosmith (imagine how many pictures were taken there, of people standing in an ancient stargate, the vehicle of the Angels). If we go by the Winged Disc symbol, or the Nibiru, or Fravahar, it is also funny that Steven Tyler has a daughter who played an Elf. *g*
But that hadn't happened in 1988, and it is this song, Angel, written with Desmond Child, that is my all-time favourite song/performance in their repertoir (my air guitar on this wasn't half bad!). Here is why: It is definitely a meta-performance - explaining why they are in this at all, and what it is really all about. Sure, there are suggestions of all rock artists having sold their souls to the devil for money, but I wonder what would happen if we identified a little bit, with that person who's singing his brains out onstage, invoking his Angel (or perhaps she is invoking him?). Have you never experienced the feeling? The most complete, all-encompassing Love, initiated in the stomach and travelling through the entire nervous system. That Love is what powers you to stand tall and know who you are (no devil would suggest that to you). Sure, everyone has problems and issues (rock stars even more so), but this is their way of purifying - and they also do it for the whole audience. Yes, they need the devils to stage the whole thing - but that's minor compared to its real value. So, due to this Angel who is lifting the man, he's transformed in my eyes: first, he goes back to being a child, a small boy. Then, he metamorphoses into a really, REALLY attractive man - I can see what she sees in him, as it were. And that's how these concerts work. The mind is opened to the existence of one's own soulmate, and that is why it seems so confusing at first, that it doesn't matter about age or sex, or even about what is deemed handsome or ugly - it just happens whenever you mature enough to look into it (this certainly was not the case for me in 1988), and it's not about a connection between you and the man onstage, but a parallel between the audience and the Angel he is invoking/expressing, who gives the "glory" (looking on from the top of the A-shaped Axis Mundi).
By the way, have you ever seen the sheer number of ORBS at these concerts?
Wikipedia has a great comprehensive article about the Axis Mundi, or Navel of the World, which is also the title of this song by Jovanotti. I was very aware of it in the 1990s, and I'm happy to rediscover it at this point when I better understand why they are throwing flags up at a classical sky portal, and so on... :)
This is a SPECTACULAR video from Florence & The Machine, I like it very much. The lyrics present a wonderfully precise depiction of what Cosmic Love entails, which makes me wonder what inspired them. The song was also featured on The Vampire Diaries, which furthers the connections between the modern vampire concept and stargates (it all goes back to Osiris as an underworld figure). I like things like this, showing the point of view of someone who falls in love cosmically: cosmic love is a "transgression" that, once accepted, is quite uplifting...
An interesting detail is the the maple leaf - less known as a symbol of love. However, earlier this year I had a dream where it represented just that - this video now being the only place I know where it does the same.
Apparently these Swedish guys are very popular here and that's why they are returning for another concert. I don't listen to any heavy metal, but these graphics grabbed my eye today (because of the Theta-connection). A quick search reveals that they were inspired by Nordic mythology, and this has become entirely Christopher Johnsson's project, who is into a type of "dark and confused spiritual realm, which he completely owns up to, however". Good on him.
I don't see this going any further with me, but I'll just do a quick research as an exercise. I do know most of those references. And no, it may be dark but it isn't necessarily confused (one's own judgment of it can be), and the lyrics are not "difficult to penetrate" - they're straightforward listings of occultist concepts. When I say occultist concepts, I mean "the way the occultist inteprets that which is". (The suffix "ism" means that you commit yourself to a particular way of seeing and interpreting information. However, the same reality may be encountered by other groups, who will present it in a different light).
Catch Bobby Ray's orbs, and Hayley playing the role of a Paranormal Phenomenon, haha. I think this is one of the most original ways I've ever seen this concept depicted in, and I really liked it: do you see the moving, living entity through still photographs? Wonderful. I think it describes our condition perfectly (and wouldn't it make her the Light?)
"I could use a dream, a genie or a wish" - you forgot: how about a fairy? ;)
By me:
By Corina: I was struck by the similarities between these two drawings, because we had never looked at each other's work before, and because we both refer to the respective Muse of poets who were burdened by their fame - which in turn resonates with Airplanes above. The Muses are Fairy women because they are visualized in the 4th dimension (the famous "wings" are symbolic of the soul's ability to fly the Cosmic Flight; they are not --as some people also believe about Angels-- wings of the body...).
Let me show you something...
Antonio Vivaldi: Andromeda Liberated (A Venetian Serenade). In those days, when you said "Concert", this is what people would understand by it, and would attend it just as we attend Pop concerts nowadays. It seems that Andromeda was burdened by her "fortune", which was the only thing her "admirer" saw - as opposed to Perseus (ancestor of the Persians) who saw her for who she was (another kind of "treasure"). The figure of the Monster (Vortex) is set to devour her if she is not liberated from this form of materialism. Aria 14: Con dolce mormorio [6:03] (Cassiope) Recitativo 17: Perseo, che tardi più [1:17] (Daliso) Duo: Sposo amato / Cara sposa [3:23] (Andromeda & Perseo) Coro 3: Riconosc'in voi [2:31] (Daliso) Andromeda: Simone Kermes (soprano) Perseo: Max Emanuel Cencic (countertenor) Cassiope: Katerina Beranova (soprano) Daliso: Mark Tucker (tenor)
Synchronicity experienced in early 2009, bringing together one song, one written vignette, and one painting. By travelling between these three artistic creations (each representing a different medium), it is possible to highlight the entire corpus of information about a Stargate's "modus operandi" (Electromagnetics).
I. Beyonce Knowles: Halo
II. The Lord Of The Rings: As The Soul Flies Upward (fan fiction)
"He lifted me, and suddenly I was flying. Upward, called by a refining fire, the flame that would tell me who I was. Who HE was. No longer a thing of dirt, I found my newly sprouted wings, golden ones that watered me, fed me, burned for me. The scorching ground was only a vivid nightmare in the Time of the Soaring. My wings were my shield, my sword, my armor, stronger than the ones who had fallen away in some manner I could only feel beneath me, see with the eyes of my heart. For a moment, hell cooled."
Take That's "Circus" Tour in 2009 featured a VERY prominent Stargate in the stage design.
Hold Up A Light talks of how we access another world through following our favourite stars onstage, because we identify with "hope in love" (symbolized by the light). A Star (or Circus Actor) is someone who channels and makes visible our private desires. But a "Star" always has a "Gate" behind him. An Idol is a focal point for our attention, but behind this Mirror Image is always that inner passion which inspires us all equally. The imagery is of creating a Bridge between this world and the world of Ideals. In a world where there is escalating fear that the media is imprisoning our minds, this is a very welcome different perception which raises consciousness significantly, by explaining this experience as a mutual contract of co-creation and collective learning. The Stargate shows a tunnel of Orbs. Here more references are made to "Ruling the World", i.e. establishing order co-creatively. The Stargate shows a Jewel (Holy Grail). Fireworks usually represent the onset of Cosmic Consciousness.
The Jewel blazes out its light so its shape is not clear, but in some videos there is a fleeting glimpse caught of its shape when the light is gentled, which is this. It can be traced as the shape of the mystical "Seat of the Soul". :)
"The Stars are coming out tonight, for you..."
The concept of "the stars are coming out tonight, for you" was embodied in a very personal experience of mine, in very similar wording. I was very surprised to find this inspiring a pop performance almost 10 years after, which holds the exact same message as my experience. This meaning centers on this word-play of Star, which studied deeper leads to the description of the Egyptian Underworld/Afterlife (and beside Egyptian, it is also Greek and Celtic, and Maori).
This experience was a dream. At first it was a nightmare, I was very angry with the demise of someone who had been a famous pop star. Somehow, within that frame I could not escape (which was symbolized by a basement), appeared a stairway and a figure dressed in white robes. He was like and unlike the famous person. He asked me to climb up the stairs. It was difficult, but I did, and found myself on his own level. This felt very strange. He said to look past him, and see the stars come out just for me. And that's what happened. The negativity then diffused, and I flew off the top of the stairs. I woke up and wrote a poem about enlightenment, and - once I found the Internet - shared it.
As these things go, they happen to you once but it takes years to decode them, while you keep thinking about them. Though I feel that nowadays I have come to understanding:
We are all the same, because of our Divine Spark. A modern Star or Idol, someone we admire and look up to, acts like the Sun ("a star so bright, you blind me..."). But the Stars will come out from beyond, in that moment of individual clarity, when we are no longer blinded and we See.
And the stars, which come out just for you, are real. What I accessed in that dream was our dawning Cosmic Vision, a psychic network which plays a significant part in all our ancient myths.
I found this while in New Zealand. Band Evermore took their name from the Led Zeppelin song title "The Battle of Evermore". It seems they like the Circled Dot too.
There is also the expanded Circled Dot which represents Vibration, in their concept video 'Never Let You Go' directed by Nash Edgerton & Spencer Susser - based around wording puns and old 1940s 'newsreel' type clips (which in itself sends to communication theories).
And, below, a very nice song which, being about transformation (into a Being of Light), again reprises the Circled Dot. At the time of stumbling across this song, I was studying Transfiguration matters for the first time (not of Jesus, but of people who were experiencing it for the first time; Jesus seems to be already in-the-know, as he says "do not be afraid" and can easily move between human and Cosmic light-body). Lyrically speaking, "I" and "You" always refer to the Soul relationship, and each individual listener identifies with the lyrical "I". When you place all your feelings into the words, and push them out as air or sing along, you realize this Soul relationship. Therefore, here my studies matched the premise of the song/video: that a person may not correctly perceive their own "Aura" of Light, focusing on the negative feelings caused by spiritual growth. And in this case, the one who truly loves that person can see her destination and tries to open this vision for her, so that she understands she is shining from within once she overcomes her fear.
Paula Seling & Ovi with double piano, Golden Ring set design, and Wormhole screen graphics. Lyrics formulas: Girl/Boy standard role-prison (Ego) fought against. Challenge/No Relent dynamics (irrestistible force/immovable object); "Fire", rhyming with "burning desire" (as usual!); "Taking us higher" - raised consciousness; "Could it be just a dream?" - as in "is this really happening".
