Do you listen to TOOL? If not, check out lyrics

[manuel]

About the parabola and parabol video, if any one has it, watch it over and over, like I have, and there is still things in it that I am trying to get a better understanding about, for eg the 3 strange looking men at the start, the apple being cut in half and having a pentagon? Inside, that strange little guy with his face going back and forwards, the floating orbs, the black and white forest, it doesn't make much logical sense until the end, the leaf turns into a flame, the two panels on the side of the screen (look carefully) come backwards, activating the kindulini, than melting into oneness, whats your take on it?

[Silversunset]

good luck.
i used that video for a class project i did 2 years ago (it was on the group not just the video) and i think i watched that video atleast 100 times...
and i STILL don't get most of it.
i do like the 7-star with the hands though...makes me happy[]

and hey Ninja
i just figured you'd like to know what they really said. very good job for figuring out the words, but already knew them from eons ago when i became obsessed with the Lennon version, so i figured i'd help[]

[daem0n]

well, you need to know quite a lot to understand which philosophies they refer to, for example they are/know hermetics (saturn ascends ...)

[Moonburn33]

The video is about the poetry behind "spiritual evolution."  

The human element

[Moonburn33]

All of the symbolism is just background information to the drama unfolding.  there are layers upon layers of symbolism but if you want to "get" anything that's esoteric look for the things that are displayed in plain sight- the parts that are EXoteric are the parts that will give you a clue to the arcane.

the dissection of the pneumatic buddy there after he died has a very very big part to play in the video- or in my interpretation of it.  Look at the emotions involved- the non verbal stuff/body language of Tricky (the tan, alien looking star of the video)

[manuel]

Thanks guys for the input, at the start of the video there are these strange shapes floating about, but just before it (love this part) this silver screen comes around the edges, than another one, ala, filter!

[Jrd]

TooL is the best band EVER! My favorite. I met Maynard after a APC concert once it was one of the better moments I have come across, not only in the meeting him but the fact that  I new I was going to and it happened, like fate.. it was just another aspect that makes me feel that my life is going in a planed direction, I think everyone's life does once they come to realized and accept this.  Anyway TooL was the reason I tapped deeper into my already very spiritual nature... Once word... Third eye!
THanks for posting about them they are a true magical forse in music today.

[Jrd]

TooL is the best band EVER! My favorite. I met Maynard after a APC concert once it was one of the better moments I have come across, not only in the meeting him but the fact that  I new I was going to and it happened, like fate.. it was just another aspect that makes me feel that my life is going in a planed direction, I think everyone's life does once they come to realized and accept this.  Anyway TooL was the reason I tapped deeper into my already very spiritual nature... Once word... Third eye!
THanks for posting about them they are a true magical forse in music today.

[TheSeeker]

Listening to TOOL is a big part of the reason I originally became interested in all things spiritual.

Check out the lyrics to this song.
Lateralus

Black then white are all i see in my infancy.
red and yellow then came to be, reaching out to me.
lets me see.
as below, so above and beyond, I imagine
drawn beyond the lines of reason.
Push the envelope. Watch it bend.

Over thinking, over analyzing separates the body from the mind.
Withering my intuition, missing opportunities and I must
Feed my will to feel my moment drawing way outside the lines.

Black then white are all i see in my infancy.
red and yellow then came to be, reaching out to me.
lets me see there is so much more and
beckons me to look thru to these infinite possibilities.
as below, so above and beyond, I imagine
drawn outside the lines of reason.
Push the envelope. Watch it bend.

over thinking, over analyzing separates the body from the mind.
Withering my intuition leaving opportunities behind.
Feed my will to feel this moment urging me to cross the line.
Reaching out to embrace the random.
Reaching out to embrace whatever may come.

I embrace my desire to
I embrace my desire to
feel the rhythm, to feel connected enough to step aside and weep like a widow
to feel inspired, to fathom the power, to witness the beauty,
to bathe in the fountain,
to swing on the spiral
to swing on the spiral
to swing on the spiral of our divinity and still be a human.

With my feet upon the ground I move myeslf between the sounds and open wide to suck it in.
I feel it move across my skin.
I'm reaching up and reaching out. I'm reaching for the random or what ever will bewilder me.
what ever will bewilder me.
And following our will and wind we may just go where no one's been.
We'll ride the spiral to the end and may just go where no one's been.
Spiral out. Keep going.
Spiral out. Keep going.
Spiral out. Keep going.
Spiral out. Keep going.
Spiral out. Keep going.

[c_neb]

Talk abut shedding the ego-check out the song Learn To Be Still by the old Eagles member Don Henley.

[RooJ]

I recently heard Nine inch nails, "right where it belongs", nice lyrics on that aswell:

See the animal in it's cage that you built
Are you sure what side you're on
Better not look him too closely in the eye
Are you sure what side of the glass you are on
See the safety of the life you have built
Everything where it belongs
Feel the hollowness inside of your heart
And it's all
Right where it belongs

[Chorus]
What if everything around you
Isn't quite as it seems
What if all the world you think you know
Is an elaborate dream
And if you look at your reflection
Is it all you wanted to be?
What if you could look right through the cracks
Would you find yourself
Find yourself afriad to see?

What if all the world's inside of your heart
Just creations of your own
Your devils and your gods
All the living and the dead
And you really are alone
You can live in this illusion
You can choose to believe
You keep looking but you can't find the words
Are you hiding in the dreams?

Holds alot of meaning.. On one level it says that we tend to get so wrapped up in the whole social/human way of life and whats expected of us that we end up giving up alot of ourselves and our freedom... we tend to cage up our personalities and filter it out in order not to upset too many people. We've nearly all felt the hollowness, right?

Anyways, I dont think true freedom can be found on earth as a human, only in dreams and AP's etc.

>RooJ, child of the UBER stream