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| R.E.M. – The Flowers Of Guatemala Lyrics
| 3 months ago
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@[BDoug52:49664] I imagine that you are also a B52's fan? Thanks for the thumbs up. And yes I have heard of David Icke but as to which I have not yet seen any of his work. |
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| R.E.M. – The Flowers Of Guatemala Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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"The flowers often bloom at night" is probably referring to the fact that Mushrooms in general and the Amanita Muscaria will bloom overnight, ancient peoples would watch the growth cycle carefully and documented its changes. as it goes from spore all the way through the "grail" stage back down to its ashes. Rainwater or dew would collect in the "grail" stage of the mushroom and the shamans would drink the water which would be red, now imagine the blood of jesus in the "holy grail". The part of the mushroom which is consumed most often peels away from the underside "ribs" of the mushroom and is referred to as the "eave" or "eve" of the mushroom and is the most hallucinogenic part, now imagine "Eve" the woman or "enlightened one" coming from the "rib" of adam. The lyrics "Dont look into the sun"... Is this referring to the fact that we were told never to eat from the fruit of the tree of knowledge? OK I do think I am taking this interpretation too far, but this is a very symbolic mushroom in history and religion in many parts of the world. I dont want to sound like a parrot or mr know it all but it is a very good topic to write a song about. |
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| R.E.M. – The Flowers Of Guatemala Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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The Amanita Muscaria is a hallucinogenic and entheogenic mushroom. Indegenous people in Central and South America will often refer to them as "flowers". John Marco Allegro was the only non catholic priest and agnostic on the 12 member qualified team to read the Dead Sea Scrolls. Allegro's claim is that the scrolls prove that christianity and Judaism came from earlier hallucinogenic mushroom and fertility cults and the Amanita is the forbidden fruit of the bible creation story. It is the fruit that gave humans knowledge so "GOD" did not want us to eat it. In more original creation stories "GOD" was never the creator of the universe but is "the seven lords" or landlords of this earth who did not want us to eat from the tree of knowledge otherwise they would no longer be able to control us. It appears the bible creation story was altered to make eve and serpent appear evil while in more original creation stories the serpent is the good guy who gave let us know that the landlords were lying to us about dying after we eat the fruit we were told not to eat, he gave us knowledge and eve was the intelligent or enlightened human. Amanita Muscaria are Red with white spots like "apples" and they flourish under conifer "christmas" trees. Now imagine all those red and white gifts we put under christmas trees. The Amanita Muscaria and other mushrooms go through and "egg" stage and can also be gold in color, so you end up with mostly red and white mushrooms and a few gold ones. Now think about why we have children go and look for colorful eggs at Easter and bring them back to their parents for a treat, because who better to crawl under those conifer trees than little children rather than a big clumsy adult. In some original languages the same name given to the Amanita is the same as "word" in that language, which suggest that humans learned how to speak from the mushroom itself. Obviously I have deviated far from REM and this song and I am sure REM is not performing "The Flowers of Guatemala" in reference to all of this. But this is a very important mushroom indeed in human history and a good topic for them to write a song about. There is much to learn about this so Look up "The Pharmacratic Inquisition". |
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