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| Swans – You're Not Real, Girl Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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A girl acts normal in the presence of her man but the comfort and humanity of the relationship are a band aid. The love is only a temporary feeling, because deep down she is still horrible and broken. Everyone's interpretation is that the girl is good but brainwashed to be bad, but it's the exact opposite. The girl is brainwashed to be human, but when she's alone, she lies and steals, she feels nothing, she isn't real. This girl sucks. |
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| Godspeed You! Black Emperor – Static Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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This was a field recording they made upon encountering a street preacher in Providence. I first heard it when I was 15 and thought he was out of his mind, and wasn't a real Christian. I was very religious back then. Since then I have had experiences with esoteric religion through very deep prayer and meditation, though nothing like the man describes. But I recognize now that it is real what he says, and recognize themes that he touches on which are universally present in the esoteric sides of all religion. Beneath their superficial differences, every religion has produced figures who transformed themselves through the same universal mysticism. Meister Eckgart, Edgar Cayce, Teresa of Avila, these are a few Christians who used Christ to transform themselves and die to their ego nature, to escape the prison of differentiated consciousness and awaken to the God-man or God-woman inside of them. It begins the size of a mustard seed but expands until it consumes you, and you realize that not everyone has a soul but it is possible to grow one. Once I sat in a library and looked over and saw a black girl doing homework, on the East Coast, which is still racist in a way that I didn't understand until I left. There is no hate, but there is still division, and division is the central illusion. I had been meditating for 4 hours a day after waking up, and in an instant I saw through her and understood primal oneness. You can understand the idea that other people experience reality as themselves the same way you do as yourself, but you can't use an ego mind to experience life as anything but your "self." Something clicked, and I felt that I was her and she was me, and my eyes filled up with tears. All of your suffering comes from identifying with yourself, and this isn't a decision you make. It's a mode of consciousness, an active process of existing on a certain plane. You will die when you see the face of God, but which you will it be? This is all a dream. A dream in death. |
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