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Duplicate Keys Icaro (An Interim Report) Lyrics
A primordial flow across the blood-brain barrier. Cryptic ring structures bind to receptors. These duplicate keys throw the floodgates open on a raw datasphere of pure information. An inner path to outer space or a facile article of faith? Falsifiable fantasies or freestanding parallel realities? We're so frequently seduced by such novel, exotic views. Our confirmation biases
leverage everything we perceive. Visions so astonishing, preposterous, impossible. A cosmic lattice of calligraphies, geometries unthinkable. Infinite Jaali screens, alive, florescent as I shatter, melt. Annihilation. Rolling hills. The water flows. The flowers bloom. There is no me. There is no you. There is all. There is no you. There is no me. And that is all. A profound acceptance of an enormous pageantry. A haunting certainty that the unifying principle of the universe is love.
leverage everything we perceive. Visions so astonishing, preposterous, impossible. A cosmic lattice of calligraphies, geometries unthinkable. Infinite Jaali screens, alive, florescent as I shatter, melt. Annihilation. Rolling hills. The water flows. The flowers bloom. There is no me. There is no you. There is all. There is no you. There is no me. And that is all. A profound acceptance of an enormous pageantry. A haunting certainty that the unifying principle of the universe is love.
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I think this is about a DMT/Ayahuasca trip. An Icaro is a shamanic medicine song. Except I don't understand the Duplicate Keys' part.
YES! This is absolutely a DMT trip report. The "Duplicate Keys" I think he is putting forth a hypothesis that the chrysanthemum stage of a DMT trip in which you witness the shifting ineffable mandalic shape that consumes your vision along with the overflow of this chemical (DMT) combine to unlock some universal door that leads to the sacred DMT space. I think he is using the word "Duplicate" because these two "keys" are intertwined. The chemical causes the mandala, or "cryptic ring structure," but the mandala turns right around and effects your senses as well as your very consciousness....
YES! This is absolutely a DMT trip report. The "Duplicate Keys" I think he is putting forth a hypothesis that the chrysanthemum stage of a DMT trip in which you witness the shifting ineffable mandalic shape that consumes your vision along with the overflow of this chemical (DMT) combine to unlock some universal door that leads to the sacred DMT space. I think he is using the word "Duplicate" because these two "keys" are intertwined. The chemical causes the mandala, or "cryptic ring structure," but the mandala turns right around and effects your senses as well as your very consciousness. The conciseness of these lyrics are fantastic and the emphasis on the fact that the experience is beyond words is essential. If you've had an experience with any sort of DMT via ayahuasca or straight up this song will immediately make sense.
@kettles86 @astralbeast - This was my thought as well. My assumption of the 'duplicate keys' bit is that DMT and similar compounds operate on serotonin and dopamine receptors. Though they're not exactly the brain's primary chemicals for those receptors, they still fit in some of those locks (and unlock one hell of a door).
@kettles86 @astralbeast - This was my thought as well. My assumption of the 'duplicate keys' bit is that DMT and similar compounds operate on serotonin and dopamine receptors. Though they're not exactly the brain's primary chemicals for those receptors, they still fit in some of those locks (and unlock one hell of a door).
Todd Kowalski: That one is about wondering about the world and not accepting easy answers or pretending you know the answers about just how great and crazy the universe is and all of history is. And perhaps even wondering why the general public doesn’t think about these things and why do they accept easy answers. That’s my interpretation from talking about it with Chris. In the end, you have to see the world as good and beautiful and you have to treat each other right.
http://music.cbc.ca/#/blogs/2012/9/Listen-to-Propagandhis-Failed-States-read-the-bands-track-by-track-insights
The beginning of this song is awesome the way it sounds to me. He seems to be describing how a fantastical thought forms, and questions it's validity. Couldn't have been written better by Shakespeare (well maybe). The rest is about what this thought has allowed him to understand about his feelings towards life.
At a concert last week Chris introduced the song by saying something along the lines of - we (current western society) measure our wealth by our jobs our homes our possessions but some cultures (I think the aboriginal cultures of Canada) measured wealth by the legacy left behind for future generations. In philosophy its calls the Good Ancestor Principle.
In response to kettles86 “Icaro is a shamanic medicine song” I think the song is talking about us being the shamans so to speak and healing the Earth through basically being good to one another being and leaving a better world for our ancestors
It seems to me that this song is about fictions of the brain. There's a reference to medicine, religion, and how it's all in your mind. Trippy stuff.