This song is about finding yourself through the use of your "third eye"
we all have the outer and inner consciousness's that exist simultaneously, your inner conscious commonly referred to as an inner child or the subconscious or the dreaming personality is older than your outer consciousness, Your outer consciousness is the one we activly think with otherwise known as "the stream of consciousness"
As we grow up in social restrictions our higher or outer conscious trains itself and becomes conditioned to ignore refute dispute or otherwise render invalid MANY HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of possibilities. For instance one must not even consider talking back to your parents in certain manners when we are young, otherwise your gonna suffer severe consequences that result in pain. In our teenage years we begin to rebel against this specific type of conditioning, but subtler conditioning remains for the most part for us to function adequetly in society. A good exmple of those who loose or never develop the subtler conditionings are people with social dis-functions, people who are hard to get along with, are strange, or have neroutic tendencies...
i know that seems a bit deep, but its to illustrate that there is a subconscious existence that continualy thinks about ALL possibilities that we shut off from ourselves in the intrest of effeciently handling our buisness and day to day survival, a human cannot afford to debate the meritts of EVERY footfall in intrest of actualy getting to his destination. What eventualy happens is we atrophy great portions of our links into our subconsciousness, many of them are no longer needed and may even hinder our abilities to function well, and many others are inadvertantly disabled that may very well be powerfull or fulfilling aspects of our innate inteligence.
This song is about the process of reuniting ourselves with our inner and subconscious layers that have been "put in the closet" for so long. At birth we are fully united with our subconscious, and only after years of training and social conditioning do we become seperated from our more primal urges and understandings... the second being more important.
Urges are for the most part counter-productive or in-effeficient, however our subconscious understandings are beyond ingenious, the human subconscious s able to calculate the trajectories of hundreds of objects simultaneously just by seeing them, think about a kid playing football, most of his reactions are not higher thought, they are instant calculations done by "instinct", but its trained instinct isnt it? the kid manages for the most part to adhere to the rules of the game and to calculate the positions of 24 players and those players sizes weights speeds and physical stances, hes able to simultaneously tragect potential avenues of acomplishment, potential avenues of failure, the weight speed size and trajectory of the ball, and to carry out his mission in the best way possible, as in fighting for every inch.
Now even if this kid sucks at football and gets sacked, his mind still does more advanced calculations from inherent understandings in less than a second than a trained physicist could calculate in several years of paperwork.
Now imagine if you could tap into and unify your conscious and trained higher thoughts with that kind of instinctual comprehension?
this is the gateway represented by the third eye, the attempt to understand that which we already inherently understand, and to learn about things we already know, but to know them consciously. It is the ultimate unification of thought, and those who are able to do it can bend a huge amount of thought towards the world, hence the reference to all matter being nothing more than energy coalasced into a slow wave. Which by the way is pretty much true, matter and energy are the same thing in different states.
The process of opening up your mind to your inner mind is difficult to do, hence the "Prying open my third eye", ever try to remember something that was on the tip of your tounge? something you should just know of the top of your mind but your stuck? imagine that feeling but even more distinct, that is PRYING open your third eye, attempting to rip the shroud that clouds your ability to tap into that which you already have. This is also why there are so many references to dream like states and images, getting in to that true level of awareness is forcing ourseleves to awake from a sleep we arent aware were in, or should i say daze?
Drugs have a long history in both recreational and medicinal (psychiatric) uses as being capable of spanning the divide between sub conscious and higher thought for limited amounts of time, although artificialy. The ability of tapping into that same connection without drugs is an even greater accomplishment, which i think this song is something of an attempt to discribe.
Remember even the smartest of human beings only use 10% of their brain throughout their ENTIRE lives, and only a small portion of that is actualy your thought stream, if you could use all of your brain, well, youd be able to comprehend the depths of the universe MUCH more adeptly. This song is kind of an instruction guide for finding a true and lasting connection to your inner inteligence that cant be substituted by the briefs connections provided by drugs.
The references to rebuilding himself and to finding his hiding self all go back to the same connection... and if you look at many other tool songs, they are about the same tapping into yourself, lateralus and schism come to mind.... but those are less explicit and subject to opinion... this one is almost blatant.
look at this bit closely
"So good to see you once again
I thought that you were hiding from me
And you thought that I had run away
Chasing a trail of smoke and reason "
His higher thought is of course greatly happy to find the lost connection to his inner mind, eespecialy after searching for so long for what seemed to be hidden, and in finding it, he realizes its always been there, and that he had left it, hence the subconscious's feeling that he had run away.
in leteralus this topic comes up again "over thinking, over analyzing, seperates the body from the mind"...
An incredibly powerfull song that taps some deeper spots in me... maynard is certainly a genius, if only for his ability to reach through all the crap and try to tap into how and what we realy are beneath all the bullshit (training).
My Third eye is on the way to being open, I have meditated many times with Doaism and many types of Yoga. I can weigh out all of the possibliites very very very fast, I have driven for hours at a time before and I forgot that I was driving...
My Third eye is on the way to being open, I have meditated many times with Doaism and many types of Yoga. I can weigh out all of the possibliites very very very fast, I have driven for hours at a time before and I forgot that I was driving...
Its using everything this body gives you, I hate this cage, Remember what is holding you in this body, our souls are capable of so much more outside of the skin and bone. Pain is an Illusion.
Its using everything this body gives you, I hate this cage, Remember what is holding you in this body, our souls are capable of so much more outside of the skin and bone. Pain is an Illusion.
This song is about finding yourself through the use of your "third eye"
we all have the outer and inner consciousness's that exist simultaneously, your inner conscious commonly referred to as an inner child or the subconscious or the dreaming personality is older than your outer consciousness, Your outer consciousness is the one we activly think with otherwise known as "the stream of consciousness"
As we grow up in social restrictions our higher or outer conscious trains itself and becomes conditioned to ignore refute dispute or otherwise render invalid MANY HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of possibilities. For instance one must not even consider talking back to your parents in certain manners when we are young, otherwise your gonna suffer severe consequences that result in pain. In our teenage years we begin to rebel against this specific type of conditioning, but subtler conditioning remains for the most part for us to function adequetly in society. A good exmple of those who loose or never develop the subtler conditionings are people with social dis-functions, people who are hard to get along with, are strange, or have neroutic tendencies...
i know that seems a bit deep, but its to illustrate that there is a subconscious existence that continualy thinks about ALL possibilities that we shut off from ourselves in the intrest of effeciently handling our buisness and day to day survival, a human cannot afford to debate the meritts of EVERY footfall in intrest of actualy getting to his destination. What eventualy happens is we atrophy great portions of our links into our subconsciousness, many of them are no longer needed and may even hinder our abilities to function well, and many others are inadvertantly disabled that may very well be powerfull or fulfilling aspects of our innate inteligence.
This song is about the process of reuniting ourselves with our inner and subconscious layers that have been "put in the closet" for so long. At birth we are fully united with our subconscious, and only after years of training and social conditioning do we become seperated from our more primal urges and understandings... the second being more important.
Urges are for the most part counter-productive or in-effeficient, however our subconscious understandings are beyond ingenious, the human subconscious s able to calculate the trajectories of hundreds of objects simultaneously just by seeing them, think about a kid playing football, most of his reactions are not higher thought, they are instant calculations done by "instinct", but its trained instinct isnt it? the kid manages for the most part to adhere to the rules of the game and to calculate the positions of 24 players and those players sizes weights speeds and physical stances, hes able to simultaneously tragect potential avenues of acomplishment, potential avenues of failure, the weight speed size and trajectory of the ball, and to carry out his mission in the best way possible, as in fighting for every inch.
Now even if this kid sucks at football and gets sacked, his mind still does more advanced calculations from inherent understandings in less than a second than a trained physicist could calculate in several years of paperwork.
Now imagine if you could tap into and unify your conscious and trained higher thoughts with that kind of instinctual comprehension?
this is the gateway represented by the third eye, the attempt to understand that which we already inherently understand, and to learn about things we already know, but to know them consciously. It is the ultimate unification of thought, and those who are able to do it can bend a huge amount of thought towards the world, hence the reference to all matter being nothing more than energy coalasced into a slow wave. Which by the way is pretty much true, matter and energy are the same thing in different states.
The process of opening up your mind to your inner mind is difficult to do, hence the "Prying open my third eye", ever try to remember something that was on the tip of your tounge? something you should just know of the top of your mind but your stuck? imagine that feeling but even more distinct, that is PRYING open your third eye, attempting to rip the shroud that clouds your ability to tap into that which you already have. This is also why there are so many references to dream like states and images, getting in to that true level of awareness is forcing ourseleves to awake from a sleep we arent aware were in, or should i say daze?
Drugs have a long history in both recreational and medicinal (psychiatric) uses as being capable of spanning the divide between sub conscious and higher thought for limited amounts of time, although artificialy. The ability of tapping into that same connection without drugs is an even greater accomplishment, which i think this song is something of an attempt to discribe.
Remember even the smartest of human beings only use 10% of their brain throughout their ENTIRE lives, and only a small portion of that is actualy your thought stream, if you could use all of your brain, well, youd be able to comprehend the depths of the universe MUCH more adeptly. This song is kind of an instruction guide for finding a true and lasting connection to your inner inteligence that cant be substituted by the briefs connections provided by drugs.
The references to rebuilding himself and to finding his hiding self all go back to the same connection... and if you look at many other tool songs, they are about the same tapping into yourself, lateralus and schism come to mind.... but those are less explicit and subject to opinion... this one is almost blatant.
look at this bit closely
"So good to see you once again I thought that you were hiding from me And you thought that I had run away Chasing a trail of smoke and reason "
His higher thought is of course greatly happy to find the lost connection to his inner mind, eespecialy after searching for so long for what seemed to be hidden, and in finding it, he realizes its always been there, and that he had left it, hence the subconscious's feeling that he had run away.
in leteralus this topic comes up again "over thinking, over analyzing, seperates the body from the mind"...
An incredibly powerfull song that taps some deeper spots in me... maynard is certainly a genius, if only for his ability to reach through all the crap and try to tap into how and what we realy are beneath all the bullshit (training).
My Third eye is on the way to being open, I have meditated many times with Doaism and many types of Yoga. I can weigh out all of the possibliites very very very fast, I have driven for hours at a time before and I forgot that I was driving...
My Third eye is on the way to being open, I have meditated many times with Doaism and many types of Yoga. I can weigh out all of the possibliites very very very fast, I have driven for hours at a time before and I forgot that I was driving...
Its using everything this body gives you, I hate this cage, Remember what is holding you in this body, our souls are capable of so much more outside of the skin and bone. Pain is an Illusion.
Its using everything this body gives you, I hate this cage, Remember what is holding you in this body, our souls are capable of so much more outside of the skin and bone. Pain is an Illusion.
@vision Great post. Thank you ????????
@vision Great post. Thank you ????????