Kate: [On “And Dream of Sheep,” the line that says 'Come here with me now.'] “When I was little, and I'd had a bad dream… [my mother would] say something like "Come here with me now." It's my mother saying this line in the track…” (http://gaffa.org/garden/kate23.html).
-- The Ninth Wave opens with the Girl in the Water: terrified, exhausted, scared; wanting/fighting sleep; trying to still herself with the patience of sheep lost in snow... By the end of “And Dream of Sheep,” she is unconscious… sinking into that intermediate state between life-death and rebirth...
-- What follows is a series of 5 dreams/nightmares, rising from her ‘unconscious’ state. (Maybe she becomes semi-conscious at some point; maybe she does not.)
-- During the final Chorus of “Hello, Earth” she drowns. Note the philosophic, mournful ending of the song.
-- The whispering/comforting “Come here with me now” (at the beginning/Alpha) has become the whispering/comforting “Go to sleep little earth” (at the end/Omega).
-- The ocean = dark, deep, unconscious, id, life, grave, womb… etc, etc.
But the Wheel of Life is a continuous wonder, thus the rebirthing “The Morning Fog.” …
In Mahayana Buddhist soteriology the Bardo is the intermediate state between lives, when the mind experiences a series of hallucinations culminating in its next birth... To the Buddhist it is impossible to envisage 'no mind'. The state of a disembodied mind is active, hallucinatory and, depending on its karmic imprints, sometimes nightmarish.
'To die, to sleep ... To sleep, perchance to dream.
Ay there's the rub, for in that sleep of death what dreams may come when we have shuffled off this mortal coil, must give us pause...' - Hamlet.
Hamlet realised that 'Not to be' is not an option, there is only 'To Be' - in some state or other, pleasant or unpleasant… The Buddhist agrees with Shakespeare, rather than with the materialists, in believing that mental imprints caused by actions in previous lifetimes (karma) cause phenomenal manifestations. And those manifestations continue to be experienced as dreams or nightmares throughout the intermediate state from tomb to womb… (http://website.lineone.net/~kwelos/Bardo.htm).
Kate: [On “And Dream of Sheep,” the line that says 'Come here with me now.'] “When I was little, and I'd had a bad dream… [my mother would] say something like "Come here with me now." It's my mother saying this line in the track…” (http://gaffa.org/garden/kate23.html).
-- The Ninth Wave opens with the Girl in the Water: terrified, exhausted, scared; wanting/fighting sleep; trying to still herself with the patience of sheep lost in snow... By the end of “And Dream of Sheep,” she is unconscious… sinking into that intermediate state between life-death and rebirth... -- What follows is a series of 5 dreams/nightmares, rising from her ‘unconscious’ state. (Maybe she becomes semi-conscious at some point; maybe she does not.) -- During the final Chorus of “Hello, Earth” she drowns. Note the philosophic, mournful ending of the song. -- The whispering/comforting “Come here with me now” (at the beginning/Alpha) has become the whispering/comforting “Go to sleep little earth” (at the end/Omega). -- The ocean = dark, deep, unconscious, id, life, grave, womb… etc, etc.
But the Wheel of Life is a continuous wonder, thus the rebirthing “The Morning Fog.” …
In Mahayana Buddhist soteriology the Bardo is the intermediate state between lives, when the mind experiences a series of hallucinations culminating in its next birth... To the Buddhist it is impossible to envisage 'no mind'. The state of a disembodied mind is active, hallucinatory and, depending on its karmic imprints, sometimes nightmarish.
'To die, to sleep ... To sleep, perchance to dream. Ay there's the rub, for in that sleep of death what dreams may come when we have shuffled off this mortal coil, must give us pause...' - Hamlet.
Hamlet realised that 'Not to be' is not an option, there is only 'To Be' - in some state or other, pleasant or unpleasant… The Buddhist agrees with Shakespeare, rather than with the materialists, in believing that mental imprints caused by actions in previous lifetimes (karma) cause phenomenal manifestations. And those manifestations continue to be experienced as dreams or nightmares throughout the intermediate state from tomb to womb… (http://website.lineone.net/~kwelos/Bardo.htm).