This song references Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. He goes through all the odd dispositions of the Dwarfs in himself as he gets his mind up to speed. He comes to inhabit that place in his mind that he calls "Little Wonder" which could implicitly be called "Snow White"... the character that came back from a deep sleep by the kiss of a prince. Snow White in this case is the feminine nature of the internal mind activated by "Dame Meditation". He, Bowie, is the Prince that makes the "kiss" by entering into this practice. You saw in the Disney animated version that the whole world comes back to life, colors ablaze after Snow White was reawakened. Here we are now.
"Enter Galactic, see me to be you" is all him talking to himself. He needs to tap this "connection/kiss" to see who he really is inside.
"Mars happy nation, sit on my karma": this is about him living in the mundane objective, mechanical world before deciding to take on "Dame Meditation". Mars would be the Darwinian-nature of humanity... fighting/violence/power-posturing/ your self within the objective hierarchy of animal Man. Then he takes a dip inside to see the dwarfs of his creation in their jeweled cave... digging for jewels. That is the real, old, even pre-Bowie take on the original story of Snow WHite. Rather Protestant in it's advocation of "hard-work reaps rewards through it" and then also "of the mind".
"Drive-in Saturday":
There's a similarity between these two songs with their dwarfs and "friends at home". There is an undeniable DMT-drug reference in "Drive-in Saturday" of which hte drug-trip happens to mimic the nature of meditation in that it contacts you to the inner-workers that show themselves as neuro-archetypical gnomes/dwarfs/small-beings which show you jewels/geometric-objects/"visions".
Tap your inner resources. Bowie made a whole career of it. I can't remember of it's substantiated, but I think I remember somewhere hearing that Bowie said this song was solely about himself. Proof positive.
This song references Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. He goes through all the odd dispositions of the Dwarfs in himself as he gets his mind up to speed. He comes to inhabit that place in his mind that he calls "Little Wonder" which could implicitly be called "Snow White"... the character that came back from a deep sleep by the kiss of a prince. Snow White in this case is the feminine nature of the internal mind activated by "Dame Meditation". He, Bowie, is the Prince that makes the "kiss" by entering into this practice. You saw in the Disney animated version that the whole world comes back to life, colors ablaze after Snow White was reawakened. Here we are now.
"Enter Galactic, see me to be you" is all him talking to himself. He needs to tap this "connection/kiss" to see who he really is inside.
"Mars happy nation, sit on my karma": this is about him living in the mundane objective, mechanical world before deciding to take on "Dame Meditation". Mars would be the Darwinian-nature of humanity... fighting/violence/power-posturing/ your self within the objective hierarchy of animal Man. Then he takes a dip inside to see the dwarfs of his creation in their jeweled cave... digging for jewels. That is the real, old, even pre-Bowie take on the original story of Snow WHite. Rather Protestant in it's advocation of "hard-work reaps rewards through it" and then also "of the mind".
"Drive-in Saturday": There's a similarity between these two songs with their dwarfs and "friends at home". There is an undeniable DMT-drug reference in "Drive-in Saturday" of which hte drug-trip happens to mimic the nature of meditation in that it contacts you to the inner-workers that show themselves as neuro-archetypical gnomes/dwarfs/small-beings which show you jewels/geometric-objects/"visions".
Tap your inner resources. Bowie made a whole career of it. I can't remember of it's substantiated, but I think I remember somewhere hearing that Bowie said this song was solely about himself. Proof positive.