This isn’t rocket science if you’ve ever taken a large dose of mushrooms and listened to the song. “In, out, in, out”, “so good to see you, I missed you so much, so glad it’s over, I missed you so much”,
“Came out to watch you play, why are you running away”.
The song follows the waves of mushrooms. It literally synced up for me. The pace of it, the lyrics, all of it, rode the waves. Close your eyes, and You fall “down that hole” but you also come “back again”. You open your eyes, and the kaleidoscope opens above you, like a doorway to the heavens, “Rising up and wiping the dew from my withered eye”.
The entire experience has you going in and out, deeper and deeper, like waves, building, cresting, crashing, receding, repeat, into your consciousness, until you bump into your sub conscious self’s. Well hello there me, it’s good to see you. Wait, why are you running away? Just as quickly as you do, you’re sent cascading back to the surface. Only to fall again as the next wave cycles into you. Going deeper. I eventually went so deep, I reached what felt like the bottom. But I could not open the door that was there(I’ve never been able to). That door is only opened on “death”(or the illusion of it as none of “us” really die, we just transform, like a rain drop returning to the ocean)I suspect. But it didn’t stop me from trying to pry that fucker open with more mushrooms.
It also is the culmination of all the jungian themes carried throughout the album. Shadow selfs, one consciousness, inner child, etc. Mushrooms and other psychedelic are the crowbar we use to pry open our withered third eye. So is the song about drugs, yes, and no. It’s a very spiritual song, with a lot of junguan themes, but he achieved this vision by “prying open” his third eye. If it was just about mediating till you got there, well there would be no prying involved.
This isn’t rocket science if you’ve ever taken a large dose of mushrooms and listened to the song. “In, out, in, out”, “so good to see you, I missed you so much, so glad it’s over, I missed you so much”, “Came out to watch you play, why are you running away”.
The song follows the waves of mushrooms. It literally synced up for me. The pace of it, the lyrics, all of it, rode the waves. Close your eyes, and You fall “down that hole” but you also come “back again”. You open your eyes, and the kaleidoscope opens above you, like a doorway to the heavens, “Rising up and wiping the dew from my withered eye”.
The entire experience has you going in and out, deeper and deeper, like waves, building, cresting, crashing, receding, repeat, into your consciousness, until you bump into your sub conscious self’s. Well hello there me, it’s good to see you. Wait, why are you running away? Just as quickly as you do, you’re sent cascading back to the surface. Only to fall again as the next wave cycles into you. Going deeper. I eventually went so deep, I reached what felt like the bottom. But I could not open the door that was there(I’ve never been able to). That door is only opened on “death”(or the illusion of it as none of “us” really die, we just transform, like a rain drop returning to the ocean)I suspect. But it didn’t stop me from trying to pry that fucker open with more mushrooms.
It also is the culmination of all the jungian themes carried throughout the album. Shadow selfs, one consciousness, inner child, etc. Mushrooms and other psychedelic are the crowbar we use to pry open our withered third eye. So is the song about drugs, yes, and no. It’s a very spiritual song, with a lot of junguan themes, but he achieved this vision by “prying open” his third eye. If it was just about mediating till you got there, well there would be no prying involved.