![]() Never actually understand, even if they try, because all they see is you, on fire, screaming about the arsonist that no one ever sees, and who has been spreading lies about your alleged mental instability, deceptive personality, etc. ![]() Anyways, I especially relate to her midnights becoming afternoons, complex PTSD often leads to this phenomenon, whether due to purposeful sleep deprivation by the abuser, or just hyper vigilance associated with the PTSD, along with the fear of facing people, especially your loved ones, who funny how you say the words domestic violence, abuse, abuse survivor and boom the subject changes. The abuser has no anxieties, no emotional pain, or salience/memory for that matter, so the survivor appears to be the crazy one, obsessed with the abuse and that buzzword that seems to ignite arguments about diagnosing people without a degree, etc. I believe this is another amazingly on point and nuanced commentary on the insanity that follows emotionally abusive relationships. Perhaps this song is almost a parody of the tenants of the Book of the Law, as if the idea is far too easy to be true. ![]() By the time his next album came out, he had turned back to Christianity. It is obvious during this album he was studying the philosophies of Thelema, but never completely subscribed to them. That he takes it to an extreme, verbally and vocally, does imply irony. ![]() To have religion, one must have worship, and Thelemites bow to no one.) (Thelema is not a religion, it is a philosophy. Crowley always referred to people who have accepted the concepts of Thelema as "Free" people, no longer slaves to the chains of physical reality and organized religion. It's interesting that "Free" is always capitalized, and I think it illustrates my point. Of course, the only way to reach the astral realm, and the ultimate goal of Thelema itself (which I won't go into here), is to eliminate the Ego, thus "Forget your Mind." Were we able to see our environment without our filtering systems, we would be able to see that all physical reality and time is simply an illusion covering the truth of the astral realm. The whole idea of the past being only in your mind is a Thelemic concept rooted in the idea that all physical reality, and all time, is simply a construct by our minds to process our environment. By Love, he means the awareness of the self and all others as complete individual entities with the potential to become gods, and the awareness that as such, individuals are free to do whatever they must in order to further their Will (goal in life, to oversimplify), so long as it doesn't affect anyone else's Will. Love is the Law, Love under Will." The "Love" he speaks of is the same Crowley described, which isn't love as we think of it. There is only one rule in Thelema: "Do what thou Wilt shall be the Whole of the Law. This song is esentially a quick version of the first part of Book of the Law. He even has several Thelemically inspired pictures within the album liner (Egyptian stuff EVERYWHERE, sitting in metitative poses, etc). It's all over this album, especially "Quicksand", the song right before this one (which isn't actually depressing at all if you read it right, but I'll mention that over on that song). I must disagree with both of you, though I do agree this song is ironic to a certain extent.ĭuring this period of his life, Bowie was experimenting with Thelema and the teachings of Alistair Crowley.
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