Tool 43 lyrics

VoxAndPiano on June 22, But - but that's complete and utter garbage! Biologists everywhere are sleeping uneasy in their beds because people like you are saying things like this! TaintedDeity on July 19, I know this comment was posted 7 years ago, but I read it and was disgusted and needed to reply. To correct Oberones and his statement about "the Aborignies in Australia", they are not, by any stretch of the imagination, "primitive people".

They do not have only 44 chromosomes compared to "the second level" which have They are exactly like every other human being on the plant - intellegent, with every cognitive, physical and social ability that Oberones himself has. I am mortified to hear someone state the opposite!

To suggest that Indigenous Australians are somehow inferior human beings is a narrow minded and vastly incorrect statement, and it's comments like these that are fueling the "us and them" mentality between races and cultures. Oberones is obviously not Australian, and has probably not even been to Australia. I challenge you, Oberones, to meet with an Indigneous Australian and determine whether or not they are so different to yourself.

Folkie84 on July 22, Ok Folkie84, get off the man's back. Blame Jung, not Oberones. Oberones was just posting Jung's theory. And perhaps he meant ancient Aboriginies? Fail on spelling "planet" wrong by the way. Good analysis Oberones. We can't blame Oberones for coming up with the theory but we can blame him for presenting such shit, racist at that, as truth.

Spreading misinformation is despicable. TaintedDeity on August 22, Did anyone every stop to think that Maynards twisted mind is so twisted that he would write a simple song so that everyone would misinterpret it? Has anyone ever thought that its about football? Well its not.. But again someone says that this 0berones is correct And in the song we use it as a metaphor for evolution and change. Right now, humans have forty-four plus two, and supposedly the next step in our evolution will be the addition of a couple more chromosomes.

The words are an afterthought. We don't place that much significance on them. We want people to interpret the music and get their own inspiration out of it. That's what we hope for, anyway. That's why we don't put the words in the record, either, because people will latch onto them heavily. If words were so important, compared to the light and energy that is going on the stage, then people would be selling out spoken word shows.

Which they aren't. The music is what the emphasis is on in our band. Skumped on October 01, In response to Folkie I can understand why this theory is offensive and racist. I agree with you on that entirely. But it's grossly unfair to blast Oberones for simply explaining what the theory is. I found the analysis very interesting by the way, even though I don't agree with Jungian theory.

Wallamanage on December 28, First off. Aboriginals is a modern term. Dont get hung up on human made labels. Think outside the label. And on that note of thinking outside the box. Let me share an observation and question inspired by TaintedDeity's rebuttle. Jungian theory stresses that people focus too heavily on science and not enough on spirituallity label it what you may but dont think religiously here. This is just one out of millions of examples of people relying on scientific theory that is supposedly holding us back according to Jung.

How do we know he is not right? Thank you Wallamanage. Tell TaintedDeity he can stop being a dick now. Just thought I'd put that out there. Daemian on July 14, I think everyone in this should listen to "Lateralus" from the same-titles album You guys are overthinking everything.

I definitely agree that there is some back story to the lyrics most likely involving this Jungian Theory stuff, but that does not connect to Maynard at all, and we are not going to connect to it through the Jungian Theory either.

As Danny Carey said in the interview, they have their meaning, and then they build the song to allow for our own interpretations. Stop over-thinking and over-analyzing, because it separates the body from the mind.

Just make it what you want it to be. I realize this is fourteen years too late, but for the sake of anyone looking into the meaning behind the lyrics to one of TOOL's most arcane masterpieces, please take note: Carl Jung! Interpretations are fine, but please don't attribute this lunatic-fringe chromosome stuff to someone as amazing as Carl Gustav Jung. Oberones Oberones I think the scientific emphasis is a bit too heavy. Jung dressed Gnosticism in the guise of a science for sake of creating a secular spiritual movement.

The anima and animus, forces defined by their contrary nature, are equivalent to the gnostic concept of syzygy. The Gnostics believed that wisdom, Sophia, was entrapped within matter by her child, the demiurge. The gnostic worldview is both dualistic and progressive. The dualism exists between the evolving realm of concept, language and matter Sophia , and the opposing realm of deterministic physical experience the Demiurge.

They envisioned Sophia as seeking to separate herself from matter by the organizing the material world in forms that could support progressively developed concepts.

According to the gnostic cosmology, this led to the creation of humanity, as a vessel for complex thought through a series of steps called emanations. Keep in mind that these are metaphors for awareness.

The crucifix illustrates the concept. A human form is affixed between the material world the cross and the spiritual realm the sky in suffering, and suffering is the pathway to bliss by means of the Jungian shadow concept. Shaman and the Hellenistic religions were very shamanistic find god through the suffering of a vision quest. So Moses isolated himself on a mountain; Jesus, in the desert. Now that I've covered the gnostic concept, what was Jung referring to by the 2 additional chromosomes?

I suspect Jung was referencing the emanation that will stem from mankind, sort of like Nietzsche's ubermenche. He was saying that, from mankind, there will come another pure concept to break into opposites, just as good and evil cannot exist without one another, and did not exist before man's achievement of moral concept, man will support another emanation of thought a release of Sophia that will progress us beyond our current state.

Jung envisioned this as occurring through the process of imaginative synthesis, what he deemed synchronicity see the Police song He wasn't talking apes and men. Oberones Looked into it some more. This 48 chromosome nonsense is not z gnostic metaphor, but pseudoscience, promoted by a new religious movement called the Flower of Life Institute.

Nothing to do with Jung. However, the song refers to progressions of conscious awareness, from the perspective of the Jungian shadow. The manifestations of these progressions are like a shedding snake skin, while the confrontation and consumption of the shadow forms an Ouroboros. It's a mystical message: one must confront their fears to supersede their cognitive limitations, because fear—the unaddressed shadow of the mind—separates humanity from spiritual transcendence.

Creation, of both art and psyche, cannot occur in hiding. Oberones I also believe that this song is about the theory of the superman of the philosopher Nietzsche. Nietzsche wrote about in Thus Spoke Zarathustra, The Will to Power and other of his writings about that humans are a bridge, a rope between the ape and the superman. And it is our responsability to evolve into a higher stage of human development. This song is also related to the theory of the new man by Che Guevara MarxistChavizta on June 04, Oberones Wow.

Pretty rough judgement of the aboriginals! Actually, the song is referring to an evolution 'backwards,' if you will, a man shedding his skin hence the scab picking and snake crawling imagery. The character in the song is coming to terms with what he really wants, and accepting who he really is: an animal, with all of its primal, raw and innocent?

The message is plain: humankind would be better off living 'in' nature than 'above' it, as we are all animals at heart. Animals that have evolved the unique ability to completely and irrevocably destroy the ecology of the environment needed to sustain their very lives.

Diglarrydig on January 26, Oberones Sorry, mate, if you think that Australian Aboriginals don't perceive anything but themselves then you know nothing at all about their spirituality and connection to the land. My Interpretation "Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual's conscious life, the blacker and denser it is. Crossing All Over! Volume 5. Lateralus Promo Single. Sober: Tales From the Darkside. Triple J: Thirteen. Triple J: Hottest , Volume 1.

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