The Lady Odin's Lair

How many of you recall this catchy tune featured in one of Dante's Black Train videos? Sung in Japanese ... most of us just enjoyed the tune. Who of us ever looked for translations? I did. Today. And the lyrics were quite dark and supportive of D's message in that video. I'll add them below, which you can read after you've listened to this clip. I'll add a link to the video/s as well as, for those who haven't ever seen it or who want to watch it again. Tsuyoshi Nagabuchi - Black Train ( translated roughly by Google Translate ) Black Train covered in money Yesterday I became a representative. Caught bright red blood I climb the last stairs Looks like a blindfolded death row prisoner and mass media torture A train in the dark night, a severed head Wiwiwiwi The night I cried alone, being teased and trampled Wiwiwiwi Money-covered zombie Betrayal swarms through history A superficial “Say Hello!” Uprooted and bent The power to believe, love, and peace Purple swollen ...

I love coming back to this clip from time to time, just to ponder it against what I've learned and concluded for myself, to see if I still think the same.  Hive mind or not? This is at the heart of my musings.  Because, frankly, Hive Mind is creepy AF to me, and I feel the resistance to it at the deepest cellular level of my physical being. Jonas: Watch a flock of birds or a shoal of fish move as one... and you glimpse where we came from. Ask how aspen trees feel trauma hundreds of miles apart, or how a mushroom can understand the needs of a forest... you'd begin to grasp what we are. Our kind has been here since the beginning. In all likelihood, we were the beginning. What I want... is to make sure we're there at the end. But if there's another species of Homo sapien, how can it be a secret? Secrets are important to their species. Secrets are the center of their identities, of their societies. Secrets maintain their hierarchies. To reveal this secret, that there is ano...

This is a curation of a well-crafted Twitter thread: https://twitter.com/Culture_Crit/status/1725898935154225571 Whenever they tell you it can't be done in the modern age, show them Dresden. What's been achieved in Dresden is the most inspiring architectural feat for decades. Everything you see in the bottom image was built, from scratch, in the last 20 years. The city was a gem of German Baroque architecture, completely levelled by Allied bombings during WW2 - more than 80% of the buildings in the historic city center were either damaged or totally destroyed.  Heartbreakingly, the wonderful Frauenkirche (Church of Our Lady) lay in rubble for decades, under the East German communist regime which refused to rebuild it. It was left in a pile as a "memorial against war" for 50 years. When the Berlin Wall finally fell, the people endeavored to bring it back. Work began in 1993 to piece the church back together, brick by brick; every stone in the pile was sorted and carrie...

It's hard to know these days who to trust. There are clowns to the left of me not to mention the jokers to the right ... everyone is twisting and turning. Creators and Destroyers. Good guys needing to do bad things in order to prevent even worse things. Bad guys doing good things as PR, and just to mess with us. External cues are no longer reliable or trustworthy. Which leaves only the internal ones. For me, the bottom line is ... who allows the freedom to think, to speak, to act? Even when you might choose unwisely. Well, allow might not be the right term here. So let's try that again ... Who doesn't impede, obstruct, negate, crush your freedom to think, to speak, to act in ways you desire to? THAT's what I watch for. Even if it IS a multi-layered chess game. 'Cos I'm in! I'm just as much a player, a participant, in this cosmic game as any of the clowns and jokers. I gave my consent when I chose to be born into this matrix. I'm here for self-mastery....