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Artist: Mortal Coil by Navate
To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep;
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep;
To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub;
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause: there's the respect
That makes calamity of so long life;
William Shakespeare - To be, or not to be (from Hamlet 3/1)
What dreams may come in death
to shuffle off this mortal coil
Schopenhauer's speculation
In this way, the length of our life is metaphorically the length of thread that is coiled on a spool, a metaphor related to the ancient Greek mythological figures of the Fates. As we live, the thread is unwound from the coil by the shuttle of the loom of time.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortal_coil
Shall we? Oh the suffering is so clear and felt here in this wicked game, yet we must find the Gods (real or fake) and rise to meet them. The human potential can release our suffering. But if we do not personify our human qualities in a god-like way we shall not see our divinity(highest human potential). The Greeks somehow rose to such greatness because they personified almost every human quality into gods. They first recognized the suffering, and death that would devour them, but then in the face of such tragedy of life, they created. Maybe the only culture so far that had such focus, but not with hubris, on human potential. Their focus was so intense and balanced they created political systems, military might, art, science, philosophy. They did not deny humans uncosncious yearning for a higher power. There was someone to pray to. It does not matter whether god exists, but that you believe and your unconscious has some identification, so that your conscious and unconscious can marry and you can be a balanced person.
It is not easy being here, but we have a lot of potential. It requires serious understanding of death and divinity or the highest human potential. The highest human potential must be sought and experienced. Compassion, forgiveness and gratitude are some of the concepts that the devout practice. The mystery of being is well-beyond our research. Scientific evidence will never reveal god or mystic experience. This is a side note. The structure that we can know, human consciousness and unconscious tendencies, tells us that we need something outside(gods, myths, symbols) to understand the inside. This comes up in stories, myths which usually contain gods. Why? This is the question.
Gypsy-Eye Siren
Did I escape a
gypsy-eye Siren?
Some tribal song,
Deep rhythm,
and drum
pulsed
My heartbeat
So loud
The universe heard
the echo
The world
disappeared as I sailed to her
Broken, so mortal
To extinguish my
wicked fate
The rapture of
annihilation
I dove into the
water
The rocks and
bones lacerate my soul
For her tone
releases a desire
Death, the long
sleep
My eyes
wept with bliss
at the mere idea of the end.
The sensual sings
her will closer
like a death marked
arrow
as
I struggled the waves to her
Some
whirl pool pulled me down Deep
away
from the temptress
sacred
water savior-
life
giving abyss
every
journey steals a piece of my dream
What
coil is wrapped upon a universal
Wheel?
What
spinning of fate is this?
Oh
to be mortal…
How
must I unwind,
Tear,
shred this thread
Of
life?
What
will murder
This
spell?
My
life is
A
dark back-alley blues riff
Moving
to its own agenda
Wielding
this soul through
Time
and space
The
only truth:
Is
rhythm
Longing
Death
drumming
With
his gypsy-eye Siren
Humming
An
unforgettable tune.
Kori
2/10/13
I dove into the water
The sensual sings her will closer
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