djelements wrote:karmacazee wrote:The Lady Gaga ones on that site are good, IMO.
Taken inside a masonic lodge, ffs
This picture speaks volumes to me.
As in; the idea of the "popstar" (the fame of the icon) is made up by the individual belief of all those who support it. This picture shows the icon resting on top of the souls of lost children, gaining it's power from their belief in it. Similiar to the all seeing eye on top of the pyramid. It's all seeing because it is a combination of everthing that everyone sees simultaneously, but without the individuals' subjective judgements.
The other iconography used in the mannequin photo shows the eye of Horus/Thoth (depending on which way you're looking at it/seeing it from!) - along with the Cleopatran hairstyle - all heavy indications of a link to Egyptian thinking. The peace/anarchy symbol threw me off a bit though! Vigilant citizens indeed...
In ancient Egyptian thinking, it was belived that to discuss any subject or person in
any way would give power to that subject or person. To remove power from something you simply need not mention it, or think of it, or manifest it in any way within your consciousness. The only problem is that upon finding someone who is talking about "it" and arguing with that person about something you do not believe in will inevitably give "it" power because you are creating a resistance to a lie and this will "give power to the name". Wordsound is/are Power etc (Sun Ra).
Piston previously mentioned the Baphomet analogy within another pop song - very similar to the 4th Egyptian pharaoh
Akhenaten , often confused through historical misrepresentation as being the devil incarnation of man or the androgenous deceiver, but in reality this is all about the growth of consciousness through enlightenment. To trancend our nature is to reshape it. Love makes us lazy, hate motivates us to change. Both powers are completley subjective and really should not be applied in any way outside of the individual concerned, but we all know they are very real forces that do exist and will affect us in the strongest possible way. It's what the experience of these powers create - and so far that is the human mind, ever changing and evolving and far from being tied to any static definitions arising from any individuals take on it. I am what I am, we are what we are etc.
I think the pop stars mentioned above are really trying to enlighten people by acting out a play or drama that renders this eternal & internal human struggle. Whether or not they are aware of this is another question entirely, but you don't blame actors in a film or a play for portraying bad things even if the result is a negative because they are acting in order to
render human situations. I think actors and pop stars do have a responsibility to be careful about how these things are portrayed, but all of us have an even greater responsibility to be true and just in the way we live our everyday lives. This in the end is what's important - otherwise it will give rise to all kinds of fu**ed up possibilites for our minds to be controlled by powers far from our understanding.
My language and understanding in some of these subjects is lacking, but I hope you understand what I am saying here. This is some really heavy stuff, but you have the freedom to make up your own mind. Just remember that other people do too.
P.S. Well done if you made it through all that - it was much harder to write if that means anything.
This is neither time or the place.
