I have continued posting, in part, for the benefit of Mr. Ski_Banker, if he is still hanging around. Who, by no meddling of mine, seems to have gotten himself possessed by a spirit entity claiming to be Lucifer. Often, the ones that I encounter in haunted places, or attached to obsessed people, speak in visions, metaphors, and strange coincidences that I sometimes don’t fully understand until months later, if ever. This is just the way of work in the astral light. You wanted proof of "ELien contact", careful what you wish for. It just doesn't fit in with your (non) belief system expectations, and so you seek some additional rational scientific explanation. The doctor made his diagnosis, and I made one of gnosis. The analytical mind vs. the creative. Small wonder than, that many black ops scientists wind up studying mysticism...and older artists begin wearing suits. The first time I saw a ufo as a child, I could control it's movement with my thoughts. That didn't jive with my idea of ufos, and so I dismissed what I saw as a figment of my imagination.
I watched the last Batman movie, for the first time, after posting about the Joker the other day. During the climax of the film he throws out the line I fed flaminio: "What happens when a unstoppable force hits an immovable object?"
Coincidence?
The Joker?
Susanna Clarke in her Novel “Jonathan Strange and M. Norell” noted that Humans and Fairies have an inverse relationship regarding Reason and Magick. Humans having great capacity for the former and less for the latter, whereas fey have enormous magickal power but comparatively little capacity for reason. For this reason the Shaman and the Sorcerer who is not content to deal only with those incorporeal beings that are listed in the Occult Grammaries (who are themselves sometimes far from pleasant characters), must learn to communicate with the spirits in the spirits own round about fashion.
The Yaminahua Shamen of Peru, who are famous for working with Ayahuasca induced trance call this type of Spirit language “Tsai Yoshtoyoshto” which literally translates as "language-twisting-twisting.". The Anthropolohist, Graham Townsley translates this expression as “Twisted Language”. Again, one Shaman he interviews states "With my koshuiti I want to see - singing, I carefully examine things - twisted language brings me close but not too close - with normal words I would crash into things - with twisted ones I circle around them - I can see them clearly. "
Direct and concrete language frightens the spirits and therefore according to Townsley must be "deliberately constructed in an elliptical and multi-referential fashion so as to mirror the refractory nature of the beings who are their objects." He concludes: "Yoshi are real beings who are both 'like and not like' the things they animate. They have no stable or unitary nature and thus, paradoxically, the 'seeing as' of 'twisted language' is the only way of adequately describing them. Metaphor here is not improper naming but the only proper naming possible."
Jason Louv in a footnote to his essay “Spooky Tricks” compares the Twisted Language of spirit with David Bourland, Jr.’s idea of E-Prime, an approach to English that banishes all forms of the verb “to-be”. While writing and speaking in e-prime can be an excellent exercise for re-training the brain to think in different ways, and even to help understand occult and psychic messages, don’t expect the spirits to adhere to any kind of fixed rule about verbs and nouns, or any kind of fixed rule at all!
Best to say your prayers out loud, unless you believe all angels are telephathic.
Which brings us to Twin Peaks.
I have had many initiations both formal and informal. One of the strangest, and one that hit me completely from left field, involved nothing more than watching Twin Peaks, every episode back to back, followed by the movie, without stopping, over the course of one weekend. This is a magickal initiation... a magickal training technique.
In Twin Peaks, Dale Cooper is charged with solving the Murder of Laura Palmer, a murder which was physically committed by someone close to her but was directed by the discarnate spirit BOB. In the course of his investigation in Twin Peaks, his first real clue is given in a dream in which he appears as himself 25 years later in a room walled off by red curtains containing someone that looks like Laura Palmer, and a dancing midget in a red suit who tells him things like "That gum you like is going to come back in style", and "She's filled with secrets. Where we're from, the birds sing a pretty song, and there's always music in the air." The girl that looks like Laura tells him "I feel like I know her but sometimes my arms bend back…"
Later, after being shot, he encounters another spirit that manifests as a Giant who tells him: "The owl's are not what they seem.", "There's a man in a smiling bag.", and "Without chemicals he points." These all turn out to be valuable clues as to what is going on, and have very concrete meanings. Other mysteries, in Twin Peaks, are not so clear cut. The Log Lady, for instance, utters some zingers like: "Shut your eyes and you'll burst into flames.", and "Fire is the devil hiding like a coward in the smoke." There is also the spirits of a little boy and his grandmother ,who appear in the series as one thing, and in the movie as another, and are trying to get their messages across using creamed corn! And of course most famously, Mike, the one armed man (who points without chemicals BTW) utters the famous incantation:
“Through the Darkness of future past the Magician longs to see. One chance out between two worlds, Fire Walk with Me.”
Of course, perhaps he was really saying “One chants out between two worlds” or perhaps he means both. That’s the twisted language for you.
Dale and crew discovers a portal to the Black Lodge in Twin Peaks that was opened up by Evil Tibetan sorcerers called Dugpas, but in the end, its not clear if the Midget, the Giant, and the one armed man, are agents of the Black Lodge, White Lodge, or perhaps in an attached waiting room with doors into both. You can’t figure the answers out with reason, so don’t try. You must learn the twisted language.
Twin Peaks is an occult training video in modes of spirit communication. When you figure out who is in the Log Lady’s Log, what Creamed corn represents, and if the Little Man from Another Place is the Giant's Black Lodge opposite, or the discarded Arm of the one armed man, than you will have graduated from the course.
It is a relationship a bit like Baked Alaska... Flaming Ice Cream. Get it?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLNQPPvncek
