Thanks for that input. It's well appreciated. At the moment though I don't quite know where to put it. These things have never fit in my grid, and I'm not sure if they're going to.
I personally like to see the solstice simply as an event of rebirth and dislike all the modern and masonic stuff surrounding it. Yet, even this rather pure seeming pagan way of looking at it seems to have been either at the base of or perverted into satanistic concepts.
Yet, I can't help but give in to those images that are so clearly of Egyptian origin. I have seldom felt any attraction to the Egyptian culture, I'd rather be running about in Machu Picchu, but even the existence of this image of Thoth was a an immense surprise to me.
777, have you found symbols to actually have a real meaning at their core? I have been looking into this deeper and deeper and it's interesting that we are either made to believe that symbols carry only ambivalent meaning to such a degree to not recognise the true power of then, or (and that is rather my thinking) the core of a symbol isn't fixed, rather it is about how many people believe that meaning at any point of time.
I am unsure how this intersects with subliminal messaging. I am aware of it and I am convinced it manipulates us every day. Still, I wonder if that corrupting force can be applied to all images.
For example, I've recently watched "The subversive use of holy symbolism in popular culture" and have been convinced my most things mentioned but find it somewhat difficult to grasp the interpretation that was given regarding the cover of Abbey Road.
And the Interpretation is
here.
Although it might be fancy to take picture apart like that, I can see meaning in the colour white, but to blatantly associate it with clergy is in my opinion just wrong. I don't need to go further, you know what I mean and the point can be made for most other symbols.
What I mean to say is that I have no quarrel with the quality of a symbol. A quality that is specific in its own being and points to a set of other associated qualities (not mentally associated, actually by physical relation). With that, each symbol has its own set of ambiguity, it is maybe like seeing the whole of the duality before singling out one pole, for once.
Y can thus not stand only for a duality view merging into singularity view, but it can be any merging or separation. It is a dynamic. It could also be an aerial or an upside down tower or a butt crack.
Furthermore, and I think this goes hand in hand, all my dreams feature a knowingness that makes me wonder why I'm not telepathically zipping around the whole world yet. There is hardly ever any speech, there is hardly even any features that identify anything, there is hardly an action that is carried out, it's all just the sensation of these things happening, a knowing of the presence. The only things that's clear is the architecture, always very present along with it's atmosphere.
Has anybody else experienced this and would care to share?