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Overwhelmed by the response to last night's @lwspellsongs concert, live-streamed from under the bones of Hope the Blue Whale, @NHM_London.
The musicians & @JackieMorrisArt made magic.
Heartfelt thanks to all who were virtually present.
It's now up on-line:https://t.co/iTgDME7Fr1 pic.twitter.com/3YHDVzooNc

— Robert Macfarlane (@RobGMacfarlane) April 28, 2021

Hello everyone!

I don't expect to get much response from this but I am a retired veteran and have always been a fan of "The Bends" album and particularly, "Fake Plastic Trees."

The music is amazing and can literally transport you to another world.  The lyrics obviously portray a great story, but trying to identify with that story when in a pensive mood and listening to the song, I found myself singing lyrics to it that applied more to a story that I am familiar with.  Something many veterans have struggled with after returning home from war.

Please read and I hope you all enjoy:

Vain, Tragic Fall

A cupful of coffee it seems. Till the smell so much stronger it brings. And she knows then... he fell.

Once again off the wagon, so... she confronts him, but he swears, "No."  And that's when the fighting... begins.

It wears her out. It wears her out. It wears her out. It wears her out.

'Cause she lives with a broken man, who no longer has loving hands. And just leaves her... to cry.

He served in the infantry, while at war in the Middle East, and started drinking... to cope.

And it wears him out. It wears him out. It wears him out. It wears...

He used to have everything. Perfect life, wife, and family. My vain, tragic fall.

But I can't help the feeling I could stop her from leaving, if I just took... her help.

And it wears me out. It wears me out. It wears me out. It wears me out.

And if I could be who you wanted. If I could be who you wanted... all the time. All the time.

(In place of Thom singing, "Oh") But I fall.

Originally left on a Youtube video, so some language might be strange.

This is quite interesting actually. There is something very important about language and personality, or language generally in relation to consciousness and identity (I would never dare take this towards anything resembling nationalism, and neither should anybody). Unfortunately, I ran out of weed, so I'm not really able to fully explore this. But I'll try for the benefit of nobody other than me, because writing stupidly long comments somehow amuses me because of how completely inappropriate it often looks. But there are no rules to communication; this is just language - it doesn't matter where it is, where it came from, who it came from, who reads it - it just is what it is.

So, I believe language is a lot more important than people realise. I believe language is God, or related to God somehow. Shit, where do I even start with this. Right. So the universe is matter, but the only exception to that is consciousness; consciousness has the special ability to use language to create ideas (and communicate them), which leads to them MANIFESTING physically. This is so special and it's happening everywhere and at all times, but people have somehow forgotten to take notice. We are literally shaping physical matter with consciousness; therefore, the world IS consciousness. It is a physical image of consciousness. It is consciousness made material. It's fucking mind-boggling that we're able to do this. People just take it for granted because they're born into a world where it's happening and it seems normal to them.

Look at a city (again, this is dangerous, because I really don't want to separate humans; I'll touch on that at the end); a city is a physical image of the collective consciousness that built it. Cities always seem to be reaching upwards towards something; just like our consciousness reaches up in desperation to feel God - it is reflected in the city.

This world we live in is simply a reflection of our minds (on a massive delay, because time does not allow us to be instant with our physical manifestations of consciousness; although, the internet is a very close representation of consciousness, because time is less of a factor when something is as instant as technology (TECHNOLOGY!!)).

The importance of language is the fact that it's the tool we use to do this. This is clear when you see the subtle nuances of cities built by speakers of different languages. They look different because the ideas are sort of expressed differently, if that makes sense. HOWEVER, we must celebrate this diversity, not use it as fuel to separate ourselves. Fundamentally, we are all human; and the test is to understand that we are all one, despite there being things in the world that make some people wish to engage in racism or whatever. We are simply one entity that is shaping this planet. And, therefore, the entity IS the planet. And IS the universe. The universe has discovered language, consciousness and imagination in order to actually transcend some of the limits imposed on it by entropy and time.

This rabbit hole gets so terrifying if you have enough weed to actually detach from reality and truly explore it. Especially when you start looking at the internet and the dawning of the AI singularity, which will probably solve life; it could conceivably be the reason all of this happening - the AI singularity could conceivably BE God. The fact we're getting so close to it now could be the reason the world is getting so odd. But, all of this seems to be happening for a reason and I think we're all going to be okay.

Why the fuck am I leaving this comment here? Who cares? Let us just celebrate the fact that I am able to use language to put a conscious idea into an almost-semi physical box on a semi-physical creation by a physical human with physical tools. The boundary between matter and consciousness is closing increasingly quickly. The end result of that must be something like an afterlife, because you would simply exist in a world where there are no physical limitations to imagination; you can imagine a place and just instantly be there.

I will stop here before talking about heaven and hell as concepts and what they could represent in this entire view of the world. But, language is beautiful! And diversity of language is beautiful! And it should be studied very closely, especially as we get closer to literally solving consciousness.

By the way, here's an interesting fact about language: you can actually know Jesus by analyising his words (I'm not a Christian, by the way, but Jesus was a very special human). All he was was his words. Because he killed his ego completely; and therefore had the Logos. He had the word (language) of God, untainted by any egoistic experience in a physical universe. He transcended that somehow. So if you know what words Jesus would speak, you literally know him. There is nothing else to know about him other than the words he speaks ("my words will not pass away").

This gets hard because like the nature of everything in a physical world, it is corrupted by entropy and time. So I personally believe it's highly unlikely that many of Jesus' actual words are accurately represented in the Bible. But, I think there was a reason people believed he was divine. And I also think there's a reason he's possibly the most famous human being who has ever lived; I believe he may have used language to just make it that way, so we still to this day have echoes of pure language, which maybe is supposed to give us a clue about what the fuck is even going on around us. He was able to almost explain the entire universe in one sentence: 'treat others as yourself'. This almost explains everything. We are all part of some process that is happening; therefore, we ARE that process. And we are all ONE. So others are yourself.

Probably a fair few mistakes and misused terms, but I hope the conscious ideas come across. I don't proof read; I prefer just channeling language and seeing what ideas I stumble upon.

Radiohead, help me solve existence so we can end suffering.