Postby PeteMartell » Sun Aug 27, 2017 11:19 pm
Wow. What a brilliant episode. What Lynch/Frost are doing is so incredible it really goes beyond television. They are using television as a transcendental and alchemical vehicle to talk about much more profound questions of consciousness, memory, existence, and our own direct psychological experience as viewers. (Of the show and of our own mind/life/ego).
We are all the dreamers.
A lot of great theories on this thread so far, I've enjoyed reading. I'm not going to reiterate what's already been said, but here are a few other thoughts:
1. The license plate of Mr.C in the dark road reads SW 51. What is that? A subtle reference to Area 51? Could connect to the audrey abducted by aliens theory. Or at least connected to Doug Milford (Dougie Milford?!?!?) from TSHOTP and the project blue book work he was involved with in the 50s.
2. The father (Mr. C) killing the son (Richard) scene really had some deep biblical Abraham and Isaac resonance for me. That was heavy and just awful. Not that he was doing it because god asked him to but still a sacrifice nonetheless.
3. Diane as a Tulpa. Wow. Did not see that coming. Once she was in the red waiting room, sitting in that extremely nice chair, the smoke started coming out of her and it really looked like the black fire that Hawk mentioned on his map. What is that black smoke/fire I wonder, and what is the gold "seed"? Is the black smoke a representation of bad karma and the gold seed the "Buddha Mind"? Forgive the very specific reference but as Lynch is a meditation practitioner, I wonder if that's relevant. This is something that's discussed a lot in Buddhist commentary, particularly in Tibetan traditions. Sort of a concentration of the "seed of enlightenment" that exist in all sentient beings and the key to escaping from the endless wheel of birth death and rebirth in the illusory world of samsara? Now that cooper is "woke" as F, maybe he is then like a "bodhissatva" who can consciously reincarnate back into the world and remember his past lives in order to help liberate all sentient beings from suffering? (See shantideva's 700ad text: way of the boddhisattva)
4. The scarab beetle on the screen in the casino seemed noteworthy, an earlier post comments on this. I wonder if the symbology of the scarab beetle, which seems to be in front of a dimly visible pyramid, is in some way another representation of a culture obsessed with death and reincarnation, described in the Egyptian book of the Dead...a book that was included in the coffin of the mummified Pharoahs to guide them through the afterworld. The scarabs were often made with the same green stone that the Lodge ring is made from. The scarab beetles were seen as a representation of transformation and resurrection:
Quoting from Wikipedia:
"Beetles of the Scarabaeidae family (dung beetle) roll dung into a ball as food and as a brood chamber in which to lay eggs; this way, the larvae hatch and are immediately surrounded by food. For these reasons the scarab was seen as a symbol of this heavenly cycle and of the idea of rebirth or regeneration. The Egyptian god Khepri, Ra as the rising sun, was often depicted as a scarab beetle or as a scarab beetle-headed man. The ancient Egyptians believed that Khepri renewed the sun every day before rolling it above the horizon, then carried it through the other world after sunset, only to renew it, again, the next day."
Just speculating here, but the idea of the eqyptian gods rolling orbs across the sky seems oddly similar to the fireman and senorita dido sending out the golden Laura Orb to earth, not to mention the BOB orb in the shadow world coming out of the Mother/Experiment.
It's all very exciting. I'm going to start crying when this season is over.