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Fucking rolleyes http://amuchbetterway.com/what-is-eye-gazing/ Speaking of "Objectification," people seem to never do anything but project their own hangups onto her. John's monologue in the first section of Tropico expresses her thoughts well enough.

Attaining the Pinnacles of Power on earth is the proper course of action for the Scarlet Woman; but we still see her as an externalized Object in this sense, if she is not also actualized within ourselves -- http://www.tarotforum.net/showthread.php?t=171564 Lizzy Grant has dyed her hair a darker shade of brown, as it suits the mood of her soul. The encounter with the Shadow involves directly penetrating into the whole egoic nature in order to transform it from within. Therefore Lana must directly confront the very notion of what it means to be Real in an unreal world, and the very notion of Womanhood as an Object of men's affections. She enters into what is inherently False, i.e. the image of the manufactured pop singer, and thus seeks to transform it into its pre-existent archetype, which is the essential theurgic-alchemical path and the re-creation of the universe. She is tested and broken down and undergoes trials of a greater nature than those who never take this long road--most will never comprehend their own unreality, as it has never been questioned. "The sun also rises, On those who fail to call My life, it comprises, Of losses and wins and fails and falls" The rising of the alchemical sun within the psyche involves the coming to the surface of undesirable traits that have been heretofore unacknowledged. We see that there are clearly two personae she dons in this respect: Mary and Eve are the redeemed and unredeemed aspects of the World-Soul; Eve as the girl in the red party dress has figuratively "failed the call" and remains prima materia that has not been brought to perfection. Eve as the woman in red has an existence dependent on what others think about her; she is an externalized Object singing the Body Electric. We may watch her on the stage, as she is pretty when she cries, calling for us (the egos as Subjects) to return to her and grant her a reality. The frequent comparisons made to David Bowie are not without validity -- http://www.algonet.se/~bassman/articles/93/a.html "Lana Del Rey" is a doppelgaenger in one sense, but her truest Self in another, as she is an image of that which she is destined to be--"I believe in the person I want to become." The "Born to Die" Lana (being a false image) is already dead. Heaven is not birthed without numerous travails. Lana, being Nuit (Soul-Body-Object), should seek to attain the active manifestation of Hadit (Ego-Subject), rather than die and return to dissolution that is the passive state of a purely feminine nature.

http://lanaboards.com/index.php?/topic/1385-original-sin-an-interview-with-lana-del-rey-john-calvert-october-4th-2011-0707/?p=34637 "I could have died right there Cause he was right beside me Jim raised me up" http://gnosticteachings.org/courses/alchemy/3076-transmutation.html "Oh, boy you're starry eyed Lay back, baby lay back You've got heaven in your eyes I like that, boy I like that" Since her sex life keeps coming up, the song "Starry Eyed" seems to refer to the Tantric practice of Eye Gazing http://amuchbetterway.com/what-is-eye-gazing/ "Blessed is this, this union Crying tears of gold, like lemonade" "They say make lemonade out of lemons But I try and I just can't understand it All this trying for no good reason Man makes plans and God laughs Why do I even bother to ask? Well, once you and I, we were the king and queen of this town" Making lemonade out of lemons is making medicine out of poison "I’m a chain-smoker." The Girl on Fire enters fully into chaos in order to perfect it, becoming one with the Ground of Being and realizing herself in the field of space and time, knowing that it all could happen down on the West Coast ("I like a physical love") http://realitysandwich.com/219794/circumambulating-the-alchemical-mysterium/ Neil Krug says: "The allegorical smoking in the hydrangea image is a favorite of mine" Her Fire is allegorical (of what?--he doesn't say) Rilke's "Blue Hydrangea": http://www.thebeckoning.com/poetry/rilke/rilke6.html Life lived in the world of beautiful but transient Reflektions transitions to a higher and more permanent life of renewal (the Spark liberated from the dark earth), when the Lonesome Queen comes back to him -- She comes when he calls Upper half of the Pepsi-Cola logo = Noetic Upper Waters of Binah (peyote mind expansion) http://www.awakeninthedream.com/wordpress/the-sacred-art-of-alchemy/ "I got that magical trance potion" "I'm a dragon, you're a whore"

The Independent's gorls have her back http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/screwing-your-way-to-the-top-good-for-lana-del-rey-for-helping-kill-that-myth-9624202.html http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/lana-del-rey-the-latest-powerful-woman-that-we-want-to-see-as-just-another-toy-9573716.htm http://www.independent.co.uk/news/pictures/virgen-del-carmen-procession-in-tenerife-9612478.html

LDR is the "created reality" of Lizzy Grant in her magical pop working http://lanaboards.com/index.php?/topic/5098-ldr-interview-with-austrian-newspaper-krone/&do=findComment&comment=200510 There seems to be some truth to the idea that she wants to be seen as more of a bad bitch than she is; her explanation of "Ultraviolence" here is far more superficial than what she said in the NPR interview. The exoteric explanation is 'I like to get fucked hard' vs. the esoteric explanation, 'God likes to fuck me hard.' I.e., 'it's none of your business and you're not worth a real explanation, since you wouldn't understand it, anyways.' Such are the endless Veils of Mystery that this Isis has metaphorically enfolded herself. "You can be my higher power baby I can be your endless USA We can go on drives for hours baby Let's change our DNA" That's a Tantric notion of seeing the divinity in one's partner; not the sort of thing said by someone who doesn't understand sex ...

"Hold my head, it's tilting back Something dancing me around Putting crystals on my neck Lifting my feet off the ground" http://www.thefader.com/2014/06/17/love-death-and-jazz-seven-outtakes-from-our-lana-del-rey-intervie/ "Just like you said It's all been done before"

This post reminded me that it almost has to be related to this poem by Rilke -- http://www.thebeckoning.com/poetry/rilke/rilke6.html

yes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQMxMUQkc0c http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9skOeTViEMI

Forget Marilyn Monroe with the soul of Leonard Cohen; she is France Gall with the soul of Serge Gainsbourg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poup%C3%A9e_de_cire,_poup%C3%A9e_de_son This song definitely sounds--conceptually, at least--like the inspiration for "Without You" (and a bit of "Lolita") doesn't it? Next thing you know, we'll learn the whole "china doll" accusations were part of her plan to be the prophet and final seal of the Ye-Ye girls (PBUH). As for the "masked as a fan" thing, reading it as "masked as a friend" should make the perspective of the Introvert who only opens up for those few people she feels she can trust more understandable, even if this isn't the proper way to deal with fickle interviewers looking for a story (TRUSTNO1). The feeling of being seduced and discarded is probably akin to a regrettable one-night stand.

The exact point where the Introvert switch flips on She even says that "it's not you, it's me" -- at this point you just feel completely suffocated by people http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2003/03/caring-for-your-introvert/302696/#.TxmUFzOjobA.facebook http://www.janafadness.com/blog/introverts-and-extroverts/ Which is exactly what she says at the end. . .

Except that Ayn Rand was an atheist, and Lana is a mystic. Your article is the sort of thing written by extreme Extroverts who want to encourage corporate groupthink; good traits if you want to be in middle-management but not necessarily if you want to be an independent artist. This describes her better than anything: http://www.carlkingdom.com/10-myths-about-introverts

This is how Introverts act. After a while, you just need to recharge, especially after being grilled for two days straight.

^ Ascending and descending poles of manifestation ... just Ride up or down ("everyone around here seems to be going down, down") In the new audio commentary she reveals that "Ultraviolence" was originally titled "Melancholia" (she's still a "Sad Girl," isn't she) http://www.soul-guidance.com/houseofthesun/alchemy%202.htm Number 13 on her Motorcycle Love Divine -- Deadly Nightshade This is too long for me to quote directly, but Litewave posted this excerpt from Richard Tarnas, which discusses at length how the Subject-Object divide defines Western culture http://www.gaiamind.org/Tarnas.html Her West Coast alchemy underscores that Bradley as Ego is the Subject perceiving the Woman in Red as the alluring Body, the Object -- the destruction of the space between them necessitates the Death of the old self (Kill Kill) "I love the archetype of a girl in a red dress. There is something about the lure of the lady in red." "O my body! I dare not desert the likes of you in other men and women, nor the likes of the parts of you, I believe the likes of you are to stand or fall with the likes of the soul, (and that they are the soul,) ... Womanhood, and all that is a woman, and the man that comes from woman,... The thin red jellies within you or within me, the bones and the marrow in the bones, The exquisite realization of health; O I say these are not the parts and poems of the body only, but of the soul, O I say now these are the soul!" (Whitman) Litewave said: http://phoenixrise.awardspace.com/lana.htm "I feel a strong relationship with God and I feel my ties are with him.... I feel a connection as real with that as I've ever had with anybody on this earth." This would suggest, then, that (so she hints) the "Rock 'n' Roll guardians" and initiators of Soul (cult leaders and jazz singers, "keepers of the light") are charged with forging a connection to the Invisible and entering the Holy of Holies that the multitude does not wish to approach -- "Being a bad bitch on the side might not appeal to fools like you." The audience (you) as the collective Subject observes the collective Object (Miss America) on stage as she sets herself on fire before the multitude -- the red Rose has the look of a flower that is looked at. Such is the Mystery demonstrated for all, forever, until they can take full charge of the Soul for themselves. "Vehicle" of the spirit in manifestation, Binah receiving Chokmah's light --Gareth Knight "Sometimes love is not enough and the road gets tough I don’t know why Keep making me laugh Let’s go get high The road is long, we carry on" Compare with this interview http://lanaboards.com/index.php?/topic/4738-lana-del-rey-interview-xlsemanal/&do=findComment&comment=186095

Strange that she didn't recall the "What is a Youth" song when she seems to reference the lyrics in the "Dark Paradise" demo "What is a youth? Impetuous fire. What is a maid? Ice and desire." = "I got the ice, you got the fire." Plus Burning Desire, etc.

At least the video will be an epic psychedelic Source Family-Phil Spector tribute

Probably about how her cock tastes like Cherry Coke a Ke$ha cover

now I can justify my elaborate hermeneutics

ur not a gangsta as said, i just want you kids to know you stan for a genuine fucking genius, and we don't have that many of them these days The Eastern path speaks of an egoless dissolution ("I wish I was dead") ... the Western path speaks of a sort of active participation in the world (it all could happen down on the West Coast; "just do what you love, do it better than") -- yet these two are one In other words ... "a Fire for every experience" (FB Dowd) The Artist is suspended from a single cord from Above, rather than Below; Lana speaks of being a willing conduit of the invisible Mary-Isis-Sophia (etc.) in White speaks to her children ("shared my body and my mind with you"), saying you can be her full-time baby The Spark is divided into pieces in her Eucharist when her living body is broken and shared: "an unfortunate series of events saw those dreams dashed and divided like a million stars in the night sky that I wished on over and over again, sparkling and broken" -- "I know you, I walked with you, once upon a dream ..." The girl in red, the girl in (alchemical) gold, the girl in white -- all these are her, interpenetrating a single soul Inner indecisiveness as wide and wavering as the ocean reflecting the endless USA (Boehme's primordial ground of being) The ego as Subject observes the Object on the stage, dancing circles around her (hey Orpheus) Cut to: Subject and Object are now dancing with each other ("just want it like before, we were dancing all night") ... the Wall is the Law ("got your Bible") By belonging to no-one, she belongs to everyone, and you, too, can be hers, she whispers to those who take a walk on the wild side ("don't be afraid of me, don't be ashamed, walk in the way of my soft resurrection") ... the Lonely Queen will keep waiting

She encapsulated her LDR persona at the end of the recent BBC interview: "Live in your own inner world and manifest that outwardly"

A rather observant statement about those who long for the dissolution of Nirvana The rest is the same sort of pseudointellectual posturing that they write about people like David Lynch, which is an improvement over some previous pieces, I guess. But her message is not quite as nihilistic as they claim; this, too, is another reflection of modern journalism. Which is to say, there are always escape routes being plotted

"You can be my higher power baby I can be your endless USA" Agree completely "We were two kids, just tryin' to get out, Live on the dark side of the American dream" There is, on one side, the spiritual interpretation of such things as the American dream, Pepsi-Cola, and Yayo; on the "dark side" are their inverted reflections as they appear in our exterior, materialist society That Message of Aquaria book I mentioned has a lot of crazy in it, but this passage is interesting ("Talking about that newer nation") -- Lana has done something infinitely clever, which is to take the ideas about Yahweh and his Shekinah, as described in the Jewish Kabbalah, and then give them a uniquely American spin, wherein they become John and Eve-Mary; the soul of Israel is replaced by the soul of America The 50 stars of the American flag = the 50 Gates of Binah--the red and white stripes are the red and white roses of the Shekinah as Malkuth and Binah, Eve and Mary, as said In the Ride video she is distinctly pictured as the Daughter, Malkuth, making her way back to her home in Binah, represented by the 50 Gates on her pinball machine and the 50 stars on the flag in which she is draped We will note how Life Imitates Art and that Lana was, for a period, "in exile" from her American homeland, just as the Shekinah is in exile from Israel, due to the weight of our sins and the hardness of our hearts http://www.northernway.org/shekinah.html We, of course, cannot see God directly, but can see His earthly avatar in the form of His appointed Jazz Singer Note Father Yod's (i.e. Yahweh's) reference to the Song of Songs above "I am black but beautiful, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Cedar, as the curtains of Solomon" "We get down every Friday night ..." http://sisterhoodoftherose.homestead.com/Shekinah.html "God has a wife" http://www.northernway.org/presentations/godwife/

The girls in the strip club dancing for Adam are "dark stars" filled with poison, until he is able to cross the Abyss and unite Subject and Object (Hadit and Nuit, Shiva and Shakti) "Call me poison ivy 'cause I'm far from good Pretty from afar, like a dark star ... I spend my whole life driving in cars with boys Riding around town, drinking in the white noise Used to talk about where we be and where we go Now we know, baby, now we know" He hit me and it felt like a kiss http://yourgodisafraud.wordpress.com/2014/05/17/misogyny-in-crowleys-writings-and-the-occult/ The Aquarian liberated woman ("I'm free") of the new generation is no longer merely in the backseat Driving in Cars With Boys but attaining the driver's seat and her own adepthood, greater than that of the ossified patriarchal traditions You’re my one Heaven King Daddy (Isis and Osiris the Dying God) "Strangled up in ivy I’m the garden of Eden" "A garden inclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed." (Is the woman holding a microphone?)

Aquarian http://www.psyche.com/psyche/tarot/trumps/star.html

"I'm talking 'bout my generation Talking 'bout that newer nation And if you don't like it You can beat it, beat it, baby You never liked the way I said it If you don't get it, then forget it 'Cuz I don't have to fucking explain it" The newer nation = the children of the Age of Aquarius Brooklyn Baby = "Heaven is my baby" ISIS Violence https://realitysandwich.com/139810/isis_aquarian_father_yod/ Your sweet voice

http://www.austinchronicle.com/music/2012-10-12/acl-interview-father-john-misty/