TOOL'S "LATERALUS" FIBONACCI SEQUENCE

[Ecrogue]

Thank you! Ill never listen to this album in its original order again! Awsome just awsome!

[36Studebaker]

errr...still scratching my head...too many drugs in my youth....this would likely overtax my poor noodle if i actually would try to comprehend this concept of fibonacci-spiral-whatever they've inserted into their playlist so i'll stick with enjoying their music on my far shallower and primitive level hehe....it's still great music even on the uninformed instinctual level... };->

[jwes421]

"The mystic spiral is created by the ratios of the square roots of 2 and 3. The difference between the ratios of the square root of 3 to the square root of 2 approaches the square root of 5... the difference found oscillates above and below the square root of five. ...This creates a spiral with a radius that increases geometrically and a radial angle that increases arithmetically.. This pattern also leads into the mathematics of harmonics, the musical scale and sound waves...and multidimensional

[jwes421]

@jwes421 SOURCE:

THE ENOCHIAN WATCHTOWERS

An Analysis of the Documentation and Mathematics

By Dana Marie Tringo

Copyrighted 1999

[ELEMENTALMUZ]

@samwelljacks on this video/audio excerpt is the actual call from an Art Bell radio show at 4:49 on FAAIP DE OIAD!!!!!!!!!! Tool know what is really going on in this world and are in touch with more than meets the eyes!!!

[jt33az]

I would like to get a whole cd of this with the blended songs

[DahPurpleHippo]

I put the songs in the correct order :D

[destruct26]

@Ben74428: Tool has a myriad of ways of making thier fans think. In this case, it's literally outside the box. Within the title song, Lateralus, they use a mathematic code called Fibonacci, which in turn with its' lyrics, tell you to push boundaries of possibilities. This formula creates a spiral, which switches around the original tracklisting to a new tracklisting where the beginnings and ends of each song line up, creating a new way to hear the album. Push the envelope, spiral out.

[ELEMENTALMUZ]

@Ben74428 this is absolutely amazing and really makes us think of music in higher dimensions and of more importance!

[ThatsTotallyHim]

Your spiral is interesting. I find it more than merely coincidental that the spiral would jump from Lateralus (#9) to Faaip de Oiad (#13). I don't think it's random. The entire mantra throughout the cd has been to not only find spirituality, but the cohesion between body and mind. "Faaip de Oiad", or "The voice of God" in Enochian language, is where the spiral begins to collapse on itself. From that point on the spiral is a mirror, or perhaps indicating mind, spirit, and body have become one.

[Ben74428]

like ican see that theres smtn wicked goin on with this video and their musiic. but can u tell me what ur tryin 2 show or prove by this video? bc im kinda confused

[destruct26]

@samwelljackson: another example: Instead of having one after the other, i played around to realize MANTRA fit perfectly into the beginning of LATERALUS before the main riff started. Same for EON BLUE APOCALYPSE & DISPOSITION. The static from the guitar at the tail end of LATERALUS lines up with the static in the beginning of FAAIP DE OIAD. Just play around and you'll make the connections in order to figure out the times.

[proletariat239]

@destruct26 they all fit, its the fibonacci at play.

Swing on the spiral./

[TheSoYa]

@destruct26 Glad to see someone besides me sees it that way.

[destruct26]

@samwelljackson: well, its hard to say based on the fact that a) there are a couple versions of the holy gift out there so the track order is a little different each time, and b) it all depends on how eaich track ends to connect it to the next starting track. For example, the last four guitar plucks in PARABOLA line up with the first four in SCHISM. So what do you do? Line them up over each other? Keep them in tempo one after the other to make eight guitar plucks? Its all up to you.

[Adam88s]

For those who haven't already. I urge you to download the full version of Lateralus - The Holy Gift that destruct26 made. Last night as I listened to it in its entirety for the first time in its proper order the way it's meant to be I realised something very special about this album that's hidden in the lyrics. It tells you in a special way that this indeed is the right way it should be played.

[Distrepolo]

i.e. Crazy shit brah

[nyldrvr1967]

i dont get it

[daylatedollashort]

damn thats fucking sick as hell. Lateralus's main theme of the song is to not think of things in a straight line and to instead of think of things in a spiral. TOOL is the smartest, greatest band in the world

[TheLastonetoLive]

you

Broke

the rules

Your sir are

A genius

:)

[makakias1]

THEY ARE JUST MISTIRIOUS AMAZING AND THE BEST FUCKIN BAND EVER SUCH CLEVERNESS SUCH DETAIL SUCH GOOD MUSIC AND SUCH A GOOD MEANING THROUGH ALL THESE I MEAN I CANT TAKE THEM OUT OF MY HEAD

[destruct26]

@MRshotgun1100: That's the burning question wheen comes to TooL, now isn't? I would like to think that they kinda practice what they preach when comes to thier music, and how they want thier listeners to think for themselves. They ARE delibrate, just to what extent?

[MRshotgun1100]

question- did TOOL plan this, or was it an amasing mistake?

[destruct26]

yeaaaa this fucker finally reached 10,000 views lol

[dire5]

@destruct26 I feel honored I get to be "Like" number 42 (hoping you're the kind of person who gets that reference :)

Nice analysis/vid!

[destruct26]

[ this is the link to my full version of tool lateralus spiral 2] .com/?d=FE8LBHO7

ENJOY PEOPLE :) by the way its at mega upload. put that before the dot com above ;)

[destruct26]

@Shad0wz69: Good call. Will try to get it up on megaupload asap.

[Shad0wz69]

You have to release this version of this album. I wanna hear how it sounds all together

[destruct26]

yes i will have to post where i got all this from, the source explains the second spiral you hear in my video

[eGoXiLLuSTRo]

I have heard spiral 1 pattern hundreds of times. What a difference to hear it with a new pattern

[destruct26]

@lleightequalsdll- dude i wouldnt be surprised lol

[samwelljackson]

@destruct26 I'm trying to edit my own version of the holy gift because I want it to be as high quality as possible. Do you know what time I should cut off each song?

[lleightequalsdll]

i may be mistaken, but is it coincidental that 'ticks & leeches' transitions into mantra--"i hope you choke" and 'mantra' being maynard's cat being squeezed?

[destruct26]

Part 6:

@GodLovesToolFans:

8. You had the brass balls to type this on september 11th? YOU FUCKING SADIST!! I wish you had been there 9 years ago, and had been the ONLY person there to have two planes and buildings shoved straight up your ass.

9. In i didnt say it earlier, go fuck your mother, dipshit.

10. What am i saying, you already have. Or more accurately, your daddy.

11. LOL, J/K HAHAHA!! :D Thanks for your opinion, sir. It was very insightful, cant wait to do it again. :D

[destruct26]

Part 5:

@GodHatesMeButNotMommy:

And no profile avatar, eh?? Awww. Youre probably butt fuckin, ugly, huh? Shit, sorry man. But mommy still tells you youre pretty when shes dusting your adult ass with talcum. Or you are attractive but mommy is strict and tells you your ugly and you go near girls or think naughty thoughts or she'll cut your pee-pee off. Dont listen to Tool, Bobby, theyre gay and evil and nothing like or Christian rock band. MOMMY WILL SNIP YOUR DIRTY SPOT OFF!!

[destruct26]

Part 4:

@GodHatesPortugal:

7. Let's take a GOOOOD fuckin look at you. Your screen name implies 'God Hates' and Portugal. I thought God loved everybody. Hmmph. I hope somebody from Portugal fists you with a chainsaw one day. Your account says you have no playlists, favorites, or videos. So that means you contribute NOTHING but your own meaningless garble, because your mommy told you were special. Youre not. Youre shit with a mouth.

[destruct26]

Part 3:

@GodHatesPortugal:

4. Maynard didnt make all these 'shitty' songs, the whole band did, EQUALLY. So blame Tool, for being shitty, Mr-I-Have-An-Opinion-But-Dont-­Have-An-Ounce-Of-Correct-Infor­mation-Repressed-Anger-Pants.

5. Fans are gullable idiots. Sooooooooooooo youre telling us what we are, huh? Do you know us personally? Hmmmmmm. Nope. Im gonna need a new page for this one.

[destruct26]

Part 2:

@GodHatesPortugal:

3. Hmmm. Its your opinion that the song is shitty and the band is pretentious. But cocksuckers? Do they REALLY? Who cares if like penis, thats really childish and very repressive of you. If i may ask, are you a christian conservative? That would explain ALOT. OR youre a closet case homosexual who brags to his friends that he gets massive pussy every nite, and jacks off to honcho boys during 'alone time' Not that theres anything wrong with that, of course.

[destruct26]

Part 1:

@GodHatesPortugal:

Wow, I dont know where to begin, but Im excited! Okay:

1. They put the fibonacci code in the song, to make a point about opening up your mind to other possibilities and to think out side the box or push the envelope. Maybe even to be pretentious, idiotic, gullable cocksucker.

2. Putting numbers from the phone book would have defeated the message they were conveying, ''WE, 'TOOL' WANT YOUR MONEY, FUCK MAKING GREAT MUSIC.''

[Ventus2938]

@GodHatesPortugal

You seem to be one of those people that don't understand the complexity of putting the Fibonacci sequence into a song. Please try and not be such a dumb fuck next time and have the decency to respect art as it is, you piece of shit.

[GodHatesPortugal]

Wow Maynard put the first few numbers of the Fibonacci sequence into the number of syllables in this shitty song. IT'S JUST A BUNCH OF FUCKING NUMBERS! Seriously, he could have used numbers from the phone book and it would have been pretty much the same thing. Tool has proved once again that they are a bunch of pretentious cocksuckers, Maynard's "songs" are shit, and their fans are all gullible idiots

[s0undchecker]

@GodHatesPortugal Who can possibly be more gullible than a religious cock sucking cunt like you?

I am not defending Tool. I'm just pointing out something that's more than obvious to every one but you - your stupidity.

Pode ser que um dia te vejas como és, mentecapto atravancado do caralho.

[destruct26]

Part Seven: The path of enlightenment can only be discovered by taking the steps to walk it, to free your mind and do things differently, to think for yourself. Evolution of the body and the mind and the soul. TooL. I hope this has been helpful.

[destruct26]

@toolluver1996/all those confused as well ;) -Part Six: The whole point comes back to the message inside Lateralus & some keys in the others. ''Ride the Spiral to the end & may just go where no ones been'' ''Put the pieces back together, rediscover communication'' The function of the thing is to use your mind, think beyond your means and expand your horizons of knowledge, to not be stuck thinking just ONE way.

[destruct26]

@toolluvr1996 -Part Five: The tracklisting for the original Spiral or Spiral One is: 6,7,5,8,4,9,3,10,2,11,1,12,13. Spiral Two, unaltered this is, would be: 6,7,5,8,4,9,13,1,12,2,3,10. The video above contains Spiral Two with 4 alterations: I made Parabol and Parabola one track. Mantra is combined with its following track, Lateralus, as Eon Blue Apocalypse is with its follower, Reflection. The fourth is that Dispostion loops back to Parabol/a.

[eGoXiLLuSTRo]

@destruct26 you skipped the place of song 11

[destruct26]

@toolluvr1996 -Part Four: Mantra follows, but doesnt really signify much of a connection to Ticks & Leeches, until you layer it over the track that's next on the spiral: Lateralus. It sounds as if it wasnt meant to be there until it fades out and Lateralus explodes in. At this point, the whisping electronic sounds fade out into the same types of sounds from Faaip de Oiad. The spiral listing above is spiral 2, not the original spiral.

[destruct26]

@toolluvr1996 -Part Three: For example, we start with Parabol, and then Parabola, (which dont need to be seperated, considering they are both one long song), and then around to Schism. The last four guitar plucks of Parabola match then tempo of the first four of Schism. The time signatures of the last few drum beats of Schism line up with the opening drum beats of Ticks & Leeches.

[destruct26]

@toolluvr1996 -Part Two: When you apply the fibbonacci code to graph paper, it forms a continuing outward spiral. The purpose is shown on the video i made starting with the original tracklisting to Lateralus. When the spiral is applied to the center of the tracks, starting with parabol, then parabola, you continue the spiral around and out (''spiral out, keep goin'') and the end result is a new tracklisting, where the end of one song lines up to beginningh of the next track in similar ways.

[destruct26]

@toolluvr1996 -Part One: i understand it may be a bit confusing. Let me try to decipher it for you- The message of the album is about thinking outside the box, pushing the envelope, etc. The song 'Lateralus' contains the fibonacci code within the syllabals of the lyrics, etc.

[toolluvr1996]

omg i dont get it at all

[KyleRayKeith]

Glad to have been alive when we are graced with such Genius and power...wow..so much more than just Musick...Puscifer is cool but Bring back TOOL!

[Itz6ot]

two things im going to say.the one i doubt youll believe me....

One first thanks for posting this it diffenetly opens up thoughts i already had....

Two when i made a back up cd after buying this album i messed up the order of the tracks while setting it up and they Burned in this order i shit you not........

[Lateralus2468]

You should apply the sprial to this set list, and then the next one, and the next one, untill your back to the original.

[ratreh2]

pretty cool. i always thought disposition would be the perfect ending for the album

[destruct26]

Actually, most of them do match up, you just dont know what youre talking about or not listening correctly.

[msmacisgay]

its a cool idea but absolutely none of the songs matched at all, not even close

[destruct26]

;) no problem dude

[hipgnosys]

aren't these guys (tool) geniuses.. i mean.. just from their band name...to this song.... they really are providing their words and music as a tool for us to attain some stage of altered enlightenment!! unfortunately i am too bi-dimensional to decipher their work and therefore must look towards people like you to help me understand them better.. so thank you :)

[iluv2sniffspeakers]

What a retarded and pointless case you have

[Flasher78]

No, the real geniuses are Tool... Being the ones who wrote the song in the first place you dickhead

[destruct26]

monistat 7, dude. it gets the itch out of my vagina every time

[davidj15]

The puzzle revealed that pizzas make my vagina itch.

[destruct26]

on the contrary; not enough ;)

[WarPigz0]

I think some ppl on this page have done to much acid :]

[rubiksproductions33]

people over think things in this world. sometimes for the better, and some times for the worse. you sir and all the other people who discovered this are geniuses

[destruct26]

Heh.

[0hmprakash]

"A circle is the reflection of eternity. It has no beginning and it has no end - and if you put several circles over each other, then you get a spiral."

-Maynard J. Keenan

;)

[NamelessUsers]

Ohmprakash, that is the best explanation for the understanding that I have been evolving since I have become aware in 2001 when I feel "we" as a whole went through a great change in consciousness. I understand things but I have no one to discuss them with. I usually just keep my mouth shut to keep from drawing undesired attention.

[amazinero]

It's all good. 2001, that's when the big change in the availablility of energy became vividly obvious to me, too. Lots has happened since then, but nothing unordinary--just enhanced realization of the everyday things, if that makes sense. Nothing is mundane anymore. It's all meaningful and bright. Even the things that I don't really like, I can accept as a part of the energy that grants us enhanced conscious realization of it all. I, too, don't have many people to discuss this with, PEACE.

[bohemianjewel]

To tell you the truth, about 2 months ago I gained a little more enlightenment. I actually ascended once more to a higher plane. Originally, I thought I broke something but actually after reflecting for a moment I was blown away by my revelation. I pulled my moment out of my understanding and aplied it immediately to my current perceived reality. For a brief moment I was able to anticipate the next few minor events in my life.

Ok, I give horrible explanation for my reasoning. My bad! ;-)

[MrPoptarts420]

u just like extracted what i couldnt say for myself from my mind.thats nuckin futs haha

[Flasher78]

I'm having that :p

[0hmprakash]

"Perhaps I can explain it by asking you to image seven of the circles, which would give you the forty-nine levels. The first three levels are physical matter as you know physical matter. They are your plants, your animals, your humans. The fourth circle is your bridge, your realm, your center for that overall plane. It is the time in which a consciousness can choose whether to go back into the lower levels or to transcend into the higher levels,"

[0hmprakash]

"and many consciousnesses do choose to go back into the lower levels in physical form. The upper three circles are the realm that in your consciousness is called the spiritual realm, and here much of the work is done. I could not help someone who was not on the eighteenth level very much because my plane, my vibrational rate would be different. This is why it is hard for me to help you with specific problems."

[0hmprakash]

"I can give you ideas, but I cannot give you the direct guidance I could if you were on level eighteen. Our planes do touch since yours is an ascending spiral—an ascending, what is your word for that? It is an ellipse. It is an ascending ellipse, and therefore I can cross and communicate with you, but not as directly. Once I reach level forty-nine, which I will, I then leave all of this realm of existence"

[0hmprakash]

"It does not mean I have reached the highest point by any means. It simply means I have left this group of seven, this overall group of seven. Imagine, if you will, the seven circles enclosed in an even larger circle upon which seven more circles are stacked, which is in turn enclosed in even a greater circle. Then you can have some idea of what infinity is. It does not ever stop."

-Far Journeys, Robert Monroe

[suavesosa]

@0hmprakash far out!

[bjrnrkssn]

good work

[4elinquished]

Nice job. xD