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The name "parabola" is derived from a New Latin term that means something similar to "compare" or "balance".
Directed by Adam Jones and, like other Tool videos, includes several abstract scenes (which can be seen on the single art). These include humanoids meeting and cutting pomaceous fruit, then vomiting a black liquid in a circle. Another scene features interactions between a small stop-motion creature and a human (played by English musician Tricky). The small creature calls out to the man for help but is crushed by a large conglomeration of spheres. The man dissects the creature's body, then wanders into a forest and encounters a leaf that turns into a flaming eye.
The man then sees himself as transparent, with all the internal functions of his body visible. Two flaming eyes appear and begin to fly around his body. As the eyes glide about, lotus flowers symbolizing the "Chakras", begin to line up in the center of his body. The two flaming eyes then join together on his forehead to form a "third eye" and the man is assimilated into an endless, glowing pattern. The whole sequence could be a visual presentation of a mystical experience called "Kundalini awakening," in which a mystical energy or force called Kundalini rises through two intertwined channels within the body. The glowing pattern at the end would present an experience of "oneness," an idea referenced in the lyrics of the song "Reflection" from the same album ("And you will come to find that we are all one mind").
Painter Alex Grey created the design and was deeply involved in the animation from the beginning of the flaming eye sequence through to the end of the video.
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-Parabol-
So familiar and overwhelmingly warm. This one, this form, I hold now.
Embracing you, this reality here. This one, this form, I hold now.
So wide eyed and hopeful. Wide eyed and hopefully wild.
We barely remember what came before this precious moment.
Choosing to be here right now. Hold on, stay inside.
This body holding me reminding me that I am not alone in this body.
Makes me feel eternal. All this pain is an illusion.
-Parabola-
We barely remember who or what came before this precious moment.
We are choosing to be here right now. Hold on, stay inside this holy reality.
This holy experience.
Choosing to be here in this body. This body holding me.
Be my reminder here that I am not alone in this body.
This body holding me. Feeling eternal all this pain is an illusion.
Alive.
In this holy reality. In this holy experience.
Choosing to be here in this body. This body holding me.
Be my reminder here that I am not alone in this body, this body holding me. Feeling eternal all this pain is an illusion.
Twirling round with this familiar parable.
Spinning, waving around each new experience.
Recognize this as a holy gift and celebrate this chance to be alive and breathing.
A chance to be alive and breathing.
This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality.
Embrace this moment, remember we are eternal, all this pain is an illusion.
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God this is fucking disturbing
colffenstein 11 months ago 11
This video made my day! Oh and my life I guess...
HylianGuard 8 months ago 4