its tracks. I made the
I can make myself invisible or small.
farthest things. I can change
the course of nature.
space or time.
I can summon the dead.
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James 'Jim' Morrison remains lesser known for His Poetry than for His wild Pop-Star 'Persona'.
A little serious Study of Mr Morrison's Poetic Self -Expression can perhaps shine a 'Light' on The Creative Process of One of America's Finest Musicians.
A Young Jim and His band 'The Doors'[of Consciousness]...namedafter Huxley's 'Doors of Perception'..[ie drug experience/mushroom LSD etc] was heavily influenced by His Father.
[kinda goes without saying!] His Father was involved in the 'Psyche-Warfare' Program of the US Military along with notable [and honourable] Service in SE Asia.
[SEE WEB 'MONARCH' PROGRAMMING'ETC..]
Jim wanted to 'Break on through to the other side' ie 'expand' Consciousness.
There are many Sites ..that explore His AcademicMusical Endeavours.
I would like to concentrate on His Poetry.
The Primary Clue to what is 'going on' in His Creative Mind is the Word 'Labyrinth'.
This Word shows up in many Artistic Creations Movies Mythology etc etc etc.
There are more than one literal explanation for it's Etymology Perhaps a little too.. complicated? to go into at this time.
But I make the Assumption That You will understand [at least in a Cursory Fashion] What I mean by 'Labyrinth'.
[ChannelsPassagewaysseemingly randomYet integral to the Design]
Mythology is full of Examples of 'Heroes' Who usually Descend rarely Ascend into the Labyrinth.
Psychologically speaking this 'Descent' this 'Going Down'[into THE EARTH] can indicate the Onset of 'Depression' [in extreme cases Psychosis or a Psychotic 'Episode'].
A 'DOWNER'is also an AMPHETAMINE 'trip' that produces negativity..
obviously an 'UPPER' has the opposing effect.
Line One 'I made the 'Blue Cars' go away.
Pretty Self- Explanatory? Blue is Universally accepted as being in a 'low' State of Mind? ..
BLUE ALSOIS A SYMBOL FOR 'THINKING'FUNCTION IN MANDALA'S ETC..
[MANDALA SYMBOLISM IS FOUND ACROSS THE WORLD....BY STUDYING INDIVIDUAL ETHNIC MANDALA'SA COMMON DESIGN EMERGES...MANDALA'S
ARE HEALING SYMBOLS..ACCORDING TO CARL JUNGFOR THEY' BALANCE'..THE PSYCHE/SOUL...THE LABYRINTH IS THE SELF.]
[Native American]
[Tibetan]
[AVOLOKITISVARA,BUDDHA, OF,INFINITE COMPASSION]
The term is of Sanskrit origin. It appears in the
Rig Veda as the name of the sections of the work, but is also used in other religions and philosophies, particularly Buddhism.
In various spiritual traditions, mandalas may be employed for focusing attention of practitioners and adepts, as a spiritual guidance tool, for establishing a
sacred space, and as an aid to
meditation and
trance induction.
In common use, mandala has become a generic term for any diagram, chart or geometric pattern that represents the
cosmosmetaphysically or symbolically; a
microcosm of the
universe.
[wikipedia]
[Hindu,Pic wikipedia]
Why 'Cars?' Well My Theory is that the Car becomes the 'Autocratic' or Controlling Symbol. We are now going to be Driven! ie Obsessed with the Unconscious Contents about to be exposed by the Poet!
[WE CAN ALSO SUBSTITUTE A PHONETIC EQUIVALENT 'KA' FOR EXAMPLE
IS A 'SPIRIT' IN EGYPTOLOGY....MONARCH IS A BUTTERFLY PSYCHE IS GREEK FOR BUTTERFLY..SEE WEB'MONARCH PROGRAMMING'..ETC..]
A More Modern -Variant?..Chasing Cars Snow Patrol.[SEE ;YOUTUBE]
Primarily We can see that Jim's Car is going to take all ofUs on a Personal Ride into His Ego.
[JIM THE 'BACKDOOR MAN'WAS UNCONSCIOUSLY EXPOSING HISDEEPEST MOST INNER THOUGHTS BY 'PROJECTING' ONTO EVERYDAY OBJECTS..MUCH LIKE VAN GOGH..PAINTING A CHAIR SEEMS MEANINGLESS -UNLESS YOU HAVE APRIORI KNOWLEDGE THAT A CHAIR IS A SYMBOL OF 'SELF'.
EDINGERTHE JUNGIAN ANALYST CITES 'CHAIR' AS BEING EQUAL TO 'CATHEDRA' [THE LATIN TRANSLATION] THEN EXPOUNDS ON THIS IDEA SPEAKING 'EX-CATHEDRA'#CHAIRMAN/WOMANETC..IT IS A MAN- MADE OBJECT THAT NOWTHANKSTOANDTHROUGH THE ARTISAN'S CRAFT...A KING OR QUEEN CAN BE 'ENTHRONED'.......
FREUD CALLED DREAMS THE 'ROYAL ROAD'...BUT ALL ROADS LEAD SOMEPLACE...
THIS METAPHOR IS VERY IMPORTANT DEPENDING ON THE CONTEXT/INQUIRY.]
He tried to tell Us this but maybe We missed the 'Blue[OMNI] Bus?' calling Us?
THE 'I' IS SEEN SEVEN TIMES IN THIS POEM.[INDICATIVE]
[ JIM WASPROBABLY A VICTIM OF HOMOSEXUAL RAPEIN SOME SORT OF 'INITIATION' CEREMONYAND WASUNABLE TO RECONCILE THIS TRAUMAWITHTHESUPPOSED'BENEFIT' OF GROUP/COVEN MEMBERSHIP.HENCE 'BACKDOORMAN'IS'STREET'FOR A PERSON WHOINDULGESINSODOMY.HISTORICALLYAN EXAMPLE IS.THE NAZISWHO ALSO TRIED TODESTROY PERSONAL IDENITY BY SHAVING HAIR ETCAND AFRICAN TRIBESMEN WHO WOULD SODOMIZE CAPTUREDPRISONERS ETC]
Moving away but not forgetting that the 'Blue Car' is the Autocratic Symbol for a moment Here is a little about the 'Protean Tower' Symbol that immediately follows.
'Proteus' has multifarious Symbolism. Wikipedia has a full explanation as have many other Reference Sites.
Proteus in literature and psychology
The German mystical alchemist
Heinrich Khunrath (1560–1605) wrote of the shape-changing sea-god who, because of his relationship to the sea, is both a symbol of the unconscious as well as the perfection of the art. Alluding to the
scintilla, the spark from ‘the light of nature’ and symbol of the
anima mundi", Khunrath in Gnostic vein stated of the Protean element Mercury
our Catholick Mercury, by virtue of his universal fiery spark of the light of nature, is beyond doubt Proteus, the sea god of the ancient pagan sages, who hath the key to the sea and …power over all things. Von Hyleanischen Chaos| in Carl Jung, vol. 14:50
The poet
John Milton was also aware of the association of Proteus with the Hermetic art of
alchemy. In
Paradise Lost (III.603–06) he wrote of the alchemists who sought the
philosopher's stone
- In vain, though by their powerful Art they bind
- Volatile Hermes, and call up unbound
- In various shapes old Proteus from the Sea,
- Drain'd through a Limbec to his native form.
In his discourse
The Garden of Cyrus (1658) Milton's contemporary Sir
Thomas Browne, pursuing the figure of the
quincunx, queried
Why Proteus in Homer the Symbole of the first matter, before he settled himself in the midst of his Sea-Monsters, doth place them out by fives?
Shakespeare uses the image of Proteus to establish the character of his great royal villain
Richard III in the play
Henry VI, Part Three, the prequel to his play
Richard III. In Act III, Scene ii, Richard (not yet the king), boasts:
- I can add colors to the chameleon,
- Change shapes with Proteus for advantages,
- And set the murderous Machiavel to school.
- Can I do this, and cannot get a crown?
- Tut, were it farther off, I'll pluck it down.
Shakespeare also names one of the main characters of his play
The Two Gentlemen of Verona Proteus. This character is inconstant in his affections. In the finale of the play when his deceptions have been unraveled and he is face to face with his friend Valentine and original love Julia, Proteus says:
- O Heaven, were man
- but constant, he were perfect: that one error
- fills him with faults; makes him run through all sins
- Inconstancy falls off, ere it begins.
In 1807
William Wordsworth finished his
sonnet on the theme of a modernity deadened to
Nature, which opens "
The world is too much with us", with a sense of nostalgia for the lost richness of a world numinous with deities:
-
-
- …I'd rather be
- A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn;
- So might I, standing on this pleasant lea,
- Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn;
- Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea.
- Or hear old Triton blow his wreathèd horn.[5]
In modern times the Swiss psychologist
Carl Jung defined the mythological figure of Proteus as a personification of the unconscious, who, because of his gift of prophecy and shape-changing has much in common with the central but elusive figure of alchemy,
Mercurius.
Proteus is the name of the submarine in the original story by Otto Klement and Jay Lewis Bixby that was made into a movie,
Fantastic Voyage, and a book by Isaac Asimov. Both came out in 1966.
The alien character of
Prot in the book trilogy by
Gene Brewer and played by
Kevin Spacey in the movie
K-PAX, like Proteus was said to embody, was a modernized "shape shifter" and magical type of advanced mystical ET who "walked in" to humanoid bodies, and shared wisdom and insights into the human condition.
Wow! That's quite a lot of Information!
Remember! There is also a 'Tower!'...............But Let's go back to the 'Blue Car'.
As I have explained [in Previous Postings] 'TECHNOS' is the' New God-Imago'.
The 'Car' is not just an Auto-Mobile. It is an 'Imago' the Blue Colour gives the Symbol Feeling Contents.
[TECHNOS IS MY OWN INVENTION-I USE IT TO DESCRIBE'MODERNITY/INDUSTRIALIZATION AND TECHNOLOGY
'WHICH IS OVERWHELMING THE PSYCHE OF MODERN MAN]
[THINKING AND FEELING INDICATE HIS INNER PERSONALITY 'TYPE'
THEY TAKE'PRIORITY' IN HIS PSYCHE HIS 'SENSATION AND INTUITION' HAS BEEN SEVERELY DAMAGED...
THIS IS WHY THE LABYRINTH HAS 'APPEARED'..IN SYMBOL-FORM'....HE CANNOT EXPRESS WHAT HE WANTS TO SHOUT TO THE WORLD...
THAT HE IS HURTING AND ALONE....SO THE 'SELF' OVER-RIDES HIS DAMAGED EGO AND ALLOWS EXPRESSION...MUCH LIKE A RELIEF-VALVE ON A STEAM-ENGINE...
WHICH IS ANOTHER METAPHOR/SYMBOL-LETS THE 'PRESSURE AND TEMPERATURE 'DROP'...RESTORES 'CORRECT WORKING ' ]
It should be remembered that the 'God-Imago' is not 'God' it is merely a Symbolic Re-Presentation into Consciousness.[MUCH LIKE AN INNOCUOUS CHAIR]
Lack of [any other] Colour Symbolism in the rest of the Poem mark it as Significant ie; Autocratic.
But let's reconsider the Line;
'I made the Blue Cars go away'.
Immediately We are confronted with the 'I'. This- is Jim's Ego.
If 'I' made them' Go Away' The Question could be Where ?were where They to begin with? and to Where? did 'They' go?
What 'Power Source' provided the Imaginative Movement?..[LIBIDO=THE 'BREATH'/PNEUMA/SPIRIT ETC.
'BREATHING IT'S OWN BREATH']
Expounding on this obvious Animal Metaphor is the purpose of Psychotherapy but without Dialogue it cannot go past hypothetical speculation.
This 'Breathing' is important and without going into too much Mechanical detail[ Breather Pipes on Engines etc]
it is indicative of 'LUNG' [WHICH IN TURN IS CHINESE FOR 'DRAGON'ie COULD BE SEEN AS HEROIN DUE TO 'DRAGON' BEING
A STREET TERM FOR HEROIN] so a possible 'progression' could be made - 'it's own breath' is neither male or female-
it is androgynous.[linking directly to Freud's Theorem]
The Cool 'Stone'..[Could be Metaphor for 'Stoned' out of His Head or!
The 'Philosopher's Stone..The 'Lapis'.]...is His 'STONE'/=STREET/SLANG FOR? HEROIN.
'Monarch' is an interesting Word. 'Arch' hasmany connotations...but as Jung pointed out..
the 'Unconscious' loves 'ARCHAIC' languages...MONARCH IS ALSO A BUTTERFLY...
[BUTTERFLY=PSYCHE IN GREEK]
My Theory is- He has had an [Unconscious]'Identification' with the 'Self ' [as Postulated in Jungian Terminology]..
He hasUNCONSCIOUSLY 'identified' through His own ADDICTION/ Suffering[craving] with the Suffering 'Deity'..
[be it Judeo-Christian Pagan or otherwise-IT SUFFERS BECAUSE OF IT'S OWN IGNORANCE]...
HE HAS BECOME'INFLATED' OR 'EGO-IDENTIFIED'.
'IRON MIST'= DEPRESSION [AS METAPHOR]..SEE ;'ALCHEMY' BY M.L.VON FRANZ
THEREFORE MENTALLY..HEROIN IS/HAS BECOME 'ANIMATED' INTO? A CENTAUR ie[ANIMAL] SYMBOL OF?.HALF HORSE/HALF MAN.
YET HEROIN IS REALLY-VEGATIVE A POPPY /FLOWER DERIVATIVE...
[ A Patient of Jung's - Mandala from 'AION']
THEREFOREIT IS THE
'DEVIL IN DIS-GUISE'?...[TO COMPLETE THE 'TRIAD' OF ANIMAL VEGETABLE...WE NEEED..? MINERAL!...HENCE THE STONE..THIS I SUSPECT IS WHY ENGLISH POP GROUP/PUBLIC SCHOOL GOBSHITES 'THE ROLLING STONES' GOT THEIR NAME FROM...HAND ROLLING JOINTS AS OPPOSED TO MARBLES PLAYING ETC!]
WHYTHE 'DEVIL?'...HISTORICALLY THE DEVIL SERVES A PURPOSE AND SOMETIMES IT IS VERY DIFFICULT TO EXPLAIN THIS DUE TO THE NATURAL PREJUDICE OF ORGANI
ZED RELIGIONS ETC...BUT MYTHOLOGY CAN
ALLOW A LIMITEDAMOUNT OF INFORMATION-'CENTAURS'ETC ARE MYTHIC HEALERS..AND OPIATES OF COURSE ARE USED INMEDICAL ANAESTHESIA.
FOR EXAMPLE.[IF WE KNOW WHAT IT IS WE CAN KILL IT]
['DIS' AS A WORD HAS MULTIPLE MEANINGS-IN BUDDHISM FOR EXAMPLE IT IS AN ACRONYM FOR DESIRE IS SORROW]OTHER POETS HAVE USED 'DIS' AS A WORD FOR 'HELL' AND THE WASTELAND REALM OF THE UNGODLY]
[ THE EARTH IS THE DOMAIN ASSIGNED TO THE 'FALLEN ANGEL']
AND LACK OF UNDERSTANDING/ IGNORANCE LEADS
TO DEPENDENCY AND LOSS OF SELF-WORTH..
[THE BUDDHA TURNED THE DEMONS INTO FLOWERS...THE BUDDHA IS..THE LABYRINTH!
..THE ARCHETYPE OF THE 'SELF'..SO IN EFFECT THE LABYRINTH BEING PRIMORDIAL AND INSTINCTUAL AND THE BUDDHA BEING
'ENLIGHTENED' AND HUMAN ARE FACETS OF THE 'JEWEL' OR 'LAPIS'-OUR JIM KNOWS ALL ABOUT LONGCHEPA'S POEM/ SUTRA FROM
STUDY- HE IS AN INTELLECTUAL TRYING TO UNDERSTAND LIFE ITSELF THROUGH NATURE STUDY- BUD AND THE BODHI TREE ARE INTRICATELY
CONNECTED BY MORE THAN MERE SEMANTICS ]
THE NARCOTIC CONTROLS THE ADDICT.
[Addendum; I also now believe He like thousands of American Children particularly from California-was a Child Victim OF SYSTEMATICABUSE.]
If the Ego has an Encounter with the 'Self '. A Variety of Scenarios can ensue.
The usual case is for the Ego to SUFFER! [ Jung provides many Case History Examples.'Bruder Klaus' etc]
The Ego brings 'Realisation' to the 'Self ' and a 'Transference' Occurs.[ENERGIC]
'I' can make THE EARTH[MUD IS SLANG FOR HEROIN] stop in it's TRACKS......
[TRACKS ARE NEEDLE MARKS -JIM NEVER INJECTED HE SNORTED HEROIN- THE EARTH DOES NOT MAKE 'TRACKS' BUT CARS SOMETIMES DO! GET IT?]
S0 here is the reason.
NARCOTIC ADDICTION is finding 'SELF-EXPRESSION'...
through the largely unused portion of Jim's inborn Temperament.[SENSATION AND INTUITION]
THIS IS THE 'POWER SOURCE'...IN HIS SOUL...HE CRAVES NEW SENSATIONS TO
COMPENSATE FOR HIS FEELINGS OF INADEQUACY...
JIM ISN'T A WILD 'POPSTAR'...HE IS AN ACTOR..'ALL ALONE'...HE IS A SHY RESERVED AND INTELLIGENT POET.
HE KNOWS THIS BUT DENIES IT TO HIMSELF..HIS INTUITION...
IS ACTUALLY WRITING THE POEM..FROM THE HEART...HE KNOWS HE IS KILLING
HIMSELF..HE KNOWS THE DRUGS ARE CONTROLLING HIM...BUT HE FEELS WEAK..
UNDESERVING OF FRIENDSHIP A SHAM-ACTOR AND THIS ULTIMATELY FALSE
IDEA OF 'SELF'..WORTH...IS DAMAGING.
HIS PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS SUFFER AS HIS NEGATIVE EGO SEEKS TO CONTROL
EVERYTHING..TO BECOME 'MONARCH'.
LANDSEER THE ARTIST PAINTED HIS 'MONARCH OF THE GLEN'
THE HORNS OF HIS OWN DILEMMA?...'HORNY'..OR 'LIBIDO'?...
THIS OF COURSE IS SUBJECTIVE.
I WOULD LIKE TO FURTHER EXPLORE THIS IDEA...AS THE 'STAG'..APPEARS
IN MANY MANY WORKS OF LITERATURE..AND OCCASIONALLY IS ASSOCIATED
WITH THE 'FOOL'..ARCHETYPE HOWEVER OTHER PROJECTS ARE TAKING MY TIME AND ATTENTION.PLEASE FEEL FREE TO COMMENT IN BOX BELOW IF YOU WOULD LIKE FURTHER INFORMATION..I VALUE DIALOGUE.
The usual Case[IN RECORDED EXAMPLES] is for the Ego to be overwhelmed with 'Archaic' Content which can take Many 'Forms'.
In Jim's Case something special has occurred. The reciprocal Psychic ie 'Imaginative' 'Power Movement ' has now acquired new 'Form';[ARCHETYPAL ACTIVATION]
The Blue[DEEP] is now replaced with 'Cool Stone' and 'Iron Mist' even though the Lines occur before the main Body of the Poem.
Coldness=Beginning of Negativity 'Monarch' or Ruler is the 'Royal' 'Form' of the Negative Archetype Previously identified as 'Satyr'[ in another of Jim's works.].
HORSE=HEROIN
HALF MAN HALF HORSE=CENTAUR.[GREEK MYTHOLOGY]..THE 'WOUNDED HEALER'..
SATYR IS A 'FORM' OF 'PAN' THE GREEK 'GOD'.[CANNABIS-I HAVE SHOWN ELSEWHERE-HAS THE CHEMICAL 'DMT' AS IT'S ENTHEOGEN]
IT IS INTERESTINGTO READ UP ON
'CHIRON' THE 'HEAD CENTAUR'...WE FINDOUT THAT HE WAS A HEALER.....
THE GREEK/PSYCHE/CENTAURCONNECTION!..
THE WOUND FOR JIM IS DEEP..THE TENTACLES OF ADDICTION CLAW..WITHDRAWAL SYMPTOMS ARE LEADING HIM TO DEEP DEPRESSION..
HIS OWN SOUL IS TRYING TO HEAL ITSELF AS HIS RAVAGED BODY....SENDS IT'S
OWN SIGNALS TO HIS SCREAMING BRAIN...AND JIM UNDERGO'S..
WITHDRAWAL FROM THE WORLD...INTO THE TWILIGHT AREA OF SEMI-REALITY..
WHERE PAIN AND PLEASURE HAVE NO MEANING...AND FRIENDS ARE
NON-EXISTENT THE STATE OF DISSOCIATION..THE DOMAIN OF DEVILS AND ANGELS...THE CORE.
Remember 'Ego' is Latin for 'I Am'!
Now Jim or rather Jim's Ego has become 'Identified with the Negative Archetype' or 'Inflated'.[a very Negative Inflation=Depression]
THE DEVIL[HEROIN]HAS STOLEN HIS SOUL.
HEROIN HAS DECEIVED YET AGAIN..AND JIM'S 'FALL'..IS TO BE A SPECTACULAR
A 'STAR FALLING FROM HEAVEN'..INTO..THE COLD EARTH...
DRUG ADDICTION.
How can this be? the Answer is in the Mind of the Writer-He thought up the Lines before actually Writing them down! How the final Poem reads is actually a 'reverse' Interpretation of His Psychic Experience.
The Ego has assimilated the Self. -Jim's Ego has become 'God'.[Negative 'Aspect']
Now He[THINKS HE] can do all the 'Godlike' Things in the rest of the Poem. [Hence the End Line 'I can']
He has successfully accessed and partaken in the 'Divine'.[the Collective Unconscious]
However like all who seek to join the Godhead He now suffers the fate of all former Man-God 'Heroes'.
And issoon -to be torn apart.
THE SECRET OF THE GOLDEN FLOWER...HAS BEEN FOUND.
DEATH IS PART OF LIFE.
His Ego has 'Identified with the Archetype' and He gains a 'Godlike Power' The Source [of all His 'Energy'] [or Libido] is the Archetype.
This Archetype now assumes Control It is the 'Blue Car' ie 'Technos'.As to whether Automobiles are a Blessing? or a Curse? this...is Subjective.
Can the 'Devil' serve any useful purpose? I think Yes. but this also is subjective.It is Important to remember...You Don't Pray TO the Devil[NEGATIVE/EGO]...You Pray FOR the Devil!...
Without Poets the Devil is just another MeaninglessIRRELEVANT... Word...
Although the Poetic Structure appears somewhat Orthodox We must remember the 'Tower'.
There are multifarious examples of 'Tower' symbolism Biblical Fairy Tales etc etc It can be seen [Metaphorically] as 'Pride' or 'Penis symbolism' or a Host of 'Allegorical' Ideas.
The Thing to remember [Perhaps] is that the Tower [usually] is Destroyed! and the Destruction is a reciprocal event to it's own Creation!
[IMPOTENCE IN MALES FOR EXAMPLE...OR FEMININE DOMINANCE IN THE 'FORM'
OF HOMOSEXUALITY FOR EITHER SEX]
.THE NEGATIVE ARCHETYPE IS PART OF GOD'S PLAN.
IT FINDS 'FORM' THROUGHOUT THE HISTORY OF HUMAN UNDERSTANDING. IT IS PART OF THE PRINCIPLE OF CREATION.THIS IS WHY POETRY HAS TO BE FROM THE HEART.
The 'Lizard King?' Sorry Jim just your Imagination taking over Your sadly Unconscious Power of discerning Reality.[Monarch or'King'..on 'Cool Stone'...= Reptile BasiliskDragon etc..]
DINOSAURS TYRANNOSAURUS REX?...
The Reptile and the Bird are actually the same Thing!- It's just the Perception or Perspective that changes and This is always Subjective.
[For Example See; Pictures of Egyptian Pharaohs..Look at Their Head Ornaments..
They usually show a Snake and a Bird..on the Forehead...DNA etc]
As Edinger Says "To Suffer the Opposites[ie be Severely Depressed] is to be closer to God."
The Poem is actually a 'Study in Depression' and unchecked Depression is Dangerous potentially Lethal. Help is available.
It is no longer necessary to become the 'Man of Constant Sorrow'.
Sadness terrible Loneliness feeling 'Isolated' -all so Un-Necessary.
THE POEM IS THE HEALING MEDIUM ACTUALLY WRITING DOWN YOUR THOUGHTS IS A THERAPEUTIC TECHNIQUE.
I Am and I can are now the Words of a Jim who has realised that He not the Archetype has written the Poem. Nothing has changed except Jim who like All of us is made in the' Image' of the 'Creator'. But this change has made Jim something the Infinite Godhead does not have the capacity to realise. It has made Jim an Individual and a Poet.
Other Poems [by Jim] make Reference to 'the Price' demanded [By The 'Realised Archetype'].
A sacrifice is always demanded and unfortunately this is usually a Piece of Personal Anatomy!
CIRCUMCISION FOR EXAMPLE DERIVES DIRECTLY FROM EGYPTIAN 'SOLAR' RELIGION.. and Solar 'Cults' such as The Roman Pre-Christian were all Penis based/Fertility Symbol.
[The Penis being the 'One Eyed 'God']
If you worship the old Gods They always demand Payment![sacrifice] This has been seen in countless examples of So-called 'Esoterica'.
[THE 'OLD GODS'-ARE INSTINCTUAL DRIVES]
Luckily for Us We now know that it is They that depend on Us! Simple Human Beings as We are- to keep Them alive!
and of course We can decide the 'Fate of The 'Gods'[Archetypes] with the realisation that They Pre-date
all known History -therefore They must be Eternal and 'WILL' cannot cope with Spontaneous Archetypal Phenomena which over-ride all Logic and Reason. Organized Religion has incorporated
much 'Phenomena' into Dogma and it is this Dogma which the 'WILL' tries to negate without ever
taking into account the origin of the Dogma.
Jim found release for His Mental Torment/Drug Dependence through His Writings...
Others So-called 'Friends' and 'Lovers' exploited His DEPENDENCY/Weakness- His Story is one of many...too many.....Adios Jim You inspired Many- I count Myself Lucky to have seen Your Brilliance
Sadly PEYOTE usage in adolescence has affected Jim's Mental 'Balance'...
Indians on Highways...?...or 'High-ways'[HIGHTOWER] of a wannabee Shaman?.
Jim's witnessing of Death and 'hearing the Souls of the deceased' famously quoted in many interviews
is akin to a form of PTSD - the TRACKS [that stopped the Earth] and the BLUE CAR [in which He was a Passenger] were pushed out of His 'Consciousness into the 'Shadows'....
but in the 'Collective' THEY EVENTUALLY RE-SURFACED IN DIFFERENT 'FORM'
.
[NATIVE-AMERICAN,MANDALA]
IT'S LIKE JESUS SAID"BE OF GOOD CHEER FOR I HAVE OVERCOME THE WORLD"...
JESUS LIKE BUDDHA IS THE ARCHETYPE OF THE SELF-ACCORDING TO CARL JUNG.
THEREFORE THEY MUST BE THE POSITIVE 'ATTITUDE' THAT IS CRUCIAL
TO SELF-HEALING.
THE POEM ACTUALLY IS JIM MORRISON-BECAUSE IT [THE 'I' OR EGO]ITSELF-CREATED.
JIM THE 'EGO-TRIPPER'DID GET TO'OPEN THE DOORS' OF CONSCIOUSNESS.
WHAT HE FOUND INSIDE THE 'SELF' WAS THE[REPRESSED] BLUE CAR...THE DEPRESSED 'SPIRIT'..
NOW ADDICTED TO HEROIN-HE WAS UNABLE TO CLOSE THE DOOR-HIS CAREFULLY CULTIVATED EGO 'WILL' NO LONGER COULD RESIST
.. THE ARCHAIC 'SELF' CONTENT
[JESUS SAID 'I AM THE DOOR' ETC]
[REPRESSED DESIRES EMOTIONS ETC ARE CONTAINED IN THE COLLECTIVE].
.WHICH WOULD EVENTUALLY PRESS HIM INTO
THE DUST HE WAS FORMED FROM.
ALL THAT WOULD REMAIN WERE HIS THOUGHTS...AND A BY PRODUCT FOR A MUSICIAN WAS INDEED AN INCREASE IN 'CREATIVITY' AND 'ORIGINALITY' FOR A BRIEF
GLITTERING MOMENT IN ETERNITY..ONLY TO PASS LIKE A BREATH OF WIND IN A HURRICANE...
JIM...WAS A GUIDE WHO LOST HIS WAY.
But the image was a remnant of a dream he experienced 10 years before his death, the vision of an angry and terrible God, with six images representing six episodes in the life of Christ -- as well as six religious virtues enjoined by the mollifying words of Jesus -- again reconciling the psychological opposites represented in Christianity.
