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Mystic-State Allusions in Led Zeppelin Lyrics
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Led Zeppelin: In My Time of Dying
Led Zeppelin: "Stairway to
Heaven"
...
Meet me,
Jesus, meet me
Ooh,
meet me in the middle of the air [the godman who saves spiritually is met in
the altered state]
If my
wings should fail me, Lord
Oh,
please meet me with another pair [the transcendent conceptual framework of
terminology interpretation]
Oh,
Lord, deliver me
All the
wrong I've done ['wrong', 'harm', and 'good' are meaning-flippable]
Ooh, you
can deliver me, Lord [my actions are not really in my own power]
I only
wanted to have some fun [taking visionary plants accidentally led to ego death
and enlightenment/salvation]
Oh,
Saint Peter, at the gates of heaven
Won't
you let me in
I never
did no harm
I never
did no wrong
Oh, I
never did, did no harm
Did no
harm
I've
only been the young once
I never
thought I'd do anybody no wrong
No, not
once, oh [all personal moral
culpability is logically cancelled in principle by no-free-will belief,
"I" as prime mover never did anything at all, never existed]
Oh,
good [gates of heaven open]
(Guitar
Solo)
Oh, I did
somebody some good .. I must have did somebody some good .. Oh, I believe I did
['wrong', 'harm', and 'good' are meaning-flippable]
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And if you
listen very hard
The song
will come to you at last
When all
are one and one is all
To be a
rock and not to roll
That verse
is from what can be considered the peak of the ultimate Classic Rock song,
Stairway to Heaven, by Led Zeppelin.
The full lyric and analysis:
Here is a
partial analysis of the song:
And you
know sometimes words have two meanings
[key terms of agency meaning-flip]
Sometimes
all of our thoughts are misgiven [entire mental model transforms
systematically]
And it's
whispered that soon, if we all call the tune
Then the
piper will lead us to reason [entheogenic drunkenness is sober reason]
And a new
day will dawn for those who stand long
And the
forest will echo with laughter [Zen laughter at vanishing of delusion through
meaning-flipping]
If there's
a bustle in your hedgerow
Don't be
alarmed now [self-control seizure panic reaction]
It's just
a spring clean for the May Queen [Isis, the uncontrollable transcendent
controller, who rules over the cosmos even including Fate, is exorcising your
freewill demon]
Yes there
are two paths you can go by [egoic vs. transcendent thinking]
but in the
long run
There's
still time to change the road you're on [switch to the transcendent interpretive
framework or mental worldmodel regarding self, world, change, time, will, and
control]
And as we
wind on down the road [a person's labyrinthine worldline frozen in spacetime,
contrastible with a "moving through time" perspective]
Our
shadows taller than our souls [egoic mental contruct of ego as control agent
looms large in perception, but there is no substance to it (soul is delusion,
only spirit is our real being, per Valentinian/Pauline body/soul/spirit model]
There
walks a lady we all know [Queen of
Heaven, or fallen Sophia]
Who shines
white light and wants to show [white-light pure-awareness perceptual feedback]
How
everything still turns to gold
And if you
listen very hard [profound mental relaxation, true meditation, relax knot of
accustomed thinking, perceive, and let the alternate, transcendent
worldmodel/perspective on thinking and controllership leap into view]
The tune
will come to you at last [the meaning of this song and the transcendent
meaning-network remapping key terms about personal control agency]
When all
are one and one is all [nondual unity consciousness]
To be a
rock and not to roll [become aware of the Platonic, frozen timeless
block-universe perspective rather than the Aristotelian, moving-through time
perspective]
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