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Music of the Spheres...

 
 
benj
13:14 / 26.03.04
Okay, I'm posting in Magick rather than Music I know, but please bear with me on this...

I'm looking for a music video I saw once about two years ago. I'm certain it was by Tool, who seem to be fond of the Occult, to say the least. I remember it being mostly CGI images of kabbalistic bodies of light, with chakras activating and auric equivalents to magnetic fields, circulating around the figure, and by the end had multiplied into dozens then infinite other bodies of light, all with their own auric fields circulating.

Now maybe being extremely stoned at the time I watched it is a factor, but all I can say is this video left me with the impression that my skull had been painlessly opened up with a laser beam and a multitude of exquisite jewels left deposited upon my brain.

The Individual as the Microcosm, filtering experience as part of the Collective, single cells of the whole, evolving their own universe while the same process goes on across the multiverse... nothing new I know, but it was nice to see, all the same.

Please tell me this video exists here in this existence, and wasn't just a signal from one of my parallel selves showing me just how sweet they had it in their universe? And if you know the name of the song I'm looking for, i'd be grateful to know that too

More broadly, what other music videos have you seen that you would recommend as interesting viewing experiences from a magickal perspective?
 
 
Samael
14:00 / 26.03.04
From a magickal perspective, I'd say several Danzig videos have quite a bit to them. Of course, Danzig's music and video's tend to go more satanic in regards to imagery and tone, but I do believe the material still holds a more occult slant than the usual music (and music video). In the video for 'Mother' for example, he is shown annointing a girl on an alter with chicken blood, etc. In 'Cantspeak' he sings from a circle, and gives off energy, etc. Ok, rather poor discriptions, but the overall tone of these videos has the occult perspective, if not a magickal one.
 
 
The Knights Templar Boogie Machine
14:17 / 26.03.04
The most obvious i can think of is Psychic Tv, who worked on creating a dynamic fusion between pop culture and the occult . They made a lot of videos incorporating sigils etc.,reflecting the work being done by T.O.P.Y. at that time.(http://www.topy.net/ - for the modern day non p.orridge endorsed incarnation)
The two early nineties ambient techno groups (also influenced by the temples philosophy and a mixture of other esoteric stuff) psychick warriors ov gaia and exquisite corpse made videos full of ritual imagery...
The manic crappy street preachers had old crow pop up at the start of the 'you love us' video, fuck knows why...
 
 
akira
16:08 / 26.03.04
The only thing that springs to mind is The Test by The Chemical Brothers. But thats not it. ketamin also springs to mind.
 
  
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