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• Dr Meta from Texarcana Archon-sawPneuma means breath or spirit, and Tool's lyrics have arcane & occult references to Kaballah & Gnosticism which themselves are influenced by Greco-Roman philosophy (like Plato & the Pleroma) and their ancient Egyptian predecessors (ie Hermes Trismegistus). Indian & Eastern mysticism predates & informs Western esotericism. But Kaballah & Gnosticism is paramount to the Neoplantists & Hermeticists, and allegory is gleaned from the literal. For them the universe is created as a breath of God. It's the fiery exhalation that mirrors the Big Bang after which God's inhalation contracts the universe in a Big Crunch. This happens many thousands of times (called Aeons) before THIS universe, our imperfect universe, is breathed into existence. However not every vessel was prepared to catch this divine breath of light and the chaotic Qliphoth soon began what Isaac Luria called "the breaking of the shells."
  
  There are 3 major forms of being & knowledge in this universe: the lowest is hylics or material existence, psychics in the middle, and pneumatics (pneuma) at the top representing the spiritual. For example the Tree of Life corresponds to the flow from top to bottom from pneumatics to hylics. We are in what some consider an "aborted" universe created not by God but by the Demiurge otherwise no imperfection or evil would exist. So what are we too do at the very bottom of the sublunar realm amongst the hylics so very far from the heavenly pneumatics? The way to attain metanoia (true epiphany), spiritual knowledge (pneuma), or nirvana is through gnosis: knowing & recognizing this predicament, then waking up the the remnants of creation's long lost perfection within us. These remnants of the Ein Sof, the ineffable, or the Big Bang correlate to the divine spark of sophia inside us. This spark of creation
  refers to knowledge (sophia/ennoia). Through ritual or spiritual exercise we can awaken them and attain connections & oneness with the origin, the spirit (pneuma), the Monad.
  
  So why not wake others up as well & make the world a better place as hinted in the song. Meditation has long been an Eastern and Western form of not just relation but awareness and deep thought. Descartes and other philosophers wrote "Meditations" in which they tap into the fundament of being and reality to try to establish ontological tenets. Alchemy, Occult, Esoteria, & Magic along with their symbols are ubiquitous in art, music, & philosophy. It's the rabbit hole of all rabbit holes and leads to its own gnosis even without the rituals. Take a deep dive and see the universe with different eyes.
• Lovetheseguys from Usinescapably perfect.
• Stoopitnoob from Las VegasWhile your interpretation is a sound one, it's deeper than that if you open your mind. The music is a soul's journey. The times and sounds are simple at the begining like a child birth and progresses through complexity just like that of the experience of the soul. Tones are different (ways of seeing Life and perspective) as the song progresses.
  
  Lyrics are overlayed to deliver the message. Saying we are nailed down to this limited place but know where we come from and it's just out our reach.
  
  As the song progresses it gets richer and more robust. There is a luciousness to it. The timing and complexity increases like a person in their 30s and 40s.
  
  As the song gets deeper, it nears the end stage and the tones are that of a soul with much experience. The energy of the lyrics become bold as if a grandfather telling the child to be careful. Almost authoratative.
  
  Them as the song ends, it returns to more melodic harmonic less harsh sounds as the soul returns to source.

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