Mijn Schaduw

Muziek vervoert en geeft emotie. Het kan gevoelens verwoorden en betekenis geven. Dit prachtige nummer van Tool genaamd "Forty Six & 2" gaat over Carl Jung's theorie over de Schaduw en persoonlijke ontwikkeling. De mens heeft 46 chromosomen, de 2 extra refereren aan evolutie en groei. "Iedereen heeft een schaduw," schreef Carl Jung in 1938 in zijn boek Psychologie en Religie, "en hoe minder deze verwezenlijkt is in het bewuste leven van het individu, des te zwarter en dichter het is."

Deze video geeft uitleg over hoe het nummer de theorie beschrijft (met dank aan Drunvalo Melchizadek) en toont het werk van Alex Grey. 

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My shadow's

shedding skin and

I've been picking

Scabs again.

I'm down

Digging through

My old muscles

Looking for a clue.

I've been crawling on my belly

Clearing out what could've been.

I've been wallowing in my own confused

And insecure delusions

For a piece to cross me over

Or a word to guide me in.

I wanna feel the changes coming down.

I wanna know what I've been hiding in

My shadow.

Change is coming through my shadow.

My shadow's shedding skin

I've been picking

My scabs again.

I've been crawling on my belly

Clearing out what could've been.

I've been wallowing in my own chaotic

And insecure delusions.

I wanna feel the change consume me,

Feel the outside turning in.

I wanna feel the metamorphosis and

Cleansing I've endured within

My shadow

Change is coming.

Now is my time.

Listen to my muscle memory.

Contemplate what I've been clinging to.

Forty-six and two ahead of me.

I choose to live and to

Grow, take and give and to

Move, learn and love and to

Cry, kill and die and to

Be paranoid and to

Lie, hate and fear and to

Do what it takes to move through.

I choose to live and to

Lie, kill and give and to

Die, learn and love and to

Do what it takes to step through.

See my shadow changing,

Stretching up and over me.

Soften this old armor.

Hoping I can clear the way

By stepping through my shadow,

Coming out the other side.

Step into the shadow.

Forty six and two are just ahead of me.

zie ook Schaduw (Jung) op Wikipedia.