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(@william_de_bruijn)
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 is starting to make even more sense now. Gordon Cole is ascending (mentally) via vortex to the Dark Lodge/above-a-convenience-store where the woodsmen/Dugpas are looking dówn. One of them IS down and he attacks William Hastings eating his eyes and brain. ('Eating brains' after all, like I suggested earlier?). ' The horse is the white of the eyes and dark within': are the dugpa's after 'the white of the eyes' (horse = slang for heroin) and 'the dark within' could be the brains? Remember Ruth Davenport's left eye had become a neat hole?

 
Posted : 25/07/2017 3:09 am
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Drink full and descend.  The words are important.

 
Posted : 25/07/2017 4:08 am
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Free association: 

This is the water - here is the sustenance/intoxication (like the corn)

this is the well - here is the source

drink full and descend - trying to satisfy (insatiable, always returning - hedonic treadmill / slippery slope) desire will lead to your downfall

the horse is the white of the eyes - you will find yourself straining like an eyes-bulging (Nietzschean) horse

and dark within - which will reveal and potentially leave you with the darkness of craving and dissatisfaction within.

 

PS: not sure anyone has mentioned the possible link to David Foster Wallace's This is the Water speech. He spent some time with Lynch on set and wrote an interesting (misleading) article about the experience.

 

 
Posted : 25/07/2017 4:33 am
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Speaking of left eyes, is it strange to anyone else that each episode begins with the image of Laura Palmer, and then a ring like shape of intense light drifts over to cover her right eye?  

I can't figure out the stairwell.  Ostensibly it would be how they descend, but we saw in 1956 that a wandering pack of "them" just descended from the sky.  

 
Posted : 25/07/2017 8:12 am
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Here is how I am reading it more or less:

An Ode to Garmonbozia

This is the water

Garmonbozia (pain and suffering) is our sustenance.

and this is the well.

This planet/dimension is garmonbozia central!

Drink full and descend.

So come on down and get your garmonbozia! Plenty for all! Calling all creeps!

The horse is the white of the eyes,

You'll find this garmonbozia (pain and suffering and death) everywhere you create fear (see the whites of their eyes).

and dark within.

You, too, can help make more garmonbozia. Maybe find yourself a personal host?

 
Posted : 25/07/2017 9:53 am
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Yes, yes, yes so well stated that is how I felt it but you put it into words. 

 
Posted : 25/07/2017 10:40 am
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Posted by: William De Bruijn

...where the woodsmen/Dugpas are looking dówn...

well now. This may not be the first time the term Dugpas has been used on the forum, but your post is the first one I've seen it in, William. Where have I been?--- Google shows me that the Woodsmen could indeed be called Dugpas:

"Dugpa (Tibetan 'brug pa) is a word used by H. P. Blavatsky and the Masters of Wisdom as a synonym for a black magician or sorcerer ..."

"A Dugpa is an entity that has sacrificed its former human qualities to serve the Brotherhood of the Shadow. In a nutshell they are psychopaths ..."

Is the term used in any TP episode and I just missed it? That's always possible - Every visit to this forum is an educational experience for me!

 
Posted : 25/07/2017 11:05 am
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Posted by: Randy Bowser
 
...H. P. Blavatsky and the Masters of Wisdom...

Hi Randy,

That's a very important reference, in my opinion.

Theosophy.  Those whoooo know divine wisdom.  😉

- /< /\ /> -

 
Posted : 25/07/2017 11:33 am
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Posted by: Ric Bissell

Hi Randy,

That's a very important reference, in my opinion.

Theosophy.  Those whoooo know divine wisdom.  😉

- /< /\ /> -

Thanks for the reply, Ric - But has the term Dugpas been used in TP and I just missed hearing it?

 
Posted : 25/07/2017 11:51 am
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I'm nearly certain it's has never been used!

 
Posted : 25/07/2017 11:57 am
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Posted by: Jeremy Christiansen

I'm nearly certain it's has never been used!

Thanks, Jeremy - Dugpa - I like it. Seems apt.

 
Posted : 25/07/2017 12:06 pm
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The only possibility that it ever was used in the show would have been by Windom Earl, but I would have to rewatch those scenes.

 
Posted : 25/07/2017 12:08 pm
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From the archives of Project Bluebook: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3lDx8vsVDQ

 
Posted : 25/07/2017 2:05 pm
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Posted by: Randy Bowser

Thanks for the reply, Ric - But has the term Dugpas been used in TP and I just missed hearing it?

Hi Randy,

Yes.  Please see William's reply just above.  🙂

- /< /\ /> -

 
Posted : 25/07/2017 2:34 pm
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Posted by: William De Bruijn

From the archives of Project Bluebook: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3lDx8vsVDQ

Hi William,

Thanks for posting this.  I was going to look it up, but now I don't have to!  🙂

- /< /\ /> -

 
Posted : 25/07/2017 2:38 pm
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