Hi all, I think that what's going on with Sarah is something older/deeper than the Lodge and Bob. I joked on Twitter that this episode proved Sarah Palmer is an old god (as in a void lord). All kinds of mythologies come to mind of the all-consuming "mother" goddess, like Kali. (I know there's a Mother in there somewhere--and in the series already. Are they the same?)
Given Lynch's association with Hinduism, the connection to Kali is worth noting.
http://www.goddess.ws/kali.html
"It is partly correct to say Kali is a goddess of death but She brings the death of the ego as the illusory self-centered view of reality. Nowhere in the Hindu stories is She seen killing anything but demons nor is She associated specifically with the process of human dying like the Hindu god Yama (who really is the god of death). It is true that both Kali and Shiva are said to inhabit cremation grounds and devotees often go to these places to meditate. This is not to worship death but rather it is to overcome the I-am-the-body idea by reinforcing the awareness that the body is a temporary condition. Shiva and Kali are said to inhabit these places because it is our attachment to the body that gives rise to the ego. Shiva and Kali grant liberation by removing the illusion of the ego. Thus we are the eternal I AM and not the body. This is underscored by the scene of the cremation grounds.
Of all the forms of Devi, She is the most compassionate because She provides moksha or liberation to Her children. She is the counterpart of Shiva the destroyer. They are the destroyers of unreality. The ego sees Mother Kali and trembles with fear because the ego sees in Her its own eventual demise. A person who is attached to his or her ego will not be receptive to Mother Kali and she will appear in a fearsome form. A mature soul who engages in spiritual practice to remove the illusion of the ego sees Mother Kali as very sweet, affectionate, and overflowing with incomprehensible love for Her children.
Ma Kali wears a garland of skulls and a skirt of dismembered arms because the ego arises out of identification with the body. In truth we are beings of spirit and not flesh. So liberation can only proceed when our attachment to the body ends. Thus the garland and skirt are trophies worn by Her to symbolize having liberated Her children from attachment to the limited body. She holds a sword and a freshly severed head dripping blood. As the story goes, this represents a great battle in which she destroyed the demon Raktabija. Her black skin represents the womb of the quantum unmanifest from which all of creation arises and into which all of creation will eventually dissolve. She is depicted as standing on Shiva who lays beneath Her with white skin (in contrast to Her black or sometimes dark blue skin). He has a blissful detached look. Shiva represents pure formless awareness sat-chit-ananda (being-consciousness-bliss) while She represents "form" eternally supported by the substratum of pure awareness."
The dissolving ego, the love for her children (Laura), severed heads (which abound in the series), and the reference to "garland" (ie Briggs) --even dismembered arms (Mike, Ike) is noteworthy. Kali according to this lore is a demon killer. She has love for the worthy though.
This gives me hope for Sarah's ultimate redemption.
As stated above and elsewhere, the way the guy was killed totally looked to me like the way Sam, Tracy, and Hastings were killed.
Hi Jesse,
I agree that the methods of execution were very similar.
However Sam and Tracey were killed by the Experiment, Hastings was killed by a Woodsman, and the Truck You driver was killed by the Ghost in the Shell of Sarah Palmer.
Is it simply that that is the preferred method of killing with members of the Black Lodge? Maybe sucking heads (or throats) is a greatest technique for generating garmonbozia.
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