Weird Vision

[Belisarius]

While listening to the closing lines of Teenage Wasteland(the part with the flute-like sounds) I pressed my hands up to my eyes and I saw fairly clearly the word Shaktra(it could have been slightly different twoards the end). I did a quick google search on the word Shaktra and found that it is the word for a male worshiper of Shakti, the "Great Godess" or more precisely, the animating energy in Hinduism(I may be wrong this was just off of the internet). The Shaktra is the name for the male participant in the Tantric rituals. I didn't know anything about this before tonight so I think I'll just give you the link I found. http://www.themystica.com/mystica/articles...s/s/shakta.html So what do you guys think it means?

[Yume]

Subliminal messages are put on screen all the time. I am not surprised at all. Nothing supernatural. Just some editor using some tricks to get you to watch the movie and like it. Any great word can lure a viewer.

[Belisarius]

I'm not sure you're understanding what I'm saying, I wasn't watching anything, Teenage Wasteland is a song by The Who. This was a closed eye visual of a word. I had never seen this word, and have no clue what kind of association with advertising it could have. Anyway, whatever the reason, it was pretty strange.

[Awaken]

If it was some kind of subliminal message, it makes complete sense. Sexual subliminals are used all the time in advertising to lure people in on that level, while the conscious mind is blissfully unaware and is actually wondering why it's attracted so much to the ad. I don't have any idea how it could have come from a song but interesting nonetheless.

[Belisarius]

It wasn't subliminal advertising or anything, I was looking at pressure phosphemes and the word just appeared, I was really surprised that it had any significance, especially a spiritual one. I may have been in a bit of a hypnagogic state as it was getting pretty late.

[TheUnknown]

Correction, "Baba Oreilly" is the name of that song, not "Teenage Wasteland" as most people make the mistake of calling it. Pete Townshend wrote the song, and if you dig around a bit you'll find the title although not mentioned in the song came from two people, Terry Reily (this person gave Pete the idea for synth parts on the song) and Meher Baba. A little more. Meher Baba was a spiritual leader that Pete followed. His lyrics were often well thought out and influenced by Meher's teachings. I don't know much about Meher as I tend to think he's just a crazy looking Indian dude. But... if you wanna investigate a bit, punch in Meher Baba and you'll be sure to get results on google. I dunno where I wanted to take that, I guess I just wanted to let ya know that some of Townshend's lyrics go deeper then most people think.

[Alric]

I have to say I am impressed that your mind would pick that up and show it to you.

[Leo Volont]

Originally posted by Belisarius While listening to the closing lines of Teenage Wasteland(the part with the flute-like sounds) I pressed my hands up to my eyes and I saw fairly clearly the word Shaktra(it could have been slightly different twoards the end). I did a quick google search on the word Shaktra and found that it is the word for a male worshiper of Shakti, the \"Great Godess\" or more precisely, the animating energy in Hinduism(I may be wrong this was just off of the internet). *The Shaktra is the name for the male participant in the Tantric rituals. *I didn't know anything about this before tonight so I think I'll just give you the link I found. http://www.themystica.com/mystica/articles...s/s/shakta.html So what do you guys think it means? Cool. A Who fan. Hey, I'm willing to take the Vision at its face value. But realize that far more goes into the definition of "shakta" than what you found in that 15 word definition which spoke of sexual intercourse. Shakti is a Spiritual Energy, or rather The Spiritual Energy of the Universe. Perhaps one can metaphorically reference Shakti to human sexuality, but it would only be an excuse for a loose party, I would think. In the Metaphysical sense a Shakta would then be one who manipulates, controls, or in whatever sense utilizes the Shakti Energy. I can see how that one particular song might inspire such a Vision. I once bought a violin and spent close to six months practicing so that I could screw around with just that particular song, though I would take on other popular songs as a form of cross-training. But I think your Vision goes beyond that song and that you should become a Shakta, in the sense that you should begin to work with Spiritual Energy. Kundalini Yoga would be just the thing for you.

[Malkav]

weird.... it happened to me too, but not listening to any song though. a few years ago, i was dreaming something that i can't remember, but i think that wasn't something that important and when i woke up, there were 2 words that were in my head: 'Ashtari Vav' i google them today (i didn't pay too much atention to them until now) and i found that Ashtari (or Haahashtari) was the son of Ashur (in 1 Chronicles 4:6) and Vav is the 6th letter of te hebrew alphabet: the meaning of it is that things are finished, completed (the world was made in 6 days, everything in this 3-D plane of existence has 6 sides, etc). is there something else about this or is it just a coincidence (2 hebrew words in my mind, words that actually exists, and the only word that i know in that language is shalom) ? i'll leave the question open for your posts. nice dreams Malkav