10,000 days by TOOL

So I was listening to the album again today and meditating and then while I was reviewing the track list I realized that at 4 track intervals the album had an 11 minute track. And then I realized that these tracks where like molting tracks, they're the the part where the phoenix shakes off the ashes. Then I decided to add the times together for the three parts in the album:

20:51
10:85
20:82

all of the seconds adds up to 246 which divided by 12 (the next track number, invisible I suppose) is 20.5. like maybe 20:50 or roughly the first four tracks? Actually it could be the kavanah to re-listen to the album. :D But actually the 12th track is in fact the whole first section of change. Like the fool after the universe but transcended to the whole next plane.

You see I think the pictures in the book are prolly different interpretations. Like the tarot layout w/the cards down, that’s pointing to the interpretation that 10,000 days is almost a whole deck of cards in divination. That you could use the music as a form of divination to meditate on or even to unconsciously connect to the spiritual world.

Then the picture of the baby in the scull is like the birth of ideas or the time in which an idea matures. It could even be a fertility spell. Or a spell of love. Basically it’s the incubation album in which you can ponder through the universe as it pours out of all of the eyes on the cover of the album. And the three sections of the cd are like the trimesters of pregnancy.

I also realize that the spell to care for Maynard’s mother Marie in her afterlife was like the seal of her 10,000 day struggle to live. Because she was disabled this whole time all she wanted was to somehow hold on to life. To be here for all those important events and cherish them. It’s funny cause when I saw that while I was meditating I was compelled to whisper her name, and she said thank you. She lifted me like a huge spiritual hand/hug and told me to love responsibility. To live through my duty because it’s my duty.

How eastern of her. ;p

The weirdness actually started to happen when I was adding the track times together and all I could think about adding were the numbers 11 and 7. I was told that these are important numbers in a dream a long time ago, but I really felt it while I tried to figure out how long the tracks were. Even and especially on a calculator while I was trying to figure out if the time had anything to do with nine months of pregnancy. Just now I realized that the length of the whole album is 76.06 minutes like almost 77 minutes?

I guess Tool are kinda like pixies. They just dance, they gotta, otherwise the world stops turning. The seasons stop changing, the album is a monument to continuing life, love, and death. It just keeps things going and I bet you that each of the members of tool actually added something totally different to the albums intent. While it could be for Marie's shiva only I think it's more likely that it applies to a broader range of things. That it helps to make something possible for everyone. :)

That's really what being druid and jewish is about. It's not personal gain explicitly but it's not global welfare exclusively. It's bringing the gracious joy and celebration of the cycle but definitely magic for personal gain. Like breathing, who are we to take the oxygen away from all the bunnies and ferret's in the world? Well we just got to. What else are we gonna do, die? I think their are many religions where they just want to die. They want to ascend and all that and of-course they miss this life in the process. Makes you wonder if the justice is in their reincarnation in to the mortal world.

'till next time
--Noé