Om and Alan Moore

Hypnotically chanting throughout their journey into the ether, Om, the heaviest bass/drum duo made of Al Cisneros and Chris Hakius, have left an impression on their listeners that is unmistakable. My previous post about the inner eye is also a major axis of Om's lyrics. They are craftily planting the seeds for a higher plane of thought - meditative focus - with both slower-paced, steady chants and musically painting ideas that begin to take root after successive listenings. These heavy metal titans have become catalysts of an emerging global idea- transcendentalism.
Transcendentalism is defined as:

"A group of new ideas in literature, religion, culture, and philosophy that emerged in New England in the early to middle 19^th century." 

Major transcendentalists include Ralph Waldo Emerson (Nature being his most popular work), Henry David Thoreau (Walden), Walt Whitman, and, to an extent, John Steinbeck. 

"The transcendentalists desired to ground their religion and philosophy in transcendental principles: principles not based on, or falsifiable by, sensuous experience, but deriving from the inner, spiritual or mental essence of the human."
When Om wants to 'open' their listeners' inner eye, they have no trouble doing so:
"And travel on toward the lighten pon day - on through a spine's gates - climbs the silken thread to cross a silvering sun. " -At Giza
The common interpretation is that the silvering sun represents the metaphorical third eye which can be accessed through the spinal cord on 'silken threads' or nerves.
Now, half the picture is complete: the visual and conceptual half. The next half is doubly important: the framework. Luckily, Alan Moore can lay a devastating brick and mortar to the foundation of harmony.
Starting with Alan Moore's more literal works, we can start with the basics:

 

V for Vendetta is the basic anti-tyranny manifesto. For starters, the caped crusader V hijacks the media to play a personal message, first exposing the lies, and next, ignites a massive resistance (see The Running Man).
The concepts promoted in V for a peaceful society are government for the citizens and not as a vehicle of power. In an intense investigation, Inspector Finch hallucinates the life of young V at a medical concentration camp as a youth, before breaking out and wreaking utter havoc. I recommend this read for anyone with a taste for mystery/noir/suspense/thriller/crusader books. The movie, directed by the Wachowski brothers, has its merits, but does not deliver the same potent dose of transcendentalism as the mind-bending graphic novel.

From Hell takes the reader into the shadowy depths of the mafia-like secret societies of 1880's England, containing a full arsenal of mystical concepts when Dr. William Gull, royal surgeon of Buckingham palace, is called to exterminate four (accidentally 5) ladies of the night, and his concept of identity begins to vanish. 

• Ancient civilizations were collectively dominant with their right hemisphere of the brain, or creative energies. Since then, a steady shift toward the left half of the brain, or literal calculating has overtaken the human mind, so that we are currently disconnected from former understandings with our planet, including ones ancient civilizations had of astrology, religion, science and art.
• The sun, formerly a female god, governed the Earth for a majority of her stead, before mankind sought to dethrone feminine energies by erecting obelisks and phallic-shaped structures, like this Hawksmoor steeple.
• Everything happens simultaneously in the fourth dimension. By a theoretical tearing of the fabric of reality, one can enter events in the future in the form of the metaphorical content of their soul. In the case of Dr. William Gull, the real jack the ripper, he appears as this to William Blake.

More to follow!

-SubTemplum