Ok, originally I was going to post this on one of the sync threads but by the time I had finished, I realized it was pretty long and rambled beyond the scope of synchronicity, so I figured I would just post it as it’s own thread.
I had been perusing the “Heath Ledger – Occult/Synchronicity” thread and came across some links there regarding his role as the Joker, and the meta aspects of the Joker in general:
http://insidethecosmiccube.blogspot.com/2008/01/this-joke-is-not-funny.html
http://secretsun.blogspot.com/2008/01/killing-joker.html
It was on the Secret Sun Site that I saw another post titled, “The Siren: Swim To Me”. I knew that phrase was a Tim Buckley lyric, intrigued I clicked on it.
http://secretsun.blogspot.com/2008/01/siren-part-1-swim-to-me.html
What follows is a three part post detailing odd synchronicities between Jeff Buckley and Cocteau Twins singer Elizabeth Fraser. It is a good read, one I imagine most RI readers would enjoy.
Mentioned is the final episode of the old “Monkees” TV show where Tim Buckley (Jeff’s father) makes a cameo singing “Song To The Siren”. The name of the episode is “Mijacogeo” (a.k.a. “The Frodis Caper”). I had a vague recollection of the episode, so I did some research:
6:00am - The sun rises one morning, causing a suspended rope to burn and trigger a phonograph which plays The Beatles’ song “Good Morning," waking Michael, Micky and David who all drop their alarm clocks on the floor to shut them off(6-6-6). But when Peter’s alarm clock continues to ring they all jump out of bed and realize he’s missing. They soon head downstairs and search frantically around the pad, even going so far as to visit Michael as The Lost and Found Man but it seems hopeless until David finally finds Peter in a trance, frozen in his easy chair in front of the TV set, showing a huge eye (disguised as a test pattern) planted with subliminal triggers, pulsing to strange music. The Monkees nearly fall into a similar trance themselves until Michael quickly turns off the TV. Then they head outside as Michael explains what’s going to happen after the commercial.
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Then they head for the KXIE-TV station to find out what’s wrong. When they get there, they find the stage hand is also in a trance from a nearby television showing the exact same eye, and they all wonder what kind of warped maniacal mind is plotting such a conspiracy when suddenly the scene is intercut with Glick, a mad wizard giving an evil laugh, which answers their question.
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Glick then sends in his squad of TV repairmen with portable TVs tuned to the eye to capture our heroes, but each of their attempts to hypnotize The Monkees are unsuccessful. Then Michael, mentioning that it’s time for The Monkees, wonders if anyone has a television set, and as if on cue they are all set upon by the TV repairmen with the TVs. Soon, Micky, Michael and David are tied up in Glick’s warehouse, and in order to contact Peter for help, Micky suggests they use the latest psycho-jello mental telepathy which every group is using, which Micky learned when he sent in a cereal boxtop. They all chant “nam myoho renge kyo” and it appears to be working as Peter slowly rises from the chair and heads for the studio. However, he is spotted on the monitor by Glick, who readies for his most cunning trickery; he greets Peter at the front door and captures him as well.
http://monkeestv3.tripod.com/season2/mijacogeo.html
and so on…
So, there were all sorts of things/triggers in that for me so I Netflixed the disc that episode appears on. The disc contained the last two Monkee’s episodes ever made: episode 57; “the Monkees Blow Their Minds”, episode 58; “Mijacogeo” as well as the 1969 TV special “33 1/3 Revolutions Per Monkee”.
Watching this disc certainly blew my mind.
All three episodes deal with mind control. If the viewer is at all familiar with the Process Church of the Final Judgement, there are visual cues for this topic as well.
Mike Nesmith and Frank Zappa are doppelgangers.
All of this mind control madness is sponsored by Kellog’s.
The “nam myoho renge kyo” chant is specifically referenced by Mike Nesmith as Transcendental Meditation, even though TM is silent. Indeed, Mickey insists he did not learn this mantra from the Maharishi, but in fact was illuminated by a “cereal box top”. TM is referenced a few more times in the episode. What is also odd is that the “nam myoho renge kyo” chant is what Gary Hinman, a Manson family victim chanted as he lay dying.
“Two John Lennon/Paul McCartney-penned Beatles tunes are heard in “Mijacogeo”: the aforementioned “Good Morning” (which, ironically, hails from the very album which bumped The Monkees' Headquarters from the top spot in 1967: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band!) and "Hello, Goodbye," which is sung briefly by David Jones. Shockingly, it is "Hello Goodbye" which knocked John Stewart's "Daydream Believer" out of the #1 spot on the Billboard charts!!”
Does it strike me as odd that Brian Auger and Julie Driscoll (looking for all the world like Robert and Mary Anne De Grimston) invoke the following chant to open “33 1/3 RPM” and hype their group, The Trinity?
We have the knowledge--evil though it be--
To twist the mind to any lunacy we wish.
Through this Electro-Thought Machine, I'll demonstrate exactly what I mean.
We'll take the means of mass communication, use them for commercial exploitation,
Create the new 4-part phenomena: 4 simple minds with talent (little or none),
And through the latest fad of rock and roll, conduct experiments in mind control!
On an unsuspecting public they'll be turned!
I'll brainwash them, and they'll brainwash the world!!!!
Their minds are “for rent”, get it?
Yes, it does strike me odd (Trinity = Jehovah Lucifer Satan). Having said that, it could be nothing more than the heavy times they were a changin’ in which the Monkees appeared on Saturday Morning cartoons. No stranger than the Mystery Machine or the Groovy Ghoulies or Lidsville. But man, Is there a lot of strangeness in this Monkee business.
For me personally, I was struck by the fact that these last two episodes of the Monkees aired between the date of my birth. I turned the TV off and started to ponder the late ‘60s, - early ‘70s, trying to recall a bit of TM – Beatles – Manson trivia, I turn on my laptop, only to have Google News tell me that Maharishi Mahesh Yogi has passed away. The yogi I had given a flower to in the Houston Airport many years before…
Did I dream you dreamed about me?
Were you hare when I was fox?
Now my foolish boat is leaning
Broken lovelorn on your rocks
For you sing, "Touch me not, touch me not, come back tomorrow:
O my heart, O my heart shies from the sorrow"
