This version of the song and its respective use in the movie Trees Lounge really evokes The Shining to me. The two movies have some common ground to me beyond that too. I think Trees Lounge is much more haunting, personally, because I actually relate to it.
Classic bad childhood, toxic family environment leaving scars for any child but far worse for a deeply sensitive soul. Poor man. At least he recognizes his flaws and is honest. Not many people do. In fact most do not.
That's me right now: the demon of nothingness- along with all of the other demons, but nothingness and meaningless are what don't scape me right now. Can't even believe in sleep and I have chronic insomnia, which makes ALL of the demons he mentioned even worse. I'm tired of numbing myself with drugs, alcohol and occult/mystical ideas to preoccupy my mind. Nothing works, all is nothingness to me. I have no one to blame but myself.
How can you "love everybody" when it's impossible to know everybody and their intentions? I've tried that and it only made me feel worse at the end. You have to discern a little. "A friend to all is a friend to none." -Aristotle
"Waste time." Hey. I am 100% retired unless advocates and attorneys come through for me because I will NEVER work where I so much as even have to risk seeing a man without a four-year degree. The next time a redn*ck who has never had a course in policy, read a book on policy, or wrote a research paper on policy so much as approaches me to "educate" me on something they know NOTHING about, it will end with a death.
It's comforting yet sorrowful to know that human beings of his talent and vision are as tormented as an old, sad and lost high school special education teacher. I can't believe I'm hearing a man who I admire so much, discuss the same demons that I struggle with. Thank you for this post and reminding me that I am not alone. Deeply appreciative. Sincerely, C in Portland
Ingmar's mentioning about the Demon of fear reminded me of my psychedelic trip years ago. During the experiment there was this hallucination of a elf kind of entity that was for a short while, judging every little action I made physically. It had it's hands up and shaking them toward me as if it was saying to me : " No!No! Don't do that! " Calling me names and so on. I never really made much of it, neither I do any of the hallucinations experienced during psychedelics. Reflecting back to it, taking into consideration of what Ingmar is saying, I see that this Demon of fear is still prevalent in the consciousness, not as a entity but rather as a subconscious force of the mind. Looking at it superficially, it is all about the "comfort zone" we have and becoming accustomed to our habits. Habits seemingly bring security for the mind, they ensure survival. But habit can make us live very mechanically, and lead into life without understanding. Our comfort zone is caused by thinking. Thoughts are responsible for man's misery, that's where the separation begins, one sees the fear as something separate from another and becomes a victim .. To have an insight to this is to see the truth of it, and no longer needing to identify with the fear. And obviously there are different kinds of fear, the naturals and the irrational ones. Ones that make us thrive for aliveness, and ones that make us paralyzed. To see the danger of something so clearly that you never touch it again, is possible cognitively related to psychology as it is in your practical world, growing up and learning that putting your hand on the hot stove hurts so you never do it again. In the same way, the observation of the appearing thoughts & feelings can bring about some freedom in one's life.
I could relate to almost all of his demons, but only in a vague and far fetched way. When he mentioned the demon of nothingness, though, I got chills. When I am alone I am myself, but when I am with people I recognise very little of what's happening inside me. It is almost like I do not think rationally and can't form a comprehensive thought and put it into words.
I think he meant something else when he mentioned a demon he doesn't have aka the demon of nothingness. He was talking about not being afraid of ever loosing his creativity. Like some artists are or were. I have heard of comedians who had the fear of suddenly loosing their funny and inventive mind. And not being funny anymore. He wasn't afraid of this. Didn't have this "demon".
Seems to me that he has resorted in externalizing and impersonating his flaws so he has an excuse to not work on himself, at the detriment of those who have to share a life with him. I know that move. It works until it doesn't.
*He was considered to be one of the greatest and most influential directors of all time. Being demonically controlled explains his fame and accolades. Jesus said, "what does it matter for a man to gain everything if he loses his soul?" Ingmar Bergman is a perfect example of this. May God have mercy on his soul.*
i don't understand this to any extent. what do demons symbolically represent? who is this man? please be generous in helping me understand this. whatever being said I find it profound but can't understand.
IN SUMMARY... HE IS A PHYCOPATH WITH PARANOID TENDENCIES. WHICH MIGHT EXPLAIN HIS ATTEMPTING TO REPLACE HUMAN EVOLUTIONARY ATTRIBUTES WITH FAITH,THE BIBLE,DEMONS AND SPIRITS.
@@anabell.21It's not an empty soul, it's just not a whiny soul. This man was a celebrated and successful artist. He should have used his power to help people with real problems (war, famine, injustice, terminal illnesses, orphans, etc) instead of indulging in self pity over the most luxurious pet peeves and the mildest inconveniences.
The 'demon of nothingness' is in fact an angel or even God. He says he's glad not to know it but how can you be glad of not having something you don't know [although he's true to his never ending imagination and so, he can only imagine what 'nothingness' is like]. It is from nothingness that imagination and ideas arise but what is born in time, must vanish in time and only nothingness remains, as somethingness solid like a mountain, so full of peace, and stillness, to the brim. Nothingness is that, which if experienced, kills all the demons.
Wrong. God is not nothingness. God is the fount of being Who pre-existed all creation. It is not from nothingness that anything arises. That is impossible being cannot come from non-being. God is eternal. There was never a time God did not exist. Nothingness, in fact as the name implies, also does not exist. It is a figment of the imagination. It is a mental placeholder, but it does not exist in any ontological sense.
@@chadpilled7913 Counter WRONG!!! Proceeding by the way of conceptual logic takes you nowhere. God as nothingness can be known by being not by intellectual gymnastics. Nothingness is not the opposite of somethingness, which is a transitory notion anyway; nothingness is not not-being but being, that exists in eternity as God.
@@laoisemeehan They are afraid of that which they don't know but only can imagine, painting it in the darkest colors. Then they give reality to the imaginary and so, live afraid of their own shadow, which is... nothing.
