Twin Peaks - Dale Cooper and the Eight Circuit Model of Consciousness - A Cautionary Tale 

"Looking at the world with love"...and what was Major Briggs 'Biggest Fear'?...."That love is NOT enough!!"...

"Reality is not solid, it's malleable like a metal that can be bent and shaped by the application of heat." This is one of the best explanations for magic I've ever read. Your presentation of the 8 Circuit Model is refreshing. Your story of the taxi driver on the dream led me to several minutes of wonder. Thank you.

This is one of the best interpretations of the show I've seen. I'm glad that I found your channel. I feel we have similar views about the world with similar goals to bring light to the shadows. I'm looking forward to the rest of the series and checking out the rest of your channel.

Your video adds a lot to the understanding of this serie. Unfortunatelly not everyone is passionate about spirituality, psychology and so on. So thank you for that! I finished watching TP a few days ago, and I am of the opinion that the red room is the place "between life and death", like the title of the last episode of season 2. Cooper is in a endless loop. What happened with Caroline is haunting him. The pain and remorse for what happened (he says that it is his fault that she died), is the reason why he is so in to this case. Without realizing it, him wanting to save Laura, might be some kind of redemption that will free him from his guilt towards what happened to Caroline. Him falling in "love" with Annie proves it in my opinion. She resembles Caroline (Laura also does in some way, but Annie a lot more. COuld easly pass as her sister), and she attempted to unalive herself. She is like a pure child in a dark world. Like a little lamb that needs to be saved. His love towards Annie was not love. But his uncouscious desperate way to change the past. And this is also why he is stuck in this loop, because it seems that the events are not always the same. In some timeline Laura is dead, in others she just disappeared. Coop behin his smile hides a lot fo pain, and can't cut ties with the past. This why his obsession in saving Laura. It represents what we all felt at least once in our life. Regret because of the decisions me made, and the "what if things would have gone differently?" though. Having a hard time accepting the pastm, and the desperate wish to change it, instead of learning from it and try to create a better future. Hence why "the past makes the future" line (or something like that). Cooper was intelligent, but his pain made him blind, almost arorgant (not really in the most negative sense), not always taking the risk seriously. The serie, in my opinion, also shows that humans should stop trying to play god. Cooper desperate wanting to change the past, is like playing god. This is why he will always be stuck in this infinite loop, between life and death. I think the moment cooper entered the red room, he himself became the dreamer. At least at the end, it is him who is "dreaming", because he can not accept the past. But even if he is not dreaming and these things happened for real, then I really doubt he would be able to come out of the red room, in his time lime (if his time line is the one we see in the first 2 season). His real body doesn't exsists anymore. Because how I understood it, the one caming out of the red room end of season 2, was the real cooper possessed by Bob, not the evil doppelgänger. I always said, TP is more psychological rather than paranormal in my opinion.

Very beautiful work. I think very plausible that the 8 circuits model was integrated into the creative process. As a TM practitioner Lynch must have been aware of the fringe/new age consciousness research and psychedelia, Esalen, Leary & co. And Jacoby's looks (and fondness for Hawaï) is certainly based on Terence McKenna, psychonaut extraordinaire. Wouldn't be surprised Frost and Lynch dwelved into the Leary/RAW model.

Finally an analysis which makes sense, this aligns with Lynch’s beliefs!! Smth like this might have actually been in the core of twin peaks philosophy

Best analysis of Twin Peaks I’ve seen yet! Can’t wait for the next one. So glad to have discovered your channel

I feel like this is exactly the type of analysis that would be nearly impossible to argue with, considering how well it gels with any other theory I’ve ever heard. The ideas in Twin Peaks are so inviting of interpretation and intuitive to each viewer and their own knowledge of life’s mechanics (waking or not) that even though I’ve never thought about the show in these terms, it seems like we felt and experienced the same show in a pure and exciting way. The way you describe the 8 circuits is not unlike Lynch describing the unified field.

I believe Dougie (pre-integration with repressed Cooper) is a portion of his shadow representing the trappings of materialism that, while not as malevolent as the actions of the other portion of his shadow, can be equally debilitating on the path toward integration. As a plot element he was created by the shadow to trap and then destroy repressed Cooper. Stretching a bit further I believe that both repressed Cooper and shadow Cooper are actually both trying to accomplish the same thing (finding/understanding Judy) through different means, but both fail. Its not until Bob (the evil men do/the regrets of repressed Cooper's life) is destroyed, and Cooper's shadow is purified and integrated that he is ready to begin his final journey toward understanding and conquering the root of human suffering. Continuing down this path, I assume Cooper's confusion in the final scene may stem from the delusion that his goal is to destroy Judy, but redemption is likely the true end.

This is the closest an interpretation to an explanation of Twin Peaks that i have ever come across & I’ve just about seen most of them & read most of them as well. I’ve been into Twin Peaks since before the 3rd season was a thought. I agree with your explanation as much as i do, due to the fact that David Lynch’s personal beliefs that i have read about are very similar to that which you have explained here & he certainly incorporates that into his works.

Very good! I've always imagined Laura as Dale's "Anima" and Dale as Laura's "Animus".

Fantastic analysis! I think the first scene of the TP the Return when Cooper and the Fireman are sitting in the b/w space is the true ending of Coopers story. He no longer is wearing the FBI pin that pins him to circuits 1-4. He has finally ascended into the astral realms or Circuit 8. He has become an ascended master. It is a happy ending.

Can't believe I was lucky enough to stumble on your channel- it's exceptional. Cooper's immersion in the One, Infinite Nothing is a stark reminder of the way that allows someone to engage with a land that does not tolerate humanity and also allows them to come back to it. You can't be too attached to your humanity, like the point that you make in this video- trying to harness the source of being without being able to let go of subjectivity is rather like the fire thief in Campbell's monomyth, and you're struck down by trying to contain the absolute in subject-object terms. The answer to Jung's question of 'if there's something beyond subject-object, who's there to see it' is the individual with psychosis, who has a being like a bucket with a hole in it. If the links between mystical experience and psychosis is ever something that catches your intrigue, Wouter Kusters has a book that is nothing short of incredible. But engaging with an ego that is too small or limited can be disastrous too. It's been a while since I watched twin peaks- I'm rewatching the series now- but a clinging to an ego can easily be seen as a weak or unfocused ego too- observing the splitting of his own psyche into his bad parts is really another step along the journey of rescue that should see him overpower his shadow and see the form of the Goddess in the anima. As you said, he instead runs away. A subjectivity that's structured by fear doesn't know when to go away. Dougie is hyperintuitive, then, and also almost completely unable to participate in the world- his subjectivity went 'bing' and shattered- which does not make him less spiritual, arguably moreso, but means he cannot return. Interestingly, out of the two ways to become lost in the sacred, Dougie gets the light side, instead of the darker side that leads into psychosis. I wonder, then, if the final confrontation of Cooper with his shadow in those final forms sees him become lost at sea.

That was absolutely fantastic, thank you very much for this video. Can't wait for part 2 ! I feel very glad to see people using and expanding the 8 circuits model. Although it can be a very useful map, I see it as only the skeleton of something much bigger, so the more perspectives on it the better. Hilaritas!

Fantastic! Amazing! I see all your previous clips and follow you from now and on!

I'm really looking forward to your follow up video to this, your perspective on life really speaks to me on a personal level and I want more.

This framework is very compelling, when we reached Dougie/Mr.C it clicked "oh my god Dougie is circuit 5-8 and Mr.C 1-4" I had already read a lot of interesting framework for Twin Peaks, but this one is hiiigh tier

This is one of the most original analysis’s of Twin Peaks, and Cooper’s journey that I have ever watched and heard. A great interpretation of everything in Twin Peaks with regard to Cooper’s fate explained. Thank you.

As a big critic/skeptic especially of yt essays, (geo)physicist (taken enough math to know the language of the universe), and TM-er; I have to say very well done. I only wish you could've elaborated more. "Where there is no board, there is no game to play." Nice.

i love this. Kind of embarrassing but i did cry bc of your beautiful storytelling.

Enjoy your take on Twin Peaks very much, the other video “Redemption” on it you’ve made as well. Have you watched Blue Velvet yet? I think it was David Lynch and Mary Sweeney practicing for what became Twin Peaks, it almost seems like a prequel from another dimension! Be well 😊

3:20, Barry Pullman, not Bill Pullman. Bill Pullman is the actor in Lost Highway ^-^

Around 19 minutes in I had a panic attack. I have had nightmares within nightmares within nightmares within one night. It's so bad I need to drink myself to sleep every night so I don't dream. Oh man...

Cool! I was sure from the beginning that Twin Peaks has to do with similar things considering the life of David Lynch. Prometheus Rising is a cool book!! Well-done!

Wow, man, I know it's cliché, but I can't believe you have fewer than a thousand subscribers, the quality is astonishing and the themes are fascinating! I'll surely check out your other work soon and I wish you all the best!

How have you got less than 2k subs my man? Incredible content here!

Holy Lord, what a brilliant, brilliant video.

I haven't experienced a dream in well over 20 years, at this point. I know they say we all do, whether we can recall it to active memory afterwards or not... but to me, that distinction matters very little in the end.

Looking forward to part 2 yerv very much

Very great interpretation, although I would add one caveat: I don't think Cooper is necessarily unified after defeating his shadow-self. For all of The Return, there are at least two Coopers operating in parallel, which I take is also the case through to the end. "Dougie Jones" returns to his family in the finale, and I think that's as close to a unified Cooper as we can glean. It really is a happy ending in some sense. But the narrative dwells on the ongoing spiritual journey Cooper must nevertheless undertake, and that has no clean resolution. Drawing direct parallels to real experience might be too boorish for some explicators' tastes, but I nevertheless think this is a vivid portrayal of the ceaseless psychic perturbance even the most put-together family man must endure. Tolerating the cosmic mystery, even allowing oneself to get overwhelmed by it, is necessary to maintain stability for one's self and one's family.

I think you may find it interesting to read The Hero by Lord Raglan. It is a book devoted to the reading of the myth of the Hero in history, whose meta-typification is described throughout history. This early and influential study was formative in Campbells writings. I studied it in relation to Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man, who also drew from it. What is most significant about this elder image of the hero is that he eventually dies at the end after partially succeeding, and partially failing his quest. In every retailing, the hero dies as a lonely king atop a hill. This is similar to how Ellison ends his story, which was taught to me as a hermetic document filled with hidden images and tropes for the informed mind, like Twin Peaks. Ellison’s narrator goes underground, and escapes from ordinary time, planning his emergence. It is said to be based on Dostoevsky’s The Underground Man. Is Cooper the Post Modern Underground Man? That’s fascinating in its implications, too. Cooper portrays Raglan’s version of the archetype of the hero, in his brash early success and later faltering, complete with its alone failed ending. His shadow, Mr C, seems to demand Kingship, with his ‘death card.’ Is Twin Peaks about the dual image of the hero in the human mind, one with no shadow drawn from film and the other hero, a tragic figure, drawn from literature? It’s a battle of archetypes, with no resolution. This may relate to the concept that the hero is an incomplete warrior, who masters himself instead of others. Mr C is the higher purpose Cooper cannot understand, trapped in a system of drives which is partially blind. The two cannot blend, and Cooper is blasted by the conflict into many multiples. Any unity that cannot comprehend Mr C is doomed to fail, just as the end of ep 18 represents the tragedy of blindness that typifies the classical tragic hero whose fatal flaw is shared with the body politic, leading to ‘Catharsis.’ I think that fatal flaw we all share is to know everything, but the inability to do anything. David Lynch originally was asked to direct Return of the Jedi. It’s title at that time was Revenge of the Jedi. I ask you, if you watch Mr C as a Revenging Jedi, with his Millennium Falcon and his hairy sidekicks, trying to defeat evil, but trapped in a shadow realm which is evil, does that make better sense of his arch? Especially as he has the purpose Cooper lacks, and both falter where the other seems to ‘succeed.’ Hmm! Thanks, this series is very interesting!

This presentation is very well done and obviously quite complex. One question: Are David Lynch and Mark Frost really this knowledgeable of consciousness that they could possibly have all of this built into the concept and script of Twin Peaks? And that many years ago (addressing that David Lynch has become rather outspoken on TM in that last number of years - the original idea of Twin Peaks being developed in the late 1980's)? And if so, one would have to think that only people who study the subject at the depth explained here could even begin to get a deeper meaning from the show.

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Great job!

Aka David Lynch had to find a way to deny us the happy ending that we wanted. So...ummm...Cooper has not integrated all eight circuits? Yes. Perfect.

This was incredible. Thank you! Any estimate on releasing part 2?

for those doubtful, then think of the mini-brain.. and part 18.. 23.:00 and 55.:00.. sparklers!

We're not going to talk about Judy

You can change you core persona but you must experience a death before death that fractures you persona.

I think your ideas are very enlightening. I disagree with one detail, though. I believe sexuality (and its development) begins before puberty.

Also can you tell me which video starts your 8 circuit series? Many thanks :)

It's the journey, not the destination.

There's not enough evidence to prove your hypothesis. However, there is no incorrect interpretation and your opinion is no less or more valid than any other.

Dream logic as well

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Agent Cooper, Dale Copper=AC/DC (circuit)

Hmmm.....well, sort of. But naw.

I was interested until you mention episode 11 from season 2, totally one of the worst episodes, the whole thing serial killer is so boring I threw away those 8-10 episode tapes to the trash like 20 years ago I didn't even remembered they existed.

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