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Gender: Slayer . Vampire video review by Alice B. Clagett

Have you ever run into a Vampire? How did you get away from him? Do you have hints for my readers on how to steer clear of men who identify as Vampires … or Lust Murderers … or in modern parlance, as Gender: Slayers?

Gender: Slayer . Vampire video review by Alice B. Clagett

Image: “The Couple: The Impossibility to Make It [cropped],” from artist Leda Luss Luyken’s own files, 10 October 1996, in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Couple_1.JPG … CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported … COMMENTS: Note how the woman is ‘keeping an eye on’ the man. This artist, I feel, is putting the metaphor-filled symbolic language of the subconscious mind on canvas! Note how the blood stain on the man’s lips is shaped like a heart. Does the man have in mind to ‘eat the woman’s heart out’? Is he a ‘heart vampire’, who absorbs love from a woman without giving any in return? In a worst case scenario, might the man have in mind to eat the physical heart of the woman? Might he be a cannibal?! What does this image really mean? –Alice B. Clagett

Image: “The Couple: The Impossibility to Make It [cropped],” from artist Leda Luss Luyken’s own files, 10 October 1996, in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Couple_1.JPG … CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported … COMMENTS: Note how the woman is ‘keeping an eye on’ the man. This artist, I feel, is putting the metaphor-filled symbolic language of the subconscious mind on canvas! Note how the blood stain on the man’s lips is shaped like a heart. Does the man have in mind to ‘eat the woman’s heart out’? Is he a ‘heart vampire’, who absorbs love from a woman without giving any in return? In a worst case scenario, might the man have in mind to eat the physical heart of the woman? Might he be a cannibal?! What does this image really mean? –Alice B. Clagett

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Dear Ones,

Alice the Amateur Psychologist says: This Vampire Waltz seems to me to show that men who murder women as a means of sexual satisfaction may view the world as a mime performance.

Video: “Vampire Waltz (music video),” by Xavier J., 7 May 2016 … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xk9walOQI44 ..

Two-Faced Master of Ceremonies

They may think of themselves and of society as two-faced, as may be seen by the black-and-white paint on the face of the master of ceremonies at timeframe 0:30 and following.

A Third Gender: Slayers!

It could be that Woman Slayers … lust murderers … think of themselves as “Gender: Slayers” – in other words, as being a ‘third gender’ that murders rather than as a person who chooses to engage in the traditional male / female sexual ritual.

Subconscious Metaphor: The Puppeteer

It may be as if the Woman Slayers are standing on a balcony observing other people who interact by means of stiff social gestures, without showing their true feelings. Woman Slayers may think of other people, both men and women, as puppets rather than living beings.

Spider Women

They may think of women as two-faced cruel ‘spider women’ who pretend to be friendly but are really antisocial, as is portrayed by the vignette of the limber woman wearing two masks at timeframe 0:40 and following.

Subconscious Metaphor: The Man on the Balcony – the Man Who Is ‘Above It All’

Just after that, at timeframe 0:50 and following is a vignette of two somber jesters who walk onto a balcony to observe what might be termed the stylized ‘social dance’ on the dance floor below them.

These two men might represent what woman-slaying men feel is their true selves – that they are rational men detached from the mime performance.

In this timeframe, socialized people … who participate in what Woman Slayers see as a stylized dance … are  literally beneath the Woman Slayers (because they are standing on a balcony; this is a subconscious metaphor, meaning that they feel that socialized people are beneath them – below them – less worthy than them.

This metaphor appears again as the Vampire below grabs his red-dressed dance partner close, then lowers her beneath himself.

Then at timeframe 1:10 and following, the other man – the Vampire that merely observes the performance – is swinging on a trapeze far above the incipient sexual act. In other words, he is ‘above it all’.

Subconscious Metaphor: The Jester

Here is another take on timeframe 0:50 and following, which is a vignette of two somber jesters. Why jesters? Could it be that Woman Slayers feel other people think of them as fools … and also that other people don’t take them for who they really are?

These men may have found that it is easy to make a jest about how they murder women, and that socialized people will think they are making a joke. They may have found that socialized people will just laugh and turn away, rather than putting on the handcuffs.

Why? Because socialized peoples’ minds are set in a mold that cannot admit of such outre behavior as that of the Woman Slayer.

The Vampirism Legend as a Metaphor for Lust Murder

At timeframe 2:10 and following the Vampire baring his teeth symbolizes his murder of the sexy woman as a means of satisfying his sexual urge. So there you have the Vampire Legend as a portrayal of Woman Slayers down through the ages.

It must be, then, that Woman Slayers have played at Gender: Slayer role in the warp and woof of the civilized world for about a thousand years now, since the legend originated in 1047 A.D.

Down through the centuries it must be that the Vampire legend came to be defined as Woman Slayer only, rather than as Slayer of both men and women. At least, so it seems from this interesting video review.

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What do you think of this movie review? If you are not a Vampire, please feel free to comment.

In love, light and joy
This is Alice B. Clagett.
I Am of the Stars … and so are you!

Written and published on 10 September 2024

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On Finding Firm Footing Despite Undercurrents of Social Unrest . by Alice B. Clagett

Imaged and published on 29 April 2022
Location: San Fernando Valley, California

Composite Image Markup: “Social Unrest,” compiled and adapted by Alice B. Clagett, 29 April 2022, CC BY-SA 4.0, CC BY-SA 4.0, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com … CREDITS: Image: “The Wrath of the Seas,” by Ivan Ayvazovsky, 1886, in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Picture_%22anger_of_the_seas%22_by_Aivasovsky.jpg … public domain … and … Image: “1932 Art Deco Municipal Building in Van Nuys Also Known as the Van Nuys City Hall,” by Michael D. Caliandro, 15 January 2018, in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1932_Art_Deco_Valley_Municipal_Building_Van_Nuys_City_Hall.jpg … CC BY-SA 4.0 International

Composite Image Markup: “Social Unrest,” compiled and adapted by Alice B. Clagett, 29 April 2022, CC BY-SA 4.0, CC BY-SA 4.0, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com

CREDITS: Image: “The Wrath of the Seas,” by Ivan Ayvazovsky, 1886, in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Picture_%22anger_of_the_seas%22_by_Aivasovsky.jpg … public domain … and … Image: “1932 Art Deco Municipal Building in Van Nuys Also Known as the Van Nuys City Hall,” by Michael D. Caliandro, 15 January 2018, in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1932_Art_Deco_Valley_Municipal_Building_Van_Nuys_City_Hall.jpg … CC BY-SA 4.0 International

Dear Ones,

Here is an image depicting a wave of social unrest that I as an intuitive feel to be cresting Interstate 405 in Van Nuys, California, just past the Van Nuys City Hall, and heading, little by little, west towards the ocean.

We people of Los Angeles must do what we can to calm the waters, to stem the tide of social unrest, to house the homeless, and to make sure all Angelenos have enough to eat and a means of making enough money to care for their families.

Let us stand together in these times of change, with a positive attitude and a determination to help our people see their way through, till each and every one of us may get through this Solar Cycle 25, and the Solar Maximum in which we now find ourselves.

Let it be our vision and our intention that all humankind find firm footing in New Life on New Earth.

In love, light and joy
This is Alice B. Clagett.
I Am of the Stars … and so are you!

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Acting Out of the Metaphor ‘On the Hot Seat’ . by Alice B. Clagett

Acting Out of the Metaphor 'On the Hot Seat'

Image: “A Frightened and an Angry Face, Left and Right Respectively,” Engraving, circa 1760, after C. Le Brun, in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_frightened_and_an_angry_face,_left_and_right_respectively._Wellcome_V0009326.jpg … CC BY 4.0 International … CREDIT: This file comes from Wellcome Images, a website operated by Wellcome Trust, a global charitable foundation based in the United Kingdom.

Image: “A Frightened and an Angry Face, Left and Right Respectively,” Engraving, circa 1760, after C. Le Brun, in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_frightened_and_an_angry_face,_left_and_right_respectively._Wellcome_V0009326.jpg … CC BY 4.0 International … CREDIT: This file comes from Wellcome Images, a website operated by Wellcome Trust, a global charitable foundation based in the United Kingdom.

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Dear Ones,

On the astral plane, and also in a news article quite some years ago, I heard about a father who ‘acted out’ the metaphor ‘put him on the hot seat’ by placing his toddler son in a sitting position on a hot stove burner.

I take this to be additional support for my theory that the language of the subconscious mind is one of metaphor and image words, which have the danger of being ‘acted out’ in the physical realm when people are in the grips of emotions such as great anger or great fear or great grief … emotions so great that the conscious mind cannot maintain control of one’s actions.

For more on my new theory on ‘image words’ and the subconscious mind, see … Link: “‘Image Words’: The Vocabulary of the Subconscious Mind,” by Alice B. Clagett, written and published on 25 May 2019 … https://wp.me/p2Rkym-cS5 ..

In love, light and joy
This is Alice B. Clagett.
I Am of the Stars … and so are you!

Written and published on 29 April 2022
Location: San Fernando Valley, California

For more concepts and terms I have coined, see … Link: “Glossary of Unusual Words and Phrases,” by Alice B. Clagett, written and published on 12 December 2019; updated … https://wp.me/p2Rkym-fzl ..

See also my blog category: Effect of Metaphors on the Subconscious Mind

I have added this blog to … Link: “Compendium: Physical Misinterpretation of Metaphors by the Subconscious Mind,” by Alice B. Clagett, written and published on 27 June 2021 … https://wp.me/p2Rkym-nwt ..

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‘Take Shelter’ . movie review by Alice B. Clagett

Written and published on 19 July 2021

Image: “Apokalipse,” by Albert Goodwin, 1903, in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Apocalypse-Albert_Goodwin.jpg … public domain

Image: “Apokalipse,” by Albert Goodwin, 1903, in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Apocalypse-Albert_Goodwin.jpg … public domain

Dear Ones,

I skimmed through the movie ‘Take Shelter’ the other day …

Link: “Take Shelter,” IMDb … https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1675192/ ..

I find the movie interesting because the recurring images experienced by the male protagonist seem like what I term ‘image words’ from the gut brain (the subconscious mind’s vocabulary). It is good how the ending shows that a family can stand together and shelter in faith in each other, and love of each other, even if the subconscious mind is creating what the Ascensioneers call ‘vivid waking dreams’, in the case of the movie, more like vivid waking nightmares.

The movie also shows how one person’s fearful ‘mental filter’ (that of the husband in the movie) can influence another person (in this case the wife) to take on the same ‘mental filter’.

As a phenomenon, the tendency of the human mind to broadcast mental filters can be either good or bad. The difference has to do with the tenor of the emotional portion of the images that are broadcast. Is the emotion negative or positive? That is the key to the effect that broadcasting of one’s own mental filters has on other people.

For instance, in the movie ‘Take Shelter’ one of the visually striking images that recur in the mind of the male protagonist is a ‘murmuration’ of birds, perhaps starlings or sparrows. This is an aerial phenomenon rather like the simultaneous turning and wheeling motion of schools of fish in the water …

Video: “School of Fish,” by Earth Rangers, 25 July 2012 … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=su1en9Vxpog ..

In the movie ‘Take Shelter’, the male protagonist feels a recurring anxious feeling, a feeling of  foreboding. It is, I feel, because of the negative tenor of his emotion that he takes his recurring image of a murmuration of dark-colored birds to be an omen of impending apocalypse.

Yet many people see a murmuration of birds, and feel joy or wonderment when they see it. Such is the case with the young women in this video …

Video: “Murmuration (Official Video) by Sophie Windsor Clive & Liberty Smith,” by IslandsAndRivers 2 December 2011 … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRNqhi2ka9k ..

It is clear, then, that it is the feeling that accompanies visualization of an image that causes its perception as a good image or a bad image.

When a person has recurring images popping up from the subconscious mind, and when these images are accompanied by a strongly negative emotion … one that is hard to deal with without ‘acting out’ … then psychologists might term that condition Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (as with COVID stress). Or they might term it ‘generalized anxiety’; or if the emotions get out of hand, they might term it ‘panic attack’. There is also the psychological term ‘paranoid schizophrenia’, which I gather might be a label for recurring ‘panic attacks’ as in the movie.

Broadcasting of mental filters has a good effect in cases where a person’s mental filters allow him to send forth uplifting images from the subconscious mind. In these instances, families or groups such as social circles and church congregations can stand together with courage against adversity.

Broadcasting of mental filters has a bad effect in cases such as that in the movie, where the protagonist’s fearful mental images cause his wife to become fearful, and cause his Ohio small town community to turn against him and label him mentally imbalanced. Broadcasting of negatively aspected mental filters can, I feel, cause what is termed ‘folie à deux’, ‘folie à famille’, ‘folie à coterie’ (that is, a delusion shared by two people, by a family, or by a small group); or in the case of crowds of people, ‘mass hysteria’. The latter may take place across a town, or across a nation, or even … due to the near-instantaneous nature of global communication … worldwide, as is the case with COVID fears.

Please do not misunderstand: It is not that we ought not take proper precautions regarding COVID; it is just that negatively aspected images to do with COVID can cause inappropriate actions … or no action at all, when action is in fact needed so as to preserve life. For instance, it may well be that COVID vaccines are a ‘hard sell’ worldwide because people are experiencing ‘fawn’, ‘freeze’, or ‘flop’ types of threat responses after taking in too much in the way of online images that cause them to feel the emotion of fear regarding COVID.

In cases where a person is affected by other people’s broadcasting of negatively aspected mental filters (such as with the relentless COVID newscasts last year), the person must learn to view negatively aspected mental images with a neutral mind, as does the male protagonist in the movie ‘Take Shelter’. Through cutting down on visual intake of negative images … for instance, by limiting one’s viewing of negative images online … anxiety about the future can be dealt with nonreactively. Or one may simply stand strong and still, while the image is visualized, until the negative feeling ebbs away.

That means to me that the true ‘shelter’ for one’s mind is a strong, still, neutral stance of mind despite the ups and downs of daily life.

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In love, light and joy
This is Alice B. Clagett.
I Am of the Stars … and so are you!

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