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Alice’s Perilous Tales: Beware Negative Connotations of Place Names . by Alice B. Clagett

An M9-class solar flare took place today.

Alice's Perilous Tales: Beware Negative Connotations of Place Names

Image: “Charon and Psyche,” by John Roddam Spencer Stanhope, 1883, in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Charon_and_Psyche.jpgpublic domain

Image: “Charon and Psyche,” by John Roddam Spencer Stanhope, 1883, in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Charon_and_Psyche.jpg … public domain

  • NOA-NAMES
  • CABO DAS TORMENTAS – CAPE OF STORMS – AN UNLUCKY NAME
  • CHARNOCK ROAD
  • CHARNEL HOUSE
  • CHARON, WHO FERRIED THE DEAD TO HADES
  • ACHERON, THE RIVER OF WOE
  • ‘CHARNOCK’ DERIVES FROM THE WORD ‘CAIRN’ – POSSIBLY ‘BURIAL CAIRN’
  • THOMAS CHARNOCK, ALCHEMIST, WHO HOPED TO TURN BASE METALS INTO SILVER OR GOLD
  • CUTTING TO THE CHASE
    • Sidebar: How to Find Out about the ‘Heart Vampire’ Crime Family
    • The Science Behind Divination
    • Sidebar: Alice’s Perilous Tales: Descent of Light at Walmart – Archangel Michael, an M-Class Solar Flare, and … Anticipatably … a Satanist Who Did Not Want His Secret to Be Known
      • Affirmation of Light That May Help You Escape from a Temporal Death Trap
  • CONCLUSION
  • MORE INFORMATION

Dear Ones,

This is a real-life story about how Divination can help us escape from perilous situations. Then there is a sidebar that tells another of my perilous tales about a trip to Walmart yesterday, a Descent of Ascension Light, and an encounter with a man who secretly worshipped Satan (yikes!)

NOA-NAMES

I was reading about ‘Noa-name’ … as opposed to ‘Noa (name)’ in Wikipedia this week …

noa-name is a word that replaces a taboo word, generally out of fear that the true name would anger or summon the force or being in question. The term derives from the Polynesian concept of Noa, which is the antonym of Tapu (from which derives the word taboo) and serves to lift the tapu from a person or object.” –from Link: “Noa-name,” in Wikipedia … https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noa-name … CC BY-SA 4.0 

CABO DAS TORMENTAS – CAPE OF STORMS – AN UNLUCKY NAME

Link: “Dias Beach, Cape Point, South Africa,” by Diego Delso, 23 July 2019, in Wkimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Playa_Dias,_Cape_Point,_Sud%C3%A1frica,_2018-07-23,_DD_103.jpg … public domain

Link: “Dias Beach, Cape Point, South Africa,” by Diego Delso, 23 July 2019, in Wkimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Playa_Dias,_Cape_Point,_Sud%C3%A1frica,_2018-07-23,_DD_103.jpg … public domain

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Wikipedia gives an interesting example: There was a South African Cape with the Portuguese name ‘Cabo das Tormentas’, which means ‘Cape of Storms’. This is a good instance of a place name with a negative connotation.

Names like this can, I feel, have a negative effect on the subconscious mind. For instance, the subconscious mind might summon the notion of storms every time a person thinks of the Cape in question.

‘Cape’ is a word not so often used in the United States. The word is used for a promontory that juts out into a body of water such as a lake or the ocean. Here in the United States we might call such a promontory a ‘Point’ rather than a ‘Cape’. For instance, there is ‘Point Dume’, a Malibu promontory that juts out into the Pacific Ocean. Point Dume might otherwise have been named ‘Cape Dume’.

Getting back on topic, King John II of Portugal must have felt ‘Cabo das Tormentas’ was an unlucky name. He renamed the promontory ‘Cabo de Boa Esperanca’ or ‘Cape of Good Hope’. I second that motion.

CHARNOCK ROAD

Today I was perusing a map of Mar Vista in West Los Angeles, California. I came across ‘Charnock Road’. I had seen that road name before, and had the same negative reaction to reading the name this time as I had had priorly. I figured there must be a negative connotation to the name because it was the same as or similar to a word with negative or iffy connotations that I had read about priorly.

CHARNEL HOUSE

The first thing that sprang to mind was ‘charnel house’ …

“A charnel house is a vault or building used to store human skeletal remains. They were historically built near churches or cemeteries to hold disarticulated bones unearthed when digging new graves or when older burial grounds needed to be reused.” — Link: “Charnel house,” in English Wikiipedia … https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charnel_house … CC BY-SA 4.0

Here is a negative image that might pop up in the subconscious mind because of subconscious association of ‘Charnock’ with ‘charnel’. This image is far from cheery, as may be seen …

Image: “A Greek charnel house filled with disarticulated skeletal human remains,” by Nabokov (talk), Summer 2008, in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CharnelHouse.JPG … CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported

Image: “A Greek charnel house filled with disarticulated skeletal human remains,” by Nabokov (talk), Summer 2008, in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CharnelHouse.JPG … CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported

CHARON, WHO FERRIED THE DEAD TO HADES

Then there is the mythical figure Charon, who was said to ferry the Dead to Hades …

“In Greek mythology, Charon or Kharon … is the ferryman of the Greek underworld. He transports the souls of those who have been given funeral rites across the river (often called Acheron or Styx) that borders the underworld.” — from Link: “Charon,” in Wikipedia … https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charon … CC BY-SA 4.0

I recall three striking paintings of Charon, all of them offputting. One of these is “Charon and Psyche,” which is at the top of this post.

ACHERON, THE RIVER OF WOE

Here is another connotation: the word’ Acheron’, which sound like ‘Charon’, which sounds like ‘Charnock’.

I recall a rather melodramatic painting of Acheron that I featured in other posts. It seems likely that the tall figure in the boat is meant to be Charon, only without the traditional long beard of mythology …

Image: “Souls on the Banks of the Acheron,” by Adolf Hiremy-Hirschi, 1898, in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Adolf_Hir%C3%A9my-Hirschl_-_Die_Seelen_am_Acheron_-_942_-_%C3%96sterreichische_Galerie_Belvedere.jpg … public domain

Image: “Souls on the Banks of the Acheron,” by Adolf Hiremy-Hirschi, 1898, in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Adolf_Hir%C3%A9my-Hirschl_-_Die_Seelen_am_Acheron_-_942_-_%C3%96sterreichische_Galerie_Belvedere.jpg … public domain

‘CHARNOCK’ DERIVES FROM THE WORD ‘CAIRN’ – POSSIBLY ‘BURIAL CAIRN’

There are yet more negative connotations to consider. Genealogical sites aver that the English home surname ‘Charnock’ derives from the word ‘carn’. A cairn is a pile of stones, or a rock, or an area of land that is stony. Because a cairn is sometimes a burial cairn, or grave marker, this connotation becomes quite relevant to the street name ‘Charnock Road’.

One begins to imagine piles of stones along Charnock Road, and that the stones represent graves. One begins to wonder about the advisability of living on any road named ‘Charnock’; does one not?

Here is an Irish megalithic monument that is one of the Irish ‘passage tombs’ …

Image: “Carrowkeel Passage Tomb,” by John M., 23 June 2010, in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Carrowkeel_Passage_Tomb_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1929464.jpg … CC BY-SA 2.0 Generic

Image: “Carrowkeel Passage Tomb,” by John M., 23 June 2010, in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Carrowkeel_Passage_Tomb_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1929464.jpg … CC BY-SA 2.0 Generic

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Once more the morbid connotation!

THOMAS CHARNOCK, ALCHEMIST, WHO HOPED TO TURN BASE METALS INTO SILVER OR GOLD

Image: “The Alchemist,” by Cornelis Pietersz Bega, 1663, in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cornelis_Pietersz._Bega_-_De_Alchemist.jpg … public domain

Image: “The Alchemist,” by Cornelis Pietersz Bega, 1663, in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cornelis_Pietersz._Bega_-_De_Alchemist.jpg … public domain

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Now here is a changeup: In 16th Century England there was an alchemist named Thomas Charnock. He spent his financially unlucky but metaphysically intriguing life looking for a way to turn mercury or lead into silver or gold. –from Link: “Thomas Charnock,” in English Wikipedia … https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Charnock .. CC BY-SA 4.0

CUTTING TO THE CHASE

Image: “The Wild Chase,” by Franz von Stuck, circa 1889, in Wikipedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Franz_von_Stuck_-_Die_Wilde_Jagd_-_G_1405_-_Lenbachhaus.jpg … public domain

Image: “The Wild Chase,” by Franz von Stuck, circa 1889, in Wikipedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Franz_von_Stuck_-_Die_Wilde_Jagd_-_G_1405_-_Lenbachhaus.jpg … public domain

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Dear Readers, I can almost hear you say: So what! How could these connotations for the place name ‘Charnock Road’ possibly apply to the real world?

You have a good point.

When I examine place names, through long years of understanding the significance of their connotations, and because of my early years of analyzing my own dreams, and my subsequent development of a theory of the symbolic, image-word language of the subconscious mind, I now arrive at lightning quick conclusions about the type of luck I may experience through being at those places … or the luck I may experience by being near people who live at or frequent those places.

It is as if I get an instant technicolor snapshot of the near future. I get what is in store for me through my association with this place. I get the pros and cons. I get the depth of darkness or the depth of Light to be had therein. I get the ‘Oh no!’ or the ‘Great wow!’. And this is before anything along the lines of good luck or bad luck has actually occurred.

Thus for you, my Readers, it would be helpful, in terms of your own good luck or bad luck, to know whether a physical location … a geographic ‘spot on the map’ … bodes well for your future or not.

I hope I have finally succeeded in explaining the art of divination place names to your satisfaction, as priorly I have quite frequently vaulted past the explanations and cut to the chase.

In the instance of Charnock Road, then, let me cut to the chase. I had a real life reason for researching the place name. I had a dream last night that someone I depended on for medical care had hooked up socially with a woman I met many years ago who purported to be a psychologist, but whom I felt not to have the credentials for that work.

I had attended a meditation meetup led by the woman. That was near, but not on, Charnock Road. While at these meditations I had had a really peculiar, repeating physical occurrence that I term the ‘psychic swoon’. It was I that almost swooned during almost every meditation. None of the other ladies at the meditation had swooned …

Animated Gif: “Psychic Swoon as Practiced by Neo-Hindu Cults That Kill,” drawing by Alice B. Clagett, 23 August 2021, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

Animated Gif: “Psychic Swoon as Practiced by Neo-Hindu Cults That Kill,” drawing by Alice B. Clagett, 23 August 2021, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

You can read more about the ‘psychic swoon’ by searching that term on my website.

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Sidebar: How to Find Out about the ‘Heart Vampire’ Crime Family

You can read more about what I once termed the likely now defunct ‘Heart Vampire’ Crime Family, of which the lady meditation leader I mentioned above may once have been a part, by clicking the relevant links in this post …

Link: “Organizational Chart of the ‘Heart Vampire’ Crime Family and Key to Nicknames,” by Alice B. Clagett, Drawn and published on 10 February 2021; revised on 24 June 2023… https://wp.me/p2Rkym-lrx ..

You can find links to my posts that feature the nicknames of the then-members of the purported ‘Heart Vampire’ Crime Family by searching the ‘HEART VAMPIRE KILLING CULT’ portion of this post …

Link: “Compendium: All Catastrophic Childhood and Astral Case Studies,” by Alice B. Clagett, written and published on 14 August 2020 … https://wp.me/p2Rkym-jyF ..

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The Science Behind Divination

In my research this morning, as aforementioned, I came across the location term ‘Charnock Road’. I quickly flashed on this, for my own helpful purposes …

‘Charnock Road’ speaks to death, burial mounds, underground passages and underground rivers leading to the Hellworlds. Not good.

The life of Thomas Charnock speaks to the presence of people who delve into the esoteric for personal gain, and who have bad luck for departing from established religions for that reason.

Putting the two together, I get an imminently looming personal death threat because of the hookup between the lady psychologist and the health professional on whom I had been depending.

I then verified the connection of the health professional to the location word ‘Charnock Road’ through an online photo that I had the very great fortune to run across. God be blessed! As they say in the olden way. ‘Benedicto benedicatur’ … ‘May the One who blesses be blessed.’

From all that I derived a course of action to allay the threat.

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So there you have it, gentle Readers. This is the helpfulness of developing an understanding of the language of the subconscious mind …

Link: “‘Image Words’: The Vocabulary of the Subconscious Mind,” by Alice B. Clagett, written and published on 25 May 2019; revised and filmed on 11 June 2022; revised on 9 November 2022; on 28 July 2024; and on 11 September 2024 … https://wp.me/p2Rkym-cS5 ..

… and the importance of mastering the subconscious mind …

Link: “Mastering the Mind and the Human EMF: The Importance of Aligning with God, with the Angels, and with Our Ascension Team – 15A. Video and Contents,” by Alice B. Clagett, written and published on 16 April 2016; revised on 12 February 2019 and following. This revised Video 15 for the series was published on 22 September 2024. https://wp.me/p2Rkym-yHB ..

And now you know why I arrive at lightning quick decisions as if through a ‘siddhi’ or psychic power I were materializing food out of thin air. There is a science behind Divination, and that science can help us find the safest possible path through this lifetime.

That science is often know by the humble epithets ‘intuition’ or ‘hunch’. I might say, “I have a hunch i had best hightail it out of this situation!” Everyone would understand me then. We all have hunches … we all have intuitive insights … but they are somewhat mysterious, are they not?

So then, this post you have now read explains a little about where our hunches come from. Our subconscious mind grasps what out conscious mind does not. By carefully delving into the why and wherefore of our lightning fast decisions, we can uncover the fundament of the hunch.

You may ask, How does this pertain to life in the third dimension? The answer is that the subconscious mind dwells in the dreamtime realm, the fourth dimension. The Fourth dimension is higher in frequency than the third dimension, which we humans … drawing from the hip with hair-trigger pistols, as it were … take to be the real McCoy, the ‘be all and the end all’ or actual fact of existence.

But Lightworkers know that the fourth dimension trumps the third dimension. The third dimension, in fact, is fashioned for us humans by our nighttime dreams.

Our dreams are ruled by our subconscious minds. Unless we integrate our subconsious minds into our conscious and superconscious minds. we will never master time and space. We will never master the latent gift of prophecy that lies within each of us.

And more importantly, we will not be able to escape from the stranglehold of time and space, to the clear, high frequencies of the fifth to twelfth dimensions. These higher frequencies escape the subconscious net. They are characterized by complete faith in the great Will, the great Mind, and the great Heart of God.

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Sidebar: Alice’s Perilous Tales: Descent of Light at Walmart – Archangel Michael, an M-Class Solar Flare, and … Anticipatably … a Satanist Who Did Not Want His Secret to Be Known

Yesterday I was in Walmart. I had to sit for an hour or so while a sales person processed a complicated order for me. While I waited, there was a huge, and greatly unexpected Descent of Light. Upon the Walmart! Go figure!

Out of boredom, in part, and also out of curiosity, I had been talking telepathically with some of the people in the store. We were talking about about demons, and I mentioned I thought it might be good for me to move to some other city.

On the telepathic plane, I heard a lady in the store laugh and say, “Those demons are everywhere.”

I had to laugh. She was right. It’s me I have to change, not my location.

Then I mentioned I had tried this Pixabay audio, and that it had worked really well for me. This is the Prayer to Saint Michael that was instituted by Pope Leo XIII long years ago. Here the prayer is ably set to song by Nicholas Panek …

 

Music by Nicholas Panek from Pixabay – Defende Nos In Proelio: An Epic Gregorian Battle Chant by nikpanekAlassets – Pixabay License

On the clairvoyant plane, I saw a man near the back of the store search for and find this song on his handheld. I didn’t hear anything in the Walmart, so I figured he must have listened to it with headphones.

Immediately thereon, there was a mind boggling influx of higher dimensional Light into the Walmart.

There was an M3-class solar flare that day. Could that have had something to do with it? Just as there has been an M9-class solar flare that took place today.

I often think that solar flares may be conceived as the descent of the grace of the Archangels. If you feel that may be so, then what happened to me yesterday may offer you personal affirmation, as it did me.

This was all fine and groovy; I was having a great time with the Light, and with the people in the Walmart, who seemed at the time to be transfixed in Ascensional splendor. It was quite something.

Then when I went to the checkout line … Kaboom! … I found myself in a slow line, behind a family. The man in the family had … or so it seemed on the telepathic plane … really gotten his dander up regarding this Ascensional Influx of Light.

In his mind it seemed to me he squelched the thought, “May know one know that I worship Satan.”

Gosh, no! A Satan worshipper! And this during a mighty fine Descent of Light! There was nothing for it but to recite (sotto voce, or better yet, silently, for sure) this Activation of Light that had helped me out of sticky wickets in days of yore …

Affirmation of Light That May Help You Escape from a Temporal Death Trap

Spirit to Team!
Optimize Timelines and Dimension!
For the All,
Through Free Will!  (x3)

This Activation is still as powerful as ever. I can attest to that. After what seemed an eternity of waiting in line, I exited, unscathed, to the parking lot.

There was a photographer with a flash camera in the first line of cars across from the small road in front of the Walmart. He shouted out that I should turn toward him, then took a picture of me. I had a concern, considering the waiting line scenario, that his intent might not have been all for the good. But, happily, nothing bad happened after that. All went well.

So you can see there is cause for confidence in the Activation of Light that is set forth in this Sidebar.

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CONCLUSION

God is capable of anything. It is He that created the seed of life present in His first Thought of this present Universe. It is He that sent that seed whirling on the backs of boloids and meteors to each newly created star and galaxy.

Most assuredly He can help us to escape the death traps laid before us by the unethical greed of alchemists and diviners who don the garb of health professional in this, the City of the Angeles, which once went by the moniker “El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles” … The Town of Our Lady the Queen of the Angeles.

The Mother of God incarnate is she who blesses us here in Los Angeles. She brings the Angels to this city. She can intercede for us with Christ and with his Father, who is God the creator of all.

What I am getting at is this: Summer Solstice is 21 June 2026. Before then each of my Readers may come upon this and that small tempest. Use your intuition, follow your hunches, keep the Faith, know that there will be a way through.

Until Summer Solstice, pursue your best spiritual practice with the utmost vigor. In that way you can ‘hitch your ride on our star, Earth’s Sun’ at the moment of annual highest Light.

God bless you all,
And keep you safe,
And be with you
Through all your days.

Io lux et pax nobiscum.
Joy, light and peace be with us!
Alice B. Clagett

Written and published on 3 June 2026

MORE INFORMATION

Link: “Seeding the Solar System with Life: Mars, Venus, Earth, Moon, Protoplanets,” by Rhawn G. Joseph, Olivier Planchon, Carl H. Gibson, and Rudolph Schild, in Open Astron. 2020; 29: 124-157 … https://www.researchgate.net/publication/344758933_Seeding_the_Solar_System_with_Life_Mars_Venus_Earth_Moon_Protoplanets

Link: “Cause of Cambrian Explosion – Terrestrial or Cosmic?” by Edward J. Steele et al., in ScienceDirect, “Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology,” Volume 136, August 2018, pages 2-23 … https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0079610718300798?via%3Dihub … Creative Commons license … COMMENTS: The authors are an all star cast, including, among many others, D.T. Wickramasinghe, J.T. Wickramasinghe, and N. Chandra Wickramasinghe.

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Metaphors: Is ‘Losing Face’ Lethal? . by Alice B. Clagett

Metaphors: Is 'Losing Face' Lethal?

Image: “Exclamation Yellow Flat Icon [Referral Icon],” by Tomybrz, 14 June 2018, in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Exclamation_yellow_flat_icon.svg … public domain

Dear Ones,

Is this about losing face? That’s a subconscious metaphor, I guess … the type of thing that lucid dreams reveal.

Video: “NOCTURNE | Award-Winning Stop Motion Animated Short Film,” by Anne Breymann, 11 May 2026 … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7rOBlwj5B8 ..

I am guessing from this most excellent short film that the subconscious mind may figure losing face is life threatening. Which would explain why folks might go to otherwise inexplicable extremes to avoid losing face.

Excellent short film. Wow!

Io lux et pax nobiscum.
Joy, light and peace be with us!
Alice B. Clagett

Written and published on 21 May 2026, revised on the same day

This post has been added here … Link: “Compendium: Physical Misinterpretation of Metaphors by the Subconscious Mind,” by Alice B. Clagett, written and published on 27 June 2021; updated … https://wp.me/p2Rkym-nwt ..

MORE INFORMATION

Link: “Symbolic Thinking, Subconscious Mind, and Spiritual Ego,” by Alice B. Clagett, written and published on 16 May 2015 … https://wp.me/p2Rkym-5KP ..

Link: “‘Image Words’: The Vocabulary of the Subconscious Mind,” by Alice B. Clagett, written and published on 25 May 2019; revised and filmed on 11 June 2022; revised on 9 November 2022; on 28 July 2024; and on 11 September 2024 ,,, https://wp.me/p2Rkym-cS5 ,,

Link: “Unified Mind: Integrating the Lower Mental Body into the Higher Mental Body,” by Alice B. Clagett, filmed on 6 September 2016; published on 7 September 2016 … https://wp.me/p2Rkym-64E ..

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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.

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Written and published on 10 September 2024

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