Epiphany

LYRICIST'S NOTE: The search for Self. The path to peace and Individuation. At the time of conception (many years before the song release), I didn't even understand what these concepts meant, but the lyrics and sentiment came as if a foreshadowing of what would become a life long journey. Written early in that journey, the tone may skew bleak, but from that was born a greater and more positive insight which I now better understand.

INSPIRATION / MEANING: The search for true Self and the path to inner peace leads to questions. New doors opened reveal exponentially more divides and decisions. Stepping through each threshold elevates understanding and moves you ever closer to to who you are meant to become yet with each answer comes more questions. Understanding folds into itself leaving you feeling farther from your perceived destination than you were when you began. The keener the perception and the broader the view, the more complexity, detail and possibility can be seen and conceived. Many choose not to continue down this path because of such near maddening pursuits to completion and what we might see as understanding. They stop at one of those doors and turn to the side, choosing not to reach and reveal what might lie on the other side. They instead live out their mortal life as was defined and limited by the body which holds and defines it within this immediate world. They eventually shrivel away to dust in the soil from which the vessel originally sprouted.

Those that choose to continue on, unwavering, through doubt and uncertainty, will continue grow, and expand their vision beyond bounds that were never before known to exist. They will move past the mundane constructs that to which their animal and physical vessel holds limitation, and become privy to so much more than what is initially shown by this world. By choosing the path of boldness and struggle, the reward of persistence and devotion will lead to a new richness of vision an understanding that only those that possess such fortitude will have the pleasure of experiencing.

This is what I believe. Though the path is often darkly lit, sparsely traveled, and the obstacles encountered seemingly ominous and unpassable, the reward of ever progressing and fulfilling the hunger of the deeper Self is limitless and infinite. It has the power to bring wisdom and understanding to every moment of this existence. The imagery contained within this video is an extension of these original concepts, transformed into symbols and a take on the visual representations within the essence of that journey. Seeking, progressing, growing, ascending, forever…