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ABC of Wilton Celebrates 25 Decades
A Better Possibility of Wilton (ABC) celebrated 25 yrs as a superior faculty community-sponsored system on Sunday, April 10 with a festive social gathering at the Carriage Home at Ambler Farm. The festivities recognized the communal successes of ABC’s historic 53 scholars and the town’s cultural progress from their variety and enthusiasm.
Pictured higher than: Former ABC Students and Board Presidents reunited at Sunday night’s A Improved Likelihood of Wilton’s (ABC) 25th Anniversary Celebration. Pictured: Chris Payne WHS 2008 Previous President Marylynn Clune Elijah Everett WHS 2008 Former President Lynne Vanderslice and Jeremy Lewis WHS 2009.
As one of only 22 national community-sponsored applications, ABC Wilton has graduated 53 students who have attended higher education and embarked on careers in technological innovation, enterprise, finance and social services.
ABC’s mission is to invite academically talented superior faculty pupils from underserved communities to are living in city and attend Wilton Substantial Faculty. The program offers direction and day by day support for the individuals, who are joined by Wilton host families on the weekend.
“The education is the primary thing but a massive element is the practical experience,” Monei Walker, a past scholar of ABC Wilton, recalled. “I arrived to meet people today, make connections… It’s a family here.”
The program relies solely on private donations and fundraising events inside the local community, with all of the monies elevated supporting the program’s initiatives. The program gains from possessing the comprehensive backing of the Wilton Significant School administration, the Board of Education and the town itself. Even so, a important aspect of guidance that fosters success is the involvement of ABC volunteers: a working Board of Administrators, host families, motorists, college or university coaches and scholar advocates.
People Can Get Benefit of Profits Tax-Cost-free Holiday break 7 days
Connecticut residents are used to possessing a 7 days of vacation from having to pay revenue tax on certain goods just about every August, generally suitable before the start of school. But now, there’s a reward 7 days of tax discounts that Nutmeg Point out citizens can love starting Sunday, Apr. 10 by Saturday, Apr. 16.
Many thanks to laws passed final thirty day period, purchases of most outfits and footwear priced less than $100 an product will be exempt from Connecticut’s 6.35{6d6906d986cb38e604952ede6d65f3d49470e23f1a526661621333fa74363c48} gross sales tax.
The gross sales tax getaway was part of a bill to help CT people help save in various areas — it suspended Connecticut’s gasoline tax as effectively as fares on public buses from April 1-June 30. The legislation was handed by the CT legislature and signed by Gov. Ned Lamont in March.
“With this bipartisan action, we are having measures to deliver some relief to people as they face growing charges owing to a variety of intercontinental dynamics and current market instability that go much further than our point out,” Lamont stated in a assertion, including that he was prepared to “use just about every instrument available” to support people find aid.
The list of attire and footwear that qualify below the sales tax getaway for April is really similar to things that are exempt from profits and use tax in August. Even so, the April 2022 Income Tax-Free of charge 7 days does not exclude merchandise thought of “special apparel or footwear largely intended for athletic exercise or protective use.” In addition, profits of wallets are not issue to tax through the April 7 days, even though they are ordinarily excluded from the tax holiday break in August.
Landscape Company’s Truck Runs More than, Kills Worker in Wilton
An staff of a landscaper performing in Wilton was killed Saturday early morning when he was strike and operate over by one particular of the landscape company’s vans.
Wilton law enforcement, firefighters and EMS responded to a simply call at 77 Danbury Rd. at approximately 10:35 a.m. on Saturday early morning, April 9 for what officers mentioned was a car crash involving a pedestrian. On the scene, responders mentioned they discovered a landscaping truck experienced run more than an employee of the landscaping enterprise, and the employee was trapped below the motor vehicle.
The Wilton Fire Section moved the motor vehicle to extricate the target, later identified as Norwalk resident Adolfo Guitierrez Sanchez.
A report issued by Wilton Police Community Facts Officer Lt. Gregg Phillipson explained Sanchez was unresponsive and everyday living-preserving initiatives ended up manufactured but ended up unsuccessful. Sanchez was pronounced dead at the scene.
The Wilton Police Crash Reconstruction Staff is continuing to examine this incident. Any person with facts relevant to this incident is questioned to speak to Phillipson by cellular phone at 203.834.6325 or by using email. Contact can also be made anonymously by the anonymous suggestion line at 203.563.0256 or by using e-mail.
Landscaping work has begun at the former L.A. Reynolds Garden Showcase site in western Forsyth County, about 3½ years after the 37-acre property was purchased for $2 million.
Mayfair Street Partners of Alpharetta, Ga., is the developer. In 2018, it opened a local office in Winston Tower in downtown Winston-Salem.
Simon Burgess, managing director of Mayfair who is based locally, could not be immediately reached for comment for an update on the redevelopment.
Buildings have been demolished and site preparation is taking place at the former L.A. Reynolds Garden Showcase on Styers Ferry Road.
Walt Unks photos
The L.A. Reynolds business, which had operated since 1979 at 4400 Styers Ferry Road, ended operations in the summer of 2017 amid a family dispute over future plans for the site. The nursery, landscaping and gardening business was operated out of four buildings with a combined 28,443 square feet. All of those buildings have been torn down recently to clear the way for the redevelopment. In September 2018, the Winston-Salem City Council approved Mayfair’s rezoning request to convert the property into a $32 million mixed-use development. At that time, the plans were for the development to feature 229 apartments and about 47,000 square feet of commercial and clubhouse uses in a total of eight buildings. The site plan shows 24,000 square feet of retail space, along with spaces for a restaurant, taproom, brewery and clubhouse.
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The L.A. Reynolds business, which had operated since 1979 at 4400 Styers Ferry Road, ended operations in the summer of 2017. The nursery, landscaping and gardening business was operated out of four buildings with a combined 28,443 square feet. All of those buildings have been torn down recently to clear the way for the redevelopment.
Walt Unks, Journal
“The Meadowlark Drive area is expanding nicely with a lot of single-family housing, and we believe there is a great opportunity for garden-style apartments in the area,” Burgess said in a July 2018 profile story in the Winston-Salem Journal. The site would have open spaces offering a dog park, patios and greenway trails. The plan would be to keep two of the planned new buildings for retail and restaurant use, as well as a farmer’s market. The site has 133 parking spaces. The developer would be required to build a right-turn lane from Styers Ferry into the site. Because the complex would increase traffic, the developer is being required to post a $250,000 bond for future traffic improvements should they be required. Mayfair plans to have its hospitality division operate the food and beverage retail sites. The preliminary plans are for apartments with 1,000 to 1,100 square feet and a monthly rental of $1,000 to $1,100.
Landscaping work has begun at the former L.A. Reynolds Garden Showcase site in western Forsyth County, about 3½ years after the 37-acre property was purchased for $2 million.
Mayfair Street Partners of Alpharetta, Ga., is the developer. In 2018, it opened a local office in Winston Tower in downtown Winston-Salem.
Simon Burgess, managing director of Mayfair who is based locally, could not be immediately reached for comment for an update on the redevelopment.
The L.A. Reynolds business, which had operated since 1979 at 4400 Styers Ferry Road, ended operations in the summer of 2017 amid a family dispute over future plans for the site.
The nursery, landscaping and gardening business was operated out of four buildings with a combined 28,443 square feet.
All of those buildings have been torn down recently to clear the way for the redevelopment.
In September 2018, the Winston-Salem City Council approved Mayfair’s rezoning request to convert the property into a $32 million mixed-use development.
At that time, the plans were for the development to feature 229 apartments and about 47,000 square feet of commercial and clubhouse uses in a total of eight buildings. The site plan shows 24,000 square feet of retail space, along with spaces for a restaurant, taproom, brewery and clubhouse.
The L.A. Reynolds business, which had operated since 1979 at 4400 Styers Ferry Road, ended operations in the summer of 2017. The nursery, landscaping and gardening business was operated out of four buildings with a combined 28,443 square feet. All of those buildings have been torn down recently to clear the way for the redevelopment.
Walt Unks, Journal
“The Meadowlark Drive area is expanding nicely with a lot of single-family housing, and we believe there is a great opportunity for garden-style apartments in the area,” Burgess said in a July 2018 profile story in the Winston-Salem Journal.
The site would have open spaces offering a dog park, patios and greenway trails.
The plan would be to keep two of the planned new buildings for retail and restaurant use, as well as a farmer’s market. The site has 133 parking spaces.
The developer would be required to build a right-turn lane from Styers Ferry into the site. Because the complex would increase traffic, the developer is being required to post a $250,000 bond for future traffic improvements should they be required.
Mayfair plans to have its hospitality division operate the food and beverage retail sites.
The preliminary plans are for apartments with 1,000 to 1,100 square feet and a monthly rental of $1,000 to $1,100.
Just after successful launches in Tampa, St. Petersburg and Fort Myers, Greenpal co-founder Gene Cabellero introduced “the Uber of landscaping” to Sarasota past week. The services enables home owners to uncover garden provider as a result of a cellphone application.
The Greenpal application allows property owners to develop a putting up for function they need to have to have performed. The publishing alerts landscapers throughout the region, who then put in a bid to do the get the job done.
“Vendors bid on the house centered on the Google Aerial view, the sq.-footage of the house and the perform that wants to be finished,” Cabellero explained. “Then all of that goes above to the house owner to assessment. The house owner can see ratings, assessments and price then selected who’d they’d like to operate with.”
Cabellero explained Greenpal has built obtaining and completing landscape work much much more handy. He mentioned the procedure is effective much better than conventional landscaping services simply because communication among the buyer and vendor is simplified.
Vendors should be pre-accredited to accept do the job on Greenpal. Suppliers have to be at minimum 18 decades outdated and deliver photos of professional-grade landscaping devices. Property owners do not spend for companies right until they see and are pleased with the do the job performed.
“In addition to the pre-screening necessities, homeowners provide the social evidence as perfectly,” Cabellero reported. “Homeowners have the option to amount and publish a assessment of the provider that was presented.”
Greenpal has been designed offered as a free Apple iphone and Android app. There is also a Sarasota-specific website for scheduling landscaping provider, which ranges from uncomplicated grass-slicing to fence installation.
Cabellero mentioned the purchaser market place has transformed not just in landscaping but in several locations. He claimed he collected inspiration from other providers who have turned to an digital technique for offering companies.
“People have come to be applied to pushing a button and anything will come to them. Amazon can provide things in a make a difference of several hours,” Cabellero said. “They never want to connect with anybody. They never want to call a qualified just to get a voicemail.”
Cabellero, who is from Tennessee, worked in landscaping for a lot of a long time prior to he took a career with Dell desktops following higher education. He reported he wished to intertwine his adore for landscaping and technology, which soon grew to become Greenpal.
Greenpal started as a services in Nashville and has expanded to many metropolitan areas across the United States. There are now far more than 1 million users signed up to use Greenpal products and services.
“Basically something can be done exterior of the household working with this provider. We have experienced fences place up and gutters replaced,” Cabellero explained. “Homeowners do not have to enter their credit card information right up until immediately after the work is performed and they are joyful with it. It’s incredibly equivalent to making a lodge reservation.”
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Landscapes are key to understanding our body-minds and by extension our Twin Peaks. The show employs familiar landforms that deeply resonate with our collective unconscious, and whose “coordinates” direct important events in the series. For example, clues lead Cooper to Owl Cave—a chamber protecting “coordinates” to a circular pit surrounded by trees deep in the heart of Glastonbury Grove. Other coordinates lead to another pit marked by a single sycamore tree—an extraction point to the Fireman’s Fortress. Others lead to a deadly boulder—a target for the arrow of an entire plotline.
It turns out archetypal and real-life doppelgängers of these landforms direct the events of major religions as well. Let’s spelunk into each one.
Caves
Caves, with their shadowy twilight zones, are a great place to start any mythic journey as they are womb-like and occupy a very, very, very special place in the American religious imagination. Jesus was born in a cave and resurrected in one; Elijah spoke to his creator outside a cave on Mount Carmel; St. Francis of Assisi meditated naked in Eremo della Carceri; Saint John received his epic dream vision in the Cave of the Apocalypse on Patmos Island; Muhammed met his creator inside the Cave of Hira; Joseph Smith received the plates that would become the Book of Mormon near the Cave of Chomora, and then hid them there, “along with other sacred treasures” like the Sword of Laban; Bodhidharma, after igniting Zen Buddhism and all martial arts at Shaolin Temple, meditated inside a nearby cave for so long (nine years) that his arms and legs fell off and his eyes dried out! Commemorative eyeless dolls in Japan called Daruma look like black, white, and red eggs. It’s customary to color in one of the empty eyes as a form of good luck magic, and then burn the doll every new year.
Mouth to Bodhidharma Cave near Shaolin Temple.
People pilgrimage to Bodhidharma’s cave and to the others. We’d go to Owl Cave if we could! Lynch/Frost filmed some of the Owl Cave scenes at Bronson Cave in Los Angeles, itself a movie star of sorts, and they also used sets—the cave lifted up out of the “real” and into the abstract.
COOPER: Where is the symbol?
HAWK: This way.
Here are some still shots from Steven Miller’s deep dive into Owl Cave. Notice the pre-staging of Phillip Jefferies’s scene in Season 3 Part 17: a ring of light, 8, owl symbol, and a “map” of Twin Peaks.
An owl leaves Owl Cave at the end of On The Wings Of Love.
There are a lot of fictional and true horror stories about getting trapped in caves, and a whole genre called “subterranean fiction” that spans Dante’s Divine Comedy (where Hell is a system of caves) to The Three-Body Problem, Broken Earth Trilogy, LOTR, The Matrix, The 100, Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts,American Horror Story: Apocalypse, Lost, and so on. As we now move into homes designed with “Zoom Rooms,” we have to wonder if our technology is preparing us for this epochal transition underground already. The 10,000-year Clock of the Long Now is going to be kept in a cave. This collection of “underground wonders” are examples of possible locations.
Aronofsky’s film mother!features a secret cave and a classic “woman in trouble” scenario. At one point, the “mother” fingers a red stain on her floor that opens into a hidden cave where she finds her secret power: fire.
Caves also embody what feminist Elaine Showalter (1992)calls the “female wild zone.” It’s a place where women can harness and unleash their power. Considering the etymologies of “cunt”—a rabbit hole, a wedge, a Hindu goddess?—of course a “cave” protects a coded map to the mythical “Black Lodge.”
Perhaps all openings are caves are vaginas are sources of knowledge. Performance artist Carolee Schneeman famously explored these links in Interior Scroll (1975), versions of which took place inside actual caves. She speaks of a “translucent chamber of which the serpent was an outward model.” Bjork likes to sing in caves.
Caves within caves, openings within openings. Fire and oil are somehow involved. Micheal Garfield:
…my eyes the fire projecting shadows of imagination on the cave walls of my unborn and undying consciousness.
Grottoes
In any case, within art history, caves are where the strange is both hidden and spotlighted. There is a genre of oil painting, Grotto painting, that features chiaroscuro dramas in caves, where the mouth acts as a spotlight and the cave walls are curtains. What is staged often reflects a queerer or more alien—literally “grotesque” which derives from grotto and from Emperor Nero’s cavernous 16th-century palace, Domus Aurea, decorated with frescos representing bizarre motifs inspired by Ovid’s Metamorphoses—harpies, alien plants, women transforming into architecture, and more!
These decorative patterns—grotesques—are part of the history of surrealism, horror, fantasy, and are sacred vocabulary: wide-mouthed masks and puking gargoyles are used to decorate churches. Tangentially, Mikhail Bakhtin calls the mouth specifically a main feature of the grotesque (see The Monster in the Garden: the Grotesque and the Gigantic in Renaissance Landscape Design, 2016). Philip Thomson in The Grotesque: The Critical Idiom, points out aspects of “grotto-art” that we can spot in Twin Peaks: disharmony, abnormality, unresolved conflicts (“the payoff is that there is no payoff“), comedy, extremeness, the terrifying, the supernatural, and the disgusting. Like actual grottoes, grotesques and Twin Peaks are “unstable,” they could collapse at any second, and they are always reflecting something in the middle of a transformation. Susan Bowers, describing grotesques, sounds like she is describing Twin Peaks:
It is a flamboyant art form, brimming over with exaggeration, hyperbole, and excess, perhaps because exaggerated forms with exaggerated emotions are more symbolic and conducive to evoking the numinous, the uncanny, or the horrible.
The show isn’t just a “moving painting,” it’s a moving grotesque! Bowers: “The grotesque is a marvelous hybrid: it celebrates the body, but it also expresses psychic currents underneath the surface of the unconscious.” Twin Peaks and grotesques connect through another concept, the carnival. Nihat Can Kantarcit specifically compares HBO’s Carnivàle to Twin Peaks as they’re both about a settler town constructed as “a sacred site of the American repressed.” Quoting Bakhtin:
Filled with the spirit of carnival, the grotesque liberates the world from all that is dark and terrifying (…) All that was frightening in ordinary life is turned into amusing or ludicrous monstrosities.
Grottoes also refer to fake caves built for gardens and parks to evoke the spiritual. They are symbolic but also merely aesthetic: dark places contain deeper colors. Junichiro Tanizaki in his famous essay In Praise of Shadows even argues that shadows are the foundation of a human house: “In making for ourselves a place to live, we first spread a parasol to throw a shadow on the earth, and in the pale light of the shadow we put together a house.” Check out this kickass episode of Weird Studies Podcast about Tanizaki.
The Brain on Caves
A cave’s darkness, the “dark zone,” does things to us. Caves create conditions like sensory deprivation and Ganzfeld effects (akin to a James Turell light installation) that force the brain to deviate from its normal waking state. According to historian Yulia Ustinova, this is why, in ancient Greece, entering caves was a requirement for visionary or prophecy-giving experiences. I’m thinking of that part of Aronofsky’s film Noah, where Methuselah (Anthony Hopkins) lives in a cave, and Noah (Russel Crow) sees it in a dream and travels there to receive psychoactive tea that helps him envision the ark.
Apparently, after just a few days of total darkness, the human brain produces more DMT, the endogenous “spirit molecule” partially responsible for dreams and mystical experiences. More, studies using eye-tracking glasses indicate that eye-movement patterns during darkness resemble those during activities involving abstract and divergent thinking. Darkness seems to provoke creativity. Studies also suggest even just brief periods of darkness cause the brain to retrieve ambient magical consciousness. Professor Holley Moyes who studies the archaeology of religion thinks darkness not only makes us hallucinate, it promotes “magical thinking.” In her 2012 study, volunteers sitting in a dark room were more likely to answer questions in a “supernatural” way, while people sitting in a well-lit room answered the same questions more rationally—questions like: If you wake up and smell the pipe smoke of your dead grandfather, what is your first explanation? Check out Moyes’s TED talk.
It’s the darkness, but it could also be toxic fumes that alter our minds in caves. Some scholars think poisonous cave gasses were responsible for Greek histories and myths. It was probably ethylene, a gas that “produces feelings of aloof euphoria” (see For Delphic Oracle, Fumes and Visions). Ethylene plus a spike in DMT plus sensory deprivation effects? Given our four-dimensional selves, this all could have helped people foresee a future. Nevertheless, even when completely sober:
We do not behold a passive, inert scene but are immersed in a pulsing space, in the currents and energies of a world-in-formation, even in the darkness, and the light or lack of it is entwined with our sensing bodies, blurring distinctions between outside and inside. – Tim Edensor
Caves are important destinations for enlightened revelation, and if you don’t live near one, you can still “retreat” by closing yourself up in a dark room or closet, as we see in the Tibetan practice of a dark retreat. You can recreate some of the conditions of a cave, however, the dangers that heighten the body’s awareness cannot be replicated in a dark closet.
Leonardo’s Cave
As drug-laced sacred destinations, caves help information from the margins of consciousness get felt by the mind and transformed into art. Leonardo Di Vinci famously had a powerful experience with a cave as a young man. He stumbled upon one in the forest that caused him to feel two contrary emotions at once, fear and desire, “ — fear of the threatening dark cavern, desire to see whether there were any marvelous things in it.” He went in, and after that episode recorded in his diary, Leonardo started drawing helicopters, tanks, and advanced geometry. Ancient Aliens wonders if inside that cave Leonardo was beamed visions from elsewhere. Maybe he fell into a portal to the future, or to his own 4D “long self.” Around this time, he also went missing for two years! Alien abduction? Maybe, or maybe he was just laying low after being charged with sodomy—I think he was 24—a traumatic event he never got over. Leonardo remained celibate for the rest of his life.
What else do caves represent?
It’s not the world in which we live our daily lives, but the unseen, underground world where people live out their fantasies that has power. Forbidden desires and fantasies… ~ Virgil Ortiz
In Episode 25, the owl seen leaving the cave is different from the one who attacks Andy and the others. Did Andy release someone? I have a theory: maybe ancient people caught the owl/alien and walled it up in the cave with a map to the lodge so that, “In case owl is released, go here.” Or maybe whoever was trapped in there was good, which is why Andy was included as one of the chosen people.
I wonder if the large owl released from the cave is symbolic of another story. The nuclear radiation symbol found on Briggs’s neck that helps lead Cooper to the cave looks like a ceiling fan. Bluefrank over at the Twin Peaks Gazette thinks it’s the sigil for Chronozon, a “guardian” part of the Tree of Life (which is shaped like an 8). Intuition noticed that the entire symbol is a version of the Mystic Tetrad.
White Tail Falls
Eliade: “The discovery or projection of a fixed point—the center—is equivalent to the creation of the world.”
Twin Peaks is marked on the inside by Owl Cave and on the outside by the breathtaking White Tail Falls, which is a real place called Snoqualmie Falls, one of the tallest and most powerful waterfalls in the now-USA. Comparable to Niagara Falls (it’s actually taller than Niagara), some call it a Garden of Eden because it’s where, in the Snoqualmie myth-histories, the first humans emerged.
Can you imagine being able to visit the place where your people first emerged or landed? There is a pagan emergence place in Caesarea Philippi known as The Gates of the Netherworld, but Eden is lost to Christians. It’s “hidden,” but they couldn’t return there anyway because of the two angelic monsters guarding the entrance with their spinning swords of fire. Who are those guys? I like to think this image of a hidden garden and spinning gates of fire is a metaphor for the anaerobic bacterial now living in our guts—our cousins forced down into the muck by the fiery sword of the sun. Maybe, when oxygen began to fill the atmosphere, the ones who could “eat” and metabolize it were thrown out of “the garden,” destined to live above ground. Eden, our evolutionary birthplace, is now carried inside our bodies, as the ocean is carried inside of animal eggs.
Anyway, this Garden of Eden, Snoqualmie Falls, is now sacred for a second set of reasons. It’s one of the most popular pilgrimage sites for Peakers. Interestingly the falls are never really addressed in the show, which focuses instead on building a mythology around Owl Cave. I wonder if this was a way to respect the symbolic power of the actual site.
When you live next to your culture’s origin place, you get to visit there on class field trips and special occasions. Japanese people mark the top of Takachiho mountain on Kyushu their origin place, and the last time I was there I was surrounded by schoolchildren playing and taking pictures. Inversely, the Hopi and other Southwest tribes believe they emerged from the bottom of The Grand Canyon, specifically from a “sipapu” near the otherworldly blue waters of the Little Colorado. Rainbow Falls is the emergence place for the Zuni, Havasu Falls for the Havasupai. These sites are forbidden to outsiders, and backpackers who seek them out report strange accidents. Related, Sipapu is the name of the oldest Ski Resort in Northern New Mexico, opened by a white settler named Lloyd Bolander, “one of the last true pioneers.” Of course he named his hotel after a sacred Native American site.
Pits
Since pits are important landmarks in the show, let’s consider the concept of a sipapu. It’s a circular hole that marks “a portal between worlds.” What’s that? Frank Waters in The Book of the Hopi recalls stories about the first humans being led through a series of “Cave Worlds” before exiting into our world through the sipapu. Apparently, when we stepped outside of the pit, we morphed from lizard-like beings into human forms. Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny, and according to Larry Torres, the word sipapu in Uto-Aztecan refers to “the womb of the Earth.”
Clay also comes from pits by the river, and archaeologists like Ian Hodder talk about a near-universal “Age of Clay,” (aka the Neolithic) when humans lived in clay houses and through clay vessels. There are also a ton of humans-from-clay creation stories, like the Judeo-Christian one, where “Adam” is Hebrew for dirt.
Waterfalls and caves make pits, but pits are also dug. In northern New Mexico, there is a church, El Santuario de Chimayo, one of the most-visited holy sites in the US, which enshrines a circular pit famous for its “miracle dirt.” Like many religious art installations, the temple was built around the sacred place, which, of course, predates human settlement in that area. But in this case, it’s not the specific dirt so much as the spot that “charges” the dirt. According to Olsen Brad, the church replaces the dirt from the nearby hillsides every day, but as Belden Lane puts it, far from being a repudiation of the sacredness of the site, this transfer of dirt is proof of how the sacred extends itself into the profane (2001: 62).
Believers speak of a legendary light emanating from deep in the ground at Chemeyo, and how Bernardo Abeyta on Good Friday in 1810 dug into the light and miraculously found The Black Christ of Esquipulas. The site today, according to Lane, “is abuzz with the anguish of stored lament,” an atmosphere he can only compare to the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem.
The setup at El Santuario de Chimayo reminds me of art collective Postcommodity’s 2012 installation Do You Remember When, where they opened up a square pit of dirt in the middle of the gallery floor to create a sipapu.
The circular pit at Chimayo also resembles the pit enshrined in Bethlehem marking the exact site where Jesus was born.
Grotto of the Nativity, inside the Church of the Nativity, Bethlehem, Palestine. In the myth-histories, this star marks the place where Jesus was born. See also the cave-like “Door of Humility” in Bethlehem.
A simulated sipapu is created in the bottom of a pueblo house or kiva directly across from the fire pit. There are also two pits in Twin Peaks, one surrounded by 12 sycamore trees, and the other marked by just one, perhaps the legendary 13th Sycamore that Cooper was, and was not, warned about by the Fireman. One pit is black and the other is gold.
Lastly, sacred pits famously configure the lives of the Bimin-Kuskusmin of Papua New Guinea. This tribe worships the oil that comes out of a pit in the forest. They believe the oil flows under the landscape itself in “the realm of the spirit world.” F.J.P. Poole (1986) quotes the tribe’s leader: “The oil is our blood, our semen, our bone, our heritage from our ancestors…our life.” This association makes the entire forest a realm of immense ritual and spiritual importance. A ten-year initiation is required before anyone can even set foot near the sacred pit.
Pits can be scary and are associated with quicksand, swamps, tar pits, and black goo. They can also refer to people and situations. In their episode on Part 14, Diane podcast remarks on how “Sarah feels like a pit,” and her face opens up like a dark pit or cave.
Back to the Falls
Slavoj Zizek famously marked Lynch’s universe the “ridiculous sublime,” and Allister MacTaggart, in Lynchian Landscapes and the Legacy of the American Sublime, points out that Lynch grew up in and around the landscapes of the Pacific Northwest, and this might explain the show’s “Emersonian transcendentalism.”
Waterfalls are classic symbols for the sublime, maybe also for America. Abraham Lincoln visited Niagara Falls in 1848 and brilliantly described it through geological, psychological, and philosophical perspectives. He said, for example, that “all the water constantly pouring down is supplied by an equal amount constantly lifted up by the sun.” Then Lincoln describes a kind of all-American myth-time that the waterfall opened up inside of him:
But still there is more. It calls up the indefinite past. When Columbus first sought this continent—when Christ suffered on the cross—when Moses led Israel through the Red-Sea—nay, even, when Adam first came from the hand of his Maker—then as now, Niagara was roaring here. The eyes of that species of extinct giants, whose bones fill the mounds of America, have gazed on Niagara, as ours do now… fresh today as ten thousand years ago.
“Giants.” In evolutionary anthropology, there is a theory that waterfalls (like boulders, caves, and pits) are a key to understanding the origin of religion. Jane Goodall recorded chimpanzees “dancing with excitement” around waterfalls, and she remarks how they will sit in the water at the base and stare up at them as if in a state of aesthetic appreciation. This could be due to the water’s sublime and symbolic power (water is life), but it could also be due to the trippy aftereffects that staring at the constantly moving water has on the brain. The “waterfall illusion” is when we hallucinate movement when we look at something stationary after staring at something moving in one direction for some time. This can also mess with our sense of time.
Waterfalls also symbolize orgasms, and according to philosopher Sara Heinamaa, they “frame crucial romantic encounters in several popular movies,” like The Lion King and Avatar. “They allude to sexual climax, which thus appears as an explosive or overflowing event.” Maybe on some level, the opening credits of Twin Peaks: The Return give us subliminal orgasms: music swells, water gushes, curtains billow, world spins. Similarly, waterfalls may represent vomiting and other cathartic expulsions.
Waterfalls have been used to explain a property of black holes. Bill Unruh theorizes that light crossing the horizon of a black hole is like sound passing over the edge of a supersonic waterfall. It cannot escape. “The analogy turned out to be more accurate than Unruh initially thought. Eight years later, in 1980, he realized that the equations of motion for sound in the waterfall analogy were identical to those describing light at the horizon of a black hole.”
Lastly, we should note that New Zealand just recently granted The Whanganui River the status of a legal person with rights and responsibilities. Alas, waterfalls and other rivers are people, too. In Getting Dirty, Anishinaabe scholar Melissa Nelson points out that there is an entire genre of Indigenous oral stories from the Pacific Northwest and elsewhere about intimate relationships between humans and other-than-human entities like logs, rivers, stars, even winds. People form relationships with geological formations as well, especially irregular stone outcroppings in the landscape.
Like waterfalls, caves, and pits, boulders are a big deal in our collective unconscious. Archaeologist Christopher Tilley (2004) argues that our prehistoric identities were created predominantly near and by boulders in the landscape. Irregular stone outcroppings were landmarks and social sites — pegs and attractors within our cognitive maps of the world. Viewing boulders was an important process by which we could tap into ancestral powers at specific locations, and it helped us anchor identity in those powers and locations (see Keith Basso’s Wisdom Sits in Places about Apache boulders that tell stories and keep people connected to their ancestral languages and morality). More, researchers in the field of spatial psychology propose Prospect-Refuge theory (Appleton, 1975; Dosen and Ostwald, 2016) suggesting humans evolved to seek out higher and safer vantage points. Alas, Richard’s path up to that boulder was laid down by millions of years of hunter-gatherer instinct.
Humans also, in theory, seek out landscapes with physical characteristics that support certain psychological dimensions.
Erratics
Boulders become vantage points, landmarks, sites for cultural transmission, art, and, in Twin Peaks, they become a site for killing doppelgangers and murdering sons. This resonates with the Biblical “Binding of Isaac,” where Abraham takes his son to die atop a large stone on Mount Moriah.
This boulder looks out of place, an erratic, glacially transported here and thus probably the center of a local legend. Indigenous stories abound of boulders that were once giants, monsters, gods, even human people that turned into stone and may one day turn back, such as the Lakota Standing Rock, the Paiute Stone Mother, and the Navajo Shiprock. Celtic landscapes are likewise filled with magical boulders, like Lia Fáil, a coronation stone that was said to roar or shriek when a true king sits upon it. Another legend says it roars only when a false king sits on it. Is this what happened to Richard? There is also the great Cat Stone aka Stone of Divisions near Ireland’s geological center, on the Hill of Uisneach, that marks where the goddess Éire (Ireland’s namesake) is said to be buried.
Large stones are found in the center of all major religions. Interestingly, the Abrahamic God is called a “rock” many times in the Bible. The Black Stone, Hajal al Aswad, is enshrined at the Cube or Kaaba in Mecca. In the myth, this meteorite was dropped into Eden as the first altar. There is also the Christian “Stone of Anointing,” Japanese Iwakura or Ishigami stone gods—the Sessho-seki, a stone said to kill anyone who comes into contact with it, recently made news by cracking open on March 5th, 2022; the Stone of Scone, The Blarney Stone, Excalibur’s stone, and more. No doubt a stone’s silence, indifference, and durability make it a perfect receptacle for our dreams of transcendence.
Boulders are mini-mountains, and in settler histories of what we now call the US, the most famous one is Plymouth Rock, where the original Pilgrims first landed. Originally, this boulder was the same size as the one we see in Twin Peaks, but like the body of a saint, fragments were carved off, venerated and distributed far and wide. “Its very dust is shared as a relic,” says Alexis de Tocqueville in 1835. Over the course of 400 years, it went from a 200-ton boulder to a five-by-six-foot rounded fragment which is now enshrined in what looks like a Roman temple in Massachusetts. Indigenous American activists sometimes bury Plymouth Rock, as it is also “a monument to murder, slavery, theft, racism and oppression.”
Steven Miller found the location of the boulder from Part 16, what he calls “False Coordinates Rock”—it’s in Big Sky Movie Ranch in Simi Valley, California, “the largest ranch inside the Los Angeles Studio Zone.” It turns out the boulder, like the cave, is a movie star!
Conclusion
There is an unaccountable solace that fierce landscapes offer to the soul. They heal, as well as mirror, the brokenness we find within. – Beldan Lane
The interior landscape is influenced by the exterior. Twin Peaks encourages us to overflow like a waterfall, go spelunking in our souls, feel like a pit, and disintegrate atop an ancient boulder. It employs familiar landscapes that resonate deeply with our bodies and minds.
Like many of us, I want to know to what extent Twin Peaks is linked to our religious ideas and narratives of place in the “real” world. How does Twin Peaks shape our lived and imagined landscapes? “The eyes see only what the mind is prepared to see.” Conversely, how do our lived landscapes shape our experience of Twin Peaks? We can glean insights from Landscape Studies.
The history of the concept of landscape is tied to painting, photography, phenomenology, the study of visual perception, geography, and religion. When approaching landscapes of the sacred, theologian Beldan Lane thinks we should move away from the comfortable “cognitivism” of people “in” space, and towards a “non-dualistic phenomenology that recovers the wholeness and nonduality of place.” He says,
A sacred place is not simply a unique site magically “possessed” by chthonic forces. Nor is it a topographical wax nose that can be culturally twisted into anything one makes of it. A difficulty with both approaches is that the perceiver largely ignores the actual particularities of the place itself. It becomes a blank slate on which divine or human meanings are arbitrarily inscribed — by means of luminous revelation on the one hand or cultural construction on the other.
I believe Twin Peaks encourages us to consider a more non-dual “enactive approach to cognition,” where we can transcend the inside-outside, subject-object split. We can see through the dream of an autonomous, disembodied soul or witnessing consciousness “just aware” of everything, and feel how perception is really a cooperative, interactive process—a handshake between the organism and its environment.
Subject and site inter-act, so much so that different characters construct different worlds through their embodied interactions with it. Likewise, living lodge spaces and the actual physical locations engage with each other, “not as independent entities per se by as agents within a material matrix of becoming” (Vasquez 315). As Tim Ingold puts it, “Organism plus environment should denote not a compound of two things, but one indivisible totality.”
A human’s experience and an owl’s experience of the same cave will be very different. Nicole Boivin talks about a water bug “enacting” the water not as a place to swim, but as a place to walk, thus pointing out how engagement with the environment even constructs its material properties to a degree. For those of us who spend a lot of time “in” Twin Peaks, we may want to pay attention to this intimate reciprocity.
We live in the storied place as it lives inside us. Religions like Twin Peaks are external and internal landscapes, processess, or what Thomas Tweed calls sacrospaces: they move and impel us to move. Maybe we should approach Twin Peaks not as a story but as an ecological, corporeal, and semiotic-cognitive-numinous process—aka a sacred landscape, a religion. Tweed (2006: 79): “As spatial practices, religions are active verbs linked with unsubstantial nouns by bridging prepositions: from, with, in between, through, and most important, across. Religions designate where we are from, whom we are with, and prescribe how we move across.”
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Televised images of the devastation in Ukraine are specially agonizing for one Mount Airy resident who hails from that country and however has kinfolk there who are struggling to endure the Russian invasion.
“My heart is heavy — grieving for all the Ukrainian people suffering,” Irina Ilyasova reported of the human toll accompanying the conflict that has now been raging much more than a thirty day period.
The bombed buildings and ravaged streets are hard plenty of to take care of — there’s also the psychological fallout gripping citizens there and those in this nation who are concerned about them.
“I are not able to imagine how people have struggled,” said Ilyasova, a previous longtime resident of equally Ukraine and Russia whose fluent English is punctuated by a thick accent.
Although she now is residing a harmless, while unsettled, existence in North Carolina that’s not the scenario for her household customers in Ukraine who have been touched by the disaster.
They involve her young sister, Nyla, who not long ago fled the funds metropolis of Kyiv, a brother and his two young children.
“He is nevertheless in Ukraine,” reported Ilyasova, whose relatives there also incorporate an uncle in his 70s and that man’s family members.
The local female specifically was involved about her sister owing to her getting in the big town struggling the brunt of Russian assaults.
Ilyasova managed to keep an eye on Nyla’s well-becoming by means of sporadic Online connections.
“She was in a bomb shelter for virtually 3 months in Kyiv,” stated the local resident, who was involved for Nyla’s well-staying owing to the actuality she would have to leave that facility to get foodstuff and hence be uncovered to violence. “It was difficult for her.”
On the other hand, Ilyasova explained her sister essentially seemed to manage the ordeal much much better than she, including sending Ilyasova periodic messages these types of as “I’m Okay,” and “trying to calm me down.”
Nyla ultimately was equipped to go away Ukraine by using a train and head to Lithuania, situated to the north of Ukraine, with the country of Belarus in involving. Her daughter Diana life in Lithuania.
“At initially, persons would devote months of ready to get on a train,” Ilyasova reported of the predicament faced by an estimated 10 million people today displaced from their households who have experienced to look for refuge somewhere else.
Just after using the train, Nyla boarded a bus to complete her journey to Lithuania, exactly where she and other refugees gained a heat greeting which include absolutely free foodstuff and cell telephones.
“It took two days to make it,” Ilyasova stated.
In the meantime, her brother and other relatives are staying in Ukraine, advised the area resident, who is fairly comfy about their basic safety due to the fact they live in rural sections absent from the major part of the fighting.
“You hope it will be Okay, but you hardly ever know,” she stated of uncertainties bordering warfare. “You simply cannot definitely sense very good, mainly because it’s all more than.”
Ilyasova painted a circumstance reminiscent of that for farm households in this space, who increase produce that they then can or in any other case retail store in cellars — exactly where people today also are hunkering down now to be far better shielded from attacks.
“Beyond war”
It’s one detail for armies to engage in conflict in the regular way — on remote battlefields with confined influence on the populace, but this has not transpired in Ukraine.
Civilians have inescapably been caught up in the struggle that has transpired road to road in some scenarios as combatants kill every single other.
“People survived Entire world War Two and now they are dying in the 20-very first century,” Ilyasova noticed.
Some normal citizens have taken up arms towards the Russian invaders, and the natural way suffered casualties as a end result, but the community resident is acquiring it difficult to deal with attacks waged on harmless, non-combative civilians in sites such as theaters and shelters.
“It’s past war,” Ilyasova stated.
Nevertheless she thinks Ukrainians will continue on to stand their floor and resist Russian intrusions, with one particular crucial component in their solid backlash so significantly involving the reality they are defending their homeland.
“Who wants to give up portion of their land?” she reported of a person possible consequence of a takeover by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Looking at the soon after-results of the conflict through Television protection has been challenging for Ilyasova, who says the finest news she has acquired out of Ukraine so considerably “was hearing that my kinfolk are alive.”
“Brother in opposition to brother”
Irina Ilyasova, a previous pediatrician, has lived in Mount Ethereal since 2005, when her family moved right here following her spouse, also a health practitioner, acknowledged a posture at Northern Regional Medical center. Ilyasova has a son who is 30 and a 23-yr-outdated daughter.
The family members relocated right here from New York Town.
But Irina’s tale — as it relates to the present conflict — basically starts a great deal previously when she was born in Ukraine.
Ilyasova remaining there at age 15 to reside in Moscow, wherever educational facilities existed to start her health care training, which was right before the Soviet Union dissolved.
In addition to her relatives in Ukraine, Ilyasova appreciates numerous people in Russia because of to residing in Moscow for 27 a long time.
While she firmly supports the bring about of the Ukrainian people, to a certain diploma Ilyasova’s loyalties lie on both sides in the conflict amongst comparable individuals.
“I couldn’t believe that how brother can fight from brother,” she lamented. Although swayed mostly by the struggles of the Ukrainian people, “my heart is on both equally sides,” Ilyasova said.
“It breaks your heart.”
Area support aiding
Ilyasova has been comforted by the guidance gained from this group considering that the invasion commenced.
“I get a whole lot of cellular phone calls,” she described, alongside with individuals bringing her flowers.
Ilyasova is a member of the Rotary Club of Mount Ethereal, which has been supportive through the ordeal.
Also, a fundraising party is prepared currently at 1 p.m. on Skip Angel’s Farm, located at 252 Coronary heart Lane, to help attempts by Samaritan’s Purse. That firm provides support to persons in bodily require as a critical element of its Christian missionary operate and now has groups on the ground responding to the Ukraine crisis.
“Bring cozy footwear, as we will be going for walks the perimeter of the farm at 1:30 to demonstrate solidarity with Ukrainians abroad and at household,” says a Fb announcement for Miss Angel’s Farm.
“Afterwards, we will have Ukrainians in our neighborhood discuss on what is happening and how you can assist and cultural audio will be offered by Gypsy Laurel to celebrate Ukraine,” the announcement provides. “Feel free to make posters and convey flags if you have them to this event.”
Irina Ilyasova tremendously appreciates these types of gestures, but claims the ultimate present will be a breakthrough in the conflict that now displays no symptoms of waning.
“I hope it will prevent,” she said. “I would really like to have peace in between nations around the world.”
