![]() Newcomer Young created some of the finer moments here, for Helpless and Country Girl are two classic CSNY tunes with some great piano work. Nash’ contributions are quite easily the weakest and most dated: the country-tinged Teach Your Children and almost childish Our House don’t give the album most of its credit, even though they are some of the group’s best-known songs. Gifted musicians as they are, this approach to writing led to incoherency and inconsistency, also apparent on Deja Vu. Unfortunate is the fact that they never really wrote as a group each member would somewhat equally contribute their individual pennings. ![]() David Crosby got kicked out of The Byrds, Graham Nash was fired from The Hollies, and Stephen Stills and Neil Young had no group in particular to go to after Buffalo Springfield dissolved. These four musicians found each other because they were put out of their respective groups around the same time. CSNY created quite some gems, and almost always cited as their greatest achievement is Deja Vu, their second, and the first time Young joined the trio. To say Crosby, Stills & Nash (better remembered as Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Neil Young being the occasional fourth member) were an exception isn’t true. ![]() Seemingly cursed with a short lifespan and incoherent collaborative skills, both those of new and old didn’t quite turn out to be the sum of their parts, in most cases. Supergroups have often enough failed to actually live up to their name. If that is the case, then I think that would explain the things that Crosby refers to.Review Summary: Slightly flawed as it is, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young's best-known record still stands firmly. If both matter and energy are recycled, I would assume that consciousness is also. We often speak of the mind, body, and soul I believe these to merely be individual representations of the universal elements of consciousness, matter, and energy. In stating that everything in the universe is composed of matter and energy, science seems to overlook the possibility of a third component that is not so easily detectable: consciousness. I think Crosby is onto something, though. We learned that matter is constantly recycled and never goes away, but that when energy is recycled, a little bit disappears each time until there is eventually none left. Stoned from Desperate Hot Springs, CaI recall learning about the conservation of matter and energy in a science class years ago. This is what we have to figure out.įor more song interpretations by Gargatholil, buy The Pouring, or How the Universal Mind Reached Out to a Generation, available on () and soon (Fall 2002) from Amazon print on demand. This is the Devil’s bargain in which we are all caught. So, we must ask ourselves, what is going on below the ground? What games are being played in our subconscious mind-in the Mind-of which we remain unaware and into which we are trapped? How can we break the karmic Cycle of Birth, Death and Rebirth? This is the universal condition. Yet we have no clear memory of this-only a feeling that we have been here, done this all before. As described in the song, the sequence of karmic events leads us right back into the exact same circumstances we had repeated before. We have repeated the same mistake, again and again and again, each time we go around the karmic wheel. We may not clearly remember the circumstances through which this debt originated but we are sure that we would not repeat the same mistake again. We are confused and bewildered, as is the song’s protagonist. Payment for the debt is demanded-often through our having to go through some unpleasant happening. We have all, at some point in our many-life existence, been involved in such games. The song references a karmic debt that appears to be the result of our involvement in a mind game in which all of our confronters are also involved. This may involve confronting those to whom we owe some karmic debt. At certain points, as the song’s storyline describes, the consequences of our behaviors come to a head and we are thrust into a karmic crisis. We are all caught in repeating cycles of behavior-behavior not only on this plane but on the astral planes, as well.
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