@TexasAggie97 I will give you the short answer cuz I could on and on . Step 4 is "We make a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves," So in the first part of the song lyrics, picking scabs, digging through my old muscles ( my past, my behavior,) etc is myself reflecting on the reasons that I was addicted: past trauma, horrible things I did to myself and others and the unhealthy methods that I used to kill the pain. The wallowing chaotic, insecure, and confused delusions. To contemplate what I've been clinging to. (Substances and that lifestyle to soothe me were the only things I believed would work) I was determined to get better and I had to peek into the depths of this pain and false beliefs. I had to write it all down, all of it. To confront myself. To shed my old skin. Step 5 is "We admit to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs." To do the shadow work and confront the things and feelings and bring them to the light of day. To admit to them, to cleanse myself. To feel the changes, seeking for the word to guide me in (serenity). To live in the here and now. To do what it takes to step through. To evolve. Those 2 steps were the hardest thing that I've ever done !! I listened nonstop to Tool to soothe me during that period. ✌️❤️
@@barte3822 excellent analysis! I re-read the lyrics after your first post and agree 100% as another who has gone through the program now 13 years sober.
I was 32 years old when this came out. This song changed my life forever. It helped me realize what I needed to do to take me from a very lengthy dark time and place in my life, to experiencing the most wonderful and magical journey through the past 28 years. Thank you for an amazing reaction!
Damn I was 14 in 2004 someone left this album in my disc changer at a house party. I want to thank that random person whoever you are. this band changed my life.
I was about 13 or 14 when it came out. Loved it. At 16, I dropped way too much acid, walked through my stand up mirror into a different world while listening to this. Totally changed my whole life.
Wow I was 27 years old when this song came out I was deep in a long heroin addiction. And Tool is cool bcuz the music helped me get thru being a survivor of s r a. And helping me get thru a heroin addiction & now I've been clean for almost 19 years. And I literally thought that I was going to die & this music helped me see a small light ahead. #heartsupport
Wow.... Just.... Wow... 52 year old Marine, tons of issues, Tool fan since "Sober", 46&2 my favorite song, I got it but didn't get it. You just brought me through the other side and I'm weeping. Thank you, ma'am.
I hear ya. I’m a TOOL fanatic and even if I love all of their song, 46&2 is my favorite too. Being French, I never really pieced together all the words and meaning. And tonight, I just realise that my favorite song was actually talored to the process I’m going through in my life. Believing in myself, have confidence I’m worth the same as other, sheading negative thoughts etc This review just hit me in the face. Take care ✌️
A few years ago, I was going through a dark time in my personal life, especially my marriage and my relationship with my kids. This song inspired me to study Carl Jung and his psychology regarding the shadow self. It was long, hard work, but I finally began wrestling with and accepting those ugly parts of myself that I was allowing to take over me during times of high stress. I credit this song with inspiring my journey towards self improvement.
If you want to gain insight into the specific patterns Maynard is stepping through during his journey, listen to Judith by his other band A Perfect Circle. It's the story of Maynard's anger towards his mother's faith that she clung to in spite of a crippling disability she was forced to live with. The song 10,000 Days by Tool was written after his mother passed away, and is the conclusion to the story begun in the song Judith. ❤
@@tomcat124us It's debatable that some other songs should be included in the "Maynard's Mom" playlist, but Judith and 10,000 Days are the two indispensable tracks that are 100% about her.
I did the same thing with my LCSW. She was rocking like you. Funny how our focus and determination lies in our brow, resembling anger? When he says, "crawling on my belly," I think he's referring to living in the lizard/primal mode to get to the fundamentals or just being stuck on stupid? Thanks for your recognition and devotion to helping others. Have your best day yet ... ... but not ever.
I find it crazy that Tool only comes about because Maynard moves in below Danny randomly and other drummers just aren’t working out, so Danny sits in and jams with them. Any other drummer and Tool is just not Tool.
When I first learned about 46 & 2 theory and connected it to Forty Six and 2, I ended up crafting this theory that the song is about not evolution as a natural process but evolution of a state of mind to shed your old self and step into a new self. The lyrics, “See my shadow changing, Stretching up and over me, Soften this old armor, Hoping I can clear the way by, Stepping through my shadow, Coming out the other side” really speak that evolution of self to me. “Soften this old armor” always gets me as a man who had to deconstruct faith, replace hate with understanding, grow into empathy and sympathy, and learn to accept faults in order to become the person I am today. Love your videos from a therapist’s POV. My wife is a therapist and this really speaks volumes to the profession and interpreting skills of therapists.
@bjensen1737 46 & 2; The premise is humans would deviate from the current state of human DNA which contains 44 autosomes and two sex chromosomes. The next step of evolution would likely result in human DNA being reorganized into 46 autosomes and two sex chromosomes. Carl Jung had an idea of this Collective unconscious, that all of us, as human's, shared a hereditary framework of unconscious perception, if you will. One of those archetypes was the Shadow. " The shadow is our dark side, containing those things that we have repressed or ignored for one reason or another. It usually manifests to us in dreams as an archetypal figure who is dark and ominous. Just as the persona is that part of us that we want to present to the world, so the shadow contains those things that we want to hide from the world, and from ourselves. This dark side of ourselves must be confronted and accepted, at least in part, as the first step in the individuation process. The need to acknowledge and accept our shadow in order to become a whole and complete person."
@@bettyrose959 I appreciate the insight! I have actually looked into the actual theory before. What I posted was more of a personal interpretation of the vulnerability it takes to “shed one’s armor” and “step into the other side”; the armor being the defenses we put up against healthy processing of emotions (or whatever it means to you) and that other side being a new version of oneself capable of doing what it is we want to change. I haven’t looked into what Maynard was really referring to with this song but either way, it still speaks volumes to this interpretation.
@@bjensen1737 It's why I posted it here. That actually comes from what was behind some of the thoughts in this song. I left a bunch out but it's from an interview some years ago.
It's about Carl Jung's ideas about the shadow, the dark unconscious side of ourselves, which we must acknowledge and bring into the light of consciousness in order to evolve and become whole individuals. If we don't acknowledge the shadow, it will seep through and control us.
I absolutely love her metal face and dancing 😅 Probably my favourite tool reaction videos... Nothing better than seeing someone listen to tool for the first time
I’ve actually been helping my daughter (new mom) work through some tough times. I’ve been a TOOL fan since early 90s but have really been working on myself through their music the last couple years and I believe she’s noticed the change in me. Which has made her curious what I’ve been doing so I’ve been sharing TOOL and your reaction videos with her hoping she can relate and she has. I literally just spent 30-45 minutes texting her about the concept of our shadows, then I check out YT and this is the first thing I see. Crazy!!
Whoa...so many people have just considered this "noise". I've considered this music as a blueprint for healthy life. It's helped me through really difficult times and been so insightful. Thanks for your video. This is so validating.
This is the second video I've watched with you, and you've done more to heal me in this last hour than three therapists and almost 6 years of pain. I have to face a lot, and honestly, I'm so diminished from what I used to be. I will continue to listen, and learn. And heal. Thank you more than words can say!
When I hear the "crawling on my belly' line, it invokes a primordial, infantile, stealth maneuver. Picking scabs again to me means different degrees of trauma to the shadow skin, and re-opening/revisiting those wounds as part of addressing them and/or the patterns that cause repetition of them.
This was always my fav T00L song,but listening to this video days after my bestfriend,employer who is also my Father passed- It really hit home,since this last year I fell into alochol badly. Even though it has only been days since he left, I've had to do a 180 To keep the business & the dozens of families including my own who depended on what my Father has provided for them,both with his generosity,love & constant employment. I'm shedding that skin to evolve
crawling on my belly I think is a reference to hwo a snake sheds its skin, so it represents the effort, that it is a difficult involved process rather than just easily peeling away a layer
@@haileyjuliasuarez6988Thanks heaps for the pedantic correction, which you should have written as: How, not “hwo.” Two more errors than he made, well done. Without it, zero people wouldn’t have figured it out.
8:06 gurl, I'm shrouded in shadow thinking I'm seeing light. But yeah, I love your dissection of amazingly written songs like as this one. You're might be the best interpreter (not only) of lyrics yet on YT. Keep 'em coming.
Maynard has been an amazing gift. My son is 15 and just starting to explore Tool, APC, and Puscifer. The conversations his music evokes are always memorable.
I caught that too, so I looked up the theory she referenced, and its about 46 emotions being created from the 2 main emotions, happiness and sadness. Neat video, but is she really a therapist?
Yes she says that we currently have 44. I think she just misspoke because the aboriginals have 42+2, 44, we have 44+2, 46. That's all I was pointing out @@LegitRavven
Spent several years of my life running from my shadow. I have been listening to TOOL since I was in my teens. It took me 10 rehabs, hours and hours of therapy. Relapse, research EMDR. Stumbling upon Carl Jung Phycology, a bunch of grueling, hard core but very beneficial hours of Shadow work. And then one day I was listening to this song for 1000th time it hit me!!! It's been in front of me all along. WOW, love Carl Young, love Tool and now love this channel. The universe has a way of really bringing things around.
Thank you for this. I always loved rockin out to this song. As well as many many more of Maynard’s work. Having recently come out of a really dark time that may have taken me out of the game early, I’m starting my own journey inward and out. Now not only do I love this song even more, it almost brought me to tears. Good stuff. Instant subscribe for sure.
We currently already do have 46 chromosomes actually (sex chromosomes included). The “& 2” element represents the next step transcending our current level of biological & psychological evolution.
True strength does not come from perfection. True strength is a result of moving forward aware of the apparent short falls and perceived weaknesses to grow into your strength. True strength is INVITING the parts of yourself that you fear and hate to be part of you, lest they control you.
Totally agree with this. Perfection is honestly a depressing concept. Something perfect can never be improved. We're forged from our experiences, positive and negative. Without being able to understand yourself, how could you possibly be able to make any kind of meaningful transformation?
I like to think of life as a sinusoidal wave. How would anyone know what a happy, pleasant experience was if we didn't have experiences resulting in unhappy and unpleasant feelings? Everything is relative to everyone
Thank you for acknowleding that its def true.. theres so much deep meaning behind this music .rock & hesvy metal in general.. just so much internal shit outward shit.. ppl just dont know & call it NOISE
@@GiaNt_TaLOn You are right,its no noise,its experiences in life and every listener can relate to it.The lyrics are deep.Happy to be part of the Rock community. Keep listening......
You're doing something great here for people to understand everything that the musicians are trying to explain instead of everybody thinking they satanic or beyond their means keep up the great work peace
So glad you covered this one! Over the past few years I've realized my need for understanding and integrating my shadow, and it's certainly been an interesting process. I used to never be able to say no to anybody, and always tried to be nice to everybody, so I had to kind of learn how to be an asshole, for the sake of protecting my own space and time (and sanity). This song is always a fun reminder and sing-along opportunity when it comes on.
Your interpretation was beautiful and so accurate, really brought home to me how this song, and all Maynard does, has affected my journey over the last few years in particular. Made me cry really thinking about the stepping through I've been doing and what that really means. Thank you
At first, I thought this was just going to be an generic reaction video but once she heard the "muscle memory" lyric the therapist kicked in. This was a great video and explanation of the song.
@@Budsandsuds75 What I find funny is therapists are just now figuring out TOOL is therapeutic. Unless I missed the wave somehow, I haven't seem therapists react to TOOL until very recently.
Your Tool videos are really hitting me. I've always loved them and have seen them multiple times but I've been listening to a lot of other music. Having received a terminal diagnosis a couple years ago has really been pulling up a ton of darkness I've held onto that I thought I had released. With the way my behaviors are affecting my family and myself, I clearly just pushed all that crap down. These videos are fantastic and I'm going to do my own dive back into not only this band but my darkness. Thank you!
I have been listening to Tool for 20+ years. I was in high school when this Album came out. All of their music is important too my life. This song has always been more affecting to me than every other in their catalog. You have nailed the description better than anyone I have heard, and put it into words better than I could. I find it somewhat ironic at this time in my life that I am doing exactly that: stepping out of my shadow. This song has always given me hope, and at a most prescient time in my life, your video came up in my feed. Thank you. I am the high school dropout that is the therapist for everyone I know.
I have loved Tool since the '90's...they are world class musicians and just so behind everyone. Maynard is very intelligent and a lot of his lyrics go over my head. It is so awesome listening to you break him down and makes me even more amazed by his intellect!
It's crazy that I've been listening to my music for 30 years now and then you come along and explain it to me so much better. You provided deeper understanding that really opens my mind to the music. I know music is all about perception but it's definitely very unique hearing what you have to say in particular. Thank you
Absolutely hv come full circle of my shadow finally!!!! Years of perseverance March 21 turned 52 and still diligently working but on the bright side of life!!!! Love your work nice lady!!!!
Between NIN and TOOL, they were my therapy from the early 90s on ward. I never missed a concert that i could reasonably get to, never missed an album/cd release and i think Napster single handedly kept me stocked in mp3s. Lol. As someone who is still under psychiatric care several decades after discovering those amazing bands (among others) i adore this channel for seamlessly blending 2 things so dear to me, mental health and music. Much love from deep east Texas. Oh and try listening to "The Passenger" by Deftones feat. Maynard. Itll change your life!😮
I absolutely love your energy. Wish you all the best and keep on with your support. Grateful for people like you out there trying to make a difference.
Pushit is an amazing song, but I agree the Salival version is so much more amazing than the original. However, Third Eye is more psychological, just really creepy.
@@theantiband3777I think I like both equally, depending on my mood.. but, gun to my head “what’s your favorite tool song” I’m pretty sure Pushit be the answer. Either version
This is exactly why I love this band. They literally challenge their listeners to dive deep within and question themselves on a subconscious level. This song makes me realize what I hate about myself!
Your explanation of the meaning behind the song title is probably one of the best in a nutshell explanations I've heard. Great job. Love the videos. Thank you!
I love how you summed up the ending and it’s something like you said so many people miss, this is the brilliance of Maynard, and the basis of the greatness of his music, if just a fraction of people understood, truly understood his music how much better so many lives would be, I think your getting hooked on his music as well, good for you, there is rarely ever a band, a musician, a gifted human such as him comes along with the potential to reach so many people, not just millions, but tens or hundreds of millions of people!!
Just to clarify, in Jungian theory, it's less about shedding the shadow, and more about facing it, recognizing it, and accepting it into the conscious mind to be put in its proper context and used for good rather than remain hidden, covertly sabotaging from the subconscious.
Are you saying by facing it without any form of attitude, without a reaction of any kind; one will observe it to its conclusion, its finality, to its death? If so, then upon its death would it then become a part of the whole? I wonder if one were to fill the whole with so much detail, from many angles, if they could draw upon, or approach from, the whole exclusively?
@BEDLAMITE-5280ft. I believe it's more about bringing the subconscious mind together with the conscious, so rather than being secretly influenced by a subconscious personality you don't even realize is exerting influence, you can rather be aware of those urges that were once subconscious, and treat them appropriately, by consciously suppressing them, which of course isn't possible if you're not aware of them, or incorporating them into your conscious mind, so you can remain in full conscious control over your emotions and urges.
One of the few songs to deliver on a promise of art and entertainment every single time i hear it. It ends nowhere near how it started and i feel like I've been on a journey of discovery.
46 chromosomes Chromosomes also contain proteins that help DNA exist in the proper form. Humans typically have 23 pairs of chromosomes, or 46 chromosomes in total. Chromosomes are made up of long strands of DNA, which contain all the body's genes.
Lateralus then The Grudge! That whole album helped get me through many really hard times and even helped prevent my $uicide back in the day. I still listen to it once a month or as needed when I find myself getting depressed again and forgetting how truly blessed I am.
I've been watching reactions to this song for a long time. One of my favorite songs ever. You're the first person I've seen understand it and explain it so well on the first listen. H is another great track from this album that I think goes well with this song.
I do this thing where I listen while I'm doing other things and every once in a while I glance at the video, and in so many instances in your videos you're doing the whacky waving inflatable arm flailing tube man thing and I'm totally here for it
Just stumbled on your channel being a Tool/any Maynard project fan.... But what over-rides your reaction is the "Tools" (yeah eye know) and the message you are offering... Truly needed and blessed. I have subscribed now and and thank you for all you are doing.
I've been listening to Tool for almost 30 years. I've seen them live. I just loved the sound. Never heard them picked apart other than musically. This is so cool.
Running/destroying from relationships is my pattern and my shadow is a toxic relationship and childhood PTSD....and figuring out the puzzle pieces is the hard part
Over thinking, over analyzing, separates the body from the mind Withering my intuition, missing opportunities and I must Feed my will to feel my moment Drawing way outside the lines
Saw this via youtube recommendation, so I clicked. I love your passion, facial reactions, dancing, and explanations. I quickly dove into your channel thinking you need to do Sleep Token reactions. There's one! see ya over there.
No. Jung never sought to 'shed the skin'. The shedding of the skin speaks to the disintegration of the lines between conscious and subconscious. There is no 'throwing out' the unconscious. There is only INTEGRATING it. If the shadow is not integrated, you have succumbed to the ego.
Tool has been one of my favorite bands for decades. It is such a joy to see people experience the depth of the music for the first time. Listening to it in an altered state of mind is a whole new level.
I was a lab tech having completed the same curriculum that doctors have to take their first 2 years of medical school. You are incorrect. We have 23 pairs of chromosomes, XX for women and XY for men, for a total of 46 chromosomes. People with Down's Syndrome have 47.
I've heard this song so many times and never analyzed it. I am so amazed, and so impressed with your analysis, and it really struck a chord with me, because I have patterns in my life that keep on coming up, and which do not serve me, but I never really analyze those patterns to get to the core of why they are happening. I need to do that. I need to step through my shadow, because I know, and I have always felt that I have so much potential, and I am meant to do great things in my life, and help people on a much larger scale, and I ache for it, but it never manifests, and obstacles keep landing in my path. It is incredibly frustrating.
It's refreshing to watch reaction videos by someone who knows about the principles and philosophies that have been incorporated into the lyrics of Tool's songs!
One of my all-time favorites, it's so cathartic and hopeful. I understood what 'shadow' meant in the song, but not the 46 and 2 piece. You really tied it all together nicely.
I’m a massive tool fanboy, I’ve seen them live like 14 times (first show 97 last show 2022… 2 shows for the Ænima era, 4 for the Lateralus era and 4 during the 10k days era. Then 2009, 2012, 2016, shoulda been 2020 but corona effed that up, so it was 2022. So clearly you can see that I’ve been a massive tool fan and experienced a lot of beautiful moments with The Tool’s and thousands of other Toolbags who spent a large amount of time reading and discussing these topics). I remember having deep conversations with deep thinkers about these deep songs as a teenager but over time I’ve lost track of what each song is doing… watching your videos reminds me of discovering tool back in the 90s. You truly get it. Thank you for sharing.
Therapists should see maynard
My guess is Maynard has seen a few
Im a beahvioral health professional, and in no way disagree.
Yeah they definitely should, therapists could learn a lot from Maynard…. Individuation is where it’s at…
I literally LOL’d!
Maynard is a genius. He might seem a little odd, but he knows what the hell he's doing.He's a finger genius
As a therapist, you should really do The Grudge by Tool. It’s a great lesson about how holding grudges will drag you down unless you let them go.
I second this!
I second the second
Third this!
What they said.
He's right ya know. .1...
This song helped me through my Step 4 & Step 5 during my recovery.
Almost 5 years clean now
✌️❤️
Congrats man!
congrats🖤
Please tell me how this song relates to steps 4 and 5. At least the way you interpret it.
@TexasAggie97 I will give you the short answer cuz I could on and on .
Step 4 is "We make a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves,"
So in the first part of the song lyrics, picking scabs, digging through my old muscles ( my past, my behavior,) etc is myself reflecting on the reasons that I was addicted: past trauma, horrible things I did to myself and others and the unhealthy methods that I used to kill the pain. The wallowing chaotic, insecure, and confused delusions. To contemplate what I've been clinging to. (Substances and that lifestyle to soothe me were the only things I believed would work)
I was determined to get better and I had to peek into the depths of this pain and false beliefs. I had to write it all down, all of it. To confront myself. To shed my old skin.
Step 5 is "We admit to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs."
To do the shadow work and confront the things and feelings and bring them to the light of day. To admit to them, to cleanse myself. To feel the changes, seeking for the word to guide me in (serenity). To live in the here and now. To do what it takes to step through. To evolve.
Those 2 steps were the hardest thing that I've ever done !! I listened nonstop to Tool to soothe me during that period.
✌️❤️
@@barte3822 excellent analysis! I re-read the lyrics after your first post and agree 100% as another who has gone through the program now 13 years sober.
I was 32 years old when this came out. This song changed my life forever. It helped me realize what I needed to do to take me from a very lengthy dark time and place in my life, to experiencing the most wonderful and magical journey through the past 28 years. Thank you for an amazing reaction!
Damn I was 14 in 2004 someone left this album in my disc changer at a house party. I want to thank that random person whoever you are. this band changed my life.
Just a nod to an older Tool fan. If I could talk Tool with my old man it'd be awesome.
Correction, you were 30 & 2
I was about 13 or 14 when it came out. Loved it. At 16, I dropped way too much acid, walked through my stand up mirror into a different world while listening to this. Totally changed my whole life.
Wow I was 27 years old when this song came out I was deep in a long heroin addiction. And Tool is cool bcuz the music helped me get thru being a survivor of s r a. And helping me get thru a heroin addiction & now I've been clean for almost 19 years. And I literally thought that I was going to die & this music helped me see a small light ahead. #heartsupport
Wow.... Just.... Wow... 52 year old Marine, tons of issues, Tool fan since "Sober", 46&2 my favorite song, I got it but didn't get it. You just brought me through the other side and I'm weeping. Thank you, ma'am.
I hear ya. I’m a TOOL fanatic and even if I love all of their song, 46&2 is my favorite too. Being French, I never really pieced together all the words and meaning.
And tonight, I just realise that my favorite song was actually talored to the process I’m going through in my life. Believing in myself, have confidence I’m worth the same as other, sheading negative thoughts etc
This review just hit me in the face.
Take care ✌️
Semper Fi bro. 56 year old jarhead and forever TOOL fan. Glad I've got the leather neck mind or the issues might win.
My NCO played this while we prepping our trucks for a mission, shit finally made reality hit me about where I was
Ooh rah❤USMC Brother! Blew my mind too😮Thank you Taylor!!!!
A few years ago, I was going through a dark time in my personal life, especially my marriage and my relationship with my kids. This song inspired me to study Carl Jung and his psychology regarding the shadow self. It was long, hard work, but I finally began wrestling with and accepting those ugly parts of myself that I was allowing to take over me during times of high stress. I credit this song with inspiring my journey towards self improvement.
If you want to gain insight into the specific patterns Maynard is stepping through during his journey, listen to Judith by his other band A Perfect Circle. It's the story of Maynard's anger towards his mother's faith that she clung to in spite of a crippling disability she was forced to live with. The song 10,000 Days by Tool was written after his mother passed away, and is the conclusion to the story begun in the song Judith. ❤
No, Judith, 10,000 Days, Right in Two, The Conclusion is Puscifer - Horizons Beatiful tribute to his mom.
@@tomcat124us It's debatable that some other songs should be included in the "Maynard's Mom" playlist, but Judith and 10,000 Days are the two indispensable tracks that are 100% about her.
Jimmy should be at the start before Judith.
I did the same thing with my LCSW. She was rocking like you.
Funny how our focus and determination lies in our brow, resembling anger?
When he says, "crawling on my belly," I think he's referring to living in the lizard/primal mode to get to the fundamentals or just being stuck on stupid?
Thanks for your recognition and devotion to helping others.
Have your best day yet ...
... but not ever.
@@chaoticoldboreyou might be right
I love watching the physical reactions people have to Danny’s polyrhythms.
hahah like everyone, we dont know what rythm to follow
She has zero but it's funny @@robertorojas2520
I find it crazy that Tool only comes about because Maynard moves in below Danny randomly and other drummers just aren’t working out, so Danny sits in and jams with them. Any other drummer and Tool is just not Tool.
You're gonna love Right in Two by these guys, Maynard has a great depth of understanding of human nature.
The coolest part of that song is you can split the song into two separate songs right at the middle of it, and they'd both be great on their own.
Agree great deep song
Please include Intension with right in two!! They should be played together!
I love the song because it's a piece that can only be performed (well) by people very much in sync about division and our inability to get along
My favorite by tool and yes Maynard is a severely underrated song writer dude is a fkn genius
When I first learned about 46 & 2 theory and connected it to Forty Six and 2, I ended up crafting this theory that the song is about not evolution as a natural process but evolution of a state of mind to shed your old self and step into a new self. The lyrics, “See my shadow changing, Stretching up and over me, Soften this old armor, Hoping I can clear the way by, Stepping through my shadow, Coming out the other side” really speak that evolution of self to me. “Soften this old armor” always gets me as a man who had to deconstruct faith, replace hate with understanding, grow into empathy and sympathy, and learn to accept faults in order to become the person I am today. Love your videos from a therapist’s POV. My wife is a therapist and this really speaks volumes to the profession and interpreting skills of therapists.
@bjensen1737
46 & 2;
The premise is humans would deviate from the current state of human DNA which contains 44 autosomes and two sex chromosomes. The next step of evolution would likely result in human DNA being reorganized into 46 autosomes and two sex chromosomes.
Carl Jung had an idea of this Collective unconscious, that all of us, as human's, shared a hereditary framework of unconscious perception, if you will. One of those archetypes was the Shadow.
" The shadow is our dark side, containing those things that we have repressed or ignored for one reason or another. It usually manifests to us in dreams as an archetypal figure who is dark and ominous. Just as the persona is that part of us that we want to present to the world, so the shadow contains those things that we want to hide from the world, and from ourselves. This dark side of ourselves must be confronted and accepted, at least in part, as the first step in the individuation process. The need to acknowledge and accept our shadow in order to become a whole and complete person."
@@bettyrose959 I appreciate the insight! I have actually looked into the actual theory before. What I posted was more of a personal interpretation of the vulnerability it takes to “shed one’s armor” and “step into the other side”; the armor being the defenses we put up against healthy processing of emotions (or whatever it means to you) and that other side being a new version of oneself capable of doing what it is we want to change. I haven’t looked into what Maynard was really referring to with this song but either way, it still speaks volumes to this interpretation.
@@bjensen1737 It's why I posted it here. That actually comes from what was behind some of the thoughts in this song. I left a bunch out but it's from an interview some years ago.
It's about Carl Jung's ideas about the shadow, the dark unconscious side of ourselves, which we must acknowledge and bring into the light of consciousness in order to evolve and become whole individuals. If we don't acknowledge the shadow, it will seep through and control us.
I absolutely love her metal face and dancing 😅
Probably my favourite tool reaction videos... Nothing better than seeing someone listen to tool for the first time
Yeah she's goofy yet so insightful, very entertaining
Please do “Lateralus” and “Parabol/Parabola”. So good.
I second that motion. All in favor say aye!
Yes! Was going to suggest those.
With the way your reactions deep dive with lyrics And their meanings - Lateralus should be quite the adventure.
Would love a Parabol/Parabola dive. One of my top 5
@@scottdolbyspiral out!!!🌀 so many good quoted tool lines in Lateralus
you are CRANKING out these Tool vids, love it
I’ve actually been helping my daughter (new mom) work through some tough times. I’ve been a TOOL fan since early 90s but have really been working on myself through their music the last couple years and I believe she’s noticed the change in me. Which has made her curious what I’ve been doing so I’ve been sharing TOOL and your reaction videos with her hoping she can relate and she has.
I literally just spent 30-45 minutes texting her about the concept of our shadows, then I check out YT and this is the first thing I see. Crazy!!
Highly suggest the O'Keefe Music Foundation video of kids perform 46&2
Also check out the Vitamin String Quartets version to anyone who has not seen that…. It’s pretty awesome 👍
Those kids did a phenomenal job, bassist and drummer killed it
Hell yeah
Yeah that is amazing what they did
Yeah those kids are amazing
It makes me smile so wide to finally see you fully grasp what Tool has to offer.
Whoa...so many people have just considered this "noise". I've considered this music as a blueprint for healthy life. It's helped me through really difficult times and been so insightful. Thanks for your video. This is so validating.
I've learned to disregard the opinions of anyone who would label any music "noise". We appreciate music on a completely different level to them.
This is the second video I've watched with you, and you've done more to heal me in this last hour than three therapists and almost 6 years of pain. I have to face a lot, and honestly, I'm so diminished from what I used to be. I will continue to listen, and learn. And heal. Thank you more than words can say!
When I hear the "crawling on my belly' line, it invokes a primordial, infantile, stealth maneuver. Picking scabs again to me means different degrees of trauma to the shadow skin, and re-opening/revisiting those wounds as part of addressing them and/or the patterns that cause repetition of them.
This is my jam. absolutely love this song. Great break down of it. Please keep doing Tool songs. They are all great.
The Patient by Tool next please, love your reactions
THIS ^
I literally tell every person on youtube reacting to Tool songs to do The Patient. Probably one of their least listened to, yet best songs.
This was always my fav T00L song,but listening to this video days after my bestfriend,employer who is also my Father passed-
It really hit home,since this last year
I fell into alochol badly.
Even though it has only been days since he left,
I've had to do a 180
To keep the business & the dozens of families including my own who depended on what my Father has provided for them,both with his generosity,love & constant employment.
I'm shedding that skin to evolve
Good luck brother!
Memento Mori
crawling on my belly I think is a reference to hwo a snake sheds its skin, so it represents the effort, that it is a difficult involved process rather than just easily peeling away a layer
Also snake shedding skin is symbolic of rebirth
How not hwo
no, I meant hwo@@haileyjuliasuarez6988
@@haileyjuliasuarez6988who not how cares?🤣
@@haileyjuliasuarez6988Thanks heaps for the pedantic correction, which you should have written as: How, not “hwo.” Two more errors than he made, well done.
Without it, zero people wouldn’t have figured it out.
8:06 gurl, I'm shrouded in shadow thinking I'm seeing light.
But yeah, I love your dissection of amazingly written songs like as this one. You're might be the best interpreter (not only) of lyrics yet on YT. Keep 'em coming.
Tool-Eulogy
You will not be disappointed!!
Tool-Anything
You will not be disappointed
Tool-what the guy said above of me
You will not be disappointed!!
Actually would be curious about her interpretation of that
Agreed
@@Bayzel-22I don't know, man. I was disappointed with Fear Inoculum...and most of 10,000 Days. Two of their weakest albums, in my opinion.
This band saved my life
If you have time you should check out the band imminence the track is called continuum
Maynard has been an amazing gift. My son is 15 and just starting to explore Tool, APC, and Puscifer. The conversations his music evokes are always memorable.
I believe you misspoke at 1:14, we currently have 46.... 23 pairs. Not 44.
44 and 2 is 46… 46 and 2 is 48
I caught that too, so I looked up the theory she referenced, and its about 46 emotions being created from the 2 main emotions, happiness and sadness. Neat video, but is she really a therapist?
The theory is based on Carl Jung's shadow theory, not emotions.@@scorrell1
Yes she says that we currently have 44. I think she just misspoke because the aboriginals have 42+2, 44, we have 44+2, 46. That's all I was pointing out @@LegitRavven
@@Mikeogill1 the “2” are the sex chromosomes, or the XX or XY I believe
Spent several years of my life running from my shadow. I have been listening to TOOL since I was in my teens. It took me 10 rehabs, hours and hours of therapy. Relapse, research EMDR. Stumbling upon Carl Jung Phycology, a bunch of grueling, hard core but very beneficial hours of Shadow work. And then one day I was listening to this song for 1000th time it hit me!!! It's been in front of me all along. WOW, love Carl Young, love Tool and now love this channel.
The universe has a way of really bringing things around.
Thank you for this. I always loved rockin out to this song. As well as many many more of Maynard’s work. Having recently come out of a really dark time that may have taken me out of the game early, I’m starting my own journey inward and out. Now not only do I love this song even more, it almost brought me to tears. Good stuff. Instant subscribe for sure.
We currently already do have 46 chromosomes actually (sex chromosomes included). The “& 2” element represents the next step transcending our current level of biological & psychological evolution.
23 pairs is correct !
We have 44+2. This is in reference to 46+2. It's pretty simple.
@@thirdeye42012 Bingo.
She's licensed? It's 46 chromosomes. Lol
Nope
True strength does not come from perfection. True strength is a result of moving forward aware of the apparent short falls and perceived weaknesses to grow into your strength. True strength is INVITING the parts of yourself that you fear and hate to be part of you, lest they control you.
Totally agree with this. Perfection is honestly a depressing concept. Something perfect can never be improved. We're forged from our experiences, positive and negative. Without being able to understand yourself, how could you possibly be able to make any kind of meaningful transformation?
Well said thanks
I like to think of life as a sinusoidal wave. How would anyone know what a happy, pleasant experience was if we didn't have experiences resulting in unhappy and unpleasant feelings? Everything is relative to everyone
They say that people who listen to rock and heavy metal music while growing up become more well adjusted adults who are able to handle stress better
Thank you for acknowleding that its def true.. theres so much deep meaning behind this music .rock & hesvy metal in general.. just so much internal shit outward shit.. ppl just dont know & call it NOISE
I could absolutely believe that. Heavier stuff tends to confront the uglier sides of life and personality. As opposed to drugs, sex, and money.
My kids are gonna be solid lol
@@GiaNt_TaLOn
You are right,its no noise,its experiences in life and every listener can relate to it.The
lyrics are deep.Happy to be part of the Rock community. Keep listening......
@ i went to your channel & saw that comedy central skit.. that was hilarious. I thought it was real for a min
You're doing something great here for people to understand everything that the musicians are trying to explain instead of everybody thinking they satanic or beyond their means keep up the great work peace
Been binging your vids as I love your perspective, and I’m a massive tool fan, this is my fav so far 🙌🏼🙌🏼
So glad you covered this one! Over the past few years I've realized my need for understanding and integrating my shadow, and it's certainly been an interesting process.
I used to never be able to say no to anybody, and always tried to be nice to everybody, so I had to kind of learn how to be an asshole, for the sake of protecting my own space and time (and sanity).
This song is always a fun reminder and sing-along opportunity when it comes on.
Your interpretation was beautiful and so accurate, really brought home to me how this song, and all Maynard does, has affected my journey over the last few years in particular. Made me cry really thinking about the stepping through I've been doing and what that really means. Thank you
At first, I thought this was just going to be an generic reaction video but once she heard the "muscle memory" lyric the therapist kicked in. This was a great video and explanation of the song.
Yeah up to that point I thought she might be a fraud.
@@juggy-ik7qy She's the real deal. Super Smart
@@Budsandsuds75 What I find funny is therapists are just now figuring out TOOL is therapeutic. Unless I missed the wave somehow, I haven't seem therapists react to TOOL until very recently.
Your Tool videos are really hitting me. I've always loved them and have seen them multiple times but I've been listening to a lot of other music. Having received a terminal diagnosis a couple years ago has really been pulling up a ton of darkness I've held onto that I thought I had released. With the way my behaviors are affecting my family and myself, I clearly just pushed all that crap down. These videos are fantastic and I'm going to do my own dive back into not only this band but my darkness. Thank you!
You need to see the kids that play this song. Excellent vid.
I have been listening to Tool for 20+ years. I was in high school when this Album came out. All of their music is important too my life. This song has always been more affecting to me than every other in their catalog. You have nailed the description better than anyone I have heard, and put it into words better than I could. I find it somewhat ironic at this time in my life that I am doing exactly that: stepping out of my shadow. This song has always given me hope, and at a most prescient time in my life, your video came up in my feed. Thank you. I am the high school dropout that is the therapist for everyone I know.
Picking at my scabs is a metaphor for opening old wounds.
I have loved Tool since the '90's...they are world class musicians and just so behind everyone. Maynard is very intelligent and a lot of his lyrics go over my head. It is so awesome listening to you break him down and makes me even more amazed by his intellect!
Please keep going through their work. This is very fun to watch
Tool - The Patient changed my mind about comitting s*icide forever 15 years ago. I will be forever thankful to them for it.
I love this!!! Thanks for making the choice to live.
🫂 glad you're still here bro, love you man
It's a very powerful song, hell they all are
@bruceottenberg373 I'm so happy that this song changed your life for the better! You keep on keeping on my brother! ❤
I get that 100%. Patience is precious
It's crazy that I've been listening to my music for 30 years now and then you come along and explain it to me so much better. You provided deeper understanding that really opens my mind to the music. I know music is all about perception but it's definitely very unique hearing what you have to say in particular. Thank you
A word to guide me in. A word. A word can make everything. A single word has changed so many places I’ve been .
Absolutely hv come full circle of my shadow finally!!!! Years of perseverance March 21 turned 52 and still diligently working but on the bright side of life!!!! Love your work nice lady!!!!
Between NIN and TOOL, they were my therapy from the early 90s on ward. I never missed a concert that i could reasonably get to, never missed an album/cd release and i think Napster single handedly kept me stocked in mp3s. Lol. As someone who is still under psychiatric care several decades after discovering those amazing bands (among others) i adore this channel for seamlessly blending 2 things so dear to me, mental health and music. Much love from deep east Texas. Oh and try listening to "The Passenger" by Deftones feat. Maynard. Itll change your life!😮
What part of deep east Texas? Just curious. East Texas is my neighbor. I'm across the lake.
I love Tool so much and I love your breakdown of this song!!!
I love your "stank face" when it really starts to jam. 😊
Stanky face and floppy arms.
Hilarious and adorable 😅
I absolutely love your energy. Wish you all the best and keep on with your support. Grateful for people like you out there trying to make a difference.
Thank you for listening to us Tool fanatics. PLEASE DO PUSHIT!!! Salival version. Maybe their most psychological song ever.
Pushit is an amazing song, but I agree the Salival version is so much more amazing than the original. However, Third Eye is more psychological, just really creepy.
I think third eye is about a DMT trip or something. Not sure how psychological it is.
@@theantiband3777I think I like both equally, depending on my mood.. but, gun to my head “what’s your favorite tool song” I’m pretty sure Pushit be the answer. Either version
This is exactly why I love this band. They literally challenge their listeners to dive deep within and question themselves on a subconscious level. This song makes me realize what I hate about myself!
This is one of my favorite TOOL songs.
Your explanation of the meaning behind the song title is probably one of the best in a nutshell explanations I've heard. Great job. Love the videos. Thank you!
Except she's wrong about the meaning
Saw them twice in November. Very intense and professional
I saw them in Montreal in November :) made a piece of my soul feel complete ❤
I love how you summed up the ending and it’s something like you said so many people miss, this is the brilliance of Maynard, and the basis of the greatness of his music, if just a fraction of people understood, truly understood his music how much better so many lives would be, I think your getting hooked on his music as well, good for you, there is rarely ever a band, a musician, a gifted human such as him comes along with the potential to reach so many people, not just millions, but tens or hundreds of millions of people!!
Just to clarify, in Jungian theory, it's less about shedding the shadow, and more about facing it, recognizing it, and accepting it into the conscious mind to be put in its proper context and used for good rather than remain hidden, covertly sabotaging from the subconscious.
Are you saying by facing it without any form of attitude, without a reaction of any kind; one will observe it to its conclusion, its finality, to its death? If so, then upon its death would it then become a part of the whole?
I wonder if one were to fill the whole with so much detail, from many angles, if they could draw upon, or approach from, the whole exclusively?
@BEDLAMITE-5280ft. I believe it's more about bringing the subconscious mind together with the conscious, so rather than being secretly influenced by a subconscious personality you don't even realize is exerting influence, you can rather be aware of those urges that were once subconscious, and treat them appropriately, by consciously suppressing them, which of course isn't possible if you're not aware of them, or incorporating them into your conscious mind, so you can remain in full conscious control over your emotions and urges.
@@ajagoff it’s been said that the wise know when it’s appropriate to be cloaked in ignorance.
If who said it was a wise person or not, I couldn’t say.
awareness of it makes it no longer a shadow
One of the few songs to deliver on a promise of art and entertainment every single time i hear it. It ends nowhere near how it started and i feel like I've been on a journey of discovery.
As a fellow therapist and counselor I’m going to need you to listen to Pushit (Savial version) and Wings for Mary pt 1 and 2.
Vulnerable, open-mindedness, chaotic confused; vulnerability.
To all you therapist's out there THANK YOU!!!
I don't know if I've ever seen anyone bob and bounce and nod more to Tool and still miss every single actual beat. But I do love the commentary. 😂
So off beat lol, but love the reactions
It drives me nuts, lol.
Getting the Elaine Benes dance vibe here 😂
@@tinshieldYou win. This comment string is hereby closed. 😂
I think the music we are hearing is just out of time with what she is hearing
I love you analogies and as a musician so appreciate the perspective you bring to some of my favorite songs. Well done 🤟🏻👌🏻
46 chromosomes
Chromosomes also contain proteins that help DNA exist in the proper form. Humans typically have 23 pairs of chromosomes, or 46 chromosomes in total. Chromosomes are made up of long strands of DNA, which contain all the body's genes.
Lateralus then The Grudge! That whole album helped get me through many really hard times and even helped prevent my $uicide back in the day. I still listen to it once a month or as needed when I find myself getting depressed again and forgetting how truly blessed I am.
Hands down the best explanation of 46&2.I understand now 🤘
I've been watching reactions to this song for a long time. One of my favorite songs ever. You're the first person I've seen understand it and explain it so well on the first listen. H is another great track from this album that I think goes well with this song.
10:40 - Tool-face! :D
I do this thing where I listen while I'm doing other things and every once in a while I glance at the video, and in so many instances in your videos you're doing the whacky waving inflatable arm flailing tube man thing and I'm totally here for it
Great video, I recommend listening to The Outsider by A Perfect Circle which is another song by TOOL's singer, Maynard.
Just stumbled on your channel being a Tool/any Maynard project fan.... But what over-rides your reaction is the "Tools" (yeah eye know) and the message you are offering...
Truly needed and blessed. I have subscribed now and and thank you for all you are doing.
Can't go wrong when listening to a Tool song!
Love your reactions. Thanks for helping me feel less alone =)
*We currently have 46 chromosomes.
I've been listening to Tool for almost 30 years. I've seen them live. I just loved the sound. Never heard them picked apart other than musically. This is so cool.
For a light hearted fun reaction you should check out the O'Keefe Music Foundation cover of this song... as played by kids ranging in age from 7-18
Nothing light hearted about those kids. They effing crush this song. Gives me chills every time.
Running/destroying from relationships is my pattern and my shadow is a toxic relationship and childhood PTSD....and figuring out the puzzle pieces is the hard part
I would love to see the video of Maynard critiquing this critique.
Love these therapist reactions to Tool. What a great match up. Tool is music therapy for the world.
1:08 We have 46 Chromosomes. 23 from your mother and 23 from your father.
Wow, never thought this song had so much depth. Keep comming out with the banger videos! Thanks!
Now it's time for Lateralus
You have to find a live recording of them. Tool live is almost a religious experience. Sober and Forty-Six and Two live is... *chefs kiss* perfection.
Over thinking, over analyzing, separates the body from the mind
Withering my intuition, missing opportunities and I must
Feed my will to feel my moment
Drawing way outside the lines
Saw this via youtube recommendation, so I clicked. I love your passion, facial reactions, dancing, and explanations. I quickly dove into your channel thinking you need to do Sleep Token reactions. There's one! see ya over there.
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No. Jung never sought to 'shed the skin'. The shedding of the skin speaks to the disintegration of the lines between conscious and subconscious. There is no 'throwing out' the unconscious. There is only INTEGRATING it. If the shadow is not integrated, you have succumbed to the ego.
Tool has been one of my favorite bands for decades. It is such a joy to see people experience the depth of the music for the first time. Listening to it in an altered state of mind is a whole new level.
I was a lab tech having completed the same curriculum that doctors have to take their first 2 years of medical school. You are incorrect. We have 23 pairs of chromosomes, XX for women and XY for men, for a total of 46 chromosomes. People with Down's Syndrome have 47.
Right. The song implies the extra chromosome will get its pair initiating an evolutionary leap.
I've heard this song so many times and never analyzed it. I am so amazed, and so impressed with your analysis, and it really struck a chord with me, because I have patterns in my life that keep on coming up, and which do not serve me, but I never really analyze those patterns to get to the core of why they are happening. I need to do that. I need to step through my shadow, because I know, and I have always felt that I have so much potential, and I am meant to do great things in my life, and help people on a much larger scale, and I ache for it, but it never manifests, and obstacles keep landing in my path. It is incredibly frustrating.
Carl Jung
Would love for Jordan Peterson to listen and break it down. He's big on Carl Jung.
It's refreshing to watch reaction videos by someone who knows about the principles and philosophies that have been incorporated into the lyrics of Tool's songs!
One of my all-time favorites, it's so cathartic and hopeful. I understood what 'shadow' meant in the song, but not the 46 and 2 piece. You really tied it all together nicely.
The Grudge and H. from TOOL -- Windowpane from Opeth ..... I just found your channel and I'm loving it!
The Grudge is one of their best, but so is H. for that matter!
I’m a massive tool fanboy, I’ve seen them live like 14 times (first show 97 last show 2022… 2 shows for the Ænima era, 4 for the Lateralus era and 4 during the 10k days era. Then 2009, 2012, 2016, shoulda been 2020 but corona effed that up, so it was 2022. So clearly you can see that I’ve been a massive tool fan and experienced a lot of beautiful moments with The Tool’s and thousands of other Toolbags who spent a large amount of time reading and discussing these topics). I remember having deep conversations with deep thinkers about these deep songs as a teenager but over time I’ve lost track of what each song is doing… watching your videos reminds me of discovering tool back in the 90s. You truly get it. Thank you for sharing.
You have been the only reaction video that actually sees the true meaning of this song. Good job. Nice reaction and comments.
Excellent analysis.
The more of us that understand, the less fear we will have moving through,
“coming out the other side”
Like I've said before these guys are on another level and can't be touched 💯🔥 they'll make you rethink everything
You’re really cool. Maynard has been on my playlist forever… it’s breath of fresh air to hear your point of view.
I love how all of the instruments come into perfect sync at the end......