Popol Vuh - Why Do I Still Sleep?

[@user-dx8rt6ro4p]

Last september (2021) I got ran over by a car. Broke my pelvis in 4 places, then had to have my spleen removed. I remember discovering this song, while listening through all Popol Vuh in my hospital bed. I had not heard this song before then. It really helped me, made me go through this period of my life with a sense of an unearthly calm. I couldn't move for the first month after surgery, and listening to this song at night, lulling myself to sleep, I was filled with a strange bliss. I thought about my injuries, how it would feel after they heal. How I would walk again. And then how I will grow old, sick, then eventually die. How the walls around me will crumble with time, how the terrain on which the hospital stands will be eroded with rains and sunlight. All of this felt like it was condensed in one endless instant of that thought. And I knew that all that would remain is this music, flying in the air, timeless and tenseless.

[@user-ev2th7xe2w]

Last year(2021) I was hospitalized with esophageal cancer. Lying in the postoperative bed, the thing that resonated most with me was the Popol VUH that I listened to 40 years ago.
The organic sound gently envelops me, and the grain of it soothes me.

[@Baghdadbatterymusic]

Please write more if you dont already. amazing

[@bryngerard4334]

Florian did teach people how to heal using sound. Singing inside your own body. He incorporated that healing into his work. He used to run workshops on it but sadly he died before I could attend.
I have heard so many stories people being aided by Popul Vuh's music.

[@manguaco]

this song made me cry every time, not anymore as I don't need to cry now. As a man I had to listen it alone. Now I can share this beautiful song. I can see now it was trying to cure me when made me cry.

[@user-dx8rt6ro4p]

@@manguaco hey we got each other, even if I have no idea who you are, same as you. it's the music that makes us communicate, exactly when we're alone, crying, drunk, somewhere in a park looking at the starts. cry your heart out brother man, it's good for you

[@db2885]

Yep. Listening to this years later. What a sublime piece of music, stirs every emotion.

[@Cloudsagain1]

As I went back one more time to this discreet master piece, perfectly suited with these images of a long gone world, I thought this music was meant for the dead, or at least for lonely detached peaceful consciousness drifting above human life. And many comments here evok the same feeling : mark of a great objective universal art !

[@sinusiridum551]

Popol Vuh, magici...forever!

[@reubendiaz8951]

It's coming across things like this that makes the Internet worthwhile.

[@KibyNykraft]

Check out another band of the same name, but they changed the name to Popol ace, due to avoiding a conflict with this german band . Popol ace had a hit, "Queen of all queens". Swingy progrock-ish. 1975. Jahn Teigen passed away recently.

[@KibyNykraft]

Melancholy of this nature is not for the depressed ones. But really beautiful.

[@Sr19769p]

@@KibyNykraft Agree

[@lanebashford3982]

Amen! This music is just awesome. 50 years old and still sounds just.......cool.

[@JazzyFunkaHolic]

@@KibyNykraft agree. I always like to call it positive Melancholia. Just a part of life that we all should share with each other in forms of words, emotions or art instead of pretending to be 100% smiling 24/7

[@7jacqueline9]

To me this video reflects our transient journey through life. People/animals no matter how dearly we may love, we have to release them at some point and what remains is only ourselves, this silent watcher of the passing forms in what we call our 'life'.
In this way it is a blessing to have those spacious gaps of aloneness where one receives glimpses of this death, while still being in this breathing body.

[@KibyNykraft]

"Herrlich und schön". Reminds me of the norwegian ambient musician Geir Jenssen, a bit, see albums "Patashnik", "Substrata", for example. Artist name "Biosphere". Time ca 1993- up to now. There is maybe a playlist on my channel of it. But this track here from PV is like a more classic music form of ambient.

[@KibyNykraft]

If you like this one, I think you will also like f ex Kobresia , Poa Alpina, by Biosphere.

[@Sr19769p]

It makes me feel the same

[@eric1012wi]

Actually it has nothing to do with anything you just said. This film was made with the first film camera's of the time. It was than put to this music a hundred year's later by a fan of Popul Vuh.

[@albe200262]

I also had the same thought, but I also think that small particles of them also atomic always exist. Nothing is created and nothing is destroyed, everything is transformed.

[@gterrymed]

Past lives; this is Exactly how this music makes me feel

[@QuietIntroduction]

Not only the music, but also the comments here are precious. You are precious. Precious Gifts.

[@treeswillturntosoil]

Such a beautiful song. used to stay up all night and this was one of the songs I'd enjoy listening to at around 3-4am. It's such a gentle piece of music.

[@wmanishereonearth]

Why would u stay up all night

[@liltick102]

Yaaa

[@MattWhitehead80]

This is the first time I’ve heard this. What a beautiful creation. It’s an instant life time favorite.

[@elonerrigby9389]

Rip. My friend Dave sent me this song to send my little boy to sleep. He listens at night. Daes doing the long kip & I miss him, just so much.

[@elonerrigby9389]

♥ I just wish you were here. I think of you.

[@liltick102]

I wish this would loop in my ears like tinnitus for the rest of my life.

[@zajn10]

There’s snow, there’s cold, there may be the sense of bleakness, but there’s constant movement and changes. Black and White, like all great decisions in life. And the train never derails, it keeps going on, into the beautiful unknown future.

[@energ-etica3719]

a beautiful spiritual song, typical of the genius of Florian Fricke and his group. This music will not be lost, as the lives you see in the video...

[@Beth-iv4lj]

Drip drip drip
They are in the veins of their ancestors

[@alanalan9242]

What a beautiful piece of music. And the film fits it so perfectly.

[@jameskoetting6608]

Agape-Agape. Florian & Daniel - their guitar-piano duets are so special. Excellent film fit with the sound. Then again, anything would look enchanting with this ensouled music.

[@63kevinoneill]

A big fan of their music and this is my all-time favourite of theirs. So peaceful, so tranquil; it epitomises all that was great about Popol Vu. My only criticism is that it doesn't last another half-hour at least.

[@ninehorsejohnson]

I miss Florian. Thank you for uploading.

[@enzogalli5506]

Excellent!!!

[@siddharthsivasankaran1886]

ITS GIVING ME CHILLS.....

[@mistervalls]

You achieved exactly what you wanted with this video
We all share this
Hope you live your life with a satisfied mind, whoever you are

[@trekdiane]

There have been so many tragedies in that last few months, this lends perpspective and feed my soul. Thank you.

[@leonidastoffelen]

Why is the best music you can find on youtube 240p most of the time.. well still a big thanks for putting this up. The footage fits the music like a glove.

[@Cheekyclunky]

pure unadulterared brilliance, listen he who wanders...

[@user-yw5ob9gd6k]

Времянной континуум. Супер. Благодарю.

[@kleinco]

tearing up with this and 6 coors banquets

[@andrewbarrett6059]

I think this is a film shot in Vancouver, British Columbia by Seattle filmmaker William Harbeck in 1907. He later filmed the maiden voyage of the Titanic. That did not go well. He did not survive.

[@carlosromerofilho6202]

Thanks for letting us know the origin of this wonderful piece of art.

[@davidebrunelli2781]

Florian sei in Paradiso. Grazie per tutte le splendide armonie che ci hai donato

[@steveclark1867]

Great piece of film and relaxing music. Thank you

[@jerrynilson3300]

First album by Popul Vuh I bought back in 1984? Always have a special place, but there are many other great ones too. Hosianna Mantra is maybe better overall, but ...

[@taffeta]

Transports you to another time, i love it.

[@BernardColdwell]

Neat journey and route taken - much enjoy viewing the very first movies in this way

[@meandmm]

so beautifull... it realy saved me, relaxed me

[@marcelopinheiro5557]

Peaceful and happy.

[@joselaren]

Very, very nice video and sound so relaxing, thanks!!!!!

[@miguelcverde]

Awesome life-like journey.

[@enigma7070]

Wow, it's like viewing a window into the past.

[@tubekook55]

Wonderful! Thank you!

[@edwardthegreat7255]

bless you, dear uploader..

[@shrek11ondvd]

sounds like "no quarter" by led zeppelin. so beautiful.

[@edwardthegreat7255]

and here I find myself again...

[@MrMarcosettl]

Very nice, thank you for sharing!

[@ericclaptonslowhand4726]

genius music

[@dirkidentification]

don't be a ghost on rails, wake up.

[@PierreAlaintendero]

Mon fils Pierre-Emmanuel Tendero je t'aime mon grand garçon, suis fier de toi !

[@PierreAlaintendero]

cela me donne froid, un froid qui glace l'âme, voila pourquoi je vi au Antilles !

[@susysus8521]

1/10/2020 pandemia
Quiero volver en el tiempo 😪

[@alessandropedrini1050XT]

I LOVE THIS VIDEO....

[@heraklitus100]

time is the enemy

[@r.t.5767]

Only if you make him your enemy

[@georgepoulakidas1088]

Thanks!

[@beq1300]

Love it!

[@62keithmoon]

I wonder about the many trees in the streets back then. Today people seem to hate trees. Are you in the way and making a mess? And so desolate and empty are the cities and the heads of the people today.

[@alexrudt2515]

thanks!!

[@owlzguy]

WOnderful music. The film feels like a dream. Anybody know where/when it was shot?

[@pjotrbromm]

Trans-Cerebral-Express

[@veliapustetto5068]

Strange thinking all those people, animals, vehicles are all death, lost...

[@mantralov]

I was thinking the same...it looks like a ethereal ghost ballad , forsaken souls ...

[@kurfir]

Have the same sad feeling

[@WillieEWoof]

This sad reality is waiting on us all.

[@1968weedsmoke]

@@WillieEWoof
It doesn't have to be sad

[@montenegrorudy30]

Is not lost, is part of life, the Popol Vuh is a history in process, we are the third generation, in the second generation the hero twins overcome over shivalva and the gods of shivalva, in our third generation there's already One who conquer th kingdom of shivalva (hell, hades) deth.
Find the communication with your spirit and your God.
Popol Vuh
Chilan Balan
3:16

[@Khamahel]

wow.

[@junkreep]

magic

[@trelkovski76]

paradiso ipnotico

[@Behemoth29]

Profound

[@LouisHenriD]

Popol Vuh / Why Do I Sleep / Agape - Agape (cd album 8ème titre) / cet album devient rare, donc très cher

[@dean686]

depression brought me here

[@ayahuascaeyes1203]

hey shawty

[@pat8974]

does anybody know where this footage comes from? was it attached to the song at the song's conception, or did this someone combine the video and the song later? they fit each other so well

[@kevvymetal666]

this is Vancouver BC in 1907.

[@fidelio9836]

2020

[@p4km4rin4p6]

☁️

[@eeesti216]

What does this video make you feel? Good things or bad things? And to the uploader, why is this your only video

[@Enigma758]

Melancholy

[@maryjofelstead7156]

where are we all going?

[@georgepoulakidas1088]

It's great! How can I find more information about the video? I would like to find the exact locations it's showing..

[@antonycarlyon7547]

It was filmed on 7th May 1907 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. There was much talk of creating a modern-day equivalent on the exact date 100 years later in 2007, same streets, same speed, but I've yet to find out if the new film was actually made.

[@otacon451]

the 240p is kindof a shame but i'm grateful

[@rollotomassi4577]

original film here ~ ua-cam.com/video/Tqk0yH2zy9s/v-deo.html

[@massiveattackship]

ah juicy fruit

[@jimmypsychonaut9530]

:-)

[@eliegillard1762]

If somebody know where and when this video has been catch, tell me please ! :)

[@thisismyname007]

+Elie Gillard Early footage of Vancouver, B.C. (Canada) shot by U.S. filmmaker William Harbeck -- who perished at the age of 44 filming the Titanic's maiden voyage just under 5 years later.

[@eliegillard1762]

Thanks a lot ! :)

[@chgduklee]

Why are there so many people crossing the road rather than walking along the road?
It's strange.

[@ohmayankle]

...to get to the other side. 😄

[@864gel8]

which album is it on?

[@thefloyd3295]

Agape! AGape!

[@MrGuilberto]

awesome¡ only one idiot doesn't like it¡

[@PAULLONDEN]

Beautiful......(except for all the horse shit lying around)...
All that leisurely willy nilly crossing the road....definitely a different time....
From the 1983 "Agape - Agape" album.
Wonder where the streetcars in this particular location got their power from. Don't see any powerlines.

[@eric1012wi]

+PAULLONDEN cable cars were pulled by cables. Hence the trench in the middle between the two tracks were the cable lies. The cars were pulled.

[@grahamlestergeorge6048]

+eric1012wi How rude and aggressive your responses are. I doubt that you know everything about everything, so let's hope that you are treated more courteously by others when your ignorance in some other matter manifests itself.

[@PAULLONDEN]

*@Count Feedback*
_"the trench in the middle between the two tracks"_ ?... >3:42 this "cablecar"..... had no 'trench"...looking at the upcoming vehicle at the right....>5:37
Four rail tracks with two "middle trenches" , that makes four lines indeed . Thanks ! 👍😵

[@eric1012wi]

@@PAULLONDEN you're an absolute ignoramus.

[@eric1012wi]

@@grahamlestergeorge6048 calm down snowflake. The world is harsh and unforgiving.

[@jorgmuller247]

unglaublich psychedelische Bewegung ? Reise ?