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PostPosted: Sun Jan 24, 2016 1:55 am


I don't know if I'm being an annoying conspiracy theorist here, but does anyone else think David Bowie may have possibly left us an Occult message in his latest music/video? In particular, I'm referring to Blackstar.

From what I can see, there is quite a bit of reference to African Voodoo (human skulls, death, ritual dancing, the desert, Egyptian style melody) .
However there are other symbols like the Eclipse, Pyramids, some kind of generic Black book, Crucifiction (live scarecrows that are screaming), Covens, Seeing without eyes, and there's loads more but I'm sure you get the idea.

I was wondering if I'm alone in the theory or whether other people think so as well. I'd like to know what you think as well as what you see.
PostPosted: Sun Jan 24, 2016 7:48 pm


Musicians often utilize occult imagery for shock value. Bowie's starchild shtick just isn't as eye-catching now as it was 30 years ago (which he may actually be alluding to with the astronaut thing). It looks like he's just trading sci-fi for horror and trying to be 2spooky.

Some of it is a little eerie what with him being dead now and all. Almost like foreshadowing.

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PostPosted: Wed Jan 27, 2016 11:07 pm


Eoness
I don't know if I'm being an annoying conspiracy theorist here, but does anyone else think David Bowie may have possibly left us an Occult message in his latest music/video? In particular, I'm referring to Blackstar.

From what I can see, there is quite a bit of reference to African Voodoo (human skulls, death, ritual dancing, the desert, Egyptian style melody) .
However there are other symbols like the Eclipse, Pyramids, some kind of generic Black book, Crucifiction (live scarecrows that are screaming), Covens, Seeing without eyes, and there's loads more but I'm sure you get the idea.

I was wondering if I'm alone in the theory or whether other people think so as well. I'd like to know what you think as well as what you see.



I see that in a lot of the artists in today's society music videos or album art. But you have to train yourself to understand the meaning of thouse symbols. I have yet to watch the whole video but have seen articles written about it and it doesn't surprise me at all david bowie has been doing this for a while now!

I did read that he was into kabbalah a lot, and in the new videos have kabbalistic meanings as well. Thanks for pointing it out and sharing it with us. But I have also read that when musicians and artist make videos,commercials some of the editors throw in the meanings without consulting the artist.
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