/lit/ - Literature

>>11252763
Well if there's anything you want to talk about it I'm down, I don't want to direct the conversation about it too much.
You might be interested in ohtori (dot) nu/analysis
bunch of essays on there in different categories, many are surface level or fanfic-tier, but there's some insights scattered

Personally I'm not someone that's too fond of trying to figure out what individual symbols mean, I'll pick up on some things consciously and other aspects will bias my perception in ways that I'll realize in retrospect.
That said, a few that are critical:
The egg, a cosmic shell, the border between the noumenal world and the phenomenal world.
The castle, eternity, an unreachable ideal, illusion, infinity.
The framing gate, the border, the stage where the play of the show takes place
The academy, adolescence, a temporary haven that one stays at until "growing up"
Now, a few things about the title, some of which is obvious, some of which might not be immediately: A revolution is part of a cycle, but generally one will have more information and knowledge after one than at the beginning; a new synthesis raising the original to a higher condition.
There really are two Revolutionary Girls, Anthy, and Utena; the way the story ends implies Anthy will try to save Utena in the same way she was saved. But the interesting part about that is with the memory of Utena gone, did she ever REALLY exist? In which case, Utena was nothing more than an illusion inspiring Anthy to grow up and become independent, same as the castle is to the other duelists. (Watch the opening again with this in mind, Utena and Anthy are spinning together at the beginning, whereas it's only Utena spinning at the end; the rotating flowers are generally associated with the framing gate, the signifier that you're watching a play, a story, that what you're seeing isn't real) This idea has been transmitted in various ways; it's also in that audiobook I linked. It's the idea that a fantasy, an illusion, or a dream can cause someone to realize the nature of their own existence, and that by dreaming about an illusion, one can make the illusion effectively real (pic related). There is no reason to fear crossing a gate that is opened from both sides at once by yourself, and that is the idea I think the show is trying to get across. If you identify your "self" with what "is," then you've reached the other side, death is nothing to fear, and all that is important is the complete liberation of your "self."
This is corroborated even in the name and behavior of Akio/Dios/Lucifer; Lucifer as enlightenment, as light-bringer, or Lucifer as deceiver, as hallucination? I claim its both, that the tricks of the light are illusory, but they lead to a true realization.

>>11176148
>schizo core
non-dual spiritual texts
spacing out and focusing on the eternal now
akashic records
malkavian bible
pic related

t. diagnosed schizo (but i'm not really, trust me)