The twilight language explores hidden meanings and synchromystic connections via onomatology (study of names) and toponymy (study of place names). This blog further investigates "name games" and "number coincidences" found in news and history. Examinations are also found in my book The Copycat Effect (NY: Simon and Schuster, 2004).
Continuing our recent walking through the maze of the corn, here is another side trek.
Jim Keefe currently is the artist on the comic strip Sally Forth that reflects a history about a family that frequently finds themselves lost in a corn maze - a topic of some interest in our Twilight Language analyses. Mr. Keefe writes that I may reproduce portions of his work for "educational purposes...covered under fair use."
D. B. Echo clarifies, "Keefe is the current artist (since 2013), but Francesco Marciuliano is the writer and has been since 1999. The strip was created by Greg Howard, and Craig Macintosh was the artist until 2013. (The strips that are signed "MAC" were drawn by him.)"
Searching for synchromystic insights, I post here some of these panels for your observations.
On Inauguration Day, the president and vice-president of the United States of America are sworn in and take office. Inauguration Day 2017 was on Friday, January 20, 2017. The mainstream media ignored most other news during the day. This included what was happening in a little corner of Ohio, where a school shooting filled local news, with name game symbolism and a bizarre synchromystic sense of humor.
A shooting in West Liberty-Salem [Ohio] High School on Friday morning, about 7:30 am, January 20, 2017, left one student critically injured.
The name of the random victim, the suspect, the locations, and even the street where the suspect lives all have twilight language sensibilities.
The victim: Logan Cole, a 16-year-old high school junior.
In 2016, I wrote an entire posting on the name game, "Logan."
In Gaelic the meaning of the name Logan is "from the hollow." In Scottish, the meaning is sometimes translated as "Finnian's servant."
Being a "Coleman," "Coalman," "Coal man," one of the perceivers, the ones that began the beacon fires at the Beltane hilltops on the Old Track, the leylines, I've done a good deal of research on the name "Cole."
It can be a first name employed as a nickname for Nicholas (one of the power names identified by Jim Brandon). More commonly Cole is the common surname, derived from the Old English "cola," meaning "coal" - that coal in those Beltane fires on the high points of the leylines.
The suspect: Ely Ray Serna, 17. The corn / grain connection.
The name Ely is a Hebrew baby name. In Hebrew the meaning of the name Ely is "Jehovah is God."
Ray is a short form of Raymond, which coincides with an English word meaning "beam of light."
The meaning of the name Serna is through Spanish, a habitational name from any of various places named La Serna, from serna "grainfield" of Celtic origin.
The location: This happened on the border of Champaign and Logan counties. Champaign is a special place for strange stories, from Ohio to Illinois. Logan, see above.
The suspect's home: Facebook synchromystic groups have names such as "Sync Whole" and "Kitchen Sync." This incident appears to have sync'ed with this same kind of humor. The newspapers reported that deputies executed a search warrant Friday evening (January 20, 2017) in the 3900 block of Sink Hole Road, believed to be the alleged teen shooter’s home.
The suspect's house on Sink Hole Road
Cornfields:
In one classroom, a student busted out a window and everyone jumped out, senior Claire Harr said.
“Half of us lost our shoes,” she said. “We ran through gravel and mud and cornfields but thankfully we’re all OK and we’re going to get through this together. We ran as far as we possibly could.” Source.
I only recently discussed cornfields, before I had retroactively discovered this school shooting.
The district began filling buses with the nearly 1,200 students from the K-12 campus and taking them to meet their parents gathered at Lion’s Club Ballpark. Source.
Bill Paxton died on Saturday, February 25, 2017. A well-known actor in many famous movies, the film most news organizations mentioned was Twister (1996).
The 89th Academy Awards were held the day after Paxton died, on Sunday night, February 26, 2017. During the In Memoriam segment, Jennifer Aniston paid tribute to Bill Paxton verbally, as it apparently was too late to put in the actual In Memoriam section.
At the Oscars, for the last award, "Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway came onstage to present the award for Best Picture, in celebration of the 50th anniversary of Bonnie and Clyde." What ensued was a first-of-kind Best Picture mixup. Few remembered the nod to Paxton.
As I discuss below, a dot connecting Bonnie and Clyde to Twister goes through a cornfield.
One of the intriguing points of interest for synchromystic analysts is the appearance of a clip of the Stanley Kubrick film, The Shining (1980) in Twister. Perhaps we need to look more closely at Twister? There is more here than meets the eye.
The tricycle scene in which Danny sees the Grady girls and the "here's Johnny" scene are seen on a drive-in theatre screen in Twister just before a tornado rips the screen down. An EF-5 tornado is barreling down on the drive-in screen, and tears it apart, as the characters played by Bill Paxton and others go for shelter.
There are some strange things that have happened in the wake of some Twister-related incidents.
On May 24, 1996, a tornado destroyed Screen #3 at the Can-View Drive-In, a drive-in theater in Thorold, Ontario, which was scheduled to show the movie Twister later that evening, in a real-life parallel to a scene in the film Twister in which a tornado destroys a drive-in during a showing of the film The Shining. The facts of this incident were exaggerated into an urban legend that the theater was actually playing Twister during the tornado. Source.
Almost immediately after Bill Paxton died, winter tornadoes broke out across the country late in February 2017.
Here is a quick overview:
Massachusetts saw its first February tornado in recorded history over the weekend, as a storm with winds of up to 110 miles per hour hit Conway and Goshen on Saturday, according to the National Weather Service. Source.
The National Weather Service has confirmed that a tornado with winds up to 110 mph touched down in western Massachusetts. Meteorologists say the EF-1 tornado touched down Saturday evening [February 26, 2017] in Conway in Franklin County. Source.
From the ground, it can be difficult to appreciate the size and scope of damage wrought by the winding, wicked path of [February 28, 2017] Tuesday evening's tornadoes.
The first emergency calls came from County Road 806 a little after 8 p.m. Tuesday night.
The tornado crossed the interstate and took out about half of the 20 or so homes homes near Moore Drive. Then, the twister crossed Highway 51 next taking the tops off grain silos and more homes near County Roads 206, 208, and Allen Landings Road. Source.
Three confirmed tornadoes touched down in southern Michigan Tuesday evening, February 28, 2017. The tornadoes touched down between 8:54 p.m. and 9:15 p.m. February 28, 2017. All of the tornadoes have been rated by the National Weather Service as EF-1 tornadoes....It is very strange for one tornado in February in Michigan. Three tornadoes touching down in February is incredible. Source.
At least three [updated to four] people were killed in Illinois and Missouri in Tuesday's [February 28, 2017] storms. Others were injured, and cars were left scattered on highways. Source.
The two day severe weather outbreak has now ended but the clean-up has just begun for residents across eight US states.
From Tuesday night [February 28, 2017] into Wednesday [March 1, 2017], 27 tornadoes were reported across Arkansas, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri, Ohio, West Virginia with at least three people reported dead.
The heaviest storm damage looks to have been from a tornado that struck parts of Perryville, Missouri, about 105km south-southeast of St Louis. This tornado has been given a preliminary EF3 rating. Source.
One of the sync reflections I began to see was the revealing role of cornfields in the backgrounds of various films of note.
Shining (1980) shows up in Twister (1996).
Shining has a maze. Maze = maize = corn.
Twister is filled with cornfield scenes.
Oh, by the way, if you don't remember: Philip Seymour Hoffman, who was in Twister, died February 2, 2014.
On May 10, 2010, a tornado struck Fairfax, Oklahoma, destroying the farmhouse where numerous scenes in Twister were shot. J. Berry Harrison, the owner of the home and a former Oklahoma state senator, commented that the tornado appeared eerily similar to the fictitious one in the film. He had lived in the home since 1978. Source.
Once you start looking, there are cornfields everywhere.
The Wizard of Oz (1939) is based on The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, an American children's novel written by author L. Frank Baum, originally published in 1900.
North by Northwest (1959)
Psycho (1960)
Alfred Hitchcock sprinkled corn throughout North by Northwest and Psycho. In Psycho, Norman Bates (played by Anthony Perkins) nibbles on candy corn throughout the movie. In one scene, Bates is shown holding the bag (called "Kandy Korn").
Twilight Zone 3: 8, whole episode 73, November 3, 1961. “It’s a Good Life.” Based a short story of the same name by Jerome Bixby.
In the fictional town of Peaksville, Ohio, there’s a little boy who banishes anyone thinking unhappy thoughts into the otherworldly cornfield from which there is no return.
"…This is the monster. His name is Anthony Fremont. He's six years old, with a cute little-boy face and blue, guileless eyes. But when those eyes look at you, you'd better start thinking happy thoughts, because the mind behind them is absolutely in charge. This is the Twilight Zone.”
Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
As noted on one cinema blog:
#42: Bonnie and ClydeA major turning point comes when Bonnie's homesickness takes over and she demands to see her mama. She attempts to make a break for it, but Clyde chases her down and they cling to each other (each for different reasons) in a corn field. The shot above is lovely -- it's the autumn of their relationship.
Planet of the Apes (1968) is loosely based on Pierre Boulle's 1963 French novel La Planète des Singes.
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
Children of the Corn (1984) is based on Stephen King's 1977 short story of the same name.
Ever since the film Children of the Corn was released in 1984, cornfields have taken on an extra layer of creepiness unequaled by say, an apple orchard or even a pumpkin patch. Source.
Several sequels of Children of the Corn followed.
He began to walk in that direction, not having to bull through the corn any more. The row was taking him in the direction he wanted to go, naturally. The row ended up ahead. Ended? No, emptied out into some sort of clearing...— Stephen King, Children of the Corn
Field of Dreams (1989) is adapted from W. P. Kinsella's novel Shoeless Joe (1982).
Patrick Stewart, in 2016, was congratulated by Major League Baseball for his Field of Dreams-like tweet.
Dances with Wolves (1990) is a film adaptation of the 1988 book of the same name by Michael Blake.
In 1863, First Lieutenant John J. Dunbar is wounded in battle at St. David's Field in Tennessee. Choosing death in battle over amputation of his leg, he takes a horse and rides up to and along the Confederate lines. Source.
At the beginning of the film, Dunbar appears as "a Christ figure and sacrificial lamb" with the Confederate side's cornfield in the background. Source.
Fearless (1993) is based on the 1993 novel of the same name by Rafael Yglesias.
Casino (1995) is based on the non-fiction book Casino: Love and Honor in Las Vegas by Nicholas Pileggi.
Pocahontas (1995)
The X-Files: Fight the Future (1998)
Smallville (2001- )
Smallville, "Lazarus," Season 10 (2010)
Jeepers Creepers (2001), takes its name from the 1938 song Jeepers Creepers, a minced oath euphemism for Jesus Christ, which predates both the song and film.
Notice the shirt?
Bannon? This is in reference to Jeepers Creepers' fictional Bannon High School in Florida. In 2017, the name Bannon takes on new meaning. Steve Bannon (born November 27, 1953) is an American former banker, ex-Breitbart News executive chairman and filmmaker, who is currently serving as assistant to the President and White House chief strategist in the Trump administration.
Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
Signs (2002)
What's in the corn?
Freddy vs. Jason (2003)
Carnivà le (HBO, September 14, 2003 and March 27, 2005).
During the Great Depression, an Oklahoma farm boy and a charismatic minister learn that they are key players in a proxy war being fought between Heaven and Hell.
Superman Returns (2006)
Star Trek (2009)
The Informant! (2009)
Personal sync: The film is set in my hometown, Decatur, Illinois, at Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), which transforms crops such as corn, oilseeds, wheat and cocoa into food, feed, and agriculturally derived fuels and chemicals. This docudrama was about ADM's price-fixing of a corn by-product, lysine.
Husk (2011)
The Fields (2012)
Looper (2012) ~ While some commentary has lumped this movie in with the "corn" collection, it appears the scenes were done next to sugar cane fields. See here.
Man of Steel (2013)
Oz the Great and Powerful (2013)
The Maze Runner (2014), recall the name game is overt here: maze = maize.
The Judge (2014)
The Judge includes overhead footage of Indiana cornfields…. Source.
Interstellar (2014)
While Christopher Nolan had to rely upon CGI for Interstellar's space scenes, the 44-year-old was adamant not to do the same here on earth.
In order to realistically portray the farm featured in the film, Nolan had production designer Nathan Crowley plant 500-acres of corn, drawing inspiration from another director's recent success with the crop.
"Luckily, [director] Zack [Snyder] had grown a bunch of corn, so I said, 'How much can you really grow practically?'" he told The Hollywood Reporter. "And they had done a couple hundred acres [for Man of Steel], so we looked into it; we found that where we wanted to build our farmhouse really close to the mountains [outside] Calgary. In the end, we got a pretty good crop, and we actually made money on this." Source.
As Red Dirt Report editor Andrew W. Griffin remembered on November 11, 2014, "Just yesterday, a possible GOP presidential candidate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, noted on a radio show, in an 'aw-shucks' manner, that he is just a guy who 'grew up in a cornfield.'"
Then in 2015...
In...the Wachowskis’ Jupiter Ascending, a sci-fi adventure about intergalactic eugenics (or something), seemingly without much reason to set foot in a cornfield — and yet the movie’s trailer takes an inexplicable detour into what looks like Iowa farm country. Likewise,...Fantastic Four reboot was preceded...by another unnecessarily husk-filled teaser. Source.
Emerald City (2016)
Logan (2017)
So the frivolity and silliness that mars most of the X-Men movies — those corny battles with innumerable mutants hurling stuff this way and that — is now replaced with a much more compelling, somber tone that gives “Logan” some heft. There is a quiet sequence in a farming community where, for instance, the movie stops to contemplate the satisfactions of authentic person-to-person relationships over technology. A cornfield where the plants are grown solely to be turned into corn syrup serves as an able metaphor for bland, mass-produced, drug-like entertainment — and also ties neatly into the fell plan advanced by the Grant character, who seeks to alter human nature for his own profit. ~ New York Post review.
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Is that corn in the background? Lady in the Water (2006).
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As I was finishing this, I discovered a two-year-old essay asked, "Is Corn Behind All of our Blockbusters?" It observed:
Corn is the secret ingredient in so much of our food — but increasingly, it's also the secret ingredient in many of our tentpole movies. Source.
Synchromystics have a few ideas about corn being a source of the hidden - and the secrets. We have not even gone into the corn within Michael Hoffman's cereal killers or dealt with the in-depth name game discussions so many have done of Oz or Red Dirt Report'd a look at maizes and mazes.
Movies are stories as a form of twilight language. Decode what you are being shown.
For now, look to the films, the twisters, and the precursors of coming events all around you for more.
