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I can't believe I have waited two years for this show.

It was worth it. I have read rumors they are doing a "mini" season seven.

I have never heard of "The Seven Souls" which was put to music and played over shots of the characters-- kind of weird

Seven Souls
By William S. Burroughs

The ancient Egyptians postulated seven souls.

Top soul, and the first to leave at the moment of death, is Ren, the Secret Name. This corresponds to my Director. He directs the film of your life from conception to death. The Secret Name is the title of your film. When you die, that's where Ren came in.

Second soul, and second one off the sinking ship, is Sekem: Energy, Power, Light. The Director gives the orders, Sekem presses the right buttons.

Number three is Khu, the Guardian Angel. He, she, or it is third man out ... depicted as flying away across a full moon, a bird with luminous wings and head of light. Sort of thing you might see on a screen in an Indian restaurant in Panama. The Khu is responsible for the subject and can be injured in his defense-but not permanently, since the first three souls are eternal. They go back to Heaven for another vessel. The four remaining souls must take their chances with the subject in the Land of the Dead.

Number four is Ba, the Heart, often treacherous. This is a hawk's body with your face on it, shrunk down to the size of a fist. Many a hero has been brought down, like Samson, by a perfidious Ba.

Number five is Ka, the Double, most closely associated with the subject. The Ka, which usually reaches adolescence at the time of bodily death, is the only reliable guide through the Land of the Dead to the Western Lands.

Number six is Khaibit, the Shadow, Memory, your whole past conditioning from this and other lives.


Number seven is Sekhu, the Remains.
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From dictionary.com:
postulate - To make claim for; demand.

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The Western Lands is the 3rd book in Burrough's trilogy that outlines his vision of society and its place in the natural order. The 1st book in the series, Cities of the Red Night, portrays twin themes of freedom from control and the power of mythmaking. In the 2nd book, The Place of Dead Roads, Burroughs continues the process of mythmaking with the protagonist becoming a time traveler who moves precariously across time and space, encountering different cultures and time periods in an effort to forge some sense of the whole, some sense of control over his own destiny. The 3rd book, which the voiceover comes from, describes the Western land, a mythical place that is an utopian vision of a place beyond one's personal images of heaven and earth. It's a land where natural law, religious law, and human law have no meaning. The Western land is supposed to be a paradise, but a difficult place to reach.

The purpose of the trilogy is to create a science-fiction myth to explain all of human history, then to reveal the power of fantasy and myth to offer alternative histories. Finally, by realizing these alternative histories, Burroughs explores alternative anthropological patterns by which to organize society.