I'm Not An Educated Man. I Only

I See A Lot Of Patterns In Our Behavior As A Nation That Parallel A Lot Of Other Historical Processes.

Whenever You Try To Work Through The Things That We're Trying To Work Through, That We're Addressing, It Ends Up Looking Negative. Our Goal Is Nonjudgment, Nonfiltered Acceptance Of Everything. So Much Of Our Background Collectively, Especially In The United States, Is Denying And Suppressing And Disowning A Lot Of Negativity And The Darker Areas. You Can Become Swallowed Up In It. It's Cancerous. The Goal Should Be To Define Acceptance For Everything. To Try And Consider Every Aspect. To Try To Look Into The Shadows, As Well As The Light.

Do Unto Others What Has Been Done To You.

This Body Holding Me Reminds Me Of My Own Mortality. Embrace This Moment, Remember: We Are Eternal All This Pain Is An Illusion.

The Process That We Go Through In Recording With Tool Is Very Organic, But At The Same Time It Is Very Thought Out. There Is A Very Left-brain Process Of Dissecting What We're Doing And Drawing From Source Material; It's Very Research Oriented And Esoteric.