Wilson and Philips

One of the books I am currently reading, Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon by David McGowan, contains many references to the Beach Boys, including a whole chapter devoted to the band. This reminded me of the old Brian Wilson syncs from April 2022. On April 12, I posted "So hoist up the John Dee sail," in which I discovered that Brian Wilson "claimed to have seen God" in an LSD-fueled "religious experience" that took place on "April 26 or 27, 1966." That was an extraordinary coincidence because less than a month before, I had discovered that "I posted my many-eyed whale dream on the 430th anniversary of Dee and Kelley's many-eyed whale vision" (March 31, 2022). Dee and Kelley's vision, which one commentator summarizes by saying they "meet God, and . . . God is a whale covered with eyes," took place on April 27, 1584. On April 26, 2014, I had a precognitive dream in which I saw whales with many eyes, and I posted about it the next day, April 27, in "A beast with many eyes." On one of those two dates, Brian Wilson apparently also "met God" in a vision, though there was no whale angle -- yet.

The day after that discovery, April 13, 2022, I posted "Whale Music." That's the title of a novel by Paul Quarrington which is a fictionalized biography of Brain Wilson. So there's our whale link. The review I read, and the cover art, emphasize that the Brian Wilson character is always "naked," and in the account of Dee and Kelley's 1584 vision we are told that "The naked man is Dee."

Then the next day, April 14, 2022, I posted "The Star Whale, Brian Wilson, and God."

Fast forward to the present. A couple of days ago, having just revisited those posts, I downloaded a digital copy of Whale Music and decided that would be next up in my reading queue after I finish Weird Scenes.

This morning, I started Chapter 22 of Weird Scenes, titled "Endless Vibrations: The Beach Boys." When I read about the birth of Brian Wilson's daughter Carnie, I remembered having read earlier in the book that she and her sister Wendy would later team up with the daughter of John and Michelle Phillips of the Mamas and the Papas, forming a pop group called Wilson Phillips. Before reading this book, I hadn't known anything about Wilson Phillips beyond the pronouncement in "The Ballad of Cedric Früvous" that they were "evil stuff."

Early this afternoon, having just been thinking about Wilson Phillips and about Brian Wilson's synchronistic links to whales, I decided to go on a random city walk -- not an app-mediated "truly random" one like I used to do, but just walking with no plan, turning this way or that at the dictates of whim. Within minutes, I saw a Philips shop in close proximity to a whale.

The whale is circled in red. It's a little hard to see here, because I wanted to get three different things into the photo to show their relative position. On the right is Philips; in the middle, the whale; on the left, a studio called Pure White Wedding.

The whale was on the wall of some sort of business that was closed and no sign indicating what sort of place it might be. Here are some closer shots:

As you can see, the whale is made up of a large number of interconnected dots, like a constellation. That, combined with the outer-space imagery just below it, suggests the Star Whale that I posted about in connection with Brian Wilson. Notice also the pink planet, synching with yesterday's post "Blueface, melatonin, and the pink planet." The inscription "Life is a story," together with the connect-the-dots imagery, references the familiar theme of the need to synthesize all these syncs into a single coherent narrative.

Here's a closer look at the wedding studio:

As you can see, one of their signs is blue-green in color, but the name in both English and Chinese is Pure White. This became significant only later when, just four minutes later, I found this box on the sidewalk:

Minutes after seeing Pure White, I see Pure Black. The Pure White sign is blue-green. The Pure Black label is red -- which is, in the RGB color system, the opposite of blue-green.

Five minutes after seeing the Pure Black Tea box, I passed another Philips sign, juxtaposed with more blue-green:

The big LED sign is green on the left and blue on the right, passing through a gradient of intermediate colors. The wall below the sign is also blue-green. Nearby is the image of a yellow light bulb. This syncs with Super Simple Psychology, the Chinese cover of which was posted two days ago in "Blueface." The English version, it turns out, has a slightly different cover. In the center of the head, there is a yellow circle, of which half is visible. A curved blue line inside this circle forms a shape like half of a light bulb.