LAURA PALMER'S SOULWAR.

I write this because I feel compelled to do so.
The same way I felt compelled to begin streaming in 2017. To offset much of the harm, I saw being done TO us by the vile legacy media.
I came up with the hashtag #SoulWAR IN 2014 to describe what I was experiencing and witnessing in our world today using Twin Peaks as a reference point.

For those unfamiliar with this show, Twin Peaks was a morality tale about an innocent girl drawn into a web of horrifying evil who was then murdered.
Years later, I wrote extensively about my thoughts regarding the television character Laura Palmer, who appeared in Twin Peaks seasons one and two and what I have come to call her SOUL WAR.
It was clear to me that what was being presented during those 2 Seasons as well as the feature film TWIN PEAKS: FIRE, WALK WITH ME that this was SPIRITUAL WARFARE being waged for the soul of Laura Palmer.

Today we have way too many real life BOBS walking among us, and when they leave actual victims in their wake, they are not dealt with accordingly.

This has left many Americans who realize this VERY ANGRY, at the price we are paying in innocent lives and shattered survivors.
I have read and listened to many different interpretations of David Lynch and Mark Frost’s intentions regarding their work, taking Twin Peaks in totality. (Show, Film and Writings)
Director David Lynch is famous, or rather infamous for never using any form of explanation or exposition on what he presents his audience.
He shows you, and YOU are to draw your own conclusions, like an actual adult.
What follows is my personal interpretation of this amazing Battle between Good and Evil that they SHOWED us and why it matters more than ever today.

THE ICONIC PHOTOGRAPH: SWEET 16.

Young, beautiful with a promising life ahead of her this image of Laura Palmer became an ENIGMA the audience wanted to solve.

The prom picture taken when she was 16 has become iconic, one of the most recognizable photographs in television history as between seasons one and two a nation of viewers were gripped by the compelling question “who killed Laura Palmer?”
For a time, it was the most prevalent question on television, rivaling, and perhaps even surpassing WHO SHOT JR from the TV series, Dallas.
As the series began, Laura had already been murdered So everything about her life and her movements during those last weeks had to be pieced together by Agent Cooper and Laura’s friends who struggled with every new revelation they uncovered about Laura’s double life.
As the season progressed, we learned more and more about this very complex yet vulnerable girl, her troubles and her struggles, as something diabolical was uncovered that had come to dominate her life.
Eventually, we were introduced to a demonic influence that was haunting and terrorizing her. A being called BOB.

“He is BOB, eager for Fun! When he wears a smile, EVERYBODY RUN!”

THE SECRET DIARY OF LAURA PALMER, written by David Lynch‘s daughter Jennifer Lynch you are offered a much more complete picture of what Laura Palmer SUFFERED at the hands of the demonic BOB from the tender age of 12 when he first visited her, to the day he killed her.
To commemorate the debut of Season, Three in 2017, THE SECRET DIARY OF LAURA PALMER which had been published as a novelette in 1990 was made into an audiobook read by Sheryl Lee, the actress who portrayed Laura Palmer throughout the series. This book was a brutal, gut wrenching glimpse into who Laura was and pulled no punches as it depicted a vulnerable, innocent 12-year-old girl who began to be ensnared and tormented by a demonic creature hellbent on possessing her.
BOB went from being an invisible friend to a perpetual tormentor in her life. One of the most heartbreaking aspects of this story is the fact that Laura internalized her trauma as many molestation victims do.
She decided she must deserve what was happening because something must be wrong with her somehow and BOB used that to manipulate and keep her under his thumb.
Like many molestation victims, sexually activated far too young, she became hypersexual as a way to try and control the world around her, and she used drugs to try and escape Bob’s influence to gain some measure of peace when, in fact, all this did was deepen the trap in a vicious cycle (as BOB intended)
Slowly, BOB began corrupting and defiling Laura, again, intending to ultimately (and literally) POSSESS her.

THE LAST DAYS OF LAURA PALMER
Ultimately, Laura realized BOB was winning, and that her soul was darkening and in peril of being enslaved. In a panic, her last few weeks of life were spent attempting to break BOB’s power over her but to no avail.
In the film FIRE WALK WITH ME there’s a scene where she realizes BOB is possessing her father Leland and that HE is the “mystery man” who has been “lighting her fire” (READ: molesting) her for years. Laura falls to pieces in sheer terror.

BOB was intending to trade Leland in for Laura. (Like a brand new VEHICLE!)
He was going FORCE Laura to submit to him in the same manner he had forced Leland when he was a boy.
Can you imagine the harm, the suffering BOB would have been able to inflict smiling behind the face of Laura Palmer?

What what was particularly heartbreaking to me while watching Laura’s fight for her soul against BOB, was her continued belief that somehow she must deserve what was happening to her, which is one of the reasons why she kept pushing all of her friends away. Yes, out of shame but also out of fear about of what BOB might do to them.

Ultimately, BOB, reading Laura’s Diary realized she KNEW he was possessing Leland and gave her an ultimatum, let him in or be destroyed.
Forced to make this decision, of possession or destruction, Laura chose death and thereby saved her soul.

In the film FIRE, WALK WITH ME we are forced to watch Laura’s last week of life as originally we were only able to piece that week together from her diary and the accounts of her friends, it’s quite different when you have to watch it unfold before you.
In the train car, BOB made one last attempt to get her to submit to him. The mirror and that set up was part of the. POSSESSION RITUAL, but it failed when Laura rejected him one last time and at the behest of the Black Lodge BOB brutally kills Laura to silence her.

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Watching the first season again as a refresher before watching Season Three the scenes where Leland Palmer is dancing with her portrait and wailing, the scene where he collapses onto her lowering casket while crying her name are chilling. They hit completely DIFFERENT now.

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This Monster was not mourning her life or her soul, this DEMON was upset that she had DEFIED him and now she was lost to him forever.

All of his diabolical torment was to “dirty her up” from the age of 12 until she would no longer be able to hold him off. He tormented her relentlessly “preparing the ground“ only to lose her in the end.

SEASON THREE COMPLETED THE CIRCLE AND ENDED THE STORY PERFECTLY.
Watching all three seasons, especially if you listen to or read THE SECRET DIARY OF LAURA PALMER you should have a very good understanding of what a SOULWAR is.
How to win one, and how to lose one.

Laura won, at the cost of her life, BOB lost, but went unpunished.
Let me repeat that, as terrified, lost and ALONE as Laura was, she triumphed in the end and died sad, scared but determined never to submit to this creature.

To understand the WHY, you have to know the context of WHO WAS Laura Palmer? You have to watch Season Three, you have to watch agent Cooper change Laura‘s fate, literally saving her life, but then losing her the same night.
Laura Palmer was an angelic being summoned from a higher realm of existence to help restore the natural balance of our world from Judy, BOB and the Black Lodge.

This was a PORTAL, Folks. Twin Peaks was full of them, Laura Palmer was an ANGELIC BEING sent to restore THE NATURAL BALANCE.

The Fireman arranged for agent Cooper to save Laura Palmer from her fate in that train car, but then after agent Cooper impossibly meets Laura Palmer in the woods at 21 and Sparkwood, as Cooper begins to lead her home Laura suddenly vanishes.

What happened?

Answer: the Fireman spirited her away to keep her safe as Cooper was unknowingly about to lead her home right into the arms of Mrs. Palmer/Judy.

The Fireman took Laura to an alternate dimension (RealWorld as opposed to TWIN PEAKS World) where she would be out of Judy’s reach or knowledge, and he took her memories of being Laura Palmer, and left her in Texarkana Texas, where she then lived for a quarter of a century under a new identity as Carrie Page.

When agent Cooper changed Laura’s fate, Judy realized she was in danger, but she couldn’t find or affect Laura at all.
And the last few minutes of the show episode 17, you see Mrs. Palmer/Judy attacking the iconic photograph of her daughter stabbing and slashing at it, in a rage, and in a paroxysm of terror as she can FEEL Laura approaching, but somehow cannot locate or touch her. Notice Judy cannot damage the picture.

SHE HAS NO POWER OVER LAURA AT ALL!

All of this was arranged by the Fireman, and Cooper has unwittingly in an attempt to bring Laura home to her mother has in fact unknowingly set Judy up for what is about to happen.

THE FINAL SCREAM!
Carrie Page, which is the name Laura took for herself, not remembering her first 17 years of life as the TORMENTED Laura Palmer, stands on the street in this alternate town of Twin Peaks and looking at Cooper in puzzlement.
Cooper is rather confused himself. He does not realize he is standing in an separate dimension and that the house they were looking at, being an exact replica of the Palmer household from the Twin Peaks Dimension he’s familiar with has never had a Palmer living there at any time.
As Cooper withdrawals in confusion, Carrie looks at the house mystified.

THE CIRCLE IS COMPLETE.

Suddenly, Agent Cooper says “what year is this?”

That is the trigger! Carrie looks at the house again, and suddenly remembers everything, her amnesia INSTANTLY VANISHED. All of her memories, her first 17 years of life as Laura Palmer don’t come back slowly. They are simply THERE, overwhelming her. She knows and remembers everything, the last five years she spent as Laura Palmer, the horrors and torment she suffered at the hands of BOB, the fact he was possessing her father as he did unspeakable things to her, all of her pain and suffering floods in at once. LAURA PALMER OPENS HER MOUTH AND SCREAMS A SCREAM OF ULTIMATE SUFFERING.

If you remember Episode 8 of Season Three, most people get it wrong.

The Fireman did not create the being that is Laura Palmer. He summoned her from a higher realm, in essence he sent an SOS.” hey I need some help down here.”
And one being arrived, the essence of Laura, an angelic soul from a higher realm that had volunteered for the duty to restore the natural balance and how was she going to do that?
Well, David Lynch and Mark Frost just showed you.

Looking at the house, recognize that there was a thin curtain, a thin veil only between Twin Peaks land and the alternate dimension where Cooper and Laura were standing and sound travels.
This is why Mrs. Palmer/Judy was panicking, she didn’t know how but she knew Laura was approaching and that approach spelled her doom.
When Laura screamed, a hideously evil and powerful being that feeds off of suffering got about 1000 times more suffering than it could handle, and Judy was literally blown out of existence, which is what they showed as on the lights blew out at both of the Palmer residences.

I’ve often wondered what happened to Laura Palmer, and Dale Cooper out on that street afterwards.
They had both fulfilled their missions, albeit unknowingly.

Cooper unknowingly fulfilled his mission, finding out who murdered Laura Palmer, and bringing Justice to BOB and Judy.
And Laura, an angelic soul who lowered herself to our realm to restore the natural balance?

I hope she lives out the rest of her days in whatever bliss she may find, ultimately to return HOME.

It was an act of LOVE.