{"id":45550,"date":"2018-10-05T13:00:39","date_gmt":"2018-10-05T17:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/25yearslatersite.com\/?p=45550"},"modified":"2023-09-09T21:22:45","modified_gmt":"2023-09-10T01:22:45","slug":"twin-peaks-the-final-dossier-a-deep-dive-review-and-analysis-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/25yearslatersite.com\/2018\/10\/05\/twin-peaks-the-final-dossier-a-deep-dive-review-and-analysis-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Twin Peaks: The Final Dossier- A Deep Dive Review and Analysis (Part 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i data-stringify-type=\"italic\">\u201cTwin Peaks: The Final Dossier \u2013 A Deep Dive Review and Analysis (Part 2)\u201d is now available on Audio, read by the author, John Bernady, exclusively for our Patreon supporters. For just $3 a month you will have access to our full library of Audio content, plus three new uploads every week. To sign up visit our Patreon page: <\/i><i data-stringify-type=\"italic\"><a class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/25YL\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/25YL\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/25YL<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<blockquote><p>Life is what it is, a gift that is given to us for a time\u2014like a library book\u2014that must eventually be returned. How should we treat this book? If we are able to remember that it is not ours to begin with\u2014one that we\u2019re entrusted with, to care for, to study and learn from\u2014perhaps it would change the way we treat it while it\u2019s in our possession.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>These words from Margaret Coulson in Mark Frost\u2019s <em><a href=\"https:\/\/25yearslatersite.com\/2018\/04\/02\/twin-peaks-the-final-dossier-a-deep-dive-review-and-analysis-part-1\/\">The Final Dossier<\/a><\/em> begin to tell us the most important things characters need for their spiritual health, but it\u2019s a thesis statement for the readers as well. With the meta-statement of \u201chow should we treat this book?\u201d Frost is giving us advice on how we should think about using the time and energy we have in our own lives.<\/p>\n<p>Why is it Margaret who presents the message we\u2019re supposed to receive? Because she always does. She had her warnings for Laura in <em>Fire Walk With Me<\/em>, messages for many characters in Seasons 1 and 2, and she delivered the episode introductions (made for its syndication on Bravo) that up until Season 3 were the final bits of <em>Twin Peaks<\/em>, created personally by David Lynch when <em>Twin Peaks<\/em> was dead as a doornail. These were Lynch&#8217;s final insights and he went with Catherine Coulson and her character the Log Lady to deliver them. Now, Mark Frost is using the Log Lady to reframe the struggle of <em>Twin Peaks<\/em> to a personal level both within Twin Peaks and for the viewer. Why <em>wouldn\u2019t<\/em> she reframe the struggles in this book in a teachable way for us?<\/p>\n<p><img data-attachment-id=\"45567\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/25yearslatersite.com\/2018\/10\/05\/twin-peaks-the-final-dossier-a-deep-dive-review-and-analysis-part-2\/log-lady-closeup1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/25yearslatersite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/log-lady-closeup1.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"960,540\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"log-lady-closeup1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/25yearslatersite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/log-lady-closeup1.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/25yearslatersite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/log-lady-closeup1.jpg\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" size-full wp-image-45567 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/25yearslatersite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/log-lady-closeup1.jpg\" alt=\"log-lady-closeup1\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/25yearslatersite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/log-lady-closeup1.jpg 960w, https:\/\/25yearslatersite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/log-lady-closeup1-600x338.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>HER LOG HAS A MESSAGE FOR YOU<\/h2>\n<p>Up to this point in <em>The Final Dossier<\/em> (about two thirds of the way through), we have seen cycle after cycle of characters meeting their various levels of trauma and doing one or more of three things:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Embracing a positive response.<\/li>\n<li>Succumbing to a negative response.<\/li>\n<li>Being trapped in the middle unable to move forward or backward.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The words from within Margaret\u2019s case file are advice to every single one of these characters\u00a0for choosing the positive choice. Hers is the culmination of how to live one of the good lives rather than be swallowed up by the darkness.<\/p>\n<p>In this same statement (being read by Hawk at Margaret\u2019s own funeral), she writes \u201cmy log has this to say: The answers to all our questions are in the wind and the trees, the rocks and the water.\u201d These are the same places where electricity is humming according to her during her phone call to Hawk in Part 10, by the way. The answers to all our questions deal in electricity, and therefore energy with positive and negative forces. And I don\u2019t need to talk about what that could possibly encompass.<\/p>\n<p>Margaret continues: \u201cNo one is helpless. No one is beyond helping. It is good to seek out those who need us and do what we can for them. I recommend that.\u201d This book reinforces the theme that helping is part of positive energy flow, and with \u201cno one is helpless,\u201d also reiterates Lawrence Jacoby\u2019s earlier message of Personal Accountability embodied by \u201cshovel yourself out of the shit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Margaret writes: \u201cDon\u2019t be sad. Be happy to have another day to do what needs doing.\u201d It implies sadness is an emotion associated with being stuck in place. She goes on to say there is no light without darkness and we should make peace with that. And, whether we see that as a metaphor or fact \u201cboth tell us that time\u2014and light, and darkness\u2014move in cycles. We move through them, too, often as passengers, but if our eyes are open, there is much to be learned along the way. A traveler learns more than a passenger. When darkness comes, a traveler learns to be brave, for they know the light will return.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Not only do I think that last paragraph is one of the most important in <em>Final Dossier<\/em>, I think it makes one of the most important distinctions in this modern period of <em>Twin Peaks<\/em>. Mark Frost repeatedly presents us with case studies of passengers and travelers, and how one often becomes the other by losing control or by proverbially taking the wheel. And I get the distinct impression Frost wants us to \u201ctreat this book\u201d as a way to \u201cremember\u201d to be an active participant in our own lives before time gets away from us.<\/p>\n<p>Margaret continues her advice in a particularly Peaksian fashion:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When darkness comes, just as you would at night, hold the light inside you. Others, I can tell you, have already learned to do the same. In time, you will learn to recognize light, in yourself and others. In this way you will find each other. Together you will make the light stronger.<\/p>\n<p>This truth I know sure as the dawn: Darkness will always yield to light, when the light is strong.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The first 80 pages of this book deal with residents of Twin Peaks living out cycles of light and darkness (without explicitly saying this is what we\u2019re seeing). Some characters in this book find their light, and then accept help as well as offer it to others, like Shelly Johnson. Some characters become lost in the darkness like Gersten Hayward. Many of them spend time in the darkness before finding their way to their light like Ben Horne or Gersten\u2019s sister Donna. Then on page 81 we read about Dr. Jacoby\u2019s exploits and we see him organically acquiring the means to deliver the message of personal accountability (and intrapersonal alchemy) that is the worldly version of Margaret\u2019s message before hearing from Margaret herself as I\u2019ve described above.<\/p>\n<h2>THE TRAVELERS<\/h2>\n<p><img data-attachment-id=\"45566\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/25yearslatersite.com\/2018\/10\/05\/twin-peaks-the-final-dossier-a-deep-dive-review-and-analysis-part-2\/img_07231-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/25yearslatersite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/img_07231.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1200,800\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"img_07231\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/25yearslatersite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/img_07231.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/25yearslatersite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/img_07231.jpg\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" size-full wp-image-45566 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/25yearslatersite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/img_07231.jpg\" alt=\"img_07231\" width=\"1800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/25yearslatersite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/img_07231.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/25yearslatersite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/img_07231-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1800px) 100vw, 1800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Shelly Johnson<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Once the book begins in earnest (after the Leo Johnson autopsy report), we begin with the early life of Shelly Johnson. The part of her life documented in her file is a microcosm of the personal struggles of everyone: She was in love with Bobby, and was hurt by cheating so she marries Leo and enters a dark period of her life. After Leo and Laura die, she overcomes her bad decisions, begins again by marrying a supportive person (Bobby, again with a foundation in love rather than the fear that sent her into the relationship with Leo) and otherwise chooses to be helpful whenever she can and accepts help from people such as Betty Briggs and Norma. An entire diner helps her raise her daughter. In two pages we see an arc that character after character goes through within this book, and we see how help from within the self and from others is the key to a successful life. We also are presented with cycles coming and going, but that\u2019s for Part 3 of my deep dive into this book.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ben Horne<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ben Horne\u2019s period of darkness begins with two explosions on the same day: the bank explosion that put his daughter Audrey into a coma, and the explosion of truth presumably about Donna\u2019s true parentage. His whole selfish life up to that point hit a crisis point that night and literally ended by his head being thrown at a fireplace. He leaned into this darkness as he dealt with the fallout of the explosions by selling his once-all-important parcel of land to the ultimate passenger, a company that built the private prison and, rather than taking responsibility and running it positively and ethically, merely raked in profit from it and otherwise did nothing as the prison\u2019s darkness exuded and permeated into every resident of Twin Peaks.<\/p>\n<p>Once Ben recognized what he\u2019d brought into his home town, he took responsibility for this fact. Rather than being a glad handing dandy, he began anonymously taking care of the people who needed it, paying for the bills of Eileen Hayward and Annie Blackburn (for a few examples of presumably many). Though he can\u2019t get a clean break from his trauma as the prison continues to exist, Ben is actively fighting against the prison\u2019s effects whenever he can. That to me says Ben has become a traveler.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Haywards<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Donna Hayward starts at a low point in this book, seemingly unable to deal with the truth explosion of her real father, though they don\u2019t say what the actual issue was in this book. This was traumatic enough to send Donna into a fast lane of fame and drugs among other distracting concepts. She avoids her family. Barely contacts friends. She goes into the dark alone, and stays there for a very long time until her mother died and she was finally able to reframe her pain from her family\u2019s lie that hurt her so deeply.<\/p>\n<p>She goes into rehab for the fourth time and only then\u00a0stops being a passenger. She simplifies her life. She reconnects with Will Hayward and goes to work with him in an off-the-radar town in Vermont. She takes personal responsibility for her life by becoming a sponsor in a number of 12-step programs and is in the process of becoming a nurse practitioner.<\/p>\n<p>This is exactly what Will Hayward\u00a0did right away back in 1989. He needed to leave the source of his trauma (Eileen and Ben) and he settled down in Vermont and immediately went into practice helping people as he could. Harriet Hayward also followed this trajectory by going to school and then becoming a pediatrician just outside Seattle.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Big Ed and Norma\u2019s love <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Norma Jennings helps people her whole life (especially Annie), but puts her heart into helping her business thrive rather than into her personal needs. Once she focuses her attention from her business to her own heart, she goes with Ed into a happy finally completely fulfilled life. Nadine Hurley finally realizes (thanks to Dr. Amp\u2019s message) she needs to work on herself too, rather than putting it on Ed to keep her propped up as a safety. Once she realizes her own strength she knows that she needs to let Ed go so he can find his own truest happiness. Ed, like Norma with the Diner, put his whole heart into helping others to the detriment of his personal needs. Once he stopped feeling like it was his duty to help James stay on the straight and narrow or keep Nadine\u2019s head up, he was able to take care of himself, and that meant going over there and nabbing that lady who helps his inner light shine more than anybody. And James by the way had a similar arc to Donna in that once he got over his wanderlust, he settled down, bought a simple car and lives in a simple place, and works a simple job where he can help people (albeit <em>his<\/em> help is as a security guard, but could you see James going into the medical profession?).<\/p>\n<h2>THE PASSENGERS<\/h2>\n<p><img data-attachment-id=\"45572\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/25yearslatersite.com\/2018\/10\/05\/twin-peaks-the-final-dossier-a-deep-dive-review-and-analysis-part-2\/3-lynchian-redheads1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/25yearslatersite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/3-lynchian-redheads1.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1366,768\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"3-lynchian-redheads1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/25yearslatersite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/3-lynchian-redheads1.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/25yearslatersite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/3-lynchian-redheads1.jpg\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" size-full wp-image-45572 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/25yearslatersite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/3-lynchian-redheads1.jpg\" alt=\"3-lynchian-redheads1\" width=\"1366\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/25yearslatersite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/3-lynchian-redheads1.jpg 1366w, https:\/\/25yearslatersite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/3-lynchian-redheads1-600x337.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1366px) 100vw, 1366px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Gersten Hayward<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Gersten was a prodigy, but eventually succumbed to the pressure and was unable to succeed from that moment forward. Rather than helping herself or accepting help, she looked to drugs and unhealthy relationships such as Steven Burnett even after he married Becky Briggs. She chose the darkness\u00a0rather than personal accountability.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Annie Blackburn<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Annie, in her current state as a hospital resident, seems like she\u2019s at peace in a way very similar to Cooper when he was stuck inside Dougie Jones, yet every year to the minute of her moment of trauma she comes back to the world and says \u201cI\u2019m fine.\u201d She is a near-perfect expression of living constantly in the moment as a passenger, yet her body never forgets&#8212;cannot let go of&#8212;her moment of trauma no matter how many years away she is from that night in the Lodge. This is why she can&#8217;t fully wake up. She is a victim of the forces of darkness.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Harry Truman<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Harry couldn\u2019t get over the case that got away. The disappearance of Dale Cooper was something he couldn\u2019t handle professionally, and I think\u00a0his heart believed a good man was taken away before his time. Instead of being able to move through the senselessness, he succumbed to the darkness the town experienced from the prison. And Harry got sick, from all of it. As he stepped back from his position due to the sickness, and we get news of his fixation on the Cooper case, we can see others literally being travelers while Harry is a passenger behind the scenes as his sickness eats away at him.<\/p>\n<h2>THE IN-BETWEEN<\/h2>\n<p><img data-attachment-id=\"45570\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/25yearslatersite.com\/2018\/10\/05\/twin-peaks-the-final-dossier-a-deep-dive-review-and-analysis-part-2\/28-sherilyn-fenn-2-w600-h315-2x-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/25yearslatersite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/28-sherilyn-fenn-2-w600-h315-2x.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1200,630\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"28-sherilyn-fenn-2-w600-h315-2x\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/25yearslatersite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/28-sherilyn-fenn-2-w600-h315-2x.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/25yearslatersite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/28-sherilyn-fenn-2-w600-h315-2x.jpg\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" size-full wp-image-45570 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/25yearslatersite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/28-sherilyn-fenn-2-w600-h315-2x.jpg\" alt=\"28-sherilyn-fenn-2-w600-h315-2x\" width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/25yearslatersite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/28-sherilyn-fenn-2-w600-h315-2x.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/25yearslatersite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/28-sherilyn-fenn-2-w600-h315-2x-600x315.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Jerry Horne<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jerry lives his life tuned to a higher wavelength, and he is an ally to Lawrence Jacoby, but he\u2019s always been truest to himself. He helps people\u2019s mental health by creating marijuana-centered products that assist people\u2019s mental health, but he\u2019s doing it to be himself more so than actively helping others. I would say he\u2019s allied with the light, but he\u2019s not an entirely active traveler either. This would certainly explain his arc in Season 3, where he\u2019s most certainly attuned to the energies afoot yet has no ability to navigate safely out of the woods.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Audrey Horne<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Audrey similarly experienced a storyline that appears to make her half traveler and half passenger. When she realized she was going to be a mother, she broke off from darkness exuding from the family and became a responsible mother by going into business for herself.\u00a0She accepted help from Sylvia with raising Richard, so it seems she was able to rise above her physical trauma from the bank explosion and become a traveler in that aspect of her life, but the trauma of the violation and rape by Cooper\u2019s Double seems to be where she will always be a passenger. She outwardly ignores any question of Richard\u2019s father. Either she knows who the father is and can\u2019t deal with it, she&#8217;s compelled by blocks to her memory as seems to happen with Lodge-related interactions, or she doesn\u2019t know the father&#8217;s identity and can\u2019t deal with any implications that could come from answers. Either way, Audrey Horne looks away from these questions, and looking away is never good.<\/p>\n<h2>FORCES FOR DARKNESS<\/h2>\n<p><img data-attachment-id=\"45571\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/25yearslatersite.com\/2018\/10\/05\/twin-peaks-the-final-dossier-a-deep-dive-review-and-analysis-part-2\/mr-c-convenience-store-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/25yearslatersite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Mr-C-convenience-store.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"598,370\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Mr-C-convenience-store\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/25yearslatersite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Mr-C-convenience-store.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/25yearslatersite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Mr-C-convenience-store.jpg\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" size-full wp-image-45571 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/25yearslatersite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Mr-C-convenience-store.jpg\" alt=\"Mr-C-convenience-store\" width=\"598\" height=\"370\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Vivian Smythe<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Vivian appears to have tuned her energy to negative frequencies and wreaking havoc wherever she went with no outward signs of repercussions, and in context of this book, I\u2019d call her a human force of darkness that came down on Norma\u2019s family possibly inspiring Norma to\u00a0avoid starting a traditional one of her own.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lana Budding <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lana appears to be in league with the darkness so much so that a case can be made she\u2019s an <a href=\"https:\/\/25yearslatersite.com\/2017\/08\/13\/what-do-we-know-about-the-owl-ring\/\">Owl Ring<\/a> bearer. It sure is interesting that she\u2019s less a character and more an identity that happens to be next to a ton of people who\u2019ve been seen wearing the Owl Ring.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ghostwood Correctional Facility<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The prison, as I\u2019ve said before and will say again, is a literal negative force upon the town\u2019s morale and morals. Its unseen, unnamed landlord is also grouped in this category.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Double<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dale Cooper&#8217;s Double\u00a0is most definitely a force for darkness as he\u2019s the one who sent Annie and Audrey\u2019s lives into the spirals they can\u2019t seem to get out of. Not to mention he\u2019s actively trying to call a demon to him. There\u2019s a lot about the Double\u2019s story that is worth discussing, but as far as the struggle between light and darkness goes, this is all we need to understand.\u00a0The Double is distinct from Dale Cooper, and\u00a0is a force of darkness.<\/p>\n<h2>FORCES FOR LIGHT<\/h2>\n<p><img data-attachment-id=\"45575\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/25yearslatersite.com\/2018\/10\/05\/twin-peaks-the-final-dossier-a-deep-dive-review-and-analysis-part-2\/ae4ea599-5850-4e9d-bd6b-f58e53c32530-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/25yearslatersite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/ae4ea599-5850-4e9d-bd6b-f58e53c32530.jpeg\" data-orig-size=\"1080,675\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1496765595&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"ae4ea599-5850-4e9d-bd6b-f58e53c32530\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/25yearslatersite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/ae4ea599-5850-4e9d-bd6b-f58e53c32530.jpeg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/25yearslatersite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/ae4ea599-5850-4e9d-bd6b-f58e53c32530.jpeg\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" size-full wp-image-45575 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/25yearslatersite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/ae4ea599-5850-4e9d-bd6b-f58e53c32530.jpeg\" alt=\"ae4ea599-5850-4e9d-bd6b-f58e53c32530\" width=\"1080\" height=\"675\" srcset=\"https:\/\/25yearslatersite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/ae4ea599-5850-4e9d-bd6b-f58e53c32530.jpeg 1080w, https:\/\/25yearslatersite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/ae4ea599-5850-4e9d-bd6b-f58e53c32530-600x375.jpeg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Margaret Coulson<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Margaret is of course a force for the light. Since her abduction documented in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/25yearslatersite.com\/2017\/06\/08\/the-secret-history-of-twin-peaksa-book-review-of-the-secret-weapon-you-need-for-better-understanding-the-return\/\">The Secret History of Twin Peaks<\/a><\/em>, she seems to be on the wavelength of the good guys, so much so that her terminology of light and darkness wins out over golden shovel metaphors\u00a0for my framework here.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Major Briggs <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Major is more a system of plot delivery in this book, but we know he is allied with the good guys and he knows how to deliver assistance in messages even after he\u2019s died.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tamara Preston<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I believe the explorations within this book solidify Tamara Preston as a force for the light as well, and I will talk about Tamara later on, but for now I need to get to the man behind the golden shovels.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr. Lawrence Jacoby<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>About Dr. Jacoby\u2019s message: I don\u2019t think it\u2019s a mistake we see his prescribed message of personal accountability set in\u00a0real life practice\u00a0with Nadine, Ed, Norma and James in the back half of Jacoby\u2019s own file. The end of their arcs, with James simplifying and Ed and Norma getting married, is an illustration of Jacoby\u2019s philosophy brought to life.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s also not a mistake that Margaret\u2019s file directly follows Jacoby\u2019s. His philosophy is the worldly application of the Fireman\u2019s balance, and Margaret\u2019s philosophy is the same message but ascribed to\u00a0our souls on the spiritual level.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of <em>Secret History of Twin Peaks<\/em>, Jacoby\u2019s ethical code violations led to his losing license to practice and he leaves Twin Peaks for the second time. The first time he left (also in <em>SHoTP<\/em>), he studied with shamans and went on a vision quest where he met a number of tall humanoids that gave him a reptilian vibe. This second time leaving, he met menehune, \u201clittle people\u201d who \u201crevealed to him that they\u2019re not of earthly origin and their mission here on earth is to help steer the \u201cnewer root race of human beings\u201d away from our unfortunate genetic propensity for violence and self destruction.\u201d\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To me, this says Jacoby met the Fireman and his kind back in the day, and in 1989 he met the Fireman\u2019s coworkers. Which likely makes Jacoby the same kind of triggerable agent as Freddie Sykes, Margaret Coulson, Carl Rodd, Dale Cooper and Gordon Cole. He has absorbed the otherworldly creatures\u2019 messages, then he works through his issues and refines how he can best help his world. He next becomes a \u201csenior spiritual adviser\u201d to the Grateful Dead, becomes a resident fellow with a spiritually leaning outfit named Zonderkamp (but leaves when they think Y2K is the signal of Armageddon), helps Nader voters in 2000 come to terms with Bush winning the presidency,\u00a0then helps\u00a0where he could in New York on 9\/11. After the Iraq invasion\u2019s reason (weapons of mass destruction) was proven false, Jacoby saw that as \u201cconfirmation of his theory that the United States, and perhaps the world, might be entering what hi saw as \u201cKali Yuga\u201d\u2014an ancient Hindu term for a \u201cdark age.\u201d\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This was the point when he knew he needed to return again to Twin Peaks. He simplified his life, lived on the side of a mountain in a simple trailer, accepts some funding from Jerry Horne\u2019s help, and researches the internet as he develops his Dr. Amp personality. His message? Defiant hope, activism, individual responsibility.<\/p>\n<p>As Dr. Amp grew in popularity, he did not let corporations buy into the podcast, and his metaphorical message of \u201cshovel yourself out of the sh*t\u201d became literal with the sale of golden shovels, the profits of which he used only to run his show and then as contributions to charities. The shovels help with a \u201cdesired transformation through undertaking this assignment he described as a process of \u201cintrapersonal alchemy,\u201d turning the lead of dull, everyday consciousness into the gold of an evolved human soul, the goal of what he described as a hallowed tradition in esoteric philosophy harking all the way back to the Middle Ages.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The shovels have two coats of gold paint on them. Jacoby returned to Twin Peaks twice. James Hurley, also within Jacoby\u2019s case file, returned to Twin Peaks twice. They both simplified their lifestyles (much like James, and Donna and Will Hayward) and had the instinct to help people. Much like the two coats making the shovel ready to be used to shovel the user out of the sh*t, it may take certain people two times of going back to starting positions (doubly enforced with knowledge, much as paint absorbs into the shovel, then needs one more paint layer to make sure all of the base material is protected) before they can be ready enough to complete their alchemical journey. Metaphor or fact, it resonates as the same to me.<\/p>\n<p>What I find interesting about this connection is that Dale Cooper (not the Double who is described in this book; the Dale we see in Season 3), also left Twin Peaks twice (disappearing during the events at the beginning of this book, and once more after the events with Freddie at the Sheriff Station). Just like Jacoby and James he tries to help people along the way. And just like\u00a0Jacoby and James, both times he leaves are under awkward circumstances.<\/p>\n<p>The second time they leave town:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jacoby lost his license and needed to find himself.<\/li>\n<li>James thought he was going to perjure himself so he skipped town.<\/li>\n<li>Dale, after a &#8220;victory&#8221; against his Double, decides to go back in time to \u201csave\u201d Laura.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This gives hope that, even though a comparison is meant to imply Jacoby is like Prospero while Dale is equivalent to King Lear (who crumples under his own hubris),\u00a0there is still\u00a0hope for Dale Cooper even though it looks like he\u2019s made the mistake of all mistakes when we left him at the end of Season 3. Per the incomplete pattern in this book, Dale\u2019s character cycle is incomplete but the implication is the guy can still find a way to pull out a win. Through the lens of what we know from Season 3 (and this goes for Sarah Palmer too, who makes a controversial\u00a0appearance near the end of this book) we\u00a0are shown\u00a0Dale is taking his\u00a0Double&#8217;s\u00a0path\u00a0to darkness. But Dale can still take the proverbial wheel. Donna Hayward was able to turn her life around when similarly-traveling passenger Gersten could not, and even Ben Horne was atoning for his period of darkness, so there is more than enough room and precedent for Dale to take a path of redemption beyond the events in Season 3 and this book. But that is not a story for this book. This dossier is being assembled by Tamara Preston.<\/p>\n<h2>TAMARA PRESTON SYNTHESIZES THE MESSAGES<\/h2>\n<p><img data-attachment-id=\"45573\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/25yearslatersite.com\/2018\/10\/05\/twin-peaks-the-final-dossier-a-deep-dive-review-and-analysis-part-2\/beauty-tammy-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/25yearslatersite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/beauty-tammy.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"500,281\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"beauty-tammy\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/25yearslatersite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/beauty-tammy.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/25yearslatersite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/beauty-tammy.jpg\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-45573 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/25yearslatersite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/beauty-tammy.jpg\" alt=\"beauty-tammy\" width=\"662\" height=\"372\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Through assembling her files as an archivist, Tamara is observing the townspeople go through their cycles of self-actualization or otherwise. She is placing content in the order she does. Did she understand that the stories of James, Big Ed, Nadine, and Norma were putting exactly into practice Jacoby\u2019s honed message of personal accountability? Maybe not explicitly, but part of her must have; otherwise why would that success story have been part of Lawrence\u2019s case file?<\/p>\n<p>In the plot of her own story, Tamara writes a section called &#8220;Final Thoughts&#8221; to Gordon while on a plane heading away from Twin Peaks. She writes \u201c\u2026a core fundamental of human existence is wonder\u2014and its analogue is fear. You can\u2019t have one without the other, flip sides of the coin.\u201d Tamara has absorbed Margaret\u2019s message, learned the path of Cooper\u2019s Double, and synthesized the two together into Tamara\u2019s own lessons.<\/p>\n<p>She asks if the evil in us is real, and \u201cHow do we hold both fear and wonder in the mind at once? Does staring into the darkness offer up an answer, or resolution?\u201d Later, she writes this: \u201cThe only answer I can console myself with is this: What if the truth lies just beyond the limits of our fear, and the only way to reach it is to never look away? What if that is why we must keep going, why we can never quit trying to overcome it in every moment we\u2019re alive?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She waxes poetic about how easy it is to quit, to squander life a thousand different ways. Then she says the experience she had while assembling the dossier has changed her. And she ends the book, echoing the best of Dr. Amp, echoing the best of Margaret, with this:<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026when it\u2019s all stripped away and you realize you\u2019re the only one who can put the pieces of yourself back together, by yourself, alone\u2014no easy answers from a book, song, or movie or the reassuring words of someone older and \u201cwiser\u201d\u2014\u201d and here I interrupt to say the mention of a book could be <em>Final Dossier<\/em>, the song anything from <em>Twin Peaks<\/em> soundtracks, the movie being Season 3, and the someone older and with-sarcastic-quotes wiser could be Frost mentioning himself in a don\u2019t-get-cocky move, \u201cI\u2019m noticing it has a tendency to focus and sharpen the mind, and strengthen the will to live constantly with all my senses wide open to the here and now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Her final conclusion is: \u201cWe mustn&#8217;t give up.\u201d \u201cEver.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This book has given us tools and case studies to help with\u00a0this perseverance, even when we\u2019re stuck going it alone after <em>Twin Peaks<\/em> runs out of\u00a0stories for the second time in under 30 years. (Note how we&#8217;re leaving <em>Twin Peaks<\/em> for the second time just like Dale&#8230;.would I put it past Frost to make an intentional connection or comparison?)<\/p>\n<p>Is this the actual end? Will we see Cooper&#8217;s final alchemically-formed self one day? Only time will tell us that, but as we\u2019ll explore deeply in <a href=\"https:\/\/25yearslatersite.com\/2018\/11\/02\/twin-peaks-the-final-dossier-a-deep-dive-review-and-analysis-part-3\/\">Part 3<\/a> of this Deep Dive series, things go in cycles all the time. There\u2019s good odds we\u2019ll see more enlightenment hit our bookshelves or screens before our proverbial logs turn gold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cTwin Peaks: The Final Dossier \u2013 A Deep Dive Review and Analysis (Part 2)\u201d is now available on Audio, read by the author, John Bernady, exclusively for our Patreon supporters. 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