Who REALLY Started the Planking Phenomenon? I Know.

It was actually K.D. Lang.



She sang this song a few years ago.

French, "Je fais la planche" = "I'm planking."


Here are the gorgeously simple

yet timeless lyrics.



K.D. Lang also gives the philosophical underpinnings

in these lyrics

of planking; it's almost Taoist.


We must feel "As above, so below."


And that's the secret significance

of all those people suddenly planking.


Jung would have so seen the way this phenomenoon has spread

as proof of an archetype and the collective unconscious.


The way Jung said that people all over the planet

suddenly seeing U.F.O.S. in the fifties

was a projection of a mandala into the sky.


The projection of the human race's desire for a healing wholeness.


Way to go, K.D. Lang!


Now make everyone stand on their heads

and rub a finger over their lips

while making that airplane propeller sound!



the sublime song's lyrics...


Endlessly blue above me

Endlessly blue beneath

The buoyancy of beneath

Je fais la planche



What lies beyond the surface

That loses profoundly deep

An uninterrupted sleep

Je fais la planche


Floating here in a dream

In this dream of earth and sky

In this dream of life



Floating here in a dream

In this dream of earth and sky

In this dream of life