Not a 3 ACT man. . . A three RING. . .
First, an expansion from last time. . . .
What I'm getting at is different altogether -
Here's a story. Around 1980, my dad was at a hypnosis convention in Chicago. Now, it's hard to find a group that knows so little about their business. The state of education in that profession is mainly geared towards technique, rather than theory. There was a buzz at this event about 'rapid induction techniques' - like you sometimes used to see in theatrical demonstrations -stage hypnosis - where a hypnotist snaps his fingers or something and a person goes out like a light. It got to be a sport there, where the assembled hypnotists would try it out on each other. There was a woman there who was holding forth that 'no one can get ME . . . ' Feeling this came under the heading of his favorite game, 'the Neurotic doesn't get to win' , he walked over to her and said 'SLEEP' and she was out like a light. How did this happen? Your mind has one main function, and that is to act as though what you imagine to be true IS TRUE, and it will go to great lengths to carry that mission out. The woman in this story had many beliefs - most pertinent was the one that 'people could be got' -she was already 9/10ths there
Skepticism denotes many beliefs - a belief in things to be found out, a beliefs about the tools of inquiry, beliefs about variable sincerity - that's the FRAMEWORK for our PATTERNS and it's often invisible. The point of all this isn't a jape at 'skeptimizationology' of skepticism, but to test your commitment to the frame. But I think the theme for THIS century will be a 'looking beyond' that, as opposed to the 'looking back' . I bring this up for two reasons. One, these beliefs are often a blindspot that limits the scope of our art. In one sense, beliefs AREN'T temporary; they can outlast us all. Knowledge is temporary -VIRTUE is more interesting to me, and that's what I see as the struggle in our literature here. It's virtue, not knowledge that leads to our tears for the sufferings of the world, the joy of our lives, or the contempt for hypocrisies.
The point of all that is that's where the 6th and 7th dimensions lie.
- two. . . . .
This is a test -it is only a test . . . .But consider: the theme of our people right now is escapism. That comes in many forms, and it's easy to do. Easier to look at another's forms of escape and discount our OWN, cos they don't look the same. This Blog might be holding us back if it makes everyone too comfortable. What I would like, would to be able to go and buy something written by these friars, like people do. Maybe sometime in, say, a year. Then I would be reassured.
One of my favorite things is to mock the President and Paris Hilton -Word, if you're so rich, how come you ain't smart! ! ! ! -Yet they are both big successes, at the top of their respective fields. Knowledge itself isn't a requirement. We'll look at what is in a minute. I don't know that alot of the reading we've done the last couple years has done much more than enabled us to have a discussion about our reading. to Paraphrase St BOb,
We've been with the professors and they've all liked our looks
with great lawyers, we've discussed lepers and crooks
I've been through all of F Scott Fitzgerald's books. . . . .
I'm working here, the theme of all these posts, to ensure we have the tools to deal with that something that is happening.
I don't see us living radically different lives or producing art much different than anyone elses. For all our discussion of humanistic thought, no one seems to have any way to adress the philosophy rampant today that secular humanism FAILED -it's a mantra that unites the fundementalists of all faiths. If all that study is going to change those minds, I'm all for it. If there's no transformative power to the knowledge, of what use? ? ? Our own cleverness is a drug worse than TV. So what I'm asking for is that we all do an agonizing reappraisal, root out our respective blindspots, and go forth and conquer the world. I expect alot from this crew, dammit.
II. The Cult of Originality and. . . . . YOU
This is something we've back burnered, but perhaps now is the time. . . .
In certain circles, where the impotence of human knowlege is much derided, the cause of said derision is this -we like to isolate a piece of local reality, create patterns, and then describe them. [This is okay as a game, but as an art or a science just won't do at all. Giving patterns to humans is a bit like giving whiskey to the Native Amearicans, or Synthesizers the the Europeans. . . ]This is pehaps the FUNDAMENTAL human activity -all our urges towards cosmology, religion, politics, seem to me to have root here. This is why the vaunting of knowledge is alarming to me. Virtue can't be made out of knowledge alone, just as we can't make concrete only out of sand.
There seem to be two kinds of people,
( and I'm not recanting my Silver Pants Doctrine here - I just don't know which is a subset of the other) The ones who are happy describing other patterns, and the ones who occasionally do the entire process from scratch. This is sometimes called 'originality'.
I agree with New York Rachel - I'm often disappointed to find an artist lacking in that department -but on further examination, I think it really has to do with a resentment in the way fame is apportioned. We get angry with others declaring our gods FOR us.There's alot of buzz about Dylan this last year. What we can see is that Dylan has never played a new form of music in his life. His career has two phases -using the old forms as a launching platform for his amazing lyrics, and later he would start to write to the form. There's always a 'New to You' factor in the arts. It's low to take undue credit in the world of pure art. In showbiz, that's an artform, dang und sich.
We are living in a time of rebellion against the individual. In order not to tread on anyone's self esteem, we're not promoting GREAT individuals and their accomplisments. In the field of education, we are stressing collabrative effort, and more, collabrative interpretation, which in light of our narcissitic problems, has a certain sinister quality to me -and it's no accident that all this started with the Boomers. . . .That's right. It's the current trend. Don't take it for more than that. A reaction to the way historic fame was apportioned when THEY were in school.
It's defiling the entertainment industry, from the reality shows, where the stars are comprhensively average, to the current crop of celebs -no charisma required.
We are being brainwashed into thinking that changes are only the product of many broad factors, and it's already hurting our ability to innovate.
When Jelly Roll Morton claims to have invented Jazz, we laugh -cos we believe, as an article of faith, that it's impossible. [and even I agree -everyone knows coronetist Buddy Bolden invented it a generation before. ] Civilization advances only when someone does something different than the person next to them. Prof Max Muller points out that 'The true history of the world must always be the history of the few. We measure the himalyas by the height of mount everest. We must take the true measure of INdia from the poets of the vedas, the sages of the upanishads . . . and not from the millions who are born and die in their villages, who have never once been roused from their drowsy dream of life. ' St Exupery refines this to the fundamental question of culture 'Who is to be born? ? ? We are not a flock to be fattened up, and the appearance of one poor Pascal is of more weight than a few prosperous nonentities. '
Bringing it all back home
Let's pause for a moment to look at Art, 'capital A' ART -that's one thing, and to be involved in it is also to accept that your audience may not even be born yet. I must admit, with something akin to a grimace, that F. Scott Fitzgerald is more popular now than in his own lifetime.
When we leave the pure world, and want to DO IT FOR A LIVING, that's where we cross over into show business, and there is a different skill set entirely. BE ready for the shift. 'Smart' isn't a factor in this world. Look at me - A simple fop, a dandy, a BIMBO -yet I get more party invitations than The Brain and Little Rachel, [the two smartest humans on earth] put together. Partygoing is something to brush up on. It came as a shock to me to realize that Jay -Z's reputation was made, not on the mean streets of new york, but at Lizzie Grubman's parties in the Hamptons. Bessie Smith delivered a beatdown in the same situation, but our modern rappers lapped it up. Know what this means. Know who the partygoers are. They are a tribe unto themselves. Date a few D-girls -get a feel for what awaits. . . .
III. Crowding the Pot - Wabi Sabi rides again . . . .
I want to share a great and elegant Wabi-Sabi statement on relationships, Courtesy of the Brain.
'The aesthetic of a girl can be viewed in parts. The pieces combine to shape the whole. It becomes a question of whether it is some of the pieces you love about the girl or the actual whole. If you removed a piece or added one would the composition change so much that it was no longer the same girl to you? How many pieces must change to suddenly see a new girl? Do you love what is, what was, or what will be? Does a part of the composition change so much that the aesthetic changes? Does the aesthetic resonate what is in you? ? Is love the reflection of your aesthetic? Aesthetic is what weaves through the parts and pulls them together. It is there because of the parts but is what unifies the parts. To love the aesthetic is to love the whole girl. By loving the whole you also embrace the flaws. It becomes important to realize the dissolution or destruction of a girl (by herself) may be a part of her aesthetic. If you love the whole you will be at peace with the dissolution of the whole for that is the nature of the whole. If you love just the pieces you will be more troubled by the dissolution because you will not understand that that was the fate of the girl caused by her aesthetic. . . with the dissolution of something what you may really be mourning is you anyway. By loving another you are loving yourself because you are the source of that love. You generate the love that is projected outward. How much of any girl is you?
"one holds beings dear not out of love for beings;
rather it is out of love for oneself
that one holds beings dear."
-Brhadaranyaka Upanishad
If you do not control your love you do not control yourself. If you do not know why you love you do not know yourself.
'Men, women,
and their shadows
dancing'
-Santoka Taneda
Eachh girl is an exploration of yourself. A yoga of girlhood. By being mindful of a girls aesthetic and how it relates to your own, you can see which pieces of a girl drive you. If what you really like about a girl is really the whole girl or just some part you can find in another girl. Do not confuse the aesthetic of a girl with a few dominant parts. Do not get pulled down by the undertow of your own needs.
"When a man rightly sees
He sees all,
He wins all,
Completely."
-Chandogya Upanishad
"So many flea bites
But on her lovely
young skin
They are beautiful"
-Issa
Your Friend,
Nathan 8/8/03
Will this post never end ? ? ? ?
yeah, here it comes. I want to add a couple links here - http://www.normalbobsmith.com/publicity&promotion/pamphlets.html
and
http://www.normalbobsmith.com/askgod/
and here is the long lost islamic heretic Hakim Bey link
http://hermetic.com/bey/
I would like us all to pause and serioulsy consider the ramifications of Lycos presenting an award to Pam Anderson for being the most requested search item for the past 10 years running! ! ! ! ! I'm aware that in it's prime Baywatch entertained slightly over two billion viewers a week world wide, which I think puts it ahead of any of the major religions, but this isn't what Al Gore and I had in mind when we built this information superhighway for you.
-El Pirata
What I'm getting at is different altogether -
Here's a story. Around 1980, my dad was at a hypnosis convention in Chicago. Now, it's hard to find a group that knows so little about their business. The state of education in that profession is mainly geared towards technique, rather than theory. There was a buzz at this event about 'rapid induction techniques' - like you sometimes used to see in theatrical demonstrations -stage hypnosis - where a hypnotist snaps his fingers or something and a person goes out like a light. It got to be a sport there, where the assembled hypnotists would try it out on each other. There was a woman there who was holding forth that 'no one can get ME . . . ' Feeling this came under the heading of his favorite game, 'the Neurotic doesn't get to win' , he walked over to her and said 'SLEEP' and she was out like a light. How did this happen? Your mind has one main function, and that is to act as though what you imagine to be true IS TRUE, and it will go to great lengths to carry that mission out. The woman in this story had many beliefs - most pertinent was the one that 'people could be got' -she was already 9/10ths there
Skepticism denotes many beliefs - a belief in things to be found out, a beliefs about the tools of inquiry, beliefs about variable sincerity - that's the FRAMEWORK for our PATTERNS and it's often invisible. The point of all this isn't a jape at 'skeptimizationology' of skepticism, but to test your commitment to the frame. But I think the theme for THIS century will be a 'looking beyond' that, as opposed to the 'looking back' . I bring this up for two reasons. One, these beliefs are often a blindspot that limits the scope of our art. In one sense, beliefs AREN'T temporary; they can outlast us all. Knowledge is temporary -VIRTUE is more interesting to me, and that's what I see as the struggle in our literature here. It's virtue, not knowledge that leads to our tears for the sufferings of the world, the joy of our lives, or the contempt for hypocrisies.
The point of all that is that's where the 6th and 7th dimensions lie.
- two. . . . .
This is a test -it is only a test . . . .But consider: the theme of our people right now is escapism. That comes in many forms, and it's easy to do. Easier to look at another's forms of escape and discount our OWN, cos they don't look the same. This Blog might be holding us back if it makes everyone too comfortable. What I would like, would to be able to go and buy something written by these friars, like people do. Maybe sometime in, say, a year. Then I would be reassured.
One of my favorite things is to mock the President and Paris Hilton -Word, if you're so rich, how come you ain't smart! ! ! ! -Yet they are both big successes, at the top of their respective fields. Knowledge itself isn't a requirement. We'll look at what is in a minute. I don't know that alot of the reading we've done the last couple years has done much more than enabled us to have a discussion about our reading. to Paraphrase St BOb,
We've been with the professors and they've all liked our looks
with great lawyers, we've discussed lepers and crooks
I've been through all of F Scott Fitzgerald's books. . . . .
I'm working here, the theme of all these posts, to ensure we have the tools to deal with that something that is happening.
I don't see us living radically different lives or producing art much different than anyone elses. For all our discussion of humanistic thought, no one seems to have any way to adress the philosophy rampant today that secular humanism FAILED -it's a mantra that unites the fundementalists of all faiths. If all that study is going to change those minds, I'm all for it. If there's no transformative power to the knowledge, of what use? ? ? Our own cleverness is a drug worse than TV. So what I'm asking for is that we all do an agonizing reappraisal, root out our respective blindspots, and go forth and conquer the world. I expect alot from this crew, dammit.
II. The Cult of Originality and. . . . . YOU
This is something we've back burnered, but perhaps now is the time. . . .
In certain circles, where the impotence of human knowlege is much derided, the cause of said derision is this -we like to isolate a piece of local reality, create patterns, and then describe them. [This is okay as a game, but as an art or a science just won't do at all. Giving patterns to humans is a bit like giving whiskey to the Native Amearicans, or Synthesizers the the Europeans. . . ]This is pehaps the FUNDAMENTAL human activity -all our urges towards cosmology, religion, politics, seem to me to have root here. This is why the vaunting of knowledge is alarming to me. Virtue can't be made out of knowledge alone, just as we can't make concrete only out of sand.
There seem to be two kinds of people,
( and I'm not recanting my Silver Pants Doctrine here - I just don't know which is a subset of the other) The ones who are happy describing other patterns, and the ones who occasionally do the entire process from scratch. This is sometimes called 'originality'.
I agree with New York Rachel - I'm often disappointed to find an artist lacking in that department -but on further examination, I think it really has to do with a resentment in the way fame is apportioned. We get angry with others declaring our gods FOR us.There's alot of buzz about Dylan this last year. What we can see is that Dylan has never played a new form of music in his life. His career has two phases -using the old forms as a launching platform for his amazing lyrics, and later he would start to write to the form. There's always a 'New to You' factor in the arts. It's low to take undue credit in the world of pure art. In showbiz, that's an artform, dang und sich.
We are living in a time of rebellion against the individual. In order not to tread on anyone's self esteem, we're not promoting GREAT individuals and their accomplisments. In the field of education, we are stressing collabrative effort, and more, collabrative interpretation, which in light of our narcissitic problems, has a certain sinister quality to me -and it's no accident that all this started with the Boomers. . . .That's right. It's the current trend. Don't take it for more than that. A reaction to the way historic fame was apportioned when THEY were in school.
It's defiling the entertainment industry, from the reality shows, where the stars are comprhensively average, to the current crop of celebs -no charisma required.
We are being brainwashed into thinking that changes are only the product of many broad factors, and it's already hurting our ability to innovate.
When Jelly Roll Morton claims to have invented Jazz, we laugh -cos we believe, as an article of faith, that it's impossible. [and even I agree -everyone knows coronetist Buddy Bolden invented it a generation before. ] Civilization advances only when someone does something different than the person next to them. Prof Max Muller points out that 'The true history of the world must always be the history of the few. We measure the himalyas by the height of mount everest. We must take the true measure of INdia from the poets of the vedas, the sages of the upanishads . . . and not from the millions who are born and die in their villages, who have never once been roused from their drowsy dream of life. ' St Exupery refines this to the fundamental question of culture 'Who is to be born? ? ? We are not a flock to be fattened up, and the appearance of one poor Pascal is of more weight than a few prosperous nonentities. '
Bringing it all back home
Let's pause for a moment to look at Art, 'capital A' ART -that's one thing, and to be involved in it is also to accept that your audience may not even be born yet. I must admit, with something akin to a grimace, that F. Scott Fitzgerald is more popular now than in his own lifetime.
When we leave the pure world, and want to DO IT FOR A LIVING, that's where we cross over into show business, and there is a different skill set entirely. BE ready for the shift. 'Smart' isn't a factor in this world. Look at me - A simple fop, a dandy, a BIMBO -yet I get more party invitations than The Brain and Little Rachel, [the two smartest humans on earth] put together. Partygoing is something to brush up on. It came as a shock to me to realize that Jay -Z's reputation was made, not on the mean streets of new york, but at Lizzie Grubman's parties in the Hamptons. Bessie Smith delivered a beatdown in the same situation, but our modern rappers lapped it up. Know what this means. Know who the partygoers are. They are a tribe unto themselves. Date a few D-girls -get a feel for what awaits. . . .
III. Crowding the Pot - Wabi Sabi rides again . . . .
I want to share a great and elegant Wabi-Sabi statement on relationships, Courtesy of the Brain.
'The aesthetic of a girl can be viewed in parts. The pieces combine to shape the whole. It becomes a question of whether it is some of the pieces you love about the girl or the actual whole. If you removed a piece or added one would the composition change so much that it was no longer the same girl to you? How many pieces must change to suddenly see a new girl? Do you love what is, what was, or what will be? Does a part of the composition change so much that the aesthetic changes? Does the aesthetic resonate what is in you? ? Is love the reflection of your aesthetic? Aesthetic is what weaves through the parts and pulls them together. It is there because of the parts but is what unifies the parts. To love the aesthetic is to love the whole girl. By loving the whole you also embrace the flaws. It becomes important to realize the dissolution or destruction of a girl (by herself) may be a part of her aesthetic. If you love the whole you will be at peace with the dissolution of the whole for that is the nature of the whole. If you love just the pieces you will be more troubled by the dissolution because you will not understand that that was the fate of the girl caused by her aesthetic. . . with the dissolution of something what you may really be mourning is you anyway. By loving another you are loving yourself because you are the source of that love. You generate the love that is projected outward. How much of any girl is you?
"one holds beings dear not out of love for beings;
rather it is out of love for oneself
that one holds beings dear."
-Brhadaranyaka Upanishad
If you do not control your love you do not control yourself. If you do not know why you love you do not know yourself.
'Men, women,
and their shadows
dancing'
-Santoka Taneda
Eachh girl is an exploration of yourself. A yoga of girlhood. By being mindful of a girls aesthetic and how it relates to your own, you can see which pieces of a girl drive you. If what you really like about a girl is really the whole girl or just some part you can find in another girl. Do not confuse the aesthetic of a girl with a few dominant parts. Do not get pulled down by the undertow of your own needs.
"When a man rightly sees
He sees all,
He wins all,
Completely."
-Chandogya Upanishad
"So many flea bites
But on her lovely
young skin
They are beautiful"
-Issa
Your Friend,
Nathan 8/8/03
Will this post never end ? ? ? ?
yeah, here it comes. I want to add a couple links here - http://www.normalbobsmith.com/publicity&promotion/pamphlets.html
and
http://www.normalbobsmith.com/askgod/
and here is the long lost islamic heretic Hakim Bey link
http://hermetic.com/bey/
I would like us all to pause and serioulsy consider the ramifications of Lycos presenting an award to Pam Anderson for being the most requested search item for the past 10 years running! ! ! ! ! I'm aware that in it's prime Baywatch entertained slightly over two billion viewers a week world wide, which I think puts it ahead of any of the major religions, but this isn't what Al Gore and I had in mind when we built this information superhighway for you.
-El Pirata
posted by friars | Saturday, February 18, 2006
4 Comments:
-Had a great weekend with Vikingo here along the lake. Now I am drinking water. Wish you were here. Fabulous post. It begins to ruminate. Nice to see the Brain in print as well. More later, soon.
l'a-ro
Wow. A lot to take in...
right on jon... and nathan
thanx so much for giving yourself
by the way it now has names
the dirty islands 3 track ep... rough
1. dirty islands
2. raw juice
3. concrete light
feel free to chime in and sugjest any changes and what not
-vikingo (a buckwheat colonel)
Loved the site. Very interesting reading :-) I like this site hypnosis spiral
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