Summary = TBD
Condensed News Items = See below
News Item Gallery = jcap 93117 -1196
Transcript = None
Key Words =
The News
The Times Keep A’Changing And So Too Must A Viewer…(Maybe)
One man says he has adopted the following approach: “I now
think in Olde English, and speak in Esperanto.”
…..If you can’t think for yourself, you’ll never be able to
think beyond yourself.
…..”Okay, put me down for twenty bucks, and two quarts of skim
milk.”
***
A mind, driven only by the senses, goes about its business
much like a dog licking, and re-licking a raw spot on its paw.
…..A consciousness, not operating from a position of
impersonal, impartiality, is not worth worrying about.
***
The semi clever and partially intelligent love to say that
there is some sort of “truth” that is somehow “hidden from” those
less sophisticated than themselves. …(Yeah-h-h, go get ’em
tiger.)
***
In an attempt not only to understand better his ties to the
mind of the collective but also to keep current with contemporary
psychological models and approaches, this one man says he’s now
working to “get in touch” with his “inner cow.”
***
The mere fact that anything non-physical can be somehow
“explained away” should alert a few as to the radical reality, if
not significance of, their beloved “everythings.”
***
The mind has a thousand eyes, and thus sees a thousand
sights; point-blank vision however, reveals another picture.
***
Queer-rie: Is it absolutely inescapable (do you think) that
feelings have to jump-start thinking!?
***
A bit of encouraging news for the relentless traveler:
Flying’s never been cheaper — staying home, never more
expensive.
…..Every now and then in history, something extraordinary
occurs! — What the hell happened to your history!?
***
Point! Counterpoint! — And Then Even More
There are as many different states of awareness as there are
different people — but, Hey! — there’re not actually as many
different people as you probably think.
…..Just think! — if you think about it long enough, you won’t
ever have to do anything but think about it!
***
Topic: Civilization-In-General, & Sub-Sets Of Serious Groups
In Particular:
Those who don’t know where they’re going approve of getting
together to go there.
…..Turning stage right, he intoned: “Ah — be still, my
flippy heart.” And a footlight replied: ” ‘Tis not your heart
that needs to be stilled.”
…..Later, several people turned up at the ticket box asking
for their money back — fat chance! — since no one paid to get
in!
…..”Be still, oh foolish herd.”
***
If you don’t believe that anyone loves you unless they say
that they do — you could be right.
***
Even the ordinary must believe that there are two levels of
intelligence possible, just for them to make it through their
sixty odd years here; a more alert man has got to get beyond that
— a more alert man has no choice — that’s why a more alert
man’s — more alert!
***
All Of Politics Explained Briefly
Ideological adversaries make strange bedfellows since it was
not ideas that put them there in the first place.
***
A man asks: “Why should I be of ‘good-cheer’ when I’m just
going to die anyway!?” Okay then — wait until you die! — if
that’ll make you happy.
***
Minds argue — real consciousness wouldn’t stoop so low.
***
The tear in those who like to pronounce that: “We are what
we have thought,” is that they ordinarily believe it was actually
them who thought it.
***
A mythology that advertises, promotes, and engages in self-
reference, is no longer a subtle, refined message, but is now
rather an unimportant, concrete grossness.
…..A more complex awareness does not mistake a pointing to the
north as a form of criticism.
…..A certain grizzly bear (already half way out of his tuxedo)
noted: “Oh-h-h, I get it.”
***
Again, From The Transcendental Toy Box “Instructions”
(some assembly required):
Sit ’til you sleep, then, dance ’til you drop; then, sit
some more; then, dance some more, then sit at a higher level,
then dance with greater intensity, then do it some more, some
more, some greater, some more intense more, and so on, and on.
…..Some Cosmic Sports News
To a Friday mystic, there is no such thing as Thursday.
…..Fashion Update
On this one world they define a more conscious man as “a
mystic who doesn’t dress up funny.”
***
Since all behavior can be traced to — body-based, no
explanation is always better than any verbal one.
***
Everyone’s intelligence, in one locale, all put together
would just about equal something else.
***
At approximately two or three days before the twenty-second
of the month, a man pondered: “Which is the dumber? — my mind’s
criticisms of life, or its annoyance at the criticisms of
others?”
***
Conversation
“Just because you’re conscious doesn’t mean you know what’s
going on.” “I knew that!”
…..Why books have titles: Because of the weakness of their
texts. …(“I knew that!”)
***
He added to his expanding song repertoire a recent
composition entitled: “I Could Never Take The Place Of Me! — Oh
Yes I Could!”
***
Definition from city life:
Intellectuals: The talking dumb.
***
Reflected one man: “If the body is a rising and a setting
of the sun, and the mind a merry go round, then what’s left!? —
What is it ‘way-out-here’ that I still take to be the best shot I
have at becoming something new and different!?”
…..If consciousness had a face, and if it shaved, it’d finally
say to the mind one morning: “Slap me with some of that stinging
lotion.”
…..When alone, in the shower, many men wonder: “From whence
cometh this overabundance of commas, and semi-colons!?”
***
“And, ladies and gentlemen of the jury, may I wrap up my
summation by saying a word about justice, in noting to you the
fact that: Those who understand little, never realize how little
they understand.”
…..The bailiff suddenly remembered his great uncle used to
tell him that a “three-eyed man in a nudist colony would always
be the last one they’d call on the make codpieces.”
…..Judicious Corollary: Never let a judge know how contrary
you feel about a ruling; in fact, never let a judge know how you
feel — period; in fact — stay out of court. (You dork.)
…..The Public Arena is good and useful for two quite specific
purposes — but you aren’t either one of them.
***
Some Directions From A Random City Carton
If you have the “supreme, internal itches,” a loud voice and
pushy personality, and can’t figure out what to do yourself, then
you can always try and tell other people how they should change,
and improve their behavior.
…..A bullet to the brain,
Can ease a hang-nail’s pain.
***
A fellow mused: “I don’t like being thought of simply as a
‘man’.” To which his mind replied: “Well, hell! — who does!?”
***
To help keep himself alert to the struggle that seemed to
whirl about and within him, for one decade this one man bought
cheap hats and expensive underwear, and then eight years later
reversed the process.
…..Things can: Be as they appear, or: Be as they’re hidden.
Here in the middle of the wood, ask yourself: “Which will it
be!?”
***
Some atomic forces were talking and one of them said:
“Let’s make man think.” And another said: “Naw, let’s make him
miserable.” And a third joined in: “Well, hey — they’re the
same thing.”
The reason that you have never heard this Scientific Myth
before now,
Is both that it did not exist,
And no one wants to hear about it anyhow,
Plus it doesn’t have to be true,
Unless you insist on being you.
Okay! — what d’ya think!?
***
The Hormone Fairy told one person: “It’s not nice not to
care what you look like to others.”
…..(And the Angel Of Aging said: “Ah, leave the guy alone.”)
***
Here is what should become your family motto, if you ever
get around to officially adopting yourself, and becoming a decent
parent: “If your thinking’s not fun — what’s its use!?”
…..A more enriched conception as to what “fun” can be, reveals
it to not only be fun, but also a roadway to even more fun.
…..One man’s mind squealed with glee: “I can’t hardly stand
it!” And he said: “I know — that’s why I brought you here.”
***
Ah-Hum!
Is it possible for a person to try and do something
internally extraordinary without external pressure from other
humans? …Well, if one can, then he certainly has the potential
to succeed at it.
***
What holds the new, potentially radical army at bay is the
fact that your old generals still believe there is an opposing
force that must be overcome before moving forward.
…..Beneath the masks of the universal Tag Team Champions —
the duo of “Either/Or” — (in some arenas known as “True & False”
and sometimes as “Good & Evil”) are in fact, those two devilish,
beloved old rascals — (sharing a common face) — “All Forms Of
Complaint & Criticism.” …(It’s just too long a name to get on
a marque.)
***
A fellow told a friend: “You want to know something
worthwhile and useful?! — You take things too seriously.” And
his friend replied: “But you’ve told me that a thousand times
already.” And the man said: “Yes, but you’ve yet to understand
it deep and wide enough.” — And may I add in a personal aside to
you that a man’s true best friend should be his own
consciousness.
…..Since the county will be digging around your property
today, they put up a sign next to the curb that says: “Have you
ever considered that one of the things you can take ‘too
seriously’ is your own thinking!?”
***
An example of how the mind wishes things would work:
Next to the address label on his magazine was this message:
“If any of the information on this label is incorrect, and you
did not receive this issue, please write and tell us how this
could be.”
***
Social Tip For More Than Just Your Social Life
Don’t hang out (if possible) with people even more crude and
less civilized than you are (if you ever find any).
…..Buffet of: “All You Can Eat” Definitions:
Hollow Threats: All that’s needed to keep hollow men in
line.
***
In a distant corner a man thought: “I have developed this
suspicion that if I could think of just one thing, constantly,
continually, relentlessly, and with no shifting about at all, I
just bet that something extraordinary might occur in my mind.”
Then he later was struck: “But haven’t I heard and thought this
a thousand times before!?…And to what profit!?” Could it be,
my man, that some mental things need be more than merely
“thought!?” Hearing that, he looked even further away
momentarily, then back this way, with a hesitant smile, and then
he left.
***
Fact!, Fact!, Fact! — And More Frigging Fact!
Everyone — hell! — anyone would rather read about it —
hell! — think about it, than do it. Why? — Why?, do you ask!?
— Well I’ll tell you bleedin’ why! — ‘Cause most people got no
other bloody choice! — that’s why. Note: While the above
“Facts” are not literally, or technically true, they are close
enough facsimiles to be of practical, factual use.
…..That mountains dream of ever-higher peaks, though presently
shrouded in clouds, is certainly suggestive of something (to
those in their own hiking boots).
***
Q & A
Q: What is the highest form of entertainment? A: The
highest level of awareness.
***
The Mind (as seen by many, about mid-way across the stream):
The Mind: A puppet with no apparent puppeteer.
***
Believing you have an important personal life is an illusion
— but a necessary one for those of routine awareness.
***
Tip, Regarding Suburbanite Living
If you look long and hard enough, you’ll always see
something in the bushes. …(In town dwellers may substitute the
word “mind” for “bushes.”
***
Tip Regarding Residential Life In General
One man says he no longer worries so much about his
neighbors since he’s discovered that his ox can gore itself.
…(To his close friends he’s further noted that they may
replace the word “ox” with “mind.”)
***
Everyone has two physical parents, and three otherwise ones.
…..Those who do not understand that the correct answer is
always: “All of the above,” continue to need yes-men, and no-
women, and an endless supply of scratch paper.
***
Consciousness: That thing, lookin’ for a home — somewhere
beyond the mind.
***
The crude see things as separated; the sophisticated sense
things to be somehow connected; wow! — what d’ya think people at
a next level of awareness may spot?!
***
Free Tip:
It sounds better if you’re sincere when you’re talking about
stuff you don’t understand.
***
A man writes: “After hearing your interpretations of
everyday life, and your descriptions of higher levels of
awareness, it sounds to me that the latter and routine conditions
of insanity are not all that far apart. Huh!?” Sir, if for the
moment, we gave it to you that you’re not entirely incorrect,
shouldn’t that alone provide sufficient motivation for you to
want to “get the hell out of there”!?
***
Routine minds do not understand what the word “criticism”
means anymore than they do the word “fun.”
***
If you don’t think much you don’t have to worry much about
what you think.
***
If your own mind is not faster and more complex than the
combined one of the collective, then…well…well — oh, I don’t
know what else to say to you.
***
In regards to his efforts to raise his level of electro-
chemical, head consciousness, one man adopted this private
working motto: “Boost The Juice And Expand The Spark.”
***
Oh — and, one way to go about it is: Don’t think about
hormonal things — …only think about thinking things.
***
One man grinned aggressively and declared: “You ain’t seen
nothing, yet!” To which his mirror replied: “Oh yeah!? — well
I’ve seen you!” And the man didn’t answer.
***
One day, the local city said to one man: “Although I know
we haven’t ‘officially’ slept together, I nonetheless would like
to know if you do still respect me?” And the mortal replied:
“‘Still!? — Still!?’ How the hell did you come up with ‘still’
respect you!?”
…..Several otherwise educated and sophisticated viewers
huddled together as they uncomfortably and collectively pondered
just what the term and concept of “the city” in the above might
actually represent.
…..Remember: When you don’t “know something” — it’s already
too late to talk about it.
***
Time For: Our Comedy Legend Of The Night:
A man of independent consciousness can insult everybody
without insulting anybody in particular.
***
An inquiring mind stopped by long enough to inquire: “Above
and beyond all of the many intriguing, intricate, and multi-
faceted descriptions you and others have used in referring to
additional levels of potential consciousness, or mental
awareness, is it just barely possible that it could actually be
put much more plainly and simply?!?” Yep.
***
…He came back later and asked: “Then why don’t you?” —
Oh, but I did!
***