Thu - September 24, 2009At Least I Quit CigarettesThis is for Brugh Joy, who is battling a
particularly lethal form of cancer right now. I just talked to some friends who
studied with him in the same group as I did. They are on their way back home
today from Rex Ranch, where our groups have been meeting. Brugh is a pattern
level psychologist as well as an extraordinary dream interpreter and a doctor of
internal medicine. The nature of the patterns of the collective unconscious I
learned from him. The ending is from a song by the Geezenslaw Brothers, "She Put a Jukebox in the
Bedroom."
Posted at 02:33 PM Read More Thu - September 10, 2009In Germany Before the WarToday I was looking for one book and, as often
happens, found something else which had been lost. It was a 1978 issue of
Psychological Perspectives, which contained an article by Joseph Henderson in
which he described a dream he had while near the Austrian border with
Switzerland, before WWII. I have recalled this dream from memory a few times,
and was interested to look at it and see how much I had recalled and how much I
had forgotten.
Posted at 01:54 PM Read More Fri - September 4, 2009Political RantOnce in awhile I have to have a political rant.
I am thinking about how hopeful we were when we elected Obama, and how it turned
into one of those tug of war games. One side tries to drag you in their
direction and the other side tries to drag you there. Because so many
Republicans voted for Obama I thought there might be some unification of the
country so that we can get some really important things done.
Posted at 08:00 PM Read More Tue - August 25, 2009Unvetted SourcesThe news has degenerated into conversation. This
conversation is held in salons, and there are clubs anyone can join, just like
the Catholic Church or, if you're too lazy to go out, the Jehovah's Witnesses.
They will come with the good news, which is that you need to join with some
other people like yourself and believe the same things together. You have to do
some social testing to find find out who's one of us and who's one of them. I
think that was the motive behind the Spanish Inquisition. So today a doctor
social tested me during a skin exam. "What do you think of Obama?" she
asked.
Posted at 05:06 PM Read More Fri - August 14, 2009Chief Red ScareAnd now it's time for an some advice from the
toast of the Creek Nation, Chief Red Scare. The chief does in fact get toasted
before giving out advice, though he abhors hor d'ourves the way dog nature
abhors a vacuum cleaner. It's a phobia and gets activated by the mention of
toast, pate, finger sandwiches ... that sort of thing. The Creeks had an
abstract sense of humor when the white man arrived, but got depressed after a
short while. They considered it rude to say anything without injecting humor,
which means Red Scare combines in one personality what in Europe required both a
King and a Fool. Ironically, his advice is generally worthless.
Posted at 02:13 PM Read More Mon - August 10, 2009ShibumiI remembered this book at for the seventies, but
as it wasn't copyrighted until 1979 it barely escaped being part of the
eighties. That was a daring escape from mediocrity for a book that was itself
a daring escape from mediocrity. When I started reading it it seemed like a
genre CIA thriller, but as it unfolded it was much better than that, and defied
genre. Recently I mentioned to Karen, who was in a seminar with me, that I was
re-reading it, and to my surprise she mentioned that she had read it back when
it was published.
Posted at 05:57 PM Read More Wed - July 29, 2009100 mphI am beginning to like this series! It could be
expanded and worked into something if I get myself down to some dedicated
writing. Having the guitar in my hand makes it easier to read, for some reason.
Maybe it's like knitting or using worry beads.
Posted at 06:16 PM Read More Thu - July 23, 2009Black MercedesThis is, as are all the Ash Fork episodes, my
practice in writing spontaneously. The hardest thing about not rewriting is
that the story isn't shaped with an always consistent internal logic. It's more
like telling a story off the top of my head, which I began doing when my
daughter was little, and I had the perfect audience. : ) These were more
difficult, but an excellent mental exercise. I am editing for length and flow
now that I am doing them as readings. The original Ash Fork series -- five of
them -- are now in the archives.
Posted at 09:55 AM Read More Wed - July 15, 2009BrakesI had almost forgotten about this Ash Fork
series. It explored the idea of creating rituals to avoid the violence of
unconscious patterned behavior, as well as to create a desired outcome. I
became interested in the creation of ritual as a way of communicating with the
psyche's pattern reading capacity when in workshops with an African shaman who
also had PhD's from Brandeis and the Sorbonne,
Malidoma Patrice Some.
Posted at 02:30 PM Read More Wed - July 8, 2009Road's EndThis week I went back to the Ash Fork files to
adapt another one for reading. This is from the third series in Ash Fork. In
each series my only rule was that I couldn't rewrite, so I was practicing
writing without content editing. I could edit for clarity and grammar and so
on. When doing one of these as an audio reading, I am editing for length and
coming back around to my original idea, which was to make stories which contain
hypnotic suggestion, as an alternative to the practice of boring somebody into
catatonia with sensory channel overload techniques.
Posted at 01:27 PM Read More Mon - June 29, 2009CybersomaticsI am going to retire Stray Shot sometime in the
not too distant future, and launch a new site, Cybersomatics. It will be an
exploration of the soma in space, which will be an exploration for me because I
have no idea really where it will take me. These two audio segments were
recorded for KOWS in Occidental for next Friday night, when Arnold Levine, aka
El Supremo, will be interviewing Gregory Sams, author of a new book called:
"Sun of God," an exploration of the sun as the
organizing consciousness underlying everything.
Posted at 08:04 PM Read More Mon - June 22, 2009PerfectlyTonight I plugged in the Snowflake and wrote a
song. It came out perfectly.
Posted at 10:15 PM Read More Tue - June 9, 2009Trophy RoomI am continuing moving some of the Ash Fork
segments to audio. This one is in three acts, this is the first.
Posted at 01:19 PM Read More Fri - June 5, 2009Trouble in MindThis is from the third Ash Fork series of
vignettes, and centers on the art of healing; more specifically, Phineas
Parkhurst Quimby, who was Mary Baker Eddy's body worker. It was from Quimby
that she learned much of what she put into her book on Christian Science, which
led to her being one of the richest people in the country if not the world. Of
course she did not have ears to hear some of what Quimby was
saying.
Posted at 11:50 AM Read More Thu - May 28, 2009Consumer SocietyDavid Lynch's Mullholland Drive was the
inspiration for this song, which was a lot of fun to write. I have been
experimenting with just telling stories for awhile, and thought I'd throw in one
of my songs to see how the process is coming along.
Posted at 09:15 PM Read More Tue - May 19, 2009The SwimOne of my favorite things that Don Juan told
Carlos is that a Sorcerer is an empty man except for a collection of stories
which have a universal application. This isn't in the Ash Fork Series, it's
just a piece combining some different experiences at different times, looking
for the story with an abstract core.
Posted at 08:05 PM Read More Wed - May 13, 2009Laughing BirdsSomando was sent to Ash Fork by $omaCorp to
assassinate the Count. But first he had to get past the security perimeter, a
Mexican by the name of Memphis. If he had solved he puzzle of the laughing
birds he would not have ended up with his circuit board replaced and his funds
transferred.
Posted at 10:24 PM Read More Fri - May 8, 2009Road KillMoving into Space requires adaptation to parallel
processing. Time is a logical sequence, and there are lots of them. Mostly
they're all screened out except the one being followed, to protect the system.
But when the injectables hit the system it blasts off into Space, and all bets
are off. Like Handsome Jack jilting Marie Laveaux,
Luther took the dowry and split to Space in violation of contract.
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