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2010 October 29 • Friday
2010 October 27 • Wednesday
Speaking of Charles Burns, he has a great new book out.
It's Burns's twisted homage to Tintin, as this cover demonstrates.
As well as this image:
Instead of Tintin and Snowy we get Nitnit and Inky. Burns fired a warning shot when he did this poster last year:
The new book is the first of three parts and promises to be one of Burns's best. He's working in color this time, and the palette occasionally recalls the look of Herge's work.
Our friend Mikael sent us this Swedish comic which also pays tribute to Tintin:
2010 October 25 • Monday
The 136th Soundtrack of the Week is this CD of Stelvio Cipriani's music for three Bermuda Triangle movies: Il triangolo delle Bermude, Bermude: La fossa maledetta and Uragano … Bermude l'ultimo S.O.S.
I found the first of these movies at the Brooklyn Public Library and fell asleep trying to watch it.
It's pretty bad, definitely a low point in the career of John Huston, who plays a diver looking for a lost city under the sea. The CD has only two tracks of music from that one, rather sombre, moody music. The first one is in 6/8 and has a processional feeling. The second one is all long tones on strings. You hear these two cues a lot in the movie.
"Magic Dawn", the first track from Bermude: La fossa maledetta is a laid back disco groove with conga and the kind of electonic keyboard sounds that immediately suggest Italian genre flicks from the '70s. The electronic keyboards really take over for "Missione Subacquea" whie "Sail Boats" is kind of a cheesy cue that sounds like a love theme. You hear several different versions of it, including one with vocals that makes it sound a bit like The Beach Boys—not because of vocal harmonies but because of the shape of the melody.
"Incubo Nei Profundo" is genuinely creepy with moaning wordless vocals on top of a suspenseful atmosphere created by the string section. "Forze Oscure" is dramatic/suspenseful underscore that you hear in a few different versions.
"Magic Dawn (versione 2)" runs through that tune again but with greater emphasis on the rhythm section. "Don't Answer the Phone" is "Magic Dawn" with rhythm guitar. "Magic Dawn (versione 3)" is the slow version.
"Bermude Dance" is straight-up but stripped-down disco. "Don't Tamper With My Things" is kind of a disco/funk/prog freak out. "Storm in a Teacup" is a variation of this cue. "Angelica" is true to its name, a "heavenly" cue for strings.
Uragano … Bermude l'ultimo S.O.S. begins cautiously with "L'avventura inizia", a restrained orchestral cue that suggests the remembrance of past voyages. "Terrore marino" lays on the dread in a way that Angelo Badalamenti might admire. "Bermudas bossa" is a fairly cheesy bossa-like tune .
"Abisso di morte" is more dread and "Amore sulla spiaggia" sounds like a love theme. "La grande avventura" returns to the mood of the main title before adding fear-inducing strings and percussion. "L'ultimo SOS" is more scary music with electronics and percussion very effectively creating a creepy, underwater atmosphere.
"Bermudas disco" is a disco number, as you might expect. "Incontro con gli umanoidi"is more dread and fright. "Strane luci"is the most ominous piece of music on the CD, with a low rumbling drone and a gloomy descending line for the strings.
"L'avventura continua" returns to the feeling of the main title and then there's a "Bermudas bossa reprise". "Verso l'orizzonte" is a reprise of the main title from the first of these Bermuda Triangle movies while "Festa al mare" presents strummed steel-string guitar combined with an ebullient electric bass line and a ridiculously buoyant electric paino sound.
"Scoperta inquietante" returns to the wonderful weirdness of "L'ultimo SOS" and "Fine dell'avventura", the final track, returns to the mood of the main title music.
Dexter vs. Helvetica.
Alice brought home this Wolverine comic the other day. Wolverine has changed. To begin with, he looks like an undead Richard E. Grant on the cover.
On the inside pages he lugs around Thoreau and Vonnegut and looks a bit like Harvey Pekar.
The comic also contains a Charles Burns ad for Altoids which eclipses everything else in the book.
The 135th Soundtrack of the Week is Giant Space Monster Girara (a.k.a. The X from Outer Space), music by Taku Izumi.
It begins with a somewhat drunken and swinging theme song, performed by male chorus and big band. Then there are some instrumental versions, with interesting use of electric violin, slide whistle, harp, organ and something that might be a clavinet.
After this there are a few more jazz/lounge-type tracks, and then more dramatic underscore. It's a bit reminscent of some of the Godzilla scores, particularly in its occasional use of groovy, tribal-sounding percussion mixed with organ stings. There's also a lot of great harpsichord, vibes and harp playing, which I always like to hear.
There's a very nice song, "Ballad of the Moon and Stars", sung by a female vocalist with impeccable support from the Girara ensemble (harp and the thing that might be a clavinet, and others).
After this there are more Godzilla-sounding cues, Ifukube-esque piano rumblngs, agitated strings, lone flute statements and heavy statements from brass and percussion. There are some brilliantly atmospheric and moody sections, too, with Herrmannesque arpeggios.
The telephone is a modern symbol for communications which never take place.
—Lawrence Durrell, Balthazar, 1958
That's the first panel of one of Eddie Campbell's autobiographical comics. We never find out what the beginning of that conversation was. It's been on my mind for almost a year now.
You can find that story and much more in Alec: "The Years Have Pants", a large collection of almost all of Campbell's autobiographical comics. It came out last year.
Eddie Campbell is one of the greatest writers and artists working today. My favorite stuff of his is his autobiographical work, so you can imagine how thrilled I was to have this new Alec book. It includes How To Be an Artist, possibly my favorite autobiographical comic of all time, in which Campbell tells his story in the second person, future tense.
There's a lot of other really great material in the omnibus, including several pieces I had never read before, even though I've been buying Campbell's Alec comics for a long time.
An omnibus of his Bacchus comics is supposed to come out soon, I think. Keep an eye out for it!
The 134th Soundtrack of the Week is Kikuchi Shunsuke's music for Edogawa Rampo Series: Akechi Kogoro.
I became obsessed with the main title music for this after seeing the opening credits on a DVD that collected the credits sequences for various Japanese TV shows.
I was pretty thrilled when the CD came out! Lots of slinky bass and harpsichord on this one. The main theme mixes electric guitar, wordless vocals, harpsichord, organ, drums, bass and some weird instrument I can't identify. Much of the music has the kind of 1960s TV sound that I associate with Edwin Astley's Danger Man music.
I guess this TV series is about Edogawa Rampo's famous detective character Akechi Kogoro (the first person below) solving crimes with the assistance of those other people.
Since the stories are apparently based on Edogawa Rampo's fiction, the strange happenings are likely to be pretty weird and twisted.
There are 67 tracks on the CD, none of them more than two minutes long. The first track is the main theme, and you hear it quite a few times. It would be a great tune for a surf band to cover.
Several of the tracks last only 7 seconds or so, perhaps just stings for "Edogawa Rampo Theatre Will Be Right Back" cards between commercials.
Many of the tracks manage to be brooding, suspenseful and groovy all at the same time. Track 11 sounds like a carousel on tranquilizers. Track 23 sounds a bit like a Hawaiian tune. Track 25 has some good fuzz guitar.
Track 41 is a cool piece for solo electric guitar. Track 42 is solo harpsichord. Track 43 is solo church organ.
The War of the Worlds incident, though giving rise to an extraordinary event, and revealing some remarkable aspects of America in 1938, was one of the most purely fortuitous events of Welles's career. His personal responsibility for it was negligible, beyond having directed it with great flair. Houseman precisely analyses the skill of the production, especially its slow build-up of tension; but most of the people who had been frightened by it had only joined the pogramme a third of the way through, so they were never subject to the manipulation. … There is, moreover no evidence that the programme was planned as the devilishly clever Hallowe'en prank that it seemed to be. Describing the programme as a practical joke was an idea improvised on the spot as a sop to the panic released during the broadcast. Nor was there a conscious attempt to play on fears of a European invasion.…
Welles was praised for having his finger on the pulse of his times, and for being the conman of the century, able to make anybody believe anything. The truth is that he was more surprised than anyone at what had happened, and extremely irritated by it: the day after the broadcast, a Mercury employee who wandered into the auditorium eating a Mars bar was sacked on the spot.…
For Welles in 1938, the immediate result of the broadcast was notoriety. … And not just in America: the news of the panic flashed around the world, where the incident was held up (particularly in Europe) as proof, if any were needed, of the ingrained idiocy of Americans.
—Simon Callow, Orson Welles Volume 1: The Road to Xanadu, 1995
Here's one of my most recent purchases from the Park Slope Flea Market, the January 1936 issue of True Story magazine.
I was intrigued by "High School Madness—Powerful Revelation of Youth Today". It's about Don Richardson, an eighteen-year-old boy who scores the winning touchdown in the big football game and all of a sudden becomes popular. Instead of going to the movies with his mother, a widow who has raised him alone almost all his life, he goes to a party with the cool kids.
He falls in love at that party with the prettiest girl in school, sixteen-year-old Edith Boyd.
She wore a white fur coat with a big collar. Her hair was as smooth and black and shining as her rich jet bracelet. Her face was powdered a dead white, and her rouged lips and big black eyes stood out in startling contrast. Under her coat was an extremely low-cut black evening gown.
So he starts fooling around with Edith, who's fooling around with some other guys at the same time, and pretty soon Don's doing poorly in school and his mother is worried about him.
Then Edith gets pregnant, or "in trouble" as they say here. Don tells Edith's father that he might be the father but so might any number of other boys. He goes so far as to say that Edith is "as common as dirt".
Don't mother tells him that "no gentleman ever speaks of a woman that way, no matter what she is". Don and Edith get married and live miserably. Edith's father gets Don a job at a gas station and Don reminds Edith every day that he despises her and that she ruined his life.
I was too blind to see that she was in wretched health; that she was taken from a life of hectic activity to the quiet of a little country town where she didn't know a soul.
I had neither the ability nor the inclination to see things from her viewpoint; to realize that she was only a spoiled, badly trained child, and that underneath her insane desire for popularity was an intense longing for love.
Edith came to Greenwood Springs a lonely, unhappy little girl. She was soon a hardened, embittered woman.
Don falls in love with their baby, Florence, and wants to make a happy home with Edith. Too late. Eventually Edith splits, taking Florence with her, and gets a divorce. She ends up in Chicago, "furnishing material for writers in the society columns of the newspapers".
Don goes back to school to get his degree but his mother dies before she can see him graduate. He moves to Chicago and gets a job at an engineering firm.
He meets and falls in love with Claire, a nurse at the Children's Hospital—which happens to be where Edith has dumped Florence, years ago, when the child was stricken with infantile paralysis.
Don and Claire are in the middle of their courtship when Don finds out about Florence. It's to the author's credit (though this is supposedly a "true story") that Don doesn't try to hide his relationship to the child.
"Talk about your pitiful cases," [Claire] said. "They're not always in the public wards where I am. I was talking to the doctor of that child you were visiting. She's in the most expensive room in the hospital, and yet she's absolutely alone. Plenty of money, but no one who cares a whoop whether she lives or dies. Her grandmother dropped her off here and went on to Palm Beach. An aunt calls up once in a while to see how she is, but never bothers to come. Her father and mother are divorced. Her mother is cruising around somewhere with another husband. Her father—"
"I am her father."
Claire is cool about it and Don spends all of his free time for the next month at Florence's bedside.
Many times she asked, "Do you love me, Daddy?" I always assured her I did, but she would ask again, "Are you sure you love me, even though I am a cripple?" Again I would say yes, and I would feel a small hand lying in mine, or feel the childish lips against my cheek.
But Florence's health doesn't improve.
The day came when I didn't go to the office, but sat all day by her bed, listening to her scream with agony, or pacing the hall while she lay in a coma, watching the doctors working with stimulants and the oxygen tank, cursing them for bringing her back to suffer again, begging them to save her when she seemed to be sinking.
She dies.
And so everything has its price. I cannot speak for Edith, but I know I paid heavily for those few mad weeks during my senior year in high school. I paid during my warped and lonely early manhood; with a lifetime of remorse for the sorrow I caused my mother. But, saddest of all, is the realization that the person who paid the heaviest price was innocent.
Don never realizes that all of his problems were caused by football. If he had stayed away from the game, or even just failed to score that winning touchdown, everything would have been different.
The 133rd Soundtrack of the Week is this double-CD presentation of two Waldo De Los Rios scores: ¿Quien puede matar a un niño? (Who Can Kill a Child?) and La Residencia (a.k.a. The House That Screamed).
Who Can Kill a Child? is a great Spanish horror movie with a plot that's basically The Birds but with children instead of birds. It's remarkable in being a sun-drenched nightmare, one of the brightest horror movies ever made.
The opening credits use footage of real children maimed and killed in adult wars, thus establishing why kids might decide it's a good idea to wipe out their elders.
Both the original soundtrack recording and the album re-recording are on this CD. The original soundtrack recording gets 40 tracks, of which the first is the main theme, a haunting waltz that David Grollman and I used to cover when we first started playing together. We first hear it being hummed by a child.
This is followed by the tension of "A Corpse Floats in the Sea" and "Danger at the Beach". "Night Talk (Love Theme)" combines cheesy keyboard sounds with harp arpeggios and heavily reverbed low notes, perhaps a combination of percussion and plucked strings. "To the Island" is an orchestral version of the same theme.
Ominous and frightening sounds return for most of the other tracks, some impressively abrasive and strange. The main waltz theme returns a few times.
The 14 tracks of the album versions offer a slicker sounding version of the original soundtrack, with various moods, themes and cues combined for longer pieces.
The House That Screamed gets 16 tracks and also has an eerie waltz as its main theme.
It's a lusher, more romantic piece than the theme for Who Could Kill a Child?, though, with sensuous string and winds accompaniment and melancholy piano lead.
The movie is about somebody murdering the students at a girls' boarding school. From 1969, the movie anticipates many others to come. I've heard that it informed Suspiria, for instance.
Most of the cues are suspense atmospheres that make great use of a whole orchestra. The blending of strings and horns with vibes, harp and other percussion is especially rewarding. "Luis Spies" gives an impression of a wind storm while "Encounters at Night" and "Teresa's Flight" are tense, ostinato-driven pieces.
"The Elegant Dresses" is a short (half a minute) piece that sounds almost like it could be from Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite or something similar. "Humiliation & Punishments" sounds suitably unhinged. "Madame Forneau" is an otherwordly, wordless vocal piece. "End Title" begins with screaming sounds answered by orchestral yells before eliding into a reprise of the main theme (which had surfaced in several other cues as well).
There once was a man who went to see a psychiatrist, crippled by a fear of flying. His phobia was based on the belief that there would be a bomb on any plane he boarded. The psychiatrist tried to shift the phobia but couldn't, so he sent his patient to a statistician. The statistician prodded a calculator and informed the man that the odds against there being a bomb on board the next flight he took were half a million to one. The man still wasn't happy, and sat there convinced that that he'd be on the one plane out of half a million. So the statistician prodded the calculator again and said 'all right, would you feel safer if the odds were ten million to one against?' The man said, yes, of course he would. So the statistician said 'the odds against there being two, separate, unrelated bombs on board your next flight are exactly ten million to one against. The man looked puzzled, and said 'that's all well and good, but how does it help me?' The statistician replied: 'It's very simple. You take a bomb on board with you.'
—Hugh Laurie, The Gun Seller, 1996


If you're enjoying Songkran this week, first of all, have fun! You're going to have an exhausting, amazing experience fighting and laughing with thousands of strangers in celebration of the Thai new year. Several Southeast Asian countries celebrate Songkran by pouring water on each other as a blessing. Temples will be packed with patrons and streets filled with water fights.
Chiang Mai is home to one of the most rambunctious and largest celebrations, but you can participate all over the country. We ended our time living in Chiang Mai with the Songkran festival and it was an incredible way to wrap up a wonderful year. If you ever get the chance to participate, you should take it. That being said, Songkran can be overwhelming and there are a few key things that will help you get through it smoothly.
First of all, you will not stay dry. If you have a problem with walking around soaking wet for three days, avoid Chiang Mai during this time. If you are traveling to or from or within Thailand during the festival, be aware that your luggage is going to be a huge target. Try to arrive a day or two before to avoid drenching everything you own.
When you prepare for the day, you should basically dress like you are going swimming in your clothes. Wear shoes that are secure and light, quick-dry clothing if you can. Chances are you won't completely dry off all day, but you can make yourself a little more comfortable. Before you walk out the door, look at everything you have on and everything you have in your hands and think to yourself, "If I jumped into a pool right now, would everything be ok?" Your phones, cameras, ID, money, everything should be in a dry bag or other waterproof case. Don't wear makeup, don't do your hair. Do wear clothes though, no one is walking around in a bikini. Anything you wouldn't want to get wet – bags, cameras, etc. will be a walking target!
Our version of a waterproof camera case. It worked!
One of our immediate realizations was that we were afraid for our eyes. You'll notice that hundreds of people are climbing down into the moat that surrounds the Old City of Chiang Mai to fill up buckets, water guns, jugs – anything they can find to carry water that they will then forcibly pour on you or shoot into your face. That disgusting moat water is propelled directly into your eyes and mouth unless you have protection. At the very least wear sunglasses, but you won't stand out if you grab a pair of goggles. There were just as many vendors selling them as water guns, it seemed.
As soon as it starts, you'll want to arm yourself. Keeping you head down, avoiding eye contact and attempting to look like you don't want to participate is like carrying a giant sign that says "shoot me." If you are dry, you are everyone's next target. There is no sitting this out. You can escape the madness some by taking back streets inside the moat, but even there families, children, shop owners and tourists will be waiting with hoses, buckets and water guns. Jump right in and purchase a cheap water gun so you can fight back and get in on the fun!
You'll quickly learn who has the most firepower. Groups will inch their way through crowds sitting in the back of trucks with huge coolers full of ice water. They'll dump buckets on you if you get too close and spray you with hoses when you're further. Walking under balconies is treacherous, too. All that ice water can make for a really cold day, so take some time to air dry in a bar if you're chilly.
Avoid driving or riding a motorbike during Songkran. If you have to, do so very slowly and carefully. Moving motorbikes are another favorite target for big buckets of water.
Perhaps the most important tip for surviving Songkran is to have fun. Give yourself time to rest and post up at a bar or restaurant for a few hours during the day. You won't realize how worn out you are until you get away from the adrenaline for a few minutes. Since you'll spend the entirety of the multi-day festival soaking wet, sunscreen won't do you much good so be aware of sunburn. Enjoy yourself!
Have any great Songkran stories? We'd love to hear them! Share any other tips you have in the comments.
Carrying a camera to festivals like this and Holi has always been a challenge for me. Did your survive?
Yes! It made it, but I was nervous the whole time! We brought our GoPro, too, but it's just not the same.
OMG I never would have even thought of HALF of this stuff!!! Especially carrying a backpack! I like your point: "If I jumped into a pool right now, would everything be ok?". That's the best thing you can ask yourself!
It's really the best way to think of it… you are going to be soaked!
I have a lot of friends i Thailand who have been recommending the same to me, I am planning a trip in October!
Have fun! I hope you're including Chiang Mai in your visit!
This looks really fun! I have decided to plan a trip to Bangkok next year for Songkran. I recently saw a video where by someone use a condom to wrap the phone to keep it waterproof during Songkran.
Well, that sure is creative!
Haha! Damn! Songkran is exactly similar to a festival back home in India called 'Holi' – also played with lots and lots of water (balloons and guns and buckets and tanks and what not) and lots of color.
I would love to experience Holi! You should try to get to Songkran if you can!
It's so funny–I never heard about this water fight until it recently exploded on social media this year. Definitely adding this to my bucketlist for next year!
It's totally worth it! We had a great time.
Ugh, it's gross. But hopefully you'll have too much fun to think about it too much!
That's a good plan! On the street they sell little bags for your phone that you can carry around your neck as well.
This seems like such a cool and fun experience! And i've never heard of it! Great advice as well. Kind of reminds me of the Tomatina festival in Spain.
That looks so fun! I am sure you enjoyed it 🙂 Hope to see this one day too! There is something similar in Italy btw during the longest day of the year in august! Fun!
The children are hilarious! Even the tiniest toddlers participate. It's so cute!
I heard a lot about this festival – and never someone saying they didn't like it. It looks like fun – and a special experience. Lovely photos as well!
This is every year something to look forward in Thailand. Ive been there but never had a chance to attend the event. Im sure its going to be crazy and fun! Take care!
If you're ever there in April you should try to attend! It's so much fun!
This festival reminded me so much of our very own Sinulog festival here in CEBU where people from all ages and walks of life are celebrating to the point of getting you wet with beer, paint and water.


Pham, TH 2015, 'A study of the determinants influencing customer satisfaction in medical tourism industry in Singapore', DBA thesis, Southern Cross University, Lismore, NSW.
The aim of this study is to examine what determines customer satisfaction for people who seek medical treatment in Singapore. In pursuit of this objective, the study investigates and measures the factors that influence customer satisfaction.
The findings demonstrated that medical service quality, facilities, and advanced technology had significant and positive influences on customer satisfaction, followed by medical service quality such as the professionalism of the medical practitioners. However, the regressions indicated a negative relationship between financial considerations and customer satisfaction.
This study has made important contributions to both research and practice. It has contributed to the body of knowledge by enhancing the understanding of the relationships and factors that drive customer satisfaction in the medical tourism industry in Singapore.


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The manhunt for Brian Laundrie continues as the family of his fiancé Gabby Petito gather in New York for her funeral service
Family and friends gathered to mourn at the funeral of Gabby Petito in New York on Sunday, as a manhunt for her fiancé Brian Laundrie continues. In North Port, Fla., where Petito lived with Laundrie and his parents, mourners set up a memorial across from City Hall, leaving balloons, teddy bears and signs in her memory.
At the service held at Moloney's Holbrook Funeral Home in Long Island, N.Y., Petito's father remembered her passion for travel: "I want you to take a look at these pictures, and I want you to be inspired by Gabby," her father, Joseph Petito said. "If there's a trip you guys want to take, take it now. Do it now while you have the time. If there is a relationship that you're in that might not be the best thing for you, leave it now." Joseph Petito on Saturday also announced the formation of 'The Gabby Petito Foundation,' which will aim to provide resources and guidance to families of missing children.
Prior to the ceremony, Petito's mother Nichole Schmidt posted to Facebook sharing a series of family photos as she thanked people who have shared support for the family online. "As I scroll through all the posts, my heart is full of love," she wrote. "I wish I could reach out and hug each and every one of you!!! Your support has been so overwhelming and we are so filled with gratitude."
Petito's body was found in Wyoming's Grand Teton National Park after her family reported her missing while she and Laundrie were on a cross-country road trip. Her death has been ruled a homicide. Laundrie, 23, has been named a person of interest by North Port Police after he returned home on Sept. 1 without her and the U.S. District Court of Wyoming issued an arrest warrant against him Wednesday after a federal grand jury indicted Laundrie on a single count of unauthorized access to a debit card and two bank accounts.

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Ohio city that voted to criminalize abortion repeals ban
The measure made it illegal to procure or perform an abortion within city limits or to "aid and abet" the procedure by providing money, transportation or medical instructions.
The Maine Millennial: Another way to look at abortion debate
No one is forced to be an organ donor, though it would save many lives. So why can't we respect a pregnant woman's bodily autonomy?
California plans to be abortion sanctuary if Roe overturned
A coalition of more than 40 abortion providers and advocacy groups releases a list of 45 recommendations for the state to consider if the U.S. Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade.
Roe 'settled' law? Justices' earlier assurances now in doubt
Maine Sen. Susan Collins was among those assured, during his confirmation to the Supreme Court, that Brett Kavanaugh considered a woman's right to an abortion to be 'settled law,' yet this week he suggested the court could upend that.
Democrats hope threat to abortion rights will rouse voters
They have been searching for an issue that can both energize a base deflated by slow progress in Washington and repair the party's strained relationship with suburban voters.
Democrats may lean into abortion issue as Supreme Court weighs future of Roe v. Wade
The high court heard oral arguments Wednesday to a challenge of a Mississippi law that bans most abortions after 15 weeks, which directly confronts the landmark 1973 ruling that legalized abortion nationwide.
Sen. Collins says she'd support legislation to codify protections in Roe v. Wade
Sen. Susan Collins' stance gains attention after the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a Mississippi case that advocates worry could put new constraints on abortion rights.
Conservative Supreme Court justices signal they would OK abortion limits, overturn Roe
The justices led arguments that could decide the fate of the court's historic 1973 Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion throughout the United States and its 1992 ruling in Planned Parenthood v. Casey, which reaffirmed Roe.
Supreme Court set to take up all-or-nothing abortion fight
Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 ruling that declared a nationwide right to abortion, is facing its most serious challenge in 30 years.
'Anybody can just file a lawsuit': Abortion rights groups challenge new Texas restrictions
The U.S. Supreme Court is weighing a legal challenge, but it's not clear when the justices will act.


SingWest are a group of locals who get together to sing once a week in a community choir. We are amateur, non-stressy, and informal. None of us are especially talented vocalists, some of us are genuinely awful. But we've found the life-affirming and restorative power of music is an amazing antidote to the stress and routine of everyday life and we think everyone should experience it.
We are led by Dafydd Evans, a singer songwriter from Wales. Dafydd trained at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and The Academy of Contemporary Music achieving a First Class BMus (Hons) degree in vocal performance, and is a former member of Only Men Aloud, with which he won BBC 1's Last Choir Standing in 2008.
Their debut album sold over 250,000 copies in the UK and their second album won Best Classical Album at the Classical Brit Awards in 2010. As part of the choir he has done numerous TV appearances, performed in many prestigious venues and toured extensively throughout the UK and the US.
There is no pressure, you will not required to sing a solo, it's easy to hide at the back and laugh – you will never feel self-conscious or embarrassed. We meet on Mondays, 7.15pm-9pm, at St Peter's Church – usually followed by a trip to the pub!
For more details, or to contact us, visit www.singwest.co.uk .


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Black Country, New Road - Ants From Up There
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Limited Edition BLUE MARBLED vinyl while they last!
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Black Country, New Road will release the second album, 'Ants From Up There' on February 4th via Ninja Tune. Following on almost exactly a year to the day from the release of their acclaimed debut 'For the first time', the band have harnessed the momentum from that record and run full pelt into their second, with 'Ants From Up There' managing to strike a skillful balance between feeling like a bold stylistic overhaul of what came before, as well as a natural progression. Their debut 'For the first time' is a certain 2021 Album of the Year, having received ecstatic reviews from publications including as NPR, Stereogum, Pitchfork, The FADER, CRACK, Uncut, The Quietus, Loud & Quiet, The Face, Paste, The Needle Drop, DIY, NME, CLASH and fans alike, as well as recently being shortlisted for the UK's prestigious Mercury Music Prize. The album made a significant dent on the UK Albums Chart where it landed at #4 in its first week, as well as breaking into multiple Billboard Charts including Top Album Sales (#50), Current Album Sales (#26), Tastemaker Albums (#4), Heatseeker Albums (#15) and Emerging Artists (#22). 'For the first time' melded klezmer, post-rock, indie and an often intense spoken word delivery. On 'Ants From Up There' they have expanded on this unique concoction to create a singular sonic middle ground that traverses classical minimalism, indie-folk, pop, alt rock and a distinct tone that is already unique to the band.


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Like seeing Jesus on your toast, WISH stock has made believers from a mirage
October 24, 2021 By Josh Enomoto, InvestorPlace Contributor Oct 25, 2021, 6:00 am EST October 24, 2021
Fundamentally, ContextLogic (NASDAQ:WISH) is a tough proposition to take seriously under the present circumstances. If we were to assess e-commerce platform WISH stock in the context of pre-novel coronavirus, it might be a speculative opportunity worth pursuing with your risk capital. But due to the overwhelming disruption of Covid-19, the concept of recommending shares borders on the irresponsible.
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Let me clarify before my words get taken out of context. I'm not suggesting that anyone who has a bullish interpretation of WISH stock is doing something reckless. However, to treat ContextLogic as the equivalent of buying an established e-commerce name like Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) is not doing the reader justice.
This is especially the case because WISH stock has become a meme trade — or at least a stock with meme-ish qualities. Further, the enticing nature of these trades, replete with commenters characterizing market activities as a good-versus-evil narrative against short traders, adds more risk to the reader who many not fully understand how stocks function.
Given this broader framework, I cannot in good conscience play into the circus surrounding WISH stock. Even the underlying company's Form 10-K lists out many of the concerns facing ContextLogic, in particular, a rise in shipping costs leading to higher product sales prices on its platform. With the firm specializing in tchotchkes from China, a margin squeeze would be awfully problematic.
Nevertheless, social media has gravitated toward WISH stock and that leads me to caveat my warnings about the "opportunity." While you won't see conservative investors pile into ContextLogic shares as part of a portfolio of stable, balanced stocks, the power of coordinated trading has been confirmed time and again.
So, is there a possibility of making money with WISH? Absolutely! But you best be prepared for volatility.
WISH Stock Reflects the Allure of Pareidolia
As anyone who has had the joy of writing about WISH stock — and paying the consequences of having the "wrong" opinion about it — knows, it's a highly technical name. By that, I mean its loudest supporters are huge fans of technical analysis.
Per a compilation of tweets provided by InvestorPlace writer William White, WISH stock is a favorite of those who believe in various iterations or derivatives of Elliot Wave Theory. In short, this principle asserts that publicly traded assets move in identifiable waves or cycles. By deciphering which wave you're in, you can determine where you are in the broader scheme of things and make profitable trades.
Believe me, I have no issues with the technical approach. In certain sectors where it's not feasible to perform fundamental analysis — such as cryptocurrencies — Elliot Wave and its derivatives may be the only approach.
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I mean, lots of people see stuff in the market. But the difference for meme traders is that they're putting real money into patterns that may or may not exist.
To be fair, technical analysts will often characterize certain established patterns as "high-probability trades." That might be the case for several stocks. But for WISH in particular, it's difficult to say that its proponents are banking on real patterns.
Nothing Wrong with Common Sense
For instance, WISH backers were wrong at $20. They were wrong at $15. And when WISH crossed above $10 after a series of disappointing trades, it appeared that the bulls were justified in their optimism.
But as the chart shows today, it was pareidolia.
Sure, you can also make the argument that WISH stock is now too beaten up to go lower. But again, proponents made that same argument when it dropped to $18, then $17, then $12, then $7.50. Each time, WISH provided some hope, only to frustrate.
At a certain point, you've got to use common sense. Most people should avoid WISH stock due to the proven volatility. But if you do trade it, you should only approach it with a short-term perspective. It has yet to prove worthy of a long-term commitment.
On the date of publication, Josh Enomoto did not have (either directly or indirectly) any positions in the securities mentioned in this article. The opinions expressed in this article are those of the writer, subject to the InvestorPlace.com Publishing Guidelines.
A former senior business analyst for Sony Electronics, Josh Enomoto has helped broker major contracts with Fortune Global 500 companies. Over the past several years, he has delivered unique, critical insights for the investment markets, as well as various other industries including legal, construction management, and healthcare.
Article printed from InvestorPlace Media, https://investorplace.com/2021/10/if-its-wish-stock-it-might-be-pareidolia/.


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SRI REPORT INDEPENDENTLY VERIFIES BRILLOUIN LENR REACTIONS
Increased COPs, Increased Power Output, Increased LENR Heat, Better Calorimetry, More Extensive Testing
BERKELEY, CA, March 13th,2018–Researchers at SRI International (https://www.sri.com) have issued a Technical Progress Report covering their review and independent validation of Brillouin Energy's on-going testing and scaling efforts of its most advanced Isoperibolic ("IPB") Hydrogen Hot Tube™ (HHT™) component prototypes, which generate controlled Low Energy Nuclear Reactions ("LENR").
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"Brillouin Energy has made real progress in defining the engineering pathway forward,and in demonstrating increased potential to scale total power production in its reactors. This is reflected in SRI's 2017 Report as compared to SRI's 2016 Report. Their growing list of technical achievements are leading to a number of resultst hat we have not seen before. Increased COP's, increased repeatable excess power outputs, increased LENR heat, better calorimetry, and transportability of multiple reactor systems performing independently –it's continuing to point to a potential breakthrough." said Dr. Tanzella, Managerof the Low Energy Nuclear Reactions Program, Energy & Environment Center, SRI International.
"The results validated in the 2017 SRI Report are the strongest proof yet that Brillouin Energy is on the path to commercialization", said David Firshein,Chief Financial Officer of Brillouin Energy. "The company has proven with increasing scientific evidence, which SRI has independently verified, that its reactor systems can produce actual LENR heat at lab scale,which is both controllable on demand and repeatable, in multiple reactor systems and components manufactured and run the same way.
Mr. Firshein added,"this is the second ProgressReport from SRI International that verified Brillouin Energy's technical claims. The results validated in this year's Report are up to three times greater than those validated in the previous year's Report. The company's current growth capital raise will fund the next stage of scaling heat outputs to industrially useful levels."
The 2017 Technical Progress Report summarizes all of the data and conclusions from SRI International's year-long validation test review of Brillouin Energy's IPB HHT™LENR reactor systems. To view the 2017 Report, click here:
http://brillouinenergy.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/SRI_Technical_Report.pdf
For further information about this News Release, please contact:
Grant Draper [email protected] +1-415-745-0254
About Brillouin Energy Corp.:
Brillouin Energy is a clean-technology company based in Berkeley, CA, which is developing an ultra-clean, low-cost, renewable energy technology that is capable of producing commercially useful amounts of thermal energy from LENR. Brillouin's LENR technology includes a proprietary method of electrical stimulation of nickel metal conductors using its Q-Pulse™ control system. The process stimulates the system to produce LENR reactions, which generate excess heat.Other than the heat output, there are no (zero) toxic or CO2 bi-product emissions of any kind.
For further information about Brillouin Energy Corp., please contact:
David Firshein, [email protected] +1-415-419-6429


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and sensitivity of the human race
As has been described at length throughout these essays, and in all of Jeremy Griffith's work, the overall essential feature of the human journey since we first became conscious some 2 million years ago is that of the accumulation of knowledge at the expense of our innocent all-loving and all-sensitive original instinctive self or soul.
The problem, of course, has been that until this reconciling explanation of the human condition was found that explains why we had to depart from an original cooperative, loving, selfless state of innocence, this fundamental truth was unbearably condemning of our present competitive, aggressive and selfish upset, psychotic and neurotic conscious self, and therefore had to be denied. We couldn't face the truth until we could explain it. However, with the 'intellect vs instinct' explanation of the human condition now found (which is presented in Video/F. Essay 3), we can acknowledge our innocent past (see F. Essay 21), and appreciate evidence of it, such as the incredibly sensitive cave paintings that are the subject of this F. Essay.
What follows is an adapted excerpt by Jeremy Griffith from Chapter 8:11C of FREEDOM.
Extraordinarily empathetic renditions of animals in the
Chauvet Cave in southern France, c.30,000 years old
The extreme sensitivity that is particularly apparent in the rock paintings of the Bushmen of southern Africa and Australian Aborigines, and in the cave paintings of early humans in Europe, is especially revealing of how much innocence the human race has lost in relatively recent times. The Chauvet Cave in southern France, for example, contains a wealth of cave drawings that date from around 30,000 years ago that have inspired such descriptions as 'miraculous', 'overwhelming in density, humbling in sophistication, and awe-inspiring in sheer beauty' ('The Goddess Bites'; see www.wtmsources.com/131). The drawings (some of which are reproduced in this essay) are three dimensional, even animated, such as the rhinoceros above that is depicted repeatedly throwing his horn forward. Indeed, the bison, mammoth, horses, rhinoceroses, lions, bears and other animals that these early humans so effortlessly drew appear so real it is as if they are alive! You can almost sense what it is like to be those animals; the whole struggle of their lives is revealed before our eyes.
A drawing of fighting rhinos from the Chauvet Cave
The reason this extraordinary sensitivity has now been lost is because when our mind becomes preoccupied with upset, as it did under the duress of the human condition, it loses the ability to take an interest in anything else. The pain in our brain stops us feeling or seeing or engaging in our surroundings. Plato described our human-condition-afflicted state of alienation or estrangement from the true world that our original instinctive self or soul has complete access to as living in a dark cave where we can only 'see dimly and appear to be almost blind' (Plato's cave allegory is explained in depth in Video/F. Essay 11). Our brain is distracted from everything else that is happening in the world. The more upset that our mind is preoccupied with, either trying to understand or, if the upset is extreme, constantly trying to block out, the less we can access all the other events and experiences going on around us. So, as the human race became more and more upset, its ability to feel and savour the world around it shrank. So although the humans responsible for the drawings in the Chauvet Cave were not anything like as upset-free/innocent as humans were 2 million years ago before upset first began to develop in earnest, their ability to draw the animals around them so vividly and empathetically indicates they were much, much more innocent than humans today. Clearly alienation has increased at an extremely rapid rate in the final stages of humanity's 2-million-year journey through adolescence.
27,000 year old Bushman rock painting of Bushman hunting eland,
Kamberg, Drakensberg Mountains, South Africa
I might mention that I learnt long ago that to draw the little pictures that are included throughout FREEDOM (all of which can be viewed at www.humancondition.com/jeremy-art-work), I had to disconnect my conscious mind and just let my instinctive sensitivity express itself, and that if I didn't do that I simply couldn't draw at all. For example, the drawing of the three 'Childmen' happily embracing (that you can see below left) that I used in ch. 8:4 of FREEDOM to illustrate humanity's childhood stage was done so quickly I shocked myself because I could hardly believe that such an empathetic drawing could be produced from an almost instant scribble. At that moment I saw just how much sensitivity we humans once had, and how much alienation now exists within us 2-million-years'-embattled humans.
A sample of Jeremy's drawings
Yes, the extraordinary empathy and accuracy of the paintings of animals in the rock and cave paintings shown above are similarly incredibly indicative of the amount of sensitivity we humans once had and have since lost; we truly are an embattled species now, so worn out, so brutalised. How extremely sensitive must early humans have been! Sir Laurens van der Post wasn't exaggerating when he wrote about the relatively innocent Bushmen that 'He and his needs were committed to the nature of Africa and the swing of its wide seasons as a fish to the sea. He and they all participated so deeply of one another's being that the experience could almost be called mystical. For instance, he seemed to know what it actually felt like to be an elephant, a lion, an antelope, a steenbuck, a lizard, a striped mouse, mantis, baobab tree' (The Lost World of the Kalahari, 1958, p.21 of 253). Plato made a similar observation when, as is mentioned in F. Essay 53 and paragraph 174 of FREEDOM, he described our innocent ancestors as 'having…the power of holding intercourse with brute creation [being able to relate to other animals]'. (Sir Laurens' profound appreciation of the Bushmen, and his contribution to understanding the human condition, is explained in F. Essay 51.)
Drawings of lions in the Chauvet Cave
A drawing of a bison in the Chauvet Cave
The pictures included to this point offer some indication then of how, when all the upset in humans heals, the world is going to open up for us humans. Our long repressed all-loving and all-sensitive original instinctive self or soul is going to come back to the surface. We are going to be able to feel everything around us. We are going to have so much kindness and love and empathy for each other and our fellow creatures because we will, once again, be able to feel everything they are experiencing, including just how embattled the lives of animals are; they suffer enormously from the 'animal condition', from the unrelenting need to compete for food, shelter, space and a mate. While, through the nurturing, love-indoctrination process, our ape ancestors were able to break free from the tyranny of genes having to ensure their own reproduction, other animals remain stuck in a continuous cycle of competition (read about the love-indoctrination process in F. Essay 21). Unlike humans (and bonobos, who are in the midst of developing love-indoctrination), other animals can't develop full unconditionally selfless cooperative instincts (this limitation is explained in F. Essay 25: The truthful biology of life). And so above all else, it is this empathy with, this feeling for, the relatively short, brutish, forever-having-to-fight-for-your-chance-to-reproduce lives of animals that those who made these drawings have so sensitively expressed. To use Sir Laurens' words, they 'seemed to know what it actually felt like to be' a bison, horse or rhinoceros. You can, as described, sense the whole internal struggle of the animals' lives in these drawings (of the horse, rhinoceroses and the bison included earlier, and the bison above). Their huge chests heave with their brutal and tough battle to survive and reproduce—they are struggling so much to endure their lot it is as if they have asthma! Yes, now that humans can get over the terrible agony of our 'human condition', we will again be able to empathise with the terrible agony of the 'animal condition'. It's not very nice to have to belt the living daylights out of others to ensure your genes reproduce, let alone other members of your own species—in fact, your cousins, uncles and even your own father! No, it is not at all easy being a non-human animal, and that is an extreme understatement, just as it has not been at all easy being an upset human, which is, of course, another extreme understatement!
17,300 year old cave painting of a wounded bison, a dead man with a broken spear beside him,
a bird and what appears to be a rhinoceros in Lascaux, France. While there are many paintings
of animals in the Lascaux caverns there is only this one image of a human.
Again, while the Paleolithic artists clearly weren't as alienated as humans are today, they were still much, much more alienated than humans originally were. I think this is revealed by the fact that these cave artists almost completely avoided depicting humans. For instance, in the entire Chauvet Cave complex there is only one representation of a human, and even that is limited to a drawing of only the lower half of a woman's torso; similarly, amongst the hundreds of paintings in the Lascaux caverns, there is only one image of a human (see above). On the few occasions when these cave artists tried to depict humans they almost invariably ended up drawing stick figures. The human face, in particular, which you would think would be the most interesting and relevant of subjects for these artists to depict, seems to have been totally beyond their ability. It seems clear that the facial expressions of humans were by then so alienated, so devoid of the innocence that they must have once exhibited, that our instinctive self or soul couldn't relate to it; it couldn't, and perhaps didn't want to, draw us. What did the great psychiatrist R.D. Laing say about our present alienated state?—'between us and It [our true selves or soul] there is a veil which is more like fifty feet of solid concrete' (read more about R.D. Laing in F. Essay 48). The artist Francis Bacon revealed just how corrupted and alienated upset humans really are in his honest painting of the psychologically-contorted-smudged-human-condition-afflicted-face that is included after paragraph 124 of FREEDOM and provided below. Indeed, the weird, kidney-shaped blob for the human face that the Aboriginal artist drew in the rock painting shown below, from Ubirr in the Kakadu National Park in the Northern Territory of Australia, is very Bacon-like! Revealingly, when I was looking at this painting at Ubirr, which is thought to be some 2,000 years old, I asked a guide, who was accompanying a tour group, whether she thought the reason the paintings of wildlife were so accurate while the paintings of the humans were so pathetic was because we are now too alienated for our soul to be able to empathise with us, the guide, and everyone else, reacted with a real shudder and audible choking noise. What I had said was just too close to the truth.
Self-portrait by Francis Bacon
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Ubirr rock painting of a human figure in the Kakadu
National Park, Northern Territory of Australia
It is truly an insight into how sensitive and loving humans once were that our instinctive self or soul can't relate to the way we are now. Consider the tenderness in the expression on the face of the Madonna in the drawing of the Madonna and child that was included to the right of the three 'Childmen' earlier. My soul drew that—I, my embattled conscious self, had nothing to do with it. What did the great Spanish artist Pablo Picasso famously say about his ability to paint: 'It's taken me a lifetime to learn to paint like a child.' Truly, as the poet William Wordsworth wrote, 'trailing clouds of glory do we come, From God [the integrated, loving, all-sensitive state], who is our home' (read about Wordsworth's all-revealing poem in F. Essay 31). And people say humans have brutish, aggressive instincts! No, it's the world we humans currently inhabit that is mad. It is just so traumatised with psychological upset that it hasn't been able to deal with the fact that it is deeply, deeply dishonest; horrifically alienated. Turn on the television and find any wildlife documentary and I bet it will show pictures of crocodiles on the Mara River tearing wildebeest apart, or white sharks devouring seals, or snakes striking at the camera lens, or some equally 'brutal' interaction. All the beauty in nature has been reduced to representations of butchery and horror because we humans have become so upset that all we can cope with are pictures of animals 'being' as aggressive as we are—everything else in nature is far too confronting. I have been to natural Africa and seen its spectacle, and the sheer magic of it surpasses all imaginings; it is just achingly beautiful, the most sacred realm on Earth—'sublime amnesia' are the only words I can think of to describe it and they don't even make sense. In 1992 when Annie and I visited Africa I particularly remember one experience there when we were fortunate enough to join a small reconnaissance party that was being sent in on foot into the northern end of the Tsavo East National Park in Kenya, which was an area that had been shut off from the public for many years due to the prevalence of dangerously-armed poachers from Somalia. We were sitting hidden downwind amongst the trees on the banks of the Tiva sand river there and saw dust rise above the tree line in the shimmering midday heat and then watched as a vast herd of black Cape buffalo, led by an old crooked horn cow, quietly materialised from the bush, cautiously coming down to drink at pools in the river bed. It really felt like we were spies in heaven. It was all just unbelievable. Earth at its primal, spiritual, authentic, pristine, soulful, magical very best. I think God was there beside us sitting on his heels like a little Bushman smiling at all that he had created. That visit to the Tiva river remains the highlight of my life. With our sophisticated communication technology, why oh why don't we have documentaries sensitively immersing us in all of that. It is so sad. We haven't been able to cope with any truth. Our world has shrunk to the size of a pea. All the beauty and magic that is out there escapes us, we don't see it; worse, we don't want to see it. No wonder our soul can't relate to us and just draws stick figures with weird blobs for faces.
Jeremy and Annie in Africa in 1992
But as we always emphasise, while it is true that we humans have been torturously alienated from all the natural sensitivity and beauty of our soul's world, this is not the full story about humans. As has been stressed throughout these essays, and across all of my work, the greater truth is that humans have also been the most courageous, heroic, successful and meaningful creatures to ever exist on Earth. We are not the awful beings we appeared to be; rather, given the magnificence of our fully conscious mind, nature's greatest invention, and all the injustice we humans have had to endure for some 2 million years, we fully deserve to be considered divine beings!
Watch Jeremy Griffith present the breakthrough redeeming explanation of the human condition in Video/F. Essay 3, or read chapter 1 of FREEDOM. You can also read more about the development of art and other cultural forms of expression under the duress of the human condition in chapter 8:11C.
Discussion or comment on this essay is welcomed—see below.
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INTRODUCTION TO THE EXPLANATION & RESOLUTION OF THE HUMAN CONDITION: THE Interview: How We Can Finally End All The Turmoil & Suffering In The World! | Freedom Essay 1 Your block to the most wonderful of all gifts | 2 The false 'savage instincts' excuse | 3 THE EXPLANATION of the human condition | 4 The 'instinct vs intellect' explanation is obvious – short | 5 The transformation of the human race | 6 Wonderfully illuminating discussion | 7 Praise from Prof. Prosen | 8 "How this liberated me from racism" | 9 "This is the real liberation of women" | 10 What exactly is the human condition? | 11 The difficulty of reading FREEDOM and the solution | 12 One hour summarising talk | 13 The WTM Deaf Effect Course | 14 Savage instincts excuse leads to human extinction | 15 How your life can immediately be transformed | 16 WTM Centres opening everywhere | THE BOOKS: 17 Commendations | 18 FREEDOM chapter synopses | 19 FREEDOM's significance by Prof. Prosen | 20 The genius of Transform Your Life | THE OTHER KEY BIOLOGICAL EXPLANATIONS: 21 How did we humans acquire our altruistic moral conscience? | 22 Fossil discoveries evidence our nurtured origins | 23 Integrative Meaning or 'God' | 24 How did consciousness emerge in humans? | 25 The truthful biology of life | • Survey seeking feedback | MEN & WOMEN RECONCILED: 26 Men and women reconciled | 27 Human sex and relationships explained | THE END OF RACISM: 28 The end of racism | 29 Can conflict ever end? | RESIGNATION: 30 Resignation | 31 Wordsworth's all-revealing great poem | MORE ON THE TRANSFORMATION: 32 More on the Transformation | 33 Jeremy on how to become transformed | THE END OF POLITICS: 34 This understanding ends the polarised world of politics | 35 Left-wing politics leads to death of the human race | 36 Saving Western civilisation from left-wing dogma | 37 The meaning of superhero and disaster films | RELIGION DECIPHERED: 38 Noah's Ark explained | 39 Christ explained | 40 Judgment Day finally explained | 41 Science's scorn of religion | MEANING OF ART & CULTURE: 42 Cave paintings | 43 Ceremonial masks explained | 44 Art makes the invisible visible | • Second survey seeking feedback | 45 Prophetic songs | 46 Anne Frank's faith in human goodness fulfilled | 47 Humour and swearing explained | 48 R.D. Laing's fearless honesty | ABOUT BIOLOGIST JEREMY GRIFFITH: 49 Jeremy's biography | 50 Australia's role | 51 Sir Laurens van der Post's fabulous vision | 52 Jeremy's children's book A Perfect Life | 53 The 'instinct vs intellect' explanation is obvious – long | 54 The accusation of hubris | DO WE FAIL OR DO WE MAKE IT? 55 Endgame for the human race | 56 Why there have been ferocious attacks on the WTM | 57 Magnificence of the Transformed State – video 1 | 58 Magnificence of the Transformed State – video 2 | MARKETING: 59 Shouldn't the WTM's website be toned down? | 60 The crime of 'ships at sea' 'pocketing the win' | GENERAL DISCUSSIONS BY JEREMY: 61 General Discussion by Jeremy Aug. 2018 | 62 Jeremy's Masterpiece Presentation Feb. 2019 | HEALTH & HEALING: 63 Pseudo therapy/healing | 64 Real therapy/healing | From here on are Transformation Affirmations and More Good Info Emails
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Susy on July 2, 2017 at 10:49 am
This email is out of this world! When I first read Chapter 8:11C of Freedom (which this is an adaption of as it says) I thought I would melt in all the beauty and sensitivity that it revealed. This information is just too good to be true. I am a resigned, embattled human with two million years of the human condition in my blood and it never ceases to amaze me how much this information brings me back to life more and more every day. This really is amazing to be learning about our extremely innocent past with Jeremy Griffith's explanation of these Paleolithic artists, and indeed Jeremy's own art as is mentioned above (visiting his art page is a real treat for the soul! http://www.humancondition.com/jeremy-art-work). The images from the Chauvet cave
are simply breathtaking (although I know I wouldn't have even glanced twice at them without this explanation, my 'blind and deaf effect'!) I love thinking about the future when we can, for instance emerse ourselves in the animal condition once more. What is coming back to this planet is truly heaven on Earth. All we have to do is support this information and all our dreams will come true!
Alec on July 3, 2017 at 7:58 pm
This is rather more beautiful that words can say. How incredible to have knowledge that allows us to appreciate the depth of sensitivity in ancient art. It makes the experience of gazing at these heaving beasts a deeply emotional one, especially after reading Jeremy's extraordinarily sensitive description of the suffering of the animal condition. It is obvious that this is written by a man whose soul is still intact.
Bella on July 5, 2017 at 12:48 am
Having read the comments below I wholeheartedly agree with them and won't try and say it in my own words because they've said it beautifully.
I recently visited Thailand and was so excited to spend a day with elephants in a nature park who were relatively free, and see their immense intelligence, sensitivity and interaction with each other. A few days later I felt so terribly upset seeing the reality most of these animals are subject to now with the human condition at it's full atrocity of upset and I knew the only thing I can do worthwhile is to support these understandings because unless we have compassion and understanding for ourselves and our unloving alienated state nothing is going to change for these majestic animals and any animals on earth, the environment, or for ourselves. I've had the benefit of having this information for a long time…it's been easy for me at times to block out any unwanted thoughts and conveniently forget things I don't want to see but when you go overseas to a third world country and see the reality of what 99 percent of the world are dealing with, their living conditions and the state of poverty, cruelty to people, children and animals it doesn't bear thinking about for long but this time it gave me to conviction to really support this information in my mind and know that it really has the answers to the world's problems and is the ONLY macro solution to every micro problem. It's so relieving that this information will stop the suffering of the planet and allow us all to feel and love again and see the incredible beauty around us. As I mentioned I've had the relieving, therapy of these understandings for a long time and have been complacent. Seeing the animal condition and the human condition on top of the animal condition in a place like Asia brought the importance of these truths in this information home.
Anna on December 3, 2017 at 10:23 am
Great explanation. The significance of cave paintings has always evaded me, but the context in this email makes complete sense.
The parallels with Bacon's work are intriguing.
Prue Wb on December 3, 2017 at 2:34 pm
I've never read anything like this essay. This essay must be one of the most beautiful documents on earth.
In a world where sensitivity, soul, innocence and depth of feeling is all but lost, this essay shows how it did exist, and still exists in the author, and that now with the human condition solved, the extraordinary empathy and sensitivity of our ancestors can come flooding back through in the future.
It makes so much sense that "the more upset that our mind is preoccupied with, either trying to understand or, if the upset is extreme, constantly trying to block out, the less we can access all the other events and experiences going on around us".
I feel that upset and alienation in myself but I'm not worried, as I can now use this information and understand there has been a good reason why we have lost all that sensitivity and I know that it is ok.
I am so grateful for this explanation and essays like this that do allow me to appreciate the sheer wonder of the empathy in the drawing of the Lions above; and in Jeremy Griffith's words about Africa above, "Earth at its primal, spiritual, authentic, pristine, soulful, magical very best. I think God was there beside us sitting on his heels like a little Bushman smiling at all that he had created".
This information deserves all our support and in turn opens our eyes and our minds to everything.
Liam on January 21, 2018 at 6:03 pm
Totally agree with the other comments below. Another beautiful and fascinating essay! Revelation on revelation. A point made early in this essay that really struck me, was that now we can acknowledge our innocent past we can appreciate evidence of it like these incredibly sensitive cave paintings. That's my experience: the WTM information allows me to appreciate something like these beautiful and revealing cave paintings and moreover the psychology of our forebears who created them. That's the point, now the Human Condition is explained by WTM we get to "appreciate" so many things in our world that we otherwise would be totally deaf and blind too, think 50 foot of solid concrete. A couple of other sentences that really struck a chord were "The pain in our brain stops us feeling or seeing or engaging in our surroundings…as the human race became more and more upset, its ability to feel and savour the world around it shrank". I totally relate to this in my resigned existence and to the relief and distraction of crocodiles ambushing wildebeest, for example, but these truths are the springboard to force home the good news of WTM work. The logic that now the Human Condition is solved and once upset is healed in due course the world is going to open up for us humans. Future generations are going to get to "feel and savour the world". That is a cause for genuine joy and optimism and just another reason to support the WTM.
John tembo on February 17, 2018 at 9:32 am
Since 1992 Jeremy and àñnie was in Africa in which country ? And then when u moved one country to another u lean a lots of thing thank very interesting book I have enjoyed
nomad on February 17, 2018 at 12:14 pm
They visited Tsavo East National Park in Kenya according to the essay.
Manuel Paparelli on May 19, 2018 at 3:25 am
Beautiful , é un'articolo molto bello!
Pierre C. Carbonneau on November 28, 2018 at 9:55 am
I think it's fascinating to see how ancient men painted the animals they were chasing! I bought a « hors-série » number of « Le nouvel observateur » a few years ago that was explaining « 30 000 years of history : the man and the animal » which was a fascinating group of articles by specialists on that topic!
Kevin Gaudette on January 15, 2019 at 5:25 pm
I met Laurens van der Post back in 1975, when he gave a presentation at the San Antonio, Tx. Jung Society. I sat in the front and,while he was talking, I unrolled for his eyes, a primitive/archetypal/collective unconscious style drawing of a Madonna-like woman, drawn by a young Mexican friend of mine. In 1968-70, as a US Peace Corps Volunteer, I lived in a simple village in Sa. Leone.
I am pleasantly surprised/impressed by this great project.It seems to share Morphic Resonance with the work of Rupert Sheldrake/Terence McKenna/Steve Cutts. Here is a relevant mash-up video I shot/edited.
ANCIENT FUTURES https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bU0TZRDXrjE
THREE BASIC STRATEGIES FOR MOTIVATING TRANSFORMATION
1. Promote the new. Or…"increase the perceived value
of the new idea." This is the principal work of the
Change Agents, but they certainly depend upon the work
of the Innovators, who make a 'cool' product initially.
2. Critique the old. Or…"decrease the perceived value
of the status quo by attacking it, either directly or
subtly, in short, making the old way of doing things
seem uncool. This is generally the work of the
Iconoclasts, though Change Agents also help.
3. Facilitate the switch. "This is the most important
and the least obvious strategy for making change happen.
It is also where many change efforts fail, because they
forget to reduce the perceived cost of making the
Believing Cassandra
To Facilitate the Switch–one method can/should be using you great wealth of multi-media materials
for the global English-learners
Matt on January 17, 2019 at 7:54 am
It is important for me and perhaps others on this forum to appreciate that there is absolutely no pseudo-science involved in Griffith's treatise, and in that respect it bears no comparison to writers such as Rupert Sheldrake or Terence McKenna. Essay 21 about how humans overcame the dominance heirachy that exists in most primate species, and gained our amazingly sensitive cooperative instincts, was something that occurred millions of years ago through the evolutionary process of what Griffith calls 'love-indoctrination'. This is all rational accountable science and is worlds away from that video. This passage in Freedom para 1180 is important because it's clear that only rational understanding of the human condition can fix up ourselves and our world, 'we needed brain food not brain anaesthetic; we needed knowledge—specifically the dignifying, uplifting, healing, ameliorating, relieving, peace-bringing understanding of the human condition. Anything else was an abrogation of the fundamental responsibility that came with our greatest capacity and nature's greatest invention: our species' fully conscious, thinking, self-managing, self-adjusting mind.'
Juan Ubiera on March 20, 2019 at 12:50 am
I finaly start getting and making sense from the writting
Augustin on January 3, 2020 at 7:37 pm
This article is loaded with facts and conveys undeniable truth. Great
Phil on May 2, 2020 at 8:53 am
Much appreciated
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