#zerogate

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

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Benzedrine in particular and amphetamine in general were close to being an exact chemical analogue of traditional American virtues—stamina, dedication, hard work, endurance, and the willingness to repeat mindless actions for hours on end. This fact was not ignored by capitalists and captains of industry. Far from discouraging drug use on the factory floor, a number of industrialists—Henry Ford reputedly among them—studied, at least in theory, the effects that the distribution of amphetamines to the labor force might have on the equation between manpower and productivity in manufacturing industries. A drug that would narrow the machine operator’s focus, and make him or her more at one with their machine had to be good for any business from the mighty General Motors to the smallest and most sweaty of garment industry sweatshops. Meanwhile the old-time Hollywood studio bosses like Harry Cohen and Louis B. Mayer didn’t bother to conduct studies. They didn’t even hesitate. They saw amphetamine as a chemical tool that could reduce the budgets on their movies, and they immediately put it to use. They went right ahead and fed speed to their performers to keep them animated on camera during extended shoots. (Or, in some cases, to cure monumental movie star hangovers.) Child actors seem to have been particular targets of this chemical talent enhancement. Both Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney have made no secret of how they were constantly given speed in order to make it through grueling 12- or 14-hour, all-singing, all-dancing shoots. – Mick Farren, Speed-Speed-Speedfreak [zerogate] [via Alive On All Channels]

[bodyalive]

What we hold to be a self-evident truth was not always so. There was a time when the self was not understood and experienced as though it were ensconced within the blood-brain barrier. For instance, the Hebrew word sarefet means both “diaphragm” and “thought”; similarly, the ancient Greek word phren means both “diaphragm” and “mind.” Those examples indicate that the mind and its thinking were experienced in the diaphragm. - Philip Shepherd, New Self, New World

[zerogate]

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Poll dancer. David Rowe

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“Psychiatrist M. Scott Peck … proclaims ‘that [human] evil can be defined as a specific form of mental illness and should be subject to at least the same intensity of scientific investigation that we would devote to some other major psychiatric disease.’ He defines ‘evil’ as a negative force ‘residing either inside or outside of human beings, that seeks to kill life or liveliness.’ For Peck, the primary root of most human evil is 'malignant narcissism’, a term taken from Erich Fromm. Peck identifies evil people not 'by the illegality of their deeds or the magnitude of their sins’, nor by their evil acts, for then 'we should all be evil, because we all do evil things.’ It is rather 'the consistency of their sins’, says Peck, that makes people ‘evil’ or ‘not evil.’ In other words, it is the chronic self-deception, ego-inflation and 'unsubmitted will’, the constant lying to themselves and others, and their rabid refusal to confront their own flaws that characterize Peck’s 'people of the lie.’”

— Stephen A. Diamond, "Anger, Madness, and the Daimonic: The Psychological Genesis of Violence, Evil, and Creativity" [zerogate]

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

The Harley Psalter: Trinity in an almond surrounded by four angels. The Harley Psalter was made around 1020 CE in the south of England, probably in or around Canterbury, and most likely on the orders of Ælfric of Abingdon, Archbishop of Canterbury or one of his successors, Æthelnoth, and left unfinished. Written by three copywriters in Carolingian minuscule. The hand of one of the scribes has been identified with that of Eadwig Basan (Eaduuius Basan), an active copyist in the scriptorium of the Priory of Christ Church. British Library, London, in the Harley collection (Harley 603). folio 1.

[Robert Scott Horton]

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“Carl Jung, referring to the medieval concept of the daemonic, professed that ‘from the psychological point of view demons are nothing other than intruders from the unconscious, spontaneous irruptions of unconscious complexes into the continuity of the conscious process. Complexes are comparable to demons which fitfully harass our thought and actions; hence in antiquity and the Middle Ages acute neurotic disturbances were conceived as [daemonic] possession.’”

— Stephen A. Diamond, Anger, Madness, and the Daimonic: The Psychological Genesis of Violence, Evil, and Creativity [zerogate]

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Half Open Door

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“All storytellers know that two types of time exist: one is the twenty-four hours, the school run, the bill-paying, forever catching-up time of our everyday world; but behind that looms the energies of mythic time, the great cycles that pulse from generation to generation. These great wheels infuse the everyday with nourishment, ‘eternity in a grain of sand.’ The philosopher Plotinus suggested that while the body favors a straight line, the soul hankers for the circle. This mythic, circular time, (which is really no kind of time at all) laughs at the straight line and the alarm clock. Without it—even with all the riches of the world—we can enter the arena of the meaningless. As markets collapse and the world heats up, we would do well to see Coyote’s claws opening holes between the two. We live in an era of tremendous possibility.” — Martin Shaw, A Branch from the Lightning Tree [zerogate]

[sweetseducingsighss]

SOMEBODY PLEASE HELP

does anybody know the name of the song at 1:31?!?!?! I REALLY NEED TO KNOW 

THANKYOU SO MUCH