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“Another GREAT edition - it's plain that you're really moving on<br>
from what needs to be corrected, the old shit,<br>
to actual constructs for the future - </font><font face="Swis721 BlkEx BT" color="#0000FF">UP!</font> with you, matey, I say<br>
- peace / love”</i> Richard Keber</b>, Chicago.<br>
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<font color="#FF0000"><b>STOP THE WAR HUNGER STRIKE HAS BEGUN!<br>
</font>WASHINGTON (Reuters)<font color="#808080"> 150+ protesters sat in front of the White House today to savour their last meal before starting a hunger strike that will continue until American troops return from Iraq…. They crouched in the muggy evening next to a piece of pink plastic table-cloth, spread down the road, covered with wilted pink sunflowers and plates of vegetarian curry, white rice, and beans… Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan, whose son was killed in Iraq, said she would drink only water throughout the summer, which she will spend outside Bush's ranch in Crawford, Texas… <i>"We have to put our own lives on the line, and I'm willing to do that,"</i> said activist Diane Wilson, who pledged to fast until the United States withdraws from Iraq.<br>
</font><font color="#FF0000">SPREAD THE WORD! DON’T LET ‘OUR’ OFFICIAL MEDIA </font><font face="Times New Roman, Times"><i>(“so important for a functioning democracy”)</i></font><font color="#FF0000"> IGNORE THIS ONE!<br>
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</font><font color="#3366FF"><i>“When you think on our level, in understanding what is really happening in this World, it’s very easy to be sucked into argument with those who still trust their Governments and Media. Such people are more to be pitied than blamed, however, because their inability to see thru their Politicians’ deceptions puts them at a great disadvantage, long-term wise. It’s a very fruitless argument which only adds to our divide, which is all The Establishment wants to achieve. A lot more can be gained by spreading the truth to those <u>open to the truth</u> and who take the time regularly to remain updated. The ‘be-lievers’ are lost and enslaved in their own false World. Well, somebody else’s at any rate! Let them be! Let them be-lieve!”</font><font color="#FF0000"> </i></font>Graham Jukes.<br>
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</font><div align="right"><b>Get</b> <font face="Swis721 BlkEx BT" color="#FF00FF">UP<b>!</font> <font color="#339966"><i>Stand Up</b> <b>For Your Rights </b></font><font size=1>(and everybody’s too of course! :)<br>
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</font><font color="#FF6600"><i>MAKE </b></font><font face="Swis721 BlkEx BT" color="#FF6600">UP</font><b>! YOUR MIND!!<font size=1 color="#FF00FF">!<br>
</font><font size=1 color="#993366">u cant innerstand yourself without understanding the world<br>
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</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#808080">p.02 </font><font size=4 color="#800080"><b>MAGIC BUS: </font><font color="#3366FF"><i>On the Hippie Trail from Istanbul to India. </font><font color="#FF0000"><u>REVIEW<br>
</u></i></b></font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#808080">p.07 </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" size=4 color="#808080">caravanseraiclub safari</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" size=4 color="#FF00FF">/morocco </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" size=4 color="#808080">2006</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF0000">//<i><u>FEEDBACK<br>
</u></i></font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#808080">p.08 </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" size=4 color="#808080">caravanseraiclub safari</font><font size=4> [cont]<br>
</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#808080">p.08 </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" size=4 color="#FF9900">Ooops, We Didn’t Start With A</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" size=4 color="#0000FF"> </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" size=4 color="#CC99FF">Big Bang</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" size=4 color="#0000FF"> </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" size=4 color="#FF9900">After All </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica"><i>but do ‘scientists’ say sorry?! Do pigs fly? Scientists say ‘impossible’!<br>
</i></font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#808080">p.09 </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" size=5 color="#008080"><u>Frontiers of Time</u>:</font><font size=6 color="#0000FF"><b> </font><font size=4><i>Retro-Causal Theory it looks like </font><font size=4 color="#FF00FF">megatripolis@forever</font><font size=4> is/was/will be right!<br>
</i></b></font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#808080">p.11 </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" size=4 color="#0000FF">Hunger Strike To End </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" size=4 color="#993300">Iraq War </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF0000"><i>//<u>FEEDBACK</u></i></font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#808080"> <br>
p.14 </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" size=4 color="#993300">The Great Turning:</font><font size=4><b> Empire To </font><font size=4 color="#339966">Community</font><font size=4> </font><font color="#FF0000"><i>//</b></font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF0000"><u>FEEDBACK<br>
</u></i></font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#808080">p.17 </font><font face="Arial Narrow Special G1, Helvetica" size=4 color="#800080"><b><i>Heaviest Element </font><font face="Arial Narrow Special G1, Helvetica" size=4 color="#333399">Discovered - </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" size=4 color="#333399"><u>GOVERNMENTIUM</u>!<br>
</i></b></font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#808080">p.18 </font><font size=4 color="#FF6600"><b><i>'Thirst For Knowledge'</i></font><font size=4 color="#0000FF"> May Be </font><font size=4 color="#FF6600"><u>Opium</u></font><font size=4 color="#0000FF"> Craving<br>
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<u>__,,,,_</u>{ô¿ô}_,,,,___</font><font color="#FF00FF">fraser<br>
</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF00FF">am so excited by this passage i just read that i interrupt everything else am working on! i suppose, though, if i was one of those competitive for-money writers that pervade our society, i would keep quiet about it until i have stitched it into </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#808080"><i>Monkey’s Marvellous Trip</i></font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF00FF">, my short alternative history of humankind on earth. <br><br>
it’s from a truly worthy and thought provoking book by </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#808080">Riane Eisler</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF00FF"> with the terrible title of </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#808080"><i>’The Chalice And The Blade’</i></font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF00FF"> which, i assure you, is not in the least New Agey. since it was first published in 1987 it should be variable in all libraries. she is so spot on to what really matters that i hardly need to introduce and set it for </font><font face="Swis721 BlkEx BT" color="#FF00FF">UP!</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF00FF"> readers:<br><br>
</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#808080"><i>As Platon writes,</i> “</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF00FF"><i>The whole of Cretan life was pervaded by an ardent faith in the goddess Nature, the source of all creation and harmony. This led to a love of peace, a horror of tyranny, and a respect for the law. Even among the ruling classes personal ambition seems to have been unknown; nowhere do we find the name of an author attached to a work of art nor a record of the deeds of a ruler</i>.</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#808080">”<br><br>
<i>'In our time, when “</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF00FF">a love of peace, a horror of tyranny and a respect for the law</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#808080">” may be required for our survival, the differences between the spirit of Crete and that of its neighbours are of more than academic interest. In the Cretan towns without military fortifications, the “</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF00FF">unprotected</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#808080">” villas on the edge of the sea, and the lack of any sign that the various city-states within the island fought one another or embarked on aggressive wars </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica">(in sharp contrast to the walled cities and chronic warfare that were elsewhere already the norm)</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#808080"> </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF0000"><u>we find this firm confirmation from our past that our hopes for peaceful human coexistence are not, as we are so often told, “</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica">utopian dreams</u></font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#808080">”. <br><br>
‘And in the mythical images of Crete the Goddess as Mother of the universe, and humans, animals, plants, water and sky as Her manifestations here on Earth we find the recognition of our oneness with nature, a theme that is today also remerging as a prerequisite for ecological survival.’<br>
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<u>__,,,,_</u>{ô¿ô}_,,,,___</font><font color="#FF00FF">fraser<br>
</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF00FF">the so-called modern life that’s being pushed on the Gene Pool is becoming so superficial and boring (behind the increasing multitude and tecno-complexity of the whole, well, </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#808080">Nothing-Really-Happening ‘Spectacle’</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF00FF">) that people are starting to search deeper, beneath the headlines, and into the areas that this Society has made tabu. <br><br>
</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#808080">Timothy Leary</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF00FF"> is moving inexorably towards being accepted as a </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#808080">Saint</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF00FF"> in the true sense of the word. Ask anyone under 30 who </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#808080">Nixon</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF00FF"> was and who </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#808080">Leary</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF00FF"> was and you can see that already History is separating the wholewheat from the chaffinch. and so the powers that be (whether fully consciously or not) are paying big money for books on the subject </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#808080"><i>AS LONG AS THEY TRASH THEIR SUBJECT! </i></font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF00FF">cunning huh? NOT! depends how cunning YOU are.<br><br>
</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" size=2 color="#FF00FF">Robert Greenfield’s</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF00FF"> </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#808080"><i>“</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" size=2 color="#808080">TIMOTHY LEARY: A Biography”</i></font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" size=2 color="#FF00FF"><b> </b></font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF00FF">is the current market leader and the </font><font face="Swis721 BlkEx BT" color="#FF00FF">UP!</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF00FF"> advises you to totally ignore it. There are two other Leary books just out by writers who probably never even <i>tried</i> any of Leary’s methods and who <i>certainly don’t believe you should!</i> Ignore them too! ‘Straight’ people never understood what Leary or True Hippies were about at the time so why would you turn to a straight guy now?! Read the man directly if you feel the urge, till people force the chart-toting publishers to cater to their needs.<br><br>
Here’s a disgusting example from the Greenfield hatchet job:<br>
</font><font face="Times New Roman, Times">I believe for the first time the sequence of events that triggered Leary’s most perfidious act. After escaping from prison in San Luis Obispo, where he was serving 20 years for possession of a small amount of marijuana, he made his way to Algeria, which then had no extradition treaty with the U.S. He escaped the clutches of Black Panther Party minister of information and fellow exile Eldridge Cleaver, who put Leary and his third wife, Rosemary, under house arrest. Lured to Afghanistan, the Learys were captured by the CIA and flown back to the U.S. in chains. Fifty-three years old, facing the possibility of spending the rest of his life in prison, Leary cut a deal with his jailers. In the process, he snitched out the very lawyers who’d fought to keep him out of jail; the Weather Underground people who’d organized his prison break; the Laguna Beachbased dope-smuggling family, the Brotherhood of Eternal Love, who’d financed it; and even his now ex, Rosemary, who’d been forced to go underground. Few grownups swallowed Leary’s lame-ass excuse that it wasn't really snitching because he’d told so many lies already, nobody in law enforcement should have believed anything he said.<br>
</font><font color="#FF00FF"><b>>> first that was only the jokey part of Tim’s defence. second, he was perfectly aware of the dangers of his path when he chose it, and so was Rosemary. third, most of whatever info he had was several years old by then, with the involved individuals well warned and perfectly aware of any dangers. fourth, though sell-outs like Dylan were slow in building Leary’s defence fund, others were more willing and, as far as I can remember, he was still in jail on the original charge of possessing ONE joint. fifth, though the period was grim indeed, the authorities had been shaken to their very roots by the people’s movement which had built out of nowhere and had learned very well indeed the danger of creating ‘martyrs’ which, for all they knew, might soon occur with Tim. (yes, it’s taken much longer but how were they to know that?) and so sixthly (for now) <i>their</i> best hope was to release him ‘suspiciously early’ while putting out the story that matey Greenfield has just put into your consciousness. YOU’VE SEEN ALL THIS SHIT BEFORE REMEMBER?! THEY DO IT ALL THE TIME! THEY DID IT TO ME:)<br><br>
</b></font><font face="Swis721 BlkEx BT" color="#FF00FF">upfeedback -</font> Dear Fraser, I ran into Matthew Mighty Eye the other nite and we were talking about the media scene here in LA... It really seems to me there is going to be a Boom or huge interest in making films about the 60's or the counter culture ideas. The reaction to the recent Leary bios is pretty extreme and now 3 or so films are trying to go into production. Especially , Leo DiCaprio playing Leary in his film has really pumped up renewed interest. <br>
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<font face="Swis721 BlkEx BT" color="#FF00FF">upfeedback -</font> the main story I've heard is they do not actually have a script! I think they are not sure what the story is! So anyone who can come up with something may have a chance with their script. Oliver Stone will want to do a Leary film. Tim Robbins etc.<br>
This Leonard Cohen film was mind blowing to me and is an example...<br>
michael shields, LA.<br>
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</font><div align="center"><font size=5 color="#800080"><b>MAGIC BUS:</font><font size=4 color="#800080"> </font><font size=4 color="#3366FF"><i>On the Hippie Trail from Istanbul to India<br>
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<div align="right">by <b>Rory MacLean </b>[Viking £16.99]<br>
REVIEW by <b>Robert Sandall/</b><font color="#333399"> The Sunday Times</font> <br>
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<font color="#800080"><b>This book reminds us that the origins of contemporary travel writing lie in the impulse of a generation of </font><font color="#3366FF">1960s longhairs</font><font color="#800080"> to head off for extended vacations on the Indian subcontinent. It took a decade for authors such as </font><font color="#3366FF">Bruce Chatwin</font><font color="#800080"> to give it literary shape: the loosely structured anecdotes, the emphasis on chance encounters, and a pervasive sense that the travel writer’s job is to </font><font color="#3366FF"><u>hang out</u></font><font color="#800080">, antennae flapping, as much as to journey purposefully towards a destination. <br><br>
But the impetus for the new experiential approach lay in the waves of western babyboomers who embarked on the Asia overland route - the so-called </font><font color="#3366FF">“Hippie Trail”</font><font color="#800080"> - from around 1965.<br><br>
Their agenda included spiritual enlightenment, unlimited cheap dope and the opportunity to loiter for months in a part of the world where a backpacking “head”, in flight from the </font><font color="#3366FF">stifling routines of suburbia</font><font color="#800080">, could subsist for a few pence a day. <br>
</font><font color="#FF00FF">>> and from a deeply sick western ‘civilisation’ whose cancer wasn’t to became obvious to a majority 40 years later, like today. <br><br>
</font><font color="#800080">By 1967, the year the </font><font color="#3366FF">Beatles</font><font color="#800080"> went to meditate with the </font><font color="#3366FF">Maharishi</font><font color="#800080"> in </font><font color="#3366FF">Rishikesh</font><font color="#800080">, the Indian government estimated that there were 10,000 “youthful” foreigners in the country. <br>
</font><font color="#FF00FF">>> i’ll never forget a <i>Times of India</i> editorial celebrating “these western truth seekers”.<br><br>
</font><font color="#800080">Five years later the same number crossed the border from Pakistan in a single week, and in 1973 the French reckoned that India was where 250,000 of its citizens had taken up temporary and sometimes permanent residence.<br><br>
Much has changed today. So much, in fact, that, in retracing the steps of the original hippies, Rory MacLean only has to turn up to secure the material for an absorbing, multilayered narrative. The </font><font color="#3366FF"><i>“reeling hedonists”</i></font><font color="#800080"> who journey to India today share little of their predecessors’ desire for spiritual adventure, he feels. As a consequence, few travel books are able to reflect so fruitfully on their own back story as this sweet and sour account of the most recent phase of the faltering East/West dance.<br><br>
MacLean’s path is strewn with fascinating relics. In Pakistan he bumps into John Butt, the </font><font color="#3366FF">Dylan</font><font color="#800080">-loving, Manchester United-supporting Muslim chaplain of </font><font color="#3366FF">Cambridge University</font><font color="#800080"> who converted to </font><font color="#3366FF">Islam</font><font color="#800080"> while wandering in the </font><font color="#3366FF">Punjab</font><font color="#800080"> in 1969 and who still discerns the words of the Prophet in the lines of Dylan songs such as </font><font color="#3366FF"><i>The Gates of Eden</i></font><font color="#800080">. Hetty, a 70-year-old from </font><font color="#3366FF">Hampstead</font><font color="#800080">, London, whom he meets in </font><font color="#3366FF">Istanbul</font><font color="#800080"> and again in </font><font color="#3366FF">Kathmandu</font><font color="#800080">, is a hippie throwback who firmly believes her son to be one of two reincarnations of a </font><font color="#3366FF">Tibetan Buddhist</font><font color="#800080"> leader.<br>
</font><font color="#FF00FF">>> i knew this lady quite well in Kathmandu and later in Hampstead. her very young son opted to join the tibetan monastery while they were living in Nepal which must make him one of the very first westerners to do so. so why wouldn’t a karmapa opt to be reborn in him?<br><br>
</font><font color="#800080">At the other extreme, MacLean encounters plenty of locals convinced that Hetty and her tribe are credulous idiots. </font><font color="#3366FF"><i>“The myth of self-discovery did wonders for our foreign-currency reserves,”</i></font><font color="#800080"> one young Indian businessman observes acerbically. </font><font color="#3366FF"><i>“Those gurus sold themselves with the same smart marketing that sold flower power.”</i></font><font color="#800080"> <br><br>
Almost everybody MacLean meets is keen to add to a rich cacophony of views on the meaning of life. </font><font color="#3366FF"><i>“The only viable, enduring philosophy now is wealth creation,”</i></font><font color="#800080"> says Jim, an American oil man building the new pipeline to carry crude oil from the Caspian to the Mediterranean. Laleh, an embittered Iranian woman, about to be taken to live in Paris by her brother, thinks that MacLean has lost his moral compass: </font><font color="#3366FF"><i>“Hence your dislocation and fragmentation . . . You are a cancer.”</i></font><font color="#FF00FF">>> sounds about right if the guy quotes a dumb yank in a book about Eastern Spirituality and Hippies.<br>
what’s happening at the moment is that people are getting very very interested in what this whole era was about. (and is still about tho you could be forgiven for thinking it all ended in 1971 when Punk came along) they yearn for some truth and sincerity in their increasingly empty and innerly tortured lives. so all sorts of assholes who really understand nothing about the subject are hacking out books about the real people <i>FOR MONEY!</i> there are 3 new books out on Leary, for example, which i haven’t bothered to review because not a one of the authors truly ever connected with what it’s all about. they’re writing books about swimming but have never been in the Ocean. i know a writer on Hippies who tried acid <i>once</i> <i>and got drunk while doing it, for goddess’s sake!</i> <br>
but the news is good. eventually people will DEMAND the REAL fukkin TING :)<br><br>
</font><font color="#800080">Politically, the book tells a sorry tale. Many of the countries on the overland route have mutated from sleepy dictatorships where travellers shared joints with border guards in remote mountain passes, into vicious hotbeds of </font><font color="#3366FF">Muslim fundamentalism</font><font color="#800080">. <br>
</font><font color="#FF00FF">>> and this is totally unconnected with the fact that later westerners came there to right royally screw and invade them? and wouldn’t share a joint with any of them?! the author AND the reviewer are equally ignorant of their subject.<br><br>
</font><font color="#800080">Once viewed with bemused acceptance, <br>
</font><font color="#FF00FF">>> genuine brotherly respect. see <i>Times of India</i> above.<br><br>
</font><font color="#800080">western tourists have become a prime target for </font><font color="#3366FF">suicide bombers</font><font color="#800080">.<br><br>
The section on war-torn </font><font color="#3366FF">Afghanistan</font><font color="#800080"> is the darkest, and also the most surprising. MacLean offers a full inventory of horrors: two thirds of Afghan children have witnessed the killing of a relative or friend; <br>
</font><font color="#FF00FF">>> like i was saying, THAT had nothing to do with their original friendly hosting of course not!<br><br>
</font><font color="#800080">most of the country’s art treasures have been vandalised; </font><font color="#3366FF">Soviet</font><font color="#800080"> butterfly mines designed to look like plastic toys have left thousands maimed, and so on.<br><br>
But then, at an American airbase to which his flight has been diverted, the mood lightens. MacLean finds himself in a servicemen’s bar where everybody is wearing </font><font color="#3366FF">full hippie regalia</font><font color="#800080"> and dancing to </font><font color="#3366FF">Aquarius</font><font color="#800080">, the 1960s anthem. Later, in the devastated city of </font><font color="#3366FF">Bamiyan</font><font color="#800080">, he meets Sanjar, the most optimistic character in the whole book, who has managed to build a working community-television station out of bits of discarded technology.<br><br>
The most damaging development for anybody now contemplating a 4,000-mile road trip, MacLean suggests, is the detailed mapping of every stage of the journey by the pioneers. When the British couple Tony and Maureen Wheeler set off across </font><font color="#3366FF">Asia</font><font color="#800080"> in a £65 Minivan in 1964, there were no travellers’ guides to the world east of </font><font color="#3366FF">Istanbul</font><font color="#800080">. Today, the Wheelers’ </font><font color="#3366FF"><i>Lonely Planet</i></font><font color="#800080"> series is the most prominent reminder that journeys into the unknown are a thing of the past. </font><font size=4 color="#3366FF"><i>“<u>Rather than inspirational, the travel market is now aspirational</u>,”</i></font><font color="#800080"> MacLean notes, regretfully.<br><br>
MacLean’s persistent contention is that the legacy of the 1960s </font><font color="#3366FF"><i>“is living both in the moment and in the mind . . . striving to understand how it feels to be alive”.</i></font><font color="#800080"> After such a long and interesting journey, you’re not inclined to argue.<br>
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<font color="#993300"><b>hi Phraser,<br>
great newsletter!<br><br>
btw, re/ the kidney warming idea, the chinese seem to have some sort of wrap-around clothing piece that goes on underneath shirt to protect kidneys from the cold.<br>
</font><font color="#FF00FF">>> inneresting will check @ next chinese shop i pass :) but it's an old victorian habit and supposedly still available in gentlemen’s shops (wherever they are and probly xpensive)<br><br>
</font><font color="#993300">i might try one of them, as i do think it is a good idea. it is winter at the moment in byron bay, however there is no snow etc.<br>
</font><font color="#FF00FF">>> it may be relative how would i know?<br><br>
</font><font color="#993300">actually it did snow once in the late ‘70s when i was a child, 45 minutes out into the mountains away from the coast, but i doubt anyone would believe me unless they saw it themselves.<br>
</b></font>Jasper, Byron Bay, Australia.<br>
<font color="#FF00FF"><b>>>I DON'T BELIEVE YOU. <br><br>
</font><font color="#3366FF">Hey Fraser,<br>
Moving speakers go back to the early 1940s at least.<br>
</b></font><font color="#0000FF"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_speaker%A0" eudora="autourl">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_speaker </a> <br>
<a href="http://mywebpages.comcast.net/vrbass/vibratone/" eudora="autourl">http://mywebpages.comcast.net/vrbass/vibratone/</a><br><br>
</font><font color="#3366FF"><b>An old hippy like you should have known that...<br>
</b></font>Dave Gorman. Cambridge ; ) <br>
<font color="#FF00FF"><b>>> zippy ain’t no hippy (exactly half… to be exact :) but how does that work then? am not talking about bands on stage, this was one dude creating waves for a very small group, of two in this case.<br>
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<font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" size=4 color="#993300">the great healing reward<br>
</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600">The advance party of the Caravanseraiclub has re-established residence in the Oukaimeden Hotel in </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#993300">Marrakech</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600">, with its Millionaire’s view over the amazing, fantastic </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#993300">Jamaal el Fna</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600"> square that seems to boom and swirl forever since whenever.<br><br>
Caress and I came up on the overnight express bus from </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#993300">Zagora</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600">, arriving 8 </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#993300">Atlas Mountain</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600"> hours later, just after 2 am, in a slightly cold air as we sipped real coffee and hugged our bags to us in the all-nite café next to the bus station. Would Chris really have booked us a single room each as he’d promised on the phone? Yes! Though my room smelled, we crashed out after sharing an exhausted joint. And I changed to this lovely single room the following day.<br><br>
Chris? An </font><font face="Swis721 BlkEx BT" color="#FF00FF"><b>UP!</b></font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600"> reader who’d been in internet connection for the past week, and had flown in from London 2 days before. James, my dear old buddy, is due in tonight, I think. Also 2 Dutch cats who never showed up in the end. And Driss, the hotel manager, named after the first guy to bring </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#993300">Islam</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600"> to </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#993300">Morocco</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600">, says Kim and her companion Graham dropped by yesterday. (they gave up on finding us and headed off to the mountains where they had a “</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#993300"><i>lovely lovely time</i></font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600">” according to Kim.)<br><br>
Lucy, Max and Liz (whom I’ve started calling “</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#993300">Yer Maj</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600">”, the Drama Queen of Australia because of her slightly lurid vision of things) are off on a 3 day safari up into the mountains because they’ll be flying home to London on their return. And Lisa, after emailing that, in </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#993300">Chefchaoun</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600">, the second most important hashish centre after </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#993300">Ketama</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600"> (where she bumped into the older French lady who was with us in the desert for a day) is now hitching up towards </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#993300">Madrid</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600">. She says the French lady had lost 40,000 Durham (£2500) on some kinda dope deal. Wow! No wonder she looked so pale and stressed!<br><br>
So we’re into the final 3</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" size=1 color="#FF6600"><sup>rd</sup></font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600"> of the trip! No eyes, legs or feet lost though several kilos in weight :) You could say we </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#993300"><i>‘survived’</i></font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600"> the desert, and certainly it felt like that when our poor burned skins felt the slight chill in the fresh air (of </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#993300">Marrakech</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600">!). No dust in the air, less and less sand in the hair and bum, and not a sneering camel in sight!<br><br>
I sit here tonight in my room, cleanly showered, in my new (£20) shirt (which I had tailored in </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#993300">Zagora</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600"> and which I LOVE!) seated at a real table! With a light hanging immediately above my head! A bag of </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#993300">Zagora</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600"> dates and a bottle of water by my side. What I puff probably passed through here on its journey from the mountains to find me down south in the desert via Brahim :)<br><br>
</font><div align="center"><font size=5 color="#993300"><i>Return To The Big Oasis<br>
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<font size=4 color="#993300">One of those phut phut bikes disappears into the invisible (silent) night.<br>
Ahmed wending homewards from the late Jamaa el Fna market?<br><br>
And allatonce, as I put pen to paper, <br>
All those inter-cultural-personal froths and existential sandstorms are…<br>
The Past. (what else did I expect?!)<br>
And it’s Me, Again, Here,<br>
In this Grand Oasis after the Sahara.<br><br>
Oh, I know this Me Here Place. Each time I return, I look in vain<br>
For deposits left by the intervening experiences and perceptions.<br>
But it’s not like that. Or not mostly that.<br><br>
We are Movies to Ourselves, each layer leering at the plot in front.<br>
Thru a bus window this man sees house after house and lampposts<br>
While the man behind sees flowers, that dog, a reflection <br>
that reminds him of desert light just before sunset, that’s all.<br>
All?! Yes, all!<br><br>
It’s just Me. Being. Everyone. Always. Here. Me.<br>
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<font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" size=4 color="#CC99FF"><i>Do Scientists apologise for making most of the Gene Pool think they were the inevitable outcome of a totally purposeless </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" size=4 color="#0000FF">Big Bang</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" size=4 color="#CC99FF"> occurring accidentally in an area smaller than a gnat’s turd? NO, they come up with another theory, are you ready?<br>
</i></font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#0000FF">The Universe had no unique beginning, announced </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#CC99FF">Stephen Hawking</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#0000FF"> of the <i>University of Cambridge</i> and </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#CC99FF"><i>Thomas Hertog</i></font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#0000FF"> of the </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#CC99FF"><i>European Laboratory for Particle Physics</i></font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#0000FF"> at CERN in Geneva. Instead, the countless "</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#CC99FF">alternative worlds</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#0000FF">" of </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#CC99FF">String Theory </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#0000FF">may actually have existed. <br>
If you listen carefully to the following paragraphs from the news report you can glimpse that, far from being Intellectual Giants of the human mind (as out semi-demented excuse for a civilisation arrogantly assumes), these are 2 guys with a very narrow range of experience who are squirming their way unconsciously towards the foothills of Higher Understanding. or not :)<br><br>
</font>We should picture the Universe in the first instants of the Big Bang as a superposition of all these possibilities, they say; like a projection of billions of movies played on top of one another. <br><br>
They call their theory "top-down" cosmology,<br>
<font color="#FF00FF"><b>>> i call it ass backward :)<br><br>
</b></font>because instead of looking for some fundamental set of initial physical laws under which our Universe unfolded,<br>
<font color="#FF00FF"><b>>> like they’ve been doing for the last cuppla decades<br><br>
</b></font>it starts "at the top," with what we see today, and works backwards to see what the initial set of possibilities might have been. In effect, says Hertog, the present "selects" the past.<br>
<font color="#0000FF">news@nature.com <br>
</font><font color="#FF00FF"><b>>> any millennium now they’ll discover that the Future Perfect is all that exists (call it Goddess if you will) and it draws us through it’s many Pasts towards us. like </font><font color="#FF9900">megatripolis@forever</font><font color="#FF00FF"> explores.<br>
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</font><font size=4>Reverse Causation Experiment and Theory<br>
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<font size=4 color="#0000FF">Causality</b><i>, the notion that earlier events can affect later events but not vice-versa, </i>undergirds our experience of reality and physical law.</font> Causality is predicated on the forward unidirectionality of time. However, most physical laws are time symmetric; that is, they formally and equally admit both time-forward and time-reverse solutions. Time-reverse solutions are distressing because they would allow the future to influence the past, i.e., <font color="#0000FF"><b>reverse causation</b></font>. <br><br>
Why time-forward solutions are preferentially observed in nature remains an unresolved problem in physics. (While the most convincing explanations invoke the second law of thermodynamics, wavefunction collapse or the expansion of the universe, in the end, purely forward causation is an ad-hoc physical <i>assumption</i>.)<br><br>
Experimental evidence for <font color="#0000FF"><b>reverse causation</b></font> is scarce and open to alternative explanations. The best (and perhaps only) evidence comes from <font color="#0000FF"><b>parapsychology</b></font>, including human psychophysiological responses to future stimuli and <font color="#0000FF"><b>mind-matter interactions</b></font> with random physical systems. While laboratory results are intriguing, theoretical models to explain such outcomes have lagged and those that exist have not yet made deep enough connections with mainstream physics. Even the most basic physical constraints e.g., whether reverse causation is best explained by energy transfers or simply by correlations without information exchange remain open questions.<br><br>
This symposium will explore recent experiments, theory, and philosophical issues connected with <font color="#0000FF"><b>reverse causation</b></font>.<br><br>
<b><u>SPEAKERS:<br>
</u><font color="#0000FF">Harold Atmanspacher</b></font> (Max Planck Institute, Freiburg, Germany, "<b>From the dynamics of coupled maps to the psychological arrow of time.</b>"<br>
<font color="#0000FF"><b>Richard Broughton</b></font> (University of Northampton), "<b>Encounters with the frontiers of time: Questions raised by anomalous human experience.</b>"<br>
<font color="#0000FF"><b>Richard Bierman</b></font> (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands), "<b>Empirical research on the radical subjective solution of the measurement problem. Does time get its direction through conscious observation?</b>"<br>
<font color="#0000FF"><b>Jean Burns</b></font> (J. Consciousness Studies), "<b>Is the action of the mind carried out on a molecular level?</b>"<br>
<font color="#0000FF"><b>John Cramer</b></font> (University of Washington), "<b>Reverse causation and the transactional interpretation of quantum mechanics.</b>"<br>
<font color="#0000FF"><b>York Dobyns</b></font> (Princeton University), "<b>Retrocausal information flow: What are the implications of knowing the future?</b>" <br>
<font color="#0000FF"><b>Avshalom Elitzur</b></font> (Weizmann Institute, Israel), "<b>Retrocausal quantum measurement: Some recent findings and their theoretical implications.</b>"<br>
<font color="#0000FF"><b>Gerhard Hahne</b></font> (NASA Ames Research Center), "<b>Schrodinger equation for joint bidirectional motion in time.</b>"<br>
<font color="#0000FF"><b>Joop Houtkooper</b></font> (Justus-Liebig-Univ. of Giessen), "<b>Time-reversed causation or extant indefinite reality?</b>"<br>
<font color="#0000FF"><b>Roger Nelson</b></font> (Princeton University), "<b>Anomalous anticipatory responses in networked random data.</b>"<br>
<font color="#0000FF"><b>Fotini Pallikari</b></font> (University of Athens, Athens, Greece), "<b>Some evidence for reverse causation and physical interpretation.</b>"<br>
<font color="#0000FF"><b>Dean Radin</b></font> (Institute of Noetic Sciences, CA), "<b>Psychophysiological and perceptual tests of possible retrocausal effects in humans.</b>"<br>
<font color="#0000FF"><b>Elizabeth Rauscher</b></font> (Techic Research Laboratory, Arizona), "<b>The speed of thought: Investigation of a complex space time metric to describe psychic phenomena.</b>"<br>
<font color="#0000FF"><b>Richard Shoup</b></font> (Boundary Institute, CA), "<b>Physics without causality -- Evidence and theory.</b>" <br>
<font color="#0000FF"><b>Henry Stapp</b></font> (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, CA), "<b>Purported causal anomalies within a quantum-theoretical context.</b>"<br>
<font color="#0000FF"><b>Walter von Lucadou</b></font> (WGFP, Freiburg, Germany), "<b>Self-organization of temporal structures -- A possible solution for the intervention problem.</b>" <br>
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</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600">For the last 40 years I’ve carried this utterly wrong picture of </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#993300">Essaouira</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600">. All because a friend’s post card of 5 simple houses on the edge of a beach left me with an impression of this small village hardly worth a visit.<br><br>
(I think it must actually have been of the tiny “hippy village” of </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#993300">Diabet</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600"> 3 miles away which now proudly boasts the </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#993300"><i>Hotel Hendrix</i></font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600"> a Moroccan friend says </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#993300">Joe Cocker</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600"> <i>definitely</i> lived here, but maybe not </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#993300">Hendrix</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600">, though others maintain some of the </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#993300">Stones</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600"> hung out here with </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#993300">Jimmi</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600">, no doubt </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#993300">Brian Jones</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600"> who everyone knows was well into Morocco’s </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#993300">Jajouka</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600"> music. Anyway, the </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#993300"><i>Hotel Hendrix</i></font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600"> has clearly had some serious money invested, which hasn’t paid off because the lovely rooms can be hired for £3.50 a night.)<br><br>
Entirely contrary to my 40 year old assumption, however, the truth is that if I’d sat down to describe a writer’s perfect little city, </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#993300">Essaouira</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600"> is what I would have came up with! A 4 hour flight from London, to the Atlantic shoulder of Morocco where the wind never stops, lies this (fairly) ancient, totally walled and ramparted little city, cuter than a Devonshire town, but bustling with real life and a living port with 50 fishing boats that set out each morning to supply the inhabitants and restaurants all over </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#993300">France</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600"> with a wild variety of marine life. <br><br>
The walled city sits on the edge of a promontory into the </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#993300">Ocean</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600">, looking south over a mile long sandy beach we find out they trucked in thousands of tons of sand to convert a pebbly beach into a </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#993300">Riviera</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600"> one (no lack of sand!) Inside the walls 200 tiny crooked cobbled alleyways crisscross and network a living community. <br><br>
Beautiful! Romantic! And so human scale, with no room to erect any large modern building and nothing in the whole city over 3 floors! </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#993300">Orson Wells</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600"> shot some scenes of </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#993300"><i>Othello</i></font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600"> here, up on the castle ramparts with </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#993300">Desdemona</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600">. Thrilling! Compleat unto itself. Self-sufficient if necessary. Hot and sunny, yes, but cool and fresh because of the constant trade winds. I’m back a month in London now and lusting quietly for it as I write.<br><br>
In one half of the city they’re converting crumbling old buildings and forts into a vast array of shops and markets with their kaleidoscopic arrays of crafts and arts for the tourists. The tourists are </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#993300">Moroccan</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600"> and ‘alternative’, here for its historical </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#993300">Hippy</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600"> connections, and the nearest airport is </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#993300">Agadir</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600">, 500 miles to the south. <br><br>
It’s Morocco’s </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#993300">Bohemia</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600">, inspired by the original hippies (“</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#993300"><i>everyone’s an artist</i></font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600">”) and now filled with the (mostly slightly corny) offerings of what the </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#993300"><i>Rough Guide</i></font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600"> calls the “</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#993300"><i>primitive school</i></font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600">” :) You even see Moroccan women out in the evening! The </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#993300"><i>Guide</i></font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600"> even says it’s a bit dangerous in one part of the city after nightfall! How far from my Assumption! <br><br>
The other half of the city, across the swarming central high street, is where the denizens live, and everything is domestic, hamams, stationers selling only Moroccan mags, jotters and rubbers (the ones on the ends of pencils, oh no that’s worse!) bakers, tailors, and very very cheap fishfry shops with an upstairs window from where you look down on the teeming life below. Which James and I do most days, followed by a café au lait in the Champs Elysee we’ve renamed several of the streets since they’re mostly unpronounceable :)<br><br>
A writer’s place! When one of those dozy publishers finally realises what’s going on here, or plucks up the courage for my kinda full-on broadside against what we laughingly call our ‘civilisation’, and commissions me to complete one of my many written works, this is the kinda place I‘d choose to come for a month’s serious editing :) It’s utterly safe within the walls, and timeless. And philosophical par excellence. </font><font size=4>[cont below]<br>
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</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" size=4 color="#0000FF">Hunger Strike Set To End </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" size=4 color="#993300">Iraq War </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" size=4 color="#FF0000"><i>//<u>FEEDBACK<br><br>
</u></i></font><font color="#CC99FF"><b>Very moved by these brave efforts.<br>
Please send me an address as I would like to send the gift of a song. <br>
Take Care.<br>
</b></font>francie conway, Satellite Records, Belfast.<br>
<font color="#0000FF"><a href="http://www.conwaygroove.com/" eudora="autourl">www.conwaygroove.com</a><br><br>
</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF99CC"><b>dear cindy your e mail has passed on through scotland and UK. GOD BLESS.<br>
</b></font>Peter Campbell, edinburgh.<br><br>
<font color="#FF0000"><b>Good now they will starve to death and shut the hell up. Go BUSH!!<br>
</b></font>Anann, St Louis, US.<br>
<font color="#FF00FF"><b>>> yeah, go! for everyone’s sake.<br>
and you'll call it a "PR stunt" right?<br>
your bomms are making a hell of a lot more noise than they are, so why should THEY shut UP!?<br><br>
</font><font color="#FF9900">Hmmmm, its a nice idea if it works. But note that they only mention meals not water, so no one’s gonna die in 80 days. So Bush can ignore it. Though it has potential to tippublic opinion I guess, particularly if someone takes it too far. But I hope they don't!<br>
</b></font>Steve Ashe, London.<br><br>
<font color="#339966"><b>Dear Brave and Committed Friends, <br>
ALL OF YOU WILL BE LAUNCHING A WONDERFUL CAMPAIGN THROUGH THE HUNGER STRIKE AGAINST PRESIDENT BUSH'S BARBARIC POLICIES, ON THE 3 - 4 JULY. MY HEARTIEST CONGRATULATIONS AND SOLIDARITY WITH YOU. <br><br>
YES, I HOPE AMERICAN CITIZENS WILL IMPEACH THIS PRESIDENT SOONER OR LATER. <br><br>
ALL BEST WISHES, <br>
</b></font>E.P.Menon, Bangalore, India<i>. [WorldPeaceActivistwhohas marched around the world on foot to fight nuclear weapons,militarismandwaranywhereandeverywhere].</i> <br>
<font face="Swis721 BlkEx BT" color="#FF00FF">up!<br><br>
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</font><div align="right"><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" size=4 color="#808080">caravanseraiclub safari</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" size=4 color="#FF00FF">/morocco </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" size=4 color="#808080">2006<br>
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<font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" size=4 color="#993300">the palace of the haj<br>
</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600">The caravanseraiclub consisted of 5 members now. Myself, James, Caress, Chris and, yes, Buchera. Deciding she was not a hooker or up to anything bad, we’d invited her along, agreeing to jointly pay her costs. She was a good travelling companion who shopped and cooked (once we’d found the Haj’s palace) and helped generally as a go-between, though every go-between is ultimately and perfectly logically a Moroccan too! <br><br>
It was thanks to her we found and spent our whole time there in probably the finest and tallest old house in the city standing, despite what I said, 4 floors high, with an open roof above that presented you with the whole city, the mile long beach with </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#993300">Diabet</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600"> just visible, the bustling port before us (and America if you kept going!), and a rocky east side of smashing breakers just outside the walls. James and I spent every evening up there, puffing and watching individual birds wheeling in the gusty winds to work out what they were up to and oh discussing Life and our dreams and disappointments, not that things hadn’t evolved as we’d envisioned, just more slowly than our impatient youth had encouraged us.</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#0000FF"> <br><br>
</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600">Although the palace was all of £6.50 a night each (which by now seemed like a small fortune) it was a very very special place. It had several different rooms, including a large kitchen/bedroom/shower on the lower roof, and a totally separate, self-contained room and bathroom in the opposite corner. <br><br>
“</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#993300">The Haj</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600">”, our landlord, was this cranky old boy whose name seemed more of a title - for a </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#993300">Muslim</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600"> who’s visited </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#993300">Mecca</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600"> for </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#993300">The Haj</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600">. James’s first impression was he was a </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#993300">Sufi</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600">, mine a kind of </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#993300">Shylock</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600">, but he had this irritable sparkly eyed look about him :) It seems many of the grandest houses in the old city are being bought up by </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#993300">“the Jews”. </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600">You can see this from our roof because, so someone told us, they always paint their windows and frills blue, and there were a lot of <i>them</i>. But the story was that </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#993300">Haj</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600">, as we addressed him, had refused <i>massive</i> offers to sell, including a strong ‘recommendation’ from the chief of police. <br><br>
If he seemed to me like a money grabbing old bugger, maybe he had to be to maintain this magnificent house. Be that as it may, there was a genuine misunderstanding over money because I had the distinct impression our group rent covered all the rooms on the top 2 floors, but which turned out to be just 2 of the lower, and always stuffy rooms. Despite that, however, we had access to the amazing roof area.<br><br>
Truly, for those who made it this far (Caress, Buchera and I since the others had just arrived) this was the </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#993300">Great Healing</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600">. I spent the first 5 days blissing out while being pulled aimlessly through the lovely lanes and byways and the teeming kids and laughs and yells, thanking Goddess for bringing me through intact, even grown. And I spent the second 5 days slowly slowing down towards boredom and a longing for </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#993300">London</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600">, the </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#993300">Centre of the World</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600"> (globo-culturally). That’s what I hope for on every caravanseraiclub outing, and that’s why I think you need a minimum of a moon for closure. You should return full of energy and grateful for being home. And I felt sorry for Lucy, Liz, Max and the others who, in their biziness, had missed this part of the </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#993300">Healing</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600">.<br><br>
</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" size=4 color="#993300">A typical day?</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600"> They were all typical! Each morning I’d rise when I felt like it. Nothing unusual there of course, I do the same in </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#993300">London</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600">. But then I’d grab a blanket and head up into the sunshine and wind swept roof, take a long cool look over the teeming port below (most of the boats would be back my now to serve the customers). The hundreds/thousands of huge </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#993300">Atlantic</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600"> coast gulls would be squawking away and swooping right over my head, the breakers would be crashing on the rocks below where individual Moroccans would be fishing or skimming the pools to recycle and living food.<br><br>
There I’d do my hour of </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#993300">yoga</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600">. Yes, even a month back in </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#993300">London</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600"> now I can report success in this particular aim of establishing an hour of daily yoga in my life. I’m maintaining this suppleness-inducer back here too. Far less strictly than my previous decades of regular yoga which I somehow lost, but I mean sometimes I do half an hour with the tv on and then the other half in the evening before bed. And I haven’t exactly established a daily pattern, more like 5 days a week. Nor have I yet (which is the final test) got to the point of MISSING it when I don’t do it, but that will no doubt come if I persevere :)<br><br>
After that it’s time for the morning coffee and ciggy. Down the reverse spiral staircase and out into the always shady lane that follows inside the harbour wall to the Champs Elisee where, as often as not, I find the rest of the club on their 3</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" size=1 color="#FF6600"><sup>rd</sup></font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600"> mint teas.<br><br>
Buchera and Chris had teamed up now as, I guess, some kinda platonic friendship. Chris is a lovely guy, a fair guy, a Seeker who doesn’t quite believe there’s something out there to Find :) Caress as often as not would have engaged someone else to our table and might be going off with them, but James and I would have a chore to do (the internet, the hole in the wall, or looking for </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#993300">Gulamine Beads</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600"> in a new market) or jut wandering around for a couple of hours before it’s time for, well, another sit-down coffee, with a cake or 2 this time.<br><br>
Then more wandering, exploring parts we hadn’t found yet, which only ran out by the 9</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" size=1 color="#FF6600"><sup>th</sup></font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600"> or 10th day there.<br>
</font><font face="Swis721 BlkEx BT" color="#FF00FF">up!<br><br>
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</font><font size=4><b>The Great Turning: From Empire To Community </font><font size=4 color="#FF0000"><i>//<u>FEEDBACK<br><br>
</u></i></font><font color="#333399">mucho machy prophet.<br>
it was a necessary kick in the bum.<br>
thank you for the Desmond Tutu link as well.<br>
keep bangin'.<br>
</b>Voy, </font>Bubble Jam DeLite, London<br><br>
<font color="#FF6600"><b>Hello!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!<br>
Is there anything of this in </font><font color="#008080">Spanish</font><font color="#FF6600">? Fraser’s book? or "</font><font color="#008080">The Great Turning</font><font color="#FF6600">" or other articles about the new paradigma???<br>
</font><font color="#FF00FF">>> that’s plural of paradigm paradigms.<br><br>
</font><font color="#FF6600">I´m Culture Director in a small village in the south of </font><font color="#008080">Argentina</font><font color="#FF6600"> (that used to be known as a hippie village in the ´70s). When I read your mails I feel it’s one of the few relations with reality I have!!!!!!!!!!!! If there is something in </font><font color="#008080">Spanish</font><font color="#FF6600">, please, let me know<br>
Thanks for your work. </font><font face="Wingdings" color="#FF6600">ñTRRRTTTRRRBJIMBRRRRRRTQQTTRARIKOIBN::<br>
</b></font>Gabriela, Argentina.<br>
<font size=4 color="#FF00FF"><b>>> </font><font size=4 color="#FF0000">CAN ANYONE HELP? TRANSLATE (SOME OF )THE </b></font><font face="Swis721 BlkEx BT" size=4 color="#FF00FF">UP!</font><font size=4 color="#FF0000"><b> INTO </font><font size=4 color="#008080">SPANISH</font><font size=4 color="#FF00FF">? sounds like gabriella would be happy to spread the info around south america which can’t be bad.<br><br>
</font><font color="#993300">Just to remind you that the amazon rainforest belongs to south american countries, principally Brasil, and it will be us who decide what to do with it, so please keep your neo-colonial, pseudo-ecological rants to yourselves, cause they ruin an otherwise excellent web-magazine. <br>
Instead of your crocodile tears <br>
</font><font color="#FF00FF">>> crocodile tears, huh? and several other of Goddess’ beings will be crying too, no? <br><br>
</font><font color="#993300"> for what doesn't belong to you, why don't you re-forest all the european forests that you have destroyed? <br>
</font><font color="#FF00FF">>> total agreement there. why don’t you help US do that?<br><br>
</font><font color="#993300">in Latin-America we are very proud, since the times of Bolivar, San Martin and Che-Guevara, of not letting neo-colonialists pass. <br>
</font><font color="#FF00FF">>> and i’m from scotland, the FIRST invaded colony of the (British) Empire.<br><br>
</font><font color="#993300">And we won't let <i>you</i> pass, even if this time you wolves come dressed as ecological sheep. We have a right to energy self-sufficiency, and the pipeline is the best way to achieve it.<br>
</font><font color="#FF00FF">>> but IS that true? you got loadsa sunshine and bio diesel and so on, right?<br><br>
</font><font color="#993300">Behind supposed support for your "ecological concern" is the fact that the Empire wants to keep the gas and petrol flowing out of our continent instead of flowing within it and fuelling our development. No pasaran ! <br><br>
Cordially,</b></font> <br>
Juana Azurduy, Brasil.<br><br>
<font color="#008080"><b>Dear Juana, I don’t feel it´s a matter of flags but of whole understanding for present and future, and I would suggest wise people should join and try to see what’s the best to do. But of course, Empire: no pasaran!<br>
</font><font color="#FF00FF">>> scotland says the same! and we’re fighting to SAVE the nature we have left.<br><br>
</font><font color="#008080">It’s good to spread info, facts, to let us keep in touch with what is really happening on planet Earth.<br>
We should start planning how the world should be (self)ruled: as an organism, alive, in rather small communities, with low impact and sustainability, stopping all that’s unnecessary, all that exists only for ego-trips (as for example open air gold mines with cianuro threatening the paradise where I live, orIraq war, or consumerism, etc.). This is already much. <br>
Then, put all effort and resources to give answers to <i>real</i> problems of humanity, behaviour problems, whatever. Then dance! Everybody become artist, create the fractal shape of what it should be... maybe this comes first or simultaneously, or as & when we can. I think we <i>do</i> all have the power to project this future in our minds.<br><br>
Well "my thoughts" are too many. I just wanna do it!<br>
</b></font>Gabriela, Argentina.<br><br>
<font color="#FF0000"><b>Dear F,<br>
If the Americans could only stop eating en masse for long enough, it would not only stop the Iraq war but put enough pressure on the junk food industry that they might even lobby to get rid of the hardy perennial WEEDS in power and LOSE WEIGHT!<br>
</b></font>xx Charlotte Appleton, Formosa..<br><br>
<font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#00CCFF"><b>Hi Fraser,<br>
Thanks for the illuminating emails.<br><br>
Just a small point concerning the repeated use of the word "</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF0000"><i>America</i></font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#00CCFF">". <br><br>
For the millions of people who have family, dealings and connections with various parts of the continent called </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF0000"><i>'America'</i></font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#00CCFF">, it has become tiring to see the common reference to the USA as </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF0000"><i>'America'</i></font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#00CCFF"> all the time.<br><br>
My </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF0000">Mexican</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#00CCFF"> wife and her family and our friends are all </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF0000"><i>'Americans'</i></font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#00CCFF">, because they were born in the continent of </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF0000"><i>'America'</i></font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#00CCFF">, and have some family which have old roots there. They are all </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF0000"><i>'Americans'</i></font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#00CCFF">, just as the </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF0000">Canadians</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#00CCFF">, </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF0000">Venezuelans</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#00CCFF">, </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF0000">Chileans</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#00CCFF">, </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF0000">Brazilians</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#00CCFF">, and the rest of those large and proud nations with tribal peoples and ancient cultures, are all </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF0000"><i>'Americans'</i></font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#00CCFF">.<br><br>
The word </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF0000"><i>'America'</i></font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#00CCFF"> comes from </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF0000"><i>'<u>Amaruka</u>' </i></font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#00CCFF">or </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF0000"><i>'<u>Amerikua</u>'</i></font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#00CCFF">, and has absolutely nothing to do with </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF0000">Amerigo Vespucci</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#00CCFF"> (as US schools still teach). These words are ancient. The </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF0000">Amaru</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#00CCFF"> people in the </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF0000">Andes</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#00CCFF"> are part of the tradition, and there are others who know many of the old teachings and are living those traditions and cultures <i>now</i>. The words themselves hold keys to other terms, like </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF0000"><i>'Kumara'</i></font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#00CCFF">, </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF0000"><i>'Kurama'</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#00CCFF">, </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF0000">'Kumaris'</i></font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#00CCFF">.<br><br>
Some peoples of the </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF0000"><i>'Americas' </i></font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#00CCFF">have used the words </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF0000"><i>'Atlan'</i></font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#00CCFF"> and </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF0000"><i>'Atlantiha' </i></font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#00CCFF">for well over 2,000 years, pre-dating </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF0000">Plato</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#00CCFF">. It means the same as </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF0000"><i>'Atlantis'</i></font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#00CCFF">. So did the </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF0000">Greeks</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#00CCFF"> and </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF0000">Mayans</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#00CCFF"> have telephones?<br>
</font><font color="#FF00FF">>> your point being that Plato somehow picked it up from South Americans?<br><br>
</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#00CCFF">The ‘modern’ education system and consensus reality are constantly negating the truth about the knowledge and capability of ancient peoples. Not only is it the robbing of words but also of essential teachings for all the people.<br><br>
At least we who can understand these things can do something about it by using the true titles like </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF0000"><i>"United States of America"</i></font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#00CCFF">, </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF0000"><i>"USA"</i></font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#00CCFF">, </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF0000"><i>"Masonic/Illuminati-land",</i></font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#00CCFF"> </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF0000"><i>"land where the native peoples have been fighting terrorism for the last 400 years",</i></font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#00CCFF"> or similar (be inventive!).<br><br>
And the decent folk of the USA can join in and get inventive too!<br><br>
Bye!<br>
</b></font>Psi, Mexico.<br>
<font color="#FF00FF"><b>>> i take this all on board and, indeed, have often felt uncomfortable using the term </font><font color="#FF0000">America</font><font color="#FF00FF">. calling it </font><font color="#FF0000">Amerika</font><font color="#FF00FF"> is, hopefully, too short term and pessimistic a choice. calling it the </font><font color="#FF0000">USA</font><font color="#FF00FF"> is fairly easy and i hereby resolve never to make this insulting mistake again, but how do you refer to the inhabitants? </font><font color="#FF0000">Amurricans</font><font color="#FF00FF">? </font><font color="#FF0000">Yankees</font><font color="#FF00FF"> praps? what do u yankees prefer?<br>
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</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600">Every time I visit </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#993300">Morocco</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600"> I have the same geopolitical experience. I’m sitting under a palm tree in a country that’s </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#993300">conservatively tiptoeing</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600"> into the 20</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" size=1 color="#FF6600"><sup>th</sup></font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600"> century while the </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#993300">West</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600"> is a Huge Social Experiment over <i>there</i>, galloping out of control towards some future of which it has no idea whatsoever, nor Wisdom to try and <i>choose</i>. It’s an experiment with no guarantees and virtually no way for anyone within it to affect its ‘advance’. I include whatever conspiracy-elites that might be <i>imagining</i> they can!<br><br>
From a mountain top in the </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#993300">Atlas</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600">, or a roof in the Haj’s palace, the Western Charge looks precarious in the extreme, with at <i>best</i> a 50 50 chance of ‘succeeding’ whatever that means anyway, for, without Wisdom, nobody can ever agree. And if it <i>does</i> self-destruct (or so I have always thought though that may now have changed) </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#993300">Morocco</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600"> will have been proved <i>correct</i>, and will probably continue to slowly advance beyond its conservative culture into the Future that’s waiting for those who can get there.<br><br>
I don’t know enough about </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#993300">Mohamed</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600"> to know if it’s his fault or the </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#993300">Arab</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600">’s but new ideas and developments are not <i>valued</i> here. It immediately occurred to me, for example, that very few foreign visitors will hand over £50 to buy a </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#993300">jelaba</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600">, that cloak and hood that offers such anonymity?. How would they know they’d like it? Could they ever wear it back home? Well, I realised, <i>rent </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#993300">jelabas</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600"> by the day!</i> Most westerners I have told the idea would be <i>keen</i> to try a jelaba for a day, to wander around with the blessed anonymity you can never find here, to fade into the background so you can watch the whole scene without being noted or accosted. The ladies on the trip LOVED the idea, would even consider buying one and using it at home for that wonderful privacy! But tell it to a </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#993300">Moroccan</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600">?! I don’t even bother any more! They follow into the trade or craft of their fathers and are proud of that. They worry about </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#993300"><i>hygiene</i></font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600">, renting is a new concept to them and so on. <br><br>
Unquestionably it vastly slows down their moving into the future. But I’m definitely not prepared to announce they are wrong. Not yet. Sometimes it seems quite the opposite! The Timeless Zippy Answer, the only thread we can follow into the Awaiting State ahead, is, of course, </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#993300">Uniting the Wisdom of the East with the Knowledge of the West</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600">. It looks pretty clear from </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#993300">Africa</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600"> that, if the </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#993300">West</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600"> is rampaging into Knowledge/ Technology/ Development and jettisoning and undervaluing </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#993300">Wisdom</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600">, then the only horse with a <i>chance</i> of winning this race must be the </font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#993300">East</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#FF6600"> which is slowly, carefully and almost reluctantly letting the (dangerous?) Knowledge land among them.<br>
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<div align="center"><font face="Arial Narrow Special G1, Helvetica" size=5 color="#333399"><b><i>Discovery Of </font><font face="Arial Narrow Special G1, Helvetica" size=5 color="#800080">Heaviest Element </font><font face="Arial Narrow Special G1, Helvetica" size=5 color="#333399">Known To Science<br>
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<font face="Arial Narrow Special G1, Helvetica" color="#333399">A major research institution has announced the discovery of the heaviest element yet known to science - "</font><font face="Arial Narrow Special G1, Helvetica" size=4 color="#800080">governmentium</font><font face="Arial Narrow Special G1, Helvetica" color="#333399">." It has 1 neutron, 12 assistant </font><font face="Arial Narrow Special G1, Helvetica" size=4 color="#800080">neutrons</font><font face="Arial Narrow Special G1, Helvetica" color="#333399">, 75 deputy neutrons and 111 assistant deputy neutrons for an atomic mass of 312. These 312 particles are held together by forces called </font><font face="Arial Narrow Special G1, Helvetica" size=4 color="#800080">morons</font><font face="Arial Narrow Special G1, Helvetica" color="#333399"> that are further surrounded by vast quantities of lepton-like sub particles called </font><font face="Arial Narrow Special G1, Helvetica" size=4 color="#800080">peons</font><font face="Arial Narrow Special G1, Helvetica" color="#333399">.<br><br>
</font><font face="Arial Narrow Special G1, Helvetica" size=4 color="#800080">Governmentium</font><font face="Arial Narrow Special G1, Helvetica" color="#333399"> has no electrons and is therefore </font><font face="Arial Narrow Special G1, Helvetica" size=4 color="#800080">inert. </font><font face="Arial Narrow Special G1, Helvetica" color="#333399"> It can be detected however since it impedes every reaction it comes into contact with. A tiny amount of </font><font face="Arial Narrow Special G1, Helvetica" color="#800080">governmentium</font><font face="Arial Narrow Special G1, Helvetica" color="#333399"> can slow a reaction that normally occurs in seconds to where it takes days.<br><br>
</font><font face="Arial Narrow Special G1, Helvetica" color="#800080">Governmentium</font><font face="Arial Narrow Special G1, Helvetica" color="#333399"> has a normal half life of 3 years. It doesn't decay but "</font><font face="Arial Narrow Special G1, Helvetica" color="#800080">re-organises</font><font face="Arial Narrow Special G1, Helvetica" color="#333399">", a process where assistant deputy neutrons and deputy neutrons change places. This process actually causes it to grow as in the confusion some </font><font face="Arial Narrow Special G1, Helvetica" color="#800080">morons</font><font face="Arial Narrow Special G1, Helvetica" color="#333399"> become </font><font face="Arial Narrow Special G1, Helvetica" color="#800080">neutrons</font><font face="Arial Narrow Special G1, Helvetica" color="#333399">, thereby forming </font><font face="Arial Narrow Special G1, Helvetica" size=4 color="#800080">isodopes</font><font face="Arial Narrow Special G1, Helvetica" color="#333399">. This phenomenon of "</font><font face="Arial Narrow Special G1, Helvetica" size=4 color="#800080">moron promotion</font><font face="Arial Narrow Special G1, Helvetica" color="#333399">" has led to some speculation that </font><font face="Arial Narrow Special G1, Helvetica" color="#800080">governmentium</font><font face="Arial Narrow Special G1, Helvetica" color="#333399"> forms whenever sufficient morons meet in concentration forming critical </font><font face="Arial Narrow Special G1, Helvetica" size=4 color="#800080">morass.</font><font face="Arial Narrow Special G1, Helvetica" color="#333399"> <br><br>
Researchers believe that in </font><font face="Arial Narrow Special G1, Helvetica" color="#800080">Governmentium</font><font face="Arial Narrow Special G1, Helvetica" color="#333399">, the more you re-organise, the morass you cover.<br>
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</font><div align="center"><font size=4 color="#FF6600"><b><i>'Thirst For Knowledge'</i></font><font size=4 color="#0000FF"> May Be </font><font size=4 color="#FF6600">Opium</font><font size=4 color="#0000FF"> Craving<br>
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<font color="#FF00FF">>> yeah, right. or people take opium to stimulate and eventually as a substitute for Truth Seeking.<br>
</font><font color="#0000FF">Neuroscientists have proposed a simple explanation for the pleasure of grasping a new concept: The brain is getting its fix. The "</font><font color="#FF6600">click</font><font color="#0000FF">" of comprehension triggers</font><font color="#FF6600"> a biochemical cascade </font><font color="#0000FF">that rewards the brain with a shot of natural opium-like substances, said Irving Biederman of the University of Southern California.<br>
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</font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" size=4 color="#800080">Please re-subscribe me.<br>
</font><font color="#FF00FF"><b>>> gladly. were u on the road? couldn't stand the coloured text?imagined anti semitism? :)<br><br>
</b></font><font face="Arial Black, Helvetica" color="#800080">thank you so much for hooking me back up. the coloured text IS kindawild, but more people need to emulate it; recognising the criminality ofIsrael isn't ant-semitism; and yeah, i kinda WAS on the road.<br>
glad you're still putting it out.<br>
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