Weed Atman's spirit

[Lawrence Bryan]

On Mar 23, 2009, at 4:45 AM, Michael Bailey wrote:

> Joseph Tracy wrote:
>> I may not get a post up on CH 13 until Sunday,  a day late and a  
>> dollar
>> shot.
>>
>> I want to look back first at Weed Atman because i think he is a  
>> hinge that
>> is very  carefully chosen
>
> I've had that thought; thanks for putting substance into the notion!
>
> atmen is also a German verb meaning "to breathe"
> which goes along with "conspiracy" which is literally "breathing


Atman goes further back to Sanscrit.  That's well before Neocrit or  
Pomocrit.

Atman:

The Self, or Soul; denotes also the Supreme Soul, which, according to  
Non-dualistic Vedanta, is one with the individual soul.


Lawrence


>
> together", right?
>
> (when They come after the pranayama classes, we're really in trouble)
>
> The thing that I want to stress, is that
> a) 24fps goes around turning the camera on the establishment to show
> how fucked up it is
> b) when, as at College of the Surf, it turns that searching light upon
> the workings of what may be presumed to be an emerging counterculture,
> it discovers how fucked up that thing is too...
> Weed falling into the leadership role as insouciantly as an "innocent"
> in a Hitchcock film stumbles on a plot but lacks the resourcefulness
> to climb up Mount Rushmore and the helicopter mows him down while
> running across that wheatfield (that makes Rex the helicopter, I
> guess)
>
> -- 
> - "Be groovy or B movie" - the old 24fps signoff
>

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