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• Thu, 13:12: Pt 38: The Great Reveal Continues – 16th Prasad – The Rich Begin Calling the Tune, 25,000 B.C. (Apocalypse Emergency) http://bit.ly/AE-16
• Thu, 13:34: Khaki Mustafa feat. S.E.P. – “FREEDOM” (OFFICIAL VIDEO) http://bit.ly/kRcrdS Never thot I’d love rap. Wow. got chills, tears. ty, Khaki!
• Thu, 13:41: RT @ronaldjackson: EPA Asks NJ to Reconsider Leaving Emissions Pact—GOP Governor Wants Freedom To Choke You & Your Children With Polluti …
• Thu, 15:34: RT @SimoneAsh: When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace. Jimi Hendrix
• Thu, 15:34: RT @maryamalkhawaja: Picture being broadcasted now as there seems to be a campaign to go back to the Pearl square on June 1st http://twi …
• Thu, 15:36: RT @kbucketusa: The very word “secrecy” is repugnant in a free and open society – JFK – and yet government officials have forgotten this …
• Thu, 15:38: RT @kbucketusa: #rightwing blogs critique on #obama is mostly juvenile – http://dld.bz/WfZn
• Thu, 15:38: RT @all_a_twitt_r: Think Progress: Bowing To Koch Pressure, Chris Christie Announces Plan To Withdraw From Successful Climate… http:// …
• Thu, 15:39: RT @NickG136: @WinyanStaz We will now never see the end of the Police State or get our freedoms back. Treason/ Oh yes we will
• Thu, 15:39: RT @bobdobolina: 9/16/2009: @timpawlenty halts funding for ACORN, even though ACORN received no state funds: http://goo.gl/8wjAx

• Thu, 15:42: who wud ever want 2 believe that the formative events of great nations…or the calamitous, genocidal events of http://bit.ly/CW-dg #poetweet
• Thu, 15:43: calamitous, genocidal events of other nations, cud b instigated by a rash action from a small group of idiotic http://bit.ly/CW-dg #poetweet
• Thu, 15:43: cud b instigated by a rash action from a small group of idiotic old men in a full-on state of intoxication? http://bit.ly/CW-dg #poetweet
• Thu, 15:43: WWII Generation, Driving—Wars&Culture—“Under the Influence” http://bit.ly/CW-dg #poetweet #classwar #fascism #gop #culturewar #wiunion
• Thu, 15:45: The WWII Generation grew up in a time in which alcohol use was considered fashionable&elegant http://bit.ly/CW-dg #poetweet #classwar #gop
• Thu, 15:46: It was common&acceptable 4 men 2 carry in thr shirt or coat pockets flasks of potent whiskey or other hard http://bit.ly/CW-dg #poetweet
• Thu, 15:46: potent whiskey or other hard liquor, from which they cud publicly imbibe a swallow here&there thruout the day http://bit.ly/CW-dg #poetweet
• Thu, 15:47: When the WWII Generation came of age, cigarette smoking also became fashionable http://bit.ly/CW-dg #poetweet #classwar #fascism #gop
• Thu, 15:48: We can see evidence of both of these (alcohol&cig use) in the movies that were produced in the 30s, 40s, & 50s http://bit.ly/CW-dg #poetweet
• Thu, 15:48: Any unpleasant occurrence or announcement cud b followed by “I need a drink” or “Sounds like you cud use a…” http://bit.ly/CW-dg #poetweet

• Thu, 15:49: “use a drink”&offering a drink of hard liquor was considered the 1st rite in the normal ritual of hospitality http://bit.ly/CW-dg #poetweet
• Thu, 15:51: offring some1 cigarette &/or offring 2light another’s cigarette were considerd normal part of genteel behavior http://bit.ly/CW-dg #poetweet
• Thu, 15:51: Elegant accouterments accompanied these rituals as well. http://bit.ly/CW-dg #poetweet #classwar #fascism #gop #culturewar #wiunion
• Thu, 15:52: Ornate, elegant,&often finely crafted metal flasks were purchased&used http://bit.ly/CW-dg #poetweet #classwar #fascism #gop #culturewar
• Thu, 15:52: In the same way, elegant crystal&glass containers 4 holding the liquors as well as elaborate&ritually designed http://bit.ly/CW-dg #poetweet
• Thu, 15:53: ritually designd glasses in2 which alcoholic beverages were poured were commonly owned&used in genteel culture http://bit.ly/CW-dg #poetweet
• Thu, 15:54: It was considered fashionable 2 have a “bar” area in one’s living room containing these liquors http://bit.ly/CW-dg #poetweet #classwar
• Thu, 15:54: in one’s living room containing these liquors, each in separate crystal containers,&the glasses 4 serving thm http://bit.ly/CW-dg #poetweet
• Thu, 15:55: Many a conversation in the movies of the era were shown 2b conducted at or near these home bars, following http://bit.ly/CW-dg #poetweet
• Thu, 15:56: conducted at or near these home bars following upon the alcoholic bonding ritual of pouring&imbibing the drink http://bit.ly/CW-dg #poetweet

• Thu, 15:57: This ritual conversational imbibing of a beverage has its analogies in the water-cooler, coffee klatch,&coffee http://bit.ly/CW-dg #poetweet
• Thu, 15:58: has its analogies in the water-cooler, coffee klatch,&coffee/espresso-house rituals of other eras&subcultures http://bit.ly/CW-dg #poetweet
• Thu, 15:58: Pointing out the normality&ritualizing of alcohol use in this era is important b/c it is an indication of the http://bit.ly/CW-dg #poetweet
• Thu, 15:59: pervasiveness, at any time of day, of the state of consciousness—ie, intoxication—this potent drug produces http://bit.ly/CW-dg #poetweet
• Thu, 16:00: Since this cultural behavior is still somewhat w/us so that its anomalous quality may not b readily apparent http://bit.ly/CW-dg #poetweet
• Thu, 16:01: it may b helpful 2 keep in mind that current drunken driving laws of nearly all states wud apply 2 everyone of http://bit.ly/CW-dg #poetweet
• Thu, 16:01: all states wud apply 2 everyone of that era involving thmselves in only a modicum of that alcoholic ritual http://bit.ly/CW-dg #poetweet
• Thu, 16:03: ie, those folks, of that era, imbibing only one drink, wud b considered “drunk” by r standards today,& http://bit.ly/CW-dg #poetweet
• Thu, 16:03: &sufficiently into an altered state of consciousness as 2 warrant thr receiving severe criminal penalties http://bit.ly/CW-dg #poetweet
• Thu, 16:04: including jail time, shud they put thmselves into the driver’s seat of a car Yet in that era, normal cultural http://bit.ly/CW-dg #poetweet

• Thu, 16:05: in that era, normal cultural, business,&social intercourse was often conducted in such a state [intoxication] http://bit.ly/CW-dg #poetweet
• Thu, 16:05: Heady decisions concerning war, peace,&everything else were influenced by this culturally accepted drug use http://bit.ly/CW-dg #poetweet
• Thu, 16:06: WWII, thrfore, was conducted&fought by a generation who grew up 2 believe that alcohol&cigarettes (nicotine) http://bit.ly/CW-dg #poetweet
• Thu, 16:07: alcohol&cigarettes (nicotine) were an acceptable answer 2unpleasantness—whether inside or outside of thmselves http://bit.ly/CW-dg #poetweet
• Thu, 16:08: Alongside this&supporting it were attitude&beliefs that negative—ie, unpleasant—emotions&feelings were harmful http://bit.ly/CW-dg #poetweet
• Thu, 16:09: beliefs that negative—ie unpleasant—emotions&feelngs were harmful&shud b kept out of consciousness Thus denial http://bit.ly/CW-dg #poetweet
• Thu, 16:10: Thus, denial was the predominant defense in use;&it is no coincidence that “positive thinking” (popularized http://bit.ly/CW-dg #poetweet
• Thu, 16:11: “positive thinking” (popularized by the late Norman Vincent Peale), which is the keeping out of negative thots http://bit.ly/CW-dg #poetweet
• Thu, 16:12: &the striving 2 focus always on positive ones, became such a rage near the end of thr era—the 50s early 60s http://bit.ly/CW-dg #poetweet
• Thu, 16:13: Drug Effects—Marijuana. Initially–The effects of marijuana r more diverse than those of alcohol&nicotine http://bit.ly/CW-dg #poetweet

• Thu, 16:17: RT @WisdomalaCarte: The true word of God is written in our heart. – KRS-One
• Thu, 18:11: RT @xcalicoco: Their mythology also includes vague notions of #Rapture, of white knuckled urgency they use to push idiocies like Voodoo …
• Thu, 18:11: RT @OvertDictionary: Art: artists are meant to inspire change, to see change, but now all they do is try to find an elite market for the …
• Thu, 18:12: RT @JerryMander: Today’s republican party, meaner than your average Borg
• Thu, 18:33: Righties think government should be like their God… ruthless, punishing, and unforgiving.
• Thu, 18:34: The effects of marijuana r more diverse than those of alcohol&nicotine http://bit.ly/CW-dg #poetweet #classwar #fascism #gop #culturewar
• Thu, 18:34: Yet thr r a # of things that can b said about marijuana’s effects in general http://bit.ly/CW-dg #poetweet #classwar #fascism #gop
• Thu, 18:35: The effects of marijuana r more subtle than the two drugs mentioned thus far–alcohol&nicotine http://bit.ly/CW-dg #poetweet #classwar
• Thu, 18:36: In fact, thr r some ppl who cannot feel the effects of marijuana;&very often it takes several times of using http://bit.ly/CW-dg #poetweet
• Thu, 18:36: very often it takes several times of using it before one begins 2 realize marijuana’s effects http://bit.ly/CW-dg #poetweet #classwar

• Thu, 18:37: Yet marijuana is not an ineffectual or weak drug by any means http://bit.ly/CW-dg #poetweet #classwar #fascism #gop #culturewar #wiunion
• Thu, 18:38: The reasons y some ppl cannot feel marijuana’s effects appear 2b related 2 thr having very defended http://bit.ly/CW-dg #poetweet #classwar
• Thu, 18:38: related 2 thr having very defended personality types, or, one might say they have a great deal of repression http://bit.ly/CW-dg #poetweet
• Thu, 18:39: The reason this wud affect thr ability 2 feel the drug’s effects r easy 2 understand when we consider the fact http://bit.ly/CW-dg #poetweet
• Thu, 18:39: the fact that repression of feelings of trauma wud include repression of the ability 2 feel things in general http://bit.ly/CW-dg #poetweet
• Thu, 18:40: A repressed person is a more neurotic more defended person&more defended persons r basically defending against http://bit.ly/CW-dg #poetweet
• Thu, 18:40: more defended persons r basically defending against painful feelings http://bit.ly/CW-dg #poetweet #classwar #fascism #gop #culturewar
• Thu, 18:41: But feelings cannot b separated&2 repress feelings of Pain means also 2 repress the ability 2b sensitive 2 http://bit.ly/CW-dg #poetweet
• Thu, 18:42: feelings can’t b separated&2 repress feelings of Pain means 2repress the ability 2b sensitive 2 other feelings http://bit.ly/CW-dg #poetweet
• Thu, 18:42: Hence highly defended or repressed persons can smoke a great deal of marijuana&yet not “get off” http://bit.ly/CW-dg #poetweet #classwar

• Thu, 18:43: repressed..can smoke a great deal of marijuana&yet not “get off” or they may just feel feelings of relaxation http://bit.ly/CW-dg #poetweet
• Thu, 18:44: Janov has said that marijuana acts 2 kind of “bend” defenses, which allows repressed feelings 2 surface http://bit.ly/CW-dg #poetweet
• Thu, 18:44: feelings 2 surface, 4 those who r not in the category described above, which wud include the majority of ppl http://bit.ly/CW-dg #poetweet
• Thu, 18:45: Since we all have some degree of primal pain, we all have defenses 2 being fully feeling, http://bit.ly/CW-dg #poetweet #classwar #fascism
• Thu, 18:45: so the effect of marijuana 4 the majority of ppl is 2 open thm 2 some of the pleasurable feelings that have http://bit.ly/CW-dg #poetweet
• Thu, 18:46: is 2 open thm 2 some of the pleasurable feelings that have gotten repressed along w/the repression of Pain http://bit.ly/CW-dg #poetweet
• Thu, 18:47: thrfore some widely noted effects of marijuana concern its enhancing sensory ability & thr4 pleasure http://bit.ly/CW-dg #poetweet #classwar
• Thu, 18:47: Listening 2 music, being in Nature, watching a movie, or sex can all b quite enhanced&different while http://bit.ly/CW-dg #poetweet
• Thu, 18:48: watching a movie, or sex can all b quite enhanced&different while experienced under the influence of marijuana http://bit.ly/CW-dg #poetweet
• Thu, 18:48: Aspects of these experiences that were always thr but were never noticed can b explored http://bit.ly/CW-dg #poetweet #classwar #fascism

• Thu, 18:49: One can seem 2b experiencing something on many levels at once, or 2b fully immersed in the experience so that http://bit.ly/CW-dg #poetweet
• Thu, 18:52: so that aspects of it that formerly seemed more “walled off” from 1 can seem almost tangible in one’s ability http://bit.ly/CW-dg #poetweet
• Thu, 18:52: seem almost tangible in 1′s ability 2experience it; 1 can become so immersed in experience that complexities http://bit.ly/CW-dg #poetweet
• Thu, 18:53: so immersed in experience that complexities of it can b taken in&enjoyed, which one never even noticed before http://bit.ly/CW-dg #poetweet
• Thu, 18:54: Part of the reason 4 this type of effect of “pot” is that it lowers blood sugar&thus causes the normal http://bit.ly/CW-dg #poetweet
• Thu, 18:54: pot lowers blood sugar&thus causes the normal cortical defenses 2b less effective in blocking out experience http://bit.ly/CW-dg #poetweet
• Thu, 18:55: Related 2 this is a feeling of timelessness—a feeling of being in the Now—which can also b related 2 the http://bit.ly/CW-dg #poetweet
• Thu, 18:55: Now—which can also b related 2 the diminished cortical functioning which is goal-oriented&related 2linear time http://bit.ly/CW-dg #poetweet
• Thu, 18:56: Which brings up another effect: It reduces one’s feelings of needs 2achieve or 2b goal or achievement-oriented http://bit.ly/CW-dg #poetweet
• Thu, 18:56: The sensory world is what is initially enhanced in the course of one’s experience w/this drug http://bit.ly/CW-dg #poetweet #classwar

• Thu, 18:57: ;&the experience of the sensory world in its own right does not engage more complex, more “inward,”&more http://bit.ly/CW-dg #poetweet
• Thu, 18:57: complex, more “inward,”&more individually unique goals, feelings, scripts, dramas, scenarios, or motivationshttp://bit.ly/CW-dg #poetweet
• Thu, 18:58: Marijuana Effects, Eventually–Robert Masters&Jean Houston in thr book The Varieties of Psychedelic Experience http://bit.ly/CW-dg #poetweet
• Thu, 18:59: Masters&Houston provided an architecture of the psyche, derived from thr study of the effects of LSD that is http://bit.ly/CW-dg #poetweet
• Thu, 19:00: an architecture of psyche] useful in understanding what can happen eventually w/continued use of marijuana http://bit.ly/CW-dg #poetweet
• Thu, 19:01: They conducted “depth soundings” of the LSD experience&discovered that thr were 4 levels of the experience: http://bit.ly/CW-dg #poetweet
• Thu, 19:01: thr were four levels of the experience: thesensory, the recollective-analytic, the symbolic,&the integral http://bit.ly/CW-dg #poetweet
• Thu, 19:02: While marijuana is not as powerful in its effects as LSD, it has a similar effect on consciousness http://bit.ly/CW-dg #poetweet #classwar
• Thu, 19:02: marijuana has] similar effect on consciousness; one might say it acts in the same direction as LSD http://bit.ly/CW-dg #poetweet #classwar
• Thu, 19:03: In contrast 2 drugs like alcohol&nicotine, which serve 2 aid repression&2 help 2 numb or reduce one’s http://bit.ly/CW-dg #poetweet

• Thu, 19:04: reduce 1′s perception of both inner&outer reality, both marijuana&LSD have the effect of opening or enhancing http://bit.ly/CW-dg #poetweet
• Thu, 19:04: both marijuana&LSD have the effect of opening or enhancing one’s awareness of inner&outer reality http://bit.ly/CW-dg #poetweet #classwar
• Thu, 19:05: Howevr the effects of marijuana r complex b/c they dont as consistently open one 2 inner realities as does LSD http://bit.ly/CW-dg #poetweet
• Thu, 19:05: Pot opens or enhances one’s experience of the sensory world initially,&as long as it does just this it can b http://bit.ly/CW-dg #poetweet
• Thu, 19:06: does just this it can b used as a drug of avoidance of painful (inner) reality just like alcohol&nicotine do http://bit.ly/CW-dg #poetweet
• Thu, 19:07: That is, one w/sufficient repression&defenses can use marijuana 2 flee from inner pain, depression, or whatevr http://bit.ly/CW-dg #poetweet
• Thu, 19:07: pain, depression, or whatever, into an enhanced, pleasurable sensory world that does not trigger one’s pain http://bit.ly/CW-dg #poetweet
• Thu, 19:08: At this stage, only, pot can b used 2 defend against pain&can b psychologically addictive in providing a http://bit.ly/CW-dg #poetweet
• Thu, 19:10: only, pot can b used 2 defend against pain&can b psychologically addictive in providing a palliative 2 pain http://bit.ly/CW-dg #poetweet
• Thu, 19:10: Once again, pot can do this b/c it serves only 2 “bend” not 2 bust one’s defenses against one’s pain

• Thu, 19:13: Once again, it can do this b/c marijuana serves only 2 “bend” not 2 bust one’s defenses against one’s pain http://bit.ly/CW-dg #poetweet
• Thu, 19:14: Yet 4 some ppl this effect of marijuana changes w/continued drug use http://bit.ly/CW-dg #poetweet #classwar #fascism #gop #culturewar
• Thu, 19:14: It is as if the continued “bending” of defenses can eventually lead 2 a “loosening” of thm,&w/that loosening http://bit.ly/CW-dg #poetweet
• Thu, 19:15: w/loosening comes the deeper level of experience described by Masters&Houston&termed the recollective-analytic http://bit.ly/CW-dg #poetweet
• Thu, 19:16: At this level, enhanced sensory experience opens the door, so 2 speak, 2 enhanced inner awareness http://bit.ly/CW-dg #poetweet #classwar
• Thu, 19:16: This enhanced inner awareness can include the awareness of the underlying motivations of oneself&others,&this http://bit.ly/CW-dg #poetweet
• Thu, 19:16: awareness can include the awareness of the underlying motivations of oneself&others,&this is mostly not pretty http://bit.ly/CW-dg #poetweet
• Thu, 19:17: B/c the normal person is motivated mostly by past, or primal, pains or traumas&is acting out scripts or roles http://bit.ly/CW-dg #poetweet
• Thu, 19:18: acting out] roles that r pathetic attempts 2 re-create or struggle w/events that happened a long time ago, the http://bit.ly/CW-dg #poetweet
• Thu, 19:18: 2 re-create or struggle w/events that happened a long time ago, the normal person is not really IN the present http://bit.ly/CW-dg #poetweet

• Thu, 19:19: The person is, as the great religions have described it, in ignorance in samsara in dukha &is basically unreal http://bit.ly/CW-dg #poetweet
• Thu, 19:19: The person, as humanistic psychologists have described, is inauthentic&is acting out games or scripts, http://bit.ly/CW-dg #poetweet
• Thu, 19:20: The person is inauthentic&is acting out games or scripts, which they r totally unconscious of http://bit.ly/CW-dg #poetweet #classwar
• Thu, 19:20: They have identified w/these scripts, roles, goals,&motivations—the outgrowth of a completely unique set of http://bit.ly/CW-dg #poetweet
• Thu, 19:21: set of past experiences of pain&trauma—and haven’t a clue as 2 thr arbitrary character, let alone of the fact http://bit.ly/CW-dg #poetweet
• Thu, 19:21: fact that other ppl r similarly acting out thr own unique roles which r just as arbitrary &,actually, pathetic http://bit.ly/CW-dg #poetweet
• Thu, 19:22: However, pot, just like LSD, can eventually (sometimes even initially 4 persons who are, perhaps b/c they r http://bit.ly/CW-dg #poetweet
• Thu, 19:22: perhaps b/c they r young, or whatever, r unusually undefended, more sensitive,&more open 2 actual reality) http://bit.ly/CW-dg #poetweet
• Thu, 19:23: pot can ult] open one 2 the horrifying perception of the inauthentic&unreal nature of ordinary social behavior http://bit.ly/CW-dg #poetweet
• Thu, 19:24: In this state of heightened awareness of the inner world of oneself&others, one perceives oneself&others as http://bit.ly/CW-dg #poetweet

• Thu, 19:24: perceives oneself&others as puppets or windup dolls, pathetically seeking 2 satisfy very old needs, which r http://bit.ly/CW-dg #poetweet
• Thu, 19:25: very old needs, which r totally irrelevant 2 the present context, w/others who r similarly&robotlike also http://bit.ly/CW-dg #poetweet
• Thu, 19:26: 2satisfy old needs] w/others who r similarly&robotlike also seeking 2satisfy very different past deprivations http://bit.ly/CW-dg #poetweet
• Thu, 19:27: In common parlance, it is said that most actions of ppl r just “games” http://bit.ly/CW-dg #poetweet #classwar #fascism #gop #culturewar
• Thu, 19:27: So, part of the horrifying nature of this perception, on the recollective-analytic level of awareness, is that http://bit.ly/CW-dg #poetweet
• Thu, 19:28: is that indeed ppl r not truly relating 2 each other at all, that they r like ppl trapped in spacesuits trying http://bit.ly/CW-dg #poetweet
• Thu, 19:28: they r like ppl trapped in spacesuits trying 2communicate w/each other thru the layers of barriers between thm http://bit.ly/CW-dg #poetweet
• Thu, 19:29: What follows from this perception is the conclusion that ppl r basically phony or plastic; that life is unreal http://bit.ly/CW-dg #poetweet
• Thu, 19:30: that life is unreal; that normal motivations in pursuit of normal social values such as achievement, status, http://bit.ly/CW-dg #poetweet
• Thu, 19:30: status/popularity,&pleasing appearance r meaningless rituals—games—that r totally irrelevant 2 the true nature http://bit.ly/CW-dg #poetweet

• Thu, 19:31: totally irrelevant 2the true nature of one’s being or reality;&that 1 is trapped in this prison of unconscious http://bit.ly/CW-dg #poetweet
• Thu, 19:32: one is trapped in this prison of unconscious scripts, w/no chance of release or true perception of reality http://bit.ly/CW-dg #poetweet
• Thu, 19:32: The “Beats” – “Phoney Baloney,” So, “YOU do it!” http://bit.ly/CW-dg #poetweet #classwar #fascism #gop #culturewar #wiunion
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