Listening to : APC - Magdalena
"It's the human creative response. You want to create in response to destruction. It's just a natural thing, a response to the horror. Psychotherapists know that when you have monstrous feelings it's best to express them through creative endeavors -- making a painting, a drawing, a musical work, a dance, a theatrical production, or writing in a journal. It's a way to creatively vent the negative powers that can eat away at us.
This is the healing function of art and creative therapies. Even though we may not imagine ourselves becoming Olympic athletes, it doesn't mean we shouldn't exercise. Likewise, even if we're not going to be Picasso, it doesn't mean we shouldn't express ourselves creatively. In fact, it's an important function of the mind and body to integrate feelings. Using art to describe visionary and psychedelic insights has profound and important implication. Grof recognized this early on, and various psychotherapists who have dealt with traumatized patients. When you go through a psychedelic experience, it may not necessarily be traumatic, but ontologically it can be apocalyptic. Just as when a loved one dies, a child is born, or one falls in love - life-altering, identity-shifting experiences, like a first trip, calls for a complete rewiring of their philosophical circuitry. Psychedelics are on par with the most profound experiences human beings go through. The creative response is called for, and in my case this is what I do naturally." - Alex Grey during an interview with Trip Magazine [2002]
summer school started at HOPE today... i teach the kids karate once a week (saturdays)..... that girl i met at le mall... shes there as a volunteer... she came along with gina... and her names not whatever i wrote before... its shuroogh.... yeah and she wasnt all covered up and stuff today... frankly speaking the girl is kinda nice... not like most of the shallow butt-munches you find around here... for example: dinesh (ill get to him later).... anyway... it was kinda good... the kids didnt think i was an asshole and this little one named Hadeela kept asking me to teach her more... real sweet...
aj took us out on a treat at pizza hut a few days back cos i tutored her for her comp. sci. exam.... she invited her f(r)iend dennis to come too... he was scared to come over since g-kutty unc was there... what a loser... g-kutty unc was fun... we laughed so much none of us could eat a lot... later on after g-kutty unc left this guy walks upto us and says hi and says some crap about me being the leader of the group... WHAT THE FUCK?!!!... this aint some stupid lame-assed IISJ wannabe club... akhil said it best "i so dont like that guy!"... heh heh heh... hes got g-kutty unc's sense of humor...
i watched al pacino's "scent of a woman" a few days back... tres magnifique... a truly great movie... i cant believe i hadnt watched it before.... im planning on doing and epic seven part poem on the deadly sins... its a nice project to take up but i aint in the mood right now... but i promise ill start it soon....
SHOUT OUTS TO NEETU!...MANY HAPPY RETURNS OF THE DAY!!!!
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