will your meditation technique work with an idyll?

Post #303,107 by rcareaga 1/26/09 9:04:21 PM Reply	will your meditation technique work with an idyll? There must come a point at which car crashes, explosions, space battles, gunplay and swordsmanship sate the sensibility. If your technique works as you describe it, let me suggest the waterhole sequence in Walkabout. It begins not quite 58 minutes into the Criterion DVD, and features a nekkid 17 year-old Jenny Agutter (and about as fine a specimen of nekkid 17 year-old Jenny Agutter as you'll ever see, I might add) splashing about in a rocky pool somewhere in the arse-end of Australian nowhere. Before the scene's three minutes have run you also see a young abo doing some very credible lizard-fu and kangaroo-fu (there's your violence, if you must have it), but the director will keep cutting back to lithe, lovely Jenny A gliding through the coppery water, with a string section bearing John Barry's creamy score along. "Experience" the scene? Provided your meditation delivers what you describe, you will emerge with a keener understanding of the Houseman verse that concludes the film: Into my heart and air that kills from yon far country blows. What are those blue remembered hills, what spires, what farms are those? That is the land of lost content: I see it shining plain! The happy highways where I went and cannot come again. cordially,
Post #303,116 by crazy 1/26/09 10:23:27 PM Reply	Too long I can only achieve this state for about 5 minutes, at least at this point. I did discuss that type of scene, though, a few minutes ago. There are a couple of calm, spacy scenes in the Animatrix that I'll queue up.
Post #303,120 by rcareaga 1/26/09 10:47:28 PM Reply	what part of "three minutes" was unclear?
Post #303,136 by crazy 1/27/09 11:55:20 AM Reply	All of it, obviously Thanks
Post #303,125 by Ashton 1/27/09 4:10:16 AM Reply	Certainly works with mine.. Also once transcribed that bitterest-of-sweet epitaphs, delivered with such aching musicality. (But we had also to have eyes rubbed in what 'civil'ization had wreaked; the tiny apartment kitchen, the cigarette in ashtray, the suited-narcissist consort / the raw liver! unappetizingly slopped into some bowl.) Oh Cruel Director. Ah Jenny, Jenny -- Quo Vadis, lass? Yes, time to revisit that nubile vision. _________________________________________________________________ FIRST POST! via Safari (+ modem-ugh) ... hours after arrival of iMac One Possessed of a screen that shall do justice to a replay of it all. But this bitchin techno pales against any recap of the above.
Post #303,127 by Meerkat 1/27/09 6:44:02 AM Reply	Polite note.. Just in case you happen to pop in to Australia one day (and please, do!), wanted to let you know that 'abo' is a really offensive term, up there with the "n-word" as I believe they call it in your part of the world. And to my shame I still haven't seen Walkabout in its entirety! They said I was gullible ... and I believed them

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