friday night at the movies

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If you have studied up on the actual news from the Middle East tonight, why not kick back now with some old Sean and Tippi action for a spell? Spot the conditioning and the hints about the real. Use your leisure time contemplating the deeper aspects of entertainment. Maybe I am weird... well... certainly I am weird, but I never could relax without my mind engaged, my consciousness engaged. I have always used crossword puzzles and solitaire and seriously engaging literature to relax, loving to feel my synapses syncing with the patterns. Sometimes I read aloud and listen to the thought voice reading inside with the mouth voice on the outside... and catching what I think while my thinking and my mouth are both reading.

Did you even know you could do that? You can. What does that tell you about your thinking? It should be screaming something important to you. Don't let your thoughts form opinions of what you're reading. Make them read with you. Keep all six senses busy with a book, not letting the thought one stray from the text, and see what you end up understanding that way. Just like listening to people without opining inside on their beliefs or their politics of lifestyle, just hearing them completely, you find yourself understanding so much more. Well, you can watch movies the same way. You can train yourself to get out of your mental cell and out into wide open understanding, EVEN while being entertained. So instead of just taking it in like a big lump of sponge, a spectator losing yourself and letting it stamp you without even asking, look for all the messages coming in behind the action and the plot. Even if yer old you can train your brain to open up and see what's going on around you.

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love, 99
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