Walton Ford, ‘Sensations of an Infant Heart’ 1999 (detail)
“When John James Audubon was a young boy, his stepmother’s pet monkey strangled Audobon’s favorite pet parrot. The monkey was kept chained after the incident. Later Audubon would write that the “sensations of my infant heart at this cruel sight were agony to me” and that the painful memory may have been one of the reasons he painted birds.”
In all respects monkeykind is our closest kin in nature.
“Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds” is a history of popular folly by Scottish journalist Charles Mackay, first published in 1841. The book chronicles its subjects in three parts: “National Delusions”, “Peculiar Follies”, and “Philosophical Delusions”.
The subjects of Mackay’s debunking include economic bubbles, alchemy, crusades, witch-hunts, prophecies, fortune-telling, magnetisers (influence of imagination in curing desease), shape of hair and beard (influence of politics and religion on), murder through poisoning, haunted houses, popular follies of great cities, popular admiration of great thieves, duels, and relics. Present day writers on economics, such as Andrew Tobias and Michael Lewis, laud the three chapters on economic bubbles.
Iaido - 13 Katas.
While many are no longer fans of form, his delivery, spirit and smoothness is inspirational.
[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]
James Pants - Thin Moon
“We asked James what this record about. He answered, ‘One song is about making the moon disappear with your thoughts. The other side is about how I have to break up with my girlfriend cause she got an ID Chip implanted in her hand aka ‘The Mark of the Beast.’”
You know you’re a douche when you can afford to use your $10,900 lens mounted on a $7,700 body to shoot photos like this (Leica M9 + 50mm Noctilux).
Black Belt Magazine Cover Aug. 88
Michael Echanis: America's First Ninja
His death & initiation to Hwarang Do
Betrayal & training SF at Fort Bragg
Ki Powers and his Censored Books
Soldier of Fortune and Echanis' motives
Conspiracy in his death?
Michael Echanis was a martial artist, mercenary, remote influencer, and some say, psychotic. Without a doubt, a shadowy character who may have either been politically assassinated while training death squads in Nicaragua or killed by misadventure when letting a jeep run over him! Nevertheless, stories about the United State’s first “Super Soldier” will continue to grow. The article above on his life is a high quality scan not available anywhere else.
For information on his Remote Influencing (stopping the heart of a goat) see this post on Rigorous Intuition. With so much disinformation about this man, I cannot say with certainty whether he was or wasn’t involved with Project Jedi, Project Stargate or the First Earth Battalion.
Related Links:
-The only available copy of Major Ed Dames’ Black Belt interview on Remote Viewing.
- Dames and Echanis both mentioned together in this Huffington Post clip on remote viewing and influencing. (Though it is still not clear whether they knew each other.)
‘Painfully Honest and Epic Mobile Home Commercial’
See also: Modest Mouse - Trailer Trash
