Monica Gagliano says that she has received Yoda-like advice from trees and shrubbery. She recalls being rocked like a baby by the spirit of a fern. She has ridden on the back of an invisible bear conjured by an osha root. She once accidentally bent space and time while playing the ocarina.
Paranormal insanity.
“But I AM Napoleon! I tell you I am!” These loons are the West’s Lysenkoists; “WE must __________ (fill in the blanks; anything we feel we want (and therefore NEED) at the moment, however unrealistic and unworkable)… And YOU must ________ (fill in the blanks; usually, “pay for it all”)”
No thank you, money is made from trees and trees are living conscious things.
I recommend we pay her salary in the only currency suitable: the outgassing of straight white men after a night of beer drinking and wing eating.
Without reading the article we know what we have here is another new age account of a drug induced fever. A disembodied Nimcompoop.
She has been indulging in Trudeau’s favorite shrubbery.
Sophie?
No need for a background check with this one.
Very funny the loons~~
So she once bent space and time, eh? I guess Prinz Dummkopf was right when he told us that we need to thing differently about such things. Aren’t we a fortunate country to have a leader who possesses such wisdom and insight?
Reading about Dr. Gagliano makes me glad I never got a faculty position.
I’m pretty sure when she did that, I saw the same black cat walk past the open door…twice!
If she can bend the truth there could be a job for her in the PMO. But it has to be a reflex, not an accident.
Somewhere on the net I came across a person who claimed she’d gained wisdom during a mediation on a “psychedelic weekend” at a retreat.
I had a few back in the day. I gained wisdom too, decided not to do it again. Eventually.
This story reminds me of WHY America (and Canada) appear to be having so much trouble with our Somali immigrants … lack of Khat.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khat
Yes, our poor, unfortunate, Somali and Djibouti immigrants are denied their shrubbery. Denied the “wisdom” derived from their shrubbery. Hence, we have the US House of Rep’s Ilhan Omar who is literally going NUTS without her Khat to chew.
We white Westerners are sooooooo backward and unenlightened … aren’t we?
Huxley called it “soma”, used to keep the stupid, working class docile and compliant. Heaven help you if you missed the doses, though. [Not] coincidentally, regular, consequence-free, and non-committal sex was what the upper-classes used instead of soma. At the time I studied the novel, I don’t recall if I (or anyone around me) ever made that connection.
You studied the novel. I merely read it. So I should accede to you.
But, with due apologies, I seem to remember the distinction was not between “the upper-classes” and the “stupid working class,” but between alphas and everyone else, betas through epsilons. Everyone was insanely happy, except a few alphas.
The alphas were the only ones still allowed to have periods, in order to provide the eggs which were artificially inseminated ex utero. They could have simultaneous simulated sex, but not real sex, as being pregnant had dire consequences. It’s been so long, I seem to remember that was why the protagonists began their rebellion.
The Chicom provide us with Soma now. It’s called fentanyl. I think before President Trump, the Chicom thought of the U.S. as their experimental Brave New World, with them controlling the alphas, who were obviously totally compliant.
It’s been 30 years, so I was simplifying a bit. I was grouping the Alphas and Beta-pluses as the ‘upper classes’. The Epsilons were literally the stupid ones, I believe mostly kept that way via the soma, so they wouldn’t know what they didn’t know. To my recollection, no one else in the novel was really focused on in any way, but as I said, it’s been 30 years. 🙂 I was mostly just surprised that I never previously equated sex and soma in this context, but given the context in which the novel was studied, that’s not too surprising.
Semi-related, I had an out-patient medical procedure last week wherein one of the sedatives administered to me was fentanyl. It’s an interesting drug.
Reminds me of the time the Gropers ole man went for a walk!
Is this about a total cleansing followed by a trip?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayahuasca
All I can think about when I hear Shrubbery LOL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69iB-xy0u4A
” Oh, what sad times are these when passing ruffians can say Ni at will to old ladies. There is a pestilence upon this land. Nothing is sacred. Even those who arrange and design shrubberies are under considerable economic stress at this period in history.” – Roger the Shrubber
Dose she hear vegtables scream while their being boiled alive so some Vegetarian can have their meal each day?
The sexual phantasy processed by the Chinese magic root… The heat / flicking & throbbing of the root cures
all frustrated women!
Spurwing, you seem to be calling for some Baxter Black: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zfzT7QfLZc
I’ve bent space and time while playing the ocarina quite frequently, though it was always on purpose.
As I recall, it was C►, C▼, C▲, C►, C▼, C▲
Mental disease is an ugly thing!
Is she any relation to Alphonse Gagliano? If so, that makes two crooks in the family. Liberals of course.
When the fern rocked her, it didn’t use a big enough rock.
“I talk to the trees
But they don’t listen to me
I talk to the stars
But they never hear me
The breeze hasn’t time
To stop and hear what I say
I talk to them all in vain”
She once bent space and time.
Did she get very, very, very fat?
has she been talking to Carlos Castaneda again? or is she just channeling the
Celestine Prophecy?
“she has received Yoda-like advice”
Yoda was an animated character in a science fiction fantasy. Yoda was escape entertainment, nothing more. Advice? Get real.
There is more philosophical “advice” in Jonathon Livingston Seagull, than in Star Wars.
I take my advice from Lesbian Seagull …
https://youtu.be/4BaKOluofCA
Lesbian seagulls dispense much greater wisdom than male seagulls. Lesbians are just … better.
Doesnt the bible have talking burning bushes?
Or someone hearing voices to kill their child?
Adds up.
God’s WORD is written on men’s hearts … it requires no ‘shrubbery’ accelerant. And if God communicated with relatively primitive ancient mankind thru allegorical stories? Then I commend his communication style.
But to you “sky daddy” types … there is nothing logical … just RESISTANCE to the God of creation. Good luck with that.
I hope their “labs” prove that plants are sentient beings. Now what PETA Vegans?
If plants are sentient, does that mean that marijuana is perpetually stoned on itself?
Watched “Pocahontas” one too many times as a child…then did drugs (just like all the cool kids) throughout high school…followed up with a useless degree from university (because that’s all her drug-addled brain could handle)..Voila! Dr SJW.
In Narnia, talking animals were sentient, but most were just dumb animals as in England, and you are allowed to eat those.
Some trees were dryads, but C.S. Lewis never clarified whether all trees can be awakened. In any case those that were awakened could dance, but could not really speak. Not even to Lucy.
But that is Narnia, not England, or anywhere else on Earth.
From a completely different angle, no, it turns out the Bushes were not wise at all.