Some kind of Eastern Thing
LSD: The 1950s Wonder Drug
Few Hollywood icons had a more clean-cut image than Cary Grant, yet the quintessential British gentleman was a keen advocate of LSD. The manufactured drug was still relatively new in the 1950s but was increasingly used by psychiatrists and medical professionals in the field of psychotherapy. Grant was introduced to the LSD by his wife at the time, actress Betty Drake, and was quick to extoll its virtues, both privately and publicly.
It’s believed as many as 100 Hollywood stars used LSD during the 1950s, either as part of psychotherapy sessions or recreationally. Swimming and acting star Esther Williams was another who sampled the mind-altering drug under medical supervision, seeking answers during a low point in her life and career. Among others sampling LSD in 1950s and 60s Hollywood was a young Jack Nicholson. The Oscar-winning actor later described his experience of the drug as “beautiful and eye-opening”.
https://weheartvintage.co/2013/04/25/the-drug-culture-of-hollywoods-golden-age
Sanskrit and Its Kindred Literatures
Laura Elizabeth Poor1880
That the Iliad and the Odyssey are taken from the vast stores of mythical tradition common to all the Aryan nations, may be corroborated by evidence taken from other poems.
Even in Greek literature, there are several other voyages, singularly resembling each other in their objects and their details; something bright is taken away, and a collected body of chieftains go in search of it.
[ LIBIDO/LOSS OF A TESTICLE/CASTRATION COMPLEX]
The story was first told in the voyage of the Argonauts for the golden fleece.
In Sanskrit, Indra is often called a bull,
[THE BULL IS SYMBOLIC OF THE LIAR/ PSYCHOPOMP SOBCHAK WHO SEEKS TO ENSLAVE DUDE ie CANNABIS/OPIATE, IN THE 'FORM' OF THE MYTHIC OEDIPUS TYRANNUS WHICH IN TURN IS A FORM OF A 'YAHWISTIC' FIGURE/PERFECTION COMPLEX] who carried away Dahana, the dawn.
In Greek, the sun becomes a ram[DUDE/OEDIPUS COMPLEX] with a golden fleece; he carries away Phrixos and Hclle, who are the children of Niphele. This is the same root as Niobe, as Niblungs in Norse, and our word "nebulous"; it means the mist.
Phrixos and Helle are the twilight, children of the darkness,
[EAST AND WEST ie 'WU' AND 'JEFF'/COMPLEXIO OPPOSITORUM]
[pic imgur. from 'In Search of America'- 1971-NOTE 'COVERALLS' they seem to appear in a lot of Our Subject/Victim's works]
who carries away the golden sunlight.
[BEGINNING OF DEPRESSION/PERFECTION 'COMPLEX'-ie 'DISSOCIATION' DUE TO EXCESSIVE DRUG USE ie 'Schizoid' phenomena]
So Jason collected a band of bright powers, all chieftains; they are solar heroes, seeking for the light on which their life depends.
[THE 'NIHILISTS' ie FORMER {FREUDIAN}PSYCHIATRISTS]
They sail in the good ship Argo, which like Skidbladnir in Teutonic [GERMANIC]mythology, contracts or expands as necessity requires.
[LIKE THE BOOK ALICE IN WONDERLAND'S DEEP DARK '{ WHITE RABBIT'/BUNNY} HOLE- ALSO HEARD IN LSD SOUNDTRACK- SEE My 'HYPNOGOGIA' Post]
[THE IMAGINARY 'ARGO' is now THE ALLEY[ ARGO was the name of the Boat in 'SEAHUNT']-
AND THE QUINTANA CHARACTER IS INDICATIVE OF THE 5 COMPLEXES ie 'QUINTA' WHO MUST BE A 'PROTECTOR' FIGURE FROM LARRY'S CHILDHOOD WHO ADVISES AGAINST USING 'WOMEN AS OBJECTS' IN A MOST FORCEFUL MANNER, ie HIS DAD'S FORMER PSYCHIATRIST Kunkel]
This is another of those cloud-ships which we found in the Odyssey.
They have a weary voyage, with many dangers.
Jason is aided by the wise Medeia.
She means the dawn, which penetrates everywhere, sees and knows all; for wisdom is always the attribute of the light, as we saw in Phoibos and» Athene. She even brings the dead to life in her magic caldron.
[MAUDE/CHECKOUT GIRL- IS DUDES MOTHER ie MOTHER COMPLEX]
This is exactly what is said in the dawn hymns of the Rig Veda. "She awakens the sleeping to a new life."
The myth is still true to itself.
Jason, the sun,[DUDE/OEDIPUS/JASON etc] conquers and gets back the golden fleece. But on their journey home, like Odysseus and his companions, perils and dangers attack them.
Finally, he abandons Medeia, the wise woman. [MA-UDE]
So the sun must leave the dawn, and go on to another land, and a checkered career.
But the wise dawn becomes also cruel, and sends to Jason's new bride, Glauke, [BUNNY]a glittering dress, which burned to her bones when she put it on.
It is here, that same shirt of flame which enwrapped, and ate into, and killed Herakles, — another name given to the glittering, flame-colored clouds of sunset.
How strikingly this resembles the Odyssey! I will not describe the other voyages: these are types of all.
Source: Laura Elizabeth Poor, Sanskrit and Its Kindred Literatures (Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1880), 191-192.
Source: Laura Elizabeth Poor, Sanskrit and Its Kindred Literatures (Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1880), 191-192.
Words, like Acid 'Day Tripper' Lennon said before He was murdered on this day 42 years ago slip away..
[Mathew Street Liverpool, site of the original 'CAVERN' Club is on the left in this pic-the next
Street along is Harrington Street..]
THE WORK OF THE ANCIENT GREEK POETS IN THEIR 'INTERPRETATIONS' OF 'OEDIPUS'..
THERE ARE MANY FAMOUS PEOPLE WHO OVERCAME THEIR MENTAL ILLNESS- ARTISTS LIKE EDVARD MUNCH AND HIS 'SCREAM'-EVEN EINSTEIN'S SON
LED ZEPPELIN TRACKS OR DEEP PURPLE 'LAZY' ETC HEAVILY MIS REPRESENTED[SEE LIST OF THEIR TRACKS] THE 'ZESTY' LEMON SONG ? LIVING LOVING MAID? ETC ETC..ARE INTERESTING INCLUSIONS RAMBLIN ON etc THE REAL LEBOWSKI IS ACTUALLY THE NIHILIST BIG LEBOWSKI-JEFF'S 'PRETEND'DAD
JUST LIKE THE ALCOHOLIC COKEHEAD ACTOR/WRITER FORMER CHILD VAUDEVILLIAN BUSTER KEATON, I KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH A 'CUSTARD PIE' - I LOOK FORWARD TO DOING SO..
SO LONG COWBOY.
[pic seahuntcollector.com]
Jason's Cloak and Jason as 'anti-Hero'
[Anthony Bulloch, Berkeley University, California]
'Ulysses' 'Odysseus' and 'Jason' are different names for the same Mythologic figure
FREDERICK APTHORP PALEY (1815-1888) was a British classical scholar famed for his editions of several classical works. In this piece, Paley drew on emerging German scholarship that suggested more ancient origins for the stories behind the Homeric poems to investigate whether Homer used an early version of the Argonautica in developing the Odyssey. This work, first published in the Dublin Review in 1879, is notable both for anticipating future scholarship and for suggesting that Greek mythology had not just Bronze Age antecedents but possibly forerunners dating back to the Ice Age, a claim echoed in modern fringe history hypotheses of a lost civilization and its myths
Possibly it will be objected that the solar interpretation of the story is strained and unnatural.
A golden fleece “may have meant a rude method of collecting gold particles from running streams. These adventurers may, after all have only desired to go to certain far-off “diggings,” the reputation of which had reached them from the reports of merchants or travellers.
They may have gone in search of a breed of sheep with wool of a naturally yellowish tint, like that of the Spanish sheep, so much prized by the Romans; [2] or, lastly, they may have been Phoenician adventurers, influenced solely by a wish to extend their commerce.
It is desirable, therefore, at the outset, to show that the sun is generally symbolised by a fiery cloud, or golden fleece, as the mantle of glory and majesty in which the god is wrapped.
It is desirable, therefore, at the outset, to show that the sun is generally symbolised by a fiery cloud, or golden fleece, as the mantle of glory and majesty in which the god is wrapped.
Amictus lumine sicut vestimento is the description that the Psalmist gives to the Divine Being himself. [3]
The aegis of Pallas, the goddess of the Dawn, is in the same manner the fringed cloud that arrays in spangled light the Aurora of the Greek Mythology. [4]
It was represented in ancient art, as may be seen on many of the early Greek vases, as a fringed goat-skin, the root of the word, which implies “rushing motion,” being confounded with αἴξ, “a goat.” We read in Homer [5] of the golden tassels or fringes surrounding it, and Herodotus tells us [6] that the dress of the goddess was derived from the stained goat-skins (apparently closely akin to what we still call Morocco leather) worn by Libyan women.
This shows that he had not the least suspicion of the true origin of the symbol, as a solar “glory.”
Even in early Christian art the oval nimbus, or aureole, enveloping the whole form of the Blessed Virgin, may be referred to the same traditional idea.
The edges of the goat-skins were cut in strips and curled to imitate snakes’ heads, and this, which at first merely represented the ragged edges of a cloud, was designed to add terror to the form of the dread war-goddess.
Again, the narrative in the “Odyssey” about Cyclops, and the blinding of his one eye, is either a very silly and impossible story, or it is a myth not inappropriately describing the extinction of the sun, the eye of day, in the “forehead of the sky,” as Milton calls it.
If Ulysses himself meant, as the name will allow him to mean, the “setting sun,” the interpretation is as simple as possible; the setting of the sun puts out, or removes from sight, the orb that is the eye of the world — that far-ranging power to whom poets naturally and spontaneously attribute the faculty of sight.
But you will convince very few persons, if you propound such a view, reasonable as it is and perfectly consistent in itself.
Not less evident is it that the numerous and varied stories of the descent of heroes into the nether world in quest of some departed friend, whom they brought back to life, like Orpheus, who went to recover his Eurydice, are founded on the apparent sinking of the sun below the horizon and his speedy return to the surface of the world.
Nothing, we say, can be more clear than this ; and those who cannot accept such an interpretation cannot have gone far into the history of primitive thought.
If there is one fact more certain than another in the records and monuments of the ancient world, it is the wide prevalence of sun-worship. Therefore, there is the strongest antecedent probability that many of the primitive myths symbolise sun-worship too.
The Sirens, or “Pipers,” form the subject of another myth common to Homer and Apollonius.
They are not mentioned by Hesiod, Pindar, or Aeschylus; but Sophocles is quoted by Plutarch as having referred to them in connexion with the wanderings of Ulysses, [59] and Euripides alludes to them once in the “Helena.” [60]
We read in Homer of their enchanting songs, and of Ulysses having stopped the ears of his crew with wax, that they might not hear those lovely but fatal strains as they sailed past the island, while he himself listened to them tied fast to the mast”
Although the story of Jason and the Golden Fleece contains elements of myth
and folklore, Jason's quest may have a historical basis
see
Homer is the only Greek author mentioned by name in the Talmud- the influence of the 'Odyssey'
can be seen in the 'Book of Tobit' probably written Aramaic in the second century bce
So, in the Myth of the Poetic 'Odyssey' various common features keep re-appearing- the most prominent being 'Absent Fathers'.
Lloyd Bridges, played 'Mike Nelson' in the TV series 'SEAHUNT'
The name of His Boat in the bulk of the Series? -THE ARGONAUT
Of course, Homer based His Tale on the 'Epic of Gilgamesh' which is the basis of so-called 'Freemasonry'- Don't forget Homer was a Writer who liked to 'play tricks' on His readers..
the thing to remember is Poets [like Lloyd's Wife Dorothy] unconsciously re-produce Mythologems
which on first viewing have nothing in common with the Subject Matter.
Lloyd is quoted as saying 'carrying all that heavy Scuba Gear around during filming'
was both exhausting and tedious- yet Fan Websites have documented Balsa Wood 'Props'
almost indistinguishable from the real thing
were provided to the Actors whilst 'Stand-ins' did action sequences?
Lloyd, it would appear, was not above stretching the truth when it suited Him
-something His Actor kids
would of course also do in later life?- but Lloyd was definitely overworked being as He was
under contract to Studios etc- maybe He used some kind of 'Pep Pill' provided by these Studios?
and unknowingly became addicted?
this would lead to unpredictable 'mood swings' and so on...remember Lloyd had to be a winner at everything because of 'fat baby' taunting by President Taft- the loss of an infant child would have totally devastated Him...Only His Wife could comfort Him.. His Paternal family were probably estranged
when He left San Leandro for NYC to pursue His career earlier.
It’s believed as many as 100 Hollywood stars used LSD during the 1950s, either as part of psychotherapy sessions or recreationally. Swimming and acting star Esther Williams was another who sampled the mind-altering drug under medical supervision, seeking answers during a low point in her life and career
You play Your Games-I play Mine
there are rules...The first one is do not underestimate your opponent's intelligence
another name for an 'Argonaut' is 'Conman/Gold Digger' or? Actor.
Sons Beau and Jeff followed his lead; each had their acting debuts on Sea Hunt and would inherit Lloyd’s passion for ocean conservancy.
While Nelson’s is a haven for oceanside dining, it also provides a slice of Hollywood history. Taking their cue from this rich history, the developers at Terranea reached out to the Bridges family to request their involvement in the planning of Nelson’s. The family was excited to be involved and donated their collection of photos to decorate the space.
The posters are from their Sea Hunt comic book collection.
Lucinda provided back-story on the framed coin that hangs on the east wall:
“The souvenir coin was an idea of our mom’s brother, Frederic Simpson, Jr. My mom’s dad, our grandpa, used to help with Dad’s fan mail, and he would include a medallion in each autographed photo.
[MY NOTE;-THIS GUY I WANTED TO KNOW MORE ABOUT- FOR I'M THINKING THIS COIN/MEMENTO IS WHAT HAS BEEN USED IN THE HYPNOTISM A-LA- WATCH IN FREUDIAN THERAPIES ETC. AND OF COURSE 'STAGE MAGIC' I DO KNOW HE FOUND EMPLOY IN SOME DEPARTMENT STORE BUT THE TRAIL HAS GONE COLD ]
We all have one of those good luck medallions on our key chains … so do our kids.” As a result, the room has a personal feel from the photos and posters.
Lloyd’s diving helmet is there on loan from the family as well.
https://terranealife.com/paying-homage-television-actor-famous-role-resort-eatery-keeps-legend-alive
that's about it..'LLoyd's Diving Helmet' ...was the final Piece of the Jigsaw for Me..
Son Jeff 'created' a 'Doodle' which He Titled 'The Helmeted Man' and I mistakenly thought it was related to 'Tron'...[without dialogue I can only guess about things that may or not have occurred such as 'did Lloyd own/drive a Motorcycle?] 'Moby Dick/Diver' is an old Video Arcade Game from 1984...the 'Eastern Thing' is the Atlantic Ocean...
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