Investigations of Consciousness, Bishop College, 1984, 1985,

The complete course, two or three semesters combined reissued @ AERFilms. Surprise.
Quantum Theory and Prufrock I
Prufrock, The Quantum Man II
Quantum Cure Ode To Autumn
Quantum Cure Ode To Autumn 2, Sound & Meaning
True Human Being - The Relation to the Cosmos
Prophetic Confirmations
Litterature
Kafka and the Modern Investigation of Consciousness

 Nineteen Eighty Four was the Terminator symbol of absolutism in the year 1984 when this class convened. One fictional beginning of official deception, secret surveillance, manipulation of the past came full circle in government drone strikes upon American citizens wherever they are found. This was anti-climactic as  had occurred in multiple forms for years. To track these undercurrents behind the eyeball of lit and consciousness is a kind of literary stand up. The imagined comedic prophetic reprehensibilities could be lies from the government, science and religion in the very Ubu state! Take it with a grain of salt and laugh; the classes were always charged by fresh water from student minds outflowing.  The tapes were put in the Zale library the next day in '84 and '85 for reference. The written text was the Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces, II, Fourth Edition; you can buy one for a buck.

In an unstated conclusion 1984 assumes that the purpose of the 20th century was to break down boundaries in order to initiate earth into its new order. We are not ourselves the causes of world pollution, disease, famine and destruction that we are  blamed for but the victims of it. These things have been a long time preparing so relax as we find out. The blame of Forces has been shifted to scapegoat the ordinary citizen who is so manipulated and controlled that he thinks he caused global warming. There being no control groups to measure global pandemics, since they are global, in the midst of experiments that change the course of human existence these tapes are a kind of control group of how it happened along the way.  We'd not have proved the harm of tobacco without such groups, that is, people who didn't smoke.  We knew it was coming but now it is here. These tapes rebroadcast in 2013 may reconstruct to know now what is.

 The naive persona of the teacher-speaker was outside the veil of what is allowable in ironic contemporary discourse. But many of the students in that place and time were too. A good pic of the classroom may exist only in memory, but the very international mix of students from Africa in those classes, along with a number of outspoken and older students with their mature and sometimes humorous responses provoked the way the conversations went. These make the tapes almost as interesting as themselves. To hear the broad language of the Kenyans and Nigerians pleasures the ear, but they all treasured the moment in the same spirit. Not like critical classes shorn of belief, these people from all over the world were in awe of their opportunity to be taught by an American Ph.D.,  as they would say it. If that sounds totally naif, it does stop the mouth of the accuser. They shall not all be taught, meaning that like a child, their naivete would lead them. And it would be fun.

We set out in 1984 to define The Quantum Man, to celebrate the year that had a book written about it.  1984 beat out 2000, it beat out 2012.

Of the particular tapes uploaded so far to capture the extermination of the traditional by the modern.

 Prufrock is seen as opposite Ode to Autumn. Other examples of these oppositions will follow. As to True Human Being, Prophetic Confirmations and Cutting Edge, all done together, the proof is  in the eating. In each of these an ultimately shocking statement develops out of a naive process.

True Human Being concludes that humans are space travelers to come, but not in the sense of current NASA and ET thought, not at all. The dominion of the hands is a birthright, before genome, it is inalienable in the  creation of the human being. All kinds of things follow from this, among them, that when the Vatican, science and the United States presidents announce the arrival of their alien co-conspirators, it is obviously a ruse. They will not come to us, but we will go to them, for we have been given dominion over the works of his hands. Hands are very big in this piece. Perhaps only poetry could have said it so well.

Prophetic Confirmations naively asks whether we are ready and eager to conclude these affairs, to some incredulity and laughter, because who could be, yet who isn't? So after ranging from the ease of the Old Testament prophecy of Palm Sunday the conclusion of Jerusalem occurs, but with this encouragement that helps, from Zachariah, that in that day the feeblest among us will be as David, and the house of David will be as Lord and the Angel of the Lord. Think about it.

The Cutting Edge makes the most extreme statement that to the modern mind can be made when, after change upon change, it says that Jesus can restore your imagination. This will equally gall all sides, leaving no one except the incredulous in the store.