When I first watched a short excerpt of the Midnight Gospel, the shoddy quality does not appeal to me at all. While I questioned the look of the characters, it turns out I become attracted to the disentanglement of the lines and the scenes. The lines are super thought-invoking but the plots are so irrelevant. This contrast makes it like a late-night talk show with some laid-back background noises, mostly country music and guitars.
Episode 1 so far is quite mind blowing, already. I am more interested in the meditation part than the drug and pro-pot part, but they are certainly deeply connected. I note down my favorite lines.
Glasses man: "Health is about accepting and perceiving and dealing with reality on reality terms."
Glasses man: "that you never knew it was there, you'd never seen it before"
Clancy: "... the elevator... it comes back down, and suddenly, you're screaming at people in traffic again"
Glasses man: "What if it doesn't let you drop off on the first floor and ends up two floors into the basement? ... taking you lower"
Clancy: "let's say it does take you lower... go up in a hot-air balloon, see the very top of some beautiful mountain, and the hot-air balloon gets blown off course and falls a little bit, you've still seen the top of the mountain"
Glasses man: "and that is the independent value of that"
After the analogy, Glasses man asks Clancy how did he manage his drug problem, and here it comes the meditation discussion.
Clancy: "Mindfulness is just watching the way you act, and the way that you feel, and the way that you think (chattering: I think this is a cure), and becoming aware of the roots of a lot of the emotions that exist in you."
Clancy: “I can watch the irritation flower inside of me... look at it as though you are sitting in the forest and you're getting to watch a rare animal walking out into a clearing. and instead of, as most of us do when anger comes in, we react to it, we go into reactivity mode... you would stop meditating and scream at your dogs, or you would do something to make them quiet”
Glasses man: "behavior that amplifies it"
Clancy: "Buddhism compares anger to a sweet flower with bitter roots, and we follow the sweetness down"
Episode 1 so far is quite mind blowing, already. I am more interested in the meditation part than the drug and pro-pot part, but they are certainly deeply connected. I note down my favorite lines.
Glasses man: "Health is about accepting and perceiving and dealing with reality on reality terms."
Elevator analogy for hallucinogen
Clancy: "(hallucinogen) is compared to an elevator takes you up to the very top floor of the building where the incredible party is happening... you see this amazing utopian nirvana situation"Glasses man: "that you never knew it was there, you'd never seen it before"
Clancy: "... the elevator... it comes back down, and suddenly, you're screaming at people in traffic again"
Glasses man: "What if it doesn't let you drop off on the first floor and ends up two floors into the basement? ... taking you lower"
Clancy: "let's say it does take you lower... go up in a hot-air balloon, see the very top of some beautiful mountain, and the hot-air balloon gets blown off course and falls a little bit, you've still seen the top of the mountain"
Glasses man: "and that is the independent value of that"
After the analogy, Glasses man asks Clancy how did he manage his drug problem, and here it comes the meditation discussion.
Clancy: "Mindfulness is just watching the way you act, and the way that you feel, and the way that you think (chattering: I think this is a cure), and becoming aware of the roots of a lot of the emotions that exist in you."
Clancy: “I can watch the irritation flower inside of me... look at it as though you are sitting in the forest and you're getting to watch a rare animal walking out into a clearing. and instead of, as most of us do when anger comes in, we react to it, we go into reactivity mode... you would stop meditating and scream at your dogs, or you would do something to make them quiet”
Glasses man: "behavior that amplifies it"
Clancy: "Buddhism compares anger to a sweet flower with bitter roots, and we follow the sweetness down"
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