Internet: A Premature Viddlin’
Here’s a recent post I made to Michael Mallows NLP Forum on Yahoo.
I’ve just discovered Viddlin’ and I have a headache!
If like me when you were a lad, (I don’t pretend to understand the female experience since to do so gets me into trouble with feminists), you lived in a timeless world of semi euphoria. One squeal and one had the choice of not just one, but two nipples, and they were both for you.
O.K. I’m being poetic, I was bottle-fed, but you get the picture. As a child your needs get met without you having to do anything yourself, or so it seems. By the time I was five though I was under the car with a paintbrush full of bitumised under-seal getting in those places where adult hands were just too big to go. And I hadn’t seen a nipple for years!
But under the car wasn’t so bad. I could lay on an old sack, which had the musty smell of potato, earth and hessian. From there my mind could drift off into reveries about the future, when I would go to America and drive a Ford Thunderbird.
1956 Ford Thunderbird
These visions I thought were ‘all about me’, they were like films in which I was the star, I didn’t know then that I was also the supporting cast and props of my dreams since it would be another twenty years before I would discover Gestalt Therapy.
Many years later Tony Parsons reminded me of those early childhood years when events ‘just happen’. Today I live from that place most of the time. NLPers call it ‘Third Position’, Humanists ‘The Observer’, and Ken Wilber, (and my school English teachers), ‘Third Person.’
When experiencing third person life can simply unfold. Bray and his beautiful wife Irem can provide each other with ‘comforts’ and whatever occurs the world is just ‘as it is’ which is O.K.
Unfortunately a month or so back I was invited to appear on Hilal TV and this has gone to my head. I quite enjoyed being seen as a person indeed it did wonders for my ‘First Personhood’ so I decided to make some more films for family and friends and spread the love.
Yesterday there was a power cut in Amos and I took the time to shoot some video about a new project. Unlike my childhood dreams these are all about YOU rather than me, although I star, along with Ivan Illich, in the clip.
It is an egocentric feast, indeed T.V. has put my ego on steroids. The clip took about ten minutes to film and far longer to edit and upload to Viddler.com. All this technology has made my brain hurt!
