--- In [email protected], Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> on 10/7/06 3:01 PM, Rick Archer at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > 
> > on 10/7/06 2:37 PM, jyouells2000 at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > 
> >> He actually suggested "reversing the direction of some of its
major rivers" ?
> >> Whoa...
> >> Hadn't seen or heard that one.
> >> 
> > Just tried to Google it and couldn¹t find it. It might have been
Cliff Rees
> > that mentioned he had heard that in some presentation. I¹ll ask him.
> >  
> Cliff¹s response:
> 
> 
> I think he¹s referring to a bizarre presentation Kelly and I were
subjected
> to over in Vlodrop back in 1998 where Neil, Bevan and Reid were told
to show
> me a new videotape on Sthapatya Veda which included straightening
out the
> Seine and the Thames and knocking down every building to the north.  My
> seat-of-the-pants guesstimate for that type of reconstruction was a
trillion
> per city, give or take a few hundred billion.
> 
> I don¹t recall any discussion of reversing the direction of the rivers
> however.  I mean, after all, we have to be practical about these things!
> :-)
> 
> BTW ­ our three illustrious presenters all fell asleep within the
first few
> minutes of the show and snored through the rest of the 45 minutes or so.
> Definitely one of the more peculiar moments in my Movement experience ­
> sitting in M¹s house surrounded by luxurious furniture and silk wall
> coverings, listening to a very amateurishly produced videotape seriously
> discussing the razing of every major city on the planet along with
> ³smoothing² out of mountain ranges (so they wouldn¹t get in the way
of the
> eastern horizon), with the ones presumably responsible for this
largest of
> all engineering projects ever attempted by a few orders of 
magnitude all
> snoring away next to me.
> 
> In retrospect, I¹m glad it occurred as it did because that was the event
> that completely untied the knots I was holding on to in terms of
taking the
> Movement at all seriously.  I finally really ³got² that the emperor
had no
> clothes.  And was OK with it ­ struck me as hilariously funny as we were
> walking out of the gate.
>

Thanks Cliff, and thanks Rick for posting that. 

JohnY










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