To: s-acc@yahoogroups.com
From: "Andrew Phelps" <starfish@northcoast.com>
Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2008 09:58:01 -0700
Subject: Re: [s-acc] Re: study group idea
Lll:
Hi
Thank you Klm!
This is a "ghost" reference. You are making a 'slip'. Wrong person, that was Bbb.
Is it too simplistic an idea to bifurcate the study group to include practical applications for ourselves and policy wonking?
A bad suggestion. It does show one of the things that needs to be thought out.
We don't have a "study group" yet. I'm looking at readings and interests. The "study group" is not exactly policy wonking, either, rather it's like Bbb suggests individual reflections. As well as how they relate.
In that regard, you will find that major matters "practical applications for ourselves" will come up. Bbb started off suggesting that the role of "personal" trauma issues be connected to the list description for S-ACC. Some of that would come up on list; other parts would relate to individuals connecting with one another privately, thus networking better.
But "bifurcation" is an intellectual term and if converted into an Internet process, it would be divisive.
I have just walked away from it my whole life (denial), and tried to do the best I could.
The subject matter here can be cast as "overcoming the psychology of 'denial'."
But being aware .. well, now it's a whole new ballgame, and I can't find the ball.
Ginsberg's "Howl" was a starting place for the "bohemian" historical version of that; however we have to refine the "60s" thing for its relevance to the psychology of 'madness'. I was reading recently a
poem of Ginsberg's, it was about the U-Save supermarket in Berkeley (1955). In 1971 I lived across the street from there. I was so "crazy" that I couldn't bring myself to go across the street and buy food. I stopped eating.
Andrew