There's someone in my head, but it's not me

[Bob]

5 people out of 19 actually believe I'm possessed.

I was shooting for a larger percentage, but I'll take what I can get.

2 of you think I was drunk.....well....me drink?...

Possession! What a concept!

Anyone want to volunteer for the exorcism?

[Ham]

Bob, repeat after me. "Ooooh, eee, oooh ah ah, ting tang, walla walla bing bang"

Repeat at regular intervals through the day.

[Ham]

Well, since that fails to produce results, I'll just have to put on my grass skirt, and head dress, and fire up the drums.

"Meka leka hi, meka hiney ho! Meka leka ho, meka meka hi, hiney ho.."

[Ham]

Sorry, wrong costume :D-->

[Bob]

I'm looking for something where I can spin my head completely around, like in the movie.

Got anything like that?

[Ham]

I'm sure I could come up with something here. Now, if you'll just sign this lengthy hold harmless contract..

[sirguessalot]

try this one, Bob (and whomever)

if you like. its kinda fun. harmless (i hope).

forgot where i learned it tho

ok, right now, without looking in a mirror or crossing your eyes or anything like that

just sitting naturally...

what does your head look like?

what does your face look like?

look down if you want...

and what does your body look like?

before photography...

and without a reflecting pool...

what does our whole actual self look like to us

in our own eyes?

particularly our face

and our head

nothing special or tricky, either

but what is the MOST obvious?

what is the most mundane and universally true for most everyone about this picture?

(and there is somewhat of an easy answer

but i dont want to blow anyone's ability to take a stabbatit)

(btw - I think Galen nailed a sense of it pretty good (in an accidental more literal sort of way...if one doesnt follow the pun all the way through to the bathroom)

which also reminds me of that ole "in my father's house are many mansions")

:)-->

[sirguessalot]

ok, sorry if too strange, or too boring, or too something else

i thought it was relevent to the Floyd Lyrics

:)-->

anyway, the answer goes something like this:

to our own natural waking perspective

we are more-or-less headless and faceless

like there is this torso dangling from a void

can you see it?

:P-->

kinda funny too, and somewhat startling, once you sit with it a sec

and not as some mere internal mind concept picture, either

but the most natural way we look at the world in our waking lives

not some thing we have to try hard to see, either

its kind of unavoidable, really

"stop trying" is more like it

:)-->

and...to make things "worse"

let me ask...in the place of our head and our face is what, exactly?

a big blue sky, perhaps?

the sun, the moon, the stars?

mountains, houses, traffic, people?

every single bird and bee?

all this...seems to happen in the vast space that is our own missing head

all this...some sort of endless reflection of our original face

kinda reminds me of those pictures of Jesus in the cloud with no head

(if you've even seen em)

and so ok, a few things i wonder:

what might be so useful about this mode of perspective that evolution would keep it?

or what might the benefits be that God would not let us naturally see our own face or head without some sort of mirror?

god...gotta love that pinkness of Floyd

lol