PSYCH EVALUATION CARDS

  “Yet the very society from which the individual is inseparable is using its whole irresistible force to persuade the individual that he is indeed separate! Society as we now know it is therefore playing a game with self contradictory rules. Just because we do not exist apart from the community, the community is able to convince us that we do--that each one of us is an independent source of action with a mind of its own. The more successfully the community implants this feeling, the more trouble it has in getting the individual to cooperate, with the result that children raised in such an environment are almost permanently confused.” ~Alan Watts in “The Book On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are" I'm sure that this multiverse of bloggishness will likely go the way of the 13-part Myspace interelated creative Personas that I spent so much time with, a few years back, but were 'lost' to the ether, as Myspace devolved into the advertising miasma that it eventuall becam...

TRANFORMATION OF AN IMAGE (R)  INTO A SYMBOLISTIC COVER IMAGE FOR A DECK OF TAROT CARDS (L) PART OF MY DECADE-LONG PROJECT OF CREATING THE MAJOR ARCANA CARDS FOR A PERSONALIZED TAROT DECK, INSPIRED BY LADY FRIEDA HARRIS' THOTH PAINTINGS FOR ALEISTER CROWLEY....CONCEPTUALIZED AS A TOOL FOR PSYCHOANALYSIS OR PERSONALITY EVALUATION VIA VERBAL RESPONSES TO VISUAL IMAGES BY MORE EVASIVE, HIGHLY-INTELLECTUAL INDIVIDUALS. 

  The seemingly inevitable destination of most human varieties.....trained to congregate and Pavlovingly respond to commerialized societal conformity statagems ......as they wander the ever-repeating Familiar, in search of confirmation bias 'likes' and the pleasure-dispenser lever.....as, in some other World, the firebird's fire-fangled feathers dangle down, out of reach to eye's cast down to calming & exciting electronic devices, seaching the Irony of inaccessible intimacy, unafforded by their decision-making in ubiquitous self-isolation.....

 If you had to crush the fowl's skull.....killing it almost immediately, then pluck its feathers and butcher the ill-fated creature.......could you perform this task?    Or. is pre-butchered chicken, in a plastic tray, covered by plastic-wrap, labeled and 'priced' ..with a 'best eaten by date' stamped upon its "Price Label' more of an abstraction of the Reality of killing 'other' animals....for their tasty protein.....in itself, enough to perpetuate Denial about 'where what we eat comes from' and 'what it takes to get it to our gullets'......?

 This is an actual photograph...with head cropped to preserve her identity.....of a trained, licensed "Recovery Support Specialist"....obviously obese.....'Here' to help folks with 'addiction issues'.....On her Facebook page's list of 'favorite things' was a photo of an "Air Fryer".....Hmm...... At her right, in the photos....but cropped 'out' of this photo....was another "Lead Substance Abuse Therapist"....also obese.....who, pregnant by a random act of copulation, bore a child...at 15, before becoming an alcoholic.......Now, HERE, to help YOU with your 'Problems'......What!