Category: Psychedelicatessen

Earth Eats: Interview w/manager of the Local Growers Guild

contributor Gabrielle Price

This is an excerpt from a broadcast featuring the manager of the Local Growers’ Guild [and my housemate at Sunny Branch Farm], Megan Hutchison. The Refreshment Center Radio Show will have Megan on as our guest, along with many other locals involved in the food movement here in Bloomington in future.  I’m excited about this new direction and hope you’ll enjoy the sounds [and sights] TRC plans to deliver throughout the year.
With the internet so prevalent as a teaching tool, my wish is to connect other local food movements to share data, especially as the climate continues to change and perhaps help other growers in areas where some crops used to do well but growing seasons may have altered.  I’ll also have folks on from other countries, some who are doing incredible things with keyline and permaculture techniques – to see how that works in places here in the U.S.
Not to mention recipe swaps!
I thought this Earth Eats broadcast would be a good segue into what our local focus is, the direction we intend to go, not to mention it’s a fine introduction to Megan; a friend and fellow foodie you’ll be hearing more about!  There is a very active food movement here and I’m excited to share it with you.
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Earth Eats is a weekly podcast, public radio program and blog bringing the freshest news and recipes inspired by local food and sustainable agriculture, featured on Indiana Public Media on the web.
The Local Growers’ Guild is a cooperative of farmers, retailers, and community members dedicated to strengthening the local food economy in Southern Indiana through education, direct support, and market connections.  The LGG’s mission is to create a local food system that provides quality food to communities through direct markets and retailers; preserves the viability of family farms; improves the quality of life for growers; makes food issues visible; and promotes practices that preserve and protect the Earth.

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My Favorite Commercial

contributor Anon De Plume
My favorite commercial was the one where they were trying to sell me that thing that I didn’t need by using Bernay-eseque Freudian psychology, invoking my natural human emotions through the use of allegory and association.
My favorite commercial was the one where they made me laugh and cry while simultaneously cementing my preferences and perception of reality through the use of right brain techniques, which treats incoming data uncritically, processing information in wholes, leading to emotional, rather than logical responses.
My favorite commercial was the one where teams of editors, writers, researchers, and producers colluded to produce a need for something that wasn’t previously there by releasing my body’s own natural opiates (endorphins) as I transitioned into my right hemisphere without any choice, thus becoming completely docile and suggestive.
My favorite commercial was the one where the higher regions of my brain (neo-cortex) was intentionally diminished through the use of hundreds of years of psychological studies and experiments, while at the same time exciting the lower brain functions such as the limbic system (reptile brain) which is unable to distinguish between reality and the simulated reality.
My favorite commercial was the one where I was rendered vulnerable to skewed views of reality written and directed by corporations who could care less about me as long as I am consuming their products and messages without question.
My favorite commercial was the one where I was offered the illusion of escape from my own existence, where driving the right vehicle, drinking the right drink, and owning the right stuff is the dream life that was scripted for me.
I am fully aware that the level of sarcasm in this post is going to fly in the face of a great many things that are close and important to many people (or as I would say was programmed to be so), my only hope is that the level of resentment is so high, that those individuals take the time to disprove me and/or find out for themselves the spell they having been operating under, because it is that awakening journey which reveals the greater insights into these strange days we find ourselves in.
“I watch TV but it doesn’t affect me.”
The average cost of a 30-second advertisement at this year’s Super Bowl was around $4 million. Think about that. By the time you got to this line in this post, a corporation somewhere was willing to pay $4 million dollars. Do you really think they would go to that expense if it wasn’t having an effect? They spend twice as much researching their audiences and finding out precisely what it takes to gain influence over you. If this seems implausible or if this is new to you, then at a minimum take the time to look what I’m suggesting. Google search “Television Mind Control” and you’ll find over 35 million results.
Take your pick and start finding out what is being used against you. Look into the history of it. Look into Bernays and Lippmann. Look into the refresh rates of your televisions and how they put you into an alpha state, the very same suggestive state a hypnotist puts you into. Ever try to get your kids attention when they are watching television? You say their name and nothing. You say it louder and louder until they snap out of it and reply “Huh?” That’s a hypnotic state they are coming out of.
Find out for yourself and for your family.  Here are some quotes to ponder:
“Those who manipulate the organized habits and opinions of the masses constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country.” ~ Edward Bernays (Assistant to William Paley, founder of CBS)
“We are governed, our minds molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of.” ~ Edward Bernays – Propaganda
“A handful of us determine what will be on the evening news broadcasts, or, for that matter, in the New York Times or Washington Post or Wall Street Journal…. Indeed it is a handful of us with this awesome power….And those [news stories] available to us already have been culled and re-culled by persons far outside our control.” ~ Walter Cronkite
“The media’s the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that’s power. Because they control the minds of the masses.” ~ Malcolm X
“We need a program of psychosurgery and political control of our society. The purpose is physical control of the mind. Everyone who deviates from the given norm can be surgically mutilated. The individual may think that the most important reality is his own existence, but this is only his personal point of view. This lacks historical perspective. Man does not have the right to develop his own mind. This kind of liberal orientation has great appeal. We must electrically control the brain. Some day armies and generals will be controlled by electrical stimulation of the brain.” ~ Dr. Jose Delgado, MKULTRA
“So long as they (the Proles) continued to work and breed, their other activities were without importance. Left to themselves, like cattle turned loose upon the plains of Argentina, they had reverted to a style of life that appeared to be natural to them, a sort of ancestral pattern…Heavy physical work, the care of home and children, petty quarrels with neighbors, films, football, beer and above all, gambling filled up the horizon of their minds. To keep them in control was not difficult.“ ~ George Orwell, 1984
“Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.” ~ Joseph Stalin

JUICE RAP NEWS – Ep. 17: The War on Terra

submitted by Gabrielle Price

Juice Rap News – Episode 17: The War on Terra.  It’s 2013 and the world did not end by meteorite or by Mayan calendar. But fear not: we might just be able to get the job done ourselves. Join Robert Foster as he sets out to discover where Civilisation™ is making the fastest progress towards annihilation. In this edition of the Civilisation Report, Robert learns about Australia and Canada – two oft-neglected pioneers of peace, progress and prosperity – in conversation with our antipodean colonial correspondent Ken Oathcarn and his Canuck counterpart, Fagin Heighbard. Dear viewers, consider this a fair warning that in terms of language and affront to the dominant culture this could get fucking messy.

Thoughts from the Editor ~ Stand In The Place Where You Live

founder/editor, Gabrielle Price

Greetings, dear patrons.

I have just finished my move to southern Indiana; settling in the fair city of Bloomington.  With a college campus less than 20 minutes away by bike, the average population in the summer, while school is not in session, is a modest 30 to 40 thousand.  [During the school year, it skyrockets to over 100 thousand.]

As much as I like academics, and having a college library [and theater] nearby – I am here for the locals.  The farming folks, the permaculture – the real culture – a community that is rooted in something other than entertainment, automobile culture, uptown/downtown thought processes.  I’m here for realness.

I have often said that I love Indianapolis – I still do.  But the city has changed – or perhaps it never did but I have.  At any rate, that old saying holds true for both sexes: You can take a girl out of the country…but you can’t take the country out of the girl.

I grew up in rural farmland that became a concrete jungle of fast food joints and strip malls.  Some of my favorite farms to look at while biking have become ruins on the outskirts of new housing editions, side by side cracker boxes, lined along beloved two-lane roads that used to hold surprises at every turn.  Now, they seem like a distant memory.  Now…those houses look like barracks.

This past summer found me in the desert of New Mexico and the city of El Paso, Texas.  The difference between the West and where I came from, eventually left me longing for home.  A place I’ve been searching for quite awhile now, to be honest.  The desert has her own language – it whispers rather than speaks loudly – but her messages were quite clear about where I needed to be.  Closer to the country I grew up around – the trees, hills and grass, the creeks and tributaries – the gravel roads I used to travel down in my youth, just to escape the small minded-world I lived in to see the night stars and wish…

I realized I need not have traveled far to gain this – but to understand it…to know it in your bones, is a far different story.  You simply won’t realize what you have until you learn that it could be gone tomorrow.  What I saw on my journeys these past years solidified a bigger truth for me.  I have always been blessed by humble beginnings. Many cities, burbs and towns have changed beyond recognition.  My hometown is not much different than many I visited but it hasn’t changed so much that it defies memory.

I understand with great clarity that this is not true for many.  I understand that landscapes, mountains, rivers and lakes have been defiled, grasslands laid to waste and blue skies replaced by tinges of burnt umber and smog.

It wasn’t always this way.  The elders could tell you.  They could show you photographs that would take your breath away.  Tell you stories about the finest fishing and the best creeks to draw a canteen-full of spring water.  I remember these kinds of places from my youth, too.  They are few and far between now.

The journey I set out on was about seeking the highest truth – and in my travels, I learned what I had always known – that the truth is right under your feet.  To deny the love of the earth you stand on is to be buried under the waste of a civilization that cares nothing for the sacred.  I understand with great clarity what it means to love a piece of land.

What my bones know is what I want to express via radio – because the writing has taken a backseat to experiences yet again and news is happening faster than I can keep up with.  It is simply easier to speak than write now.  My goal is to invite discussion and questions about the sacred, core values of human beings – to really get to the heart of the matter and get some damn healing done.

We’ve been lied to, exploited, spied on, sold out, cheapened, dumbed down – and yet begged for more?  I didn’t.  I know not all of us did.  I don’t believe that.  I don’t believe that because that is what the mainstream is selling…again. Numbers are fudged on a daily basis. Between polls and stats – all the way up to and including Wall Street indexes, we’re being collectively duped and made to feel as if we’re really clever because we’ve been spoonfed what we’re supposed to think about the whole ponzi. Even from the faces on the talking box we’ve trusted all this time.

Bottom line? The majority of media ‘in the main’ wears me the fuck out.  So I’m going to learn something new, share it and include others in the process of getting new ideas of what ‘American Exceptionalism’ actually looks like.  Ideas that meet my picky-ass standards and I’m damn hard to impress.  What I find here in my new home…impresses the hell out of me.  I feel 27 again.  I’m ready to have some fun. I’m ready to massage some brains with info AND art.  With data AND humor.  With reality NOT fantasy.

George Carlin said: “They call it the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it.”  He was right. The former years of my life that I spent trying to attain it – was a nightmare.

Thank Goddess, and thank you, Bloomington, for my wake up call.