Mind Crash
(A POKE IN THE THIRD EYE WITH A SHARP STICK)
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METHOD 1. Violently struggle to avoid being pushed/pulled through a dark tunnel toward a very bright light. 2. Umbilical chord cut through. Feel pain? Cry out! 3. Forget approximately the first four years of your life. Speculate wildly about what might happen during this early period. 4. Mess around through school, somehow managing to grasp the basics. Experience alien thoughts. Draw bizarre pictures. Question everything you know about “orthodox” religion. 5. Listen to strange music. Fight. Abuse substances. Smash things. Stay in bed for lengthy periods. 6. Investigate/experience alternative customs/lifestyles/societies/cultures. 7. Study “unorthodox”, from Alchemy to Zen. Compare “orthodox” to “unorthodox” and find the exact same faults in each. Turn to Science for answers. Wait indefinitely. 8. Wade through days of sheer elation and utter dread alike. Believe in everything and nothing simultaneously, randomly and unpredictably. Have no clue at all about what the fuck is going on—even though you have access to all relevant information. 9. Attach fingers to a pen/keyboard/typewriter. Let your brain talk. Analyse the results. Publish regardless. Hide. Worry a little. 10. Violently struggle to avoid being pushed/pulled through a dark tunnel toward a very bright light. PURPOSE AND SCOPE Reading Mind Crash increases the likelihood of you becoming isolated and having to find water, food and shelter for many days, even weeks, whilst making your way back to normal reality. Small units reading Mind Crash together in widely dispersed formations, or on special reading missions forward of friendly lines, are more likely to be cut off than ever before. Large units reading Mind Crash whilst travelling great distances by air and sea make survival in remote and desolate areas a real possibility. The ability to evade the enemy and to escape if captured, both basic requirements of the Mind Crash code of conduct, demands every survival skill you can muster. The chances of being exposed to an emergency whilst reading Mind Crash is always present, especially whilst travelling. Therefore, survival techniques should be a part of your basic Mind Crash skill set. (Note: a small percentage of individuals may experience gnawing sounds whilst exposed to Mind Crash) Stop by www.mindcrash.co.uk and say hello if you get some spare time....
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Mind Crash sets out to explore the deepest recesses of the human psyche through the utilization of several, quite often brutal, language exploration techniques. The results; a seemingly random collection of metaphysical short stories, cut-ups, koans, poems and automatic writing, are often as unsettling as they are darkly humorous. Whilst employing these, frequently painful, mental gymnastic routines, the author unwittingly unleashes, and subsequently exorcises, a number of allegorical demons. Do not forget to bolt your windows whilst reading it! Mind Crash originally started life as a series of sporadic newsletters, available through subscription only, to a selective band of cultural "mischief-makers" dotted around the USA, Europe and Japan. These long-since out of print works, together with previously unpublished pieces, have now been composed into a single volume for the very first time. Visit www.mindcrash.co.uk for all the latest updates and interesting things in life...
About the Author
Mike Gill is interested in all things esoteric. He writes short stories and award-winning poetry. He has studied multimedia; making two experimental films for European art festivals. Mike also studied music, self-producing a number of punk, industrial and electronic releases under various pseudonyms. Visit the author?s website at: www.mindcrash.co.uk