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Methods - Appendix: Transcript of the Demonstration 1


77 T: (5) How would ya er, expect to see a- you you mean all
78 the pain and suffering and stupidity and confusion in
79 the world how can there by a universal mind if a
80 universal mind allows that sorta stuff to go on?

81 L: Yeah, especially stupidity.

82 T: Uh. So either the the maybe the either the universal
83 mind is eh stupid itself or it's mad itself or it doesn't
84 exist.

85 L: Oh, it exists. It might be the sum total of the human
86 minds; but it it exists.

87 T: Well are you trying to, well, I mean, I've spent a lot of
88 time trying to work out eh, how that can, ah, be the
89 case, if it is the case. But, I haven't found any answer to
90 that (.) myself. But, eh I I still put a collar and tie on
91 under the circumstances. (.) Why not? Heh, heh.

92 L: Yeah. I asked him why he didn't kill himself and he
93 says he not ready yet.

94 T: Uh huh.

95 L: Well, I guess if you're dead, you blow any chance of
96 make, of doing anything good, huh

97 T: This time round.

98 L: Huh?

99 T: This time round anyway. (5) If we were just sitting
100 here without these uh, uh cameras on us and these
101 microphones, I wouldn't say anything just now. But, eh
102 I feel impelled to eh eh make an effort to keep talking
103 for the sake of eh people who are listening to it. Maybe
104 shouldn't bother.

105 L: Are people listening to this?

106 T: Yeah! A whole lot of people are listening that's part ah=

107 L: Huh?

108 T: eh

109 L: Wait, nobody told me tha tha tha the camers uz on.

110 T: The cameras (.) er, that guy's got, er as far as I know,
111 he's got the camera eh on just now and there are a
112 whole lot of people listening too.

113 L: Geeze, I wouldn't have talked about that stuff, if I had
114 known the camera's on.

115 T: It doesn't matter, it does ma urn [laughs] (2) How long
116 you been in Phoenix, then?

117 L: A year and a half.

118 T: And what brought you to Phoenix?

119 L: I was trying to escape the conspiracy and it didn't work.

120 T: And what conspiracy?

121 L: Well, if there is one I suppose you're a conspirator and
122 so you know already. If there isn't, I guess I just
123 imagined it.

124 T: Well, ah whether or not I'm a conspirator and whether
125 or not you are imagining it, are you prepared to er eh
126 ah ahgive me your account of what that conspiracy is?

127 L: As much as I can figure out, yeah.

128 T: Well, go ahead.

129 L: Ea, well, I think a conspiracy (.) doesn't exist so I just
130 don't think about it. If I don't think about it, it is not
131 there too much. But, then, people like Peter, people like
132 Dr. Stumpf, ea you know, they tend ta make me believe
133 in it again, so [sigh] so I try to avoid those people. I'm
134 not going to talk to you any more. [to person off
135 screen] No he's alright=

136 T: [laughs]

137 L: =(When he talks about) his job.

138 T: Is it a benign conspiracy or a malign conspiracy is it?

139 L: Huh, wha, well

140 T: Is it a conspiracy for good or for evil?

141 L: How the heck if I know but if anybody messes with me
142 like that I don't care. But you what I figure, is urn, you
143 see the mind creates a whole lot of things. You know, I
144 mean, I see mind as really powerful, and and people
145 subconsciously their minds always interact. They do.
146 I've seen that=

147 T: Yeah

148 L: =You know (3) and urn, people see what they expect to
149 see.

150 T: wa

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Hermeneutic Research on Psychotherapy. Methods: A Journal For Human Science
[Special Issue, Annual Edition].
Guest Editor: Martin J. Packer. University of Dallas, 2000.


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