First, let’s watch Tarzan dive off the top of the Brooklyn Bridge to escape pursuit by the police in the 1942 Metro Goldwyn Mayer film Tarzan’s New York Adventure. Boy (Johnny Sheffield) has been taken from the African jungle by the head of a circus to be made into a circus act. Tarzan (played by Olympic Gold medal swimming champion Johnny Weissmuller), Jane (Maureen O’Sullivan), and Cheeta (chimpanzee equal family member) embark on a long journey to the United States to rescue Boy from the head of a circus who thought Jane and Tarzan had died. They get to New York to search for Boy. Tarzan is shocked by the lifestyle and inventions of civilization and displays his quaint, noble ways. After many hardships, Tarzan, Jane, Boy, and Cheeta go back to Africa.
This article proposes that a Tarzan film be made that makes us think about how much of our primitive sensing abilities have been domesticated out of us. Remember, Tarzan was shocked. We have been weak as people. An exciting interesting family adventure film like I am suggesting shows our potential for regaining our psychic primitiveness. Regaining our psychic primitiveness makes us stronger. A film of this nature reminds us of our natural roots. A wonderful addition to the present cosmic awakening. Tarzan is a cosmic person. Tarzan communicates with animals while perfectly flowing with the natural world. Tarzan does not suffer from the overall conditioning that comes from an inhibited culture removed from the natural world in many ways. A Tarzan character certainly should be a mystic-clairvoyant-yogi-shaman.
A mystic understands Universal Consciousness. A clairvoyant has the ability to perceive events in the future. Clairsentience is “feeling” where the sentient senses the emotions of others. Clairaudience decodes messages with the ear and mind as opposed to the ear and brain. As a yogi progresses in awareness the yogi may gain powers of advancement called siddhis. A shaman interacts with the spirit world for the purpose of healing.
Knowledge of returning to our primitive roots is the first step. The aforementioned abilities are Universal abilities that are within us. A family adventure film will shed light on our potential. We will simultaneously be entertained and strengthened with knowledge.
I was born in Wisconsin to a Roman Catholic family. My mother June was a talented writer and started her own service club. My father Joe was a Right-of-Way agent for Bell telephone. Joe was an avid golfer and overall sports enthusiast. Joe would play sports with me and I became a life-long athlete.
I was known as a rebel and was expelled from the Catholic school I attended at the age of fourteen. I was arrested at nineteen for being a thief and was placed on probation. Around this time, not being happy, I turned inward. I worked at different jobs that did not satisfy my budding inner life. I traveled down south several times reading books trying to find myself. In 1980, at the age of twenty-seven, I enrolled at a local college. I was now in an interesting environment. I was curious about almost everything and I eventually majored in speech and psychology or speaking and thinking.
Many people told me that I was funny. I was able to make them laugh about unusual subjects. In the summers of 1981 and 1982, while still a college student, I traveled to Minneapolis and pursued the art of stand-up comedy. During these summers I would write comedy, run twenty-five miles a week and perform comedy at night. I was also a juggler but did not juggle in my stand-up act. I took up Hatha yoga and studied nutrition. In Minneapolis, I interacted with the local up-and-coming comedians. Minneapolis at that time had a small close-knit comedy culture that produced a good number of comedians and some became quite famous. I was making audiences laugh shortly after I started. During this time I was also performing comedy in other cities. I planned on being a professional comedian.
Catholicism conditioned me to have a clear inner voice. I had to make people laugh and the only way I could see to do it was to be brutally honest with myself. I thought honesty would align me with common reality. The Sisters of St. Agnes, who taught me, always told me to tell the truth. So I was continually examining myself and weeding out delusional thinking. This became my way of life.
One day in 1983, I was alone at my parents house and all of a sudden I had a massive spontaneous kundalini awakening. The awakening of this spiritual energy made me realize my self. I achieved the ability, among others, to see through other peoples egos or read their hearts. I was forever changed. In 1983 there was no internet or otherwise easily accessible information for me to be able to find out what had happened to me. Because of the massive explosion of energy my nervous and digestive system had to rebuild.
Due to what happened to me, I changed my plans and soon moved in with my best friend and her son. We lived together for many years. I hid out in college going on and off for thirteen years. I read one book after another to understand what happened to me. I eventually received an M.A. in Speech/Rhetoric and also amassed many extra college credits. Currently I am an investor and forever a student.
I am repentant of the trouble I got into years ago and the embarrassment it brought to my parents. People that knew me when I was a kid remark that I sure changed my ways. I went through what I call psycho/spiritual/physical alchemy or I transformed myself by healing the past and living in the ongoing present.
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