My Dinner with Andre Page #13
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- 1981
- 110 min
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He said, " I think that New York is the new
model for the new concentration camp...
"where the camp has been built
by the inmates themselves...
"and the inmates are the guards, and they
have this pride in this thing they've built.
"They've built their own prison.
"And so they exist
in a state of schizophrenia...
"where they are both guards
and prisoners.
"And as a result, they no longer have...
having been lobotomized...
"the capacity to leave
the prison they've made...
...or to even see it as a prison. "
And then he went into his pocket,
and he took out a seed for a tree...
...and he said, " This is a pine tree. "
He put it in my hand and he said,
"Escape before it's too late. "
See, actually,
Chiquita and I have had this very unpleasant
feeling that we really should get out.
We really feel likeJews in Germany
in the late '30s.
Get out of here.
Of course, the problem is
where to go.
'Cause it seems quite obvious that the
whole world is going in the same direction.
See, I think it's quite possible
that the 1960s...
...represented the last burst of the human being
before he was extinguished...
...and that this is the beginning
of the rest of the future, now...
...and that from now on there'll simply be
all these robots walking around...
...feeling nothing, thinking nothing.
And there'll be nobody left almost
to remind them...
...that there once was a species
called a human being...
...with feelings and thoughts...
...and that history and memory
...and soon nobody
will really remember...
...that life existed on the planet.
Now, of course, Bjrnstrand feels
that there's really almost no hope...
...and that we're probably
going back to a very savage...
...lawless, terrifying period.
Findhorn people
see it a little differently.
They're feeling that there'll be
these pockets of light...
...springing up
in different parts of the world...
...and that these will be, in a way,
invisible planets on this planet...
...and that as we, or the world,
grow colder...
...we can take invisible space journeys
...refuel for what it is we need to do
on the planet itself...
...and come back.
there have to be centers now...
...where people can come and reconstruct
a new future for the world.
And when I was talking
to, uh, Gustav Bjrnstrand...
...he was saying that actually these centers
are growing up everywhere now...
...and that what they're trying to do,
which is what Findhorn was trying to do...
...and, in a way, what I was trying to do...
I mean,
these things can't be given names...
...but in a way, these are all attempts
at creating a new kind of school...
...or a new kind of monastery.
And Bjrnstrand talks about
the concept of" reserves"...
...islands of safety where history
can be remembered...
...and the human being
can continue to function...
...in order to maintain the species
through a dark age.
In other words, we're talking
about an underground...
...which did exist in a different way
during the Dark Ages...
...among the mystical orders
of the church.
And the purpose of this underground...
...is to find out how to preserve
the light, life, the culture...
...how to keep things living.
You see, I keep thinking
that what we need...
...is a new language...
...a language of the heart...
...a language, as in the Polish forest,
where language wasn't needed.
Some kind of language between people
that is a new kind of poetry...
...that's the poetry of the dancing bee
that tells us where the honey is.
And I think that in order
to create that language...
...you're going to have to learn how
you can go through a looking glass...
...into another kind of perception...
...where you have that sense
of being united to all things...
...and suddenly you understand everything.
Are you ready for some dessert?
Uh, I think I'll just have an espresso.
Thank you.
- Very good.
- I'll... I'll also have one. Thank you.
And...And, uh, could I also
have, uh, an amaretto?
Certainly, sir.
Thank you.
You see, Wally, there's this incredible
building that they built at Findhorn.
And the man who designed it
had never designed anything in his life.
He wrote children's books.
And some people wanted it to be
a sort of hall of meditation...
a kind of lecture hall.
But the psychic part of the community
wanted it to serve another function as well...
...because they wanted it to be a kind
of spaceship which at night could rise up...
...and let the U.F.O.'s know that this
was a safe place to land...
...and that they would find friends there.
So, the problem was...
'cause it needed a massive kind of roof...
...was how to have a roof
that would stay on the building...
...but at the same time be able to fly up
at night and meet the flying saucers.
So, the architect
meditated and meditated...
...and he finally came up with
the very simple solution...
...of not actually joining the roof
to the building...
...which means that it should fall off...
...because they have great gales
up in northern Scotland.
So, to keep it from falling off,
he got beach stones from the beach...
...or we did,
'cause I-I worked on this building...
...all up and down the roof,
just like that.
And the idea was that the energy
that would flow from stone to stone...
...would be so strong, you see...
...that it would keep the roof down
under any conditions...
...but at the same time, if the roof needed
to go up, it would be light enough to go up.
Well...
it works, you see.
Now, architects
don't know why it works...
...and it shouldn't work,
'cause it should fall off.
But it works. It does work.
The gales blow, and the roof should fall off,
but it doesn't fall off.
Yep.
Well, uh...
...do you want to know
my actual response to all this?
- Do you want to hear my actual response?
- Yes!
See, my actual response...
I mean...
I mean... I mean,
I'm just trying to... To survive, you know?
I mean,
I'm just trying to earn a living...
...just trying to pay my rent and my bills.
I mean, uh...
Ah, I live my life.
I enjoy staying home with Debby.
autobiography.
And that's that.
I mean, you know...
I mean, occasionally, maybe...
Debby and I will step outside,
we'll go to a party or something.
And if I can occasionally get my little talent
together and write a little play...
...well, then that's just...
that's just wonderful.
And I mean, I enjoy reading about
other little plays people have written...
...and reading the reviews of those plays
and what people said about them...
...and what people said
about what people said.
And I mean, I have... I have a list of errands
and responsibilities that I keep in a notebook.
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Submitted on August 05, 2018
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