.....and what if i use standard british english to search for 'owd frog's boon' - dazzlenation?...ah, then it comes up.....see previous posts....go figure:
reading between the lines....i can see that carrying one of those - was a marvellous memory aid to getting it 'exactly right' in the field....particularly on days when you weren't really 'in the vibe' let us say....oh and the rite is linked to drawing down the moon, let us say...the moon often standing as a metaphor for that which is safely hidden in the subconscious mind....skills learned by habit...that you could do in your sleep but sometimes, your mind goes 'blank' and then you need a memory aid to etc etc...and so in short, stan knew of a wonderful way to inscribe into memory - by doing a powerful ritual which produced a tangible object.... a physical memory aid, if all else failed - in order to continue doing, what you did best....God forbid that you lost your 'frog's bone' - you'd have to go out and make another one, i suppose etc etc....but there you go....as it goes, eh?....additionally, we have a similar instance in the book...where a ploughman has to light his pipe, before starting work....an onlooker is puzzled...that might hamper the work...but as the 'owd boy' knows....after his pipe is lit....he knows exactly what to do with consummate ease...it is all part of the 'ritual' or 'habit' if you prefer...gets you into the vibe....and you can do it, without thinking about it etc etc....go figure.
and guess what...bobby's mob had laughed at the above use of a blue exercise book....hmmm...at langley seniors - blue was used for 'history' and red for 'maths'...although that was to change once the stock room began to run out of every colour....and we were then told to buy our own...browne was to tell me that WHSmiths was the place to go...anyway, i can remember that at one point, some of my class' maths books were 'yellow' before that colour ran out, too - i suppose...i can remember whalley getting into huge trouble for drawing foolscap (full scape?) horses, throughout her yellow maths exercise book....lol....the teacher had held it up to the whole class...as an example of extreme wastage etc etc...hmmm..that word 'foolscap'...oh i 'get' it now...whalley and the fool's cap....mr edwards in his magician's 'cape'...the fool in his wizarding cap 'n' cape......go figure:
and yes, we can also see the 'downside' to it all...the use of poisonous plants....and the association with the devil....hmmm....reminds me a bit of the birth of photography and that lucifer cult which had grown up around it....in short, instead of owning the fact that human beings can have the 'power of the divine' as it were.....inventing something as miraculous as photography....or being so brilliantly attuned to nature, that your knowledge of the seasons becomes second-nature...instinctive...and not just about when to plant - when not to etc etc....becomes almost God-like....human beings can turn to the demonic....it must be the devil's work and not God's etc etc...i've put it badly, dazzlenation...but that appears to be the 'gist' of it...."immersion" replies BI online...ah, is that when things can go wrong, according to Zimbardo?...when you become too immersed and can't see the wood for the trees etc etc...."immersed in a cult"....go figure:
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