"I Am A Fishead" (2011 Sept 11): A Review

[58andfixed]

I am a huge fan of documentaries, especially off-beat ones, well researched with highly qualified collaborators, and have had this addiction for a long time.

One of the earliest profound documentaries was about the Bildebergs that I watched after most of the other channels were airing test patterns, some morning while at University, slowing my mind after a long night of study around 1974. It was a narrow selection of choices, but this one was way more interesting.

After discovering a deep degree of naiveté in elementary school, I was questing for understanding - that means discovering information, making it coherent, testing new ideas against as many other ideas as possible to vet both the existing and the accepted, to discern understanding.

In this process I stumbled across *knowing* and there is a huge gap between information, mere belief & *knowledge*.

This is my perspective here on PA, and reflects my bias.

It was my profound pleasure to trip across a documentary by Misha Votruba and Vaclav Decjmar.

They hired Peter Coyote to narrate. If you are into documentaries, there is a high probability you will have watched one of his efforts. You can check out Peter on Wikipedia here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Coyote).

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/Peter_Coyote_crop.jpg/187px-Peter_Coyote_crop.jpg

The producer's web-site (http://www.fisheadmovie.com/) introduces the video as "This is a film for people who want to know."

That's for me.

Big promise, and they kept to a very high standard.

"Every meaningful change starts with awareness."

"In our culture, we not only praise psychopaths in the highest positions of power, but in many cases, they became our role models."

"Challenge your beliefs!"

"We have delved into the world of psychopaths and heroes and revealed something crucial about us."

What does one do after the evidence for a perspective is so profound, and so complete, one cannot simply leave it on the shelf ?

The personal perspective is then evaluated. The path within. Wow !

My first response is that I want others to see this. The understanding gained from this video, will make their efforts more efficacious, and less guilt ridden.

First one needs to be educated on some behavioral observations of people, by professionals in a relevant field of study, preferably a range of professionals, to mitigate the issue of narrow bias.

Nothing to lose and everything to gain.

Hope and clarity of purpose can be a great motivator.

Find it on torrent servers or find it here. (http://www.tagtele.com/videos/voir/75418/1/)

http://www.tagtele.com/videos/voir/75418/1/

Part 1 is 35 minutes.

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[meeradas]

You already pointed towards this on a different thread...
so i got all parts; am almost thru part one - so far: Excellent stuff.
Thanks!

[NeverMind]

You already pointed towards this on a different thread...
so i got all parts; am almost thru part one - so far: Excellent stuff.
Thanks!

I suggested to 58andfixed (on that other thread) that this documentary deserved to be viewed independently, instead of being buried within another thread.
I am glad s/he agreed. :-)

[kathymarie]

"Knowing" is why I'm here on Avalon. I'll check these out....thank you.

[NeverMind]

The problem with some of the behaviours described in the film is that they are also used - for unacknowledged manipulation purposes - by people who would never think of themselves as manipulators, let alone "psychopaths", and inflicted by them upon unsuspecting friends and acquaintances. Whatever the intention, the harm done can be immense.

Watching this I couldn't help but remember, with pain in my heart, a friend - and ex-friend - of mine who once fell prey to a clairvoyant or something, who was, by all accounts, a "good person". I am sure she was, but this good person filled my friend's head with exactly the type of fluff that is described in the intro of this film: you are more special than anyone else (paraphrasing here), your gifts cannot compare to most other people's, and so on and so forth.

My friend really was talented, but was also mentally highly, and increasingly, unstable. Until she met this clairvoyant, she could be kept more or less grounded - that is, focused on specific ways to make progress in this world, by work and self-discipline (talents with no discipline lead to highly unproductive disarray), even though she often lost her footing and went on drinking binges, wasting everyone's time and exasperating (and even physically and mentally abusing) her friends.

And then she met this mentalist or whatever she was. She came to my home crying tears of happiness because "finally someone understood her".
I was on the verge of tears myself, but not out of happiness. I was afraid she would stray completely from any semblance of structure.
And she did.
When I tried gently to steer her away from that person, she lashed against me, to put it politely.

I can be as patient as Job, but I am no masochist. And clearly I could be of no help to her anymore, so I stopped seeing her.
She didn't try to contact me, either.

I hear she is now a complete ruin.

[dan i el]

it was okay but a bit lightweight imo

[58andfixed]

Hi NeverMind:

It would have to be a much larger collaboration to have been more complete. I'm going to privately send some constructive ideas, in case they contemplate a 'version 2.'

There are many slippery slopes, and can suck people we know and ourselves, onto paths that turn into cul-de-sacs.

Hold an intention that you desire a happy, healthy, wholesome and aware mind for your friend, and see if someday they don't show up in some bookstore somewhere, someday. :)

And then you can re-bond, and use these kind of 'events of a duping nature' as lessons to pass onto others.

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I hear she is now a complete ruin.

[58andfixed]

Hi Dan I El:

I'm curious to know more of your assessment - 'lightweight.'

What issues that would have been appropriate to give the documentary more added gravity ?

In comparison to some other documentary ? --- Which one, and why is the alternative so much more comprehensive ?

Would you like to share what you view as "The Problem," with some ideas for remedies or solutions ?

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it was okay but a bit lightweight imo

[NeverMind]

Hi NeverMind:

It would have to be a much larger collaboration to have been more complete. I'm going to privately send some constructive ideas, in case they contemplate a 'version 2.'

There are many slippery slopes, and can suck people we know and ourselves, onto paths that turn into cul-de-sacs.

Hold an intention that you desire a happy, healthy, wholesome and aware mind for your friend, and see if someday they don't show up in some bookstore somewhere, someday. :)

And then you can re-bond, and use these kind of 'events of a duping nature' as lessons to pass onto others.

- 58


I hear she is now a complete ruin.


I apologise for not having replied earlier. I only noticed this post today, when I linked to it.

From what I am hearing, she is nowhere near to being able to re-bond even with herself, let alone with me.

But I could not agree more with what you say about intention - and what a power intention has! - and perhaps I should try doing that for her, too.
(I did do that in the past, but when she wanted to start abusing me, I cut her off - in my mind - for a year, because I was already half-drained emotionally; I am specifically pointing this out because I do not believe in reciprocity.
Then I tried again.
Nothing had changed, so I retreated again.)

Thanks for reminding me to do that once more. :-)


P.S. I just hope people who may be reading this reflect upon the weight and impact that off-hand compliments that are not really meant, or are outright lies, might have on an unstable mind.
I am sure the streets of old (and new) Hollywood are paved with the "bones" - broken dreams and lives - of hapless girls who were told "you should be in the pictures!", simply because the person who said that thought they were pretty, or was just being "nice".

Of course it would be far-fetched to blame that "clairvoyant" for my ex-friend's mental breakdown - but she sure did not help. And I doubt she was even being "nice". The fact that she promised my friend "continued guidance" - payable in cash or by credit card, thank you very much - may have something to do with it.