from my unpublished/unpublishable manuscript, "Ampleforth's Miscellany":
Questionnaires
(1966) 30 Min. A documentary about the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Test and its applications to industry, the military, and schools. Demonstrates how emotionally disturbed people can be detected early for therapy and a cure.
Are you or have you ever become a stranger? Are there more than one person who inhabit your body? How many? What was their punishment? What was yours? Were your hands bloodied? Did you feel any pain? Did you crack apart on the shipping dock? Where went your furniture? Your balm? What are you still hiding? Why? Isn't it obvious we love you? Is it in the bottom of the cupboard panel, the hidden one, the one you dreamed connected to the other bathroom in your grandmother's house? How can anyone be specific? Whom shall you turn to among all these broken pieces of your friends? Who ever is whole any more? Who broke the original promise that broke us all? Whom else can we hang our guilt upon? And who are you anyway?
I grew up in Christian fundamentalism, went to hell, came back, became a Presbyterian then a Buddhist Presbyterian, and now I'm a profane Presbyterian Zen Taoist -- not that I'm into labels or anything. Here's what I've learned so far: The more you know, the more you know you don't know.
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from my unpublished/unpublishable manuscript, "Ampleforth's Miscellany":
Questionnaires
(1966) 30 Min. A documentary about the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Test and its applications to industry, the military, and schools. Demonstrates how emotionally disturbed people can be detected early for therapy and a cure.
Are you or have you ever become a stranger?
Are there more than one person who inhabit your body? How many?
What was their punishment? What was yours?
Were your hands bloodied? Did you feel any pain?
Did you crack apart on the shipping dock?
Where went your furniture? Your balm?
What are you still hiding? Why? Isn't it obvious we love you?
Is it in the bottom of the cupboard panel, the hidden one, the one you dreamed connected to the other bathroom in your grandmother's house?
How can anyone be specific?
Whom shall you turn to among all these broken pieces of your friends?
Who ever is whole any more?
Who broke the original promise that broke us all?
Whom else can we hang our guilt upon?
And who are you anyway?
Dr. Mike
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