[kj] Lecture last night

[Neil Perry]

Thanks for that.
I think you'll agree (best read in a Marge Simpson-talking-to-Homer voice)
that we've put up with
a lot during our 30+ year relationship with this band. For a large part of
it, Jaz's beliefs have shaped
the band and their output, and this never detracted from my enjoyment
because I was never
being asked to accept those beliefs as fact. Jaz has spent a lifetime
researching and practising
various esoteric and mystical interests that, generally, added to the vibe
of the music, and I
was happy to accept it all as part of overall KJ experience.

However, his recent lurch into full-on conspiracy theory mode I find...
what's a polite word...
irritating, and to hear he's gone down the chemtrail route is particularly
irksome.
The chemtrail theory is one of the dumbest among a whole pack of very dumb
conspiracies...
it is so rediculous that I can only rationalise it by thinking that this is
some sort of multi-layered
joke from Jaz, because I cannot accept that he actually thinks this has any
basis in reality.
'Chemtrails' are condensation trails - that is why the real name is
'contrails' - and are formed when
plane engines spew out water vapour, which crystallize into ice in the cold
air. This is what those
trails are - clouds of ice. That is why they hang there, and slowly
dissipate (and note, contrary to
the conspiracy claims, they do just hang there, achieving nothing - if
something was being sprayed, wouldn't the
sprayers want the substance to reach the ground?)
Just think about it: The entire commercial airline industry - because every
single jet plane in existence produces these trails - is working
for their respective governments/the NWO, to spray something on the planet.
And not one person, among the millions who
work in the airline industry, including hundreds of thousands of trained
pilots, who presumably have to
do the spraying, has ever blown the whistle, or even asked, Excuse me,
what's this stuff coming out of my plane?

OK, sorry, rant over. This is not mystical or esoteric, it is idiocy of the
highest order and it just drives me fecking mad.

On 18 June 2015 at 13:50, nicholas fitzpatrick <gasw30 at hotmail.com> wrote:

>  So, last night then.
>
>
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> First off, two items of news. Jaz and Geordie want to take 100 Gatherers
> to India at some point (October next year, I think) to complete a
> several-day pilgrimage around a holy mountain visiting various temples. I
> forget the name of the pilgrimage, but it is a well-established Hindu
> pilgrimage that takes place around a full moon.
>
>
>
> “If you’re on the dole and can’t afford it, we’ll just find a way for you
> to go”.
>
>
>
> Jaz said that him and Geordie wanted to act as “mentors” to the 100 to
> help them identify their inner genius. The idea is, IIRC, to then meet at
> the next full moon in the UK, and then again a year later to see how much
> life has changed.
>
>
>
> Second item of news, is that Jaz plans to do more lectures around the
> country between tour dates.
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>
> The whole activity appears aimed at, as I say, helping those who want to,
> to identify their inner genius.
>
>
>
> Last night was a game of two halves. The first half was about the New
> World Order and the various conspiracy-theory spokes that come out of that
> topic. So we heard that the 100-year-old Rockefeller is at the centre of
> the NWO and wants to finish his project before he dies. And we heard about
> FEMA camps, about vapour trails dropping nano worms, control of population
> through food supply, and fluoride in the water….
>
>
>
> Frankly it was a bit of a ramble so a bit hard for me to put something
> down coherently about it. Perhaps others could do a better job.
>
>
>
> Although it was moderately engaging in places, when the break came and I
> turned around to see that my two pals (who aren’t fans) had left early; I
> wasn’t surprised. You had to be very sympathetic to Jaz to sit through
> non-sourced and surely in some cases wildly exaggerated claims.
>
>
>
> For example, he spoke of a US senator who did or found something out
> (can’t remember what it was but it was alarming), but he didn’t name the
> senator so how can that be verified? Why wouldn’t you name the senator? It
> just wreaks of pseudo-academic research.
>
>
>
> Another example, this time of exaggeration: he mentioned that a member of
> KJ was close to Rockefeller and, by implication, has some great
> looking-hole into the whole conspiracy shebang.
>
>
>
> Obviously he’s referring to BPF here… but c’mon, are we seriously expected
> to believe that BPF and Rockefeller are tight? Are we supposed to believe
> that Rockefeller, who knows presidents, prime ministers, celebrities and
> the other four people that run the universe, suddenly, in the very final
> years of his life, as he’s getting towards 100 and going to die, thinks to
> himself, ‘I know, I’m going to become really close to that guy there, the
> one who plays drums in a band. He once dusted down the toes of an ancient
> Buddha sculpture for my Foundation, where he works part-time along with
> 14,000 other people who I also don’t know. I’m going to let this guy into
> my inner sanctum and I’m going to tell him everything.’
>
>
>
> Course he didn’t do that. Course he f-ing didn’t.
>
>
>
> The second half I suppose dwelt a bit more on the spiritual, though again
> it’s a bit hard to sum it up as the road he steered through this topic had
> many turns, junctions, and needed resurfacing in places.
>
>
>
> He ended though with a very nice reading and seemed moved as he left the
> stage quickly.
>
>
>
> Forgive my somewhat negative review. I’m sure there’s lots I‘ve missed. It
> was as always a great privilege to sit in with Coleman and I think it’s
> great that he does these things.
>
>
>
> He was in a friendly, relaxed mood and there were many flashes of humour.
>
>
>
> About 5/10 for content.
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> 8/10 for delivery.
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