I remember when I was sharing an apartment in Newcastle in 1994 with my buddy Winston Churchill, not his real name so just using a code name like person C. My buddy and I were around 18 years old and full time students. I was a much more voracious reader than he and suggested he tried reading my paperback copy of In Search of the Miraculous by Gurdjieff. This book is absolutely fascinating and probably the only book I have ever read that talks about mental centers, emotional centers and sexual centers in the body. I know if you ask a woman or talk about women a lot of people would think their emotional centre and sexual centre is the same thing but that's not how Gurdjieff put it in his book. What he says is that each centre, sexual or mental, can pilfer sexual energy from the sexual centers. So when people like Hitler and other demigogues start ranting and moving people with their voice, orators, this is an example of sexual centre being pilfered by the emotional centers. Likewise people like me as teenagers who were just constantly reading books one after the other and extremely cerebral to an extreme, their mental center is pilfering energy from the sexual centre. This might have explained my extremely low interest in sex and general asexuality as a teenager most of the time, according to Gurdjieff's theory. I don't know if he said there's a spiritual center. Definitely when I went to California my libido disappeared so that wasn't a mental emotional centre but maybe a spiritual centre. It's a little like Kundalini with the Hindus except I never heard the Hindus talking about mental and emotional centers.
I mean this is the only book by Gurdjieff I read but this book is amazing. I had a girlfriend that year that was a two timer and couldn't make her mind just to be with one guy and also cheating on her boyfriend by misleading him (not me) that saw me reading my Gurdjieff book and she began to cotton on I was an intellectual type. Later I showed her my ID and explained I wasn't 20 but only 18 and that I'd lied to her because I didn't think she'd agree to screwing an 18 year old being 22. She agreed to that. Whatever.
Russell Brand as an accused sexual assaulter looks a lot better to me than Rolf Harris and that Jimmy Savile guy. Not sure the statute of limitations with the law in England as per sexual assault cases. No idea how exactly Brand is instructing his lawyers apart from saying everything was consensual. I think legally the first witness in the bed sitting case scores maybe four out of ten for the prosecution. The defense really just have to paint her as wishy washy woman not sure what she wants. The MTV case is barely even a crime really, soliciting sex. Like women are doing that everyday with slutty outfits, why not just let women vote on which man to lynch and get an algorithm to help them select candidates? I don't know. It's common in that industry for sex to be bartered around. I'm not saying this is malicious prosecution and empty prosecution I'm just saying legally it's hard to make this mud stick and Brand's lawyers seem to be doing well so far from what I can deduce as a non lawyer kind of pundit.
Brand's brand, I've never been a fan of this guy's brand however as I say he does not seek anywhere near as nasty as Harris and certainly Savile looks really evil. When I say Russell's brand I mean everything, the comedy, books, YouTube channel, movies, everything, never been interested much. Definitely a case of live and let live.
The bedsit witness did seem weighty and challenging to the defendants legal team no doubt, as per her version of events. Still good lawyers will create doubt as to her credibility.
The English are odd. Nietzsche judged them as guilty of moral tartuffery. Why do they have members of the House of Lords openly advocating for legalizing paedophilia and God only knows how many aristocrats and wealthy and judicial officers engaged in paedophilia rings and now all of a sudden we have to be terribly concerned for victims of Russell Brand as this big predator. I don't know, I have reservations.
Sorry, In Search of the Miraculous is not written by Gurdjieff but one of his followers, PD Ouspensky, a Russian mathematician. But this book is an absolute must read. I'll post an AI blurb on it here:
Definitely with the bed sitting witness the defence should question her deeply about her perception of Brand as gay and subsequent idea on the matter.
