[Kzyxtalk] Introduction to TRANSMISSION MEDITATION

[Marco McClean]

Re: Introduction to TRANSMISSION MEDITATION

On 4/13/2017 8:14 PM, Nancy MacLeod, Bill Allen wrote:
 >
 >> Transmission Meditation is a non-denominational group meditation 
that does not conflict with other meditations or spiritual practices, 
but can actually enhance them.


Transmission meditation. My first car was a 1971 Chevy Nova. I got it in 
1975 from the back lot of a dealership in Roseville. It had the bare 
minimum: crank windows, plastic mats on bare metal floor plate, straight 
six engine with a Rochester one-barrel carburetor, three-on-the-tree 
manual transmission. The full extent of my modification to it was new 
shocks and a Radio Shack FM radio/cassette player ($29.95) hanging under 
the ashtray and two fifty-cent (!) bargain-bin speakers mounted in the 
rear dash, that made the whole trunk the speaker cabinet and it sounded 
great.

Here's the thing about the transmission: every once in awhile you'd be 
shifting between first and second, or the other way around, something 
would go CLUNK and you'd be stuck there. It didn't matter where you 
were, you had to get out, shimmy underneath, jam a big screwdriver 
between the two transmission levers that the linkage pushed this way and 
that, and pry them so one stuck forward and the other stuck backward 
--that was the un-CLUNK. Then you could get back in and drive away.

I got pretty good at it and could do it about as fast as it takes to 
describe it, but the first time it happened I had to figure it out and 
decide what to do to fix it. There was a satisfying period of 
experimentation, observation, meditation, and further experimentation, 
and then /eureka!/ But I'll tell you: absent the screwdriver no amount 
of wishing and hoping and banging on things, nor praying to Jeebus, 
would be of any use at all. There's a lesson there. Never sit down to 
meditate without a screwdriver.


In other news: I'm far away from Fort Bragg this week and doing my show 
by live remote tomorrow (Friday) night. So if you were planning to come 
by the radio station at 325 N. Franklin, next to the Tip Top bar, and 
play your musical instrument or talk up your project, or whatever, 
you'll have to put it off until next week.

An interesting show is shaping up, though, anyway. As usual I've been 
working on it all week, getting ready, and I'll be up all night tonight 
making sure everything is stuffed in or at least within reach. And the 
(somewhat fuzzy) deadline for emailing your material to be read on the 
show is always around 5:30pm on show night.

Memo of the Air: Good Night Radio is Friday night 9pm to 3 or 4am, 
107.7fm KNYO-LP in or near Fort Bragg, including midnight to 3am on 
105.1fm KMEC-LP in or near Ukiah. And literally there or anywhere else: 
http://knyo.org (Listen Live), or http://TuneIn.com (and search for 
KNYO-LP).

This will be my 993rd weekly Memo of the Air show, my 224th for KNYO, 
and my 78th for KMEC. This is a shop full of cranky metaphorical 
high-speed motorized tools and it's gone well over twenty years without 
an accident so, not to jinx it, I'm ordering a cake with a big red swear 
word on it for the party on June 2 for MOTA show number 1000.

You want to do a radio show of your own. Contact Bob Young 
bobb at poetworld.net and he'll help you get the ball rolling. (He'll 
balance you on the ball and give you a push.) There are good airtime 
slots open and waiting for you to careen amongst the spinning machinery, 
and then you just /tell/ me that wasn't fun!


--
Marco McClean
memo at mcn.org
http://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com