Tempo:
attempted mind-deprogramming is perhaps why I've hated the term "psychic" to this day -in addition to the fact that it has no legitimate definition.
So Gram and I used other words -- natural words, not artificial, such as sensing, feeling, seeing, hearing things that others apparently didn't or couldn't or didn't want to.
Very little in the way of culture-making managed to find itself imported into the isolated surrounds of Telluride.
But the 1920s and the 1930s were the age of "normalcy," of behavioral and psychological normalcy. And this culturizing factor DID make its way up to Telluride.
But whatever "the normal" consisted of, it had to be contrasted to what was "abnormal" -and of that there was plenty to choose from even in Telluride.
Many tests were given to find out if someone was normal or not. Those tests created various kinds of wide-spread crises from which, in my opinion, this nation has never really recovered.
The fear of being discovered to be abnormal is still a devitalizing and defeating social phenomenon trend.
As a child, I didn't actually comprehend the theoretical distinctions between the normal and the abnormal. And it wasn't until my college years that I discovered that the normal consisted of the lowest common denominators of what most people were -- and, most importantly, are NOT. In other words, is "everyone is doing it, then it must be normal and
So Gram and I used other words -- natural words, not artificial, such as sensing, feeling, seeing, hearing things that others apparently didn't or couldn't or didn't want to.
Very little in the way of culture-making managed to find itself imported into the isolated surrounds of Telluride.
But the 1920s and the 1930s were the age of "normalcy," of behavioral and psychological normalcy. And this culturizing factor DID make its way up to Telluride.
But whatever "the normal" consisted of, it had to be contrasted to what was "abnormal" -and of that there was plenty to choose from even in Telluride.
Many tests were given to find out if someone was normal or not. Those tests created various kinds of wide-spread crises from which, in my opinion, this nation has never really recovered.
The fear of being discovered to be abnormal is still a devitalizing and defeating social phenomenon trend.
As a child, I didn't actually comprehend the theoretical distinctions between the normal and the abnormal. And it wasn't until my college years that I discovered that the normal consisted of the lowest common denominators of what most people were -- and, most importantly, are NOT. In other words, is "everyone is doing it, then it must be normal and
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