Mission of KPFK and Pacifica. Now to live up to those good words.

       "Pacifica Mission Statement"

"KPFK and Pacifica are founded upon a Mission Statement which to this day remains unique in radio broadcasting:

        THE PACIFICA FOUNDATION RADIO 
               MISSION STATEMENT  

(a) To establish a Foundation organized and operated exclusively for educational purposes no part of the net earnings of which inures to the benefit of any member of the Foundation. [*]

(b) To establish and operate for educational purposes, in such manner that the facilities involved shall be as nearly self-sustaining as possible, one or more radio broadcasting stations licensed by the Federal Communi-cations Commission and subject in their operation to the regulatory actions of the Commission under the Communications Act of 1934, As Amended.

(c) In radio broadcasting operations to encourage and provide outlets for the creative skills and energies of the community; 
to conduct classes and workshops in the writing and producing of drama; 
to establish awards and scholarships for creative writing; 
to offer performance facilities to amateur instrumentalists, choral groups, orchestral groups and music students; 
and to promote and aid other creative activities which will serve the cultural welfare of the community.

(d) In radio broadcasting operations to engage in any activity that shall contribute to a lasting understanding between nations and between the individuals of all nations, races, creeds and colors; 
to gather and disseminate information on the causes of conflict between any and all of such groups; 
and through any and all means compatible with the purposes of this corporation to promote the study of political and economic problems and of the causes of religious, philosophical and racial antagonisms.

(e) In radio broadcasting operations to promote the full distribution of public information; 
to obtain access to sources of news not commonly brought together in the same medium; 
and to employ such varied sources in the public presentation of accurate, objective, comprehensive news on all matters vitally affecting the community.                                         - - -
* Article II Subsection (a) was amended March 6, 1971, filed April 9, 1971, and corrected amendment filed May 5, 1971".
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(c) 2016  mj =    Yes !   KPFK might be seen/ heard as varied rich fabrics of the mind. And with unexpected allied views that overlap - and do not conflict nor control ....each or any other ones.    So to do, KPFK must help = to  CREATIVELY EDUCATE =  in how to be supportive of many points of view, many different divergences of opinions, of many varied experiences.  

And to be tolerating of every "Other" kinds of beliefs, of even 'normal' or 'ordinary' lifestyles.  And to even Include what is labeled as 'establishment' and 'traditional' ways-  of majorities also living life on Our Earth.  Yes ! include voices not otherwise easily found nor heard on KPFK. But be not limited. 
  
Be Not limited to the selected Only-1 view and outrage - that allows no others equal validity and expression on KPFK air waves.  Allow and promote sharings without prejudices - those which do not just go only-1-way, but may flow in more, in all different + other ways. 

How ideal can programmers still be while those who select programs for KPFK  to allow opposites, divergences "in" to the program diet ?  And can they have some difficult-to-swallow-ideas also let live-within-these-broadcast-realms ? To share air space?   

In Actuality, not in mere words and promises. But be allowing, listening to more than 1-slant, 1-side, 1- or 2-only chosen ethnicities ?  Being INCLUSIVE  and including - of what is labeled as "disagreeable" to the already-"In" people at KPFK - and yet let those too to occasionally also be HEARD - on 90.7 FM in Los Angeles.  

How OPEN and Educational can KPFK be and stay OPEN to more than the same old version of what is their-definition of 'good' and 'allowed' ? Before closing off all "them" others who may 'disagree' or 'are different than are we' ?

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The Mission statement that is so lauded and repeated is then not easily followed or allowed reality on KPFK's airwaves. With mostly specially selected politics, slanted alliances, and preferred prejudices are now sounding off - on the radio broadcasts too often. 

Not by every programmer, but by most. Those who 'tow the line' and are chosen because they too adhere to the "Victim is to be Most Honored, admired"..... and all others are dismissed.

As if, KPFK had a duty to save and broadcast every outrage, every angry viewpoint, every found criticism of groups that the station management -and ancient stuck-there-programmers -  all who insist only They are Right and Righteous. And those claim The Right to repeat and Proclaim themselves arbitrers of Truth and Goodness. Them. And Often loudly.

Variety appears - as in varieties of music, tho some kinds are never heard on KPFK.  Europeans are mostly called 'privileged' and 'dominating' ... and so are exluded, demeaned or ignored - as if "they" were 'bad' or undeserving - of even musical representation.

Variety in viewpoints and opinions is less varied at KPFK than music,and is and more in apparent-group-agreements.  The Left is good. Anything else is not.   

Anger is claimed as honest speech - with slang and crude vernacular words spewed out rather easily. While more thoughtful language with diverse versions or coverage of those guests & events are avoided. 

Variety in topics presented is not "educational" so much as presenting political preferences with a branding towards a 1-only outcome.   

Promotion, as of candidates for government offices, are obviously presented, though that is not part of the Mission nor actually allowed for non-profits.  So, if no $$$money is traded, and no one notices or complains, then prejudiced promotions easily slip in anyhow.

The Mission seems to be antiquated idealism that is given verbal allegiances - but more seldom given actual Open-Minded presentations or on-air exposure. 

The strict adherence to a slanted world, one wanted for the same Power and Influence everyone-else wants -everywhere and anywhere- appears here in some radio-air-time too. 

That is KPFK's pride and secret solo-access - to ears and minds and then influencing  KPFK listeners towards their chosen 1-biased goal.  No matter if it is only Left-sided,...not Middle, nor Crooked nor Straight nor Curved ....nor Right-sided. Only Left is heard on KPFK.Limited. Repetitive.

The rest of the sky-seen-rainbow & spectrums are ignored and denied, as when only 1-bias is chosen. Then 1-color /side /view /story only is given radio-air-access on this radio station. 

All else or others must be heard and found elsewhere. 

Because limitations do not make for a broad, full, open educational presentation.  Fit-In to KPFK's prejudices or be gone. 

Donations go with those who want more variety of mind-thoughts, and better view-points,plus more informed-stories and creative know-how = to be heard - elsewhere.

The KPFK Mission apparently is identical to the one listed for Pacifica, because if there are variations, they cannot be found on their website or online. 

The wishes of the original founders and first programmers  that set-up these radio stations cannot be full-filled - and are barely adhered to now.   The words are stated as if in agreement, while the results do not seem to show that agreement, as is broadcast-on-air.

Lucky for those who have reception to more and other radio in Los Angeles, to not be limited to just 1-sided propaganda. As that is what is  presented, tho not as Mission-programmed - now.   

All the variety of Creative Skills and Creative thinking of this Community is in conflict with those limitations of the chosen-only alliances, closing off so many others....who may disagree or think differently or want expansion to their thinking. 

Maybe it is just as well, that the tightening of the noose then forces many donors & listeners to seek more variety elsewhere instead.

Maybe, it is part of KPFK's plan to push away any donors and listeners who want more independence of thought and creativity in their actions. 

Maybe, no one is listening in there with an open-mind and daring to speak-to-truth-and-those-in-power at KPFK.  Maybe....

(c) 2016    mj 

 

 

KPFK and Pacifica...lawsuits and more, reposted info here .

The whole article dated apr 3,2016 is posted on        http://pacificainexile.org/archives/1823   

for more information not included herein about Pacifica’s other radio stations are there.

Please note that quoted parts are in quotes “ and [additional comments are not. ]

(c) photosbyalexandria.com 2016

What does a sea anemone have to do with KPFK or Pacifica ? They hide deep inside and close up when observed or touched, pretending to their sponsor-stakeholders they are "OK" and ethical, honest, and even transparent, while covering up and closing off any information that indicates otherwise. Luckily, some people who go deeper and uncover some vital, should-be-public information to those who donate and care about Our Radio Station's survival keeping giving 'the rest of us' hints and bits of info. And surpise ! Bad news mostly is learned and shared, as it Should Be, and as hypocritically Pacifica & all personnel claim they do. but dont. 

quote “ Pacifica missed audit deadlines in 2014 and 2015 and was declared ineligible for CPB funding. Another $750,000 may go down the drain in June of 2016.”   .. With Pacifica under investigation by the CA Attorney General, the wisdom of complying with California’s Nonprofit Integrity Act, which also requires the submission of audited financial statements by 9 months after the close of the fiscal year, is clear.” 

quote “Pacifica has been out of compliance with the NPA for the last 21 months. Pacifica’s status with the California Attorney General’s Registry of Charitable Trusts shows as delinquent again, most likely a reflection of the missing financial audit…..” 

quote “…faction’s first attempt at setting up a secret nonprofit was dissolved after 8 years in existence. 5 years before Margy Wilkinson and Dan Siegel set up the KPFA Foundation to acquire Pacifica’s licenses in the event of insolvency or dissolution, Save KPFA associate Sherry Gendelman secretly set up The Friends of the Pacifica Archives as a CA nonprofit with herself as the agent for service. Gendelman was serving as Pacifica’s Interim Executive Director and chair of the board of directors in 2008.  Friends of the Pacifica Archives was dissolved by Gendelman in February of 2016.    ….”

quote  “Both Pacifica’s corporate counsel Terry Gross and DC-based labor lawyer Cathy Harris complained about disrespect from Fuentes to their professional advice. Gross resigned from his position as Pacifica’s corporate counsel on March 25, 2014 rather then continue to represent the board majority. Pacifica has not had an official corporate counsel since.”

[this is more about WBAI in NY but relates to Pacifica expenses and shenanigans, causing “ all  connected radio stations expenses as well ]        

quote “Chartis Insurance, wary after forcing attorney Dan Siegel off the Eva Georgia * sexual harassment case after Siegel tried to represent both Pacifica and Georgia individually, insisted Brown and Pacifica must have different attorneys. “

quote “Brown attempted to get himself dismissed from the case early on, but unfortunately was held in the case all the way through discovery (Brown faults Pacifica for this), and the legal fees in the case practically doubled as a result. The judgment included legal fees in excess of $150,000, payable by Chartis Insurance to the attorney, and attorney costs to Brown for taking the action to collect the money.” 

quote “…the temporary withdrawal of the piracy and premiums fraud case filed by broadcaster Gary Null in January of 2016. Null emphasized the withdrawal was temporary and the request was filed “without prejudice”, which is a legal term for a withdrawal that allows refiling of the identical complaint against the identical defendants at another time. Null discussed his case on WBAI….”

[There is more info on issue above in original article, see link above ] 

[ note: * Eva Georgia was KPFK’s general manager for many years, ending her term with lawsuits from employees and her own also]

[  And  no one mentions all the intangible benefits of email harvesting from events and ticket sales that benefit the non profits who sponsor such money-making events..the ways people can be solicited for money or political alliances or whatever the radio station slants itself toward or into….         ]

quote “a look back at fulfillment rates from 2012-2015 revealed that KPFA’s fulfillment rate was 86%, not the 90%+ she had insisted was the case for the last four annual budget cycles.…” 

[ So many wonder if KPFK has not done the  very same sly maneuver - and claimed to have more and then is shown to be less ‘successful’ with less and debts that explode suddenly and exponentially ….causing another cry ‘wolf-less’ or ‘poor us’ to elicit monies from the same giving-listener sponsors who come to the Rescue of the Poor Victim radio station.  

Also when these Pacifica stations cannot live off what they raise in donations, they lay off or reduce hours of union staff, causing more lawsuits and expenses, instead of cruelly reducing pay of it’s workers – those few paid staff members who are needed just to maintain basics ! ]

quote “KPFK general manager Leslie Radford sent the LA station’s staff a social media guide. The 14 page document is a listing of the names of various platforms for content sharing and instant messaging with descriptions cut and pasted straight from Wikipedia link (with the footnotes missing). It contains no instructions, no samples of how content might be shared, and no social media planning”. 

quote “Seemingly prepared by a new volunteer, the so-called guide would be useless to anyone without social media skills and insignificant to anyone with them. The document illustrates how far some of Pacifica’s executives are from a professional understanding of social media and how unable they are to convey *what* the network’s social media approach and plan is.” 

quote “….the disastrous March 19th special program that went awry with a 20 minute meltdown …..the engineer at the remote location explained “the board operator at KPFK didn’t know how to monitor the audio feed, so he didn’t hear the conference speakers”. GM Radford continued to inexplicably blame “wires”, instead of management leaving inexperienced and unsupervised personnel at the station’s controls. You can hear part of what was broadcast here. “

quote “….the Safe Harbor programs have been axed from the KPFK station’s archived programs due to the hosts not filling out Soundexchange logs for the payment of streaming royalties.”

quote “To remind [us]  to keep laughing and keep fighting for a Pacifica Radio that can not only heal itself but also help to heal the world, take 30 minutes to enjoy this Twit Wit radio satire from way back in March of 2014 when Pacifica’s national office was occupied in an effort to keep the network from being dismantled.”   

[Humor is indispensable when all else is failing …] 

quote “For readers who may wish to do more, any donor to a California-based not for profit organization like Pacifica may file a complaint to the open file at the Registry of Charitable Trusts at the Office of the CA Attorney General. Pacifica’s case number is CT011303. The form and instructions for filing may be downloaded here. “

© 2016 bt [ for all parts not quoted from original author at site listed above. ]

“Pacifica is in a dangerous process, again. Careful. Here is summary.

An informative timeline of events happening at Pacifica, KPFA and KPFK and other stations has been posted and is being quoted below with acknowledgement of work/writing done to inform ‘the rest of us’  - those of us who are donors, sponsors, stakeholders of Pacifica who have no voice and little information available.  

Anyone want to read older posts at this same site or subscribe there for future news articles are listed also.

If anyone has ‘other information’ or different versions of what is explained and exposed here could help balance or correct or inform ‘the rest of us’ -  of what else someone else KNOWS - or has evidence to show they know more or better too.  It can be written in comment here or at the poster’s original  comment site also.

Please do share and expose what else is to be known, to help those who otherwise are fast drifting, swimming, escaping away from the chaotic non-business-like moves occurring at  our radio stations or their umbrella network and management at Pacifica and it's board. 

There is so much hidden and denied that end up affecting what we, the radio-listening-audience-supporters do not know and can do nothing about - when we are left out of all information loops. 

We only hear what is externally presented as-if all was healthy, well, organized and honest inside the radio stations and their management/ staff operators too. It apparently is very different inside from what we hear -outside.

Secrecy, hypocrisies, conflicts and in-fights happening verbally, and maybe in other financial fighting ways also, leave all the the donors feeling helpless and cheated as well. The hypocrisy is the difference between the on-air presentations and the realities taking place inside, and with their board meetings & decisions.

Not knowing becomes  not trusting.

And then it becomes not paying again, either.  The more the differences are hidden, even of how to save or even improve Our Radio Stations, the poorer the organization we are $$$-invested too remain. 

So when real honest revelations are given some ‘light’ - and honest access to information is made available, we all want to help and keep our station safe and stable.  

Then also the more everyone who cares can and wants to contribute – in any way. Not just monetarily. Tho that is all that is ever asked for, more and again.

So:  here is quoted and re-posted revelations and a summary of events, from Pacifica In Exile. Org  is below  - for further exposing what is known and named by some few willing 'whistleblowers' and honesty-demanders. 

And if others may be posting differently elsewhere, let everyone share that too -  but where and what is said otherwise there ? And who dares tell The Truth without using  self-serving purposes ? 

We would like to be able to read, hear, learn and make some cautious judgements for ourselves, without interfering in any essential work of those paid to work & maintain Our Radio Stations.      

 

Wishing for good luck is not enough.    

We need to know, to share actual information of what is going on at Pacifica and Our own Radio Stations and let them be sold off or die away and regret our non-involvement later.

   

                      here is the news article from  :   

                 http://pacificainexile.org/archives/1817

              "A Timeline of the Coup"

"September 2013 – KPFA-affiliated board member Margy Wilkinson and former corporate counsel Dan Siegel secretly incorporate the “KPFA Foundation” to scoop up KPFA’s license and maybe some others should they become loosened from Pacifica.

 February  2014 – KPFA’s Margy Wilkinson declares herself the winner of a tie vote for board chair on the basis of a “fifth place vote” ranking when there were only two candidates running.

March 2014 – the board fires the executive director Summer Reese only 6 weeks after she signed a 3-year contract. Reese was pushing to get the audit done and cracking down on allegations of piracy at the NY station (and elsewhere throughout the network). Wilkinson appoints herself the new executive director

April-May 2014 – Reese occupies the national office until forced out by court order. Initial complaint filed at CA Attorney General by 8 former board members alleging financial mismanagement. Dan Siegel is secretly retained as Pacifica’s lawyer by the board majority.

June of 2014 – new board majority tries to amend the bylaws and vote down 9 of 10 amendments, all suggested by themselves. The only one they pass is one that allows them to try amending them twice a year instead of once a year. Wilkinson loots the restricted fund for the renovation of KPFK’s music studio to pay operating expenses.

July 2014 – former board majority member Hank Lamb calls for booting Wlkinson for dishonesty and withholding documents from the board. His motion is never heard by the board. Wilkinson dispatches experienced radio station manager Richard Pirodsky from KPFK and installs the former facilities manager as the GM to “save money”. The first comments about “amputating WBAI” are heard from board members.

October 2014 – Thee “call center” imposed on the California stations turns out to be run by a Tea Party politician in Oregon. Pacifica accepts a $156,000 loan, later a gift, from Southern CA real estate millionaire Aris Anagnos, the employer of board member Lydia Brazon. Brazon handles the gift/loan and does not recuse herself from the board vote to accept the money. Wilkinson loots the restricted fund for Uprising’s Indiegogo TV campaign to pay health benefits.

December 2014 – Bill Fletcher declines an offer to become Pacifica’s new ED. Pacifica’s 2013 audit enters its 13th month undone, now six months past the legal limit. The year goes by with no board election held.

March-April 2015 – 2013 audit finally appears, 18 months after the end of the fiscal year. John Proffittt, a Texas NPR exec agrees to be the new ED and to sart in June.

June of 2015 – Wilkinson appoints Siegel/Brazon board crony and community college speech teacher Leslie Radford the new GM of KPFK on her last day over the head of incoming ED John Proffitt. CFO Raul Salvador quits. Wilkinson’s “notepad” from 2013 appears with a list of her fellow board members categorizing them as “us”, “them” and “workables”.

September 2015 – John Proffitt quits as ED after 4 months on the job and is replaced by Lydia Brazon. 4 KPFK music programmers quit on air decrying Radford’s destructiveness and the entire station’s staff is put on involuntary half time. SAG-AFTRA takes Pacifica to arbitration for labor violations. The secret 2013 filing of the KPFA Foundation comes to light. Election delayed a month because Pacifica says it cannot pay a $20,000 postage bill.

November 2015 – Board members talk about mortgaging buildings and former Dan Siegel employee Jose Luis Fuentes describes bankuptcy as “a beginning”. KPFA is asked to return a $400,000 bequest made out to Pacifica that KPFA’s GM signed for instead of Pacifica’s CFO and deposited in KPFA’s bank account. Emails released show Radford’s “security guard” Adam Rice, who she has made the station’s volunteer coordinator, is providing instructions about program changes to the GM. Rice is overheard talking about carrying guns on KPFK’s facility.

December-January 2016. The board majority appoints two 2016 affiliate directors, neither affiliated with a station that is a current Pacifica affiliated station with a written agreement. Something’s Happening, the highest rated program on KPFK is shrunk to half its former time and is replaced by a program strip anchored by Rice that is premised on using profanity in the late night. KPFK rejects the board majority in a landslide victory for the independents that is overwhelming, but the rest of the stations end up with majority-affiliated or closely split boards.

Feb-March 2016 – Board majority insists on filling a NY vacant seat with last place finisher from 2012. When NY rebels, national board refuses to seat them on national board at all. New CFO is hired. Last job is a state department funded NGO that sets up American-positive community media projects in developing countries. 2014 audit now becomes latest audit ever. Two straight board meetings disrupted with music in acts of civil disobedience. CFO announces that NY and DC stations may face liquidation and sale in as little as 60 days."

[end of repost above ] 

 

© 2016 mm  [for parts outside of quoted section above]

Alan Watts talk here, typed from KPFK program

As one of the best Values KPFK has put on over many years is Alan Watts talks, that describe not only many and varied so-called Eastern religions translated for the Western mind.

As when Alan began these lectures and workshops in 1950-60-70’s, only the more dogmatic academics could read and understand what was going on in minds outside of their own cultures.

And representatives of Asian religions, who came with their own strict teachings, with limited English abilities and then taught as they had been taught elsewhere, that was mostly not a good-fit to Americans.  The ones who wanted to learn but not be strictly disciplined in other-ways, nor devote their lives to another religion or viewpoint. 

Roy Tuckman has continually replayed many audiotapes in connection with Alan Watts’sons - who retained the rights when he died in 1973.

And the KPFK audiences listened late-night, 1x/week, midnight mostly for years, because this was an unsual and free EDUCATION and contained new Revelations – not of bibles or books, but of UNDERSTANDINGS and other-ways-to-think-and-comprehend = 

"what is this life and world doing anyhow ?" 

"How does this work or where are we going ?"

“What is this all about?"

"How come it happens this way and not that ?

"Why are the majority called Christians in USA determined to only give just their view and demand all others just agree & join ?"    

How to understand from other people & their different ways ?  – the many & various huge, old societies - to Also learn how they Think and Wonder and Explain --  all this...

Instead of just being stuck in the usual linear, wealth-seeking, obedience-demanding societies we live within the Western 

worlds ?" 

Why is this same confusion encouraged and provoked by the 1-only Christian version of what This World we all Live In Together ?  Or also why the 3 Abrahamic religions insist that Only They KNOW and no one dare disagree nor diverge from their sacred books.

So Alan Watts was a studied and well-spoken teacher  - to many who sudden realized they could better comprehend and cooperate with This World As This Is  - when other versions of “how” it all comes and becomes emerged.   

He was funny and laughed at his own jokes, he was verbose and droned on tangents at times, but returned to the “point” he was exposing and revealing. And many who did not get immediately -bored by his talking style listened.  Again and More.

Because the stories and metaphors made sense and hit ‘home’ in minds and spiritual souls.

Because he spoke of expanding versions of  How It All IS and with fun & varied stories told over centuries by different cultures/ religions in world-wide-locations - those that differed but revealed more than what each had in it’s own limited version.   

Not that all Eastern-Asiatic philosophies are better or superior at all, no, but they offer wider, fuller, different explanations of how to Live well, in harmonies, and without the Western anxieties provoked by these limited religions - who all wanted control, obedience and no questions to their dogmas. Maybe other religions also require obedience and no diversions but Americans could learn the basics and not join-in to even their fortified structures.

So sometimes when listening to KPFK radio, we chose to do more: 

we typed quickly trying to catch as many words and thoughts from Alan Watts' lectures, replayed by Roy for our comprehension and education.

 Here is one and more will be posted.

Yes, they may be copied, as when rebroadcast on the radio, those lectures could have been audio-taped or recorded, or even from the then-archived replay available. 

The work of typing and copying is a gift here for any reader. That is a work done for SHARING WHAT WE FIND VALUABLE, not because it was Watts, but because as a ‘teacher’ and ‘entertainer’ he shared what he learned, as does Roy on his program, and as we do in different format here too:

(c) mj               for above portion only

( c) photosbyalexandria.com

A world we all want to wonder and understand. This one.

 

  

note:  that all emphasis are added here as heard or assumed by his inflections or the typist's chosing.

As heard from talk : ‘Tribute to C.J. Jung”  

 part of Art Of Psychonanalysis 1-2-3:

 Watts said: 

"I read commentary of Chinese Taoist text re golden flower by Jung – to remind myself that I could not escape from my own western cultural conditioning – a prison that become likes one’s limbs and brain that could be used but are limited in scope. So I have been a comparative philosopher rather than going overboard for exotic impulses. "

"....Call attn to 1 fundamental principle to his work exemplified in Jung:  his recognition of the polarity of life. His resistance to the absurd hypothesis that there is a absolute CONFLICT BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL in life.

"That conflict came up with ….that justified the German concentration camps… that Jung too would not subscribe to the Absolute state of war between Good and Evil… obviously, in certain kinds of thinking, where Right or Wrong only is allowed,…. were I in such a situation, where I might have to chose with  …

"I would oppose those sorts of doings with all the ways one is trapped into those [frame-words]…and recognize THE relativity of all notions, like spider and fly fight each other but as a human being I could not see any of my ancestors as being unreasonably evil…. the degree to which you condemn and find evil in others, so you find that evil in yourself…  

"There are people who are Unconscious of their own Dark Side and PROJECT THEIR OWN DARKNESS on to others, in denial of it in themselves…. and do great harm. 

"As with use of atom bomb threats. The most criminal acts of violence are done this way. Jung saw this. That in order to ADMIT and ACCEPT the evil in oneself, one has to do w/o being confused that one is unredeemable…

[Watts] ...had a talk with Jung in 1958 and enormously impressed with him – as ‘great man’ by his wisdom and sanctity, so when someone came into his presence did not feel judged but enhanced and invited to share in the conversation he had a  twinkle in his eyes that gave me the impression that he [had a thought of Vendanta in the back of his mind ] that he knew and recognized their rascality In himself and knew it so strongly, clearly and lovingly that he would not condemn the same in others…. 

"but those who do acts of violence and project the devil in themselves on to OTHERS outside themselves ..he could feel anxious under praise w/o being ashamed of feeling that way.. 

"he understood that he could not eliminate guilt feelings but accepted them, he could feel all w/o recriminations against himself or those feelings.

"....humor  at oneself is highest way of communication – vs,  malice at one self…the social ROLE one assumes, as a great scholar, scientist, leader, beautiful lady ..behind that façade there are certain elements not to be condemned nor wailed over but to ACCEPT one of greatest things Jung wrote to group of clergy:

“ even doctors have moral scruples… some things even doctors cannot swallow….no one can bring things about with mere words… if doctor wants to …….???... must never pass judgment….

"...take the opposite position but not condemnation…. to not confuse this with intellectual abstract point of mind but rather a deep RESPECT for any other view or person….  

to see the unseen presence of the divine will, the doctor should not be repelled by sickness and know WE CANNOT CHANGE ANYTHING UNLESS WE FIRST ACCEPT IT… 

"it doesn’t mean we don’t pass judgment, but to help another human, can only do it from knowing and understanding ‘the other’… simple but most difficult

requires art of ....[?]      

"acceptance of oneself first, to have the outlook that I ‘love’ my enemy, accept the beggar, and that what I do [as to Christ] I do forgive, accept and if I myself am the enemy to be ‘loved’? what then ?

- - - -- -  -

In another talk called : 

“hidden belief systems” recorded 3 mo before Watts' death: = he answered audience Questions:

"...all species have other species that keep them down, or are eaten as prey, that is the Ying and Yang of it.     

"when you really get into the NOW, you find that you stop judging ..stop evaluating…start noticing what IS present …. listening to all sounds happening     tho there is some embarrassment about anyone coughing or scratching and anger arises but that too is all part of the Present and Sounds present.    

"we can listen to all sounds without judging and can also observe human behaviors w/o judging…if birds chatter outside, we say ”oh it is just birds” so same we can say “oh, those are just people being people”…   

"learn to listen to any and all sounds w/o judgments …as just ‘a thing going on’ ..you cannot  meditate properly unless you can in a broiler factory and busy city traffic and then just ‘dig’ those sounds too…   

 

"the idea of having a WILL is phony !!!  that willing is saying I am something different and separate from universe…as if I could switch from being this to that state.. you cannot switch

       

"cosmic consciousnes is discovering what you are and Will are the same… the state of consciousness is not a separate state....

"we divide up universe with separate grid over your experiences, like on a graph, map, longitude and latitude on maps.. how do we get rid of the grid ?   simply by understanding that this IS WHAT WE ARE DOING,   recognize what is happening…when you realize earth is a globe not a plate you remember that and feel the depth in a 2-D pix that has perspective drawn in it…it is not 3-diminsional but how ‘we see it’.

" in Hindu cosmology, where time is discussed, there are 4 Yugas in ea time cycle, if you add up the yrs in which good prevails from those where evil prevails, good is 2/3 of time and evil is 1/3 of time…

"there must be some evil to give spice to the good but there must be an overage of good for the game to be played at all, but it is not ½ and ½ because that does not work, would be static.    Universe has flip-flop-ability, it has a certain imbalance, so earth does not revolve w/o sun but is elliptical and not circular…."