{The Phenomena and Quality of Christ}[18th March 1988]

[Redbook5:88-92][19880318:1252]{The Phenomena and Quality of Christ}[18th March 1988]

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*It reminds me of that other great Sixties hymn:

'If you come** to San Francisco,

Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair....

Oh, if you come** to San Francisco,

You're gonna find** some gentle people there...'

My White Rhodesian cousins*** – or to be accurate, one of them**** – loathed that song, and I think I can see why now. These songs perhaps serve a purpose at a very early stage, but their results are easily corrupted. The states of mind which result from these sorts of phenomena, which perhaps correspond to the brain-washing or cleansing phase, need to be focussed.

One disconcerting test – I speak from experience – is: can these phenomena be used by the advertising industry? It is disconcerting because I have seen, on TV, [O]-type light and sound effects (which are not, of course, original with the [O]) being used to advertise (for example) shares in a company, and religious-type music advertising lavatory cleaner (I think). These phenomena open the mind: anyone can pop anything in. They are probably subject to the law of diminishing returns.

*[Age of Aquarius – see last previous entry.]

**[sic – the published lyrics for the first verse show 'you're going' for 'you come' & 'meet' for 'find'. And no 'Oh'.]

***during U.D.I. [the Unilateral Declaration of Independence from the United Kingdom by the Government of Rhodesia in 1965, which lasted until 1979.]

****[R] <891007> [See [Redbook2:42][19740814:0000]{A Trip to the Colonies}[14^th August 1974],ff.]

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