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2 TI he CI ac I camas P rint WEdNEsdAy,JuNE 5, 2002 Change your mind, change your life Wisdom is obvious, but it wijl never be seen unless it is sought. Seeking wisdom does not mean running away to a far-away land and asking some guy on a mountain what the meaning of life is; it is simply paying attention to your daily life. I suggest that you start by paying attention to your state of consciousness. This you may begin doing right now: take a pause to analyze your present state of consciousness, then see how what you are reading changes or affects your state of consciousness. If you have trouble with the term “state of consciousness,” just go with “state of mind.” I am sitting by a computer, playing with a Slinky. The per son next to me is reading the lyrics to Tool songs. All in all, it reminds me of what it is that I am living for. That moment gone, I begin writing. I contemplate going to a woodsy grove, a place where I can more easily manifest a peaceful state of conscious ness. That is what I shall do, but first I will finish writing. The woods have a natural, chaotic (not chaos in the sense of disorder; I mean chaos in the sense of perfect order) useful guide for improving atmosphere of sensory stimuli your daily life and mental that is at harmony with my pre health. ferred thinking patterns. The Suppose that you are indoors linearized environment of under fluorescent lights. Your buildings and the city in gener state of consciousness closely al is at disharmony with what I resembles narcosis as you head perceive to be natural, healthy for the door. As soon as you thinking patterns, and therefore step outside, your head clears such an environment manifests up and you feel slightly alive. in me a negative state of con Normally this would have gone unnoticed. What lesson can be sciousness. State of consciousness is learned? I believe that if a significant affected by virtually every thing in your body and/or number of people began pay environment. Drugs, type of ing attention to their state of lighting, ambient noise, coir consciousness, a change would ors, other people and even occur in the way that people what you believe all affect relate to each other. In addi tion, the physical structures your state of consciousness. Amazing observations can and environments in our lives be made in your daily life by would soon change in a way paying attention to your state that would be more conducive of consciousness. Though this to a peaceful state of con area is very much neglected, I sciousness. To reach Jesse Gurry nski e-mail believe that it will prove a very important area of study in hateapparatus@hotmail.com or the very near future, and is a drop by B-104. Ditch the cubicle, run away from reality Staff Writer«: Nick Barron Jesse Gurzynski Shadra Beesley Andy Price Jennifer Kane J.J. Pearson Megan Cobb Isaiah Creel * Secretary: Joanne Gale Adviser Patty Mamula Goal«: * The Clackamas Print aims to report the news in an honest, unbiased, professional manner. The opinions expressed in The Clackamas Print do not necessarily reflect those of the student body, college administration, its faculty, or The Clackamas Print. Products and services advertised in The Clackamas Print are not necessarily endorsed by anyone associated with The Clackamas Print. The Clackamas Print is a weekly publicationfind is distrib uted every Wednesday except during Finals Week. The Clackamas Print Copyright 2002. I couldn’t ever work in a cubicle. It would be like being an animal, having someone breathing down my neck all the time. Trapped. I couldn’t handle having a boss either. Someone who tells me what I’m doing wrong, and decides whether I get a Christmas bonus. That is, can I buy that huge impractical gift for my child. Many of my friends are getting married, having babies, moving on to “real life,” as they say. Well, I’m fairly content with my pretend life for now. So, I’m taking off, I think, into the desert, away from these cities that twist us with anxiety and obligation. I will cover myself with paint and act only on my impulses, not what I think my impulses should be. I’m off to a place whefe'I can wander aimlessly for hours without a care in the world for anything but the present moment. I’m going to a place where I will never be - forced to say a commonplace thing just to fill in the blank space in a boring conversa tion. This place exists, you know. It’s probably a state of mind more than anything else, this place. But people have a hard time getting there without leaving the country or taking drugs. And when they come back from either trip, they slowly for get how to live all over again. There’s a way to cope though, in this place, with random acts of senselessness and beauty. Beauty that peo ple may not recognize as beautiful. Like getting naked and running down the street in the middle of the night in the rain, singing Christmas carols in June, breaking glass bottles, or jumping off a bridge into deep powerful water and feeling it take control, knowing that there’s something Big out there... Human nature doesn’t extend much past acting like a freak, but for some reason the Puritan notion that we must act like sensible, fear ful, law-abiding individuals has taken control. Granted, society wouldn’t work if just any old person jumped off a bridge or ran naked down the street breaking things. We could all still handle loosen ing up a bit. So let us go then, you and I, to a place where the sun is shining and we don’t need to abide by the rules assigned to us. Where we can sit in the shade, eat ripe grape fruit, play in the waves and send a message back to the “real world,” showing to those stuck in cubicles, where the rain comes down daily, what great things there are. To reach Erinn Lerten e-mail goawayrocks@hot- mail.com or drop by B- 104. What are your plans for summer vacation ? Advertising: The advertising rate is $4.75 per col umn Inch 19600 S. M o I a II a A ve . O reqon CiTy, O reqon Marlies Berney Amy Rose Debnian Anzaldua foreign language pre-nursing psychology 97045 (505) 657-6958 X25O9 CCCpRiNT@clACI<AMAS.CC.OR.US hnp ://dE pts. c I ac I cam AS. CC. OR. US/pRiNT “School To get may prerequisites out of the way for nursing,” “Working for a masonry, and for I fun Fm going to Texas for two weeks.”
