Forbidden Knowledge

“So... this lifestyle coach, Tony Quinn, he grew up on Arbour Hill and we think that he probably lived there since he was born until he became this sort of successful health guru. He first became controversial when he supposedly brought yoga to Ireland –and he didn’t do it specifically on Arbour Hill–but apparently the houses on Arbour Hill were a commune at some stage or oth-er and they would’ve held his crew. Well not really his crew; his followers. And he kind of spends his time between the Baha-mas and Dublin and in the Bahamas he makes a lot of money do-ing his seminars. And he’s expatriated himself so he’s trying to keep his tax separate from Ireland which is pretty much like what U2 are doing really. There’s this group of squatters who are still squatting in Dublin and they have a massive squat now and they’re the most resilient group of people ever. Every time they get evicted from a house they automatically have about five or six properties lined up to run in to and live in. And they’re political about it too, like if a landlord showed up and said ‘em, you can stay here if you start paying money’, they wouldn’t stay there because they don’t think they should ever have to pay rent. So after monitoring Tony Quinn’s houses for a while, they found themselves in a position where they could move in. And it’s three houses in a row so they took all three of them and they found that the gardens were connected and it’s possibly something to do with tax that you pay less tax if your garden is all one then your property is considered one..? So they lived in all three houses and while they were there they didn’t know that they were Tony Quinn’s houses initially. They figured it out because they found post and different kinds of things that alluded to who lived there and the night I was there we were having a little bit of a party and they did loads of squat art everywhere- they painted flowers all over the walls and just re-ally took over. And the houses are totally modern on the inside. They’re not like houses that were left vacant for a long time; they’re beautiful modernized houses with Velux windows and lami-nated wood flooring and a kitchen island and stuff like that. But yeah, when we were there someone ran into the house next door and they brought this book out and the book was called ‘FORBID-DEN KNOWLEDGE’ and it’s essentially a book on how to evade tax and it would tell you how to set up an offshore bank account and how to put your assets into gold. So we were reading this and we came across this passage that basically said ‘it’s really im-portant to get someone to look after your property while you’re not there because squatters might move in’ ...! And they were howling laughing at it and they underlined it in the book and Tony Quinn had made his own little notes in the book with a gold pen as well. And later they went in next door and they found his wardrobe full of all his pastel clothes, you know, things that make you look more tanned than you are. And they all put on his clothes. So essentially they had squatted his house, his identi-ty and his knowledge.”

Immaculate Reception

Radio Is My Bomb is a 1987 anarchist pamphlet which provided a format for much of the political pirate radio stations broadcast throughout the British Isles. This included Stoneybatter’s very own platform, Radio-Active, which was broadcast from Niall St. Utilising both daytime and midnight broadcasts, they reached approximately 3km around the Dublin 7 area. The materials ranged from punk music, politics, anecdotes and even experimental use of soundscapes.

The station was shut down and equipment was confiscated by the Gardai regularly but fundraisers would quickly see the station back on the air-waves. In one strange occurrence, Bertie Ahern, while out canvassing in the early nineties, knocked on their Niall St door. Delighted to have this opportunity, they quickly hatched a plan to invite him in and secretly record him. In that very moment though, a child playing outside on the street was knocked down by a car. Bertie Ahern raced out to the child’s rescue and stayed with him until the ambulance arrived.

The station’s analogue aura is now gone but reproductions exist in cas-sette form while they continue to broadcast over the internet. http://radioactiveinternational.org/

How to tap out of Irish Water “In newer ones, these are the old type ones, in newer ones, you can’t open them like this. I usually use my keys to open them. I’ll just get a knife or something. This is actually a water meter here. The reason this has a water meter is because it’s a commercial property and commercial properties have them. But it’s similar to the things Irish Water are installing. So this comes with its own water key which is this blue thing, Same thing as the other ones [will have]. Counter clockwise to turn it on, clockwise to turn it off. You can of course turn your water meter off, but you will never be disconnected even if you don’t pay your bill. With electricity, if you get disconnected, you can turn yourself back on by putting the fuse back in. It’s the same with water, you can go outside, open up the cover and turn yourself back on.”

How to tap out of Irish Water “In newer ones, these are the old type ones, in newer ones, you can’t open them like this. I usually use my keys to open them. I’ll just get a knife or something. This is actually a water meter here. The reason this has a water meter is because it’s a commercial property and commercial properties have them. But it’s similar to the things Irish Water are installing. So this comes with its own water key which is this blue thing, Same thing as the other ones [will have]. Counter clockwise to turn it on, clockwise to turn it off. You can of course turn your water meter off, but you will never be disconnected even if you don’t pay your bill. With electricity, if you get disconnected, you can turn yourself back on by putting the fuse back in. It’s the same with water, you can go outside, open up the cover and turn yourself back on.”

Scene 1

Educo V.O.: Can the way we use our mind affect pain control? Bleeding? Even recovery from a surgical operation?

Gay Byrne: Ladies and gentlemen before I introduce my next guest, I’m going to show you a short video. It shows a woman having an operation for the removal of a tumour in her breast. Nothing very unusual about that. Except that this woman is not under any anaesthetic of any kind nor has she taken any form of pain killer. That is to say, during the operation she is completely conscious, compos mentis. And if you’re squeamish about medical matters, operations I’m talking about, I would advise you to be very careful.

Scene 2

Tony Quinn: Going down now. Coming down now. We’re going down to that floor. And everything really begins to fade out and you’re very safe and secure, you’re so happy, and that means that nothing in the future is going to bother you in any way whatsoever.

So how do you feel after all that? It’s only a few minutes later.

Female patient #1: Absolutely wonderful, I can’t help feeling wonderful. Em, it was just a terrific experience I thought. Em, the more you talked the further I got into it.

TQ: And did you feel any pain at all?

FP #1: Absolutely nothing, just nothing at all.

Doctor Paul O’Brien: Very happy with it really. It’s normally an operation that we need to sedate the patients and give them local anaesthetic for such a deep lump. That was a lump deep in the breast.

FP #1: Was it yeah?

Dr P O’B: And then normally we’d either give them a general anaesthetic or a local anaesthetic with sedation. Definitely need post-operative pain killers you know, Ponstan and that sort of stuff… so she’s not had any form of anaesthesia at all. And have you any pain?

FP #1: Nothing.

Dr P O’B: Nothing. That’s a type anaesthesia, that’s….amazing.

Educo V.O.: Subjects in our study totally relaxed and then focussed all of their mind on not feeling pain. The mind then photographed that goal and it became a reality.

TQ: [To patient] And if you get even more relaxed again…

[V.O.] What you do is, bring them to a point where all of their attention was on the understanding that they weren’t gonnta feel any pain. So it would have to be to be at that degree so that their unconscious mind photographed that and there couldn’t be a virus or a flaw in it. In other words there couldn’t be a part of their mind left over to say, that’s ridiculous, that won’t happen.

[To patient] And at this level, nothing whatsoever can bother you, in fact, even if we were to perform an operation on you at this level… it wouldn’t bother you.

[whispers] That’s it now…

Now even if we were to perform an operation at this very, very deep level… and that’s what we can do… for you. Now after this you’ll feel wonderfully well in all respects and you’ll be delighted with yourself now.

FP #1: I wouldn’t mind in the slightest bit now. I mean even if you were to stick the needle in or whatever you were going to… or even do the operation now it wouldn’t bother me in the slightest bit. I wouldn’t even feel nervous about that at all.

Scene 3

TQ: And I’m relaxed, and you’re relaxed…

Female Patient #2: Mmmmmmmmmm……

TQ: Yeah? I’m relaxed…

Educo V.O.: One of the great medical pioneers of our time –in this area- Dr. Jack Gibson, supervised the operations.

FP #2: So good! so good!

Doctor Gibson: The operation is now over.

FP# 2: Ah no, another five minutes. I really enjoyed it!

Nurse: Did you?

FP #2: Did you ever get anybody saying that to you before?

Nurse: No, never! [Laughs]

FP #2: Yoooooooooo! [Swings operation cap around and throws on floor]

Doctor Mathews: Yeah, it’s just about some 45 minutes since we left the theatre…This is the patient completely relaxed, talking with us, equally pain free, smiling. I mean, it’s a great achievement.

FP #2: I’ll just say to you, I feel completely ok and if you hadn’t have said to me to be careful I’d do a bit of a dance for you even…

Doo… doo… doo…

Ok well I’ll just walk…

Scene 4

Female Patient #3: [Singing] Sit and cry a river… golly gee what have you done to me? Well I guess it doesn’t matter anymore.

You should have this thing called ‘Call the Tune’ you know what I mean?

TQ: [Chuckles]

FP #3: I was very aware of, of everything that was going on. But I was more interested in the singing.

TQ: [Chuckles]

FP #3: You know what I mean, but I had actually no pain.

Doctor Paul O’Brien: Even if I, say for example if I was giving local anaesthetic on several spots of the leg and I missed a spot … and if I tried to do one of those little jobs, one of those little holes on a spot that I missed with local anaesthetic, the patient would complain and hit the roof, so it’s a very, very painful procedure you know.

TQ: Right. So it’s not something you could just sit there and say, “I’m just gonna grin and bear this”?

Doctor P O’B: No you couldn’t… no, no, no. I’ve never come across anybody that could grin and bear it and we’ve done a thousand this year.

TQ: And you were pleased with the way…?

Doctor P O’B: Oh delighted, delighted. She was in great shape… she seemed to be very happy having it done. She seemed to be marvellous afterwards.

Send coded messages to your close friends and colleagues using these ancient norse runes!

> the name ‘rune’ itself, taken to mean “secret, something hidden”, seems to indicate that knowledge of the runes was originally consid-ered esoteric, or restricted to an elite.

> as you pose a question, one’s entire conscious and unconscious mind is focused toward the question, therefore the runelots selected are not truly random selections, but rather choices made by the sub-conscious.

> runecraft operates on an ancient form of psychology.

> even back in Viking times, there was a remarkable understanding of the human psyche.

> when one does a runic reading, one usually addresses a particular issue, and examines the past, the present and the “future”, or rather “what will be if one follows the path one appears to be on”.

> the future is always perceived as mutable, changeable.

> the runic reading is done as an evaluation process, not as fortune-telling.