T.G.: Psychic Rally in Heaven
Derek Jarman, UK, 1981, 8 min
Soundtrack by Throbbing Gristle (“Maggot Death – Live At Rat Club” from the album The Second Annual Report).
It features footage from a live performance and unintelligible visual noise, rhythmically interspersed to produce a throbbing effect
"The production of nervous force is directly connected with the diet of an individual, and its refining depends on the very purity of this diet, allied to appropriate breathing exercises.
The diet most calculated to act effectively on the nervous force is that which contains the least quantity of animal matter; therefore the Pythagorean diet, in this connection, is the most suitable.
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The main object was to avoid introducing into the organism what Descartes called 'animal spirits'. Thus, all animals that had to serve for the nourishment of the priests were slaughtered according to special rites, they were not murdered, as is the case nowadays".
