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dtsgmeirtantsdieinem'thoutknowingthe tint thing about the functions of the extmeioutrandauhtxmsgiousenind. But now it'sout, My. “There can nolonga’bethenlightutdoubnhatthe fullyaneathetind patienteanbothhear andmmemher,rutiahaud",writetsa I am indebted to a kind reader who recently sent me a newspaper clipping which I found both astounding and en- managing. The headline reads: “Anesthetized pa- tient can hear and remember," and the subheod new 'Surgeon warns that oper- ating room conversation should be watched." Then the stat? writer asks: "Is the patient really 'out! under mouthed; while the surgeon mete-'1 Or in the to everything that is being did?’ What I tind mains ia that this obvioua fact is being, recognized in the The powers of your subconscious mind Aarottwillrxseal1,theitmsewatsa amtnr-leadinguptoiast autumn’s municipal election. There were a lot of it-trs-nd-theat-merit," mtogimwuyl _ One citation the business develop ment deparunem has responded to in ,mhirtgits"-iti-andrnshanta deaiedioputtotuprxtasas?"Theahoet mu nndpotitieians who ova-nee our etrrirttmrnndedourtaxdo1ltms. maths about the city’s agreement with Tmto developers Torgan/Entredev. The agreement in about the city fievelop- ing {parking garage near-Tarzan}: -tertmtteexmtstmetedtxmunereia1/rstail complexinUptom - Sometimes it's amazing what bureaucrats do thingwill emanate from the hallowed hllkofone level ofpoweror another. Somethingthatgiveaatiny peek into hmrthirttptmtrmilrrun,howbuainea itoetualtremthaetedtry those bumau. trritten by the hairless tkvelorltnirest Think it’s ,rttrth your trouble?" Mer a moment's thought (I’m not capable dmuch longer), I had to agree. What an eseeeitte in futility. And so, while I dutifully continued on, I certain. ly didn't overextend myself. Comment I was out raking the front lawn Sunday, when a neighbor from across the street stalled over for a welcome to suing chat. “What are you doing, Rick?" "Well, uh, raking the lawn. You know, winging the grass. Then I'm heading o'19thtgttNentxmtretogetsomeseeii and fertilizer." "Well," came his reply, "if that isn't an exxxseite in futility." Don't you remember what the lawn watering ban did to your lawn last summer? Don't you remember the straw jokes, and how you couldn't walk in bare feet on this rug, it was so dry and brittle? So why on earth are you putting yourself through this torture? They’ve announced they'll be There’s absolutely no benefit from these exercises Every gone in a while a little_isorne. Instead, I commie: ;list of other Dr. David B. Cheek, in the in two iveeka, journalofthelnternntionnlAndemyd' Winn“. main; is the our media] schools still seem to he enlisted with tunnel vision and the some they start teaching holistic medicine, the sooner therwi1letstehupwithtttetimec onedoetsnottteedtsnrpeutieuiartrairs. ingtoknaw thatthesuhrxmaeiommind never sleeps. How else can one walk or talkinone's sleep? Whatisitthstwskes aparmttattheteiighteatstirringofttttattr inanotherroom?Whatisitthatkeepeour bodies functioning when we are uncon- scious either through sleep, coma, hypnot ism,oranesthetic? Youdon’thavetoheanexperttorealize Wonderful, except that the agreement with Toma tlie, in the fare of recom- mendations in those reports Parking watrtobeinthenorthendofKirtg Street. The propaganda also lists the public consultation about the agreement after Therealtstorrhereiathatthepublie hadinputinto WoodsGordonandArxxe , (an essentially complet'ae anyway. Big answer to the question would be "rs", something that accounted for much of the contnveny. Buttheeitr'apmpagamitt,andthatis what it really is, claims that people had input in principle through the Woods Gordon (1982) and Amp Study (1987) While weie on the toirirk"iuair,'is there any greater exercise in futility than trying to plan your week around a exereiaes in futility in my life. And it didnt take me long to come up with some beauties. For instance, have you ever tried to explain to a baby that his stomach is full, his bottom is dry, he's not sick and his parents love him dearly, so there is no need to cry? Try it someday. Now that’s an exercise in futility. Ever tried to guess which day of the weekend is a good one to wash your ear? Do it Saturday, just in case it rains Sunday. But if it is going to rain on Sunday, why bother washing it at all? Geoffrey Fellows Perspective City Seen Ian Kirkby' "That’s LTe' Rick Campben' city hall types decide it should instead go along with a proposed new develop meat in the lem prosperous north end of King Street. Citizens who had put in their tmrhita in agreement with the original plan would see their opinions ignored They wouldn't find out about it until an agreement was virtually ready to be signed. tht the other hand, citizens in the ttoethendofKingStreet,whohadnot studies, but city politicians and bureau- crats then reinterpreted the recommen- dations in order to ensure Torgan would locate in Uptown Waterloo. Your opinion didn't matter. What mattered was the opinion of a small group of city hall hotshot: working with a private developer who they wanted to locate downtown. Of course. members of the business development committee (local business leaders) knew the gener- alities of the negotiations. We didn't. So let’s imagine a different scenario here. Say the (fictional) Poem study had in 1986 recommended that a garage be located along Herbert Street. Then later, The subconscious mind controls the body and, therefore, has the power to make us well or ill. Because it is highly susceptible to suggestion (either hom all that, in fact it's better that you are not, for it is the experts that seem to be having the trouble. For instance, Dr. Cheek goes 1mtfytr_"Itishardtoregariia seemingly insensate patient as being aware, but surgeons and nurses had better start being careful what they any in the open . room." Dr. Willing H.L Danette. when chair- m d the division (1' may u the Univcity of Tennis-ea. who - withthehdintpsoiDr. Cheek,tsaid,"hut Ibearthattheattitudeofthetypical Stu-gem is one of disbelief'. Dr. Cheek studied the recalled subcon- scious memory of more than 600 mice] patients. He said that conversation over- heard while unconscious during surgery M331], atyld cause surgical MM} ExperienGi anouGGeiGie in futili- ty during a recent visit to my aoooun~ tant. You do all these neat little things "'Ney didn't, the/just said they'd be up some weekend, but I want the place to_look nice, just in case." Ah. floor, strictly in anticipation of unex- pected guests dropping in. "Well, hon, that's the 14th week in a row we've waxed the kitchen floor, when did Biff and Solina say they were coming up to the Farmer’s Market?" Another exercise in_fut;lity _ cleaning your house 'P clean you could eat off the pour rain. Why, oh why do meteorole gists bother with this rrveday stuff? We're not going to fire them, are we, just because they can't tell us what the weather will be doing in rwe days Most of us don’t know what we'll be doing in five days, never mind the weather. fiveday weather forecast? "Hey, Rar phone. supposed to rain all week except Thursday. Let’s book the tee-off time for that day." And ofoourse, it will be sunny every day except Thursday, when it will "isa/e' In} 'fi'u ru', V "tcr v, iitti'ti --andtherewilltoonftediaruptimtsirt the 0ptoms--andtaxbillstobepaid. And meanwhile, the business develop ment department insults Waterloo cm was with aelfoervutg propaganda dis guised as answers to some very serious and legitimate questions about a devel, opment Waterloo will have to live with for a very, very long time. tspeakout,mhodystsenutowanttohear youropinion later, 0ntheotherhand,even ifyoudo,and the consultants agree with you, bureau, CrautttuttNerturtt it anyway Andqaend youth: money doing it. trovmy is just beginning, Torgnn not wanutot8seniuretailiip-arear whey than originally projecwd - 1990 spoken outagttirtattheplnnbemtuaert didnootreathern,willwddeerlyseea parkinggamtenextdoor, 'rotqsitallotf,othereiti-illbe told that ifthey had concern about parking,theyihould havennkenupnt tbePocraopenhearings.lnthiscity,if through may.“ 'mmbyu'ng two years ago. (Hint: Knots Landing. and not much else.) Watching the Toron to Maple Leafs and actually believing they are going to improve in our life time, Trying to rand a parking spot In Waterloo Town Square after 930 am, Therearernore,ioostnanymore No time now, though, have to go buy a can of green paint, to fertilize my lawn whole and well theendruultthatia ourselves or others) It will produce a physical response compliant nth the messages it recewes. One can Imagme the effet on the patient who has salmon sciously mulled the surgeon saylng. "Well, I've done the very beat I can, but I don't see much hope." Ot comm. many surgeon- have known about all this " a long an. had have my I“ ”in; - M might convey -fee In” to their amnion: patients. In fact. they do the opposite, and take the oppa-tum'ty to gm their patients little [wept-1h to build up tlteirsuhtomreiousemttu-. for _ Our Inn-gems are regard“: nnng count]. lives, [ta-hops this unofthat patients are aware arm and In the operating room could nave even an: Some moreexereiaes in futility Trying to keep track of who's telling the truth and who isn't at the Dubin inquiry Trying to convince yourself that Michael Wilson really does care about cutting the deficit by blasting the middle class and lowerend benefits while allowing big corporations to escape his wrath, C'mon Mikey. Finding an intelligent aerittronTvthatgmssmorethanUr weeks without tossing in a rerun from to help reduce taxes, like buy an RRSP, and have a child, and give to every charity going - and then you find out I year later that the deductions aren't worth diddly Bquat. 'ytrrttimiudirmsedhr Ewan-1&2" ,