You know, Mister Gallery, you are more anonymous than I am, but everybody knows who I am.

I certainly suspected that my extracting still images of Joan's interview might be considered as not exactly cricket.  Yet, Joan's interview in that particular clip was very disturbing to me.  I actually like Joan.  I think I can easily understand where she's at.  And I really wish that she would wake up and leave her illusions behind and love herself and love her life without the imposition of such an impossible task - loving the totally and completely imperfect, Prem Rawat.

Did you know, Mr. Gallery, that police love to scrutinize the micro-expressions of people's faces to determine if they are telling the truth?  Did you know that?  Do you know anything about micro-expressions?

Often the failure comes from an inability to recognize minute expressions -- micro-expressions that flash across a face for less than a 15th of a second -- that reveal the true emotions a person may be uncomfortable expressing or is simply trying to conceal.

http://www.wordspy.com/words/micro-expression.asp

micro-expression n. A very short facial expression of an intense, concealed emotion. Also: microexpression, micro expression

Ekman's main scientific contribution has been to show how the face is the mind's involuntary messenger. Even when suppressed or subconscious, emotions make fleeting appearances. These micro-expressions are as brief as one-one-hundred-twenty-fifth of a second. They are too fast for most people to recognize, but they lay bare our true feelings.

To the untrained eye, such micro-expressions may only be visible if slowed down on film. But after an hour of training, Ekman says, even a novice can begin to detect them in real time.

Sure, most of us are not that pretty frame by frame.  I took a picture of myself just today from an unflattering angle while I made a dumb face.  Did I look awful or what?  Of course I knew that my picking out a couple of images of Joan would not be flattering and I anticipated that 'someone' would probably call me on that. Hey, just because I'm a mongrel Yank doesn't mean I'm totally stupid.

Again, I was so awestruck by that video clip of Joan and her twitchiness that I turned part of it into 1000 BMP files and I looked at them trying to distill them down to one or two images that, in my mind, captured the essence of Joan's Divine Anguish.  Clearly, either Joan, as Joe says, is kooky and self-deprecating or Joan is really deeply disturbed about where she is in life and all her decisions that have led her to where she might be in life today or at the time of that video.  Sure, maybe I'm reading way too much into the strange and tweaky images of Joan, but I can relate.

I can relate to being middle-aged and being pushed aside for the up and coming Keyed Cool-Chill nonsense (not that this existed at the time of the filming of Passages, but certainly the writing was on the wall.)  I can relate to feeling like a tube of squeezed out toothpaste and barely being thanked or being thanked by a "Last Hurrah" of an appearance on a propaganda video when no one has contacted me for years and I'm running some kind of outback outpost in Woodstock (yeah, so cool), New York.

I suspect that the Passages video was a response to the ex-premie presence on the Internet.  I would further go out on a limb that one of the old timer EV bosses or up and coming associate wannabe came up with the idea and thought that including his or her peers and inner circles idols might be a really neat idea.

Yet, we see today that 'Passages' is no longer available from Visions.  God dang, with those images of Joan and all the rest can you for a second wonder why?