MapsElf | One Minute Meditation: A. Michael Baldwin

March 2, 2019

TYPE: Equanimity

PURPOSE: This Audio-visual Meditation gives experiential access to psychedelic-erotic surrender.

CONTEXT: A. Michael Baldwin, who plays Mike in the latest installment Phantasm IV: Oblivion (1998), told Fangoria that the secret to what has been called the “most difficult role in a decade” was to “reeeeee-laaaaaax”—something he said he learned from the EST parody video on YouTube. Here is an excerpt from an interview with Michael in Fangoria #175 —

AMB: Nope, it was real. Nearly everybody thinks that we used a retractable needle in that scene. We didn’t. Don [Coscarelli, the director] paid for the series of what ended up being seven procedures, rather than four, due to an infection that started after the second. They built what’s called a fistula from my olfactory bulb right through the tuber cinereum, hypothalamus, corpus collosum, and finally up and out through my cortex. The click you hear in the video was inserted later, but there actually is a plastic cap at the end of the fistula, and it actually made a very similar snapping sound when we took the footage.

Fango: Was this a normal fistula, made of scar tissue?

AMB: That was the original plan, but there was an infection so the just inserted a flexible plastic rod with a removable core that they could fill and refill with wires of increasing diameter until we had one wide enough to receive the needle from Angus that you see in this shot.

METHOD: To properly apply the CSH Tech meditation video, just reeeeee-laaaaaax.

Life is a long painless assault that finally kills you at the end.

So, just do like Mikey here in this video. His advice, when he made this scene, was just to relax. Here’s the drill:

Phantasm Tech

Affirm with loving and ultra-perverse masochism this ultimate violation by the Tall Man. He is, at long last, penetrating his beloved, Michael.

Focus on the first loud click.
The repeating clicks are truncated and so sound softer than the raw original. Your job is to imagine (and superimpose) the sound of the original click on top of the truncated ones.

One Minute Meditation: A. Michael Baldwin

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