Jack Gariss
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Jack Gariss was an American
spiritual teacher and meditation instructor, and a radio personality on KPFK
in Los Angeles
from the 1960s until his death in Los Angeles in 1985. He was born in Nebraska.
As a young man, in the 1950s, Jack Gariss attended University of Southern California
and worked for Cecil B. DeMille
. Most notably, he has a co-writing credit on DeMille's The Ten Commandments
.
In the late 1960s, Gariss began teaching meditation and started recording radio shows for KPFK
about meditation and spiritual topics. Over the years, the shows were variously titled The Mystic Circle, then The Wayless Way, then Bio Meditation, then Bio-Cosmology, but are now routinely rebroadcast as Bio Meditation on Roy of Hollywood's KPFK
show, on most Thursday nights / Friday mornings.
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spiritual teacher and meditation instructor, and a radio personality on KPFK
KPFK
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in Los Angeles
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from the 1960s until his death in Los Angeles in 1985. He was born in Nebraska.
As a young man, in the 1950s, Jack Gariss attended University of Southern California
University of Southern California
The University of Southern California is a private, not-for-profit, nonsectarian, research university located in Los Angeles, California, United States. USC was founded in 1880, making it California's oldest private research university...
and worked for Cecil B. DeMille
Cecil B. DeMille
Cecil Blount DeMille was an American film director and Academy Award-winning film producer in both silent and sound films. He was renowned for the flamboyance and showmanship of his movies...
. Most notably, he has a co-writing credit on DeMille's The Ten Commandments
The Ten Commandments (1956 film)
The Ten Commandments is a 1956 American epic film that dramatized the biblical story of the Exodus, in which the Hebrew-born Moses, an adopted Egyptian prince, becomes the deliverer of the Hebrew slaves. The film, released by Paramount Pictures in VistaVision on October 5, 1956, was directed by...
.
In the late 1960s, Gariss began teaching meditation and started recording radio shows for KPFK
KPFK
KPFK is a listener-sponsored radio station based in North Hollywood, California, United States, which serves the Greater Los Angeles Area, and also streams 24 hours a day via the Internet...
about meditation and spiritual topics. Over the years, the shows were variously titled The Mystic Circle, then The Wayless Way, then Bio Meditation, then Bio-Cosmology, but are now routinely rebroadcast as Bio Meditation on Roy of Hollywood's KPFK
KPFK
KPFK is a listener-sponsored radio station based in North Hollywood, California, United States, which serves the Greater Los Angeles Area, and also streams 24 hours a day via the Internet...
show, on most Thursday nights / Friday mornings.
Quotes
- "Every note is heard in silence.... for that silence is the birth of every note."
- "This is the map, not the territory. The territory is when you stop listening. The territory is when you turn it all off, and tune in. Then the reality comes."
- "Perhaps the biggest test of our intelligence and compassion, the most crucial watershed of human development since the inception of agriculture, even more important than the founding of cities, is the present issue of war and peace. Yes, this is a tremendous burden and responsibility, but if we fail this may well become another dead planet like MarsMarsMars is the fourth planet from the Sun in the Solar System. The planet is named after the Roman god of war, Mars. It is often described as the "Red Planet", as the iron oxide prevalent on its surface gives it a reddish appearance...
and VenusVenusVenus is the second planet from the Sun, orbiting it every 224.7 Earth days. The planet is named after Venus, the Roman goddess of love and beauty. After the Moon, it is the brightest natural object in the night sky, reaching an apparent magnitude of −4.6, bright enough to cast shadows...
, rather unimportant planets circling around a rather unimportant star, in an unimportant part of the galaxy. If we can find a solution, through understanding, co-operation, compassion, a new form of morality which takes into account the sacredness of every life form, then this will be a period remembered very far into the future, as a legendary time of giants. It is up to us. I think that research has put to rest the idea that aggression arose because of an aggressive gene that exists within us, that we are the Naked ApesThe Naked ApeThe Naked Ape: A Zoologist's Study of the Human Animal is a 1967 book by zoologist and anthropologist Desmond Morris which looks at humans as a species and compares them to other animals...
who killed, as in some currently prevailing theories."