in Monique Layton: Street Women and the Art of Bullshitting, 2010:
Conning, you more or less have to talk a lot and you have to set an impression on the person. -Julie p. 62
It never comes right out in the open what you are doing because it makes him self-conscious. You just work your way around him to get it….You just know whether he is (a mark). After sitting and having a drink with him or something….You just get to know their personalities; like, some personalities can be marked in a lot easier than others. You listen to him talk and you get to know what he wants. And then that’s what you work on—his weaknesses. -Dee p. 64
-You go by ear, you know. Well, you start out slow.
-Yeah, they’re talking to you and you’re answering them, not giving yourself away by the answers. More or less that you’re going along with themselves, making them think, you know.
-Until you have enough to go on that you know what they want. -Jo and Snow p. 64
There’s a con for every man. I’ll just approach anyone and it will take me just 15 minutes to learn his interests and his weaknesses….The natural thing is to let the mark show you what he wants and you just go along. -Blum p. 65
Men are physically stronger, therefore to maintain constant control a prostitute must use words effectively. -Davis Johnson p. 69
each specific trade or profession develops a feeling of mutual exclusiveness among its members; this feeling springs from the fact that they are all criminals, that they have a commonality of life-experience, that their training and background are somewhat similar, that they face identical mechanical problems which must be solved with somewhat similar tools and techniques, and that certain professional attitudes or “ethics” must be recognized if the mob is to prosper. -Maurer p. 90
The newcomer learns the rules of the game as she plays the game….If she handles her game well and can communicate in an acceptable manner, she can function as a member of the social organization. -Jennifer James p. 91
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The descent of human consciousness into the knowledge of good and evil is without question the complicating factor that has for ages hindered men and women from the attainment of right knowledge. Whenever the knowledge of good and evil is approached from the level of human consciousness (which remains untethered to the divine except it be illumined by the Christ) division, duality and double-mindedness follow. The first and greatest error that can be made subsequent to departure from wholeness (designated by some as the Fall) is to attempt to gaze upon all things as though they were good without actually having either retained or regained the Edenic consciousness of Good as the platform of perception from which one may gaze….
The eyes of perception must be lifted up to the hills and the Lord--as law, as love, as truth--must be perceived as emanating from the highest source. The garden of the heart must be prepared to receive the immaculate conception. This can best be done by calling upon the higher law of God to release mighty light rays from the sun of universal wisdom. Faith must be engendered from within the heart that these light rays are tangible and real--atomic flames of universal substance which can actually be passed through the very field of consciousness which the student would use to plant the fertile and germinal ideas of the Spirit.
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What man needs is to learn to let go of himself and to release himself from the mainstream of mortal and environmental consciousness. The subterranean stream of the mass consciousness that flows in the world must also be released, and the individual must perceive that the sun of illumination--the Son of God, the wisdom of God, the great stream of the divine consciousness by which the worlds were framed--exists as much today as it did in the beginning and it is transcendently achieving its own goal. Then he must hitch the wagon of his consciousness to this star of reality.
When individuals are able to recognize that this can be done they are more than willing to let go of the muddy stream of human filth and degradation that has for far too long held them enmeshed in its clutches. When this is seen to be possible then the field of consciousness can be prepared for the incoming of the Christ, and this is the true receiving of the Christ mind. God is the savior of man, Spirit is the regenerator of matter, and regeneration is the process by which matter is changed into Spirit and thus immortalized.
(by Sindelar).....................................................................................................................
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