Semantics were one of Lenny Bruce's favorite trips. The power of words and phrases to affect outcomes based on assigned meanings and how they change. So I coined a term in my new book, Lenny, Flip, and Rickles: Standup Comics In The Magic City. It's not listed in the Oxford English Dictionary, Merriam Websters, or anywhere else in the English language.
Consci,
pronounced con-chai, is the plural of consciousness. It's a phenomenon
that occurs
between two or
more parties in a pure state of extreme connection or intimacy, such as
can be achieved through making love, sharing laughter, or playing team
sports, or potentially even watching them through someone else's eyes. The singular flow-state, shared, in
real time, regardless of geography. It's the ecstatic fusion of multiple
perspectives becoming one,
if only temporarily, and there's nothing new about it as a phenomenon,
but now there is a new way to describe it.
It's in my chapter about standup comedian Lenny Bruce and feature dancer Honey Harlow back when they
were living together on Miami Beach in 1950. Here it is in the text.
"They made love, partied, and hung out in the calm blue waves; Caught the sun between them, and its all-consuming power fused their twisted souls together like a live wire. The guardrail separating their psyche annihilated in ecstatic firestorms of lust as the racecars of their consci shot through the tunnels of each others’ pupils simultaneously when they came. This was the early days of their wild life together. Before the car crash that cracked her pelvis in Pittsburgh, and almost killed her at the apex of her vixen stripper body’s sexual peak of prowess. Bruce and Honey were in love. They should’ve never left Miami Beach."
The word consciousness is halved, but its meaning is doubled; consci is an awareness that is both shared and kept, contracting and expanding simultaneously like the universe itself. I copyrighted it with the Library of Congress as part of the book I wrote. I think it's a phenomenon that's going to become more prevalent as VR and even AI continue to develop, to where it can be engineered as opposed to occurring naturally. It's different from double mindedness, which is two opposing perspectives in the same mind.
It's just something funny that I thought of while I was writing this book on the forgotten history of uncensored comedy in Miami, Florida. So check it out
https://www.amazon.com/Lenny-Flip-Rickles-Standup-Comics/dp/B0CSBCK8NL
