This is from Julie Felix' second album, "Changes", from 1966 (Fontana Records)
Julie Ann Felix (1938–2020) was an American-British folk singer and recording artist, eager to promote the
doctrine of trepanation (see below) and recorded some of the propaganda songs which
Joey [Joey Mellen, Amanda Feilding's companion] had composed,
On the subject, see Eccentric Lives & Peculiar Notions, a book by John Mitchell from 1984, reprinted HERE
I quote :
Amanda Feilding lives in a charming flat looking over London's river
with her companion, Joey Mellen, and their infant son, Rock. She is a
successful painter, and she and Joey have an art gallery in a
fashionable street of the King's Road. Another of her talents is for
politics. At the last two General Elections she stood for Parliament in
Chelsea, more than doubling her vote on the second occasion from 49 to
139. It does not sound much, but the cause for which she stands is
unfamiliar and lacks obvious appeal. Feilding and her voters demand that
trepanning operations be made freely available on the National Health.
Trepanation means cutting a hole in your skull.
The founder of
the trepanation movement is a Dutch savant, Dr Bart Hughes. In 1962 he
made a discovery which his followers proclaim as the most significant in
modern times. One's state and degree of consciousness, he realized, are
related to the volume of blood in the brain. According to his theory of
evolution, the adoption of an upright stance brought certain benefits
to the human race, but it caused the flow of blood through the head to
be limited by gravity, thus reducing the range of human consciousness.
Certain parts of the brain ceased or reduced their functions while
others, particularly those parts relating to speech and reasoning,
became emphasized in compensation. One can redress the balance by a
number of methods, such as standing on one's head, jumping from a hot
bath into a cold one, or the use of drugs; but the wider consciousness
thus obtained is only temporary. Bart Hughes shared the common goal of
mystics and poets in all ages: he wanted to achieve permanently the
higher level of vision, which he associated with an increased volume of
blood in the capillaries of the brain.
(...)
Bart Huges's ideas had their best reception among artists and bohemians. Among those impressed was Heathcote Williams, who published a dialogue between Joey and Bart in the literary Transatlantic Review and made a trepanation scene the climax of his award-winning play, AC-DC. An important convert was Julie Felix, a world-famous (in London) American singer in the style of Joan Baez. She was eager to promote the doctrine of trepanation and recorded some of the propaganda songs which Joey [Joey Mellen,Amanda Feilding's companion] had composed, including Brainbloodvolume, The Great Brain Robbery and Sugarlack.read more....
and also see Lost Footage: Amanda Feilding Self Trepanning
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