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FRITZ PERLS & LAO TZU into the NOW: into the flow of Reality
1. Explore the four zones
2. Explore the zones with full awareness
3. Recovering clarity and power
4. Fritz’s manifesto
5. Fritz at Esalen and Cowichan
Fritz begins exactly where you are right now as you read this sentence. This moment is all you ever have. His goal is to make you fully aware of the NOW---be it beautiful or ugly, boring or ecstatic, petty or magnificent. His techniques, theory, pomposity and blustering are all designed to shake you into the NOW. The NOW of this moment for me as I type this, and the NOW for you as you read it. Being in the NOW allows a more accurate connection with Reality and increases your opportunities to create a satisfying life.
I fear our ancestors would see us smothered under layers and layers of lifeless words and habits---far removed from nature, and living a short distance from our bodies.
As T. S. Eliot and Jamake Highwater
Those who have crossed, with direct eyes
to death’s other Kingdom,
remember us, if at all,
not as lost violent souls,
but only as the hollow men,
the stuffed men.
“Primal peoples live among animals and vegetation constantly in close contact with the sources of nourishment and death, understanding their environment and expressing their ideas and feelings in terms of the natural world. In contrast, people in the West have created an idealization of their relationship with nature which has neither life nor spirit.”
Or, as my friend Janis Hoffman put it in The Alice “We keep raw Reality far, far away by living a world of smelly boxes, and words-data-logic.”
2. Explore the zones with full awareness
3. Recovering clarity and power
4. Fritz’s manifesto
5. Fritz at Esalen and Cowichan
Fritz begins exactly where you are right now as you read this sentence. This moment is all you ever have. His goal is to make you fully aware of the NOW---be it beautiful or ugly, boring or ecstatic, petty or magnificent. His techniques, theory, pomposity and blustering are all designed to shake you into the NOW. The NOW of this moment for me as I type this, and the NOW for you as you read it. Being in the NOW allows a more accurate connection with Reality and increases your opportunities to create a satisfying life.
I fear our ancestors would see us smothered under layers and layers of lifeless words and habits---far removed from nature, and living a short distance from our bodies.
As T. S. Eliot and Jamake Highwater
Those who have crossed, with direct eyes
to death’s other Kingdom,
remember us, if at all,
not as lost violent souls,
but only as the hollow men,
the stuffed men.
“Primal peoples live among animals and vegetation constantly in close contact with the sources of nourishment and death, understanding their environment and expressing their ideas and feelings in terms of the natural world. In contrast, people in the West have created an idealization of their relationship with nature which has neither life nor spirit.”
Or, as my friend Janis Hoffman put it in The Alice “We keep raw Reality far, far away by living a world of smelly boxes, and words-data-logic.”
- GenresPsychology
136 pages, Kindle Edition
First published May 15, 2012
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About the author
Ernest Kinnie
110 books2 followersThe goal of my writings is to expand what you can feel, what you can think, and what you can become. They range from self-help psychology books to the wild adventures of a young girl, Alice, who can dance with time, space and the Shadow World. A warning. Not intended for the easily offended. Adult language is used when appropriate to the narrative, such as in ALICE, and techniques for enhancing sexuality are given in THE MAGIC THEATER II. I’m is a retired psychologist, using a lifetime of experience to create entertaining and useful books for your enjoyment and personal growth.
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December 31, 2018
Some unusual strategies to get back to reality for wandering minds. A few interesting quotes from the book:
1. Many of your shoulds and oughts are not part of who you are, but have been put there by others, usually when you were a child. You became what others wanted because you needed their love and acceptance.
2.If you are depressed, You are living in the past. If you are anxious, You are living in the future. If you are at peace, You are living in the present. Lao Tzu
3.Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are. Lao Tzu
1. Many of your shoulds and oughts are not part of who you are, but have been put there by others, usually when you were a child. You became what others wanted because you needed their love and acceptance.
2.If you are depressed, You are living in the past. If you are anxious, You are living in the future. If you are at peace, You are living in the present. Lao Tzu
3.Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are. Lao Tzu
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