WISDOM
The 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. I’m a retired psychologist, using a lifetime of experience to create entertaining and useful books for your enjoyment and personal growth.
A warning! Not intended for the easily offended! Adult language is used when appropriate to the narrative, as in ALICE, and techniques for enhancing sexuality are given in THE MAGIC THEATER II.
SMACKIN' THE MONKEY
A 10-minute pointless, meaningless farce.
A LIGHT IN THE DARKWOOD
A children's story of imagination in the Darkwood.
Quick, rough and powerful psychological strategies and adventures.
THE MAGIC THEATER II
Ideas, adventures and strategies to increase creativity, sexuality and fulfillment.
ALICE Dancing Time and Space
A wild, super-intelligent kid with The Gift becomes a student at UC Berkeley.
Links to useful self-help psychology sites All of the complete books, plays and children's story are found at: http://www.smashwords.com/books/search?query=Kinnie http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/15777 A 2-Act Play....exploring the nature of reality. Four university professors invite a Brujo from the Sonora desert to explain shamanism. He guides them into an alive, creative world which turns out to be both seductive and dangerous. They try to return to their safe, familiar world but it's too late. When they invite the Brujo to return, he uses guided fantasies to help them explore the nature of reality and an awareness of their true identity. The audience is invited to participate.
Adult language, especially when one of the professors finds himself dressed in black and white stripes, working on a chain gang.
Click the title for the first part of the play. http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/15775 A 10 minute farce. Two old actors try to keep in shape by faking heart attacks in the park. It doesn't work out so good. The sweet old lady steals the wallet from the actor faking the attack. The tough guy thinks the actor is having a bad trip and pops a white pill down his throat with unfortunate results. The tough guy has a foul mouth, so best to move on if that would upset you. A pointless, meaningless farce with no depth or message, and a very chaotic ending.
http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/16087 A children's story The story of two children who learn to create reality. The brother and sister run from a sow bear into a magical woods where they are captured by little people with red hair, They find that they can use their imagination to create reality. They first create food for the little people and then realize that they can also use their imagination to escape. After they escape they learn more and more how to use their imagination, and just when they are learning to fly, the sow bear takes them back home, but lets them know that they can return whenever they like when they go to sleep at night. Click the title for the first part of the story. http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/15779 INTRODUCTION THE ELEMENTS OF WISDOM AND FOLLY is not meant to be read as you would a text book or novel. It emphasizes experiential, not intellectual understanding. For instance, ELEMENT �2 doesn't just talk about the very important connection between the word RELAX, and relaxation. You create the connection, and then explore how to use it. Alfred North Whitehead, in THE AIMS OF EDUCATION, believed that concepts and strategies become alive only when they are experienced. Otherwise, they become more like playing chess with words---which can be very enjoyable, but doesn't have a lot of relevance beyond itself. In this book you directly experience concepts and strategies first, and think about them later. The ELEMENTS OF STYLE, by Strunk and White, described the most important elements in the use of the English language. The ELEMENTS OF WISDOM AND FOLLY does the same in the area of self-help psychology. Some Elements are adventures. Others change your life.
Write down what you experience as you move through the book. The words WHAT I FOUND will be the cue to do so. The writing down adds another dimension to the experience. And rereading what you wrote will add yet another. Use good judgment as you move through ELEMENTS OF WISDOM AND FOLLY. If you feel uncomfortable as you read something or are asked to do something that does not feel right, stop, pass on, and try something else. The goal of the book is to expand what you can feel, what you can think, and what you can become. I am a retired psychologist, using a lifetime of experience to create an entertaining and useful book for your enjoyment and personal growth.
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The book is divided into four sections: The 75 adventures and strategies in the book invite you to explore and enhance basic aspects of your life. The descriptions of the different ELEMENTS are very short, and require work---you'll often be exploring different aspects of your life for a week or more. Some ELEMENTS are fun adventures. Others change your life, if that is your wish.
This is a very long, very detailed, very effective relaxation program that will create a powerful connection between the word RELAX and deep relaxation. One of the early ELEMENTS also makes this connection, and may be all you need. If not, use this program. The ability to use the word RELAX to trigger relaxation is a fundamental skill, used many times in the book to help manage emotions and impulses.
Deep relaxation has other uses as well. Fantasy adventures are much more vivid when you are relaxed. You will be invited to have a number of fantasy adventures after you have completed the exercise. You deserve a big reward after all of your hard work. Most will be a rewording of some of the Elements you have already done in the first section of the book. Notice the differences in the experience between the first time, and the second time when you are deeply relaxed. In the final fantasy adventure, you'll recover a past life. In groups I've run, most people bring back past lives, and are very excited by what they find. Of course with no collaborating evidence the probability is that what they found is only a very enjoyable fantasy trip.
But who knows. I still enjoy magic, so 10% of me believes what they brought back is real.
350 quotations. You decide which are wise and which are foolish.
D. THEORTICAL FRAMWORK FOR THE BOOK
This section is for those who believe that logic and concepts are useful in furthering the understanding of what they experience as they go through life. Maybe so. Maybe not.
Click the title for the first part of the book. ____________________ http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/15781 THE MAGIC THEATER II is not meant to be read as you would a textbook or novel. It emphasizes experiential, not intellectual understanding. For instance, the first chapter begins with an invitation to experience afresh the world with the wonder filled eyes of a three year old. You could try to remember what it was like, and analyze what you find. In this book you go out the door and do it.
Alfred North Whitehead, in THE AIMS OF EDUCATION, believed that concepts and strategies become alive only when they are experienced. Otherwise, they become more like playing chess with words---which can be very enjoyable, but doesn't have a lot of relevance beyond itself. In this book you directly experience concepts and strategies first, and think about them later, except for chapter 7. In that chapter you'll explore the book's theoretical framework.
The goal of the book is to expand what you can feel, what you can think, and what you can become. I am a retired psychologist, using a lifetime of experience to create an entertaining and useful book for your enjoyment and personal growth. 2. Fritz Perls---grand old man of Esalen
3. Skinner and Pavlov---the basic rules of change
4. Freud---the unconscious and the fertile void
6. The magic connection---RELAX/relaxation
7. Theory---for your intellectual edification
9. Fun and powerful adventures and strategies
You can do the experiences and exercises in this book alone or with friends, except for chapter 8, where you will need someone that you can love emotionally and physically. That chapter explores and intensifies your sexual experiences by awakening the ancient, primal dance.
Write down what happens as you move through the book. Seriously consider keeping a journal to record what you find, as the writing itself adds to the experience, and you will continue to learn about yourself as you reread what you wrote. The words WHAT I FOUND will be your cue to start writing, and there are often examples of what others have found.
Don't rush through the book. Pause frequently to carefully notice and absorb what you are experiencing. Explore with honesty and care, and if you feel like doing something different than suggested, do it. Don't make this book into work, something you have to do "for your own good" or "to finish the task". Better to burn the book than let that happen. You've wasted enough of your life doing things others wanted you to do, which have often been for their benefit, not yours.
You'll find this book similar to the original magic theater in Hermann Hesse's novel. There are demons here and delightful spirits, and even occasionally "the cool and star bright laughter of the gods". And this book too, is "not for everyone", as some aren't ready to face demons, the parts of themselves that make them anxious and fearful. Don't push yourself to do anything we suggest unless it feels "right". If a suggestion makes you uncomfortable, don't do it. Don't throw your ego, or your back, out of whack. That would give me a guilty conscience, and even worse, a lousy reputation. Whether you find demons or good spirits, the parts of yourself that are beautiful, creative and joyful, is up to you. I can only point to mountainsides where they dance, and the caves where they sleep---to help you create a reality where: Sudden in a shaft of sunlight Even while the dust moves There rises the hidden laughter Of children in the foliage Quick now, here, now, always. T. S. Eliot Click the title for the first chapter in the book. ____________________
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SMACKIN' THE MONKEY
A LIGHT IN THE DARKWOOD
A tough, wild, super-intelligent, street-wise kid, born with The Gift---the ability to dance Space, Time, and the Shadow World. She watched her mother go sobbing out the door when she was 4. Ten foster homes later, she easily conned her way into UC Berkeley and has fun running circles around students and faculty. She never knew her father, but he left her a very large trust fund. Better than nothing.
Foul language comes easily to Alice when she is angry, upsetting the sanctimonious, or just for the Hell of it. This book is not for the overly sensitive or, as she so bluntly put it, "not for prissy hypocrites".
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I remember the first time I realized that I was different, that I had the Gift. I was maybe 2 1/2 and stacking my blocks. I was using my little chubby hands, and also using my magic hands to help. My magic hands are invisible, well I can see them a little, and I could move things with them. The blocks would almost line up, but not quite. So I reached out with my invisible hands and pushed the blocks just right. My special, invisible hands weren't as clumsy as my real ones and they were stronger.
One day my mother noticed. She made a kind of little squeaky noise and looked back and forth between the blocks and me. And suddenly I knew. You see, I had been wondering why mommy never used her magic hands. And now I knew. She didn't have any and she can't see mine. She had such a shocked and scary face that I learned my second lesson that day. People are scared of my invisible hands, and if they catch me using them, they won't like me anymore. So, after that I was careful not to get caught.
When I was 5 or 6, I discovered that I could explore inside things with my invisible hands. I had to move my invisible hand real fast and then it would go inside. Like I could find out what kind of cookies were in the cookie jar. And one day I used my invisible hands to pull a cookie out. Weird. How could a cookie go through the side of a cookie jar? If I tried to pull the cookie out too slow, it wouldn't come out. I had to pull it out fast. The cookie was invisible when it came out and I had to drop it before my real hands could pick it up and I could eat it.
Twisting time was harder. At first I didn't even know that I could do it, but gradually, I realized when I wanted I could be aware of two events, the one happening, and the one that was about to happen. I started maybe seeing ahead a second or so, and by the time I started first grade I was up to 3 seconds.
And, the first grade is when the fun started.
Ugly Dorothy spit on me once. After that she kept spilling her drink all over herself. Like, I would use my invisible hands to push a glass of orange juice just a little away from her mouth when she was about to take a sip. I could reach a long way with my invisible hands. Down came all that bright yellow juice, all over her pretty green dress.
And Hicky Dickey Jones tripped me once, and called me names. He shouldn't have done that. Every chance I'd get, I'd reach way out with my invisible hands and trip him. I kind of felt sorry when I tripped him once and he cut his lip real bad. I didn't trip him anymore after that. Well he shouldn't have called me names.
And the candy and donuts I got---oh wow. I'd sit next to a girl and use my invisible hands to feel around inside her lunch bag and zip what I wanted over to mine.
After a while, the kids figured out that I was really weird, and so I didn't have many friends. Didn't bother me. I had the Gift and they didn't. Who needed them.
In high school I learned all about linear time and Euclid's three dimensions. The dumb teacher figured he had the whole universe figured out. Nope. Time and space twist and squirm all over the place. When he reached for his chalk, I moved it a little to the left. He hid his surprise the best he could. I give him credit for that. But the 4th time it happened he freaked. His simple minded universe fell apart, and his little brain just wasn't up to the challenge.
A guy tried to hit on me once. Put his hand where he shouldn't, and my invisible hands squeezed his balls---just a little. What a wonderful yowl he made.
And then there was that amazing time in church, when there was a miracle. The nice priest was raising the Eucharist before all of the sheep in the pews---I know, I'm supposed to call them a flock of lambs, but they looked like sheep to me. Anyway, he raised the white wafer high in the air. And guess what? The wafer slipped out of his fingers and drifted up into the air, with a little help from my invisible hands. I could extend them a long way. Oh my, the sheep went crazy, and there were a lot of gasps and grunts and shouts and screams. I let it stay up there for a while---and then dropped it. The priest must not have been much of a baseball player. He missed the catch.
The talking heads were all over it, carefully and confidently explaining what happened with meaningless words like mass hysteria, group hypnosis, or whatever. Nobody suspected it was just a little 16-year year old girl, having a little fun.
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"Huge piles of bullshit" Molly began. "What happens is that some guy stumbles onto an awareness of shadow reality, and from that tiny understanding or ability, creates a huge fantasy world. And if he is a gifted leader or writer, a cult is born. And if the cult fits the needs of the King, Sultan, Emperor or politician, a religion is born. And then they have huge wars, each side absolutely sure they have The Truth. Of course the rulers have no interest in The Truth. Religion is just a valuable weapon to gain power, glory and money. And there are always so many useful idiots ready to clap and cheer, and die."
Click the title for the first part of the book.