“Cheerfulness gives Harmony to the Soul and is a perpetual song without words”

~ St. Paul

A-HO! Another Bright and Beautiful Day here in the Land Afar (Cleveland) hahahahaha

Brilliant blue sky brings Eastern Gift of Glorious Sun and warms thy heart with Gratitude

I am wildly exhilarated!!! Callahan's Gestalt Practice Manual has ARRIVED!!!

 

Breathe in.....breathe out....sight, sound, touch, smell, taste....nestled comfortably back to bark hugging form fitting oak tree...breathe in...breathe out....sun glistens through forest sihouette....breathe in....breathe out....awake and aware...breathe in...breathe out....gentle chickadee sings.....breathe in....breathe out....palm caressing cool, damp forest soil.....breathe in...breathe out....fresh geosmin aroma.....breathe in....breathe out.....revitalizing ginger chew warms palate...breathe in.....breathe out....joyful gratitude brings smile & tear....breathe in....breathe out....

"Lose your head and come to your senses"

~ Fritz Perls   

FRITZ PERLS ESALEN GESTALT PRACTICE ONE DAY WORKSHOP SATURDAY FEB. 7 $150
Presented by Seymour Carter - Senior Gestalt Practitioner at Esalen Institute in Big Sur California.

Dear all,
Amazing Gestalt Teacher Seymour Carter is coming to LA to do his FIRST Open Seat/Mentoring Workshop. He will work with someone in the group and then discuss his choices and philosophies. He is a true master of Gestalt that was a student of Fritz Perls at Esalen and now has been refining for 40 yrs. At age 72, he claims he is in his prime. He inspires me!

I have a friend I call Crazy Charlie ~ he chats and sometimes argues with people who aren’t around ~ I have a theory about Charlie ~ his ‘band path filters’ are worn out ~  allowing fuzzy signals of thought to slip through and travel the same pathways as signals coming from his senses ~ making it hard for him to distinguish between the sound of his ‘inner voices’ and the sound of other people’s voices ~ often the voices of people he doesn’t get along with ~  which leads me to another theory ~  thoughts from his subconscious mind ~ opinions he’s not aware of  ~  get amp’d and slip through there as well ~ arriving on the same channel as a co-worker saying hello in the morning ~ which may be another reason he has trouble holding a job ~ in fact, there’

Hi, I promised Seymour to announce this wonderful workshop for him. So far only three people have signed up, and the course is at risk to be cancelled. I have been working with Seymour for over a year now and really like his work and highly recommend this workshop.

Thank you, Monika

Esalen catalog, page 67 or

http://www.esalen.org/workshops/searchfiles/digitalforest/workshopdetail.lasso?RecordNum=6868&-session=Reservation_Session:45B58A841b0731B10AvXHW51B850

I’m so glad that I live in a multi-level head ..there are so many rooms ..I don’t have to go anywhere ..I can do all my traveling from home. I run up the stairs ..where the police harass me for having problems with authority. I run up the stairs ..where an attorney is waiting to brief me. I run up the stairs where my ex-partner shoots me. I find an empty room ..where I’m safe ..but alone.

[Note: This is actually the second in a series of interviews that I did, but the first one's sound quality was rather poor. Maybe if I get the first one cleaned up, sometime, I'll put it up here.]

This is a very honest and candid interview I did last week with Seymour Carter about his life-long relationship with Esalen. He talks about some of the dramatic history of the early days, and how those early moments have impacted him and helped to shape him as a therapist and a human being now.

I think, true to the spirit of Esalen, it is brutally honest... and during the course of this interview, Seymour and I communicate on many different levels together... from the mundane to the dramatic, from the intimate to the universal...

We cover the early years of Esalen... from the psychological breakthroughs to the emotional breakdowns... and his place in it all through the years.

So I am trying to figure out which direction to go next with this web site.  And not sure exactly where to go with it.  I like what has happened so far.  I like that there are some small groups forming, and I like the fact that the people who appear to be of like mind with this web site are congregating here.  Ever so slowly.