Well past the half way mark in this now, and reading some astonishingly raw and real passages - it is a reflective book that makes you reflect in a similar way, so a proper journey. Absorbing, all that stuff people say when they really get int a book, but with a sometimes uncomfortable grittiness that is itself the thing that makes it so absorbing.
I'm starting to look at some other blogs now, having followed a link from Facebook for one, and found another through looking up some New Agey type training thing - Landmark - which appears to be a direct descendant of Erhart sensitivity training. Realise that there are all sorts of people who love being pushed to be positive, nay shouted at, forced to cry tears of joy, forced catharsis - all great stuff if you can a) afford it (they charge a lot) and b) have enough credulity to take it all on board. It's the next step from all those inspiring quotes and pictures you get reposted on Facebook, and works off the premise that people really do want to change, and there's gold in them psyches.
I can't talk - I loved all the ecounter groups and therapy groups in the 1970s and early 80s, loved the emotional thrill I got from them - but then they were mostly free. Or self organised - we ran a "therapists group" for some years. I certainly got a lot of self knowledge out of them, and learnt alot about whant made me and others tick. I'm sure I'd be a vey different person if I hadn't undergone them, but, but, but that hasn't stopped me from hurling headlong into things I shouldn't, making dreadful mistakes - or you could say it has helped me do things just right, live a fulfilling creative and happy life, understand where I coming from and where I'm going.
The new play is going to be about that pivotal point when you have achieved - well achieved enough, and you have this choice between continual play and hedonism, and something else potentially of more service and good.
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