The Magic Theater II

By Ernest Kinnie, PhD
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Published: May 31, 2010
Words: 29368 (approximate)
Language: English

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The goal of THE MAGIC THEATER II is to expand what you can feel, what you can think, and what you can become. THE MAGIC THEATER is not meant to be read as you would a text book. Experiential, not intellectual, understanding is emphasized.

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The goal of THE MAGIC THEATER II is to expand what you can feel, what you can think, and what you can become.

THE MAGIC THEATER is not meant to be read as you would a text book. Experiential, not intellectual, understanding is emphasized. 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 to be a small child, 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 in chapter 7. In that chapter you’ll explore the book’s theoretical framework.... (Read more) The goal of THE MAGIC THEATER II is to expand what you can feel, what you can think, and what you can become.

THE MAGIC THEATER is not meant to be read as you would a text book. Experiential, not intellectual, understanding is emphasized. 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 to be a small child, 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 in chapter 7. In that chapter you’ll explore the book’s theoretical framework.

Seriously consider writing down your experiences, perhaps keep a journal. The words WHAT I FOUND will be the cue to do so. Writing down adds a dimension to the experience. Reading later what you wrote adds another.

Use good judgment as you move through THE MAGIC THEATER. If you feel uncomfortable as you read something, or you are asked to do something that does not feel right, stop, pass on, and do something else.

1. Eric Berne---fun and games
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
5. Moving among the realties
6. The Magic Connection---RELAX/relaxation
7. Theory---for your intellectual edification
8. Primal sex---six sessions
9. Basic Elements of adventure and change

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.

For most people, I suggest exploring the book using the Zen approach---go with the flow as you move among the chapters, doing them in any order that feels “right”. A few people will do them all. That will require a very impressive amount of time and effort. Whatever you do, don’t make this book work, something you have to do “for your own good” or “to finish the task”. Better 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 The Steppenwolf. 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 that is suggested 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. The Magic theater can only lead you 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
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