Ernest Kinnie


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My friend Janis Hoffman, who wishes to remain anonymous, is writing about the wild adventures of a highly intelligent, self-centered brat, Alice, who discovers the ancient Egyptian World of Shadow and runs circles around people at UC Berkeley.

Our goal is to expand what you can think, feel and create, to invite you to the dance. My books include: two in the area of self-help psychology; papers, such as how to create useful idiots; and, a play and book about what happens when a group of university professors invite a shaman from the Sonoran Desert to share his world.

A serious warning! You need a firm grip on reality and a reasonably stable life, otherwise best to pass on by.

And not 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. Taboos are broken. Political correctness ignored. Old habits and ways of thinking challenged.

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Alice III---the Creation of Reality    by Janis Hoffman
Price: Free! 17120 words. Published by Ernest Kinnie on February 16, 2013. .

Welcome to my third book. You’re as weird as I am if you’re still with me. We’ll get along just fine. I was a self-centered, oversexed, murderous brat in my first book, learning how to play in the World of Shadow. In the second, I was a self-centered, oversexed, murderous brat getting a lot better acquainted with the World of Shadow, and learning about the Syven World.
Alice II---The Nature of Reality    by Janis Hoffman
Price: $2.99 USD. 39870 words. Published by Ernest Kinnie on June 21, 2012. .

I’ve had such colorful emails of shock and horror from some who read my first book. You are all wonderful people, very sensitive and refined, and I so regret exposing you to raw reality. Yes, I love foul language, passionate sex, and smashing taboos into little bits of fun. And I’m not much for political correctness.
Alice---The World of Shadow    by Janis Hoffman
Price: $2.99 USD. 44840 words. Published by Ernest Kinnie on March 3, 2011. .

A tough, wild, super-intelligent, street-wise kid, born with The Gift. 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 large trust fund. Better than nothing. Adult language

Books

Five Journeys of Self-Discovery    by Ernest Kinnie
Price: $2.99 USD. 24670 words. Published on August 2, 2012. Nonfiction.

Not for everyone! A serious warning. You need to have a firm grip on reality, and a reasonably stable life for the journeys. Otherwise best to pass on by. The five journeys are found in other books I have written and are also available separately. They are the most popular and the most useful to better understand, explore and govern your life.
Skinner and Pavlov---how you are being controlled    by Ernest Kinnie
Price: $0.99 USD. 2640 words. Published on June 20, 2012. Nonfiction.

The best of Skinner and Pavlov. An entertaining and useful set of ideas and hands-on experiences to enrich your life. Nothing could be simpler than Skinner. If you want to add or increase a behavior, reward it. If you want to get rid of a behavior, punish it. Best to be more aware how you do it to yourself and others, and how politicians, advertisers, friends and enemies do it to you.
Fritz Perls---out of your head, into the NOW    by Ernest Kinnie
Price: $0.99 USD. 7020 words. Published on May 15, 2012. Nonfiction.

The best of Fritz Perls, who pioneered a unique way to get people out of their heads and back to reality. An entertaining and useful set of ideas and hands-on experiences to enrich your life. Experiential, not intellectual understanding is emphasized. Fritz begins exactly where you are right now as you read this sentence, and he says moments like this are all you ever have.
Eric Berne---the best of Games People Play    by Ernest Kinnie
Price: $0.99 USD. 4500 words. Published on May 15, 2012. Nonfiction.

The best of Eric Berne, author of Games People Play. Experiential, not intellectual understanding is emphasized. For instance, you will be invited to experience the world afresh with the wonder-filled eyes and ears of a 3-year old. You could try to remember what it was like to be a small child, and analyze what you find. Here you go out the door and do it.
Cynical Soup    by Ernest Kinnie
Price: Free! 12210 words. Published on May 15, 2012. Nonfiction.

Five ways to have an honest and five ways to have dishonest discussion, and over 350 quotations from many people, collected over a lifetime. Not for the easily offended or the ridiculously naive. As George Bernard Shaw wrote: "The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it."
High Flyers    by Ernest Kinnie
Price: Free! 1640 words. Published on May 15, 2012. Plays.

A 7-minute play. Two circus performers are too old to keep flying and must decide what to do with the rest of their lives...assuming they want a life if they can no longer fly. They were born in the circus and is all they know. Maybe better to end it. Who wants to flip burgers, or play a sweet, perky, little waitress, getting pinched on the tush for lousy tips?
Fantasy Adventures of Self-discovery    by Ernest Kinnie
Price: $0.99 USD. 3080 words. Published on January 2, 2012. Nonfiction.

An important goal of your adventures in the fantasy world is integrate what you learn into a satisfying gestalt. That is the psychological way to frame your experiences as you move through these fantasies. Or you may choose to frame your experiences using the world view of Jane Robert’s Seth. In that tradition you are part of a Greater Self that exists in meta-time.
Basic Psychological Techniques    by Ernest Kinnie
Price: $0.99 USD. 6230 words. Published on December 27, 2011. Nonfiction.

The first three elements create the atmosphere and empowerment to best use the rest. Together with the next 19 Elements, they give you the basic tools to explore, enrich and manage your life. Elements 23, 24, and 25 are just for fun.
Primal Sex---Six Sessions    by Ernest Kinnie
Price: $0.99 USD. 2390 words. Published on December 27, 2011. Nonfiction.

Do these six sessions with someone you can love both emotionally and physically. From the past of long ago, your body knows how to move, and feel, and sound. Your cells know the ancient dance---body to body---mind to mind---spirit to spirit. The memories flow across the centuries as your bodies move together in the primal mating. Hardness into slippery softness. Sometimes gentle,sometimes wild.
How to Create Useful idiots    by Ernest Kinnie
Price: Free! 2070 words. Published on November 4, 2011. Nonfiction.

Arguments between people with different narratives are usually a waste of time. Each firmly believes facts and logic on their side. Their narrative is The Truth, so the other side must be dumb, evil, liars, libertarian, communists, deniers, warmists, greenies, left wingers, right wingers, in the pocket of somebody, etc. etc. How else to explain their not agreeing with what is so obvious?
The Brujo and the four professors    by Ernest Kinnie
Price: $2.99 USD. 16610 words. Published on January 5, 2011. Fiction.

THE BRUJO is the book version of the play EL BRUJO. Four university professors invite a brujo to explain shamanism. He guides them into an alive, creative world which turns out to be both seductive and dangerous. He uses guided fantasies to help them explore the nature of reality and their true identity. Adult language, especially when one of the professors finds himself on a chain gang.
La Bruja and the four professors    by Ernest Kinnie
Price: $2.99 USD. 16760 words. Published on September 12, 2010. Plays.

Four university professors invite a Bruja to explain shamanism. She guides them into an alive, creative world which turns out to be both seductive and dangerous. She 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 on a chain gang.
Amoral Science---Brainless Religion    by Ernest Kinnie
Price: Free! 1650 words. Published on August 2, 2010. Nonfiction.

A short essays considering the strengths and weaknesses of the two great interpreters of reality in our culture, science and religion.
A Light in the Darkwood    by Ernest Kinnie
Price: $0.99 USD. 2760 words. Published on June 4, 2010. Fiction.

A bedtime story. Two children learn to create reality. The brother and sister run from a sow bear into the Darkwood where they are captured by little people. They create food for the little people and then realize that they can also use their imagination to escape. They then learn how to play with their imagination to create a marvelous, magical world of adventure and delight.
The Magic Theater II---not for everyone    by Ernest Kinnie
Price: $4.95 USD. 45610 words. Published on May 31, 2010. Nonfiction.

THE MAGIC THEATER II and ELEMENTS of self-exploration and adventure complement each other, and there is considerable overlap between them. THE MAGIC THEATER II explores the ideas and techniques of people like Sigmund Freud and Eric Berne. The goal of both books is to expand what you can feel, think, and become---to invite you to the dance.
Elements of Self-exploration and Adventure    by Ernest Kinnie
Price: $4.95 USD. 41310 words. Published on May 31, 2010. Nonfiction.

The ELEMENTS OF STYLE, by Strunk and White, describes important elements in the use of English. ELEMENTS of Self-exploration and Adventure does the same for self-help psychology. The book is not meant to be read as you would a text book--experiential not intellectual understanding is emphasized. The goal is to enrich and expand what you can feel, think, and become---to invite you to the dance.
El Brujo and the four professors    by Ernest Kinnie
Price: $2.99 USD. 16540 words. Published on May 31, 2010. Screenplays.

Four university professors invite a brujo to explain shamanism. He guides them into an alive, creative world which turns out to be both seductive and dangerous. He uses guided fantasies to help them explore the nature of reality and their true identity. Adult language, especially when one of the professors finds himself on a chain gang.
Smackin' the Monkey & High Flyers    by Ernest Kinnie
Price: $1.45 USD. 4920 words. Published on May 31, 2010. Plays.

Three short plays/skits SMACKIN’ THE MONKEY, DEEP AND SERIOUS, and HIGH FLYERS. In THE MONKEY, 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.

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