Wed 10 Apr 2002 22:03
What really matters: tony schwartz
p103 " You have to understand that until the 1960s, everything was still in the closet," Leonard told me
"You didn't speak of homosexuality. There was no talk of battered wives, or date rape, or sexual abuse. You didn't talk about your feelings. Even the word cancer was not spoken in polite society. Then along comes a guy like Schutz [William - Joy: expanding human awareness] who throws out all the taboos. It's almost impossible to describe what an extraordinary experience it was to be in one of his groups. Suddenly--with all this confrontation--you're expressing emotions you've never shared before, telling secrets you've kept for years. And what happens? The world doesn't end, which is what you had expected. Instead, it actually looks better. There's a real feeling of ecstasy just from letting go. And then people come up and hug you. Everyone loves you more for what you've done, for your honesty and courage."

p105 [schutz of murphy] But he has an interesting kind of open-mindedness.
so he continued to sponsor people like me, even when he didn't agree with us. That's his real genius, I think."

p108
critics of the human potential movement: Christopher Lasch, Peter Marin, Tom Wolfe, Maslow..
often narcissistic focus on personal growth, lack of attention to braoder social concerns. focus on sensory experience and emotions to exclusion of intellect.

before higher growth is possible, it is necessary to resolve one's underlying conflicts and neuroses

at the age of sixty-one, Maslow entered psychoanalysis.

p114
people are frequently attracted to activities that preserve and disguise their shortcomings.

p116
"what's wrong with touching? What's wrong with feeling?"
Is self-discovery bad? Is it wrongto move out into new territories?

p120 More than virtually anyone I met in my search, Green seemed free of any personal agenda.
p118 Immensely self-confident, he has rarely sought recognition for his extraordinary body of work. He believes he has a larger mission and pursues his interests without regard for their conventional acceptability. content to be a gadfly within the prestigious Menninger Clinic in Topeka, Kansas.

p121 brainwave feedback - a highly effective treatment for a variety of illnesses and disorders in which conventional medical treatment falls short.

p122 Years later, Elmer used a variation on this technique to solve a mathematical problem that had vexed scholars for one hundred years--and then published his finding in the journal Science.

p123 The body will do what you tell it if you learn how to tell it." Erwood told Green.

p125 Univ of Chicago in biological psychology
He taught himself, for example, to go for long periods without sleep and to marshal extraordinary focus of attention when necessary.
He wrote his 198-page Ph.D. thesis in one extraordinary ten-day period in 1962, during which he slept a total of just twenty hours and twice typed for thirty-six hours at a stretch without getting up--largely by relying on yogic breathing techniques designed to conserve energy.

p126 _Autogenic Training_ Johanes Schultz
visualize sensations while repeating them out loud to oneself. "my forehead is cool"

p127 Asking subconscious what job to do next.  collective unconscious, general mind, field of mind
all the knowledge, information, and wisdom there is in the universe.

p128
After interviewing Green, Murphy immediately offered him a job, a laboratory, and the right to spend at least one-quarter of his time on any projects he chose.

p129
Instead, they were told to visualize the intended change, then simply let it happen without conscious effort or interference -- "passive volition"

the body's language is imagery.

p130 to 131- Jack Schwartz self regulation -

p131 On his first day in the lab, the swami [master of self] created a nine-degree difference in temperature between two spots on his right hand only two inches apart.
The next day, he got his heart to beat at 5 times its normal rate 306bpm with no visible negative effect.

p134
The deeply relaxed theta state, in which unconscious personal material often arises in the form of images.

"All of the htings that other people wanted me to do, al of the things that I wanted to do, all of the things I should have done but didn't do, came up and began screaming at me at the same time."

p144 To my surprise, I got my highest scores when I drifted into sexual fantasy or simply allowed myself to daydream.

It struck me that conscious thinking, the typical beta state, is in some sense the opposite of feeling. [Tony Schwartz - writing for Fast Company - according to KW in TOE?]

Who knew what I might discover if I set thinking aside and simply allowed whatever was underneath to come up?


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