Benefits ...?

I've just got a backchannel from a listmember who is wondering about
the "benefits" of EmoTrance.

Now that is amusing in one of these truly multi-dimensional ways in
which certain things can be so deeply amusing.

My very first application of EmoTrance for personal gain was to write
the infamous "Are you starving to death amidst the Oceans of Energy?"
advertisement for the original EmoTrance training.

I have a tendency (as do many of us, I'm sure) to not be able to say
clearly what is good about what I do, at least not without going into
some massive contortions and energy reversals.

This is mostly to do with the strong societal entrainment that one
must not "blow one's own trumpet", be proud of ones achievements, be
clear about what is good or even better than good about what one does
or creates, and generally keep ones light under as many bushels as
possible for fear of being called names and people stop loving you if
you didn't cast your eyes down and mutter humbly, whilst blushing
furiously, "Oh it was nothing, really ........"

This has haunted and contorted me all my life, to be sure. I remember
at one time, writing an essay for schoolwork when I was about 12. It
was in excess of 30 pages because I really got into it and just wrote
this amazing thing when all the other kids brought in one piece of
paper with a few lines perched at the top quarter in wobbly letters.

Teacher swacked the thing on my desk and said, "And that's exactly
what's wrong with you, Hartmann. Who the HELL do you think you are?!!
I'm gonna teach you to show off like that!" and gave me an E on the
grounds that there were over 200 spelling and grammar mistakes in the
essay, when the worst of the rest of the class had only managed "15
mistakes".

Anyway.

You might not all know this but the Commonwealth training was my TEST
for the system of EmoTrance itself. All of it, from conceiving the
whole idea and removing my fears and contortions about it, to finding
the courage for taking out a loan to hire the venue and camera crew,
to writing the "Starving to death" advertisement and making it public,
to running the whole thing and completing it *without wearing make-up
or having put my hair into curlers* (which a male presenter would not
have had to suffer, I would point out).

ET passed its own test with flying colours, you could say, and indeed
became "reality created" in its own process.

That is a neat thing and it is true, I'd quite forgotten about that by
now what with one thing or the other.

So, this nice gentleman asks me about "the benefits of EmoTrance" and
why I hadn't mentioned them in the ad for the book, at which point I
remembered the original ad and just had a look at it. It caused quite
some furore when I first put it out and what I'd like to know now from
the pracs in hindsight - can you find anything in that infamous "101
benefits listing" that is actually NOT perfectly possible, feasable
and true?

Check it out and let me know.

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> I know you know your stuff, so I'm sure it's good.

:-)

>

> One thing, the website/ad doesn't give concrete benefits, so I

> honestly don't know the "what" I would be getting out

> of it. I don't

> know the various element personalities that Doc is

> always mentioning,

> though I think you wrote the copy for your element. My

> element is

> obviously different. :-)

>

> If you come up with a list of "whats" it might help me

> know what I'm

> looking forward to. I get the general idea though.

Yeah well that is one of those things. On the original training ad, I
had a list of 101 benefits of the system. It caused such furore in the
MET community! Wow. It will be a few more years before they let me
into the good hotels again!!

Well you can see that original ad on
http://sidereus.org/emotrance1.htm

I've kept it for a laugh and historical records. All the benefits you
could ever want ........>>>>

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SF

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Received on Thu Jan 30 2003 - 04:00:55 GMT