Thank you for reading my work and your comments. I am also pleased to see the perspective of an Alexander worker on your blog. I am currently involved in a graduate course on embodiment, and some of the participants are presenting their research on Alexander. I look forward to sharing your work with them.

Please continue to keep in touch,

Ephphatha,
Luann

I have read this paper and looked through your blog. I appreciate the personal searching you do, the honesty, and this effort at academic rigor. I have written a couple of papers, excruciatingly difficult for my “right brain” dominated body to complete, using some of the same references you have here. I think you might be interested to look at my site and work. The papers are on
http://posturereleaseimagery.org/my-articles but the other pages have more direct exposure to my approach.

Thanks,
John

I started my diet today….I will keep you posted.

Love you
Ei

Watching the inauguration from the other side of the world (Australia) was a bit surreal, especially as I could recognize all of the Washington landmarks I was seeing on the news.

I am still very, very thankful to be here and have no desire to return, but I am also very glad to hear so much hope and desire for change finally coming from the US! Most Australians that I have talked to are feeling the same way and watching avidly to see what Obama will do.

Best wishes, Mary

much love,
annie.

I loved reading this and was thinking of you during the inauguration and all last weekend, sure that you had gone to the Mall and wondering what it was like. The description of the crowds is overwhelming.

I am so happy that obama has done all these great things the first week–most importantly Guantanamo Bay. It’s almost hard to believe it’s all happening.

As to consciousness evolution–I agree that we are capable of it. It’s not a straight upward motion. We wait and wait through dark times, sometimes decades. (It’s still so hard to imagine what it’s like in Iraq or Afghanistan as we are so sheltered here.) And then there is a great moment like this one and we can have hope and see that it is possible to move forward.

thanks Luann for sharing all this. I really appreciate it.

Laura

You have a fabulous gift with words and word usage. Your story is almost poetic in its tellings. You are a natural writer which will carry you very far in phenomenological circles. Your capturing of salient details is another phenomenological skill done well. As I moved through the story, I entered the room with you and felt your heart beat, your shame, and your anxiety.

It seems to me the important aspect of this story, the reason YOU MUST tell it, isn’t the experience of being on a jury rather, that this experience, for some reason, changed or transformed you. It seems to me the experience of transforming as a result of the experience is what you set out to write. From a phenomenological standpoint then, what in your story helps you and I understand how this experience is Self transformingly different from other experiences? Of course, being on a jury is different than daily life and as I read your story I thought of the hero’s journey when the hero leaves the normal world or when alice drops down the rabbit hole. Your story does an incredible job, phenomenologically speaking, of the experience of being on jury. What I wanted more of was your experience of being forever changed. I wanted to hear more about what was going on inside your head and heart that was different from day-to-day life. It may sound like I’m asking for the “why you changed” rather than the “what,” but I’m trying clumsily to say that some of the “what” seems to be missing – what was happening to you, your thoughts, your heart, etc.

Were you questioning yourself?
Did you have doubts about who you had become?
Were you revising your notions of your self during the process?
Was the chaos of the experience throwing your mind into questions?
Was the lack of knowing what put you in a state of discomfort?
Why do you not remember if you drove to the train? What was going on in your experience that made you forget? Did you just have too many questions flying through your mind that you couldn’t concentrate on normal details like how you got to the train?

I especially liked your conclusion. What a totally amazing conclusion! I came away feeling like there were two Luann’s at the beginning of this story and those two people became more unified as a result of this experience and yet there was one criminal story at the beginning that became two stories as a result of this experience. A bringing together into unity the two innocent children of earth that she as one may emerge a stronger wiser mother to teach her child and yet, there was a tearing apart into two the criminal man of passions that he be weaker and not allowed to teach his child.

Mike

Love & miss you…..Nora