I like that that’s good.
How are you all doing, having fun?
Keeping up with the pace?
Is this a good pace, not too fast, not too slow?
Good.
You may have noticed that under each one of your chairs we have a little white handout,
please keep it save, cherished, love it and treat it like your own children, not the kind
that take away your freedom, but the kind that the government gives you subsidies for.
Because, this list of children is going to help you be more influential.
It is the list of some of the more important symbols and some of the meanings that you
can apply them for.
Remember, this list is a starting point it’s not an ending point.
It’s just to get your ideas rolling.
Also, this is not a fixed thing.
You must always apply to the context and the people in a situation in an intelligent manner.
If you don’t, you’re welcome not to seriously, you’re adults here, it’s just please don’t
come complain to me saying oh, I did this and this, I don’t know why the result of
that.
If you want to do your own thing I guess you’ll have to experience your own results and make
your conclusions from that.
My opinion then is, this is a starting point.
It’s a good thing to get a sense of what symbols you can start using and framing for
which kind of outcomes, for which unconscious maneuvers; however, do not get locked into
them that this must mean that.
If someone talks about ants it doesn’t necessarily mean that they feel in control, stuck in a
social role they might just love ants.
They might study them and for them it means something very different, the fascination
of it, the power of them and so on.
Do you see where I’m going with this?
I want to make sure that’s a clear disclaimer so that you realize this is not the Freudian
thing of saying, cigars are other things that look like cigars and it’s always the same
thing.
It’s not and wouldn’t be appropriate to consider that, so it gives you more scope
in terms of how to make it fit different context.
Question: Is this derived mainly through Jungian types?
Primarily it’s the starting point and what we do is, and this is what I encourage you
to do, the same thing you did in your groups.
I sat down and thought about, what are the cultural associations to these things?
If someone starts talking about this, how do they typically use these symbols in everyday
language and what do they mean by them?
When someone says, I’ll show up in an hour, I feel like an ant.
What are they saying?
They might say they’re feeling insignificant.
They might say they feel under social control.
So, I’m mapping out those associations, those feelings that come to people and that
gives me a richer sense of the symbols.
Hence, it’s a starting point that there may be flaws within it because it’s just
my current perceptions of it and hopefully they’re relatively close but they’re just
educated guesses, and your educated guesses are as good as mine.
Question: Do I recommend looking further in Jungian
archetypes?
Absolutely, 100%.
More than Freud.
Freud was interesting.
He had a lot of things right, but the problems were, one he had a lot of things wrong and
because he didn’t like argument, especially his daughter the one who really messed things
up.
She idolized her father, he became a god, so he could do nothing wrong and that destroyed
the whole Freudian thing as far as I’m concerned, because you couldn’t start sorting out the
3:50.
If all you get is, whatever this person’s doing it always has to be right.
The sun shines from everything he says and does, where that person’s going to end up
doing some really weird things that have no bearing on reality and you’re going to ruin
the potential that was there.
I personally believe that happened with Freud’s work.
He had some real ingenious ideas around defense mechanisms, stuff like that, but then other
things get over accentuated because no one’s allowed to question the church of Freud, it
got weird.
Jung was less cluttered.
Jung was a much more open… do you want to know about Jung, he’s a very interesting
character.
Basically, Jung was Freud’s protégé.
Then as he was going into his 30s he and Freud started having increasing clashes and basically
Freud didn’t like people saying no, you’re wrong.
Whereas, Jung had to because his ideas were going this way.
Now something very interesting happened.
Eventually, Freud kicked him out of the organization broke.
It’s like the father denying the son… it affected Jung terribly.
Before this big split came Jung was your quintessential clinical cold professor.
He was very smart, very fast, got all these concepts and connections, very logical, very
left-brained, but personal skills were very low on the scale of things.
People respected him but didn’t like him very much.
Soon after he ended up splitting with Freud he had a psychotic break.
He ended up, for the next four or five years, having figures from hell come up randomly
and chat to him in his garden.
Now, most people would freak out at this point, where Jung did something actually shamanic,
rather than inducing more fear in himself because of the psychotic break that he had,
he became curious about this.
He postulated that these figures from hell were actually his own subconscious’ shadow
self as he later called, teaching him about himself, teaching him things that would free
him, rather than all these insecurities that were keeping him hemmed in as he had been
before.
So for five years he kept very detailed set of journals called ‘The Red Book’, because
the diary was written in a red book.
They’re a large collection of works for a period of over four to five years and he
documents these conversations with his own psychosis.
Now think about it, psychosis is talking directly to your unconscious mind with no social filters,
really.
The problem is if you medicate psychosis you don’t have a chance to shift the river
somewhere else on or off.
The message is, this is bad.
This is scary.
So you increase fear, which now increases the fear feedback loop.
Jung did something wonderful for Western society, something which is very common in all the
societies, the more shamanic, native traditions which is, he embraced the psychotic break
and he came out of it a truly changed person.
He was like this avuncular grandfatherly figure that people love.
They just want to sit and listen to him.
They didn’t care what he said they just wanted to listen.
They felt good.
Young people idolized him as a true positive force in their lives.
Old people respected him for his intellect and his way with other people.
It was a truly remarkable change, all because of a psychotic break and how he interacted
with it.
Another way of putting it is, it was all because of how he was willing to interact with the
unconscious symbols, the messages that were coming out in a very powerful way and how
we interacted with them.
That’s one of the reasons I think Jungian psychology is a phenomenal place to start
with this whole unconscious symbolism, but only start there.
Please, like anyone else myself included, do not assume that it’s the gospel truth.
The point is, again it’s a starting point unless you do your own thinking, unless you
do your own experimenting.
You come to your own conclusions.
You try it out and notice different reactions.
All this stuff will be hit or miss to a certain extent.
It’s a great starting point.
It’s a great way to feed your mind.
Really, you must engage in this yourself to understand this more, does that make sense
to you all.
The process is very simple it is, track your own associations.
A great resource for this is dreams and so on.
If we get a chance, we’ll show you how to do some kind of waking dream processes.
You actually started already with the strange new world, wasn’t that a form of waking
dream?
And you had to quit the interference.
You can build that up to something very profound, which, to answer your question from earlier
is another one of the projects that are bubbling in the background.
It’s how to transform your own personal blueprint without having to have a psychotic
break.
That’s not ready yet, there’s a lot of work involved in that.
Did that help?
Yes, I would recommend Jungian archetypes as a starting point, rather than an end point.
Okay, any other comments or questions before we begin?
We may as well have a general Q&A session right now, because we’ll be covering a lot
of content.
Is everyone clear?
Are you having fun?
Who here feels that they have a better grasp of what we mean by the performance elements
when it comes to storytelling now?
You may have read a lot about this stuff, hopefully this has now brought it to life.
It’s easy.
It’s within each one of you.
It’s not a skill that you have to learn from scratch and spend years mastering, it’s
there, you just have to find out how to uncover it.
It’s actually about doing less rather than doing more.
It’s putting less effort in rather than more.
It’s still effort in terms of like, it’s work, energy, commitment and so on, but less
of this kind of effort.
Does that make sense?
It becomes easier so you get better results.
This is your starting point for the symbolism and you already have a starting point in terms
of the performance.
Please don’t think that just because we did 30 to 90 minutes of exercises or performance
stuff that it’s perfect and it’s going to be there for you all the time.
Like anything else, the more you do it the easier it becomes.
So once again, consider those exercises starting point.
The beauty is, every time you have a conversation you have free practice time.
You have 100 hypnotists in the room with whom I hope you’re going to have at least one
more conversation with before you leave in the next three days.
You have a whole world of people out there who are waiting to hear things from you, so
you may as well practice.
The key then is to always keep it simple.
Choose one idea, one concept, throw it in and when it’s so simple that it’s easier
to not think about it than to just do it, then you add a next principle and so on.