With the film analogy, Rick's. recently posted exchange with friends come to mind. Like two actors meeting 30 years after having done college drama together.
Guy1: "So you are still doing community theatre like when I last saw you?" Guy2: "Yeah, its the greatest. Its by far the fastest track to the top, especially my theatre in located in Podunk, a town of 10,000 in the midwest, far from any urban center." Guy1: "Really?" Guy2: "Oh totally! Its the only way to get to the top. Its like a rocketship. You are really missing out! We do the same play over and over again, every season, with some minor variations to expand our range." Guy1: " And what actors from your theatre have actually made it to the top?" Guy2: " You just don't get it do you! Thasts so irrelevant a question. Why are you so hostile and angry. Is it because of my great success?" Guy1: "No I am just trying to understand. I have found more value by going into films. I have done 25 in the last 30 years. Mostly character bits, some supporting actor roles. I auditioned for a couple of leads, but that didn't work out. Which is fine with me, I am not sure its what its cracked up to be. A lot more pressure, and one of the few if only benefits seems to be that a higher class of women seem interested in you. Like what Jack has found." guy2: "Oh you are SO deluding yourself that success in fims has ANYTHING to do with "going to the top" Guy 1: "What exactly does "going to the top" mean to you? Guy2: "Why are you so incredibly hostile!!! This 'new role every year thing' is clearly turnig you into a self-absorbant asshole" Guy1: "Yeah, I played one of those a couple of years ago. It was fascinating. It really stretched my range. A couple of years earlier, I played the opposite -- a midievel Irish monk. Last year I played a journalist in WWII and the final scene was me being gunned down on a beach as I ran with an exclusive story which would have changed the course of the war. Gotta love the rapid swithcing of the roles back and forth. It really matures you as an actor." Guy2: "Oh what bullshit. You clearly are on a dead-end path and are totally hostile and angry about my huge success in community theatre in Podunk playing the same role for 30 years. THATS the TRUE path to "the top". --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Do you two, and others who have identified some past life: do you > identify with that person? > > Some jyoptishis (probably with some psychic abilities) have told me > what I was in the past. While it seems to fit, I don't particualry > relate or identify with that person. Similar with my past "lives" / > days in this life. I can identify "that" person, but I don't > particularly identify with him. Sort of like identifying a family > member. Perhaps sometimes, it seem, like identifying the wandering > black sheep of the family, when bailing him out of jail: "yeah oficer, > thats one of 'ours'. We'll take responsibility for him and try to keep > him out of trouble". > > I can idenify these "past people" as somehow related to me, and will > grudgingly take responsibility for their apparently strange and wild > actions, but I don't particularly identify with 'them'. > > Though it may be a cliche, they seem more like actors in a film I once > saw. Q: "Did you see that film about that young teen-age kid that went > head-over-heels for an indian guru, and followed him around the US and > Europe doing deep meditation and the rest of the guru's trip. It was > set in the 60' and 70's -- a good 'period piece'. Good set-designs"? > A: "Yeah, I think I saw that one. But I am sort of fuzzy on the plot." > > A friend of mine used to joke about her husband, "THAT man keeps > showing up." While it was clear she loved him a lot, it seemed she was > not identifed with him -- she had her own inner satisfaction and > completeness -- and did not depend on him for that. Her > tongue-in-check observation makes me laugh when thinking about > "myself". "That man keeps showing up". > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "george_deforest" > <george.deforest@> wrote: > > > > > Peter wrote: > > > > > > I did a process through the art of living (SSRS) that > > > helps you unstress impressions from previous > > > lifetimes. It was pretty interesting. The past lives > > > that came up were a roman general (I was involved in > > > logistics and troop support, not direct combat.) I > > > died of a heart attack in that one. I worked on the > > > pyramids as a physical laborer, but I was mentally > > > retarded (I'm serious!) and died at 18 from falling > > > off a large stone block and fracturing my skull. I > > > lived a long life in Norway in the mid 1800's the son > > > of a wealthy land owner. In that lifetime my current > > > father was my son who drowned when he was 10 and my > > > daughter is now my wife (I know, Freud would have a > > > field day with those dynamics) I was also Rick Archer > > > in a previous life and in a future life I'm going to > > > be Curtis! > > > > interesting! i went to a psychic lady once, and she told me > > i was a fisherman in Norway a couple centuries back; in that > > life i injured my eye with a fish hook. > > > > curious that in this life, i was born severely cross-eyed > > (had surgery for it at age 4), as well as a condition called > > monocular vision (ie, no depth perception). > > > > other "feelings" i've had of past life: i died, along with > > another friend from decades ago, in a war against the > > Germans, not sure WWI or WWII. > > > > and, i'm pretty sure i was a monk in medieval Ireland, > > this one feels the most certain. > > >
