[joe-frank-list] 'Summer hill'

[russellbell at gmail.com]

	Larry tells a joke about a monkey saving an elephant who had
fallen into a pit; later, the elephant returns the favor.
	3:30: Jack Kornfield talks about incorporating sexuality with
spiritual practice.
	5:20: Larry tells Joe about Reichian therapy (Wilhelm Reich
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Reich).  Joe tells Larry that
David Rapkin can provide an expert opinion on anything.
	8:00: David Rapkin tells Joe about Reichian therapy (some of
which is accurate, much is not).
	15:50: Larry tells Joe about Reich and A. S. Neill
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._S._Neill), particularly that Neill
encouraged children to act on their sexual impulses.  Then he tells
Joe about Neill's school, Summerhill
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summerhill_School).
	18:50: Gregory Poe tells Joe about the liberal school he
attended, similar to Summerhill.  He says it didn't prepare students
for life, that many, including him, had breakdowns later.  He tells
Joe the principal and founder of the school had Poe draw his penis.
The fellow turned it into an art piece, a tiny model of his penis in
gold in a walnut shell, the 'what nut', which he sold to sex shops.
	24:40: Poe and the principal had sex.  They went to his
time-share cabin at Lake Arrowhead.
	26:00: Poe tells Joe he had a breakdown about 8 months after
he graduated, '1975 April 25 about 1 PM Saturday' (1975 April 25 was a
Friday.)
	27:00: Jack Kornfield reminds us that we're animals,
expatiates, particularly on the denial of death.
	30:40: Larry tells Joe about Reich's experience in the United
States.
	32:20: Larry tells Joe about Reich's meeting with Einstein.
(Larry says that Reich claimed to have created organic matter from
inorganic matter.  Friedrich Wohler
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_W%C3%B6hler) did this in
1828.  Einstein and Reich did meet, but not about this.)
	34:30: Rapkin gives Joe an even more fantastical account of
Reich's meeting with Einstein.  He tells Joe he keeps a lead sheath
around his penis.
	37:30: Kornfield talks about what we were told about sex when
we were growing up, how we use and mis-use sex.
	42:20: Kornfield reads Pablo Neruda's poem, 'Girls':

	You who were seeking the great love, the great and terrible love.
	What happened, girls?  Because now here it is:
	See how it passes, dragging the heavenly stones,
	destroying the flowers and leaves with a noise of foam
	lashed against all the stones of your world, 
	the smell of jasmine next to the bleeding moon.
	Now you touch the water with your little feet and with your little heart.  
	You do not know what to do.  
	Better are certain night journeys, certain compartments,
	certain most amusing walks, certain dances with no great consequences, 
	than to continue this journey.  
	Die of fear or of cold or of doubt 
	for I with my huge steps will find her within you
	or far from you and she will find me 
	she who will not tremble in the face of love 
	who will be fused with me in life and death
	
	43:50: Larry tells Joe Reich went to prison, died of a heart
attack.
	47:10: Kornfield recounts his first sexual encounter after 5
years in the monastery.  (He says he was 26.)  He shook (He comments
that Reich would have liked it.), got cold; he thought he was dying.
They spent 3 days making love.
	50:20: Rapkin recounts a story from the summer of 1956, when
he was 8.  His entire family was incinerated when their house burnt
down.  Wealthy Uncle Darien left him money; he went to Summerhill.  He
didn't learn to read or any other basic academic skills.  He later
found out his family hadn't died in the fire, but he never saw them
again.
	54:20: Rapkin tells Joe a joke about the woman who went into a
bar and asked for a double entendre.
	
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russell bell