Hello everyone,
I'm qurious - did the good Doctor Reich develop his therapy from scratch or does it have its root in for example Yoga?
I'm qurious - did the good Doctor Reich develop his therapy from scratch or does it have its root in for example Yoga?
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Re: The Inspiration For Rechian Therapy
Tue, June 10, 2008 - 7:37 AMIs there a connection you're looking for? -
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Re: The Inspiration For Rechian Therapy
Tue, June 10, 2008 - 7:50 AMNope. It's just of out of general curiosity. It would be fascinating to know how he came about developing the exercises. -
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Re: The Inspiration For Rechian Therapy
Thu, July 3, 2008 - 4:20 AMWow this forum is really...void. -
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Re: The Inspiration For Rechian Therapy
Thu, July 3, 2008 - 4:41 PM"Wow this forum is really...void."
As are most tribes on this site since the chill of 2006.
I work in a Reichian therapy mode very much like the therapists lay out in the book they have published online at this link:
ourworld.compuserve.com/homepa...tro.htm -
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Re: The Inspiration For Rechian Therapy
Thu, July 3, 2008 - 11:26 PMThanks. Someone shared that link in the C.S. Hyatt's Psychopaths Anonymouspublic tribe. It seems to be a rich source of info.
the chill of 2006 sounds mysterious. Care to tell me what it was? -
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Re: The Inspiration For Rechian Therapy
Fri, July 4, 2008 - 12:48 AMHi Bulgakov
I look at every post and actually get excited every time I see a post and
come in to check on it. I didn't respond to you last post because I actually
don't know enough to answer it... I am a great admirer of Reich and his work
but am more able to speak to the general philosophical and cultural impact than
to some of the specifics.
I think people post here when there is a some new thing to share or
if they have questions... sometimes there is a debate but there a vast
gaps in between.
As you can see though there are a few of us here and we might be able
to interact a bit more if the topic was more general, or at least I could / would.
all best
revVrob
ps I'm all for a good story about the chilling.
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The Tribe Chill
Sat, July 5, 2008 - 5:38 AMI may not have the timing right, i.e.: 2006 (may have been earlier), but tribe was taken over, at one point, by larger company/entity that planned on making the place respectable enough for serious advertisers, and directives were released for tribers to watch their Ps & Qs about nudity, profanity, seditiousness, etc. There was a huge hew and cry and a lot of people left or turned their tribes private and tribe traffic dropped dramatically. However, 6 months later, or so, tribe was handed back over to the original holders, but the damage was done, and the place hasn't been the same since. -
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Re: The Tribe Chill
Mon, August 4, 2008 - 2:27 AMI see. Yet another example of a brilliant management decision. :-D Too bad that many never returned. :-(
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Re: The Inspiration For Rechian Therapy
Wed, August 13, 2008 - 10:26 AMI found somethin interesting in the book 'An Interview With Israel Regardie' :
'Yoga, particularly hatha yoga and a few others, is not much different in essence from my interest in Reich and relaxation techniques. Or rather Yoga is an eloborate extension of Reich. So later when I discovered Reich and his breathing techniques, it wasn't really that new to me. It was already part and parcel of the yoga system which I'd almost grown up in many, many years earlier. The only thing that was new was Recih's point of view, the whole idea of the muscular armour, the character armour...' -
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Re: The Inspiration For Rechian Therapy
Thu, August 14, 2008 - 5:38 PMthat makes sense... i do think that there are certainly similarities but
it seems that the development comes from two very different directions...
Reich was dead set against anything mystical and so his model is very
mechanistic - which is interesting considering it is such a holistic model.
rr
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Re: The Inspiration For Rechian Therapy
Thu, August 14, 2008 - 5:45 PMThis reminds me of another similar line of thought which came from two different directions: General Semantics and Eastern thought. Although Korzybski was not an adovcate of Eastern religions (and does not appear to have studied such systems), he advocated nearly identical ends. There is a great book entitled "Creative Intelligence and Self Liberation: Korzbyski, Non-Aristotelian Thinking, and Eastern Realization" that demonstrates the similarity of these two schools.
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Re: The Inspiration For Rechian Therapy
Fri, August 15, 2008 - 1:50 AMrevVrob: As a person who’s only been on he undoing path (christopher s. hyatt version) with some semblance of discipline since two years back, I really feel the powerful effects of the methods from ‘Undoing Yourself with energized meditation’. I’m now in the process of absorbing a lot of other info on Reichan therapy and Hyatt’s undoing DVDs with the goal of creating a new more ambitious set of routines. I feel frustrated though, because I would like to have a greater understanding of the different effects that can be achieved by comparing Reich/Hyatt with other practices like the various Yoga schools.
Hank: Sounds very interesting. Should I start with Korzybski’s own work before reading this one? -
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Re: The Inspiration For Rechian Therapy
Fri, August 15, 2008 - 8:16 AMJust a quick comment - any time I get to learn about multiple disciplines from a book that compares them well I find I glean much more info about all the systems in comparison than I get from a book about just one system.... although certainly source material is valuable...
I would never have skipped reading Function of the Orgasm directly... but in general I get more out of comparisons and contextual overviews... anyone is welcome to correct me, but I don't think you need to read Korzybski directly to get the importance of his work. He does pop up all the time though - in everything from NLP to Robert Anton Wilson.
Haven't actually read Undoing Yourself even though I've read about it... most of my stuff in that department came from RA Wilson.
rr.
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Re: The Inspiration For Rechian Therapy
Sun, August 17, 2008 - 10:34 AMI wouldn't read "Creative Intelligence and Self Realization" without reading an introductory book on General Semantics. The author assumes that the reader is familiar with the material and does not give a full summation of the material being discussed. Rev Rob is right about not needing to read Korzybski to get a grasp of his ideas. In fact, I often recommend that those interested read an introductory book before attempting "Science and Sanity" (S&S). There are some really good one's such as "Drive Yourself Sane".
When I first attempted S&S I didn't get past the introductions. It is a doorstop of a book. Then I read some introductory material (the book mentioned above, a six-part dvd by Irving J. Lee, and of course several of Robert Anton Wilson's provide some of the most important concepts as well). After reading some introductory material, I jumped right into S&S and it all made sense. Well, the math section was above my head buy I'm a psychotherapist, not a math geek. No offense intended to math geeks (I'm secretly envious of your knowledge).
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