Workshop - 03 Opening Address
The theme of this workshop is "The Man on the Cross".
It's not hard to find me on more than occasion rattling on about something or other.
When it comes to "The Man on the Cross" I find myself stepping forward from sentence to sentence with much more care.
It can be argued that each day we have an opportunity for Prayer Absolute. It can be argued that each day we have an opportunity for Prayer Absolute.
Once more and we have a folk song ;-)
And yes it is true that each day presents its own unique doorway through which we can step
if we so choose.
This doorway can open on any given day in response to our wish to help alleviate the suffering of the Absolute.
However,
It is this time of year -- Easter
when the doorway is most yielding, most available.
An analogy that might help is to think of our cycle around the seasons like a carousel.
As we ride the yearly carousel each Easter we come within easier reaching distance of the brass ring.
Only in this case the Brass ring is not a prize to benefit you -- it is a prize to benefit the Absolute.
Each year as you come around the circle on this seasonal carousel, as you approach the Brass Ring are you prepared to make a grab.
Or are you too busy talking to the rider beside you or throwing ice chips from your cola cup at bystanders to notice the approaching brass ring?
Attention, presence, will.
That is what you have to work with.
This moment, right now, defines your year.
Not unlike the moment of death is it?
Let's not concern ourselves with worries about ice-throwing, somnambulistic chattering, or zombiequse carousel riding technique.
It is too late to cram for the final exam.
You have either studied during the school year or you haven't.
Whatever your situation, now is the time to accept that the proctor has put the test on the desk in front of you
Tt is time to put aside worries of study and perform to the best of your ability.
Who knows maybe you will surprise yourself.
Maybe you studied better than you thought.
heheheheheheheheh
Okay, so that is not really very likely.
Still, no amount of guilt, worry, shame, or self-recrimination will change your actual state of preparedness.
These emotions/sensations will only serve to hinder you at this time.
They are not for today.
As an aside, I may add that remorse is far different that guilt, worry and shame.
So, what about this brass ring?
This is left to you to uncover.
It is not an option to venture forward into this arena with blind faith.
Faith yes, but wide-eyed, attentive, wondrous,
alive with alacrity and verve.
Let us proceed into our workshops.
Robbert is starting us off with something that may just be the absolutely perfect beginning to what looks to be a great day -- Objective Theatre and The Creation Story.
I don't know where he is intending the workshop to go.
In most likelihood, knowing Robbert, he hasn't predetermined it. It will go where it wills to go.
However, one thing you can be sure of.
This we get from our pal Buckaroo Banzi
No matter where you are going -- there you are.
So Mr. R.
- rct: ok
- rct: The veil between worlds is thinest
- rct: at this time...
- rct: so we,ve heard
- rct: as this is the time we actually start or reinitiate
- rct: our year of work
- rct: it is appropriate to understand a little about objective theatre
- rct: the root for theater
- rct: ceremonial magic
- rct: religeous rites
- rct: shamanic gigs
- rct: storytelling and other performance art
- rct: is the same root
- rct: all of these were used
- rct: to penetrate the veil
- rct: or to go through that gateway mentioned earlier
- rct: that door which is most yielding at this time of year
- rct: in very ancient times priest and priestess initiates
- rct: who served particular high entities or gods if you like
- rct: used sacred theater
- rct: or performed sacred theater
- rct: in order to let's say penetrate the 'Mysteries'
- rct: ..to in some way or another walk through that doorway...
- rct: in objective theater this for the benefit of the Absolute
- rct: in the long run..
- rct: this technique
- rct: has been carried forward through history
- rct: from the time of the ancient priest priestess initiates
- rct: by story tellers, jongleurs
- rct: and bards of the last two thousand years
- rct: with the crusades and the opening of the west to the east
- rct: the sufic wanderers
- rct: carried the technology of objective theater into the western hemishpere
- rct: objective theater is an exact science
- rct: the more one understands the more succesful one's invocation is likely to be
- rct: are there any questions at this point?
- rct: the more the participants know about what they are doing in an attempt
- rct: at objective theater, the better
- rct: now
- rct: what is objective theater?
- rct: anyone offer a definition?
- rct: lets have alittle audience participation
- rct: hehe
- t: a means of invocation through the use of theater
- eric: group invocation??
- rct: excellent
- rct: eys
- rct: yes
- rct: yes
- rct: any others?
- fm: theatre which is accessing an objecive "real" space or atmosphere
- rct: good
- rct: any others?
- rct: okay, goos
- rct: good
- Guest 33: Is it like trying to put a mirror in front of the absolute
- tm: acting a known script to reach the unknown
- rct: yes
- can: theatre done for the benefit of the absolute-rose
- rct: excelllent
- rct: you guys are good
- rct: let me run it down in a little more detail
- rct: if i can
- rct: in ancient times
- rct: in the temple
- rct: the priest priestess initiates
- rct: would take a time proven script
- rct: one passed down orally probably
- rct: that had been used for generations
- rct: and these initiates
- rct: would call down upon themselves
- rct: the 'character'
- rct: a character
- rct: or an entity
- rct: from a higher cosmos
- rct: they would call down upon whatever assembly
- rct: they had gathered
- rct: these characters
- rct: or entities
- rct: or gods
- rct: or whatever you call these
- rct: and once the characters were manifest
- rct: they would improvise..
- rct: or rather they would listen
- rct: while the characters
- rct: spoke
- ompen: right
- rct: or acted
- rct: and these characters
- rct: would reveal more
- rct: and more 'data'
- rct: in this way the great 'myths' were created
- rct: and 'esoteric' data imparted...
- rct: and also...
- rct: Transformation...
- rct: transformation
- rct: in itself
- rct: not useful
- rct: necessarily
- rct: but in order to alleviate Suffering of the Absolute
- rct: transformation a necessity...
- rct: so the wandering jongleurs
- rct: acrobats
- rct: storytellers
- rct: bards
- eric: troubadors
- rct: the ones with knowledge
- rct: yes troubadors
- rct: they would arrive in town
- rct: gather a crowd easily
- rct: entertain,ment
- rct: scarcer in those days
- rck: bard o town
- rct: right
- can: yes
- rct: ande then
- rct: without really aleerting
- rct: the crowd
- rct: but by entertaining them
- rct: they would perform an invocation
- rct: Genuine work entities
- rct: often require a large landing pad
- rct: and a number of organic formations
- rct: in order to manifest in any degree
- rct: the performers
- rct: would unify the crowd in a mood
- rct: and this would help provide
- rct: the 'food'
- gle: formations = bodies?
- rct: necessary for the arrival of the entity
- rct: in exchange the entity
- rct: would give data
- rct: contained in the performance
- rct: and often
- rct: some degree of trtansformation
- rct: for likely members
- rct: yet unsuspecting members of the crowd
- rct: if they were susceptible
- rct: they would catch the disease
- rct: and then find themselvbes pon the path
- rct: themselves on the path
- rct: looking for a clinic
- rct: a clinic
- rct: being perhaps a school...
- rct: or some other source of further knowledge or work
- rct: we perform our own brand of this
- rct: in various ways
- rct: zen basics workshops
- rct: invocational dinners
- rct: bunraku puppetry
- rct: creation story verbatim
- rct: triad
- rct: redfin script
- rct: any questions?
- Member 50: n
- eric: yes
- t: n
- eric: rct
- beeper: n
- rct: okay eric
- eric: are you saying
- eric: that the key to this is mood?
- rct: there are many keys
- can: is it group mood?
- eric: the mood to be created in "others"?
- rct: to a successful
- rct: piece of objective theater
- rct: mood is important
- rct: in the creation stry
- rct: there are a series of moods mapped out
- rct: however every perfromance can be very different in its results
- eric: are specific moods associated with specific higher entities?
- rct: definately
- rct: when
- rct: we bigin
- rct: to work in this way
- rct: it is best to follow
- rct: a proven
- rct: formula
- rct: until you get the idea
- rct: the first
- rct: experiments you perform
- rct: should be simple
- rct: for instance
- rct: creation story
- rct: is an entire
- rct: course of study
- rct: in itself
- rct: one could
- rct: spend one's entire
- rct: work career
- rct: performing this play
- rct: and
- rct: probably fulfill
- rct: all the requirements of a work career
- rct: so to speak
- rct: anyway
- rct: csv
- rct: is a map
- rct: it requires
- rct: innumerable repetitions
- rct: to penetrate
- rct: it also carries with it
- rct: \several degrees of transformation
- rct: depending on the penetration
- rct: at some point the transformation
- rct: is not for the performers
- rct: the performers are performing prayer
- rct: the transformation is for the audience....
- rct: and
- rct: when the audience
- rct: views csv
- rct: it can become an entity viewing itself
- rct: having a conversation with itself
- rct: trying to see itself in the mirror...
- rct: any questions
- rct: comments
- wcd: great
- rct: are you following this?
- Member 50: y
- t: y
- kev: y
- can: yes. this is great rct
- rck: y
- jc & d: y
- Guest: y
- gle: y
- beeper: y
- Guest 51: y
- rct: questions
- way: y
- rct: then?
- io: y
- Birdman: It is clear.
- tm: can you comment on
- tm: the state of the being
- tm: of the performer ?
- rct: the performer
- tm: the preparation
- tm: of the being
- rct: by constantly performing prayer
- rct: becomes as much of an initiate as the performance piece allows
- rct: in the case of csv
- rct: one can go pretty far...
- rct: often
- rct: depending
- rct: on the performance piece
- rct: the performer doesnt
- rct: have to be in a particularily perfect state