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Untying Knots, a Shintaido chronicle: Last tango in Tokyo (chapters 21-24)
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“It was a lovely May day, and we sat in the grass on the practice field near the Tama river in Tokyo,” writes Michael Thompson. “Aoki suggested some meditation and remembering techniques which might enable me to communicate directly with my subconscious. He went on to talk about how everyone is marked by one or more childhood experiences; they might be as seemingly trivial as being left alone at some particularly vulnerable time, but they stay with us all out lives. He said that when he was in college he felt disgust for humanity because he found people so simple and predictable, but later he felt more compassion and was now devoting himself to finding ways to help others de-hypnotize or de-program themselves in order to unlearn old habits, to grow, and to define their own lives.”
Michael Thompson’s autobiography, Untying Knots, is full of such episodes of existential unfolding, some unsettling, some light-hearted, all rendered with quiet wit and honesty. In this episode, Shintaido instructor David Franklin reads Chapters 21 through 24 (in the original book Section III, chapters 8 through 11), entitled “Tohoku Travels”, “The Bigger the Mountain, the Bigger the Shadow,” “Time and Tide,” and “Last Eiko in Tokyo” respectively.
Credits:
Walt Kelly
Pogo
April 22, 1971
Ink and blue pencil on paper
Pogo Collection
Courtesy Ohio State University University Libraries
https://library.osu.edu/site/40stories/2020/01/05/we-have-met-the-enemy/
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