METHOD AGING and Improvisational Longevity
By Charles Webb
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You are a bodymind, not a body with a mind or vice versa. You are a verb, not a noun. You are fluid, constantly changing. The static you is a persistent illusion. You... your self, persona, ego...who you are... is a construct that is formed by the interaction of genetics, imprinting, and learning. You have little input into this process until after you have been thoroughly shaped by parents, peers and culture. Now consider that this you that you now seem to be is, actually, very much like a fictitious character that may appear in a novel, play or movie and may be re-written, re-produced and re-performed, using the techniques of those media. One part of your character description that can effectively be re-written, re-produced and re-performed is your functional age, which is defined as a combination and interaction of your chronological, physiological, psychological, and emotional ages. The Cinemorphic techniques discussed in Method Aging and Improvisational Longevity open the door to this transformation.
Charles Webb
Charles Webb attended Williams College in Massachusetts, then wrote The Graduate in reaction to what he considered the emptiness of his college education. The novel was subsequently made into a celebrated film as well as a successful play. Webb was largely silent for many decades, but after moving to England in 1998 with his long-term partner, he found fresh inspiration and wrote the delightful New Cardiff, adapted for the screen under the title Hope Springs. He died in 2020.
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METHOD AGING and Improvisational Longevity - Charles Webb
METHOD AGING
and
Improvisational Longevity
by
Charles Webb
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You can't teach an old dog new tricks.
Traditional folk saying
Hey…I just taught my old dog how to stand on his head…never could do that before!
Overheard at the park this morning
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1.
YOU
How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?
Satchel Paige
Who or what are you
? How old are you
…really?
You
are a bodymind, not a body with a mind or vice versa. Things that influence either, influence both…powerfully.
You
are a verb, not a noun. You
are fluid, constantly changing…at every level. The static you
is a persistent illusion.
You
… Your self
, persona, ego…who you are
…however named, is a construct that is formed by the interaction of genetics, imprinting, conditioning and learning. You
have little input into this process until after you
have been thoroughly shaped by your
parents, peers, culture.
Now consider that this you
that you
now seem to be is, actually, very much like a fictitious character that may appear in a novel, play or movie and may be re-written, re-produced and re-performed, using the techniques of those media…
…but, back to your
age for the moment. You
are both very old and very young. Scientists say you
are made of stardust. That makes you
billions of years old. On the other hand, your
emotional age in an unhappy state of consciousness could be that of a screaming baby. Your
functional age is defined as a combination and interaction of the chronological, physiological, psychological, and emotional ages of you
. This is an approximation of your
age based on what physical and mental activities you
can do on most days.
Your
age is indeterminate. Remember…you
are a verb not a noun…you
have no fixed age. Think of your
age as an improvisation…an intentional but unpredictable movement of your
bodymind…not how many years you
have been kicking around the planet.
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2.
ME
Who is it dragging this corpse around?
Zen Koan
I come from a long line of eccentric southern doctors. I assisted
my father in surgery when I was ten. I was supposed to be