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#145 Embodied Mythology Series 14: The Holy Grail with Paul Rebillot, part 2
By RCG
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September 5th, 2010
• Recorded: April 11, 2007 •
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We are continuing our conversations with our teacher and friend Paul Rebillot on the topic of the Healing Theatre – the combination of acting and drama, mythology, gestalt therapy, and rituals. For more information about Paul and his work, please visit his website – Direct Impact Creativity.
In this episode, Paul describes the structure based on the myth of the Holy Grail.
The topics covered in this talk are:
- The Structure
- "What’s troubling you, my uncle?"
- Instead of giving an answer, ask a question
- Instead of solving each other’s problems, listen and make it possible for them to solve it
- Giving power to the person, rather than power over them
- Staying present
- Accepting the Symbolic
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The Search for the Holy Grail
I have a friend whose great-grandfather had come to the US from Norway and settled in the mid-west. This great-grandfather had a psychic/religious experience which we might classify as automatic writing in which his writings resembled Chinese script which when received he could interpret and speak. It was very much akin to speaking in tongues as the Charismatics do and was religiously oriented. Soon others were doing the same thing and a community of people were formed around this which bound them together. Their writings were often done in the margins of their bibles. My friend had photo copies of various pages with this hen-scratching looking writings which he showed to me. At the time we belonged to an informal group of friends who got together once a week to discuss matters pertaining to psychic and other mysterious phenomena. As an exercise one of the things we did was for someone to seal something in an envelope and pass it around the group to get a reading on it (Karmac style). I put the photo copies in an envelope and passed it around. One of the women in the group described herself as going in a cave and seeing writings on the walls and people in there looking at them. I asked her to try to read the writings. She said that she couldn’t; that they were just a bunch of scratched lines going this way and that. I prompted her to ask one of the people in the cave what the writings said. He says “‘Tis not in the writings, ’tis in the search for the meaning!”
Think about that.
That is the crux of the issue “a meaningful and symbolic life.” The grail legend is essentially that search for what one is meant to do, how one gives meaning to ones life and how one meets ones fate and destiny.
In the absence of it one lives a life of quite desperation imho. I know this personally having been on both sides of the great divide so to speak. And I would say this is true for both my friends and collaborators on RCG here as well.
cheers
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