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    Method Aging and The Infinite Game
    Method Aging and The Infinite Game
    Method Aging and The Infinite Game
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    Method Aging and The Infinite Game

    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. 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 an The Infinite Game open the door to this transformation.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCharles Webb
    Release dateFeb 15, 2011
    ISBN9781458113801
    Method Aging and The Infinite Game
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    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 The Infinite Game - Charles Webb

      METHOD AGING

      and

      The Infinite Game

      by

      Charles Webb

      SMASHWORDS EDITION

      *****

      Copyright © 2011 by Charles Webb

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      *****

      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

      *****

      Author's Note

      Many readers of the first edition of this book, which was entitled Method Aging and Improvisational Longevity, commented that its approach to reality handling, and the techniques described to accomplish these maneuvers, dovetailed remarkably well - spookily well even - with the infinite game play of Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility By James P. Carse - an extraordinary book, which changes everything about the way our doings in the world can be viewed. For these readers, the Method Aging and other Cinemorphic procedures presented here came to be viewed as important tools in the infinite game players' toolbox - tools that also changed the way they viewed, and interacted with, their world. I hope that this also becomes the case for those new to Method Aging. CW

      *****

      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

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