I Am the Emperor - Weymouth, Sandy
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This is a book about feelings. "It can be helpful to look at them," Sandy Weymouth writes, "analyze them, think and talk about them, express them in some way. But if you really want to do something about them, feel them. As deeply and completely as possible." This sounds easy, but we rarely do it. We're conditioned to stop feeling anything that gives us the slightest discomfort. We relieve feelings by suppressing them. But human culture, the author explains, has come to a turning point. Technology, in spite of its dangers, has made us safer than ever before, which allows us to open up to the…mehr

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This is a book about feelings. "It can be helpful to look at them," Sandy Weymouth writes, "analyze them, think and talk about them, express them in some way. But if you really want to do something about them, feel them. As deeply and completely as possible." This sounds easy, but we rarely do it. We're conditioned to stop feeling anything that gives us the slightest discomfort. We relieve feelings by suppressing them. But human culture, the author explains, has come to a turning point. Technology, in spite of its dangers, has made us safer than ever before, which allows us to open up to the feelings we have long tried to stifle. This book argues that "the very ways of thinking and behaving that have made this dominant, technological species so spectacularly successful must turn upside down so that the species' full power to alter and destroy is not realized. Only at and after the climax of life can a total self-gratification culture work. And from then on it's the only one that will work."
Autorenporträt
Sandy Weymouth's dream, for most of his adult life, was to promote the cathartic experience of emotions: pain, rage, fear, joy, anything that comes up. He began his studies at the Casriel Institute in New York, and developed his own techniques and guidelines over a lifetime of practice. In his late forties he bought 23 acres of land in Maryland and established The Woods Place, a center devoted to exploring how all of us can best surrender to our feelings. Sandy died in 2014, but The Anthony E. Weymouth Foundation carries on his work.