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.
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
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Copyright © 2011 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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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
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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