My Elfish self revealed for Hollidays

[Adam Blatner]

Dear Bud, well, that's getting closer. How did you find this funny website??
    I'm also an elf, so that's why we played so well last year in San Francisco.
      
    It is quite possible for a psyche-soul to in part "be" an elf, as well as "being" derived from an ethnic group or other assumptions about our essential identity.

      For those of you who question this, the key is in the latest quasi-scientific theories about reincarnation. (Hey, if there can be six or seven alternatives to string theory and 'brane theory and multiple universes talked about in Scientific American and Discovery and other popular science magazines in the last few years, why can't we fool around with other dimensions, too?)

    So here's how it works, really....er, quasi-really...: We don't just reincarnate from one lifetime to another. How linear, that's so... 20th century---no, 19th century!   Rather, we are the product of scores of inputs into our soul, a deck of cards that's been shuffled from other dimensions, including the shamanic and the faerie-elfin-sprite dimension! So on an astral level, in addition to a variety of human and only partily human "ancestors," I have several "ancestors" who were variously elves, trolls, gnomes... you can see them on my website under cartoons...

     Alas, the actual nature of elves has been greatly distorted through tradition and history, a process that projects those historical cultural elements onto the trans-form-dynamics. For example, we in the USA and some of Europe have clothed Christmas overly-much into mid-19th century Dickensian England, and certainly this process applies to the construction of archetypal images, such as those of gods and saints, mountains and oceans.
     
      What Bud has right--as does that website--is that elves do bring to our world a reminder that play and dancing and singing are vital elements---an insight that becomes all-too-often overlooked in our task-oriented and answer-oriented schools and workplaces, churches and clubs.  I've had psychic conversations with my elvish ancestors (figuratively or playfully speaking) and they remind me that ol' J.L. Moreno had his share of the elvish spirit, reflected in his epitaph: Here lies the man who brought laughter and joy back into psychiatry.
          Alas, he tried to, but did not---at least in his lifetime. Yet I think we should embrace this also, to become one of our goals too, to bring more playfulness and imagination, spontaneity and joy into therapy, and beyond therapy, into education, parenting, loving, friendship, work, and all aspects of life. Thus spake the Elvish Authorities (---that's a joke, they don't do authority... giggle).
         warmly, adam
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: BARNETT WEISS 
  To: list at grouptalkweb.org 
  Sent: Wednesday, December 27, 2006 12:44 AM
  Subject: My Elfish self revealed for Hollidays


  Hey dearie, I just made a total elf of mys-elf. Happy hollidays. It's a wonder what Helium can do to your voice. Check me out by clicking the link below.

  http://www.elfyourself.com/?userid=4bba09e22f4c0d4ea7073afG06122618


   hugs and happy and healthy holidays to all, that lil ol elf his-elf Buuuuuddd Weiss



  Barnett J. Weiss, MA, LCSW
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