On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 10:11 PM, Rick Archer <r...@searchsummit.com> wrote:
> > Regarding what kinds of experiences people share, many of the folks I've > been interviewing, and others, attend the meetings and discuss the kinds of > experiences they discuss during the interviews. That's a bit of a cryptic > answer because I haven't been able to upload the interviews yet, but you'll > see what I mean when I do. There's a conference phone in the room so that > out of town folks can join in. if that interest you, contact Tom Traynor: > 641-919-6917 - and he'll give you the number and conference code. > > > I didn't notice him twitching. What I did notice is that he didn't tune > in to the energy of the group. He launched into several long, self-centered > monologues, not allowing for interjection or interaction. He later commented > to me that when he hadn't been talking, he had enjoyed staring at the > breasts of a teenage girl in the room. > > > What *I* noticed was a bunch of self-indulgent people who were way, way out there but talking about really mundane things. It was like people were describing how it felt internally when they floss their teeth. Like they were all stoned. I was rounding very heavily, like 10 hours a day and had my own network of friends and CPs that I shared a common language and a set of common experiences with. Rick seems to have a fetish for experiences I just don't get. And a passion for Amma I don't get. Rick really gets off on these sorts of things like the Satsung. Rick likes to play school crossing cop at these affairs, directing this one to speak, this one to rebut, this one to speak next from what I can see. I arrived twice before Rick and it's pretty amazing just how much back stabbing Rick's "friends" were and apparently how unaware Rick is that people say one thing to Rick when he's around, volunteer much different things about Rick to a stranger when Rick's not around. I've not bothered to watch the interviews yet. I fear they will be more of the same. The observation that Rick lacked a certain dynamism in the interviews I think has something to do with Rick not normally oozing a lot of emotion. Not Italian, Greek or other very emotionally expressive. This flatness people have reported about the interviewees. That's the flatness I felt in the other people at the Satsung. It was all happening in their heads. Yeah. That turned me off. I kept asking, "Where's the heart? Where's the emotion?". My buds and I find this lack of flatness to permeate public places like the Indian and Chinese restaurants in FF. People will drone on and on, in this very loud monotone that drowns out the conversations of people at other tables. Really into their experiences, common, trite, everyday experiences, but it's all coming from their heads and not from the heart. Visitors to FF tend express a lot more emotion and modulate their speech a whole lot more.
