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Off-Ramp
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A
friend of mine
was
sharing
his
experience
with me, having spent about five years, twice a week, in
therapy
with a well
known
therapist.
That's about five hundred and twenty sessions of one hour each. It
was a robust
conversation,
accelerated by my
counter-sharing
that
Werner's work
reliably produces
transformation
in three, thirteen hour days. "How can that be? Everyone
knows"
(we've all heard that idiom before, yes?)
"'getting it'
takes much, much longer than that!" he argued. But actually, does
it?
Look:
what if the
time
it takes to
"get it"
in
therapy
is entirely unrelated to the
time
spent in
therapy?
In other
words,
what if the duration of the
inquiry
is totally irrelevant? And so that you
know,
I'm not voting here:
time
could also be incidental for participants in
Werner's work.
Five years? or three days? Any labeled duration may be incidental.
To be clear, comparisons between
Werner's work
and
therapy,
are mismatched:
Werner's work
isn't
therapy.
With that
said,
it's just
possible
the
moment of "getting
it"
is instantaneous, out of
time,
regardless of what
inquiry
you're in when you embrace that
moment.
A number of
essays in this
collection
flesh out the
experience
of
"getting it",
the chief among which is
"Moment Of Truth".
The
point
germane to this essay, is the
time
spent pursuing it ie
the Big "IT",
regardless of the format of the
inquiry
through which we pursue it, is really a non sequitur. You
could
"get it"
as a result of the
inquiry
(the high road) or you could
"get it"
in spite of the
inquiry
(the
low road).
To
"get it"
is to
see
that you're the
source
of it all. It's a
possibility
you embrace in a flash. Any and all
inquiries
until that
point,
no matter how long, no matter how
significant,
were merely padding.
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