Comments on: The life of the Innocent http://allanhunter.net/blog/2008/01/25/the-life-of-the-innocent/ Archetypes and Personal Development - the only website make sense of them both Wed, 07 Jan 2009 03:11:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: Mary Lou Shields http://allanhunter.net/blog/2008/01/25/the-life-of-the-innocent/#comment-238 Sun, 27 Jan 2008 20:15:24 +0000 http://allanhunter.net/blog/2008/01/25/the-life-of-the-innocent/#comment-238 Dear Julie and Allan: Thank you both for allowing me to enjoy the benefits of The Blog without taxing myself too greatly. MLou Dear Julie and Allan:
Thank you both for allowing me to enjoy the benefits of The Blog without taxing myself too greatly.
MLou

]]> by: Administrator http://allanhunter.net/blog/2008/01/25/the-life-of-the-innocent/#comment-228 Sat, 26 Jan 2008 13:57:34 +0000 http://allanhunter.net/blog/2008/01/25/the-life-of-the-innocent/#comment-228 Dear Julie, Your observations, and your questions, are right on target. Whenever we start anything new, or return to something we haven't done for a while, we start as Innocents - if only for a few moments. The question is how swiftly we can mobilize the other attributes in order to get ourselves back where we want to be. The pianao is an excellent example, as you point out, because it depends upon constant practise. And that's true of so many things. An example from today may help. I just had to get a muffler repair on my car. In the three or more years since I last had to do this car designs have changed, emissions requirements have changed, prices have changed.... In fact even though I'd done all that stuff before, I walked into that muffler shop knowing that I was an Innocent. It didn't take long before I was able to wake up and ask the important questions so I could make the decisions, but I think you can see what I mean. So the book hasn't arrived yet? Hmmm. It's all in there. Best, Allan Dear Julie,
Your observations, and your questions, are right on target. Whenever we start anything new, or return to something we haven’t done for a while, we start as Innocents - if only for a few moments. The question is how swiftly we can mobilize the other attributes in order to get ourselves back where we want to be. The pianao is an excellent example, as you point out, because it depends upon constant practise.

And that’s true of so many things. An example from today may help. I just had to get a muffler repair on my car. In the three or more years since I last had to do this car designs have changed, emissions requirements have changed, prices have changed…. In fact even though I’d done all that stuff before, I walked into that muffler shop knowing that I was an Innocent. It didn’t take long before I was able to wake up and ask the important questions so I could make the decisions, but I think you can see what I mean.

So the book hasn’t arrived yet? Hmmm. It’s all in there.

Best, Allan

]]> by: Julie Stiles http://allanhunter.net/blog/2008/01/25/the-life-of-the-innocent/#comment-225 Fri, 25 Jan 2008 22:55:43 +0000 http://allanhunter.net/blog/2008/01/25/the-life-of-the-innocent/#comment-225 Allan, So can this also be true on a small scale within areas in which we have some degree of mastery? I wonder, because I decided recently to relearn a two-page piano piece I used to play but have forgotten, and as I practice it, I'm confronted with the many (how to say this nicely...) not very functional ways I am with learning and practicing a new piece. I too suspect that these operate in many other areas of my life. Are we at the Innocent stage when we begin a new creative project -- a piece of art, or begin writing a new story or book? Or are the stages much broader than that? (Perhaps you answer this in your book...if so, I'm happy to sit with the question until I read it!) Julie Allan,
So can this also be true on a small scale within areas in which we have some degree of mastery? I wonder, because I decided recently to relearn a two-page piano piece I used to play but have forgotten, and as I practice it, I’m confronted with the many (how to say this nicely…) not very functional ways I am with learning and practicing a new piece. I too suspect that these operate in many other areas of my life. Are we at the Innocent stage when we begin a new creative project — a piece of art, or begin writing a new story or book? Or are the stages much broader than that? (Perhaps you answer this in your book…if so, I’m happy to sit with the question until I read it!)
Julie

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