Last week I took a mask intensive. We wore masks and made a mask and wore the mask we made. I have to say that I LOVE taking courses that happen over a series of consecutive days. I like to be immersed in a concentrated way, rather than learning something piecemeal over a long time.
We used full masks and half masks. The full masks remain silent, allowing the body to tell the story, while the half masks can be very very loud. Full masks allow you to think; half masks are meant to remove your thinking mind from the equation. You "talk" in a full mask, but words have to be learned after starting with a fundamental sound. The sound is discovered at the moment you are shocked by the appearance of your mask face in the mirror, after emptying your mind. If it doesn't work, then it's on to the next mask until you find something so shocking you temporarily lose your conscious thought.
My own results were mixed. I don't know if I connected fully with any mask, though I didn't feel like it was a waste of time at all. I know that it's a trick, that these masks aren't really inhabiting me. Okay skeptics? But while knowing that, I'm trying to forget. I see it working for other people. It's a real result, even if there isn't a real cause. Let me define real: woo. Supernatural forces from the outside. There isn't real woo because woo doesn't exist. What there is, though, and what I would like to keep trying to do, is fucking with your brain. My brain. A real mindfuck to trick out some real results.
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