Summer '72 CONVERSATION: RELATIONSHIPS/COMPARISONS Spirit Methods
Type	REFLECTIVE		EXPERIENTIAL
	Art Form		Spirit	Scripture	Psalms		Words of Jesus		Visits
Rational Objective	Appreciate art form as medium for significant address		Reveal transparency of an ontological reality	Out to recover the humanity of Jesus, that his divinity can impinge on your life	Enable each person's grasp of his/her spirit journey by visit thru psalmist		See eschatological hero as objective primal sign		Posits one in the midst of the world to appreciate the word
Existential Aim	Experience one's own experience through art form		(Being flooded with images	To experience that means to be authentically human is to live over against that one and only final reality	Experience being humanness itself before the final mystery		Experience of echo or call from the other world		Experience yourself watching yourself waliing around in the experience
		Introduction	1. Spin master context getting in first question so they can brood on it before it's really asked. 2. 1st series of questions from same arena	Address: give group a gimmick, then read scripture dramatically Locate the address: Find out where trip occurred, where felt	I ntro	Conversation context Coliseum setting Psalm context	Intro	No context (presume an instant context - not after awe)	Intro	Trek arena spin Disconnected story Invitatory spin
	QU	1. Objective	3. Turning context to get around curve into another arena	heat, shuddered, and where went off into new universe	Psalm Reading		Read enough words for all to hear
	EST	2. Reflective 3. Interpretive	4. 2nd series of questions 5. Context	Intensifying Address: Takes only one person to break thru into the awe - & everybody is in it. Take			Tangential homily - shifts attention from words to questions		Ques	Poetic images State of awareness External event for objective occasion) Practical manifestation
Method	IONS	4. Theological (or decisional)	6. 3rd series of questions 7. Pearl is dropped 8. A few underscoring questions	one person & push, cajole The transparency: You see thru - beyond seeing your journey which is the journey of all people, that your life at the bottom becomes objectively the life of all people	Ques	Images Accompanying reflections Decisional deeps Novel writing	QUEST	What did you hear Jesus beholding in the other world out of which he said these words being read?
		Conclusion			From the center out		Journey of the preacher reconstructed		Taken by the hand to the center and out
Journey	Trialogue between teacher, artist and participant		Going downstream on a river in a canoe - suddenly hit whirlpool	Startled Apprehended Exposed Universalized			from his preaching		(Camera ready copy, of your interior) (Scraping a copper-tooling) (Dream) (Burning off land) (Tornado) (Excursion)
Existential Image	(Art Object)		Whirlpool		Lightening		The Anchor
Up Front Stance	Indirect pedagogue Enticing Fun		Guru-less detached here than in visit Tell stories from own experience to get montages spinning Direct eye contact important	1. Key is to create frame with the dramatic, which will then focus and shove it through to the transparency	Psalm reading should be practiced and experienced Never suckled into the awe Hostess at a party		Guru objective, nonchalant Conversation has rational emphasis Do not pin responses down to a particular word in a passage		Avoid dichotomizing space and time On the visit with the crowd Nonchalant - never ministering Not after clarity Leader guides attention