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ACTIVA ATIOA
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ACTIVO TION
A study of physiology will elicit, when the code is
once recognised, a complete picture of the organism's
readiness to be activated, its immediate and progressive-
ly sustained response.
Whether we're talking about the
reticular formation in the medulla obon oblongata or
the PH level in the blood or the mitochondria or the *
amygdala or the hippocampus, we shall find the parts
of a
activated
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system designed to be
to thecfulfilment
DNA
of its(natal aims* Once the activation takes place
the
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organism understands exactly what_it-hasto do,
for the precise reason that-itcame into existence as
form in order toldo just that' perform just that function.
Without activation this cannot take place. It is the
equivalent of baptism, or what in the ancient world
was initiation.
Baptism degenerated in the Christian
world to a mere external formula; but historically it
was activation, which it was the right of every human
being to have, though every human being didn't claim
it. It is a cellular, primal, autonomic response:
thus verbal or cerebral approaches will not elicit it.
It depends on tuning the nervous system.
Once tuned,
the nervous system accepts a new guidance which is as far
from the cerebral cortex or conscilusness as a function
can bei A subtle but pervasive well-being enters the
organism which may. not be conscious, but which manifests
to others. This works gradually but thoroughly through
the life-forms chosen, and the machinery of the cells
that evoke and fulfil the life-forms. If the breath
remains unactivated the life remains unactivated.
All the breathing exercises, all the prnanyama and so-
called 'deep' breathing will not producé athe avtication
on which all efficacy of behavior depends.. Only a
precise formula of breath will do this. Only arousal
under special surveillance and control will do it.
This formula is the hub of Oxgensis.
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Psychadelism is a desire for the apocalyptic without
i e activation.
So just the brain, acting under chemical
stimulation, does it. The actual autonomic responses
grow steadily weaker, untileuphoria and cerebral shadow-
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The Leary doctrine is arousal
at all costs, at all times, under chemical inducement,
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and this is disastrous for the human organism, which
consists of parasympathetic as well as sympathetic nerves.
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The psychedelic formula is a n attempt to activate by a
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so that the rectilcular self (that which is actviated
by Oxygenesis) goes further and further into abeyance,
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Activation is really self-identification. Your unique
organism from its birth has certain things it wants
of this life7 [You can call it DNA if that is your
symbolisation. The cerebral coretx is entirely unaware
of this, as it is unaware of most organic processes.
Only the reticular self knows what these wants are
and cannot convey them to the cortex because they
cannot be analysed or verbalised or even rendered
conscious](that is, given fixed form even for a
moment). Acctivzting this self is the work of
Oxygenesis. The objective is thus beyond health,
success, happiness, well-being, harmony, serenity,
liberation, enlightenment.
We don't come on the earth
for these things. We come ro fulfil our objectivest derper
at whatever cost to health, happiness, success etc.
This is why the [success formulae, the wealth and power
formulae break down: they produce frequently produce
even greater misery than before.
These things are
secondary needs required by the unactivated personality.
This will look after all health aspects, syccess,
happiness or otherwise in its due time.
Unactivated success is misery, unactivated serenity
is artificial, unactivated happiness is momentary,
unactivated liberation is illusory.
Baptism in its real setting, in ancient times,
involved intense concentration (not mental, however),
the passage of at least three months and a process of
one-to-one activation.
There has to be a constant
witness for this process, and this witness must begin
the process and remain till the end. He or she is by
ni means, however, a 'ba;tist'. The baptist is the
bereath itself, and th witness simply the necessary
observer.
Once activation takes place the organism
will choose whether to sacrifice health for a time,
or success, or happiness; or whether to accept these;
according to the plan already built into the cells for
fulfilment or non-fulfilment.
Pre-activation plans are cerebral; post-activation
plans are far beyond the consciousness and can only be
recognised by events outside one, where they relate to
oneself.
There are many ways of resisting or refusing
activation.
The organism may not be ready. In this
case it will put everything from erudition to beer-
drinking in the way. It will show itself insensitive
to the breath.
The breath won't work'.
But even
the attempt to activate will produce...
How is it that former epochs with healthy food
and unpolluted environments produced greater sickness,
premature death etc and a deep belief in old age (seen
frequently to start at 40). Cerebral surveillance was
the key to such epochs. The process began in ancient
Greece, and was developed to an extreme point in
C ristiantiy.
The organism has to be aroused but with extreme
care and concentration. The organism seeks and
thrives on arousal but this must be adminis ered
according to the chosen rhythm and evolution of that


inbuilt archietetectural pattern. Group breath
jamborees are euphoric affairs, and may satisfy
starved social needs, but there is no activation and
in fact activation may be delayed.
for the simple
reason that each organism is a remarkable universe to
itself and requires special charting in the company of
a witness who learns the chart together with the
subject.
This cannot be done in a group.
Religious people of the greatest deboutness may
still not be activated.
Their system may still be
a cerebral clinging, which will manifest in the berath
and in the movement of the body's bellows system.
'Believing in God' is not a cellular or primal or
autonomic state.
Cerebral religion has been easy for
the est to reject, because it does not manifest in
special powers, as activation does..
Tye organism may either be put under its proper
guodance memchanism by means of activation, or it will Blin
search endlessly for guidance outside the organism
where it cannot be found, it will look cerebrally
everywhere and in everything for the clue, the key,
the denouement which will give the organism what it
believes it is looking for, namely serenity, harmony,
well-being, spriitual iberation etc etc. In this
sense any spiritual quest, by being a quest, is on
the wrong track. The only real quest is entire self-
immolation to the breath, the lifeline that not only
secures the organism its bare survival but constantly
nourishes, inspires with newinforfamtion, suggests
new courses, teaches the code by means of which to
interpret the chimeras 'misfortune' and ;fortune'.


You may cling to erudition, rationalism,
science, religion for a safe haven. Or to beer or
to smoking or to sex.
All these things are safe
havens in the pre-activated stages. Once activation
has taken place they may all be had just the same,
except that they will take a key-place in the fulfil-
ment program/ There is no fear, now, that things will
'go wrong'. Évery second, every millionth part of a
second, things are going right, according to growth-
programs, in cells, wings, stems, winds, rocky
formations,
blood systems, neurotransmission functions. The
universe continues to function so that today it is
observably the same universe as yesterday. All
activati0on means is that the proper guidance technique
is switched on.
It is what people have always called
God, and what religion again and again has tried to
turn into a cerebral formula, that is a power system.
Activation looks fearfully unpredictable, any guidance
but that of the conscious mind looks risky. Even the
priest is chary about giving up life to that unforeseen
and unpredicta le plan.
Even he may, though faithful,
lack faith enough to know that things can only go right,
not wrong.
The unactivated
'Old age' simply means an unactivated organism
in the very years when it should be activated. Death
occurs when the program has been exhausted: but, given
that, the lifespan is amazingly flexible. Disease is
an attempt again and again to activate.
And killer
diseases are a decision on the part of the organism to
give up this body as bent on not fulfilling thr program.
Thus activation is of prime importance to those who
fear killer disaeses, or are suffering from them.
The payekstagxgat analyst's conclusion that cancer-
sufferers are frequently brilliant and successful in
their 'outer' selves but neglected and unseen in their
'deep' selves points precisely to this the activation
principle not being fulfilled.


There is no 'surrender', no 'letting go', only
a progressive dialogue with the breath, with the
lifeline that supplies everything---ali solutions
and suggestions of the most deeply authentic order-
all the time.
This lifeline can be used passively,
as it is by most people on the earth, or it can be
activated to its intended role.
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OXYGENE SIS
THE MIRACLE OF THE BREATH
A Popular Course in Breath Activation
Most people breathe incorrectly.
When the breath
is out of synch the organism is out of synch. The
organism can function 60-70% but not 100%.
This is
true for athletes and performers as well as for business
people and professionals in any field.
Breath activation is the greatest turning point,
the most important single activation of one's life,
without which no one can properly survive, work, play
or love optimally.
Breath can be a passive lifeline
(as it is with most people) and it can be an active
lifeline.
They are virtually two different lives.
Contrary to popular (and most current medical)
opinion, breathing does not come naturally.
Such are
the special conditions of our society, and the degree
of oxygen-shrinkage in our global atmosphere, that


breathing is ignored, relegated to an involuntary
function, and comes to reflect rigid and over-structured
adaptations to stress and trauma, thereby perpetuating
them.
Without the activated breath, no diet, exercise,
healing system will. have full effect.
In advanced age
all the exercise and intensive breathing in the world
will not achieve longevity or the successful combat ting
of those 'villains' of senescence, the free radicals,
if the breath is not metabolising the oxygen efficiently
and laying in a store of the protective enzyme, superoxide
dismutase (the 'heroes').
This efficiency is not
possible with passive breathing.
So-called 'deep'
breathing is an aspect of so-called 'shallow' breathing:
both are pre-activation.
Smoking is an attempt to capture the correct breath,
to activate the breath, in someone with chronically bad
breathing forms.
The breath and not the smoking is what
has to be attended to.
Premature ageing is especially tragic in the case
of women who have devoted their early years to the rearing
of children.
In the oxygenetic technique, the post-
fertility phase in a woman is regarded as the phase
of fulfilment, for which the fertile phase was a rich
preparation.
The female anatomy undergoes a change in
the glandular system, after the fertility phase, which


directly promotes new creative energy, provided the
social directive to feel finished after forty is not
obeyed.
Oxygenesis rehabilitates the nervous system and
provides the only effective means for destructuring
inner fixity, or hypertensive structuring, which is
at the root of stress and premature ageing.
Stress
is essentially mental fixity, unlike tension.
Exercise isn't enough to dismantle this fixity. Nor
is raising VO2 Max (maximum oxygen-utilisation capacity),
which normally declines about one digit a year.
Liberation from inner fixity can only be achieved by
arousal in repose. This is the core of Oxygenesis.
In many therapies, arousal is used to provoke
primal or (hopefully) cathartic shows of emotion.
These, however, merely introduce a new ineffective
behavior to the organism, indeed, a new fixity.
Since the organism is always happy to form a habit,
screaming for 'release' will become enjoyable, but no
basic destructuring takes place.
Thought and emotion are treated as synthetic in
Oxygenesis, the result of decisions which take place
much deeper in the organism, far below the activities
of the cerebral cortex.
Eventually, in the oxygenetic
process, thoughts and emotions take a back seat.
This is largely achieved through a state of primal


or 'cellular' repose.
This. amniotic state enables
the reticular self to challenge the cerebral cortex
for command.
The reticular self is best defined in terms of
the reticular formation in the medulla.
Arousal or
activating is the chief function of the reticular
function.
This area receives both information from
the sensory tracts and nerve impulses from the
cerebellum, the basal ganglia and other nuclei.
The whole scope of Oxygenesis is the enlivenment
of this function so that the organism accepts for the
first time its proper guidance-system.
This is marred
and disrupted by over-cerebral surveillance, which
manifests in chronically distressed breathing forms.
The reticular self is that which nudges the cortex
awake at night on a strange sound, smell etc.
provides the consciousness with its decisions (recent
brain researches reveal that we make decisions before
we are aware of doing so), and it flavors memories for
storage in the amydala and hippocampus.
It is the
key of 'subliminal' learning, and the frequent success
of affirmation-systems.
Above all it is the key to
the immune system and what Dr MacFarlane Burnet called
the immunological surveillance' that protects us
moment by moment from disease.


MAURICE ROWDON's PROFESSIONAL CREDITS


KAREN MCCHRYSTAL 'S PROFESSIONAL CREDITS


OXYGENESIS WAS SYNTHESIZED FIVE
YEARS AGO BY MAURICE ROWDON.
AFTER TEACHING THIS SYSTEM IN
ITALY, SWEDEN AND BRITAIN HE
CAME TO CALIFORNIA THREE YEARS
AGO AND ENTERED A PARTNERSHIP
WITH KAREN MCCHRYSTAL MFCC
(CREATIVE PROCESS CONSULTANTS).


INTRODUCTION TO OXYGENESIS,
A BREATHING TECHNOLOGY FOR
THE CONTROL AND MAINTENANCE
OF AN OPTIMALLY FUNCTIONING
AND PROLONGED LIFE.


CONTENTS
AN INTRODUCTION TO OXYGENESIS.
MAURICE ROWDON's CREDITS..
KAREN MCCHRYSTAL'S CREDITS.
BREATHTAKING MOMENTS CHAPTER..
BONNIE WEISS'S PUBLICITY PROPOSAL.
OUR AIMS..


FIRST CHAPTER FROM ROWDON'S PROJECTED BOOK
BREATHTAKING MOMENTS


BONNIE WEISS'S PUBLICITY PROPOSAL


KAREN MCCHRYSTAL MFCC, a native Californian, has
a BAin political science from Stanford University
andan MA in clinical psychology from the Western
Institute for Social Research.
She has worked as a writer and editor, having edited
several community newspapers, a San Francisco arts
magazine and business journals.
She has worked as
a journalist both in Europe and the USA.
For the past three years she has been a practising
psychotherapist, specializing in the creative process
and life transitions. She has been fully trained
in the Oxygenetic process and now includes this_in.
her clinical work.


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This is essentially about BEING IN FRONT OF AN AUDIENCE.
-How to feel comfortable on stage
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-How to feel ease. in interpretation
a How to prepare for performance unconsciously in the daily
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-How to appr oach with ease interviews,photo sessions, new
directors, deadlines, difficult parts, under-financed productions, l
over-financed, productions, work with stars and with peers admired
and feared, work with amateurs.
-How to feel ease in conflict, self-doubt, loss of courage,
unemployment, stress,nervous debility, ailments, anxiety and
depression
of apparently unprovoked nature.
2. We are talking about PHYSIOLOGICAL EASE, which we shall also
in the workshop call SUPPORT or AUTONOMY, and-asseeiate with THE-
RESPIRATORY-MUSCLESOP-THEABDOMEN.
This EASE makes SURVIVAL possible:
a) survival of rehearsal collapse (momentary)
b) survival,of performance collapse (spasmodic)
c) survival of production collapse (permanent)
INSECURITY of interpretation or performance is LACK OF
SUPPORT. Therefore we work, through Oxygenesis, on the SUPPORT
SYSTEM in the human physiology. We look not to the outside, not
to muscular development, exercise, mental analysisetc, essential
as thesemay be, but to the inside, wherethe breath BRIDGES THE
GAP_BETWEEN DEATH AND LIFE.
The difference between DEATH and LIFE, between UNCONSCIOUSNESS
and CONSCIOUSNESS is INTENT. Oxygenesis Ese works on INTENTas
PHYSIOLOGICAL, even CELLULAR. 1b4 Cmcared H, te prpfoman C
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Tefinalize. We study THE PHYSIOLOGY OF PERFORMANCE at its
root and core, THE RESPIRATORY SYSTEM.
There we say OPA or OXYGENESIS FORTHE PERFORMING ARTIST.
The breath is simply the vehicle of Oxygenesis. What the process
does is to undertake a journey of SELF ANALYSIS which the breath
induces. But the anaylsis here is PHYSIOLOGICAL, not a MENTAL
DIASLOGUE.
OXYGENESIS takes a minimum of 3 months in weekly sessions.
It cannot be done in a group. It is NOT essentially 'transformation'
but. more likely opening the gate to the self gradually, which can be
disturbing and pleasureable and sometimes ecstatic. The self here
can be conceived as inside or outside. It comes winging in on the
breath. The process, being undertaken for the first time, and in
terms of a unique organism which will have unique experiences,
must therefore be long, secluded and witnessed individually.


However a workshop can initiate an understanding of THE
RESPIRATORY SYSTEM and therefore a BASIC PROPER BREATHING PATTERN
fopr the performing artist.
5. SELF ANALYSIS is particularly important for the performing
artist because he is ALONE WITH HIS NERVOUS SYSTEM ON THE STAGE.
The objective of this self analysis through the breath is
DTEACHMENT. But just as the action of the breath isn't mental,
so this detachment isn't mental detachment but much more what we
might call ANIMAL DETACHMENT. You may see in acat stalking a
mouse or bird, and turning away without a further thought when
the prey moves out of reach.
FLEXIBILITY is therefore an essential part of DETACHMENT
for the performing artist.
6. The importance of Otto Rank's statement that 'all anxiety is
birth anxiety (dispnoea) - lies in the fact that this cponcerns THE
FIRST BREATH. Now our first breath is OUR FIRST TRANSACTION WITH
THE WORLD, often a panic-stricken one in alien hospitable conditions.
Our first transaction with the world is thus A BREATH TRANSACTION.
It follows that whenever our transactions with the world are
critical WE RETURN TO THE ORIGINAL DISPNOEA, that is we enter
PHYSIOLOGICAL DYSFUNCTION.
We can only undo this by means of the breath.
WHAT MORE OF A TRANSACTION WITH THE WORLD IS FACING AN
From Antony Sher's YEAR OF THE KING:
'To the King's Arms for lunch, but I'm terribly restless.
Keep thinking back to a similar lunch here two years ago, with
Gambon before KING LEAR opened. We chatted and joked as always,
but he wasn't quite with me. A man with something else on his
mind. I think the only people who can know this feeling are those
in the performing arts, sport, bullrings and death row.'
Chekhov to his wife: 'Art, especially the stage, is an area
where it is impossible to walk without stumbling. There are in
store for you many unsuccessful days and whole unsuccessful seasons,
there will be great misunderstandings and great disappointments.
You must be prepared for all this, accept it, and stubbornly follow
your own way.'
7. The descision to become an actor or a dancer or an opera
singer or a concert soloist or for that matter a writer or .painter
or sculptor or composer is all too often one thattakes us to drama
school or dance class, that is to the STUDY AND TECHNIQUE of the
matter, but not to PREPARATION OF THE: ORGANISM. The same applies
to stars as to lowly members of repertory companies, it applies
where it success and where there is disappointment. Again and
again performing artists reach a successful level but their nervous
system can cope no better than it ever did and oftentimes a good
deal worse because of the new and unc "easing pressures.
Here we can beneficially look at the STOIC PHILOSOPHY of Zeno,
Cleanthes and Chrysippus, the three chief exponents. The doctrine
has two important facets from the point of view of Oxygenesis:
a) Its notion of FIRE being the creative force, which ultimately
cools to MATTER, so that the mannter may be said to INCARNATE the
fire; for the human organism THE BREATH is this fire or rather
a bridge to it, a safe bridge.


b) The notion that it is what we give our ASSENT to that
determines our lives, not PAIN OR PLEASURE. We cannot see PAIN
as evil or PLEASURE as good unless that is the nature of our assent
to the experience. We may seek pain, disregard it, use it,
according to the nature of our assent. Thus STOIC came to mean,
in popular usage, the man resistant to suffering, but in fact it
means the man : who doesn't suffer. The STOIC is a man who has
all the same feelings as other people, however much of a peer he
may be he cannot avoiding the full gamut of human feelings, but
the difference lies in the way he remains an untroubled witness
of these, without scenarios of good or evil. One might say that
! the stoic is therefore the opposite of the moralist, though Roman
stoics like Marcus Aurelius tended to take the ethical part of
stoicism to the point where it was moralism.
The relevance for the performing artist is strong because he
cannot affordto take a fever or a flu or a sore throat or weakness
of the legs or backache as a reason not to perform. Thus his
work predisposes him TO USE RATHER THAN FIGHT OR REJECT THE
APPAREWNT PAIN.
The artist who won't go on doesn't belong in the performing
arts. He is to this degree a STOIC.or not.
But this stoicism cannot be induced by mental attitudes.
It is a physiological matter; and So the greatest performers,
what the Italians call le bestie del palcoscenico, have an amazing
inbuilt PHYSIOLOGICAL EASE that rides all ills. Read Olivier's
autobriography for an astonishing succession of sills.
What Oxygenesis Says is that stress and tension and.anxiety
are only 'wrong' if OUT OF CONTEXT, but they aren't wrong or evil
in themselves. Only the person following the pleasure principle,
namel;y my life must go right and I must feel right or I must be
a perfect being, feel;s this is so, and so is PHYSIOLOGICALLY
RESISTANT TO OXYGENESIS.
The foremost 'beasts of the stage' are terrorstricken by fear
of corpsing, drying, voice failure, back failure, insomnia,
missing a 'great' moment, stumbling, dropping props etc Performing
means not conveying experience but SYMBOLIZING EXPERIENCE PHYSIOLOGIC-
ALLY and a preparàtion of the physiological basis is essential.
However it is not part of current curriculla and OPA is a beginning.


Now is the winter of our discontent:
Made glorious summer by this sun of York;
And all the clouds that lower'd upon our house
In the deep bosom of the ocean buried.
Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths;
Our bruised arms hung up for monuments;
Our stern alarums chang'd to merry meetings,
Our dreadful marches to delightful measures.
Grim-visaged war hath smoothed his wrinkled front;
And now,- -instead of mounting barbed steeds
To fright the souls of fearful adveraries,
He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber
To the lascivious pleasing of a lute.
But I,-- --that am not shap'd for sportive tricks,
Normade to court an amorous looking glass;
I, that am rudely stamped/Cand want love's majésty
HosIrMEbefore a wanton ambling nymph;
I, that am curtailed of this fair proportion,
Cheated of feature by dissembling nature,
Deformed, unfinished, sent before my time
Into this breathing worlfa scarce half made up,
And that so lamely and unfashionable
That dogs bark at me as I halt by them;
Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace,
Have no delight to pass away the time,
Unless to spy my shadow in the sun,
And descant on mine own deformity:
And therefore,- -since I cannot prove a lover,
To entertain these fair well-spoken days,-
I am determined to prove villain,
And hate the idle pleasufres of these days.
Plots have I laid, inductions dangerous,
To set my brother Clarence and the king
In deadly hate the one against the other:
And, if King Edward be as true and just
As I am subtle, false, and treacherous,
This day should Clarence closely be mew'd up,
About a prophecy, which says that G
of Edward's heirs the murderer shall be.


MAURICE ROWDON is a British writer and has published
twelve books.
His novels include HELLEBORE THE CLOWN,
OF SINS AND WINTER, PERIMETER WEST (about West Berlin)
and AFTERWARDS.
His biographies include LEONARDO DA
VINCI and LORENZO THE MAGNIFICENT. His history works
include THE SILVER AGE OF VENICE (which he made into
a 55-minute BBC film) and THE SPANISH TERROR, a study
of sixteenth-century religious persecution. His travel
books include ITALIAN SKETCHES, A ROMAN STREET and THE
COLLINS COMPANION GUIDE TO UMBRIA.
His latest book,
ELKE AND BELAM, was on animal intelligence.
His publishers include Putnam, Regnery, Praeger, St
Martins Press. In Britain they include Chatto and
Windus (2), Heinemann (1), Gollancz (2), Weidenfeld (4),
Collins (1j, Constable (1j, Macmillan (i).
His first play, set in the Northwest Territories of
Canada, was directed by Peter Cheeseman, and featured
Anton Vogel and Robert Powell. Rowdon later directed
this at the Mercury Theatre in London with the same
cast. His second play, MAHLER, with Vladek Sheybal
in the title role, was produced at the Arts Theatre in
London under the direction of Peter Watson.
Rowdon
later directed it himself at the Studio Teater in
Munich, Germany, where he was director of English-
speaking productions for a time.
While on the
governing board of London's only Black ensemble he
wrote CHRISTOPHE which James Earl Jones took on option.
Rowdon has an MA from Keble College Oxford and after
leaving Oxford he became Lecturer in English Literature
at Baghdad university (Irag). He later began living
in Italy, where he still has a farm.
For the past
three years he has been resident in the San Francisco
area.


OUR AIMS
1. To initiate a training program for future
teachers of Oxygenesis, first in California,
then nationally, in a pyramidal structure.
2. To influence hospital staffs and the respiratory
departments of hospitals to revolutionize current
medical attitudes to
Smoking.
The causes of asthma, emphysema, COPD.
Obstetric breathing (the Lamazs method
is entirely inadequate).
3. To run workshops under trainees for
a) Quit smoking.
Rejuvenation.
Stress in housewives.
Hyperventilation and other symptoms of
disturbed breathing patterns.
4. To initiate centers in California and nationally,
and in Europe.
5. To conduct lecture-demonstrations nationally after
publication of BREATHTAKING MOMENTS and the prod-
uction of cassettes.
6. To introduce training in Oxygenesis to Club
Mediterranee and other leisure networks, to accompany
yoga classes already in function.


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Date: October 18, 1984
To: Maurice Rowdon and Karen McChrystal
Froms Bonnie Weiss
Re : Proposal for Publicity Campaign for Oxygenesis
I suggest the following approa ch:
Raise your visibility and credibility in the Bay Area via a media
campa ign to get you radio, t.v., newspaper and magazine coverage.
Do a mailing to selected health practitioners, clinics, hospitals,
and holistic health centers and to performing artists, their
teachers and training centers.
Hold a series of free lectures whereby you can give people a strong
sense of who you are and what you do. These lectures would be timed
so that they occur shortly after your radio and t.v. appearances
or after articles have begun to ap ppear about you in print.
Conduct a media campaign in the Los Angeles area.
Do a mailing to people in the enterta inment industry and health
professions in the Los Angeles area to coincide with media
appearances there.
Use the newspaper articles, radio and t.V. appearances in the Bay
Area and L.A. to get publicity coverage on a national level.
Specifically, the work of Catalysts would consist oft
Reading, researching and directly experiencing some of your work
in order to have solid information on which to base press material.
Writing, editing and coordinating all mat terial for the press kit.
Supervising production and mailing of all press materials.
Mailing of press kits to editors of appropriate newspapers and
magazines, radio and t.V. talk show producers and news assignment
editors.
Mailing of public service announcements about your free lectures
to radio and t.v. public affairs directors. Similar mailing to
community da. lendar and events editorssof newspapers and magazines.
Follow-up phone calls to insure receipt of press materials and to
arrange for interviews,and articles.
Postering and distribution of flyers announcing your free lectures
and trainings at health centers, universities, performing afts
schools and other appropriate locations.
Networking - distributing your flyers and brochures and making
announcements about your work at professional meetings and social events.
Sor Meiss, Director . 1431 Dolores Street San Francisco CA 0.4103 415-552-5045


P.2 Proposal
Feess
Bay Area media campaign (San Francisco, Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin,
Sonoma, San Ma teo and Santa Clara counties.
Mailing campaign to health professionals and performing artists.
Expenses : Media campaign - approximately $200
Mailings (depends on size) - $300-$500
Los Angeles area media campaign
Expenses: Metpe.cespaign - approximately $400
L.A. mailings to entertainers and health professionals.
Expenses 8 Approximately $500-$700
Publicity car mpaign for national coverage
Expenses s Approximately $200
The entire local/national campaign fee plus expenses comes to
approximately $7,000. However, I suggest you ask for $10,000 to
cover costs not related to Catalysts* work such as room rental fees
for free lectures, photographs you may want to include with your
press material, gas, tolls, phone bills, etc.
If you wish to begin getting media coverage in the Bay Area in January
it would be advisable to begin the publicity work in early November.
Since you plan to you to Europe in early spring, I suggest the following
schedule:'
November and December: Catalysts does all necessary research,
writing and preparation for mailing of all materials.
Early January: Bay area mailings sent out
Late January/early Februarys Bay area media appearances
Late January: L.A. mailings sent out
Late February/early Marchs L.A. area media appearances
If you decide to leave for Eurpope in March, we càn arrange
to launch the national publicity campaign when you return.
If you have any questions or concerns, please contact me.
You have my assurance that if Catalysts is sélected to work on
your project, we will put forth our very best efforts on your behalf.


II I
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PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND BONNIE WEISS
Bonnie Weiss has been Director of Catalysts Publicity Services since
1978. Her work consists of designing and implementing media campaigns
for entrepreneurs, small business owners, authors, seminar leaders,
entertainers and event coordinators. She also operates a consulting
service in which she - offers practical guidance on all aspects of
publicity.
Additionally, Bonnie has gained a reputation in the Bay Area as a
highly effective business networker. Hence, she has been hired by
several organizations to use vord-of-mouth marketing to promote their
products, events or services.
As a media publicist Bonnie has an excellent track record. Her clients
have appeared on every ma jor radio and TV program in the San Francisco
area, many of the top programs in San Jose, Sacramento, Fresno and other
metropolitan centers in California. 8he has obtained intervievs and
articles for her clients in all the major daily and veekly papers in
these areas. In addition, she has carried out several successful
media campaigns in Los Angeles and San Diego. Her clients have
been written about in such state and national publications as California
Magazine, USA Today and Time.
Bonnie has produced a cassette album, The Pover of Publicity and is
author of the book, Publicize Your Way to Success.
Bonnie Weiss, Director e e 143 Dolores Street e e San Francisco CA 94103 a ce 415-552-5045


a new age promotion-management-coordination service
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TO: Maurice Rowdon and Karen McChrystal
FROM: Bonnie Weiss
RE: Contract for Services
Catalysts agrees to publicize and promote the Oxygenésis work of
Maurice Rowdon and Karen McC"rystal as follows:
Creation of a press kit describing your work - especially its
relevance to the dreatment of depression. The kit will consist
of a press release, biographies of Maurice and Karen and background
information about the Oxygenesis process. The release will include
da tes, BEimeaganideeocations of your free introductory lectures and
your one-day workshop. Also included will be statements from people
who have experienced Oxygenesis.
Mailing of press kits to radio and t.V. talk show producers and news
assignment editors, features, health and science editors of newspapers
andimagazines.
Writing and mailingtdt. - public service announcements about your free
lecturds to publig.affairs directors of Bay Area radio and t.V.
stations. Writingand mailing of community calendar listings of
your free lectures and workshop to calendar editors of daily and
weekly newspapers.
Follow-up phone calls to all media people to arrange for articles,
interviews and appearances.
To cover the 6 ma jor Bay Area counties (San Francisco, Marin, Alameda,
Contra Costa, San Mateo and Santa Clara) requires a minimum of 30 hours.
This comes to $1500. This fee may be paid as follows:
December 1 - $500
January 1 - $500
February 1 - $500
Expenses (e.g. postage,pphotocopying, toll calls) will be billed at the
end of each month and are payable at that time.
Maurice and Karen agree to provide Bonnie with the following:
Information about the Oxygenésis process.
Eescriptioneof how Oxygenesis reibetes or - heals depression
Dai tes, times and locations of - free lectures and workshop
Biographical data
Statements from people who have experienced Oxygenesis
5 X 7 or 8 X 10 black and white glossy photos of Maurice and Kai ren
continued -
Bonnie Weiss, Director : 143 Dolores Street . San Francisco CA 94103 : e 415-552-5045


P.2 Contract for Services Oxygenesis - Catalysts
You have my assurance of our very best efforts on your behalf.
Agreed and signed,
Bonie Wan
Bonnie Weiss
Date
Maurice Rowdon
Da te
Karen McChrystal
Da te


III
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a new age promotion-management-coordination service
PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND BONNIE WEISS
Bonnie Weiss has been Director of Catalysts Publicity Services since
1978. Her work consists of designing and implementing media campaigns
for entrepreneurs, small business owners, authors, seminar leaders,
entertainers and event coordinators. She also operates a consulting
service in which she offers practical quidance on all aspects of
publicity.
Additionally, Bonnie has gained a reputation in the Bay Area as a
highly effective business networker. Hence, she has been hired by
several organizations to use word-of-mouth marketing to promote their
products, events or services.
As a media publicist Bonnie has an excellent track record. Her clients
have appeared on every major radio and TV program in the San Francisco
area, many of the top programs in San Jose, Sacramento, Fresno and other
metropolitan centers in California. She has obtained intervievs and
articles for her clients in all the major daily and weekly papers in
these areas. In addition, she has carried out several successful
media campaigns in Los Angeles and San Diego. Her clients have
been written about in such state and national publications as California
Magazine, USA Today and Time.
Bonnie has produced a cassette album, The Power of Publicity and is
author of the book, Publicize Your Way to Success.
Bonnie Weiss, Director : 143 Dolores Street e San Francisco CA 94103 e e 415-552-5045


-c/o Georges Borchardt Inc
136 East' 57th Street
New York
USA -
8 March 1978 ( i
Dear: Valeria,
Here i's the place to send the money to:
Maurice Rowdon Account Number 936148 LID, Union
Bank-of Switzerland, CH-8702 ZOLLIKON, Switzerland.
I haven't talked to my agents here yet about
VENICE . but will dowhen things have settled down a
bit.
Lots and lots of excitement and wonder and I
ceaseless novelty and marvels here, too much for
me to be' able' toput 'into words. Some of it will
have, reached you, in the silence.
I came here just in time. Apart from the r
difficulty that the dogs cannot be seen, there was
a power reshuffle at my publishers here. andthe new
man doesn't believe the book." So I have much work
to do. In England things are infinitely better,
and they haveplanned the book both far more carefully
and far more : aptly. No thought-went into the American
production 'at all, so I have to supply the gap if *
possible.
Did I tell you jthat' Mrs Heil lmaier is hiding
from the German police andis therefore never at her
house in Berchtesgaden? / Ruby was most alarmed when
she concentrated her thoughts on her. I I explained
the whole situation to her (excepting the Melitta bit).
Ruby said "something is very wrong there, there is some
evil present, and you must .be. on guard, you must ask
for protection and my efforts are also towards that'.
Irstill cannot understand the Melitta situation,
which seems far.from me now. I don't allow my mind
to dwell on her for a moment.
Something made me ask
yesterday 'In spite of everything do we still have a
- destiny together?' and I got 51 Shock,with 6 in second
place and 9 in fourth place, which was a surprise: and
19, Approach,as the corollary. This arose from my
re-interpreting another answer I got some time before
to the question 'Has she ceased to play any role in my
Life?'---54 The Marrying Maiden with 9 in third place
and 9 at the top, with the corollary I4 Possession in


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great Measure.
At first I sawf all this/ as negative,
except that the corollary 14 was such a Contradittion.
Then it began to seem to me that her present life, perhaps
her present affair, was Geing described to me, giving me
the reasons why she has no role for me at present. It is
all such a: strange situation.
But I know now that when
one lives towards someone one only seems to 'fail', but
there is no failure for the soul, it is preparing a new
set of conditions in which it wiil achieve what it has set
out to win.
This ie the meaning also of Lajos. He is
the medium of a new set of conditions in you, achieved very
slowly, to that you are or will be in grado to produce the
union your soul has in mind. Everything Is creative in
this sense, there are no mistakes ot failures. - It is all
an entirely interior operation and nothing is%asted or lost.
You will not fail to recognise at once theperson for whom
you have been making yourself ready during these past three
years when. he comes, whether or not he is Lajos himself.
Nothing c'an rob you of that- You could not have had him
had you not produced utterly new inner conditions.
You
had to travel towards him, and magnetise him towards you.
Your old self was shed in'the process and the apparent
'mistakes' or 'failures' were simply points at which you
faced the opposition necessary to make inner change possble.
I am thinking that a 'mistake" or 'failure' is simply the
mind expecting an event in terms of the old self, and seeking
it in the old fashion, unaware that utterly new conditions
are in control.
Today I'm sombre and rather distressed inside.
It seems
to be theturning point., and my heart is wondering if positive
things will begin to fiow from the contacts I have so far
made. I'm in a well furnished apartment on Third Avenue
but this is only until Sunday when I haveto find a hotel
again. I had a lovely weekend at Annette's college in
Pennsylvania.
What rapturous countryside.
She ks making
a deep'impression there with her work.
She has an exhibition
in two or three rooms, the best I've seen of her work. She
really has got there, ARRIVED as an artist. L
I spoke to Bob Morgan just now. It seems that thekeys
etc have been recovered.
With lots of love, also to Sandrina,
Appollonio rand Sandro.
XXX


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