In Eastern Europe there is a system of teaching languages to adults that also taps this energy to good advantage and calls upon the unlived life. In this concentrated course of study, one chooses an identity completely opposite from one’s actual life. The college professor might present himself as a pirate, the conman as a priest. The most astonishing eruptions of energy occur in this way! That energy aids in the assimilation of a new language—a task that might be just another drudgery if done from one’s ordinary personality.
