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Transperiencing Mary Hartman
Florida Gay News Service
MARY HARTMAN is
a psychologists' dream,
because it reflects: role*
E laying, the ironic and often
timorous ways in which all
of us are conditioned to react
to each other; the jealousies
and expectations we make,
and the uncanny capacity we
have to complicate our lives,
despite our inner desires for
simplicity and love.
This T.V. series is also
helping people not to take
themselves too seriously;
and at the same time is
taking the first stumbling
and bumbling steps towards
some very beautiful alter
native lovestyles and
humane interpersonal
communications.
TRANSPERIENCE CEN
TER, which is focusing on
MARY HARTMAN, is a
growth center uniquely
based upon the reality that -
ALL people have the capacity
for intimate love with both
womeiy and men, alternately
and/di simultaneously.
In their weekly workshop
program of: Gay Con
sciousness, bisexuality,
men’s and women’s groups,
couples groups, high school
raps and the Direct Love
Transperience Workshop
(see enclosed schedule),
these have time and time
again come upon the very
same conflicts, decisions and
disillusionments consistantly
portrayed oh the imaginative
MARY HARTMAN series.
With this in mind, the
TRANSPERIENCE CENTER
has opened new directions
for using media in com
munity ‘tension prevention’,
by holding group rap
sessions following the show,
Mon. thru Fri., which is
aired by Miami’s Public
Broadcast Station, Channel 2
from 7:30 P.M. to 8:00 P.M.
(WPBT).
They complete the
process by integrating into
their lives, the ‘foolish and
fabulous facets’ of the show,
and the expansion of ‘LOVE-
CON S Cl OU S N ES S ’
represented by TRAN
SPERIENCE CENTER.
The following are some
examples:
SCENARIO NO. l...Mary
and Tom are married.
Dennis, a police officer, also
loves Mary and is willing not
to marry Cathy (Mary’s
sister), if Mary will make
love to him once. In time,
Mary admits to wanting “A
Beautiful Moment of
Transgression”.
ANALYSIS: Mary’s religion-
conditioned guilt over family
obligations and neighbor’s
attitudes, conflicts with her
need for romantic love. Is
LOVE, then, beyond her
reach? Tom’s male image
(sextet roles, possessiveness)
blocks his love to Mary. Can
Dennis give what she needs?
Can any one person? THE
ETERNAL TRIANGLE - will
it end in a duel? in despair?
or in the DIRECT LOVE
TRANSPERIENCE? Is there
a new direction for loving two
people at once? Can all three
people love each other?
overcoming jealousy,
possessiveness and same-sex
anxieties?
TRANSPERIENCE CENTER
raps explore that ‘‘Three-
way LOVE IS TENSION
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SPERIENCE is also an
experiential workshop in
volving a three-way,
feel/touch meditation,
exploring our natural,
organic, masculine/feminine
energies we all have and
share.
SCENARIO NO. 2...Tom
leaves Mary and stays with
two ‘brothers’ down the
block. They’re really lovers;
one scared of being
discovered, the other, in
LIBERATION and wanting to
“COME-OUT” to the world.
ANALYSIS: Tom seeks male
companionship and comfort,
in refuge from the torments
of marriage. Can he accept
the support and affection
(which he really seeks his
own organic bisexuality), as
he is exposed to the new
range of possibilities in this
‘‘even” couple’s relation
ship? Isn’t this THE Bi
centennial? Will Tom panic? #
or try proving himself a
‘man’ by aggressing against
the gays (himself)? or in Gay
Consciousness Raising? or?
TRANSPERIENCE
CENTER raps explore:
loving SELF as a man in a
man’s body (or a woman in a
woman’s body), emotionally,
sensually, sexually, means
already having a same sex
lover (SELF). Loving others
of the same sex is a flowering
of SELF-LOVE and a reliei
from the sexism of or
chestrated gender-roles.
SCENARIO NO. 3...Dennis,
flat on his back in the
hospital, after a heart attack,
says to Mary when she visits
him, “Mary, I Love You” -
Mary answers, “Yes, I know,
Cathy (Mary’s sister) told
me.”
ANALYSIS: Dennis’ clarity
in his love finally
materializes . after many
overtures, as he takes a
chance, opens-up and finally
says it: ‘‘I Love You”. Mary
avoids/ignores his present
love feelings. She, in a state
of confusion, fears the ex
pectations, the possible loss
of herself thru getting “too
close” and the vulnerability
of involvement. She avoids
responsibility for being in the
HERE & NOW, in the
moment, clearing sexual and
love feelings?
TRANSPERIENCE
CENTER raps develop: total
committment (one hundred
per cent) of SELF to each
experience; being all
together, totally with
someone in the HERE &
NOW - whether it lasts 30
minutes or 30 years; over-
coming stagnant
possessiveness, jealousy and
manipulations that only
destroy relationships. In a
safe space, we can tell each
other, “I Love You”, “I feel
sexual toward you”, without
ever having to do anything
about it, or without “setting
up” the future, or
“WANTING MORE” than
the HERE & NOW. ARE
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These are only a few
examples of the many issues
they are dealing with
Monday through Friday in
the TRANSPERIENCE
CENTER’S ‘‘STET
ABANDONMENT ROOM”,
preceeding the regularly
scheduled events
groups. These new
heights of spirituality taking
place would even make
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