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Robert S. DeRopp discusses this search too sensitively in The Master Game not to have personally experienced it. Unlike most of us, however. DeRopp says that he has the answer. The avenue to human fulfillment, he tells us, is Creative Psychology...
...entirely clear just what, outside of a panacea, Creative Psychology is. It has its roots in various mystic and Eastern traditions, borrowing heavily from Zen revelation, Taoist unity. transcendental meditation, and yoga. Except for some very perfunctory exercise manuals in the appendices. DeRopp remains purposively vague. Pat and rote formulations, he implies, are the property of false messiahs: the liberation of individual psyches is as unique and conditional as individual neuroses. ?s typology of three physical kinds of people and their corresponding temperaments-complete with a point system to quantify mixtures offers some surprisingly sensitive insights on the reader...
...DeRopp believes that each of us is a distinctive manifestation of a universal life-force. If we feel ourselves to be worthy vessels of this force rather than wayward derivatives of it, the way to fulfillment is open to us. Animosity, anxiety, competition, and the rest of the egoproducts have no place within a single, healthy organism, the organism that Earth could be if its people willed it. To understand our participation in this force is to see death not as a personal tragedy but as a natural evolution in the particular way in which the life-force is manifested...
...DeRopp speaks of the "Five Rooms," literally the five levels of consciousness that reside in each of us. They are (1) dreamless sleep. (2) dreamful sleep. (3) "waking sleep" (identification of others in relation to "I"), (4) self-identification (from the perspective of all "non-I"), and (5) cosmic identification (variously described as Paradise, incorporation with the All, Nirvana). Almost all of us spend our lives in the third room, the playground of the ego, under the cruel deception that we know who we are and what we are doing. In the moments that we consider our "best"-our most...