When we meet and accept a challenge, our higher and lower natures bang together. If we embrace them, something happens. In practical terms, the friction generates a fine/high quality of energy which then becomes available. In time, with experience and persistence, this fine energy begins to coalesce with other energies within us, and a body…

Dear Crafty, Engaging with the House Rules, as engaging with any undertaking, is a process.(If of interest, scroll down to VI… https://guitarcraft.com/alexander-keynote/). A process has three stages: the beginning, the middle, the end.Conventionally exoteric, mesoteric, and esoteric stages. In the beginning, the HR are presented as an injunction: do this.Here, they are a code of conduct,…

(Revised: September 12th. 2025) Honour necessity; honour sufficiency. Nothing is compulsory, but some things are necessary. No judgements are made: we accept each other as we arrive. There is no mistake, save one: the failure to learn from a mistake. Freedom from like and dislike is our first major freedom.Some people here you will like, others…

On August 6th, 2025, at the 13th Alexander Technique Congress in Dublin, a theologian from New York asked RF a question: Q: Where does the Benevolent Creative Impulse come from?A: The Benevolent Creative Impulse comes from Love. Q: Are Love and the Creative Impulse the same?A: No. The Creative Impulse moves from Love, as Music…

Accompanying Notes IComing Into The Space… ia Here we are.We’ve moved from the outside to the inside. b The outside world is outside.It has no hold on us, no demand upon our attention, no purchase on our feelings.It is outside. c This is inside. This is our world. d To move from the outside to…

I For an aim to be realised, it requires a vehicle.In this sense, a group is an embodiment of the aim. A group comes together in service of the aim. The aim is more important than the group, and more important than the individuals comprising the group. The aim comes first.The group comes second.The individuals…