True and False Magic

“I don’t think of myself as someone who created something spectacular, but I do think I have become a very good teacher.” pg. xiv

On his father

“He wanted to master information so he could predict the future.” pg. xiv

“He thought there were substitutes for spiritual work.”

“He was unwilling to accept uncertainty and thought he could engineer his life against it.” pg. xv

“My Parkinson’s disease made so many things impossible, and therefore my life possible.” pg. xvi

People can be embodiment of The Devil, or Part X. His neighbor Leroy, who was a pimp, was one of those people.

“My job is to break down their egos completely and make them feel like they can’t live without me. Once in awhile I give them something nice.” -Leroy da pimp

Stutz tells us what he really thinks of the therapy industrial complex

“I’m a mercenary—I love money—but I couldn’t stand what I witnessed. It was like thirty plumbers going into a building, and when they leave, there’s shit all over the floor. It wasn’t the patient’s fault; it was happening because they were subject to loose talk from therapists, which basically amounted to assumptions of change that didn’t have to be borne out. These assumptions were often supported with nothing more than the idea that back in the day, “Freud said it.” To this day, therapists continue to benefit from the natural authority of being a therapist, because they function as a working part of some conceptual entity that’s founded on nothing.” pg. xxi

Absolutely fucking savage lmao.

“It is very difficult to go from a the theoretical to a place where you are affecting a human being, to take something learn intellectually and make it into something that you can feel.” pg. xxi

Stutz is HUGE on Rudolph Steiner. “Everything he has written or said feels like something I already knew but had not realized.”