Summer Hill

Summer Hill[1]

Series
The Other Side
Original Broadcast Date
6/3/2001
Cast
Larry Block, David Rapkin, Gregory Poe, Jack Kornfield, Joe Frank
Format
Karma Style, 1 hour
Preceded by:	Emptiness
Followed by:	What Do Women Want?

"A monkey's walking along, like, in the jungle, having a beautiful day."

Summer Hill is the name of a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series The Other Side (Series). It was originally broadcast on June 3, 2001.

Synopsis

• Larry - a joke in which a monkey with a Mercedes finds an elephant in a hole.
• Kornfield - Sexuality and practice, getting beyond ourselves.
• Larry - Reichian theory. David Rapkin's relationship to truth.
• David Rapkin - Reich, Leyden jars.
• Larry - A. S. Neill. Sexuality and children. Summerhill School.
• Gregory Poe - An enlightened school that doesn't prepare one for life. Being asked by the principle to draw his penis, which is turned into a novelty pendant embedded in a walnut shell called the "what nut?"
• Kornfield - we are animals.
• Larry and Joe - Reich's community as a den of swingers hiding behind philosophical justification. Reich encounters Einstein.
• David Rapkin - An absurd account of the meeting between Reich and Einstein; Einstein's erection. Wearing a lead penis sheath.
• Kornfield - sexual messages when growing up. Animal sex. Pablo Neruda poem. Sex after celibacy.
• David(?) - he was a child at summer hill after his parents died in a fire.
• David (?) - a double entendre joke.

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