10 Monday, October 4. 1971 University Daily Kansan Movie Involves Audience By BARBARA SCHMIDT Kansan Reviews Editor Lawrence has been chosen as one of three places in the United States to host the premiere of a new motion picture. The movie, which is concerned with sensory awakening and invites the theatre audience to participate in an environment designed to stimulate the senses. "Come to Your Senses" opens at Hillener 3 Wednesday evening. In conjunction with the premiere, Bernard Gunther, director of the film, is in Lawrence this week. During a recent interview Gunther discusses movie and sensory awakening. "The movie asks you to give something," Gunner said, "and you have to do it. If you as you give. If you don't participate, you're going to be behind." There was no physical contact among audience members, he said, because the movie was a personal experience. The first 25 minutes of the movie follows a week-long sensitivity session with a group of nine people at the Esalen Center for Gunner, who has been a staff member at Esalen since 1964, said this part of the film was designed to help the audience identify with the oppeon on the scene that attempted the exercises themselves. Then, various visual experiences are shown. Gunther said, such as peeling an orange, washing hands and exploring a loaf of bread. He said these were part of the effort to enhance the sensory effect. Finally, the audience is asked to participate. Chanting, singing, and centrating on breathing were among the exercises Gurther conducted. "THERE'S A DIMENSION in most people's lives that is missing, a whole dimension of awareness and richness that gets up to business. Without this, life is just a mechanical process," Gunned said. "Children," he explained, "require warmth and the assurance that they get from touch, but after a certain age they are forced into sensory deprivation. Very often people lose their relationship when all they really want is to be close to people." He said a lot of people had stopped experiencing and developing their inherent sensory abilities. "Come to my Senses," he said, tries to show people the beauty in sensory experience. "You really can't train people to be sensitive; you make people uncomfortable. Gunther said, 'You focus attention on the majority of people who think they are more aware of We have to expand consciousness because we need them." Gunther first became interested in sensory awakening at the time when, as he puts it, "a Miller, Laflin Write SUA About Show Student Senate leaders sent a letter last week to the Student Union Activities Board calling for a change in SUA's handling of The letter, from student body President David Lahman and from faculty member Steven Winters, was written because of problems in the sale of tickets for the James Bond movie. "We belive SUA's recent decision to eliminate block ticket sales was a good one," Miller and Miss Laffin said. "We think limiting the number of tickets an employee purchases is appropriate now. The two suggested a limit of 10 to 15 tickets to make ticket sales for popular concerts more equitable. The SUA board meets Tuesday and may consider reviewing its ticket sales policies at that time, Miller said. 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"it (LSD) opened up things that had been shut off! I remembered experiencing mankind in the wild. I found that the message of the drugs was that you can get back to me, even if you don't know that this (experience) was something the drug wasn't giving to me. It was letting me see it." "These are all very much like yoga," he said, "because they all focus on what goes on in and out of the body. All are different types of realization; that we're all part of the same energy and creation." But, he explained, "Come to Your Senses' is only a touch of the deepest experiences you have integrated into your daily life to succeed." GUNTHER WANTED MORE than just to see things; he wanted to have the actual experiences. This led him to a study of yoga Rally Starts Homecoming The festivities will begin at 7:30 p.m. with a rally at Tempell Hall. From there the pompon girls and the pep band will lead the group to Allen Field House. 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