ABSTRACT
Those who formed, fashioned, built and spread PNP, where are they now? Tarek is back in Egypt. Alma has set up house with Hugh, the man she went to Bali to meet, and is a mother. She lives in Ireland where Hugh is a professor. Bill Young got married and went to Canada to find the open land and skies and the good air he had always longed for. The Neilsons, Dave, Cathy, and Christopher Robin, are living peacefully and sweetly in Wales. Frank McAllan has left his job and plans to settle there too. David Eddy is teaching a bit and churning out novels one after the other. Jane Eddy soldiers on, mothering Charlotte and working in the system. Mike Williamson and John O’Shea finally left home and went to India, hated it and returned within a month. After a while as guests of Pam they moved out, and are coasting somewhere in London. Pete and Val Dunmow, after their year’s stint at the helm of PNP (like a top sprinter, or an American pro footballer, you only have one or two good years at the heart of PNP), are working now on their own growth. Peter Wells is in Manchester, taking a diploma at the University. Others, like Neil Ormonde, Chris Cade, Graham Spowatt, I know nothing about. Jerry Rothenberg is in Primal therapy. He lives still at PNP house. Jenny James lives on there too, with Becky, nine now and growing lovely and fine. Jenny is running intensive groups with a neo-Reichian orientation. More importantly she is engrossed in her work and seems to have come to an acceptance of others that few equal. PNP house, once the rogue and scapegoat of the neighbourhood, is now in use by the locals as a haven of emotional release. Housewives come there to cry. Jack Lewis, Generous Jack, after doing a year’s social work among the youths of Devon, is now giving neo-Reichian therapy in London. Pamela, my wife, lives close by 217me, ploughing on with her Diploma of Education, finely and lovingly rearing our son Shem. As for Shem, nearly six now, he glides freely and easily between us, learning and teaching, a beautiful sturdy living being.
