It all started when a deeply embedded memory from my days studying Ancient Greek, Latin and Classics as an undergraduate spoke up. They - the Ancient Greeks - read backwards and forward. I found when the Ancient Greeks started writing sometime after 1,000 BC, they developed a new way to write. They looked at how they plowed their fields with oxen and plows and decided to write like that. But, they turned all the letters around as well.
Few people can read like that, but readers tend to recognise words as blocks and know the word from the first to the last letters, so we can all easily read words written both way if the words themselves go from left to right. So we can all read if the lines can go from left to right, then right to left so long as the words remain left to right.
As well as all the books freely available to download here, you can purchase the Empowerment Script version of "Sam the Tram's Dance Club" from the Apple Bookstore. Have a look at a sample now.
The system is really quite simple. The first line of the paragraph reads from left to right, then the second line reads right to left. The third line reads left to right and the fourth right to left and so on. Here is a short sample.
Original Text
Lowen says 'In 2003, I discovered Empowerment Script,
and recognised what it was, and some of the important
ramifications for thought in psychology, education,
communication and creativity that it entailed.'
Changes to this
Lowen says 'In 2003, I discovered Empowerment Script,
important the of some and ,was it what recognised and
ramifications for thought in psychology, education,
'.entailed it that creativity and communication
So, download a Classic here and start reading.
In November 2015, Adrian Masterman-Smith and I published the world’s first printed book in Empowerment Script. We combined 'Sam the Tram’s Dance Club', and the Empowerment Script format. We took the book to an ISSTD Conference in Sydney and distributed it to as many psycho-traumatologists as possible.
In February 2016, we got a phone call from traumatologist Mary Sutton : ‘Lowen, the book works.’
Since then, there have been many instances where the book has helped people with exhaustion, mental weariness, PTSD and even Dissociation. Not only that - but the book helps with Dyslexia.