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Burkhart gets about 1600 applications a year from macho male jerks applying for the position of apprentice.  He tosses them all in the waste basket, like a slam dunk to the head.  They're all curious how an old fart like him attracts all the beautiful women and equally beautiful young girls.  "They're all having nervous breakdowns ," he tells them... "or break-throughs.  Who are they gonna seek out for guidance?  Their possessive boy friends?  Their parents?  Their hairdressers?  These are the very people they are seeking to transcend.  They're looking for permission to expose themselves - exercise their souls and take on a new identity.  They trust Burkhart because he likewise trusts them.  They hand him their old worn out images, like a snake sheds a useless skin. And like a benevolent father, he absorbs their pain, handing them back a new image to try on, one that comes without judgment or demands.

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