our method

[Edward Schreiber]

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> Dear Adam and All,
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> I know Ken Wilber's work.  For me Moreno's is more clear, in the  
> simple vision of what reality is - how to access it - and how to  
> infuse that reality into the cultural conserve.  This, the Cultural  
> Conserve, is very very real.  If we see - that is can see - we can  
> see the sociodynamic effect everywhere, in all places, in operation  
> in our personal lives, in our communities, in organizations, in the  
> US, and other nations, and in the relationship of the US with the  
> rest of the world.  The sociodynamic effect is both a structure,  
> and an effect which emerges within groups as sociometric  
> structures.  Moreno's sociatric vision is the single most  
> compelling and for me the clearest expression of social reality I  
> have encountered.  Some miss it.  It's utter brilliance is its  
> razor sharp dialectic of complexity and simplicity.  I see the  
> sociodynamic effect every single day in 100s of ways.  The news.   
> The social reality.  The dwindling resources.  The lack of health  
> care.  The poor.  My Uncle's loss of the little resources he had  
> depended upon.  And he's lucky with a family surrounding him - he  
> is not alone.  The Earth is at the effect of the sociodynamic  
> effect.  Amazing that this effect emerges WITHIN the sociometry.   
> Sociatry is the large view:  the sociometry of humanity with itself  
> and with the planet at this time of transformation.  To see it, to  
> see these structures and the emergence of a renewal of life, some  
> degree of "egoic mind" as Tolle tells it has to be overcome,  
> diminished so that this force, this Presence, this Source can in  
> discernible fashion emerge.  We all see this in our work with the  
> magnitude of the power of the instruments with which we are  
> working.  These instruments, which we call psychodrama, sociodrama,  
> sociometry - unveil the sociodynamic effect to the group -------  
> but more than that ------ they have the sharpness, the accuracy as  
> instruments to unveil the Godhead, the Organic Unity within a human  
> being and within a group.  In the Zen tradition in which I am  
> steeped and trained, this is referred to as our "Original Face".   
> In our Western Christian tradition, the Spirit, emerging, moving  
> us, and the method we have in our hands reveals both of these  
> forces.  The Godhead, that force JL Moreno called the highest form  
> of intelligence, moves within us, and in a group, can reorder the  
> impact of the sociodynamic effect and show us this embodied Organic  
> Unity.
>
> Grandiosity as a strength:  In my experience (that is, experience  
> which is beyond belief) the force that emerges within our  
> application of the method is transforming small groups.  That time  
> has ended.  Humanity is faced with a planet being stripped of the  
> very nature that sustains our lives, and here in the US many of us  
> continue in a state of blissful egoic fear.  And this blissful  
> fear, like the economic structures of our time, is dissolving  
> away.  I feel compelled to action when I read Tolle's description  
> of the egoic mind, the madness, and his realization of a new  
> consciousness rising in humanity.  The once Buddhas are becoming  
> many, an evolution of humanity is within us - we have no choice -  
> and we have a choice.  For me, these instruments, clarity,  
> simplicity and complexity of Moreno's Global Vision, sociatry, the  
> reversing the sociodynamic effect with the emerging Godhead, this  
> Presence is working for me in my own presence and life, and for  
> those with whom I am teaching these tools, codes, formulas to  
> produce  a returning of life to the Circle.  This is inherent to  
> the practices of the Lakota and the Shoshone, with whom I have  
> friendship and association.  Moreno as a spiritual revolutionary  
> was not alone - thousands have similar ideas and methods.  Ours are  
> some of the most critical, most effective without religion attached  
> - a freedom is gained, regained, remembered, a freedom of being  
> able to SEE the sociodynamic effect as structures in groups that  
> emerge - and in the whole of mankind.  None of this sits in the  
> realm of only ideas- I am seeing the results beyond philosophy,  
> this is happening - this evolution taking place within humanity and  
> Moreno's methods have a MAJOR ROLE to play.  He knew this when he  
> realized the method - it's our turn now to bring this further,  
> that's what all of us are doing, what I am doing every hour of my  
> life.  They work.  I have tried other approaches, both political,  
> environmental activism and nothing impacts the conserve more than  
> the emergence of the Godhead, to expose in a loving way the  
> sociodynamic effect as structures within groups that sociometry has  
> the tools and instruments to reveal --- and the Godhead emerges -  
> the Organic Unity appears, and reorders small groups - the emerging  
> of a new way of being that is ancient and rooted in the best of  
> what we are becoming.  The results in my own life have been like  
> magic, and now I am able to share this with others, to teach this  
> sociatric view of the large structures impacting all of humanknd -  
> emerging in the sociometric structures, revealed there by the  
> Godhead, emerging now in the body of humanity - and we hold a  
> method which is meant toward this aim.   Sincerely,   Edward Schreiber
> On Oct 13, 2008, at 4:34 PM, Adam Blatner wrote:
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