Response to Adam

[thana ag]

 Dear Adam,

Adam:  Moreno, in Essential Moreno/Fox:  "It is almost a miracle that an individual can 
> achieve any degree of balance, and man has continually been in search of devices which 
> will enable him to attain or increase his equilibrium."
>    comment:    Now I like the 2nd part of the sentence, but the first part stimulates the following...

Anath::And  i was thinking that while I like the first part,I would've liked if he said in the second part:: it would've been a good idea if man were  continually in search of devices  to learn 

  to live in the state of constant disequilibrium.".

Of course ,here is where our profession  could enter.
 
Best,,
anath
> From: ablatner at verizon.net
> To: veggies at fastmail.fm
> Subject: Response to Adam
> Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 10:28:01 -0500
> CC: list at grouptalkweb.org
> 
> Hi Gwen, yes, i think so.
>      Yet, on further thought, I think that it need not be so precarious if you develop a 
> sense of mental flexibility, of creativity, of improvisation. This is a skill few people 
> have, though, and one of the underlying reasons I'm excited about promoting what I find to 
> be most enduring in Moreno's ideas and further refinements by you and me and others: We're 
> laying out a foundation for weaving spontaneity into the culture.
>         anyway,  Tell us a bit about yourself, your interests, ways you apply ideas, 
> etc. -- adam   responding to your email:
> 
> -----From: "gwen blake" <veggies at fastmail.fm>  To: <list at grouptalkweb.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2008
>    In reading your statement, Adam; it seems clear to me that people generally have a 
> tendency to use avoidance to maintain equilibrium; which denies them (us) of health and 
> fullness of experience in finding balance.  It becomes a precarious endeavor, such as if 
> one were walking a tightrope without safety for one to, as you stated, develop a capacity 
> to numb out cognitive disonance.  The immediate gratification or relief in avoiding, or 
> acknowledging such struggles may outweigh the value of feeling discomfort while working 
> toward resolution.  Gwen Blake
> 
> responding to Sun, 21 Sep
> 
>   adam:  Moreno, in Essential Moreno/Fox:  "It is almost a miracle that an individual can 
> achieve any degree of balance, and man has continually been in search of devices which 
> will enable him to attain or increase his equilibrium."
>    comment:    Now I like the 2nd part of the sentence, but the first part stimulates the 
> following:
>       People develop a rich capacity to numb out cognitive dissonance, to create loose and 
> flexible belief systems that can be a general assortment of five to twenty 
> platitudes---vaguely associated. Yet this matrix can serve as a sufficient narrative 
> flying carpet to support all manner of ideologies and self-system creations,
> >      neurotic, psychotic, fanatic, submissive, oppressed, oppressor, and so forth. 
> > People don't closely reason their belief systems. They select items from the teachings 
> > of sermons, parts of books, radio or TV broadcasts, they read supportive magazines and 
> > news articles, they sustain their beliefs. You can gather enough "evidence" to  maintain 
> > a prejudice, support a political position, and so forth.
>           This belief system then works as a buffer. Without it people would be very 
> precarious, especially as they notice the  profound vulnerability of their own limited and 
> neurosis-laced  consciousness.               What do you think of this?   Warmly, Adam
> 
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