Celebrating Moreno's Genius

[thana ag]

Hi Ed,
Since all of spirituality is experiential-our methodology is a perfect vehicle to carry it out.Which is the thesis I proposed in Kabbalah/Moreno.No need for " mystery" formulas.
anath

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> From: edwschreiber at earthlink.net
> Subject: Celebrating Moreno's Genius
> Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 14:38:30 -0400
> 
> Hi all,
> I know for myself I have to place myself into a very particular frame  
> of mind,
> or state of mind, to fully understand and grasp reading Moreno.  WSS  
> takes me
> a long time.  Each line is pregnant with many thoughts.  I have to be  
> centered in
> a particular way to fully take in what he is saying.
> 
> Here are some of my favorites from some of his writings:
> 
> "The only sure way of finding out the basic structure of human  
> society is by training to change it. The discovery that human society  
> has an actual, dynamic, central structure underlying and determining  
> all its peripheral and formal groupings may one day be considered as  
> the cornerstone of all social science. This central structure - once  
> it has been identified - is either found or is discernible in very  
> form of human society, from the most primitive to the most civilized;  
> it is the genesis of every type of society. In addition, it exerts a  
> determining influence upon every sphere in which the factor of human  
> interrelations is an active agent - in economics, biology, social  
> pathology, politics, government and similar spheres of social action."
> 
> Sociometry, Experimental Method and the Science of Society
> JL Moreno
> 
> For me this statement has been a driving force in my attempted  
> understanding of what Moreno was and is all
> about.  Zerka has helped me to understand him by asking her many  
> questions - but also by telling her what I am
> thinking all this means and what to do with the method moving  
> forward.  For myself, the more and more I understand
> books and teachers like Eckhart Tolle, the more clear and precise my  
> understanding seems to become.
> 
> Here's an example:
> 
> In "The Power of NOW" Tolle writes, "When you become conscious of  
> Being, what is really happening is that Being becomes conscious of  
> itself.  When Being becomes conscious of itself - that's presence.   
> Since Being, consciousness, and life are synonymous, we could say  
> that presence means consciousness becoming conscious of itself, or  
> life attaining
> self-consciousness. But don't get attached to the words, and don't  
> make an effort to understand this. There is nothing you need to  
> understand before you become present."
> 
> What this means to me is that he is noting the essence of the  
> encounter and the essence of the canon of creativity.  In the  
> encounter, the activation of the "I-and-Thou" dilemma, we find  
> ourselves becoming another, and in that experience, we have the  
> moment of capacity to know the essence of life beyond self.  This is  
> the curative factor really in the work we are doing:  we are  
> inducting - an experience of the essence of life beyond self - that  
> is self - to know itself experientially.
> 
> What a great thing to do!  This is what Tolle means I feel when he  
> writes:  "presence means consciousness becoming conscious of  
> itself..".  This is the case because our method has to it instruments  
> to transcend the self, the small contracted sense of self, to expand  
> in experience to what is beyond the self - Life - and to re-invoke  
> that life within our being  It's done with precision - stabilization  
> - and induction in action.  I like to think of this as tools of a  
> Modern Day Mystery School that operates parallel to the method or  
> behind it.  The method activates formulas of the mystery school is  
> how I am seeing and feeling about it now.  Sorry to sound out here,  
> but that's how I see it.  And I have some worthy references in this  
> perspective.
> 
> That means that to address the whole of humanity we have to make the  
> method more available somehow and formulas, if they exist, that carry  
> the codes of the method, so to speak, would be one good way to teach  
> it forward.
> 
> To the first quote about human society, well, there is the notion we  
> are at the 11th hour of humanity's history on this planet.  There's a  
> movie that came out some years ago called something like:  The 11th  
> Hour.  It was an environmental movie, a movie about the environment  
> to which we are all connected.  The dropping off of a part of the Ice  
> Shelf from Antarctica a few weeks ago inches us close to the question  
> "Who Shall Survive?".   This is not to sound an alarm (that was  
> already done by Al Gore) but more to note the larger structures  
> Moreno saw in human civilization, this central, underlying  
> structure.  It appears to be:  the sociodynamic effect on a global  
> scale and the curative:  the social and organic unity of humanity.   
> This social and organic unity is the inner knowing and presence of  
> the Godhead within each of us. What is mind blowing about our method  
> is that is induces the emergence, and in groups with sociometry when  
> done with a sociatric point of mind.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Ed
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