Fwd: "Global Sociometric Encounter"

[Edward Schreiber]

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> Ivo Banaco sent a message to the members of Global Sociometric  
> Encounter.
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> Subject: About the Retreat in Portugal - November 20-22. Ed Schreiber
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> Moreno wrote the following
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> "Why I chose the course of theater instead of founding a religious  
> sect, joining a monastery or developing a system of theology (although
> they do not exclude one another), can be understood by taking a  
> view into the setting into which my ideas sprang.  I suffered from  
> an idee fixe,
> from what might have been called then an affectation, but of which  
> might be said today, as the harvest is coming in, that it was 'by  
> the grace of God.' The idee fixe became my constant source of  
> productivity; it proclaimed that there is a sort of primordial  
> nature which is immortal and returns afresh with every generation,  
> a first universe which contains all beings and in which all events  
> are sacred. I liked that enchanting realm and did not plan to leave  
> it, ever."
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> J.L. Moreno
> The Future of Man's World
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> COMMENTARY
> Moreno writes about "a first universe which contains all beings and  
> in which all events are sacred."   This first universe is noted in  
> Zen as our "original face, our original nature" the place we came  
> from before birth, the place we return. Moreno realized this first  
> universe, and it can be said this is the enlightenment experience.   
> We live however in the second universe, the place of egoic form, of  
> separation from this first universe.
> The method is a complex yet very simple structure to access this  
> first universe, to embody it, and live from it, to integrate it  
> within our physiology, our psychology and our relationships.  This  
> living, this connection to the first universe is the intention of  
> most spiritual traditions - and Moreno has left to us codes,  
> formulas that are practices for this awakening, to the first  
> universe  that contains all beings and in which all events are sacred.
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> The RETREAT offers participants these formulas, these codes, these  
> practices - the existential practices behind the method, the heart  
> of the method, its essence - at this critical time in humanity's  
> awakening. You are invited to learn the method behind the method,  
> the codes, formulas, practices - to awaken our consciousness in our  
> bodies, in our psyches, to this first universe, the awakening of  
> enlightenment.  We do this using sociodrama as a method to awaken a  
> group.
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> Edward Schreiber, TEP
> Director
> Zerka T. Moreno Foundation for Training, Research and Education.
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