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[Adam Blatner]

Hi Jim, Ed & all,
    With great respect, Jim, I am pretty sure Moreno never alluded to the limbic system, 
and wonder if he even had heard about it. As for limbic resonance, that's a more "in" term 
since Dan Goleman's book, "Social Intelligence" came out about 2 years ago.

    My skepticism applies to all forms of hyperbole, involving especially words such as 
"completely," "fully," "true" "pure," and the like, which to me represent an asymptotic 
limit, like perfection and the speed of light. I see phenomena in psychology and social 
psychology as operating in a relative spectrum, more than some, less than others.
     For example, I wonder if humanity will ever achieve even 50% of its "full" potential 
or be "fully" evolved as a species within the next few hundred years---or (gulp!) before 
it lapses backward in the crisis of ecological catastrophe.
       With such a view---i.e., that humanity is far from even moderately evolved---I am 
hesitant about many idealistic writings that also come out of new age literature. Noble 
aspirations seem to me to be an unconscious striving, as if aspiring to a high enough goal 
will magically circumvent the hard work that it might require to even get one step 
further.
       I focus instead on building an infrastructure of concepts and skills, hoping that, 
for example, the skill of role reversing will be known, practiced, and become a social 
norm before the end of this century, at least in dominant world cultures. I imagine scores 
if not hundreds of such "building blocks" that would, in their aggregate, serve as a 
foundation for authentic progress.

       But, anyway, back to the student's essay---I do find it quite plausible that a 
bright student would come up with such a paragraph.     Warmly, Adam

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James Sacks" <jmsacks at mindspring.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2007 7:24 PM
 Re: An interesting quote


> Dear Ed,
> I hate to be a downer but if this is not the usual writing style of the student I would 
> bet that a computer search of Moreno's works would find this quote in a nanosecond. Ask 
> the student exactly what s/he means by "limbic resonance and regulations".  Jim the 
> Cynic
>
    Ed wrote shortly before:
Dear Colleagues,
    I am reading the final papers from a class I teach on psychodrama at a University 
Graduate School.   Here's a quote from one of the papers.  Really amazing I feel.  Best, 
Ed
>>
 "A true encounter is engendered from the intimate connections of limbic resonance and 
regulations which occur between life forms and is the moment of truly seeing and feeling 
the other, and the self in the other, which bonds us as members of a living symbolic 
world.  In honoring these encounters, we can together create new cultural conserves which 
serve the whole of humanity."