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[BARNETT WEISS]

Dear et al:
  In response to the following of Adam's comment:
   
  "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".

I would comment that while there is no question that we have all seen how this capacity bo be able to sense the other is vital for decent caring human relationships, this method appears too slow and inefficient in comparison to others which are now available in my estimation even though it is ancient as in "Walk a mile in the other's mocasins before judging them." 
   
  When you see a group of people warmed up well by an experienced person doing constellation work, over the course of a few hours, people have actually moved in and out of several role dyads deeply involed in learning what it feels like to be stuck in the worst aspects of those dyads and then experience healing in them as well. 
   
  Role reversal seems to me to be a far more manipulated form and while there is a great deal of learning that can take place in that process especially when it is sought out or truly welcomed voluntarily by the protagonist or anyone really interested, it is often enforced on a less than willing protagonist in the pressure of the group situation. I do not dispute that even in the most coerced of situations like working with Gang menbers in the street or in prison, or a mental hospital, much learning can take place even with a coerced ( Shamed or challenged on the street) role reversal. There is no coersion at all the case when you are playing a role in someone's constellation. Anything that you feel or do is supported as part of what they have come to call the "Knowing Field." When utilized by a decent practitioner since the protagonist watches from the sidelines usually until the very end, they even have the opportunity to reject or allow in the possible insights coming
 from the person taking that particular role and further more process their own resistance if any to allowing that counter spontaneity to move them.  
  In some ways, this is similar to what Boal uses in his Rainbow of Desire which allows for so much more immediate participation and direct action learning by the audiance or in psychodrama where the protagonist watches or receives the actions and approaches of a number of people trying different ways of interacting with someone in the protagonists life with whom they are stuck or feel defeated by and then chooses one that seems to work and gets coaching in acting that way. This is basic role training at it's best and I think that constellation work utilizing some of this could become even more efficient; If recorded and distributed, it could be huge as is the case with well run broadly done psychodramas, sociodramas or other such were they recorded and distributed as life learning tools. 
  I'm working at it. 
  Blessings all, Bud
Adam Blatner <adam at blatner.com> wrote:
  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" 
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."


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