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[Edward Schreiber]

I have to chime in on bad news.
Some times bringing bad news is a burden and other times it's a  
remarkable reflection of roles.
The bad news is with Adam's comment noted by below.


When ABC News announces (has to reveal I would suggest) that the  
world wide conference
that recently took place on Climate Warming, in which Gore spoke,  
that the science suggests that
what appeared to be happening by 2040, they now say is on course to  
happen in 2012:  no more
arctic ice cap in the summer due to its rate of melting now.   The  
consequences of that alone will be
an ecological catastrophe. They (science reports on ABC) are saying  
the only way to stop it from happening
is to cease carbon emissions and stripping the oceans of life  
immediately and that appears to not be happening.
So Adam's suggestion that we have the next few hundred years to deal  
or resolve this is misleading.  Science
gives us 5 or 6 years to turn it around.

The science is available from the recent world wide conference.  And  
there are great books now available about all this.

It brings me, ALWAYS:  to Moreno's question of Who Shall Survive?,  
and for the direction "for the whole
of mankind."   If we can develop sociatry now we may have an impact.   
We have to try.

Ed



On Dec 27, 2007, at 8:53 PM, Adam Blatner 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" <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."
>
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