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Through theatre games, Spolin teaches us to put our attention fully on something or someone, and then respond from our inner impulse. In this way we experience the extemporaneous energetic emergence of the intuitive. And through the intuitive, transformation is possible.
Spolin:
Through spontaneity we are re-formed into ourselves. It creates an explosion that for the moment frees us from handed-down frames of reference, memory choked with old facts and information and undigested theories and techniques of other people’s findings.
Can Improvisation Change Your Life?
Psychology Today
I am no drunkard, but I am no saint either. A medicine man shouldn’t be a saint. He should experience and feel all the ups and downs, the despair and the joy, the magic and the reality, the courage and fear of his people. He should be able to sink as low as a bug or soar like an eagle. You have to be God and the devil, both of them. Being a good medicine man means being right in the midst of the turmoil, not shielding yourself from it. It means experiencing life in all its phases. It means not being afraid of cutting up and playing the fool now and then. That’s sacred too.
Psychomagic
Alejandro Jodorowsky
A slime mold has a dual nature and provides a striking metaphor for the dual or multiple descriptions of nature. On the one hand, since the colony is composed of independent individuals, its description should be close to a causal, reductionist one. On the other, it is a single, cohesive body which demands a holistic, global description. The slime mold therefore shows how collectivity and individuality, holistic and reductionist aspects can exist within the same system.
Synchronicity
F. David Peat
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