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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
The deeper we immerse ourselves in this quiet contemplation the more meaningful it becomes, Our twentieth century, Occidental culture does not encourage serene contemplation. We are under the considerable compulsion of an obsession, an expediency obsession. The dynamic of our society, based on competitive drives, tend to stimulate the go toward aggression and away from receptivity.
Creative Vision in Artist and Audience
Richard Guggenheimer
That we accept the world as it is does not in any sense weaken our desire to change it into what we believe it should be — it is necessary to begin where the world is if we are going to change it to what we think it should be. That means working in the system.
Rules for Radicals
Saul Alinsky
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