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<p class="MsoNormal">Paul Levy's and others conversation about Self and self-organizing and improvisation helped me recall something from an acting method I studied years ago.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal">The method tried to teach us to work “off the moment” to be present to the moment and not
want to control it, predict it, name it, or repeat it . It was the challenge of this acting method.<span style>
</span>I feel this may have relevance to SELF-organizing and
self-organizing.<span style> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal">Oscillation, between poles of contrasting “felt senses”
creates a vibration, and if allowed, a hum.<span style> </span>To know solitude, is to know also know connection.<span style> </span>To know light we need darkness.<span style> </span>To know ourselves, we learn of others
and to know ourselves we can know others.<span style>
</span>And in that regard, to know ourselves small “s,” we can know the larger
more inclusive “S” and whenever possible, to feel the larger “Self” we feel our
“self” included.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal">The ole song comes to mine; “To know him/her is to love
him/her/us.”</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In this acting discipline, we practiced paying attention to
the now, to the “felt sense” within, to sense what wants attention, what
impulses are obvious as they arise within.<span style> </span>Sometimes the impulse came from the other, something obvious
that stood out, grabbed our attention as a beginning for our interaction, for
an action, or reaction.<span style> </span>To sustain
such focus for any length of time was exceptionally challenging.<span style> </span>It meant working off each moment.<span style> </span>From such a process was the foundation
of “improvisation.” But it was more than creating novelty. It was the awakening
process of authentic behaviors within an actor or actors.<span style> </span>When these authentic moments occurred,
the audience was stirred, compelled to enter into the dynamic.<span style> </span>As an audience, we recognized a moment
that would never be again, a once in a lifetime event was occurring.<span style> </span>And we were included; we belonged as
humans in that process. The audience/humans recognized the connection, the
belonging to a universal connection of being alive. Such moments lifted us all,
including the actors. <br></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I believe Open Space(ing) offers this opportunity for
authenticity, for oscillation between contrasting poles, an inclusion, an
allowing that often opens us to what is always available, but doesn’t always
occur and yet when it does, we are drawn into it, we feel included beyond “your
opinion and my opinion. And yet our different opinions are included for
consideration as a source of improvisation/organization, for greater/deeper Self/self
knowing.<span style> </span>In this dance of life,
new possibilities arise that may never have occurred without it, and may never
occur again just so.<span style> <br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style><br></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">To work “off the moment” to be present to the moment and not
want to control it, predict it, name it, or repeat it was the challenge of this
acting method.<span style> </span>I feel this may
have relevance to SELF-organizing and self-organizing.<span style> </span>Maybe the word “(S) (s) elfing” applies
and allows for the oscillations of living process and the <i style>hum.</i><span style> </span>Thanks all.
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<br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><b>Skye Hirst, PhD</b><br></div>President - The Autognomics Institute<br></div><div><i>Conversations in Radical Self-Knowing</i><br></div><div><a href="http://www.autognomics.org" target="_blank">www.autognomics.org</a><br></div><div>@autognomics <br><br></div><div>New Phone Number:<br>207-593-8074<br></div><div><br></div></div></div>
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