Adam Blatner
Words and Images from the Mind of Adam Blatner
Why Action Explorations?
I have been viewing psychodrama from one abstract level higher, a category I call action exploration, a name for a category that includes psychodrama, sociodrama, spontaneity training, warm-ups, bibliodrama, and also process drama in education, applied improvisation in business and organizations, and other activities. Although it partakes of a few drama elements such as story […]
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The “Right” Answer
(So here’s this morning’s reflection: seeing the title, that’s a funny spelling: It should be aensur . Ah phonetics.) There’s a whole category of answers that must be discovered repeatedly by people for themselves, an ongoing complex inner “map” that continuously gets revised. In this category are such questions as: – What is God? What […]
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Back 2 the Blog! Yay!
For a few weeks I have been out of it computer-wise and somewhat sickly, physically, too. Finally, with a new computer and coaching from a wonderful mentor at our community Computer Club, I am restoring my internet integrity. Whew! So I have some accumulated web-log entries to catch up with, and also a restored sense […]
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People’s Lives
I continue to marvel as I become increasingly aware of the sheer complexity of people’s lives. Of course I know all this, perhaps better than most; but the point is that I continue to “get” more deeply the sheer number of stories—threads of becoming—that weave together. I’ve been a little more into the theme of […]
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My Son’s Soon-To-Be-Published Book!
Spectrums: Our Mind-Boggling Universe from Infinitesimal to Infinity due out from Walker Books, November, 2012
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Heathrow Airport: Mind-Blowingly Vast
A few days ago we came home from a trip to England—to the British Psychodrama Association’s annual conference where Allee and I presented the keynote workshop—and again came through Heathrow Airport. This blog is about the recognition that Heathrow is not only the 4th busiest airport in the world, but the first ranked in the […]
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Disney Getting Metaphysical?
The Walt Disney Corporation apparently has sponsored this song about the way we’re all in this together, a song, “One Everything.” (It is sung by the group, They Might be Giants.” The implications are significant: If it is indeed so that we are part of an “Everything” (and Spinoza equated this mind-boggling idea with God), […]
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When I Was Twenty-Nine
As I did for the age of 17 (on another webpage), I continued to doodle. At 29 I had entered my post-medical school specialty training in psychiatry and there were seminars, class lectures for the twelve of us (or thereabouts, as I dimly remember) at Stanford University Medical School’s Department of Psychiatry. Looking back, the lectures were […]
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What Isn’t Said Overtly
I’m presenting at the annual meeting of the British Psychodrama Association, a keynote workshop on the general conference theme of innovation and integration in psychodrama. I have much to say didactically and will post that on my website—the workshop itself will be mainly experiential. The key innovation to be presented there is simply a heightening […]
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Proto-Mayanoid Higher Math Problem
My friend Zordak, the inter-dimensional flying-saucer lil’ green alien, showed me this: His explanation is that the Proto-Mayans do indeed do a complex equivalent of higher mathematics, with equations-like problems. The Proto-Mayans were a group of higher dimensional beings, sort of a star-trek gang, who visited the emerging cultures of Central America about 3000 years […]
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