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From Worlds in Creation, by Daniel Greenberg

Play is activity directed by mental processes that are characterized primarily by the exercise of free-wheeling imagination. The mind of a person at play must be engaged in some creative fancy; I generally call this mental activity "model-building". Play is model-building in action. It is the mind's laboratory, testing in the physical domain the fancies it has come up with in its purely mental exercises. Play does what every experiment, every "reality check", does: it provides feedback to the brain about the consequences of its models when played out in the real world environment. This is why play is so indispensable to infants: before they develop communications skills that enable them in effect to tap into other people's minds directly, play is the only avenue children have to test their models of reality. Later in life, play remains the only avenue people have to interact directly with their environment in order to test their new models.

Many people who acknowledge the substance of what I have written above are nevertheless still concerned about the apparently undisciplined nature of play. They worry that children who are allowed to play all day will not be ready to face "reality" when they grow up; that such children will want to continue to play all the time, without concern for the more serious issues of life.

We must grasp the relationship between fantasy, reality, and imagination. Every person creates his own models of reality by applying his model-building skills to the inputs provided to his mind by his interactions with his surroundings. In the course of building, revising, and reconstructing models of reality, people are constantly testing new constructs, and new modes of processing information. Fantasy is nothing more nor less than the mind's creation of alternative constructs for reality. They are consciously invented as alternatives to the current model of reality being used by the inventor -- hence they are, to him, "fantasies" rather than reality. They must, of course, be coherent models; all fantasies are models of some form of reality

Play is the vehicle through which people produce creative outcomes in action. Its power lies in its freedom; it is not, by its very nature, bound to any prior mode of action or thought. In play, a person can survey a given situation and create an unlimited number of new responses to it. In play, a person can hypothesize, in his imagination, an unlimited number of new situations, and create responses to them as well. Creative people must "play" with ideas, with theories, with new behavior patterns. Successful research institutions know this, and make provision for it. The more creative people we want in our society, the more opportunity for play must be provided.

A person must learn not only to weave theories -- i.e., to create models -- but also to weave his perception of reality into his theories as well as he can, thus realizing the purpose for which the models were proposed in the first place. Being a good builder of models of reality means being good at playing!

Watch a tiny infant repeat a set of movements over and over and over again -- he is playing, and perfecting the fit of model to his reality. Watch young children live elaborate "fantasy" lives for hours on end, down to the last detail, with no time off, with no tolerance of sloppiness -- they are elaborating their models, finding the flaws and learning how to function well within their parameters.




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 psycho      21.02.2010 - 13:49:11 , level: 1, UP   NEW
No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge. The teacher who walks in the shadow of the temple, among his followers, gives not of his wisdom but rather of his faith and his lovingness. If he is indeed wise he does not bid you enter the house of his wisdom, but rather leads you to the threshold of your own mind.

If your truth is awakened in you, and your house is full of light and your being is full of fragrance, you have become a master; you are no longer just a teacher. When you are sharing your own truth, you are a master.

The teacher and the master are not synonymous. In fact, the more you are full of borrowed teachings, the less is the possibility of your ever becoming a master. That's why it is very rare to find a knowledgeable man who has depth, whose very gestures speak, whose very silence is a message, whose very presence reaches, just like an arrow, into your being.

Knowledge is that which comes from outside and settles in you, and prevents your wisdom; it becomes a wall, China Wall, around your own wisdom. Wisdom is that which comes from your innermost core. In knowledge you are not sharing anything of your own being.

Wisdom is the child that has grown in your very being. Knowledge is the adopted child. It has grown in somebody's womb, but nobody knows who the father is, who the mother is. The master does not give you the wisdom -- cannot give -- but he creates the right milieu of trust in which your wisdom starts flowering, becomes awake. You will be grateful to him -- perhaps in the beginning you will think he has given it to you. The master has not given you anything; he has simply given you confidence. He has taken away many things from you -- your fear.. he creates the atmosphere in which wisdom starts growing on its own accord.

The master simply creates trust in you, "Don't be afraid," because you will be going alone. The deeper you will go, the more alone you will find yourself, and more afraid -- not one but thousands of fears: Am I going in the right direction? -- there are no signposts, there are no milestones, no map can be provided -- or am I going in the wrong direction? And who knows whether this road leads anywhere or is just a dead-end street? And the fear: Will I be able to go back if I find that the road is wrong. Will I be able to find my own footsteps to help me to go back?

The inner world is almost like the sky -- birds fly, but they don't leave footprints. When you go inwards you don't make any footprints; it is impossible to find the way that you have traveled if you want to come back. You will need tremendous courage, great trust..

~ Khalil Gibran

somehow mam pocit, ze mi v pochopeni tohto textu pomohla Joanna Newsom svojou hudbou..
tak nejak to rezonuje s tym co sa tu pise.. inak k textu nemam co dodat, ibaze fuck yeah! ;)

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 psycho      21.02.2010 - 13:50:39 (modif: 25.08.2010 - 18:06:37) [5K] , level: 2, UP   NEW  HARDLINK !!CONTENT CHANGED!!
b7m4g8.jpgAloneness is one of the most mysterious experiences. But you are all afraid of being alone, you have become accustomed to being a sheep. I want my people to be all shepherds. That is the real transformation. You are, in fact, shepherd, but society has forced the idea on you that you are just sheep, so you behave like sheep.

And when parents say that, priests say that, teachers say that, all the scriptures say that ... you become surrounded with such pressure. You have just arrived on the earth, you don't know who you are, and everybody is telling you that you are a sheep; naturally, you live as a sheep your whole life. This is wastage, wastage of millions of people -- their joy, their integrity, their individuality. This is real murder. There cannot be any crime which is bigger than this.

I say unto you: you are born a shepherd. Remember it, and behave like a shepherd. Your old habit, your old conditioning, will again and again interfere. There are a few advantages in being a sheep ... the coziness of millions of sheep surrounding you -- you are never alone -- snuggling with each other. Have you seen sheep when they walk? -- with no fear; they know real brotherhood and sisterhood. There is some safety, security, but there is no life. This is not a good bargain -- losing life for safety and security. For whom is the safety and security needed? . . . Your real being is that of a lion; it is that of a shepherd.

Seek aloneness.