I’m not sure when it started, but after a while of acting, I started noticing how different audiences on different nights had, as a collective, a different mass of energy. It’s palpably different.
I’m not sure how I can explain it, but I can extend my awareness to feel the energy of the audience. So the performance is really a live interaction – you begin to pick up cues from the audience. And when the audience is with you, wow, the energy is really exponential. It’s very evident in comedy, but exists more subtly in different theatrical forms.
With my fellow performers too, there is a flow of give and take.
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Aside from theatre, which is a heightened energetic state, I also experience it when I am doing hands-on healing. There’s really a lot going on when I’m doing hands on healing, but I would say that it’s very similar to the time after my grandmother, and she couldn’t talk. And I just felt like I could sit and hold her hand for a long long time. Before her stroke, we would relate on the level of conversation and opinion, etc; but after her stroke, it was something else. Just the sensation of “being with” someone.
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@Jeruba – I know what you mean by Indra’s Net. I once had that too when I was 18. A lot of things fell into place from that experience.