I just awoke from a powerful dream. Without getting in to too much detail the narrative took me into the future with regards to my relationship with one of my acting teachers, Jason Bennett. Who, not coincedentally exposed me to the power of Voice Dialogue.
The setting was Tuscany, where our mutual colleague Catherine Keir was acting as his assistant giving potential students tests and making them write on the blackboard in chalk (chalk was a big theme in this dream) to test their aptitude to join the acting school. There were many students around, and all I wanted to do was get in to see Jason who was apparently too busy to be seen. I also felt shame, and that these students were doing more for their career than I was, and that I didn't have what it took to study. There was something frantic about this setting, the students milling like bees around a hive and Catherine in the center frantically working.
Later in the dream, I came upon Jason, much older, in a church (or hallowed building of some sort) writing something in chalk up in the corner of the wall. The atmosphere was much more in line with a slower pace, a calm pace, no one felt rushed. He was there alone, and while our meeting did have emotional implications in regards to our relationship the way he addressed me was that of an old soul: forgiving, slow, kind.
In my waking life I was been living so often in what we would call "doing" energy, our society lives in it most of their waking life, and especially in New York. This dream brought me the wisdom and a reminder of "being" energy. It is a powerful shift to embrace it, in your life and in your acting. If you watch many of the great film performances of our time there is a lot of long takes where the actor is lost in their thoughts and imagination, effectively "being."
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