the second circle

It seems to me that speaking within the second circle IS the We-space. It's the presence of being engaged directly with another, whether that other is an actor, performer, audience, or even engaged in simply reading a book (hopefully a book that you Love :) or these words on the computer screen. The first circle is when one has recoiled to the interiors, whether lost in thought, or wallowing in feeling (sense memory). The third circle is when projecting outward and beyond the second, the the walls of the theater perhaps - over looking the closer presence of other in the second. While the third is expressing with alot of energy it usually gets burned out when not incorporating and including the first two. It would be interesting to look further into incorporating all three at once, and I'd imagine that whatever colors and attitudes are in the first circle are projected into, and changed by, the second circle, which further pushes outward through the audience (hopefully effectively) and into the third circle.

As for Big Mind comparisons, I've often heard it said that acting is really stripping away all the layers of self that are not the character as written, and finding that which is in you that most closely embodies the characters actions and intentions in the story. Do this with enough repetition in rehearsals so that when you step on stage, the other 'voices' and 'selves' do not get in the way, letting the character and the actor play truthfully. Big Mind has always seemed to me a similar process of carving to the core, trimming the branches along the way...

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