Although some time back I would have spent a great deal of effort and time to try and express this notion, to try to achieve this notion in practice, I have grown, during my wonderful time in Mexico to appreciate and seek not so much the empty space within someone, in actors of course, but rather I have grown a fascination for a state of a kind of unprohibited being. It is so beautiful when someone truly allows themselves to be seen. Many of us, and I most certainly include myself here, seem to be ghosted by a feeling, or a belief there is something within us, some essential part of our being that is shameful, or scary or unacceptable.
In the theories and practice of transdisciplinarity, an understanding of reality is used which is currently in my 'bag' of favorites. It is a notion of levels of reality. I like it very much since, by considering reality as being an intertwined whole consisting of levels, I find I can understand why on a certain intellectual level of reality I can see and even feel myself understand that there simply is not anything to be scared about or to be shamed by within my being. Yet I can also at the same time handle a level of reality, perhaps the level of the internal child, or the level of the deeply rooted beliefs I innocently carved out for myself in early childhood, which stubbornly hang onto a certainty of my Being as somehow faulty or wrong.
So, there is this wonderful experience, when an actor is able to be present, in that unprohibited way, unfolding out of the restrictions of the beliefs, ridiculous or not, and by no means judged by the rational mind, and stand unguarded and in grace in front of the other, like a gift which shines a beacon through the eternity of Now. No longer an Empty Actor, but now a full Human Being, open to the potentials of consciousness, wholness and a full expression of life itself.
I love actors.