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JasonDG First, great essay! Very personal, reflective, and insightful. Thanks! Question: One of my takeaways from your essay is the relationship between "therapeutic alliance" and the improvisational experience. Live improvisational music embodies aspects of hereness and nowness (think of Ram Dass, "Be Here Now"). And such immediacy invites and necessitates vulnerability. That vulnerability is part of both therapy and Phish (as you explain). Is it possible that the overall live Phish experience is one large therapeutic session? Where each of us is acting as both client and therapist? And might this help explain why some people like Phish and some don't? Similar to how some people are receptive to therapy while others are not?


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