(RESPONSE): Inquiry Regarding Collective Buddha "Story of a recent 2.5 day OST"

[Harrison Owen]

At 11:41 AM 8/27/2001 -0700, you wrote:
>there are a number of recurring themes that are consistent with the
>thoughts shared by both of you.  Certainly the idea of Gaia consciousness,
>proposed by several leading thinkers, including Gregory Bateson, is
>one.  Another, Meme theory (info at
><http://www.memes.org.uk/meme-lab/WELCOME.HTM>http://www.memes.org.uk/meme-lab/WELCOME.HTM
>) offers an explanation that some find useful and interesting.  If "Open
>Space" (as a practice and philosophy) can be transmitted from person to
>person as a virus of the mind, replicating both practice and philosophy
>through the minds it infects, then it could be considered a "meme."  That
>would infer that you, Harrison, may share something in common with Typhoid
>Mary.  (-;  However, the virus you so widely spread can certainly be
>considered beneficial rather than destructive.

Me and Typhfoid Mary... Great.

ho


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