Moving Open Space without closing it . . .

[Toni Petrinovich]

Thank you, Harrison, for the conceptual integrity that is included in this message.  You speak to my heart.

Toni Petrinovich
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Harrison Owen 
  To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU 
  Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2001 4:49 AM
  Subject: Re: Moving Open Space without closing it . . .


  At 10:49 AM 10/4/01 +0100, Artur wrote:

    In what concerns me, even if my "knowing" of OST has not changed, I tend
    to think that some of my ideas about it have been slightly "readjusted"
    this days. If we consider, as I do, that Harrison's Guide, and some of his
    other books, are the genuine OST, maybe one should question if when we try
    to summarize OST, or on the contrary to develop it, we are always taking the
    more fundamental concepts. I will come back to this some other day,
    as those are subjects that we can analyze with time (maybe after the next
    (prolonged) week end - as tomorrow will be holiday here -- in memory of
    the Republican revolution of 1910).

  Artur -- and anybody else -- I think it is always import to remember (at least for me) that OST was the product of two Martinis, born out of frustration by way of a joke. That it is powerful, I cannot deny. And I confess to a certain pride of discovery -- not invention.  However, at the end of the day it remains, in my mind, a simple vehicle to a much more profound and prior reality: The Power of Self-Organization. There is no magic in OST. And I am pretty sure there is no magic in Self-Organization, although for those of us who believe (or hope) that we or somebody did the organizing (is in charge) perhaps it looks like magic. So by all means, let's go as deeply as we can to understand the primal realities of our world. God knows, some deep thinking would be helpful at the moment. And I think when we go a little deeper we will discover that OST is just what it started out being -- a funny thing that happened along the way to our future -- the product of two Martinis, born out of frustration by way of a joke.

  Harrison


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