Logos and other considerations

[Harrison Owen]

Laurel.Wrote:

At any rate, the logos has always seemed to me to be the innate drive toward
self-organization (for doesn't that which steers all things through all
things necessarily include steering itself through itself? Sounds like
self-organization to me.)

Logos is definitely one of the Heavy Words of the Western World. The
simple, literal translation is "word" -- but not to be compared with idle
chatter. If anybody recalls the opening of The Gospel According to St.
John... "In the beginning was the word (logos), and the word was with God,
and the word was God." Pretty heavy stuff. So if you were an ancient Greek,
Platonist, neo-platonist, or something of the sort -- Logos would certainly
be a handy tool when it came to talking about the soft under belly of Open
Space and Self-organization. Goodness me -- we're getting awful
weird.  Reminds me of a story somebody told me about a Priest (Roman I
think) who called up one of our colleagues with the question, "Is Open
Space a Cult?" Should he read some of this stuff, he would be sure -- I
wonder what the appropriate Exorcism might be to get rid of all this?

Harrison


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