Logos and other considerations

[Toni Petrinovich]

And if you go back to Aramaic you come up with a word that is more about "sound" - as in the original sound - in open space.  How appropriate that it "was/is" and at the same time is the "observed/observer".  Perhaps the perfect remedy to the intellectualizing of the term is to simply sit in the space (albeit open) and be a witness to the sound of life rather than thinking about it.

Toni
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  From: Harrison Owen 
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  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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