Open Space ,Self-Organizing Systems, and The Plexus Institute (and Krishnamurti)
Michael Herman
mherman at globalchicago.net
Thu May 29 10:22:07 PDT 2003
thanks for this julie. and yes! i think the gift of open space
sometimes (always?) is the opportunity to look into what is. to deal
with it directly, rather than playing cat and mouse with its shadows.
when the someone, leader, manager, or community participant like ted
and the peace movement, says something that *is* in the invitation, it
opens the space for others to address it direclty. i *thnk* we are more
and more ready to be direct. heartening, and still challenging, these
not separate either! <grin>
m
Julie Smith wrote:
>Awesome, as always, Michael..... let me pick up on one thin strand. You
>said:
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>springing from healing, related by etymology and by varela to what might
>be called 'wholing'... it seems important that any study would embody (i
>love that word, peggy) a state of no separation between those studying
>and those being studied. springing from what glory says, i think it's
>essential that ost be studied from *within*.
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>My recent reading has included Krishnamurti, who speaks passionately
>about dissolving that separation (within ourselves) between observer and
>observed. When we separate those two aspects of ourselves (the part
>observing separated from the part being observed), then we are, by
>definition, separated. Inwardly, we've separated ourselves into two
>aspects: the observer and the observed. The choice to perceive an
>observer separate from the observed necessarily removes us from the
>being/acting space of Oneness we keep talking about, and so we find
>ourselves being/acting from a place of separation.
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>One learning for me was a deeper understanding of that elusive Oneness.
>Krishnamurti helped me grasp a little more deeply concepts of
>acceptance, nonresistance, and deeply entering into the Now (as he says,
>the "what is") as necessary attributes to radical transformation of our
>lives. He helped me see that entering deeply into "what is" means
>entering it exactly as it is, without attempting to hide from, change,
>improve, or sanitize the "what is."
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>Interestingly, Krishnamurti also speaks at length about conflict. He
>teaches that separation necessarily results in conflict, which means our
>personal decision to dissolve that separation between observer and
>observed is necessary to transcend conflict. This seems consistent with
>all that Harrison and others have said about OST and conflict. OST
>invites an individual/group state of being and acting that approaches
>that space of inner and outer Oneness. In giving permission for each
>individual to honestly and openly express "what is" from their point of
>view (to reach a state of inner Oneness), the group comes closer to a
>collective state of inner/outer Oneness, which results in that
>dissolving of conflict that Harrison has talked about. Or something
>like that.
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>Julie
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