Maheo's view on Space - does it connect with Open's

Thu Feb 5 08:50:08 PST 2004

Chris,
thank you for sharing this one page of Alan Rayner regarding Space. I
enjoyed reading it and intend to learn more about the work of this group. I
also work with fostering mentoring circles and view them as an effective and
creative model of leadership. In Alan's page about Space, there was a
paragraph that for me was a wonderful explanation of the permeable boundary
created by the 'givens' and their relationship to space when we work with
OST.

I believe that space if very full of the field of all possibilities and that
learning to work with and within space is critical for constructive human
evolution.

Again, thank you for sharing this.

Blessings to you and to all with whom you make Genuine Contact,

Birgitt

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  From: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU]On Behalf Of Chris
Macrae
  Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2004 10:46 AM
  To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
  Subject: Maheo's view on Space - does it connect with Open's

  Buried in rural England (near Bath actually) is a wonderful open space
facility Maheo- the life dream of an emerging friend Geoffrey Higgins

  Geoffrey collects people of spirit who have a passion, and tries to let
them multiply mentoring circles for leaders or anyone who deeply cares. One
of Geoffrey's mentor circle is Alan Rayner, a Professor at Bath University
who studies how nature networks systems. Alan has just written this
one-pager on space- our dream is to issue a quarterly pdf of one-pagers
something to do with OPEN LEADERSHIP - for those who dare do something so
humanly valuable

  We'd love to hear comments. And indeed, we do realise that words get in
the way of such simple topics as space, and yet leaders want words before
experiences or at least that's the UK's Class system operating as is - as a
Brit I deeply apologise for what the old empire bequested in terms of
industrial age paradigms all over the world, though how Americans who
celebrated their tea party in our face could now have systemised an even
less human world class system is a deep democratic riddle if ever I've met
one. Digression aside- here's Alan's piece & peace - any comments you wish
me to pass back to Alan or Geoffrey?
  chris macrae, wcbn007 at easynet.co.uk, www.valuetrue.com

  SPACE - THE ULTIMATE CONNECTOR, by Alan Rayner

  For Millennia, humankind has been prone to communications breakdown
because
  of the way we habitually regard the intangible 'nothingness' of 'space' as
  what puts distance between one thing and another and isolates our
  individual selves. We assume that space has to be 'got across' if we are
to
  travel or communicate, and that such transference takes 'time'. And by
  viewing space as an 'outsider' that surrounds but does not permeate 'solid
  objects', we come to regard ourselves and others as independent 'free
  agents' that in the absence of some imposed system of control can only
make
  an anarchic random mess of everything.

  This 'exclusion' of space is at the root of the 'impositional logic' that

  continues to dominate our philosophical, scientific and mathematical
  thinking, leading to all manner of abuse of one another, other life forms
  and our surroundings. A logic that leads us to regard boundaries as
  'limits' and to impose these limits on ourselves and nature as fixed
  'reference frames' within which to view the purely transactional
  relationships of material objects in empty space. A 'box' logic that lies
  in the very foundations of conventional mathematics - Euclidean geometry
  and discrete numbers - that in their turn underpin scientific, economic
and
  governmental theory and method.

  The most extraordinary feature of this logic is that it is based on the
  imposition of impenetrable barriers that all our scientific findings and
  human experience inform us that there is no evidence for. It is profoundly
  and inescapably unrealistic, and yet it continues to be applied in
  methodologies that pride themselves on being 'evidence-based', 'realistic'
  and 'rational'.

  Just think about it: if nothing truly comes between us, then what is
  keeping us apart? Space, in offering no substantial resistance to movement
  can only be a universal super-conductive highway that permeates within,
  around and through every 'thing', and so, literally, gravitationally pools
  us and the universe together.

  So, there really is a need for a more realistic logic, which gives Pride
of
  Place to Space and treats boundaries not as fixed, impermeable surfaces
but
  rather as dynamic, variably holey, pivotal places that couple  inner and
  outer domains reciprocally together and intermediate their energetic
  relationship over all scales from sub-atomic to universal.

  This 'relational logic' of inner-with-outer through intermediary domains
is
  at the heart of the form of awareness that I and others have been working
  on, that we call 'inclusionality'. With this awareness comes a radical
  shift in focus from distinguishing between ourselves and others as
  autonomous, competitive objects to appreciating ourselves as complex,
  relational 'places' - local giving and receiving expressions of
  'Everywhere'. And so, we really do hope that inclusionality can refresh
our
  understanding of our human relationships with one another and our living
  space. Understanding that can help us to re-examine our most deeply held
  ideas about Our Human Place in the World and rediscover, where we may have
  lost it, what we have always known when our Emotions join with our Reason
  in the space of Spiritual Togetherness embodied by Maheo
  http://www.breakthrough.co.uk/faculty.html
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