Is there a need to hold space for people to ask the question, "what'

[Ashley Cooper]

What do you think?

keep inviting the conversations, and encourage others to invite the
conversations...
then we have brought about one more step of conscious evolution.

www.ashleycoop.blogspot.com


> [Original Message]
> From: Douglas D. Germann, Sr. <76066.515 at compuserve.com>
> To: <OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU>
> Date: 7/17/2004 2:37:22 PM
> Subject: Is there a need to hold space for people to ask the question,
"what'
>
> Zelle--
>
> Thought-provoking, you! Thank you Zelle.
>
> My thinking has been going in a slightly different direction recently, and
> that prompts the way I replied to you previously, and now.
>
> It is becoming clearer to me that we are on a path of evolution, and that
> the next steps are to consciously evolve the species called humankind, and
> in my view, toward what is good, life-enhancing, beauty. To go one step
> further, evolution is leading us to do this together. Conversation is the
> main tool I see to make this happen. Meg Wheatley says Conversation is how
> we humans think together. I would add, evolve together. This is why it
> seems clear to me that Harrison is seeing OST as a halfway technology: it
> is on the way to conscious evolution. Perhaps more on that later.
>
> So what I see in society is a process of breathing. One person comes up
> with a wonderful new idea. He or She takes it to the group (1 or more
other
> people, with or without the benefit of OST), and it either dies or grows
> there. If it lives, then several people take it back home and noodle on
it.
> Then they come back to the group, and maybe it is the same group and maybe
> it is many groups. If it is something which adds to life, life evolves.
>
> If we could but get intentional about it.... <sigh>
>
> That's what our conversation is about, isn't it--getting intentional about
> evolving humankind?
>
> So long way around the barn to respond directly to what you have noticed!
> When you see people getting empassioned in an OST, and then losing that
> passion as they go back to the "real" world, what I see is this: They have
> been in a group of engaged, responsible, passionate people. Then they go
> back to the cocoon/cubicle in their corporation. That is when the despair
> sets in.
>
> And as Harrison says, that despair is what we want to see, where we want
to
> lead people. For once they are that far in the grief process, then they
may
> be open to the question, What are you going to do for the rest of your
> life?
>
> So yes, we do need death. We need to get past the stuff we need to get rid
> of, to make space (open space) for the birth of our life.
>
> I am beginning to see that the passion and responsibility of the
individual
> is indeed limited, but that of the group, being connected to the open
> space, is practically, if not totally, infinite. And so if we keep people
> connected to the open space, which means keep inviting the conversations,
> then we have brought about one more step of conscious evolution.
>
> What do you think?
>
>                               :-Doug.
>                               Seeking people making change.
>
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