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

[Catherine Pfaehler]

A very late answer... I find the idea especially appealing when it comes to
travelling to overcome space, which at times is not possible for various
reasons. If I shift my perception to what connects me to the people I am
separated from through physical space, there seems to be no separation at
all! Thank you for sharing these thoughts with us, Chris. Catherine

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Von: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU]Im Auftrag von Chris
Macrae
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 5. Februar 2004 16:46
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Betreff: 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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