After dinner conversations

[Susan M Kerr]

In a message dated 6/9/2005 7:58:38 P.M. Central Standard Time,
duff at innergy.ca writes:

I never  thought of these as "open space" but now that I look at it, I
suppose they  are.

duff

Reading this brought an experience to mind that I would now call open  space.

It was a Native American pipe circle held in a buffalo field (we went to
Janesville, WI, to pay homage to a white buffalo calf born there). We first
stood in an open circle, one person walked it silently as we smudged (sweet  grass
burning in an abalone shell; we drew the smoke towards  ourselves while this
person holding it fanned it to us with a feather),  then we sat and passed a
pipe, again, silently. The pipe held some kind of  tobacco but nothing
hallucinogenic (more sweet grass? I'm not really sure).  Afterwards when we were
mingling and talking I saw into  another's eyes deeper than I ever had (with anyone
- I did not  even know this person). I remember thinking, "why is he letting
me look so  far in?"

So maybe open space works even when the communication is not in  words?

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