Metaphors Elephants

Fri Mar 25 10:26:45 PST 2005

I shared this before - a long time ago as away for a small group to start talking about an elephant in the living room (the obvious problem) no one is talking about - the fly in the ointment - sand in the lubricant :-)

Parzival’s Dilemma

Parzival, a young bumptious Knight of the Round Table finds his way to King Arthur’s court and the most solemn quest imaginable * the quest for the Holy Grail.  At the most pivotal moment in his travels, Parzival visits the castle of Anfortas the Fisher King, the keeper of the Grail.  The king is borne on a pallet into the great banquet hall. He has been wounded by a spear in the groin. He cannot stand or sit. He can barely lie still.  The room glistens with luxury and expectation. It has been foretold that the spontaneous act of a knight’s noble heart will cure the king. For his part, when he sees the prone figure surrounded by weeping attendants, Parzival feels drawn to rise to his feet and cry out: “What afflicts thee, uncle?”

But Parzival holds his tongue. He has been taught that a knight refrains from asking too many questions. It would be dishonorable and improper. The festivities continue, albeit with a melancholy air, for by keeping still, Parzival has missed his chance to heal the king. Behind his politeness was a universal fearful desire, spawned in all of us by civilized manners: the desire to figure out the rules and be safe, to know ahead of time whether our actions will damn us. Parzival had worked all his life to master the knightly training. He couldn’t leave all the training behind * could he?

The Age of the Heretics * Art Kleiner

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>From  Fri Mar 25 10:49:02 2005
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And I would add to this...Michael Herman.  He and I have been
tinkering with our two-day Open Space practice workshop for three
years now, and earlier this month, in Prince George I finally
converted over to a practice workshop proper where we went through an
exploration of four practices associated with facilitating Open Space:
opening, inviting, holding and grounding.

Michael's thinking on these practices is contained in the link that
Chris McRae sent along.

Cheers,

Chris

On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 14:40:41 -0000, chris macrae <wcbn007 at easynet.co.uk> wrote:
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> Well wonderful cross-pollination here between Corrigan on behalf of Open
> Space and Dave Pollard blog reporter and various complex management or
> simple learning disciplines
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>   http://blogs.salon.com/0002007/2005/03/24.html#a1089
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> Incidentally I am trying to coop people into breakthrough ordinary
> disciplinary barriers with exceptional threads anywhere that needs them –
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> Eg this EU space needs a contribution to Exceptional Knowledge if anyone
> able to
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> http://www.knowledegboard.com
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> Meanwhile if you have any virtual community that needs an exceptional
> advance party landing, why not say
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> Happy Easter, Chris Macrae, wcbn007 at easynet.co.uk
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>From  Fri Mar 25 10:57:58 2005
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I think that was what we exploring Artur, among other things...the
shift from that form of charity to one of compassion and networked
philanthropy.  The participant list contains some ames of people who
are VERY fluent in the history of western civilization and for whom
these cultural underpinnings, both in Europe and North America, are of
extraordinary significance.  I refer to you Phil Cubeta at
http://www.gifthub.org, AKM Adam at http://akma.disseminary.org/ and
Lenore Ealy at http://www.thephilanthropicenterprise.org/main/about_tpe.php

Cheers,

Chris

On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 04:34:54 -0800, Artur Silva <arturfsilva at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> Thanks for calling my attention to your previous message, Chris. I saw the
> wiki now and, yes, there is some impressing material there.
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> I think my reaction is related with the word "givers" and with a cultural
> difference  - in Latin Europe, a "giver" is normally someone doing "charity"
> - someone rich that alleviates his/her conscience, more then the situation
> of the poor. Indeed I think "charity" was designed in Middle Age to convince
> the poors that they should not revolt, because rich people were "helpers".
> Maybe this is different in the anglo-saxonic world...
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> Regards
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> Artur
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> Chris Corrigan <chris.corrigan at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Artur...you should have a good read through the "giving conference"
> proceedings. Having done that, you may still dislike "giving
> conferences" but I'm willing to bet you'll be impressed by what
> happened in Chicago last July.
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