Mystery and Depth

Peggy Holman peggy at opencirclecompany.com
Fri May 6 00:35:22 PDT 2005 

Of course chaos draws the attention of the soul; how else could you "trip on the serendipity that lies in wait?"  (Chris Corrigan slipped that lovely line in a few hundred messages ago.)

Do you realize the we generated 250+ messages in a week???  Yikes!  Okay, I use "we" loosely as I have been off doing other things feeling a quiet desperation as my OS message folder continued to expand.  I'm sitting here typing, well past my bed time, having read through one of the few really-angst filled exchanges we've had.  We seemed to have muddled through.  What is it that allows this to happen?  I think it may well have something to do with chaos and the soul.  And taking responsibility for what we love, which no doubt feels a bit like chaos grabbing our souls by their socks when the invitation shows up for the first time.

from a dark, beautiful Seattle night,
Peggy

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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Chris Corrigan 
  To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU 
  Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2005 11:21 PM
  Subject: Re: [OSLIST] Mystery and Depth


  I just think that's fodder for you guys..."Chaos draws the attention of the soul"  That's magnificent...

  What say you all?

  Chris


  On 5/5/05, Wendy Farmer-O'Neil <wendy at xe.net> wrote:
    Hi all,

    Just talked to Chris C. and he tells me that I HAVE to post this here...it's an excerpt from today's entry on my blog.  I am feeling a bit unsure of it...this is very raw thinking and even I don't really know where this came from...Chris assures me that you will understand...

    From: word gravity 
    www.wordgravity.blogspot.com

    Trying out some raw stuff on you again...
    My friend Chris Corrigan has been wondering about the wonderful mystery that is Open Space and the depth that he feels functioning there. He has asked his community to think about it...so here I go...pulling some threads...

    I am currently reading Harrison Owen's , The Power of Spirit. In it he pulls out this interesting tidbit from Gregory Bateson, "the perception of difference is the essence of learning...learning occurs when we notice 'differences that make a difference'." I guess I'd probably say differences that matter--assuming there is a quality of attention here. Harrison then spins it out by combining it with the attributes of chaos..."chaos creates the differences that make a difference, through which we learn."

    Chaos draws the attention of the soul (rather than merely mind). Mattering is the quality of attention that drives the self-organising principle. So what is 'mattering'? The recognition/mirroring of the soul's purpose?/passion? in another being/object/idea...from which connection, the chain of action/arising unfolds...thought, action, and so on...

    Add to that this interesting quote from Dave Pollard's site yesterday (talking about John Livingston's 1994, Rogue Primate)...



      He argues that, far from being less conscious than civilized man, wild animals and wild human cultures actually have a greater 'participatory collective' consciousness beyond...our primitive individual consciousness, that extends to their ecological community and to the entire Gaia organism of the planet, an interconnectedness to which we, and other domesticates, have become numb, have lost from disuse or ideological counter-programming.



    So, maybe, Open Space with its manifest chaos acts to un-numb us, as it were, and reconnect us with our wild soul-mind...

    I am also pulling in thinking from Eric Maisel (Fearless Creating), who talks about the necessity within the creative process of feeding and nurturing the "wild mind" (chaotic, original, deep) versus the "tame mind" (structured, known, prosaic). 

    Phew...that's enough of that...

    Cheers all,
    Wendy


    Wendy Farmer-O'Neil
    Prospera Communications & Consulting Services
    1.250.713.2351/1.800.713.2351
    weblog: www.wordgravity.blogspot.com

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