Kairos and OST

Sun Nov 13 11:51:28 PST 2005

Harrison also did a great cd with Michael Jones on piano as a guided
meditation for Expanding Our Now. I am sure he can let you all know if
it is still available. 

Birgitt

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Very perceptive! It is also a little funny. Paul Tillich was one of my
teachers, maybe my central teacher. His deep and rich understanding of
Kairos was and remains an abiding gift to me – and when I tried to
explore and explain what for me was the core understanding (experience)
of Open Space, it was all about NOW. In fact I wrote a book with the odd
title, “Expanding our Now.” And to some real extent the title and the
thought was a “knock-off” of Tillich’s book, “The Eternal Now.” Well the
truth had to come out sooner or later.

Harrison

If you are interested, I suspect the book is still in print, but the
copy I have is 1964, published by Scribners. Pretty heavy duty
“Christian” stuff (sermons no less) – but good for all of that. 

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Subject: Kairos and OST

Hello,

I often think of OST as a means of creating conditions that assist
individuals in greater listening to self and to others... expanding
awareness and deepening connection.  A friend recently wrote to me,
teaching me about the word Kairos:
"Kairos is an ancient Greek word meaning the "right or opportune
moment". It is now used in theology to describe the qualitative form of
time. In rhetoric kairos is "a passing instant when an opening appears
which must be driven through with force if success is to be achieved."
(E. C. White, Kaironomia p. 13)" 

Living my life in Open Space has really intensified my awareness and
recognition of kairos. The principles and law are my little friends,
whispering sweet encouragement into my ears, reminding me that what is
of essence arises at the right time, it is only myself that must rest
into patience and acceptance. OST has helped me recognize the "right or
opportune moment" when it is present, whenever it starts is the right
time, when it's over, it's over. Listening for the wisdom emerging in
the group, listening for what needs to be spoken has helped tune me into
that passing instant when an opening appears, and the law of two feet,
taking responsibility for what I love, drives me in with guided
forcefulness

"In The Interpretation of History, Lutheran theologian HYPERLINK
"http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Paul+Tillich" \nPaul Tillich
(August 20, 1886 – October 22, 1965) was a German-American theologian
and Christian existentialist philosopher made prominent use of the term.
For him, the kairoi are those crises in history which create an
opportunity for, and indeed demand, an existential decision by the human
subject." 

It is my sense that this is what so many of us Open Space facilitators
are sniffing out. Our attention is awake and attuned to the aromas of
crises in history which create an opportunity for, and indeed demand, an
existential decision by the human subject. From my perception so many of
you not only acknowledge and honor these moments but at the same time,
open and hold the space for as many individuals as possible to rise to
this occasion. You open space, creating a container within which people
are ready and listening, and at the right and opportune moment they
gracefully embody and move forth with their existential decision.

I give thanks for each of you and for the living entity of Open Space,
sharing its gifts with the world.

Ashley 
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