Advanced Butterfly

anne stadler annestad at comcast.net
Fri Aug 18 07:31:30 PDT 2006


Hi dear friends!  
I am getting in on the tail-end of Advanced Butterfly conversation, (I
wasn¹t invited to participate at the beginning and just wandered in :)...so
how about THAT!)  My comment is:  there are always butterfly activities and
conversations.  They do NOT belong on the Marketplace board (which is the
³formal² place everyone is invited to show up). And they are a welcome part
of the whole.   And when I deliberately occupy a public space, and ³exclude²
particular people, I (and the others who are included) lose the benefits of
open space (the opening to the unknown that the ³stranger² provides), and my
act of exclusion‹as Tree points out-- creates disturbance in the field,
which then presents opportunities for learning and transcendence.

So my question, if opening space is what we are about,  what is the value of
the impulse to exclude when it arises in the field?  And why cannot that
question be raised in the Marketplace, at the time, so that the learning
(which is showing itself to be available) happens?

As a matter of fact, isn¹t the butterfly open to whomever/whatever comes
along??  So is an exclusive activity REALLY advanced butterflying?

Love and blessings, Anne


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