Advanced Butterfly

[Tree Fitzpatrick]

another thought on pain of exclusion. . .

At the Jan. salon, when the 'private' session was put together on cultural
maturance, I went to the 'private' session. . . but not because I felt
called to attend.  I went because I was hurt by not being invited and I went
because I knew we were in open space and I could go.

I don't mean to keep talking about myself -- but my experience is the only
filter I have -- . . . but I think there is a nugget here to add to this
dialogue on advanced butterfly sessions.

I think that once the impulse arises to NOT BE OPEN, there is a
mis-alignment. . . the disturbance in the field that I feld strongly as a
spaceholder at the May/cultural maturance thing.



On 8/18/06, Tree Fitzpatrick <tree.fitzpatrick at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Anne.  Thanks for my birthday lunch yesterday!
>
> As I indicated a few days ago, an act of exclusion does create disturbance
> in the field.
>
> Here is what I am sitting with this morning:  is disturbance in the field
> something to be avoided?  Can disturbance in the field be avoided?
>
> I love Anne's question:  what is the value of the impulse to exclude when
> it arises in the field?
>
> Off the top of my head (I'm late for another birthday date. . . ) the
> value of the impulse to exclude is that it gives us an opportunity to become
> more conscious. Each moment in OS (and in life) gives us additional
> opportunities to become more conscious of what is really happening in the
> fields in which we find ourselves.  Is there value in any impulse so long as
> we greet it in open (conscious) space?
>
>
>
>
> On 8/18/06, anne stadler <annestad at comcast.net> wrote:
> >
> >  Hi dear friends!
> > I am getting in on the tail-end of Advanced Butterfly conversation, (I
> > wasn't 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
> > "formal" 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 "exclude"
> > particular people, I (and the others who are included) lose the benefits of
> > open space (the opening to the unknown that the "stranger" 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, isn't the butterfly open to whomever/whatever comes
> > along??  So is an exclusive activity REALLY advanced *butterflying*?
> >
> > Love and blessings, Anne
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> --
> Love rays,
> Tree Fitzpatrick
>
> . . . the great and incalculable grace of love, which says, with
> Augustine, "I want you to be," without being able to give any particular
> reason for such supreme and unsurpassable affirmation.  -- Hannah Arendt
>



-- 
Love rays,
Tree Fitzpatrick

. . . the great and incalculable grace of love, which says, with Augustine,
"I want you to be," without being able to give any particular reason for
such supreme and unsurpassable affirmation.  -- Hannah Arendt

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