FW: open space and synchronicity

[Harrison Owen]

From: Phelim McDermott [mailto:phelim at mac.com] 
Sent: Saturday, May 27, 2006 6:28 PM
To: hhowen at verizon.net
Subject: Re: open space and synchronicity

Ok fair enough.....  i'll look out for the two feet that might show  
up on the front of the independent in two weeks time when I do the  
next open space for the national theatre of scotland and get back to  
you!

phelimx
On 27 May 2006, at 21:13, Harrison Owen wrote:

> Phelim -- I admit it is pretty remarkable when Bumble Bees and  
> Butterflies
> show up in the national press. Or is it? After all it is  
> springtime, even in
> the UK, I think. And one might ask how many people passed by those  
> same
> papers and immediately thought of Open Space? One, I would guess. You!
>
> I am not trying to rain on your parade, or strip mystery from the  
> majesty of
> the Universe. Heaven forbid. But for me the real magic of your  
> experience
> (which I think is replicated by the experience of multiple other  
> folks) is
> that when our space is really open somehow all of the incidental  
> details of
> our complex lives vibrate with meaning. The trivial becomes  
> significant as
> part of the warp and woof of a larger experience. Things we never  
> noticed
> before stand out and assume a place in the tapestry of life. And  
> all sorts
> of other wild, verging on hallucinogenic, things!
>
> A parallel experience for me comes when I shoot (photographs). On  
> those days
> when I am "really hot" heightened sensory awareness goes right off the
> charts. Every tiny shadow, speck of color, odd reflection seems to  
> dance and
> overwhelm. Everything is significant to the point of overload. And  
> my camera
> ceases to be a filter or funnel -- Somehow the camera is me, I am the
> camera, and collectively we (camera and me) are integral to the world
> around.
>
> Pretty weird I guess. Or -- just another day in Open Space :-)
>
> Harrison
>
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> Phelim
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> Sent: Saturday, May 27, 2006 10:09 AM
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> Subject: Re: open space and synchronicity
>
> Hi Harrison,
>
> I agree about the heightened perception however i think that's a bit
> different from a signal appearing on the front page of a national
> newspaper! I also have experienced the parallel between the weather
> and the emotional weather in the room. (I don't know if you can send
> images to the string but thought it was worth trying to put them in!
> let me know if they dont come through and i'll post them on a
> webpage!) Also it was interesting to tell the group about this in
> morning news and even though it is of course a "coincidence" I am
> interested in which bit of me says `"Of course" when hearing this as
> the group did... the same bit of us that understands Open space to be
> a totally natural and ordinary phenomenon perhaps!
>
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