The Chaordic Dance Continues! The talking stick

[Chris Corrigan]

No wrong way to hold THAT talking stick.

In the cultures of the West Coast of Canada here, there is definitely a
wrong way to hold a talking stick.  Protocol is very important in ceremonies
here, in fact diplomatic relations can chill markedly over the way someone
acts in the longhouse, including how the hold the talking stick.  Woe to the
person who holds a talking stick when he is not allowed to.

But the little talking stick I gifted OSonOS IX (it's about a foot long, has
four animals carved into it and a pointed end which, traditionally, you
stick on the table, or the ground or your knee), that stick is just a
talking stick, to be used and held any which way by the myriad of humanity
that intersect its path around the world.  Please let's not make any sacred
attachments to it...just use it well.

Chris


On 1/23/07, Raffi Aftandelian <raffi at bk.ru> wrote:
>
> Thanks to all fellow spaceholders for your replies.
>
> Chris, first time I've heard that there may be no wrong way of holding the
> Talking Stick.
>
> I find the Harvest Moon OSonOS idea intriguing and would love to make a
> Vancouver OSonOS.
>
> Catherine, thank you for sharing about use of the egg as a talking object.
> I find more and more that there probably is no such thing as a bad choice
> of a talking object.
>
> Once space is open and created and if the choice of speaking object is
> emergent, the field becomes so dense in granularity that valuable, useful
> meaning is created no matter what object is chosen...assuming that the
> spaceholder is in flow.
>
> warmly,
> raffi
>
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