Initiation

[Harrison Owen]

Artur – You got me! There is nothing I enjoy more than playing with words,
and the game gets infinitely better when there are multiple meanings for a
single word. So I guess I just have to leave you with the puzzle. What
meaning did I intend? Both? Neither?? Something altogether different??? Who
knows
:-)

 

Harrison

 

Harrison Owen

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Potomac, Maryland   20854

Phone 301-365-2093

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-----Original Message-----
From: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] On Behalf Of Artur
Silva
Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2008 11:16 AM
To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
Subject: Re: Initiation

 

Adding another language (a third one?) to the confusion. 

 

In Portuguese, "beginning" translates as "início" that is similar to
"initiation". So I have always translated "Initiation" as "início", hence
"beginning", or "geting things started".

 

But now that my attention has been captured to that, the word "iniciação"
exists in Portuguese, meaning "being initiated to a religion or (other)
exoteric practice" and is the correct translation of "initiation".

 

Hence, Harrison, either use "beginning" instead of "initiation" or accept an
esoteric ressemblance of the OST "beginning" ;-)

 

Regards

 

Artur

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Harrison Owen <hhowen at verizon.net> wrote:

Well Martin – here is proof that maybe things are changing? Used to was (as
GBS) was won’t to say, Brits and Yanks were “two people separated by a
common language.” 

 

HO

 

Harrison Owen

7808 River Falls Drive

Potomac, Maryland   20854

Phone 301-365-2093

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Martin Leith
Sent: Monday, March 31, 2008 1:55 PM
To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
Subject: Re: Initiation

 

Raffi,

 

My understanding of "initiation" in this context is "getting things
started".

 

Best wishes to you,

 

Jack

 

Jack Martin Leith
Bristol, United Kingdom
Mobile: 07831 840541 (+44 7831 840541)
This is my new number – please delete the old one
email: jack at jackmartinleith.com
www.jackmartinleith.com <http://www.jackmartinleith.com/>  

 

On 31/03/2008, Raffi Aftandelian <raffi at bk.ru> wrote: 

Dear listers,

While working through the OST User's Guide a few months ago, I noticed the
word "initiation" in Chapter 6, "Creating Time and Space" as the word
marking the opening of the space.

The Guide explains that initiation has these stages:

1. Welcome
2. Focus the Group
3. State the Theme
4. Describe the Process
5. Create the Community Bulletin Board
6. Open the Village Marketplace
7. Get out of the way!

How do you understand this word?

Harrison, what did you mean by this word?

It seems to hark back to your discussion of liturgy and the badly-needed
creation of a/the new life story in "Spirit: Transformation and Development
in Organizations."

appreciatively,
raffi

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