Marilyn Ferguson

[Ralph Copleman]

Good morning from an America where I, at least, feel like I can  
breathe with relief...

Also this morning comes news of the death of Marilyn Ferguson, author  
of The Aquarian Conspiracy.  She was 70 and apparently died of a heart  
attack.

In 1983, I attended the first Organization Transformation Symposium in  
New Hampshire (USA), organized by Harrison and a batch of deliciously  
crazy co-conspirators (people who breathe together) known as The  
Washington Group.  The hope, vision, and sense of possibility  
expressed in Ferguson's book combined as organizing vision and  
principles for many of us gathered there.  We talked about it a lot.   
We longed to be people who could help bring this "new age" about.  We  
sought to live up to its ideals.  One man even wore a small pendant on  
a chain around his neck that represented in silver the symbol for  
connection, unity, diversity in oneness that graced the book's cover.   
We were in love with the idea of possibility Ferguson described as  
much as with the possibility itself.  Those were heady, dreamy days.   
I know some of you were there, too.  The conference was a turning  
point in my life.

On some universal plane, I believe Marilyn Fergsuon's thinking and  
writing somehow pre-saged open space and the realm of possibilities  
open space always allows.  And thanks to Harrison and his brilliant  
martini-fueled concoctions, we have all become part of one grand  
conspiracy – which is what self-organization and wave riding may be  
all about.  No?

Good-bye, Marilyn, and thank you.  Hellooo-ooo open space....


Ralph Copleman
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