More on Creation

[Patricia Haines]

I've met with deep fear of and/or inability to deal with non-hierarchically authoritative settings - and when I ask folks what their dreams and passions are, my favorite question, more often than not I get a blank stare ... Perhaps concepts of 'self' are so programmed that it's risky for folks to even raise the question of what 'opening space' to ask questions might look like

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--- On Tue, 2/17/09, Ralph Copleman <rcopleman at comcast.net> wrote:

From: Ralph Copleman <rcopleman at comcast.net>
Subject: [OSLIST] More on Creation
To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
Date: Tuesday, February 17, 2009, 3:01 PM

On Feb 17, 2009, at 2:00 AM, Harrison wrote:

> Well now you have really stepped in it! And for sure you got your
response!

(Well, I didn't wade in completely blindly, I hope.)

Thanks, everyone, for this dialogue.  I guess I knew many of us here see
creation as a self-organizing event, as I believe.  My real question is not
about what WE think but what others whom we ask to operate in open space might
experience.  Cognitive dissonance?  Religious doubt?  Fear?  A sense of being
shaken to the core?

Is open space not a threat to some established orders?  Am I exaggerating the
impact of a world/culture of space opening everywhere all the time?

We know that once people step into the space, it works, and they get it and
enjoy it.  But if they sit down and think about it, might they have some very
interesting questions?

Ralph

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