More on Creation

Tue Feb 17 14:16:17 PST 2009

Wendy(and Ralph too!) This is truly wonderful! OST, for all of the funny
stuff, etc - is really a Trojan Horse, not to say revolutionary. Let that
sucker in the door, and a whole mess of stuff is in trouble. All the stuff
you mention, of course -- but there is more. You really couldn't teach OST
in a standard business school and maintain a straight face with all those
tenured professors and courses dealing with "Management Control,"
"Organizational Design" -- etc. PROBLEM! Best thing is to say nothing. Deny
everything. Go to ground.

Harrison

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From: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] On Behalf Of Wendy
Farmer-O'Neil
Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 3:56 PM
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Subject: Re: [OSLIST] More on Creation

Hi Ralph,
i loved your question.  And i have been sitting with it and reflecting  
on it through a number of lenses.  And i suppose my experience and  
deep belief, is that much like everything else, the questioning is  
also self-organizing and doesn't arise until the consciousness that is  
ready to respond to it has also arisen.  Now, of course, consciousness  
expands in response to challenges.  And so OS might certainly be one  
of those challenges, both individually and culturally.

And i hear you also asking if OS could be seen as threatening?   
Possibly. Probably. The forces that have driven evolution throughout  
time have tended to be pretty threatening to those experiencing them.   
Space is always opening everywhere all the time.  What we are learning  
about evolutionary change is that is not only a slow, iterative,  
incremental process, but can also be an incredibly rapid,  
revolutionary process.  And we know what revolutionary change looks  
like.  One of the remarkable things about the time we are living in,  
is that perhaps for the first time in this planet's history, an  
organism is aware that it is evolving and is also an active  
participant in the forces that are shaping that evolution.  Which  
makes this time as exciting as hell to live in (assuming, of course,  
that you find hell exciting and not simply terrifying).

So yah, some theologies/ideologies/values systems will find the  
concept of self-organization and the experience of OS more threatening  
than others.  (They are the ones that don't invite you back and tell  
others in town not to work with you 'cause you do that weird circle  
thing...). I think that most of the folks who encounter OS experience  
it in alignment with their own level of consciousness and find their  
own way of making sense of the questions it evokes.  They experience  
what they have the mind and heart and body and soul to experience.   
It's all about perspective.

We who open space deliberately are not timid folk.
Some might even say we're peace-full revolutionaries. (slow and  
knowing wink)

Keeping the faith in chaos and conflict,
Blessings,
Wendy

"The purpose of conflict is harmony." Terry Dobson Sensei

On 17-Feb-09, at 12:01 PM, Ralph Copleman wrote:

> 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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