Fwd: [OSLIST] helping the whole

[Larry Peterson]

Yes and!  An integral perspective suggests that the individual, the group,
the behaviour and the interrelationships are all constituent of who we are
and the reality that we are part of in every moment.

 

Larry

 

 

Larry Peterson & Associates in Transformation

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

 <mailto:larry at spiritedorg.com> larry at spiritedorg.com   416.653.4829
<http://www.spiritedorg.com/> http://www.spiritedorg.com

 

 

 

From: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] On Behalf Of Wendy
Farmer-O'Neil
Sent: June-12-09 1:56 AM
To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
Subject: [OSLIST] Fwd: [OSLIST] helping the whole

 

 

 

Circles of Belonging, Doug.  

Don't we feel most alive when we know we are truly significant?  That our
existence matters essentially to another?  We can only see that truly
reflected in the eyes of our community.  

Explains modern existential angst.  Without true community and a way to find
our place in it--we find life deadened, numbing, meaningless.  Same is
mirrored in organizations.  We have largely managed (all puns intended) to
engineer an inhuman context for ourselves.  

 

Re-membering and re-claiming the skills and patterns of connecting to the
whole is a vital process for our future.  We will know we have arrived when,
as Harrison has recently pointed out, OST is just one of the ways we do
things.  I believe the deep inner resonance for this sense of one's place in
the whole is what many people experience and enjoy about open space.

 

thanks for all these great quotes.  I've wanted to read his work for so
long.  This is a real treat.

 

hugs,

Wendy

 

On 11-Jun-09, at 8:04 PM, douglas germann wrote:





Hi--

Another evocative piece from Christopher Alexander:

It is their presence in the whole, and the fact that they are helping the
life of the whole, which gives them their individual life....Italics in
original. Christopher Alexander, The Nature of Order: An Essay on the Art of
Building and The Nature of the Universe, Book One: The Phenomenon of Life, p
431

What I am seeing here as an inside-out truth, is that in a group we do not
lend the group our individual life, it goes somewhat the other way round
about. What gives us our individual existence and life is our presence in
the group, our helping of the group; in turn the others helping the group
give us life. We intensify each other.

Can this be true?

:- Doug. 

* * ==========================================================
OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU ------------------------------ To subscribe,
unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of
oslist at listserv.boisestate.edu:
http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about
OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist

 

Wendy Farmer-O'Neil

CEO Prospera Consulting

wendy at xe.net

1-800-713-2351

 

The moment of change is the only poem. -- Adrienne Rich

 

 

 

 

 

Wendy Farmer-O'Neil

CEO Prospera Consulting

wendy at xe.net

1-800-713-2351

 

The moment of change is the only poem. -- Adrienne Rich

 

 

 

 

* * ==========================================================
OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU ------------------------------ To subscribe,
unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of
oslist at listserv.boisestate.edu:
http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about
OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist 


*
*
==========================================================
OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
------------------------------
To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options,
view the archives of oslist at listserv.boisestate.edu:
http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html

To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs:
http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.openspacetech.org/pipermail/oslist-openspacetech.org/attachments/20090612/ee66017e/attachment-0016.htm>