helping the whole

[douglas germann]

Wendy--

Thanks. I am enjoying this book--it is so evocative for me. What he is
writing seems so applicable to how people meet.

What do you mean by "Circles of Belonging" Wendy?

			:- Doug.



On Thu, 2009-06-11 at 21:28 -0700, Wendy Farmer-O'Neil wrote:
> 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. 
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