helping the whole
Wendy Farmer-O'Neil
wendy at xe.net
Mon Jun 15 07:41:29 PDT 2009
>
> You sound pretty close to it to me, Doug. The nesting Alexander
> speaks of may be something like the concept of holons in Integral.
> Where each entity is both a whole unto itself and an intrinsic part
> of a yet larger whole--all nested in a great holarchy of being. The
> boundaries of each dependent on what perspective is engaged at any
> particular moment. Pretty fluid, paradoxical stuff as you've
> intuited.
>
> Circles of belonging. To me, mean those nested ecologies of
> relationship we cultivate that provide us with our sense of
> belonging, of community, of personal meaning and affirmation. Some
> folks sadly don't seem to experience this at all anywhere in their
> lives. I believe that circles of belonging are vital to our health
> and our future. Our family can be one, our friends can be one, our
> neighbourhood, church, or workplace could be too. This is where the
> skill comes in. So many of us need to learn how to be intimate
> together, so that we can reflect our worth to each other in ways
> that truly liberate and validate our experience of our humanness.
>
> much love,
> Wendy
>
> On 14-Jun-09, at 4:05 PM, douglas germann wrote:
>
>> Larry--
>>
>> I suspect that is what Alexander is saying. In effect, the individual
>> center and the whole give each other life. He speaks of nesting a
>> couple
>> of places, but I have yet to figure out exactly what he means by
>> it. It
>> is almost like the light in the projector and the image on the screen
>> appear at the same time. (There are no really good metaphors.) But in
>> this case, the image on the screen helps give life/light to the
>> projector!
>>
>> Have not studied the integral perspective, so I am not sure I am
>> catching your meaning, or responding appropriately, Larry.
>>
>> :- Doug.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, 2009-06-12 at 10:07 -0400, Larry Peterson wrote:
>>> 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.
>>>
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>>>
>>> Larry
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>>> Larry Peterson & Associates in Transformation
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>>> From: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] On Behalf Of
>>> Wendy Farmer-O'Neil
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>>> To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
>>> Subject: [OSLIST] Fwd: [OSLIST] helping the whole
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>>> 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.
>>>
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>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>> thanks for all these great quotes. I've wanted to read his
>>> work for so long. This is a real treat.
>>>
>>>
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>>>
>>> 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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> Wendy Farmer-O'Neil
> CEO Prospera Consulting
> wendy at xe.net
> 1-800-713-2351
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> The moment of change is the only poem. -- Adrienne Rich
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Wendy Farmer-O'Neil
CEO Prospera Consulting
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The moment of change is the only poem. -- Adrienne Rich
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