Message re. Chris Alexander and OS Shape

douglas germann 76066.515 at compuserve.com
Mon Sep 14 18:24:19 PDT 2009


Anne--

Thanks for working so hard to get a message to me and to shape the
in-between space!

Shaping the in-between space: this speaks of many things to me.
In-between speaks of the narrow ridge of which Buber spoke. It speaks as
well of the beings who are birthed in conversation--there are new beings
somehow created by the fact that we meet. Shaping that space so we can
meet, so we can birth these beings who are there just for as long as we
meet in some spacious now outside of time--that's what we're doing? It
feels true.

Like my first time in shop class in grade school. The first day we were
given a board to cut and then true up. I think we worked on it for a
month! (Every one of us knew we'd have it done in the first hour.)
Perhaps like that, we keep shaping our space so it is true to all of us,
true to the beings we become in this one meeting, never to exist again.
So perhaps the shape of opened space is not anything like the shape of
the right angle square we used in shop class, but the shape of the human
being, whatever that is....

I am looking forward to Book Four--I am just about to halfway through
Book Three.

So, what shape is the transpersonal space?

			:- Doug.



On Sun, 2009-09-13 at 10:20 -0700, anne stadler wrote:
> Hi Doug:  I have tried to send this on the ListServe, but it doesn't
> accept anything I send, I've noticed.  I've tried to contact someone
> there, but cannot seem to get traction!!  So here, Doug is my
> offering!
> 
> It is the OPENING to in-between space of the transpersonal that we are
> shaping.  If we enter it as sacred space we get the experience of Self
> touching Selves  I/We/Now. (See Christopher Alexander's book 4 of the
> Nature of Order, The Luminous Ground.)   If we enter it as consensus
> reality,  it is dicey, sometimes it is Self touching Selves, often it
> is people blindly honking, as in traffic in Mumbai.  
> 
> That's my experience.  Thanks for the conversation--feels like a
> continuation of the one we were having at the Chili Pepper!
> 
> 
> -- 
> Anne M. Stadler
> 18468--47th Pl.NE
> Lake Forest Park, WA.  
> 98155, USA
> 206-364-3317
> 
> stand in de light, expand de light, BE de light!
> 
> A World that Works for All is 
> a World of Love Made Visible!
> 

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