[OSList] Opening space for desire and passion.

[Harrison Owen]

Kari – I am not sure what good my “footnotes” will do – if only because I
tried to have as few such things as possible (One less thing to do!) – AND I
think a nice feature might be a series of short quotes (with pictures?) from
friends all over the world describing their experiences in Open Space. For
some reason people seem to think that Open Space is only “some strange thing
that happens “here”(wherever here is – Iceland for you). But as we all know,
OS really is global. I have one friend who has been supporting opening space
in Tibet with the monks. I don’t think she and her colleagues show up on
OSLIST (which is doubtless true of most of our friends and colleagues) but
the experience is real and fascinating.  Without even thinking about it, I
could add folks in just about every country I know. And I am sure you could
too. Just a thought.

 

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From: oslist-bounces at lists.openspacetech.org
[mailto:oslist-bounces at lists.openspacetech.org] On Behalf Of Kári Gunnarsson
Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2013 4:41 AM
To: World wide Open Space Technology email list
Subject: [OSList] Opening space for desire and passion.

 

I have been reviewing materials for my open space webpage. As my search
continue I am tempted to go to places for material that talk about the need
to open space. And one of this materials is the need to open space for
desire and passion to emerge.

 

I been looking at Esther Perel for my reading on desire. She first proposes
the duality of wanting and having. If desire is to want then love is to have
and it is difficult to want what you already have. Desire is fueled by
longing and needs space. We need to open some space in our life's so that we
can experience the emotion of longing.

 

Esther Perel found that there is an exception to only wanting what you don't
have. That is the novelty in the mystery of open space, and that self
sustaining radiance with confidence is desirable and sexy. Some partners say
that they are most drawn to there partner when he (or she) is doing
something that he is passionate about, when he is in his element.

A comfortable distance with mysterious and elusive movements, like on the
stage, brings mystery in the space that is the erotic. The passion rests in
the novelty.

 

In the mystical realm of eroticism there is a opposite, that is the trauma.
In a town of Belgium holocaust survivors, there where two distinctive
groups, those that did not die and those that came back to life. Those that
did not come back to life lived there life tilted to the ground could not
experience pleasure and could not trust. There lives where filled with
vigilance, worry, anxiousness, insecurities. But those that came back to
life where those that understood the erotic as the antidote to death. They
know how to keep themselves alive with curiosity, discovery and play.
Committed practice to open this space of play and the erotic is
premeditated, willful, intentional with focus and presence. 

With best greetings from Iceland

Kári Gunnarsson 

http://www.openspace.is/

email: kari at openspace.is

phone: +354 8645189

 

 

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