[OSList] Follow-Up and Flow in Open Space

[paul levy]

Harrison

Yes, and more...

The "now" becomes enormous because it forms part of the time organism - a
living organism because past, present and future all live vibrantly within
it. This is no mere theory. Now is where we are present, but before and
beyond are where we are also alive.

But no. The past isn't over. It is both before and before. The past lies up
ahead. The past is full of seeds but also it contains keys. The past is a
living picture playing in and out of the now. As does the future. History
is the high-story.

Practically (and this is where a bias towards one dimension limits the
opening of space)...

What do we wish had happened?
What would have happened if ... ?
What happened ?

These are not questions for a past that is over and done with. These are
questions for the future "before us".

Whatever happened is not the only thing that could have. Whatever happened
is one of my things that could happen.

Dive into that - if only for the game of it!

We can live many lives and still not get close to the real vistas of space
and time that wait to be opened. Potential lives in the whole time
organism, not only the now. There's something special about now, but its
not the whole story!

Go on, imagine you might have missed a trick...!

Paul

On Sunday, 24 March 2013, Harrison Owen wrote:

> Paul – “And it is why I believe that when we open space, we open space not
> only for the future but for our whole "time organism".”  I like it. If only
> because I wrote a book, “Expanding Our Now.” The idea is simple, maybe
> simple minded. But it goes like this: The past is over, the future hasn’t
> happened yet. What we got is NOW. And how big can we make that? I don’t
> know, but it is a lot bigger than most of us think – which is usually
> measured in nanoseconds.   A very small NOW. – But when we Open Space, my
> experience is that NOW becomes enormous. Well past chronometric
> measurement. Or something.****
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> Perfectly described, Koos!****
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> And it is why I believe that when we open space, we open space not only
> for the future but for our whole "time organism". ****
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> It is also why, if there must be "action planning" is need not only come
> at the end!****
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> Time is linear, circular and many other things as well. ****
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> Warm rushes****
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> Paul
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> On Sunday, 24 March 2013, Koos de Heer wrote:****
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> I once heard a story from someone who had been to Greece, interviewing
> people about the political and economic situation there.  He reports that
> some people would say: “We can’t predict the future – after all, you have
> no idea of the things that are still hidden behind your back.”  The
> metaphor of the way time flows there  is the opposite of ours. In Western
> Europe, we picture ourselves as looking to the future and having the past
> behind our backs. Apparently in Greece, the people experience the timeline
> so that the future is coming from behind and the past is disappearing in
> front of them. So they are looking at the past and not seeing the future.
> Which makes sense; we think we look at the future, but what are we looking
> at? Only images, because we don’t know what it will be. Which also leads to
> the question whether our images from the past are correct, but that is
> another story.****
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> This leads me to wondering if there might be cultures where time is viewed
> as circular, which would make even more sense to me.****
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> *Van:* oslist-bounces at lists.openspacetech.org [mailto:
> oslist-bounces at lists.openspacetech.org] *Namens *paul levy
> *Verzonden:* zondag 24 maart 2013 19:37
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> David****
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> There's a depth and warm texture to your model.****
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> I would offer this:****
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> You define vision this:
> "what does it look like when it is done"****
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> I believe that is only part of vision. ****
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> Vision is what does the temporal picture look like: the picture of past,
> present AND future, all playing into each other. As I said earlier - what
> went before (past) is also before us (future, in front).****
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