[OSList] 5 things OS does

[doug]

Friends--

Pondering on OS this morning, and came up with this theory of how OS 
does what it does:

OS has the effect of bringing people into density. This increases 
bifurcation points: choices. Examining its nonlinearity suggests that it 
is not only bumping together that leads to surprising choices, but that 
gathering makes accessible something akin to the collective unconscious 
or memory, and further still, that it has a catalytic effect of stirring 
up emergence. It does not require thinking beyond the local, immediate; 
however, given that we are human and see beyond our noses, we are wont 
to look for a bigger picture; and in either event, we affect the actions 
of the whole by our local actions.

So the magic of OS is not magic at all. First, it is not about making 
something happen for ego: it is precisely the reverse, taking us beyond 
ego, even sometimes going so far as to kill the ego. Second, it has a 
predictable quality to it, it follows a natural pattern, and is not a 
miracle, a deviation.

But OS is dangerous. It can rearrange these elements, all there before, 
and threaten the duration of those old ways and institutions. In the 
same way a baby threatens the existing ways of his family, bringing, if 
we have eyes to see, and stillness of heart to wait, the hope of new 
strengths and life.

What do you think?

:- Doug.