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At 11:41 AM 8/27/2001 -0700, you wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite><font face="Comic Sans MS" size=2 color="#0000FF">there
are a number of recurring themes that are consistent with the thoughts
shared by both of you. Certainly the idea of Gaia consciousness,
proposed by several leading thinkers, including Gregory Bateson, is
one. Another, Meme theory (info at
<a href="http://www.memes.org.uk/meme-lab/WELCOME.HTM">http://www.memes.org.uk/meme-lab/WELCOME.HTM</a>
) offers an explanation that some find useful and interesting. If
"Open Space" (as a practice and philosophy) can be transmitted
from person to person as a virus of the mind, replicating both practice
and philosophy through the minds it infects, then it could be considered
a "meme." That would infer that you, Harrison, may share
something in common with Typhoid Mary. (-; However, the virus
you so widely spread can certainly be considered beneficial rather than
destructive.</font><font face="Comic Sans MS"></font></blockquote><br>
Me and Typhfoid Mary... Great. <br>
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ho<br>
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