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<DIV><EM><FONT face=Garamond color=#800080 size=4>Thank you, Harrison, for the
conceptual integrity that is included in this message. You speak to my
heart.</FONT></EM></DIV>
<DIV><EM><FONT face=Garamond color=#800080 size=4></FONT></EM> </DIV>
<DIV><EM><FONT face=Garamond color=#800080 size=4>Toni
Petrinovich</FONT></EM></DIV>
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<A title=owenhh@mindspring.com href="mailto:owenhh@mindspring.com">Harrison
Owen</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
title=OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, October 04, 2001 4:49
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Moving Open Space without
closing it . . .</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>At 10:49 AM 10/4/01 +0100, Artur wrote:<BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=cite cite type="cite">In what concerns me, even if my
"knowing" of OST has not changed, I tend<BR>to think that some of my ideas
about it have been slightly "readjusted"<BR>this days. If we consider, as I
do, that Harrison's Guide, and some of his<BR>other books, are the genuine
OST, maybe one should question if when we try<BR>to summarize OST, or on the
contrary to develop it, we are always taking the<BR>more fundamental
concepts. I will come back to this some other day,<BR>as those are subjects
that we can analyze with time (maybe after the next<BR>(prolonged) week end
- as tomorrow will be holiday here -- in memory of<BR>the Republican
revolution of 1910).</BLOCKQUOTE><BR>Artur -- and anybody else -- I think it
is always import to remember (at least for me) that OST was the product of two
Martinis, born out of frustration by way of a joke. That it is powerful, I
cannot deny. And I confess to a certain pride of discovery -- not
invention. However, at the end of the day it remains, in my mind, a
simple vehicle to a much more profound and prior reality: The Power of
Self-Organization. There is no magic in OST. And I am pretty sure there is no
magic in Self-Organization, although for those of us who believe (or hope)
that we or somebody did the organizing (is in charge) perhaps it looks like
magic. So by all means, let's go as deeply as we can to understand the primal
realities of our world. God knows, some deep thinking would be helpful at the
moment. And I think when we go a little deeper we will discover that OST is
just what it started out being -- a funny thing that happened along the way to
our future -- the product of two Martinis, born out of frustration by way of a
joke.<BR><BR>Harrison<BR><BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=cite cite type="cite">Harrison Owen</BLOCKQUOTE><X-SIGSEP>
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