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At 10:49 AM 10/4/01 +0100, Artur wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite 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>
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