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Well, well....
<br>A lovely chat, to be sure... I especially appreciated the dance metaphor
- I/we am/are a dynamic interplay of current, limited, physical manifestation
and pure potentiality... and the mathematical equations... and the free
will / self-organization thread.... and...
<p>By virtue of our being here, we are self-organized. Everything
that is has self-organized. If we hadn't, we wouldn't be here - evolutionarily
speaking. if we don't successfully self-organize in response to environmental
disturbances, we become extinct. In fact, we carry the self-organizing
cellular memory of all that has been before us. It is also useful
to think of a continuum... which for me is spiral rather than linear.
<p>And there is an important distinction between self-organization and
conscious self-organization. To consciously do so is to know, in
each moment, that you have co-created the conditions you are currently
experiencing. In some way. To exercise control whilst you claim
not to be doing so and to exercise control, in awareness and authenticity,
are two different animals. Like dreaming and lucid dreaming. Self-organizing
and consciously self-organizing. Self-organizing and free will - choice
implies knowing what we have to choose from.
<p>The hitch comes because we attach an introjected judgement on what we
'should' or 'should not' be doing. Control is not inherently a bad
thing. We have internal control in terms of how we choose to respond.
It's when we attempt to control external things that we run into trouble.
<p>Also, to see the utility and wisdom, honestly, in all that we are presently
believing and doing AND also to have a call or longing for something beyond
the present is to interpersonal and intrapersonal psychology what the necessary
tension and interaction between fields is to complexity theory.
<p>Open Space Technology is absolutely and by far the best living experiment,
I know of, in social-self-organizing. The consciousness comes via the format
and principles and one law. When enough of us (critical mass) learn
to individually consciously self-organize then we will begin the journey
into collective intelligence and conscious collective self-organization.
Then we'll really be at play in the field of co-creative meaning and manifestation!
The question for me is, What will the quality of this be? And this
takes me back to the conscious self-organization (meaning, values and quality
making) of my own experience.
<p>Thanks to you all! I'm enriched by your perspectives....
<p>best,
<br>glory
<br><i>'If it isn't a happy ending, our story isn't over yet.'</i>
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<br>Glory Ressler, B.A., Dip. GIT
<br>Lynne Bubic, B.A., L.L.B.
<br>Rob Mailey, EMCA, Dip. GIT
<br><b>Avalon Consulting & Associates</b>
<br>Phone: (905) 937-2177
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