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<DIV><EM><FONT face=Garamond color=#800080 size=4>And if you go back to Aramaic
you come up with a word that is more about "sound" - as in the original sound -
in open space. How appropriate that it "was/is" and at the same time is
the "observed/observer". Perhaps the perfect remedy to the
intellectualizing of the term is to simply sit in the space (albeit open) and be
a witness to the sound of life rather than thinking about it.</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</FONT></EM></DIV>
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<A title=owenhh@mindspring.com href="mailto:owenhh@mindspring.com">Harrison
Owen</A> </DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, May 02, 2002 4:54
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Logos and other
considerations</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>Laurel.Wrote:<BR><BR>At any rate, the logos has always seemed
to me to be the innate drive toward <BR>self-organization (for doesn't that
which steers all things through all <BR>things necessarily include steering
itself through itself? Sounds like <BR>self-organization to me.)<BR><BR>Logos
is definitely one of the Heavy Words of the Western World. The simple, literal
translation is "word" -- but not to be compared with idle chatter. If anybody
recalls the opening of The Gospel According to St. John... "In the beginning
was the word (logos), and the word was with God, and the word was God." Pretty
heavy stuff. So if you were an ancient Greek, Platonist, neo-platonist, or
something of the sort -- Logos would certainly be a handy tool when it came to
talking about the soft under belly of Open Space and Self-organization.
Goodness me -- we're getting awful weird. Reminds me of a story somebody
told me about a Priest (Roman I think) who called up one of our colleagues
with the question, "Is Open Space a Cult?" Should he read some of this stuff,
he would be sure -- I wonder what the appropriate Exorcism might be to get rid
of all this?<BR><BR>Harrison<BR><BR><X-SIGSEP>
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<DIV align=center>Harrison Owen<BR>7808 River Falls Drive<BR>Potomac, MD 20854
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