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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I loved your URL on PEACE. It is truly gorgeous.
But I think it is only half of the story. For all the tranquil moments (and
they are wonderful and real) it seems to me that the full image of Peace is the
River in all of its manifestations. In soft side eddies – And in violent
flood. <span class=GramE>Including the destruction of life and property.</span>
The river is life, and sometimes it moves gently – and sometimes in
violence. But it is all one river, and all one life. And Peace, it seems to me,
must include and transcend all of that. Not by the elimination of chaos,
confusion, and conflict -- for each deliver their own gifts (not always
welcome) – but always essential. Without them life ceases, I think.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>-----Original Message-----<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>From:</span></b> OSLIST
[mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>On
Behalf Of </span></b>Peter or Esther<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, December 03, 2003
1:28 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: outcomes and one-off
OSTs and OSLIST</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Dear Harrison and others,<br>
<br>
Thanks for your message on </span></font><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>stories, paradigms and
myths.<br>
<br>
</span></font>Last evening we found ourselves at an Anne Murray concert in Asheville
North Carolina. We had not known that we were especially fans of hers, we went
because friends suggested it. It was a rare and enlightening experience. WE SAW
THE POWER OF MYTH IN ACTION!<br>
<br>
The first part of the concert was a number of her and others songs. One,
"Could I Have This Dance" was sung by everyone there. Seventeen
hundred people in their 40's, 50's, 60's, 70's and up were holding hands and
swaying to the music. It was a shared mythic love experience! For a brief time
the terrorists were gone from our radar. We were all one!<br>
<br>
The second part of the concert was her Christmas program. Anne sang many
Christmas songs and invited the audience to join her whenever they wished. It
became obvious that this was a mystical/mythological/shared cultural evening.
As a change agent I usually find myself opting out of traditional
acknowledgments of our past. I watched last evening as I joined with the others
in the audience to sing these Christmas songs from our childhood. <br>
<br>
All of a sudden I realized that as change agents we need to encourage the
creation of new, shared myths that touch ALL our souls like these past songs do
and did for some! Of course the Fundamentalists and the Evangelists are upset
when they think their deep mythos is going to be taken away from them. And of
course it would be as equally difficult for a Christian taught society to
enfold the religious/mythical music of others as the opposite would also be
true. I realized that a Muslim would be probably bevvery uncomfortable singing
a Christmas song that they had no cultural past for.<br>
<br>
So, if we want a new and different world, we need to change our myths and find
shared new myths. It is not as difficult as it seems. Those new myths exist in
the Cosmos. As Open Space facilitators all we need do is to remind folks of the
truth that myths and stories bring forth from the depths of our souls.<br>
<br>
Peace be with all of you in this special time in our unfolding earthly
presence. You may wish to turn your sound up and click on the following.<br>
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With love and appreciation<br>
Peter and Esther Fisher<br>
Asheville, North Carolina.<br>
<br>
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Harrison Owen wrote:<br style='mso-special-character:line-break'>
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face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'><u1:p> </u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>I think we are in a time when our stories about who we
are and where we<u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>have come from are changing and paradigms are coming
to rub against each<u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>other in deep ways. OST is a process predicated
on the fact that all of<u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>us can have a hand in creating the new world. It
is nearly the very<u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>extreme example of that, in the world of
organizational development.<u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>Other methods rely on facilitators or experts
(sometimes called<u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>"management gurus" which isn't far from
being gods) to come in and fix<u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>things, banish the bad and tinker with the good.
It's easy to see<u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>results when evil is banished. That is a
tangible step towards the<u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>"better world" demanded by cynics.
It's much harder to see tangible<u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>results from a process where the first step towards
making a safe place<u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>for your babies is to smear the back of a turtle with
mud.<u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'><u1:p> </u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>At any rate, I hope what I am saying makes
sense. We operate out of<u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>deeply held stories about creation and renewal.
Where we come into<u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>conflict with one another it feels dissonant but we
can't put our finger<u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>on why. I'm suggesting that some of the
dissonance we feel from<u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>"results" people is at a fundamental
level. I mean, which story do you<u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>really resonate with? You know my answer.<u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt'><u1:p> </u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=red
face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:red'>Chris – you
have certainly moved the discussion in what I would consider to be wonderful
new territory. There is no question in my mind that we are – to a very
large extent – the stories we tell. Not the trivial little tales that
appear in the morning newspapers, but the deep stories that constitute our
mythic consciousness.<u1:p></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=red
face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:red'> <br>
There used to be a day when the power of these deep stories was appreciated,
but in recent times they are dismissed with the light thought that they are
“just a story.” And of course we all know that only the
“facts” will do. And when it comes to myths, these are not only
dismissed, but dissed. Worse than a story, myth now means lie and falsehood.
How the world changes. And of course, for enlightened people such as ourselves,
we have long since thrown off the bondage of myth. How sad. And we never really
do – throw it off, that is. We simply develop new ones, and they of
course, are understood to be The Truth, or better yet Scientific Truth. But it
is still a story, now dressed up in different clothes. We call them
“Theories” – but at the end of the day, these Theories are
simply likely stories which help us interpret our world. So our essential
nature hasn’t changed – we are still story tellers whose life
expectations are shaped by the stories we tell. Myth by any other name. What is
different now is that the formative power of these tales is somehow out of our
awareness. And when the stories are warped, distorted or partial – the
world and our space in that world is distorted and shrunk. Of course, we could
tell a different story. . .<u1:p></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:red'><u1:p> </u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=red
face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:red'>And I think that new
story creation is a major part of what happens in Open Space. But it is not so
much telling a story as being a story. <u1:p></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=red
face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:red'>I love where we are
headed! Go for it!!!<u1:p></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in'><st1:place><font size=2
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