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<DIV><SPAN class=140254516-05022004><FONT face=Arial>Chris,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=140254516-05022004><FONT face=Arial>thank you for sharing this
one page of Alan Rayner regarding Space. I enjoyed reading it and intend to
learn more about the work of this group. I also work with fostering mentoring
circles and view them as an effective and creative model of leadership. In
Alan's page about Space, there was a paragraph that for me was a wonderful
explanation of the permeable boundary created by the 'givens' and their
relationship to space when we work with OST.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=140254516-05022004><FONT face=Arial>I believe that space if
very full of the field of all possibilities and that learning to work with and
within space is critical for constructive human
evolution.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=140254516-05022004><FONT face=Arial></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=140254516-05022004><FONT face=Arial>Again, thank you for
sharing this.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma
size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> OSLIST
[mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU]<B>On Behalf Of </B>Chris
Macrae<BR><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, February 05, 2004 10:46 AM<BR><B>To:</B>
OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU<BR><B>Subject:</B> Maheo's view on Space - does
it connect with Open's<BR><BR></FONT></DIV><FONT face=arial,helvetica><FONT
lang=0 face=Arial size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10">Buried in rural
England (near Bath actually) is a wonderful open space facility Maheo- the
life dream of an emerging friend Geoffrey Higgins<BR><BR>Geoffrey collects
people of spirit who have a passion, and tries to let them multiply mentoring
circles for leaders or anyone who deeply cares. One of Geoffrey's mentor
circle is Alan Rayner, a Professor at Bath University who studies how nature
networks systems. Alan has just written this one-pager on space- our dream is
to issue a quarterly pdf of one-pagers something to do with OPEN LEADERSHIP -
for those who dare do something so humanly valuable<BR><BR>We'd love to hear
comments. And indeed, we do realise that words get in the way of such simple
topics as space, and yet leaders want words before experiences or at least
that's the UK's Class system operating as is - as a Brit I deeply apologise
for what the old empire bequested in terms of industrial age paradigms all
over the world, though how Americans who celebrated their tea party in our
face could now have systemised an even less human world class system is a deep
democratic riddle if ever I've met one. Digression aside- here's Alan's piece
& peace - any comments you wish me to pass back to Alan or
Geoffrey?<BR>chris macrae, wcbn007@easynet.co.uk, www.valuetrue.com
<BR><BR>SPACE - THE ULTIMATE CONNECTOR, by Alan Rayner<BR><BR>For Millennia,
humankind has been prone to communications breakdown because <BR>of the way we
habitually regard the intangible 'nothingness' of 'space' as <BR>what puts
distance between one thing and another and isolates our <BR>individual selves.
We assume that space has to be 'got across' if we are to <BR>travel or
communicate, and that such transference takes 'time'. And by <BR>viewing space
as an 'outsider' that surrounds but does not permeate 'solid <BR>objects', we
come to regard ourselves and others as independent 'free <BR>agents' that in
the absence of some imposed system of control can only make <BR>an anarchic
random mess of everything.<BR><BR>This 'exclusion' of space is at the root of
the 'impositional logic' that <BR>continues to dominate our philosophical,
scientific and mathematical <BR>thinking, leading to all manner of abuse of
one another, other life forms <BR>and our surroundings. A logic that leads us
to regard boundaries as <BR>'limits' and to impose these limits on ourselves
and nature as fixed <BR>'reference frames' within which to view the purely
transactional <BR>relationships of material objects in empty space. A 'box'
logic that lies <BR>in the very foundations of conventional mathematics -
Euclidean geometry <BR>and discrete numbers - that in their turn underpin
scientific, economic and <BR>governmental theory and method.<BR><BR>The most
extraordinary feature of this logic is that it is based on the <BR>imposition
of impenetrable barriers that all our scientific findings and <BR>human
experience inform us that there is no evidence for. It is profoundly <BR>and
inescapably unrealistic, and yet it continues to be applied in
<BR>methodologies that pride themselves on being 'evidence-based', 'realistic'
<BR>and 'rational'.<BR><BR>Just think about it: if nothing truly comes between
us, then what is <BR>keeping us apart? Space, in offering no substantial
resistance to movement <BR>can only be a universal super-conductive highway
that permeates within, <BR>around and through every 'thing', and so,
literally, gravitationally pools <BR>us and the universe together.<BR><BR>So,
there really is a need for a more realistic logic, which gives Pride of
<BR>Place to Space and treats boundaries not as fixed, impermeable surfaces
but <BR>rather as dynamic, variably holey, pivotal places that couple
inner and <BR>outer domains reciprocally together and intermediate their
energetic <BR>relationship over all scales from sub-atomic to
universal.<BR><BR>This 'relational logic' of inner-with-outer through
intermediary domains is <BR>at the heart of the form of awareness that I and
others have been working <BR>on, that we call 'inclusionality'. With this
awareness comes a radical <BR>shift in focus from distinguishing between
ourselves and others as <BR>autonomous, competitive objects to appreciating
ourselves as complex, <BR>relational 'places' - local giving and receiving
expressions of <BR>'Everywhere'. And so, we really do hope that inclusionality
can refresh our <BR>understanding of our human relationships with one another
and our living <BR>space. Understanding that can help us to re-examine our
most deeply held <BR>ideas about Our Human Place in the World and rediscover,
where we may have <BR>lost it, what we have always known when our Emotions
join with our Reason <BR>in the space of Spiritual Togetherness embodied by
Maheo<BR>http://www.breakthrough.co.uk/faculty.html<BR></FONT>* *
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