<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><HTML><FONT SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">Buried in rural England (near Bath actually) is a wonderful open space facility Maheo- the life dream of an emerging friend Geoffrey Higgins<BR>
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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>
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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>
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SPACE - THE ULTIMATE CONNECTOR, by Alan Rayner<BR>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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