<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><HTML><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Geneva" FAMILY="SANSSERIF" SIZE="2">Jack Hawley, in his book "Reawakening The Spirit In Work" has a great discussion of "already-thereness. It is in Chap. 11 on Bending Space and Time, Already-Thereness and Instantaneousness.<BR>
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"The Spirit Of Already-Thereness: The familiar idea of searching-to-grow, exciting though it may be, is a gap maker. The long-cherished notion of </FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Geneva" FAMILY="SANSSERIF" SIZE="2"><I>becoming</I></FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Geneva" FAMILY="SANSSERIF" SIZE="2"> can soothe, but it can also serve to distance us from ourselves rather than bring us nearer. The spirit of already-thereness, on the other hand, is a gap closer. </FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Geneva" FAMILY="SANSSERIF" SIZE="2"><I>Being</I></FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Geneva" FAMILY="SANSSERIF" SIZE="2"> has more power in it than </FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Geneva" FAMILY="SANSSERIF" SIZE="2"><I>becoming.<BR>
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</I></FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Geneva" FAMILY="SANSSERIF" SIZE="2">Imagine just proclaiming already-thereness. No questions asked. No permission sought. Simply take residence. It's audacious, but declaring it is what creates it. That's the leap!" Jack Hawley.<BR>
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I have had several experiences along this line of already-thereness in some very practical senses. One in particular, a former six month plan to start up a really huge paper machine compressed into 17 calendar days, for instance. Clearly "impossible", but done.<BR>
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Great discussion.<BR>
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Paul Everett </FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Geneva" FAMILY="SANSSERIF" SIZE="2"></FONT></HTML>
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