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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Dear all:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I was just watching a movie called, <U>What the
'Bleep' Do We Know?</U> (new rental release in US and Canada) and I saw
something too synchronistic to this thread to remain silent on...</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The film explores the nature of reality, and our
role in co-creating it, from a quantum physics perspective and recounted the
following story which I think is relevant to OST and its
facilitation.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Legend has it that, initially, the indigenous
peoples of the Carribean islands could not 'see' the approaching Clipper Ships
of the explorer Christopher Columbus on their horizon. Yes - they literally
could not <U>see</U> them and there may be a quantum physical reason
as to why. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>We take in far more information (sensorily) than we
actually process. We assume that what we take in is THE reality and our
perceptual patterns therefore become fixed. But there is virtually
unlimited realities - beyond the solid matter we accept as as the end
of the story - and it is actually more real than the reality we accept.
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>In fact, our experience of reality is mostly based
on our memory; past patterns that frame what we expect to see and
which influence where and how we choose to focus our energy /
select which sensory input we recognize and process. When we look, the energy
becomes manifest in matter (we co-create - hello, Appreciative Inquiry!). But we
don't look for what we don't expect. Even if we do happen to 'see' something
beyond the norm, we don't often accept it. It helps that we're socially
marginalized for seeing something new (old) :-)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>So, because the american aboriginal peoples didn't
expect to see a thing we know as a Clipper Ship, they literally didn't see it
(didn't take in the info or focus/pay attention). However, we also know that
they eventually did, in fact, see the ships. How did this happen? </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Well, the story goes that their shamans (being open
to more possibile realities than the average person and utilizing practices that
encourage this capacity) began to notice odd ripples in the waves of the sea.
Each day they would go and watch... Eventually, they saw the Clipper Ships
coming and began to tell their fellow villagers of their existence. If
the people trusted their Shaman, then they too began to see the
ships.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Makes me think of OST facilitators :-)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Best wishes,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Glory</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>
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