I just think that's fodder for you guys..."Chaos draws the attention of the soul" That's magnificent...<br>
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What say you all?<br>
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Chris<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/5/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Wendy Farmer-O'Neil</b> <<a href="mailto:wendy@xe.net">wendy@xe.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><font face="Tahoma" size="2">Hi all,</font></div>
<div><font face="Tahoma" size="2"></font> </div>
<div><font face="Tahoma" size="2">Just talked to Chris C. and he tells me that I
HAVE to post this here...it's an excerpt from today's entry on my blog. I
am feeling a bit unsure of it...this is very raw thinking and even I don't
really know where this came from...Chris assures me that you will
understand...</font></div>
<div><font face="Tahoma" size="2"></font> </div>
<div><font face="Tahoma" size="2">From: word gravity </font></div>
<div><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><a href="http://www.wordgravity.blogspot.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">www.wordgravity.blogspot.com</a></font></div>
<div><font face="Tahoma" size="2"></font> </div>
<p><font face="Tahoma" size="2">Trying out some raw stuff on you again...<br>My
friend </font><a href="http://www.chriscorrigan.com/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"><font color="#6699cc" face="Tahoma" size="2">Chris Corrigan </font></a><font face="Tahoma" size="2">
has been
wondering about the wonderful mystery that is </font><a href="http://www.globalchicago.net/wiki/wiki.cgi?GlobalChicagoHome" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"><font color="#666699" face="Tahoma" size="2">
Open Space </font></a><font face="Tahoma" size="2">and the depth that he feels functioning there. He has asked his community
to think about it...so here I go...pulling some threads...<br><br>I am currently
reading </font><a href="http://www.openspaceworld.com/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"><font color="#666699" face="Tahoma" size="2">Harrison Owen's</font></a><font face="Tahoma" size="2">
, The
Power of Spirit. In it he pulls out this interesting tidbit from Gregory
Bateson, "the perception of difference is the essence of learning...learning
occurs when we notice 'differences that make a difference'." I guess I'd
probably say differences that matter--assuming there is a quality of attention
here. Harrison then spins it out by combining it with the attributes of
chaos..."chaos creates the differences that make a difference, through which we
learn."<br><br><font color="#ff0000">Chaos draws the attention of the soul (rather
than merely mind). Mattering is the quality of attention that drives the
self-organising principle. So what is 'mattering'? The recognition/mirroring of
the soul's purpose?/passion? in another being/object/idea...from which
connection, the chain of action/arising unfolds...thought, action, and so
on...<br></font><br>Add to that this interesting quote from </font><a href="http://blogs.salon.com/0002007/2005/05/04.html#a1133" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"><font color="#666699" face="Tahoma" size="2">
Dave Pollard's </font></a><font face="Tahoma" size="2">site
yesterday (talking about John Livingston's 1994, Rogue
Primate)...<br><br></font>
</p><blockquote>
<p><font face="Tahoma" size="2">He argues that, far from being less conscious than
civilized man, wild animals and wild human cultures actually have a greater
'participatory collective' consciousness beyond...our primitive individual
consciousness, that extends to their ecological community and to the entire
Gaia organism of the planet, an interconnectedness to which we, and other
domesticates, have become numb, have lost from disuse or ideological
counter-programming.<br></font></p></blockquote>
<div><font face="Tahoma" size="2"></font> </div>
<div><font face="Tahoma" size="2">So, maybe, Open Space with its manifest chaos acts
to un-numb us, as it were, and reconnect us with our wild soul-mind...<br><br>I
am also pulling in thinking from </font><a href="http://www.ericmaisel.com/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"><font color="#666699" face="Tahoma" size="2">Eric
Maisel </font></a><font face="Tahoma" size="2">(Fearless Creating), who talks about
the necessity within the creative process of feeding and nurturing the "wild
mind" (chaotic, original, deep) versus the "tame mind" (structured, known,
prosaic). <br><br>Phew...that's enough of that...</font></div>
<div><font face="Tahoma" size="2"></font> </div>
<div><font face="Tahoma" size="2">Cheers all,</font></div>
<div><font face="Tahoma" size="2">Wendy<br><br></font></div>
<div><font face="Tahoma" size="2">Wendy Farmer-O'Neil<br>Prospera Communications
& Consulting Services<br>1.250.713.2351/1.800.713.2351<br>weblog: <a href="http://www.wordgravity.blogspot.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">www.wordgravity.blogspot.com</a><br>
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