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In a message dated 5/29/05 1:59:37 PM, peggy@opencirclecompany.com writes:<BR>
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<BLOCKQUOTE CITE STYLE="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px" TYPE="CITE"></FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Geneva" FAMILY="SANSSERIF" SIZE="2">And what creates the equivalent of the river banks in Open Space? I believe the convening question bounds the space. It shapes the container from which all else flows.<BR>
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Peggy,<BR>
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Definitely, it provides 'bounded instability'. What the good fathers may be worried about isn't so much the boundedness, or lack thereof, but rather their terror is instability, loss of the control illusion which keeps things together. We have many myths in our culture against the kind of openness that OS represents, among them Pandora's Box, source of all human troubles. For those steeped in ritual, the OS container may simply be too loose.<BR>
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Paul Everett</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Geneva" FAMILY="SANSSERIF" SIZE="2"></FONT></HTML>
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