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<DIV>In a message dated 6/9/2005 7:58:38 P.M. Central Standard Time,
duff@innergy.ca writes:</DIV>
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style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><FONT
style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>I never
thought of these as "open space" but now that I look at it, I suppose they
are.<BR><BR>duff</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<DIV>Reading this brought an experience to mind that I would now call open
space. </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>It was a Native American pipe circle held in a buffalo field (we went to
Janesville, WI, to pay homage to a white buffalo calf born there). We first
stood in an open circle, one person walked it silently as we smudged (sweet
grass burning in an abalone shell; we drew the smoke towards
ourselves while this person holding it fanned it to us with a feather),
then we sat and passed a pipe, again, silently. The pipe held some kind of
tobacco but nothing hallucinogenic (more sweet grass? I'm not really sure).
Afterwards when we were mingling and talking I saw into
another's eyes deeper than I ever had (with anyone - I did not
even know this person). I remember thinking, "why is he letting me look so
far in?" </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>So maybe open space works even when the communication is not in
words?</DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>
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