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<DIV><FONT size=3>Interesting! Several years ago I opened space with a group of
First Nation folks in the US Southwest. The topic was pretty mundane (roads as I
remember) but the reaction was enlightening -- to me at least. We did all "the
usual" and during a small pause in the action (maybe Lunch?) one of the
participants came up to me and said, "What took you so long, White Man?" The
implication being -- "we" were way behind the power curve. Maybe several
thousand years?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=3>Harrison</FONT></DIV>
<DIV>Harrison Owen<BR>7808 River Falls Dr.<BR>Potomac, MD
20854<BR>USA<BR>301-365-2093<BR>207-763-3261 (summer)<BR>website <A
href="http://www.openspaceworld.com">www.openspaceworld.com</A></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=Smkerr7@aol.com href="mailto:Smkerr7@aol.com">Susan M Kerr</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
title=OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
href="mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU">OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, June 09, 2005 9:22
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: After dinner
conversations</DIV>
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<DIV>In a message dated 6/9/2005 7:58:38 P.M. Central Standard Time, <A
href="mailto:duff@innergy.ca">duff@innergy.ca</A> writes:</DIV>
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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>
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<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>
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<DIV>So maybe open space works even when the communication is not in
words?</DIV></FONT>* *
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