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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=red face=Arial><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:red'>Very perceptive! It is also a little funny.
Paul Tillich was one of my teachers, maybe my central teacher. His deep and
rich understanding of Kairos was and remains an abiding gift to me – and when
I tried to explore and explain what for me was the core understanding
(experience) of Open Space, it was all about </span></font><font color=red
face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial;color:red'>NOW</span></font><font
color=red face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial;color:red'>. In fact I
wrote a book with the odd title, “Expanding our Now.” And to some
real extent the title and the thought was a “knock-off” of Tillich’s
book, “The Eternal Now.” Well the truth had to come out sooner or
later.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=red face=Arial><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:red'>If you are interested, I suspect the book
is still in print, but the copy I have is 1964, published by Scribners. Pretty
heavy duty “Christian” stuff (sermons no less) – but good for
all of that. </span></font></p>
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<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>From:</span></b> OSLIST
[mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>On
Behalf Of </span></b>ashley cooper<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Saturday, November 12, 2005
12:06 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Kairos and OST</span></font></p>
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<br>
I often think of OST as a means of creating conditions that assist individuals
in greater listening to self and to others... expanding awareness and deepening
connection. A friend recently wrote to me, teaching me about the word <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Kairos</span></i>:</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>"Kairos is an ancient Greek word meaning the
"right or opportune moment". It is now used in theology to describe
the qualitative form of time. In rhetoric kairos is "a passing instant
when an opening appears which must be driven through with force if success is
to be achieved." (E. C. White, Kaironomia p. 13)" </span></font></p>
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Living my life in Open Space has really intensified my awareness and
recognition of kairos. The principles and law are my little friends, whispering
sweet encouragement into my ears, reminding me that what is of essence arises
at the right time, it is only myself that must rest into patience and
acceptance. OST has helped me recognize the "right or opportune
moment" when it is present, whenever it starts is the right time, when
it's over, it's over. Listening for the wisdom emerging in the group, listening
for what<i><span style='font-style:italic'> needs</span></i> to be spoken has
helped tune me into that passing instant when an opening appears, and the law
of two feet, taking responsibility for what I love, drives me in with guided
forcefulness</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>"In <em><i><font face="Times New Roman">The
Interpretation of History</font></i></em>, Lutheran theologian <a
href="http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Paul+Tillich" target="_blank"
onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"><font color="#1d4994"><span
style='color:#1D4994'>Paul Tillich </span></font></a>(August 20, 1886 –
October 22, 1965) was a German-American theologian and Christian existentialist
philosopher made prominent use of the term. For him, the <em><i><font
face="Times New Roman">kairoi</font></i></em> are those crises in history which
create an opportunity for, and indeed demand, an existential decision by the
human subject." </span></font></p>
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It is my sense that this is what so many of us Open Space facilitators are
sniffing out. Our attention is awake and attuned to the aromas of crises in
history which create an opportunity for, and indeed demand, an existential
decision by the human subject. From my perception so many of you not only
acknowledge and honor these moments but at the same time, open and hold the
space for as many individuals as possible to rise to this occasion. You open
space, creating a container within which people are ready and listening, and at
the right and opportune moment they gracefully embody and move forth with their
existential decision.<br>
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I give thanks for each of you and for the living entity of Open Space, sharing
its gifts with the world.<br>
<br>
Ashley </span></font></p>
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