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<DIV><SPAN class=058230808-14122005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>Dear
Harrison,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=058230808-14122005><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=058230808-14122005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff> Please,
can I have a reference to were can I find some short and clear articles about
inner-outer-identity of self-collective spiral simple-complex
relationships?</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=058230808-14122005><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=058230808-14122005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>I read this
and it fits and resonates to our trying to make sense from the tent stories' yes
I hope we will come around with some understanding and share
it...</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=058230808-14122005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>all the best
for now and the coming of holiday season and New year</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=058230808-14122005><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff>Tova</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2>Tova
Averbuch èåáä
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial
size=2>Israel </FONT></DIV>
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972-3-5523476 </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader lang=en-us dir=ltr align=left><FONT
face=Tahoma size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> OSLIST
[mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Harrison
Owen<BR><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, August 23, 2005 2:14 PM<BR><B>To:</B>
OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU<BR><B>Subject:</B> Self and Meta-Self /
Individual and Community<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>One of the curious things about Open Space -- or at
least the experience of Open Space -- is the apparently conflicted notions of
"self" and "community" flow easily and naturally together. Folks often report
that they never had felt so respected/honored/perceived as a person. And
simultaneously the awareness of the collective (may I dare say -- community?)
is almost overwhelming. It never seems to be the case that individuality must
be sacrificed for the whole or that the whole is simply an assembly of
individuals. It has often occurred to me that the "problem" of individual and
community is less a function of our experience than our logic. Or maybe our
logic forces a false distinction so that we expect the individual to be in
conflict with community? This is the logic of "either/or" -- and not both/and.
It is a logic dominated by an awareness of contradiction as opposed to paradox
-- and somehow all paradoxes are thought to be contradictory and therefore to
be resolved and eliminated. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Alan Rayner, the developer and proponent of what he
calls Inculsionality, has done some interesting work in this area, and writes
as follows:
<P>"Using inclusional logic, however, the <I>isolation</I> of the simple,
fixed notion of self becomes subsumed by the <I>togetherness</I> of complex,
dynamic forms (in effect ‘flow forms’) comprising inner, outer and
intermediary spatial domains, <I>all</I> of which are <I>vital</I> to their
distinct, but not discrete, <I>identities</I>. Rather than being unitary or
binary, ecocentric or egocentric, such <I>‘complex selves’</I> represent
ternary couplings of inner with outer, of the kind alluded to by Shakunle’s
‘fluid logic numbers’ (see above). Their behaviour is therefore ultimately
intractable to impositional logic, as was implicitly acknowledged by Newton
‘himself’ in his analysis of the ‘three body problem’ (Montgomery, 2001).
Moreover, this behaviour can neither be regarded as intrinsically ‘selfish’
nor ‘altruistic’, because neither the disregard of the outer (‘collective’/
‘we’) nor inner (‘individual’/’I’) aspect is evolutionarily sustainable in
such a co-creative system." </P>
<P>The language is a little turgid I guess -- but I find the notions
appealing.</P>
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<P>Harrison</P>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>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></FONT></DIV>
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