<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Oh by the way.. <DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>At a recent processwork seminar I was on run by Max Schupach and his partner Ellen they said.. " We have an exercise here.". and they were about to give out the exercise on sheets of paper.. before they could, we heard the sound of a caretaker/janitor going by.. he was whistling.. "Wait... my god.. What's thats song?" Said Ellen... we all listened to his whistling and someone said it's: "Someone to watch over me" They then gave out the exercise sheet which was printed and entitled: "Someone to watch over me." it was an exercise about having the sense of something.. whatever it is.. looking after you and guiding you.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I forgot to ask how much they had paid him! </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Love </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Phelim</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On 29 May 2006, at 09:48, Phelim McDermott wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span">I think Jung said that a synchronicity was a coupling between two seemingly unlikely events which was felt by the person experiencing them to have meaning, so within this debate it is the sense of meaning which is important to me and on a certain level the lack of meaning which others experience.. "it's just a coincidence" seem to weirdly make it more meaningful for me. Further.. the attempt to quantify it from a newtonian causal perspective.. ie "How unlikely was it? How meaningful is it to <I>you</I>? is to miss the point because from that perspective you are analysing from a dualistic worldview. If you believe it isn't weird or Spooky.. you are of course right. For me the experience is a window into a different worldview which perhaps I/we don't often get the chance to experience (Except in Open space? Or impro?) Maybe the less experience we have had of the non dualistic world the more meaningful it seems and the more experience we have had of the connected world the more everyday or normal? </SPAN><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span"><DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>It reminds me of my experience as a child when I had a poltergeist in my house which threw things around, played tricks, made objects pass through walls and demonstrated things which were outside of "Newtonian science." It was at first important for me to convince others my experience was real.. Then I realised it was my reality and it was not important what others thought and to believe in my experience and test its reality for myself. I was encouraged to not talk too loudly about it by my parents... So of course years later I made a show out of it "70 Hill Lane" which took me all round the world and won an award Off Broadway and helped create our theatre company Improbable. Up until then my world was split because I just hadn't been talking about it loudly enough! </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Meanwhile time for a quote from Ramsey Dukes:</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>"Is it the strength of scientific beliefs that give them their power to unify our experience. Is science the safest way of all? ..the ability to bend metal is not a "higher power" so much as an atavistic failure to maintain metal as solid as we need it to be"</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>love and </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>here's a link to details of the show <A href="http://www.improbable.co.uk/show_example.asp?item_id=3">http://www.improbable.co.uk/show_example.asp?item_id=3</A></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On 29 May 2006, at 06:41, Wendy Farmer-O'Neil wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">A wise and crafty woman told me, not so long ago, that synchronicity is</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Spirit acting anonymously in the world.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">I rather liked that.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">And for any fans of Douglas Adams out there (Hitchhiker's Guide to the</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Galaxy)...i have been toying with the idea (since the TARDIS thread) that</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Open Space runs on improbability physics.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>You remember how it goes...If</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">something is a virtual impossibility, then it must be a finite</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">improbability. We work out how improbable it is and Presto! it arises fully</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">formed before our eyes.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>As Zaphod complains about the infinite</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">improbability drive, "Is this going to happen every time we use this thing?"</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Anybody for a nice, really hot, cup of tea?</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Cheers,</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Wendy</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Ps:<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>how about synkairosity?</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">*</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">*</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">==========================================================</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU">OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">------------------------------</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options,</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">view the archives of <A href="mailto:oslist@listserv.boisestate.edu">oslist@listserv.boisestate.edu</A>:</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html">http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs:</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist">http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist</A></DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></DIV></DIV></SPAN><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV>* * ========================================================== OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of oslist@listserv.boisestate.edu: <A href="http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html">http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html</A> To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: <A href="http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist">http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist</A></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>*
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