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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Anne – I guess you did come out of
retirement. Totally nice to see you and your thoughts are wonderful. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
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w:st="on">OSLIST</st1:PersonName> [mailto:<st1:PersonName w:st="on">OSLIST</st1:PersonName>@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU]
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>anne stadler<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Monday, August 06, 2007 9:35
PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> <st1:PersonName w:st="on">OSLIST</st1:PersonName>@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Living in OS...My
Inquiry!</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=3 face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>I am stepping out of my on-line
retirement mode, and inviting you into a conversation I would LOVE to have with
my OST pals, far and wide. In fact, I would like to encourage US ALL to
have such a conversation with each other!!! It is my present version of <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>Living in OS<br>
</span></b><br>
My question to you is: <b><i><span style='font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>What
are you doing with your one wild and precious life?<br>
</span></i></b><br>
And guess what! Here’s my answer to that question!! <br>
As Rumi says: <b><i><span style='font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>“Beyond
ideas of right and wrong, there’s a field...I’ll meet you
there!”<br>
<br>
</span></i></b>I am committed to being part of learning communities of
practice, living consciously in the “open space” of the universal
intelligent field (which some of us call God), playing in the “floating
bodhisangha” (thank you, Mark!) of radiant networking.<br>
<br>
<i><span style='font-style:italic'>My inquiry is: In what ways can we manifest
gift exchanges (communities of practice) that identify, support and amplify the
life force in any person, place, or situation on the planet?? (the
word “community” is derived from the Latin “cum”,
meaning “together”, and munus, meaning “gift”...or
“gift exchange”).<br>
</span></i> <br>
This is what I am doing now, and will continue to do until I am guided
otherwise. It is alternating cycles of energy flow and energy storage<br>
(Thank you for those lovely terms, Gabriel and Tracy!).<br>
<br>
Re. Energy Flow:</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'>+++++++++++++++++++ <br>
I am taking what Mark Jones says about “living in Open Space” and
amending it to reflect how I live it:<br>
* "Living in Open Space” means to “show-up” and
“OPEN space” </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'>+ in every interaction; it means taking
responsibility for what <br>
+ I love; it means Hearing, Seeing, and Loving myself and every <br>
+ sentience that I encounter; it means being the conscious evolution<br>
+ of consciousness. <br>
+ Opening space starts with inquiry and listening.
</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'>+++++++++++++++++++ <br>
<br>
At times, I am part of gatherings coming together for inspired work and play.<br>
<br>
At such gatherings certain patterns appear. Here are some I have noticed:<br>
<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Invite </span></b>ALL: I, as host (often with
other hosts), invite people to gather. We sit in a circle (or
circles) to show that all are welcome. AND maintain an attitude of
invitation throughout.<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Welcome</span></b>: Welcome whoever
comes; remind people that we are here with unseen beings, ancestors, Nature
presences, and, all of life. <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Speak/act from inner silence/listening</span></b>:
Invite people to listen inwardly and participate from that listening space in
whatever way each is guided.<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Take responsibility for what has heart and
meaning</span></b>. Acting from this place connects each individual with
the field. <br>
Hear, see, love myself and all: I invite people to hear, see and love each
other in any conversations they are drawn to, and I model that. <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Inquiry opens self to the field</span></b>:
I ask whatever question I am guided to (and/or that people were
invited to converse about), and invite each person to respond and introduce
self to group. <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>“the field” guides whatever comes
forward</span></b>: <br>
As each person follows what has heart and meaning: speaks, acts, sings, plays
music, draws, or offers whatever form of intelligence is guided, when
he/she deems it is optimal, the intelligent field emerges though conversation,
invitation to activity, whatever is optimal at any given moment. Ease is
the hallmark of such emergence.<br>
“Yes” opens space: If offerings are received with
“yes?” or “yes...and?”, the life force flows. <br>
Disturbance or “no!” if received with a “yes”, is an
invitation to hear, see, and love the “no” sayers until the story
they are carrying is congruently told. <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To conclude</span></b>: Re-member the whole
circle, identify the question, <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Reflect</span></b>: ask for reflections in
order to allow the collective to evolve consciously (using a talking stick, if
guided to do so)<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Goodbye is an opening</span></b>: and
finally, invite any offerings to say/sing/move/”goodbye”, and open
to the next possibility.<br>
<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Exchange gifts</span></b>: As a member of a
learning community of practice, I also invite everyone to be part of a gift
exchange: I invite people to offer their gifts to assist others if a particular
activity has heart and meaning for them, and/or identify activities where they
would welcome the help of others in the community. <br>
<br>
To me, conversation is a communication medium of gift exchange (as are
drumming, mime, drawing, painting, mind-mapping, singing, toning, etc).<br>
<br>
That is my period of “Energy Flow”, AKA “Breathing
Out”.<br>
<br>
Energy Storage: <br>
I am also guided to be in periods of “Energy Storage” , AKA
“Breathing In”, during which I am mostly alone, listening to the
field, receiving information via art, movement, reading, etc. and guided to be
present with other-than-human entities with whom I share the planet, to learn
from and listen to them.<br>
<br>
The rhythm of “breathing in” via energy storage, and
“breathing out” via energy flow is my current practice.<br>
<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>What is your practice? AND what would
you like to share about your being, doing, learning???</span></b></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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