<div>Hiya Harrison.</div>
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<div>Happy that you're not offended by our undertaking!</div>
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<div>Maybe it's different on your side of the pond, but Paul and I have both, separately, noticed the worrying extent to which OS certainly has become a dogma over here, sometimes along with the words "Harrison Owen" says. (I must put my hand up to having done that many times.) We both feel that OS has become somewhat arthritic, and overdue for a rethink.</div>
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<div>What you say is perfectly true, and I agree wholeheartedly ... although I'm personaly keen on conversation that precipitates action ... but all too often it's very different on the ground.</div>
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<div>Big thanks for your support and encouragement. We'll keep you posted. Steve the Doc has already signed up for the Skype option.</div>
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<div>Very best,</div>
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<div>Jack</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">2008/4/30 Harrison Owen <<a href="mailto:hhowen@verizon.net">hhowen@verizon.net</a>>:<br>
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<p><font face="Arial" color="red" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: red; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Sounds like a marvelous under taking, but I am not sure about all this "Dogma" business. Dogma in my lexicon is a whole bunch of stuff that you have to do/believe. My experience with OST is that it is all about thinking of one more thing NOT to do – or believe. The end of the line, or indeed the next iteration, would involve doing nothing at all, and where "belief" translated into pure experience. You were just "there" in that present moment being fully what you (we) already were – full, conscious, passionate, responsible human beings. My experience with most of the 2<sup>nd</sup> Generation Open Spaces is that they seem to involve more and different doing and believing. To my eyes this seems to be going in the wrong direction. But what do I know? Have fun!!</span></font></p>
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