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color:#1F497D'>Yes and! An integral perspective suggests that the individual,
the group, the behaviour and the interrelationships are all constituent of who
we are and the reality that we are part of in every moment.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
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[mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Wendy Farmer-O'Neil<br>
<b>Sent:</b> June-12-09 1:56 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [OSLIST] Fwd: [OSLIST] helping the whole<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Circles of Belonging, Doug. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Don't we feel most alive when we know we are truly
significant? That our existence matters essentially to another? We
can only see that truly reflected in the eyes of our community. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Explains modern existential angst. Without true
community and a way to find our place in it--we find life deadened, numbing,
meaningless. Same is mirrored in organizations. We have largely
managed (all puns intended) to engineer an inhuman context for ourselves.
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<p class=MsoNormal>Re-membering and re-claiming the skills and patterns of
connecting to the whole is a vital process for our future. We will know
we have arrived when, as Harrison has recently pointed out, OST is just one of
the ways we do things. I believe the deep inner resonance for this sense
of one's place in the whole is what many people experience and enjoy about open
space.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>thanks for all these great quotes. I've wanted to read
his work for so long. This is a real treat.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>hugs,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Wendy<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>On 11-Jun-09, at 8:04 PM, douglas germann wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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Another evocative piece from Christopher Alexander:<br>
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<span style='color:black'>It is their presence in the whole, and the fact that
they are helping the life of the whole, <i>which gives them their individual
life</i></span>...<span style='color:black'>.Italics in original. Christopher
Alexander, <i>The Nature of Order: An Essay on the Art of Building and The
Nature of the Universe, Book One: The Phenomenon of Life</i>, p 431</span><br>
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What I am seeing here as an inside-out truth, is that in a group we do not lend
the group our individual life, it goes somewhat the other way round about. What
gives us our individual existence and life is our presence in the group, our
helping of the group; in turn the others helping the group give us life. We
intensify each other.<br>
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Can this be true?<br>
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