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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Kari – I am not sure what good my “footnotes” will do – if only because I tried to have as few such things as possible (One less thing to do!) – AND I think a nice feature might be a series of short quotes (with pictures?) from friends all over the world describing their experiences in Open Space. For some reason people seem to think that Open Space is only “some strange thing that happens “here”(wherever here is – Iceland for you). But as we all know, OS really is global. I have one friend who has been supporting opening space in Tibet with the monks. I don’t think she and her colleagues show up on OSLIST (which is doubtless true of most of our friends and colleagues) but the experience is real and fascinating. Without even thinking about it, I could add folks in just about every country I know. And I am sure you could too. Just a thought.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Harrison<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Harrison Owen<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>7808 River Falls Dr.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Potomac, MD 20854<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>USA<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>189 Beaucaire Ave. (summer)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Camden, Maine 04843<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Phone 301-365-2093<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>(summer) 207-763-3261<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><a href="www.openspaceworld.com%20"><span style='color:blue'>www.openspaceworld.com</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><a href="www.ho-image.com%20"><span style='color:blue'>www.ho-image.com</span></a> (Personal Website)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1F497D'>To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of OSLIST Go to:<a href="http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org"><span style='color:blue'>http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org [mailto:oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Kári Gunnarsson<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, February 20, 2013 4:41 AM<br><b>To:</b> World wide Open Space Technology email list<br><b>Subject:</b> [OSList] Opening space for desire and passion.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I have been reviewing materials for my open space webpage. As my search continue I am tempted to go to places for material that talk about the need to open space. And one of this materials is the need to open space for desire and passion to emerge.<o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I been looking at Esther Perel for my reading on desire. She first proposes the duality of wanting and having. If desire is to want then love is to have and it is difficult to want what you already have. Desire is fueled by longing and needs space. We need to open some space in our life's so that we can experience the emotion of longing.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Esther Perel found that there is an exception to only wanting what you don't have. That is the novelty in the mystery of open space, and that self sustaining radiance with confidence is desirable and sexy. Some partners say that they are most drawn to there partner when he (or she) is doing something that he is passionate about, when he is in his element.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>A comfortable distance with mysterious and elusive movements, like on the stage, brings mystery in the space that is the erotic. The passion rests in the novelty.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>In the mystical realm of eroticism there is a opposite, that is the trauma. In a town of Belgium holocaust survivors, there where two distinctive groups, those that did not die and those that came back to life. Those that did not come back to life lived there life tilted to the ground could not experience pleasure and could not trust. There lives where filled with vigilance, worry, anxiousness, insecurities. But those that came back to life where those that understood the erotic as the antidote to death. They know how to keep themselves alive with curiosity, discovery and play. Committed practice to open this space of play and the erotic is premeditated, willful, intentional with focus and presence. <br><br>With best greetings from Iceland<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Kári Gunnarsson <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.openspace.is/">http://www.openspace.is/</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>email: <a href="mailto:kari@openspace.is">kari@openspace.is</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>phone: +354 8645189<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div></body></html>