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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'>Julie – The words sound great. But I am a little curious. </span><span style='color:#4F81BD'>Adi Da Samraj says, “The billions of humankind must become <u>self-organized</u>. The Global Cooperative Forum is the means for <u>self-organizing</u> the total population of humankind into an effective single voice that can simply say how things <u>are</u> going to be.” <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#4F81BD'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#4F81BD'>Funny thing. I thought we were all self organizing.</span><span style='font-family:Wingdings;color:#4F81BD'>J</span><span style='color:#4F81BD'> Granted, we are not doing it very well, and resisting a whole lot. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#4F81BD'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#4F81BD'>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'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><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></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><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>Julie Smith<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, April 16, 2013 11:22 AM<br><b>To:</b> World wide Open Space Technology email list<br><b>Subject:</b> [OSList] global self-organizing<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:purple'>Dear all ~</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:purple'>I've been doing some research related to self-organizing and have been inspired by the posts and links offered here. I also continue to find inspiration in the self-organizing principles and practices of Open Space Technology. I would like to offer some passages related to self-organizing from <i>Not-Two <u>Is</u> Peace</i> by World-Friend. <span class=apple-style-span>Many of these passages refer to the Global Cooperative Forum. This is the mechanism Adi Da Samraj calls humanity to manifest as a necessary aspect of a global self-organizing system. I've pulled sentences and paragraphs that specifically point to self-organization. The book in its entirety is available online at <a href="http://da-peace.org">da-peace.org</a> or can be purchased from Amazon or elsewhere.</span></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Optima","serif";color:purple'>"The purpose of the Global Cooperative Forum is to ensure that the totality of humankind, or everybody-all-at-once, is participating in a global political reality, and demonstrating the self-organizing means for making it right and keeping it right."</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Optima","serif";color:purple'>"....The only power that can deal with these powers that are on the verge of destroying the Earth-world is everybody-all-at-once--meaning not merely mob power, but a new cooperative system for dealing with issues."</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Optima","serif";color:purple'>"The role of the Global Cooperative Forum is to replace the absence of systematic responsibility with the presence of systematic order and integrity--a system that is self-governing, self-organizing, self-correcting, and self-rightening."</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Optima","serif";color:purple'>"There must be an entirely new structuring of the human domain, and also a process wherein that entirely new structure can actually be given birth."</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Optima","serif";color:purple'>"The old order will insist on its own persistence. And, so, it is a matter of the old order getting up one morning and finding out that there is a Global Cooperative Forum instead."</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Optima","serif";color:purple'> "Fundamental (or all-rightening) change cannot be caused. However, fundamental change can <u>happen</u>--as a spontaneous (and all-transforming, or all-reforming) self-conversion. Also, the necessary self-conversion that is required for fundamental change to occur can, itself, be <u>enabled</u> to happen--not by causing it as effect (as if it were already not-existing, and, therefore, needs to be "created out of nothing"), but, most simply and directly, by re-empowering the self-organizing integrity and prior unity of the inherently egoless everybody-all-at-once that <u>already</u> <u>exists</u>.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Optima","serif";color:purple'> It will not be the role-playing of "virtuous speaking" that brings about the necessary fundamental change. Calling everybody to change does not cause them to change. Those who are already moved to do right do not need to be told to do so--and, no matter how much advice and admonition they are given, those who are not inclined to do right are not going to "change their act".</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Optima","serif";color:purple'> If there is going to be fundamental all-rightening change, something has to <u>require</u> change. Therefore, the world as a whole must be enabled to require change. It is an acausal matter--not a causal matter.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Optima","serif";color:purple'> The billions of humankind must become <u>self-organized</u>. The Global Cooperative Forum is the means for <u>self-organizing</u> the total population of humankind into an effective single voice that can simply say how things <u>are</u> going to be."</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Optima","serif";color:purple'>"The inherent collective and prior union that is the "everybody-all-at-once" is inherently egoless, self-organizing, indivisible, and cooperative. The human world is currently populated (and self-fragmented) by billions of egos--all deluded by various kinds of influences, and all dreaming of the idea of being able (and even of having the necessity) to fulfill their accumulated desires. However, in actuality, the world-all-at-once is an inherently egoless happening."</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Optima","serif";color:purple'>"Unless they are specifically prevented from doing so, <u>all</u> systems will spontaneously righten themselves. The universe is a self-organizing, self-correcting, and self-rightening process. <u>All</u> systems are self-organizing, self-correcting, and self-rightening--unless something interferes with the self-organizing, self-correcting, and self-rightening process. The current power-structures in the human world are actually preventing the self-organizing, self-correcting, and self-rightening process of humankind from happening."</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Optima","serif";color:purple'>"Humankind must organize itself. No "one" can organize it. Humankind must, as a whole, animate the self-organizing force that is inherent in all integrated systems. The self-organizing, self-correcting, and self-rightening force inherent in humankind as an indivisible whole--and not any particular individual or group of individuals--is what must emerge as the Global Cooperative Forum I am proposing to all."</span><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Optima","serif";color:purple'>Love,</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Optima","serif";color:purple'>Julie</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Optima","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>