<div dir="ltr">Dear friends and colleagues in open space,<div>I am not sure if I picked up this point correctly or if my own filters brought me to a perception that is not what was talked about.</div><div><br></div><div>I only wanted to add that from my perception of who we are, everything is spirit. The old perception of spirit and nature, or spirit and matter, as separate, doesn't seem to hold. Now, spirit vibrating at different frequencies makes sense to me. And when I open space for spirit to do the work of spirit, I have the sense that this is a bit arrogant. Does Spirit really need me to open space....I don't think so. It may be true that when I open space for spirit to do the work of spirit, it is only to create awareness in the people involved of Spirit at work.</div><div><br></div><div>Years ago, when I began my experimenting with what is now called the Genuine Contact Organization (my initial name for it was the Conscious Open Space Organization) I was amazed at how beautifully Open Space Technology always worked. I found that it worked because it opened a window of awareness to what actually was so, what was occuring, what was present.....every time.</div><div><br></div><div>Blessings to all...and to all for whom you open space,</div><div>Birgitt<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 4:23 AM Jan Hoglund via OSList <<a href="mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org">oslist@lists.openspacetech.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p>Michael M Pannwitz wrote May 21, 2017:</p>
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Yes! Two other references that come to my mind in relation to this are:</div>
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1) "The Battle for the Life and Beauty of the Earth: A Struggle Between Two World-Systems" by Christopher Alexander</div>
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<span>Christopher Alexander states directly that ”we will not be able to make a living world, unless we put in place entirely new kinds of human organization and new operational assumptions, which … encourage beauty, health, and genuine humanity to be achieved”
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2) "Freedom to Live: The Robert Hartman Story" by Robert Hartman<br>
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<span>Robert Hartman writes that the ”danger that threatens life” is the ”tremendous gap between those who think in terms of human values and those who think in the collective terms of non-human systems” (p.124).</span></div>
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