At 11:41 AM 8/27/2001 -0700, you wrote:
there are a number of recurring themes that are consistent with the thoughts shared by both of you. Certainly the idea of Gaia consciousness, proposed by several leading thinkers, including Gregory Bateson, is one. Another, Meme theory (info at <http://www.memes.org.uk/meme-lab/WELCOME.HTM>http://www.memes.org.uk/meme-lab/WELCOME.HTM ) offers an explanation that some find useful and interesting. If "Open Space" (as a practice and philosophy) can be transmitted from person to person as a virus of the mind, replicating both practice and philosophy through the minds it infects, then it could be considered a "meme." That would infer that you, Harrison, may share something in common with Typhoid Mary. (-; However, the virus you so widely spread can certainly be considered beneficial rather than destructive.
Me and Typhfoid Mary... Great. ho Harrison Owen 7808 River Falls Drive Potomac, MD 20854 USA phone 301-469-9269 fax 301-983-9314 Summer Phone 207-763-3261 Summer Address 189 Beaucaire Ave. Camden, ME 04843 Personal website www.mindspring.com/~owenhh Open Space Institute website www.openspaceworld.org Open Space Training www.openspaceworld.com
