At 10:49 AM 10/4/01 +0100, Artur wrote:
In what concerns me, even if my "knowing" of OST has not changed, I tend to think that some of my ideas about it have been slightly "readjusted" this days. If we consider, as I do, that Harrison's Guide, and some of his other books, are the genuine OST, maybe one should question if when we try to summarize OST, or on the contrary to develop it, we are always taking the more fundamental concepts. I will come back to this some other day, as those are subjects that we can analyze with time (maybe after the next (prolonged) week end - as tomorrow will be holiday here -- in memory of the Republican revolution of 1910).
Artur -- and anybody else -- I think it is always import to remember (at least for me) that OST was the product of two Martinis, born out of frustration by way of a joke. That it is powerful, I cannot deny. And I confess to a certain pride of discovery -- not invention. However, at the end of the day it remains, in my mind, a simple vehicle to a much more profound and prior reality: The Power of Self-Organization. There is no magic in OST. And I am pretty sure there is no magic in Self-Organization, although for those of us who believe (or hope) that we or somebody did the organizing (is in charge) perhaps it looks like magic. So by all means, let's go as deeply as we can to understand the primal realities of our world. God knows, some deep thinking would be helpful at the moment. And I think when we go a little deeper we will discover that OST is just what it started out being -- a funny thing that happened along the way to our future -- the product of two Martinis, born out of frustration by way of a joke. Harrison
Harrison Owen
7808 River Falls Drive Potomac, MD 20854 USA phone 301-469-9269 fax 301-983-9314 Open Space Training www.openspaceworld.com Open Space Institute www.openspaceworld.org Personal website www.mindspring.com/~owenhh osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html
