Doug, Thanks for the feedback.
I've played with a number of ways to name the quadrants. (In part because it was only after the fact that I realized that what I'd laid out looked a lot like Wilber's work.) Receptive/Active, Chaos/Order, Feminine/Masculine, Divergence/Convergence, Being/Doing are a few of the ways to describe this territory. I think you're right about my the quadrants in the diagram called "The Work" being inverted from the rest. I was playing with whether it was collective/individual or individual/collective for a while. Interesting your question about widening the gap leading to greater emergence. I can see how the picture takes you there. So, I'm curious what you see in this. For me, it is increasing divergence that leads to greater emergence. I think greater diversity and a juicy, ambitious question creates the conditions for greater divergence. This creates more opportunities for the resonance of discovering the personal is universal -- emergence. I was just making room for the fact that something happens in that space where being/doing, individual/collective intersect. That's where the spirit/action is. And Wilber's model misses it completely. Peggy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Douglas D. Germann, Sr." <76066....@compuserve.com> To: <osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu> Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 7:34 PM Subject: [OSLIST] The Dynamics of Emergence > Peggy-- > > I love it! > > The same question, how to say what "The Work" is, has been on my heart a > lot (and not just lately!). > > Your changing the focus of Wilber's hemispheres from inner and outer to > reflection and action seem meaningful to me--and they seem to extend the > conversation. > > In your last diagram, it looks to me as if you have swapped the UL and LL > quadrants, so that here the upper seems to refer to the individual. At > least "Let go of the need for immediate answers" seems to me more an > individual item of reflection, while "welcome silence in the collective" > actually is explicitly about the collective. > > And "naming the patterns" seems to me less open than it could be. Perhaps > something in the direction of Gurdjieff--"Notice the patterns and ask, > 'What's this?'" > > Could you say more about how you see widening the gap between reflection > and action leading to more emergence? This seems key to me.... > > :-Doug. > Seeking people making change. > > * > * > ========================================================== > osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu > ------------------------------ > To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, > view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: > http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html > > To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: > http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist > * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist