Good morning from an America where I, at least, feel like I can
breathe with relief...
Also this morning comes news of the death of Marilyn Ferguson, author
of The Aquarian Conspiracy. She was 70 and apparently died of a heart
attack.
In 1983, I attended the first Organization Transformation Symposium in
New Hampshire (USA), organized by Harrison and a batch of deliciously
crazy co-conspirators (people who breathe together) known as The
Washington Group. The hope, vision, and sense of possibility
expressed in Ferguson's book combined as organizing vision and
principles for many of us gathered there. We talked about it a lot.
We longed to be people who could help bring this "new age" about. We
sought to live up to its ideals. One man even wore a small pendant on
a chain around his neck that represented in silver the symbol for
connection, unity, diversity in oneness that graced the book's cover.
We were in love with the idea of possibility Ferguson described as
much as with the possibility itself. Those were heady, dreamy days.
I know some of you were there, too. The conference was a turning
point in my life.
On some universal plane, I believe Marilyn Fergsuon's thinking and
writing somehow pre-saged open space and the realm of possibilities
open space always allows. And thanks to Harrison and his brilliant
martini-fueled concoctions, we have all become part of one grand
conspiracy – which is what self-organization and wave riding may be
all about. No?
Good-bye, Marilyn, and thank you. Hellooo-ooo open space....
Ralph Copleman
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