Hi Ralph,
i loved your question. And i have been sitting with it and reflecting
on it through a number of lenses. And i suppose my experience and
deep belief, is that much like everything else, the questioning is
also self-organizing and doesn't arise until the consciousness that is
ready to respond to it has also arisen. Now, of course, consciousness
expands in response to challenges. And so OS might certainly be one
of those challenges, both individually and culturally.
And i hear you also asking if OS could be seen as threatening?
Possibly. Probably. The forces that have driven evolution throughout
time have tended to be pretty threatening to those experiencing them.
Space is always opening everywhere all the time. What we are learning
about evolutionary change is that is not only a slow, iterative,
incremental process, but can also be an incredibly rapid,
revolutionary process. And we know what revolutionary change looks
like. One of the remarkable things about the time we are living in,
is that perhaps for the first time in this planet's history, an
organism is aware that it is evolving and is also an active
participant in the forces that are shaping that evolution. Which
makes this time as exciting as hell to live in (assuming, of course,
that you find hell exciting and not simply terrifying).
So yah, some theologies/ideologies/values systems will find the
concept of self-organization and the experience of OS more threatening
than others. (They are the ones that don't invite you back and tell
others in town not to work with you 'cause you do that weird circle
thing...). I think that most of the folks who encounter OS experience
it in alignment with their own level of consciousness and find their
own way of making sense of the questions it evokes. They experience
what they have the mind and heart and body and soul to experience.
It's all about perspective.
We who open space deliberately are not timid folk.
Some might even say we're peace-full revolutionaries. (slow and
knowing wink)
Keeping the faith in chaos and conflict,
Blessings,
Wendy
"The purpose of conflict is harmony." Terry Dobson Sensei
On 17-Feb-09, at 12:01 PM, Ralph Copleman wrote:
On Feb 17, 2009, at 2:00 AM, Harrison wrote:
Well now you have really stepped in it! And for sure you got your
response!
(Well, I didn't wade in completely blindly, I hope.)
Thanks, everyone, for this dialogue. I guess I knew many of us here
see creation as a self-organizing event, as I believe. My real
question is not about what WE think but what others whom we ask to
operate in open space might experience. Cognitive dissonance?
Religious doubt? Fear? A sense of being shaken to the core?
Is open space not a threat to some established orders? Am I
exaggerating the impact of a world/culture of space opening
everywhere all the time?
We know that once people step into the space, it works, and they get
it and enjoy it. But if they sit down and think about it, might
they have some very interesting questions?
Ralph
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