Larry--
I suspect that is what Alexander is saying. In effect, the individual
center and the whole give each other life. He speaks of nesting a
couple
of places, but I have yet to figure out exactly what he means by
it. It
is almost like the light in the projector and the image on the screen
appear at the same time. (There are no really good metaphors.) But in
this case, the image on the screen helps give life/light to the
projector!
Have not studied the integral perspective, so I am not sure I am
catching your meaning, or responding appropriately, Larry.
:- Doug.
On Fri, 2009-06-12 at 10:07 -0400, Larry Peterson wrote:
Yes and! An integral perspective suggests that the individual, the
group, the behaviour and the interrelationships are all
constituent of
who we are and the reality that we are part of in every moment.
Larry
Larry Peterson & Associates in Transformation
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Wendy Farmer-O'Neil
Sent: June-12-09 1:56 AM
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Subject: [OSLIST] Fwd: [OSLIST] helping the whole
Circles of Belonging, Doug.
Don't we feel most alive when we know we are truly
significant? That our existence matters essentially to
another? We can only see that truly reflected in the eyes of
our community.
Explains modern existential angst. Without true community and
a way to find our place in it--we find life deadened, numbing,
meaningless. Same is mirrored in organizations. We have
largely managed (all puns intended) to engineer an inhuman
context for ourselves.
Re-membering and re-claiming the skills and patterns of
connecting to the whole is a vital process for our future. We
will know we have arrived when, as Harrison has recently
pointed out, OST is just one of the ways we do things. I
believe the deep inner resonance for this sense of one's place
in the whole is what many people experience and enjoy about
open space.
thanks for all these great quotes. I've wanted to read his
work for so long. This is a real treat.
hugs,
Wendy
On 11-Jun-09, at 8:04 PM, douglas germann wrote:
Hi--
Another evocative piece from Christopher Alexander:
It is their presence in the whole, and the fact that they are
helping the life of the whole, which gives them their
individual life....Italics in original. Christopher Alexander,
The Nature of Order: An Essay on the Art of Building and The
Nature of the Universe, Book One: The Phenomenon of Life, p
431
What I am seeing here as an inside-out truth, is that in a
group we do not lend the group our individual life, it goes
somewhat the other way round about. What gives us our
individual existence and life is our presence in the group,
our helping of the group; in turn the others helping the group
give us life. We intensify each other.
Can this be true?
:- Doug.
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