Santa Barbara

2007-03-30 Thread Raffi Aftandelian
Hi all! Does anyone know of any spaceholders in the Santa Barbara (California, USA) area? I looked on openspaceworldmap.org, and nothing turned up. Please email me offlist at ra...@bk.ru or raffi_1...@yahoo.com Thank you, Raffi * * == osl

Re: Terrorized by terror -- Space closes

2007-03-30 Thread Harrison Owen
Something that Chris said caught my eye. "Phill Cass calls the "private voice of possibility" which emerges into the public consciousness. Suddenly we're not talking about the fearful aspects of a state run system of colonization, but rather a community owned and support enterprise to put the need

Re: Terrorized by terror -- Space closes

2007-03-30 Thread Michael Maranda
Considering the question of America the Fearful and Frightened, I dont think this is something that began 5.5 years ago. I enjoy the analogy of the dojo/dojang and the idea of going beyond the question of safety with respect to the spaces we open. I spend a fair amount of time thinking about th

Poem in your Pocket Day

2007-03-30 Thread Raffi Aftandelian
Hello spaceholders! Thank you Harrison and others for your thoughts on the fearosphere. Fear does have a way of creating the illusion of impossibility, but it also opens space unexpectedly for so much more. It unwittingly creates space for the Fool, who can tear down in an instant everything that

Shobha Kumar/Person/World Bank is out of the office.

2007-03-30 Thread Shobha Kumar
I will be out of the office starting 03/29/2007 and will not return until 04/02/2007. I will respond to your messages on my return. * * == osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu -- To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your

Re: Terrorized by terror -- Space closes

2007-03-30 Thread Chris Corrigan
I hear what you're saying Harrison and I think I'm in the same place as you. The idea of surfacing the private voice of possibility is that it overcomes the public voice of resignation and blame. The fearful aspects of what we have been calling "the phantom menace" (which are really just stories

Terrorized by terror - Space closes

2007-03-30 Thread Pat Black
I don't disagree with anything said on the subject of fear up to now but for me it the discussion is lacking some components and I am not sure myself what they are. Hopefully in my response I will unpack them. > "The culture of fear is like a genie that has been let out of its >bottle. It ac

Re: Terrorized by terror -- Space closes

2007-03-30 Thread Chris Corrigan
This is a wise response Wendy, about Open Space not being safe space but rather a space in which we can train with our fear. Many of us who are martial artists will know the experience of bringing your fear to the dojang (in Korean, the training gym, like the Japanese dojo) and practice it with p

Re: Terrorized by terror -- Space closes

2007-03-30 Thread Wendy Farmer-O'Neil
Dear Harrison, Thank you so much for starting this thread. Chris, your analogy of the hole in the bathtub is a very clear representation of what (little) we know about creating change in complex systems. Right now fear seems to be the primary attractor guiding the energy in the US system—and

Terrorized by terror -- Space closes

2007-03-30 Thread Harrison Owen
Zbigniew Brzezinski, National Security Advisor to Jimmy Carter, is usually over shadowed by Henry Kissinger, which is a shame, because the clarity and insight of Zbigniew is remarkable, I think. Case in point is his recent article, "Terrorized by the War on Terror." I bring all this up here because

Re: Terrorized by terror -- Space closes

2007-03-30 Thread Chris Corrigan
I have this strong sense that fear is like a whirlpool - we are drawn into its centre because of the forces of gravity, the viscosity of the water and the hole in the bottom of the bathtub. With nowhere else to go, the water goes down, and if we are water in this scenario, we are sucked somewhat