Thank you Paul for changing the subject!
Your comment made me think of this rather large mural image from a
stairwell in Evergreen State College, in Olympia, Washington.
I discovered this image during the Art of Participatory Leadership
<http://www.emergingwisdom.net/AOPLWA/> workshop there last November. I
grabbed the photo, part of a 1979 project there called "The Dragon
Wall". As I was in the area, I also visited Anne Stadler to get more of
the creation story of the Open Space community, especially around the
amazing Spirited Work project which was a 6 year practice 1999-2005 of
living in Open Space 24/7/365, and including a quarterly multi-day Open
Space Technology event near Seattle:
http://www.collectivewisdominitiative.org/papers/stadler_reflections.htm
The nuclear phoenix image inspired some of what Anne and I spoke about.
I video taped most of her reflections, which I hope to make available at
a future date.
The interesting thing about the Internet was that it was created to
survive a nuclear holocaust. The Internet is designed to be multiply
redundant and decentralized so that information can be automatically
rerouted, even if massive segments fail.
I recall many nuclear explosion nightmares from the 1980's onward when I
was old enough to really understand the annihilation we were facing. In
many ways, that threat is still there, though perhaps morphed into
financial collapse, climate catastrophe, and a technological robotics
nightmare apocalypse. Or maybe just completely losing any sense of
knowing what comes next.
In some ways, I wonder about Open Space Technology being a child of the
Cold War, and having a similar level of redundancy and resilience as the
Internet. And being able to help us through this global civilization
passage rite (thank you Daniel Mezick for that understanding!)
But I think Paul may be on to something. If we burned all our OSList
records, I sense indeed that Open Space would very much rise again like
a Phoenix. Perhaps we can metaphorically do so - without actually
encouraging barbarian hoards and similar groups that burned the ancient
libraries in Alexandria, or torched Willhelm Reich's research studies in
the 1950's, etc.
Paul's musings on remaking Open Space Technology fresh and new inspires
me greatly - and I believe his thinking will be very much part of the
next phase of Open Space. Highly recommend folks check him out!
https://rationalmadness.wordpress.com/treasures/open-space-realm/
Harold
<http://www.collectivewisdominitiative.org/papers/stadler_reflections.htm>
On 3/25/15 2:49 PM, paul levy wrote:
Am I the only one who thinks we should burn the whole lot and make a
Phoenix ?
Yours
Paul
On Tuesday, 24 March 2015, Harold Shinsato via OSList
<oslist@lists.openspacetech.org
<mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org>> wrote:
Wow, can't believe I'm finally reporting success. The messages are
all there and searchable. And it seems linkable. But the index
only goes back 3000 messages. So you need to use the search if you
want older messages. Below is more explanation, and a link back to
the first 1996 OSLIST messages.
Regards,
Harold
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Harold Shinsato
har...@shinsato.com <mailto:har...@shinsato.com>
http://shinsato.com
twitter: @hajush <http://twitter.com/hajush>
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