At 08:28 AM 5/14/98 -0400, Larry Peterson wrote: >John: I would suggest that we are always in some sort of "flow state" -- >that is the process of life. I know that we talk about "flow" or being in >the "zone" as special kinds of states but I suggest they are heightened >versions of what is.
That makes sense. I do know, however, that the heightened version really feels drastically different -- like a whole brain state. When I used to race a car (1/4) mile, things that happened in only milliseconds seemed like they took hours to unfold. The information that I could feed back out from a tiny fraction of time exceeded what I could remember from the entire past week. It had the effect of expanding time and making more opportunity for choice, awareness and reflection. And it was indelibly stamped into my every fiber. I took a friend for a ride in the car once and he said it exploded down the track and the road got way too narrow to drive on. My recollection of the same ride was that it happened in slow motion and the track expanded. I wonder how experience and trust help reach high learning states -- maybe a sense of being in control too? > >I'm not quite sure why trying to find words from various places in our life >to describe what we are experiencing is "bad". Just as I believe there are >times when getting deeper than words, in silence is much more profound. > I'm not sure what you're getting to, but would like to understand. Could you expand a little to help me? In a message a few days ago, Tim talked about transpersonal states and moving through barriers. It reminds me of an airplane flying subsonic. To reach supersonic speeds, it must move through the transonic regime where the drag is high (in theory it is infinite, I think, but in practice it is just very high). The drag drops in supersonic flight. Flying transonic is tough. On commercial airliners the trick has always been to delay the high drag regime and increase the upper limit of subsonic flight. Kind of like being able to get closer to the edge of chaos without paying too high a penalty. In supersonic flight -- imaging flying faster than the sounds you are making. What is the parallel in organizational flight? In the high flow state we are flying faster than the "??????" we are making? Pondering..... John -- John Dicus | Cornerstone Consulting Associates Teamwork - Systems Thinking - Leadership Open Space - Action Learning - CourseWare http://www.ourfuture.com | mailto:[email protected] 800-773-8017 | 330-725-2728 (2729 fax) 2761 Stiegler Road, Valley City, OH 44280
