I stumbled over these words, from American poet Robert Duncan, discussing his poetics. He says "Poems are for me only occaisions of Poetry, of coming into this consciousness of things as potentials for making a universe real -- celebrating, is it? or evoking? Of singing and dancing What Is."
For me, OST meetings are occaisions of Open Space, where Open Space comes into a collective consciousness and is rendered real. And it is celebration, and evociation, a song and a dance of "What Is." i use the term "technology" but I suppose I could equally use "teleology" in that OST renders clear the natural design of the Open Space of the universe. In understand the need to differentiate the two, although I am at the same time sympathetic to both those who find the line so blurry as to be useless, as well as those who find the words downright cumbersome. Harrison warns people in the User's Guide, that if one gets more than a few OST meetings under one's belt, one begins to feel the need to change one's life. I think this is because in doing OST we become aware that we are simply manifesting something else, a set of values and laws and principles that underlie everything. The more OST ones does, the more aware one becomes of living in OS. And beofre I end this message, I would just like to say that anyone who is still confused, or perhaps more confused, should go and visit Michael Hermann's website and read through his online journal of living in OS. I don't have the URL handy, but there's a link to it on my webpage below my signature. Michael is showing us that OST meetings are indeed occasions of OS, and that OS manifests itself in many many other ways. Chris -- CHRIS CORRIGAN Consultation - Facilitation Open Space Technology 108-1035 Pacific Street Vancouver BC V6E 4G7 Phone: 604.683.3080 Fax: 604.683.3036 [email protected] http://www.geocities.com/chris_corrigan * * ========================================================== [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected] Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html =========================================================== [email protected] To subscribe, 1. Visit: http://www.egroups.com/group/oslist 2. Sign up -- provide an email address, and choose a login ID and password 3. Click on "Subscribe" and follow the instructions To unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected]: 1. Visit: http://www.egroups.com/group/oslist 2. Sign in and Proceed
