What do you think? keep inviting the conversations, and encourage others to invite the conversations... then we have brought about one more step of conscious evolution.
www.ashleycoop.blogspot.com > [Original Message] > From: Douglas D. Germann, Sr. <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Date: 7/17/2004 2:37:22 PM > Subject: Is there a need to hold space for people to ask the question, "what' > > Zelle-- > > Thought-provoking, you! Thank you Zelle. > > My thinking has been going in a slightly different direction recently, and > that prompts the way I replied to you previously, and now. > > It is becoming clearer to me that we are on a path of evolution, and that > the next steps are to consciously evolve the species called humankind, and > in my view, toward what is good, life-enhancing, beauty. To go one step > further, evolution is leading us to do this together. Conversation is the > main tool I see to make this happen. Meg Wheatley says Conversation is how > we humans think together. I would add, evolve together. This is why it > seems clear to me that Harrison is seeing OST as a halfway technology: it > is on the way to conscious evolution. Perhaps more on that later. > > So what I see in society is a process of breathing. One person comes up > with a wonderful new idea. He or She takes it to the group (1 or more other > people, with or without the benefit of OST), and it either dies or grows > there. If it lives, then several people take it back home and noodle on it. > Then they come back to the group, and maybe it is the same group and maybe > it is many groups. If it is something which adds to life, life evolves. > > If we could but get intentional about it.... <sigh> > > That's what our conversation is about, isn't it--getting intentional about > evolving humankind? > > So long way around the barn to respond directly to what you have noticed! > When you see people getting empassioned in an OST, and then losing that > passion as they go back to the "real" world, what I see is this: They have > been in a group of engaged, responsible, passionate people. Then they go > back to the cocoon/cubicle in their corporation. That is when the despair > sets in. > > And as Harrison says, that despair is what we want to see, where we want to > lead people. For once they are that far in the grief process, then they may > be open to the question, What are you going to do for the rest of your > life? > > So yes, we do need death. We need to get past the stuff we need to get rid > of, to make space (open space) for the birth of our life. > > I am beginning to see that the passion and responsibility of the individual > is indeed limited, but that of the group, being connected to the open > space, is practically, if not totally, infinite. And so if we keep people > connected to the open space, which means keep inviting the conversations, > then we have brought about one more step of conscious evolution. > > What do you think? > > :-Doug. > Seeking people making change. > > * > * > ========================================================== > [email protected] > ------------------------------ > To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, > view the archives of [email protected]: > http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html > > To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: > http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected]: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist
