Pat, this is wonderful!
Therese's story or one of Harrison's experiences speaks more to me of the serendipity aspect. Actually, I believe in the intelligence of creation to call into the mix those that should be there. In my believe system creation is ongoing and creation itself has the intelligence to create itself.
What I can say for certain based on my own experience is that being in open space is like making art. I may enter with assumptions, ideas and passions but I must be willing to let all of that go so that "it", the experience can become what it has come to be and I will experience the awesomeness of creation. I can participate in the becoming or not but I never feel like I can control it or even know it really. I am only a channel for the physical manifestation of creation becoming itself. I do think about being an ingredient in that becoming and decide what flavor I want to contribute. Do I want to be the emulsion that provides a matrix for all the flavors to suspend themselves in or do I want to be a chili and heat th! ings up while I flavor the broth. The flavor I add is up to me. I don't always like the soup so sometimes I chose to get out. I don't always like my own art work, clearly, it has not come in to being to communicate something to me. I try to be present in a way that will allow the work to get to the person who has the capacity to work with it. pat
Your words resonate very strongly for me--very close to my own experience and beliefs. I think that what you call serendipity, I call synchronicity. But I am loving how you have got me thinking about serendipity--it's a far more organic and human word. It has a wonderful onomatopoeia--a lovely combination of serenity and dipsy-doodling...really descriptive of what it's like to be in that space/way--a vast inner spaciousness and calm combined with a playfulness or playful willingness to engage with whatever emerges...an openness to accept the invitation of creation to do whatever work lies before us :) Thanks so much, Love, Wendy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pat Black" <patbl...@paulbunyan.net> To: <osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu> Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2005 7:21 PM Subject: leverage points
Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 12:50:38 -0600 From: Masud Sheikh <mashe...@cogeco.ca> Subject: Re: leverage points
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