In a message dated 6/9/2005 7:58:38 P.M. Central Standard Time, d...@innergy.ca writes:
I never thought of these as "open space" but now that I look at it, I suppose they are. duff Reading this brought an experience to mind that I would now call open space. It was a Native American pipe circle held in a buffalo field (we went to Janesville, WI, to pay homage to a white buffalo calf born there). We first stood in an open circle, one person walked it silently as we smudged (sweet grass burning in an abalone shell; we drew the smoke towards ourselves while this person holding it fanned it to us with a feather), then we sat and passed a pipe, again, silently. The pipe held some kind of tobacco but nothing hallucinogenic (more sweet grass? I'm not really sure). Afterwards when we were mingling and talking I saw into another's eyes deeper than I ever had (with anyone - I did not even know this person). I remember thinking, "why is he letting me look so far in?" So maybe open space works even when the communication is not in words? * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist
