Hi Raffi I've been lurking on this list for a while. I enjoy your passion and enthusiasm... And what I experience as your relentless curiousity. I connect with this as I value it too.
I guess relating to coming into OST as a cost is one possibility. Another, and the one I am more inclined towards at this moment is to connect it to "my emerging self, my health, my wholeness and humanity". The anxiety I experience in this points to the fact I am alive. This is a good thing I think, to be aware of being alive, in fact I like it a lot. Before my family showed up I spent a lot of time rock climbing, less mountains and more interesting faces in various places a round the world. Early on in my rock climbing career someone once said to me " (in rock climbing) achievement of any level of mastery is an accomplishment to be celebrated"... I carried this with me and came to enjoy simply making a move which flowed with the rock and flexed my developing skills. These little sign posts of progress are also significant events in and of themselves. Sometimes I would eventually find myself standing atop the face feeling euphoric and other times I would have the thrilling experience of peeling into space knowing that at that time at I done all that my current level of mastery allowed. Sometimes the moment of popping off would be quite surprising and other times I'd feel the anxiety/fear of it approaching as I ran out of gas. And I kept coming back for more. Thanks for reconnecting me to this. And bringing me out of lurk-space. Andy On 8/9/05 12:14 AM, "Raffi Aftandelian" <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes, Open Space Technology is free. It's available for all of us. But, > there is a cost, a frighteningly huge cost: > > If we choose to take that fork in the road with the sign "OST and the open > space of > life," it ultimately means taking the path to that great mountain in > the distance with a snow-capped summit engulfed in fog called > "our self, our health, our wholeness." > > I have found that path very strange, often scary, unpredictable, > and unpleasant, and wonderful. And probably once one chooses that > path, there is no turning back. > > -raffi > > mailto:[email protected] > > * > * > ========================================================== > [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
