Larry--
I suspect that is what Alexander is saying. In effect, the individual
center and the whole give each other life. He speaks of nesting a couple
of places, but I have yet to figure out exactly what he means by it. It
is almost like the light in the projector and the image on the screen
appear at the same time. (There are no really good metaphors.) But in
this case, the image on the screen helps give life/light to the
projector!
Have not studied the integral perspective, so I am not sure I am
catching your meaning, or responding appropriately, Larry.
:- Doug.
On Fri, 2009-06-12 at 10:07 -0400, Larry Peterson wrote:
> Yes and! An integral perspective suggests that the individual, the
> group, the behaviour and the interrelationships are all constituent of
> who we are and the reality that we are part of in every moment.
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> Circles of Belonging, Doug.
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> Don't we feel most alive when we know we are truly
> significant? That our existence matters essentially to
> another? We can only see that truly reflected in the eyes of
> our community.
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> Explains modern existential angst. Without true community and
> a way to find our place in it--we find life deadened, numbing,
> meaningless. Same is mirrored in organizations. We have
> largely managed (all puns intended) to engineer an inhuman
> context for ourselves.
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> Re-membering and re-claiming the skills and patterns of
> connecting to the whole is a vital process for our future. We
> will know we have arrived when, as Harrison has recently
> pointed out, OST is just one of the ways we do things. I
> believe the deep inner resonance for this sense of one's place
> in the whole is what many people experience and enjoy about
> open space.
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> thanks for all these great quotes. I've wanted to read his
> work for so long. This is a real treat.
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> On 11-Jun-09, at 8:04 PM, douglas germann wrote:
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> Another evocative piece from Christopher Alexander:
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> It is their presence in the whole, and the fact that they are
> helping the life of the whole, which gives them their
> individual life....Italics in original. Christopher Alexander,
> The Nature of Order: An Essay on the Art of Building and The
> Nature of the Universe, Book One: The Phenomenon of Life, p
> 431
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> What I am seeing here as an inside-out truth, is that in a
> group we do not lend the group our individual life, it goes
> somewhat the other way round about. What gives us our
> individual existence and life is our presence in the group,
> our helping of the group; in turn the others helping the group
> give us life. We intensify each other.
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> Can this be true?
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