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To live is
response
traffic
dance
aha
shift
transcendence
fields
kaleidoscope
emergence

:- Doug.

There is nothing over there. There is only conversation between.

:- Doug.

We are not asked to seek forgiveness over and over. We are not asked to seek for the G*d who is present, who converses. We are asked to live out that love and wholeness. We do that over and over because life is a breathing kaleidoscope.

:- Doug.

To our good friends–

The past few days my thinking has been going toward the idea of emergence: what does it mean in human interaction?

We OS people see the magic, but people are afraid of magick (which they think is what we mean). They think it is not replicable. The fact is it is replicable, but the precise outcomes are not predictable. That there will be outcomes is sure. Or is it?

But is it predictable that the outcomes will be good?

It seems to me that if you have good heads and good hearts going in, the results will be good. As my friend Philip Thomas says, let’s examine the alternative: have we been getting good results with what we have been trying?

So it is worth our while to try something new to see if we can do better. And we ought to do better because A. we have more brains brought to bear, and B. the people who implement are the people who come up with the plan so it is more likely to be implemented, and C. implemented according to plan. Is that true?

But we also need to account for the magic, the emergence, yes?

Something unpredictable does happen. If it were predictable and obvious we’d be doing it already, given that we are not brain dead. If it were predictable and obvious we could read the book and follow the recipe and we’d have a perfect soufflé every time, yes?

Is it indeed unpredictability we are after?

That scares us because we…what? Because we don’t trust the people. Why do we lack trust?

Because we have never given people their heads let alone their hearts? We don’t know them?

The first time I had a Tootsie-Roll Pop, when I got to the center I thought it was rotten and I threw it out. I did not know. Later, I found out it was simply another kind of sweet.

So what is emergence? What do we know about it? What can we yet learn? What is the edge of our unknowing?

:- Doug.

In our collaborative times it takes more than one to make the world better. But with two or three…?

:- Doug.

Is this what presence is: the in between? We stand in presence, it does not emanate from us, it is not in us, but we in it. And only We. Presence does not exist for just one person, but takes two who then become the one presence.

Can I say that more clearly? Do we have a field of potential presence about us, and when this field crosses the field of another, then presence becomes actual? This presence lasts only as long as we are together either physically or otherwise. It is a bubble which pops and sprays us with its magic. Sprays us and those about us and our fields of potential presence all. So it has a residual that then works in the meeting-presence of another event.

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 733

Trees have a few simple rules:
Go up
Go to light
Roots other
Wise

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Take care that action not be a waste of life time. Meeting is the real.

:- Doug.

We are hardwired to seek intimacy.

:- Doug.

Remember “In the beginning was the word?”
G*d spoke, expecting answers.

:- Doug.

The more deeply we live
the more deeply we want to

:- Doug.

We cannot both be present
and have a way to be present
Being present is the way
I am is the way

:- Doug.

When you don’t know what to say
Say nothing
Pause
Wait
See what emerges
from between
people

:- Doug.

Intricacy generates good
justice arises from complexity
From people coming together
clarity emerges before seeing

:- Doug.

What needs to change? What do you want to change? Find someone and converse about these.

:- Doug.

The hardest thing in the world is to tell the truth
The easiest is to tell the truth
It is hardest because it won’t let you go
It is easiest because all you have to do is let go
Hardest because you hide from it
Because you have to let go of your whole self
Easiest because it seeks you
Because it is everywhere to embrace you

:- Doug.

What are you praying about these days? Writing poetry about? If you were a poet what would you write about? Find someone and converse about these.

:- Doug.

Love is the desire for relation. More than that, love is the action of relation.

:- Doug.

To our good friends–

Like it or not, admit it or not, this is what even business is about: reaching for the reaching back. Make it larger. Wanting to hold my land and all that touches it. It may be mis-apprehended, but it is the base of the greed (greed is daughter to love?!), and of the desire to conquer and subdue (fear is daughter to love? shadow to love?). Apprehension then is a reaching for the reaching back, but often forgets that what is primary is the reach back, not the grasp. We are therefore not even here to serve one another: bedrock is the need to be touched. Are you therefore only touched with the gold of another’s purse, or their being? What do you really need, a mansion or to be respected, apprehended for who you are?

Yes, I am striking at the very base of the tree grafted to the root of modern business. But business could move back to its root and grow stronger on the main stem of that root. What might that be? I do not know; that is for people to grow themselves. What it seems to me is the idea of helping one another on a wide scale: creating wealth and health and prosperity for humanity. This is the root of business: humanity.

:- Doug.

It is time to move beyond the vicarious intimacy of TV, radio, music and plays to the real: living our own, writing and singing our own.

:- Doug.

To our good friends–

In beginning is reciprocity. In fact, beginning is reciprocity. Buber says that first comes the desire for relation. This is reciprocity, this is love. G*d is love, G*d is reciprocity. From this all creation flows. It must flow from this: reciprocity births emergence. This is what Chris Corrigan speaks of (# 65): “our own capacities to connect and create emergence with others….” Emergence happens from the primary desire to relate, to be part. We long to be part of another, one another, a larger whole. This is our deepest, most primal longing. To be intimate.

We are reaching for the reaching back. This is why it was necessary that G*d create creation. It is inevitable. Creation, that is bringing forth the reaching back, emanates from the reaching forth. Primal is love. It is urge and necessity. It is truth. By reaching forth the reaching back sprang—and ever springs—forth toward G*d.

Why does there have to be anything, any G*d, is a mystery. Perhaps there is no necessity to it at all. But when there is one, this one must be love, this one must be a reaching for the reaching back.

It is happening now, this springing forth, this reaching for you—and more than that, reaching for us. Reaching for intimacy as action, reaching out, reaching out, embracing, seeking wider embracing.

:- Doug.

Between
is reciprocal
and the reciprocal is of G-d
and the reciprocal is G-d
all things emerge through the reciprocal
and without the reciprocal does not anything
emerge
in the reciprocal is life
and the life is the light of humankind
the light shines now in the darkness
and the darkness does not apprehend the light

:- Doug.

Our beginning is
reaching for
the reaching back
all flows from here

:- Doug.