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The teller draws out, educes, from the hearer something she knows. But also more, for our hearer assimilates what the teller wishes, and accommodates herself to the outside pattern coming from him, shifts the pattern to say music. Making speaks to sensing, sensing bends speaking in response. From whence the patterns of a moiré?

:- Doug.

Let us enter a space set aside through the gate of silence.

:- Doug.

What might we do to create a bounded sacred space for our conversation, a temenos? Here exceptional events might freely happen. Light a candle, turn down the outside light? Remove the cell phones? Clear the space? Remove the table or sit back from it? Set out two plain clear glasses of water and see into them? Call in the sacred, the set apart, the silent? Tune attention? Attend body and breath, stomach, legs and fingers?

:- Doug.

Try nonsense conversations: speak in sing-song gibberish. A child learning his toes, play with your verbal instrument for tone, volume, speed, rhythm, percussion, intent, friendliness, animosity, anger, calm, enunciation, impeccability. . . .

:- Doug.

Why is the focus of focusing on pathology? Can it be applied to expand imagination or spirituality? Could it develop conversations and meetings?

:- Doug.