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Two new websites of interest to Open Space Technology practitioners and friends. First, my friend Lisa Heft has finally got her consulting practice website up and running. After being in business for 30 years, she really knows what she is talking about and she is one of my all time favourite space openers. She has taught me, more than anything, how to model enthusiasm and cherish participants.
Also, my other California friend (and close friend of Lisa) Jeff Aitken, has just launched his own weblog which is going to rock you. Jeff’s blog impresses me with his ability to hold a multiplicity of worldviews all spinning together at the same time. Jewish, Celtic, Hopi, Buddhist, Hindu, Grateful Dead, all swirl together in a stew of emergent meaning. Dig it:
buddhist meditation. breathing from the belly for years. (don’t forget to do situps or the abs get soft, if you care.) koan practice: the ten thousand things return to one; to what does the one return?
recovering indigenous mind. here’s a boggling ride. walk back the migrations of your ancestors, literally, right back to the center of their tribal ceremonial worlds, leaving their traditional prayers and offerings all the way, asking permission from the ancestral spirits of every land you walk upon. learn their creation stories, follow their ceremonial cycles, speak their languages; find yourself re-woven (always were woven) into this original medicine. honor their migrations, grieve their colonizations, take a new name, stand around the fire with your new friends who never left this “immanent conversation” (kremer). the vast sweep of progress melts into the good mind of balance, here and now, our relations all around us. dew re-sonno dhys! shalom!
guru devotion. da is brilliant, but the devotional path is not my path. i did follow jerry garcia around for thirteen years, but we all knew that it wasn’t jerry, it was the fountain of fire that moved thru him and transported us thru strange and compelling worlds. no, i prefer the zen master who shows the truth — is the truth of course, but kinda steps aside from that dynamic. until saniel bonder came along. “lots of teachers want to make meditation popular… i want to make realization popular… to lift a sublime (my word) baby out of the murky (my word) bathwater” of the guru path. friends, this guy is onto something. waking down in mutuality: realizing our true nature as simultaneously infinite and finite, both Consciousness and our messy, embodied, quirky, neurotic individual selves. i’m on the bus; stay tuned.
He’s one of my very favourite embodiments of post-modern identity – holding open the reality of living within a multiply paradoxical identity. I’m tuned in. Welcome Jeff and Lisa!
