Replying to LO29769 --
Barry writes,
>I think the oldest company in the world can be found in Japan - a metal
>fabricator? Sword smith? History teaches us everything and nothing.
>Perhaps the questions is where do we stand in relation to events, their
>planning, execution and outcomes?
>Warmest regards for health and peace in the New Year,
>Barry
Well we could play that game of 'scissors', 'paper' and 'stone'...you can
be 'scissors' Barry, and I will be 'paper' -- because I used to work for
the Oxford University Press, which I think is about 500 years old. Now
then, who here at LO can be 'stone' - we'll need a 'mason' ;-) or a
'carpenter' maybe...;-)
Apropos Stalin and his ilk - I was reviewing for my own selfish reasons a
paper by Joseph Jaworski not long ago, he touched on 'evil' in his paper
-- maybe just me sensing it there -- by coincidence I was also reading a
paper of Billy Budd as a paradigm in the context of leadership -- for me
there was a powerful connection between us as 'being' and us as
'becomings' -- within the same tapestry I did write to Margaret Wheatley
to ask her about some things concerning our inability to do good, despite
ourselves, my reference then being something in St John's gospel -- and
she felt that in her experience this was a great mystery, the difficulty
of doing a true 'good' (No man is good, didn't Jesus of Nazareth say?
Didn't he say, even 'I' cannot do good, only (my Father) can do good.' I
spent part of last year studying the wisdom of the desert fathers, St.
Anthony being the first, I believe - suffering many temptations. There was
one desert father, he returned and it was recounted of him that people
came from all over not to listen to him, with him, but simply to be in his
presence. That fascinated me Barry. It fascinated me because it seems to
fit with what I have been trying to learn from dr. peter beamish and his
work on time, Time and TIME and RBC...RBC is about the gaps, the spaces,
the small deaths (?), the complement to Darwin's unfinished business in
the world...it is a place of 'low stress', it is a place of the
superliminal (?) what Jaworski terms synchronicity. The deepest foundation
of which is unconditional love 'agape' -- For Leyton at Rutgers I think
some of this is about light and interval and about lines, very fragile
lines - about a deepness of becoming-being that makes the cloud of
unknowing ;-) reveal the deepest part of Us <We> Thou...you'll know my
recent paper on yellow, leptons gluons and quarks that i related to the
face of God from Dante's Divine Comedy illustrations (illuminations) in
which there is surely a place for the yellowness of Goethe;-)...we need
the shroud, cloud in order ;-) to bring form to the fundamentals ;-) this
is of course a metaphor for the field, it was in the field i dound the
pearl and now i cannot stop wandering through time, Time and TIME in
search of the place for the collapse, the tomb, as we know ;-) what for
the 'grub' is death is to the (Master) the butterfly. (Flutterby)
I think we may approach a time soon enough when 'good' men and women seek
nothing but 'death', their own. I often wonder at what form it will take.
That's a very radical things to write isn't it Barry. Leyton wrote
something that fascinates me, he wrote that it is possible to think at a
level at which those thoughts become reality. That is a terrible thought
in the best sense of the word. I think great scientists and artists and
spiritual leaders know this in a way we can only guess at. I think such
thinking comes from much dying. I am sorry for the confusion, I wrote this
'a la prima' - is that how one writes it ;-)
Love,
Andrew
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