Learning by Touring LO19582

AM de Lange (amdelange@gold.up.ac.za)
Wed, 21 Oct 1998 20:51:10 +0200

Replying to LO19530 --

Dear Organlearners,

Winfried Dressler <winfried.dressler@voith.de> writes:

>a warm welcome back to the list, At.

Greetings Winfried,

Thank you very much.

>I can feel a littlebit of this shock within myself after
>reading your mail. It is not the first time, that I hear
>about the situation in Africa and not the first warning,
>that it will have a severe impact on the rest of the world
>soon. But this still makes me tired. It is not that I fear
>the impact, I just feel too small und too helpless.

I have not even written on the immense deforestation in Southern
Africa and the "ebola corridor" and how it influences the weather in
Namibia, Botswana and South Africa. If I do, you people will begin to
study your weather reports much more carefully rather than coining
severe climatic changes to El Nino.

Winfried, please do not feel too small and hopeless. Our solution is
for humanity to emerge into a new era of creativity. That it will
happen, I am sure of. Our task is to reduce the immergences which will
be associated with it too a minimum. As you have written further on,
we will have to protect ourselves.

>Thus there is a need to protect oneself effectively.
>As you already mentioned while introducing the
>essentiality fruitfulness: People have invented many
>means to avoid destructive connections. While thinking
>about protection, I think we can learn a lot by looking at
>the art of Aikido: Give a hurting intention an immediate
>feedback, that makes clear without hurting the other,
>that the attack was unsuccessfull. Then a dialogue may
>follow to establish a contructive connection.

>I am wondering, what you think about the issue of protection.

I agree with you on Aikido. I have seen how my children have learnt
this in karate. Afterwards, my one eldest son learnt this lesson once
more again in wrestling which provides for a different context.

People are really beginning to protect themselves by intuitively
employing the five elementary sustainers of creativity: dialogue,
exemplar-studying, game-playing, problem-solving and art-expressing.
They flock in their tens of thousands to gatherings where these
sustainers play a role.

Here is an example concerning my granddaughter. (If you wonder why my
daughter, single parent, got her telephone only last Wednesday, just
the following. Me and wife try to maintain our children's earlier
learning, they being adults now, to guard their independance
jealously.) Let us call the story the

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DISCOVERING DIALOGUE BY PHONE

My daughter (Jessica's mother, single) got for the first time ever a
telephone last Wednesday. That day at the nursery school Jessica
memorised the telephone numbers of a number of her friends. At noon
she began phoning like an experienced telephonist, having a dialogue
with each of her friends. She even phoned five times to our own house,
each time wanting to speak to a different person. Her mother phoned me
and told me all about it, quite proud but also annoyed at the expense
of the calls.

The next day I had to fetch Jessica at the nursery school. I asked her
if she knows how much a call costs. She said no. I said to her that if
she makes four calls, they will cost as much as a bar of chocolate.
She became quite pail and said to me in a soft voice: "I will have to
be more careful about the money side."

The next afternoon her mother had to fetch her because on Fridays I
work until late at the university. About ten o'clock that evening the
telephone rang. I answered with my usual "Hello, De Lange speaking",
expecting my dear wife to warn me: "Have you forgotten that you have a
house also?"

A tender voice said:"Hello, may I speak to my grandfather." When I
told her that it was her grandfather speaking, she began telling me as
usual all what had happened that day at the nursery school. I could
sense her longing for dialogue. She told me that she was saving her
call that day for me. She even asked me what I was doing on the
computer, asking me if I made sure that I saved what I had been
working on before she contacted me. I was really surprised at how
carefully she observed all my computer habits at home. I nearly fell
off my chair when she warned me "Grandfather, you have a home. Go home
before grandmother calls you, asking you if you have forgotten it."
The next day my daughter told me that Jessica asked her my telephone
number only once when she fetched her. That was 5 o'clock the
afternoon. She remembered this seven digit figure for five hours to
satisfy her need for dialogue, had the guts to wait until 10 o'clock
and then do what her grandmother often does.
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Winfried, I suddenly remember something having to do with protection
and related to your thread on the five elements of Chinese teaching in
healing. Our only tool against viral diseases is our immunology
system. Antibiotics or other medicine help nothing, except for
secondary infections. Our white blood cells produces immunoglobules
which renders the virus ineffective by digesting its outer "sheaf".
This one molecular layer "sheaf" protect its only contents, a small
string of DNA helix. The immonuglobules "digest" this layer away, thus
making the DNA bare, ineffective and vulnerable.

The big surprise for you ought to be that there are FIVE types of
immunoglobules in the human species. When the person gets infected by
a new virus, the white blood cells read the unique molecular structure
of its "sheaf" and immediately begin to produce for one of these five
types a new, more complex version of it which has the ability to
digest this new "sheaf". The complexer version has a extra piece added
to it by way of an emergence. The "fuel" which the white blood cells
need to keep them emergently active, ready for any emergency, is
nothing else than the simplest of all vitamins, namely ascorbic acid
(Vit C).

This is also what happens when we participate in these five sustainers
of creativity. Each time when we participate in a new case for a
sustainer, we have the opportunity to learn a new way how to protect
ourselves. The real problem begins when the virus is AIDS, when it
attacks exactly that part of the DNA in one of all our chromosomes
which commands the white bloods do do their job. The virus adds its
own tiny piece of DNA into this important piece of our own DNA. Thus
the new mutated white blood cells do not know anymore what to do. Our
Systems Thinking is the "DNA of our soul". What we have to try and
discover before it is too late, is the "spiritual AIDS" which will
paralyze the "immunology of our soul" -- which will cause even the
five sustainers of creativity to lose their protective power.

What is this "spiritual AIDS"? I have a suspicion, but maybe it is
better to read your ideas about it.

Best wishes

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At de Lange <amdelange@gold.up.ac.za> Snailmail: A M de Lange Gold Fields Computer Centre Faculty of Science - University of Pretoria Pretoria 0001 - Rep of South Africa

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