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Bohm 1996
On Communication |
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| Need awareness of what blocks our ability to understand each other and make something in common |
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a stream of meaning flowing among us, throught us, between us vs. "discussion" which breaks things up. In a dialogue, nobody tries to "win."
Attempts to look at thoughts behind assumptions
Crucial: does not decide what to do about anything
Start with suspending assumptions and becomming aware of thought (proprioception)
Collective change more significant than individual change |
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Bohm 1996
The problem and the paradox |
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Problems don't describe psychological phenomena well. Paradox does.
We can not think objectively about ourselves.
[cf. Heiffetz, "get on the balcony"] |
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Bohm 1996
The observer and the observed |
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Our assumptions function as observers
Both observer and observed function as one cycle.
That which is hidden in the self-observer will never be found by self. |
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Bohm 1996
Participatory Thought and the Unlimited |
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Participatory thought includes awareness of connection to other things - almost Plato-like: the seal is an emination of The One Seal.
Objectification ignores participatory thinking and dehumanizes persons.
Focuses on the unlimited rather than the limited. |
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not as limited as thought
has the potential to grasp the unlimited |
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Cannot be forced
can only drop incoherence |
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From Latin commun
To make something common. |
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based on shared meanings
incoherent meanings lead to incoherent culture |
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to make something in common
attempts to change the way the thought process occurs |
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Result of modern thinking
breaks things into bits |
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| occurs when intention and results do not agree |
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| A small group of people representing various subcultures |
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both to take from the source and to contribure
[cf. Servant Leadership] |
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Awareness of thought
All human problems derive from a lack of this |
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Models of the world that result from thoughts
thoughts create their own "facts"
Perception presents something and thought represents it in abstraction |
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sensing that something is happening
the way you and others respond
differences and similiarities
foundations of perception |
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First step in dialogue
Getting outside of an emotion or event |
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| Inherently limited and not objective |
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| Physicist and key source for Wheatley |
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Bohm 1996
Leaderless society? |
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"Now the whole of society has been organized to believe that we can't function without leaders. But maybe we can.
That's the suggestion" |
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Bohm 1996
Self-sustaining systems |
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Anger may have a specific reason/cause, but once it builds to rage/hate, it becomes self-sustaining. Likewise fear has a cause, but panic becomes self sustaining.
[cf. Wheatley's self-organizing systems] |
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Bohm 1996
3 dimensions of the human |
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Individual
Collective
Cosmic |
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