Replying to LO25783 --
Dear Organlearners,
Judy Tal <judyt@netvision.net.il> writes:
>Reading your contribution At, and being "well-read" in
>your previous writings on various subjects, I observed
>your unique authenticity in showing appreciation. I noticed
>it many times in the past, but only after reading this last
>mail, had I realized what stands behind it.
Greetings Judy,
I will allow me two short notes:
Thank you for your appreciation.
>Authenticity in showing appreciation follows from a
>persistent search for a meaningful expression. Such
>persistence can be gained only when one is convinced
>that there is always something original to be found in
>every creation, and thus, one undertakes all the effort
>it takes to find it.
In cell biology a deep insight emerged the past twenty years. All animal
cells (insects, fish, birds, mammals), despite their incredible genetic
diversity, have a common gene with the code MYC which tell the cell: live
or die. Any irrreversible damage to any of the cell's organelles or
nucelus tells the cell via this gene to die. In cancerous cells this gene
is uncapable to give the cuicide message. It is not yet clear what
"chemical substance(s)" convey this message. Knowing this out to bring a
crucial breakthrough in cancer therapy.
It is possible to make a tissue culture of any kind of plant or animal
cell using an appropiate nutritionous medium. The cells multiply and grow
sually in clumbs/aggregates together. But it is possible to divide the
cells so that they have to live singly. Now, for perhaps the most curious
observation in cell biology ever. Should the concentration of single,
animal cells in the medium be so low that they are far from each other,
all the individual living cells soon die. Should one clumb of living
animal cells be placed among them, this clumb itself does not die. In
other words, living animals cells need living animal cells close to them
in order for the gene MYC to keep them alive, i.e to prevent the MYC gene
to issue a death wish. Living animal cells needs to commute closely.
It seems to be very much the same for humans on the spiritual level.
Should they not live close together, many isolated humans seem to become
destructively creative. But should they "commute closely" with each other,
many seem to become constructively creative again. Showing appreciation is
a kind of commutation which keeps us spiritually alive. Showing care is
another kind of close commutation. Two of the five LO disciplines may also
apply here.
I think the difference between an Ordinary Organisation (OO) and a
Learning Organisation (LO) is this "close commutation" in the LO which
keeps its members spiritually alive. It means that when any OO of whatever
kind wants to emerge into a corresponding LO, it must overcome this
spiritual isolation so as to stop giving death signals. In other words,
the metanoia or "density of spirituality" is much greater in a LO than in
its corresponding OO.
Let us commute much closer the coming last days of this year in
appreciation, care, Team Learning and Shared Vision so as to experience
what it is to become spiritually alive, switching off the message for
destructive creativity.
--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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