Replying to LO29530 --
New subject: "Learning to see"
Replying to LO --
Dear At, hello reader,
Thanks for the suggested links. I've some work to do, so I'll be unable to
look into them shortly. The notion of "blindness to wholeness" seems
interesting. I would suggest that we're not blind to wholeness, but just
rather slow in our perceptions. We're myopic. And no wonder, we're small
and this is a big universe. It takes time for us - and for the universe -
to learn how to behave, to deal with wholeness. And is it a necessary
condition for survival? Do we need wholeness in the here and now, hear and
wow? Nope, so understanding is slow in developing and there was no
priority to develop the wholistic sense organs. Evolution is an
opportunistic force without vision and purpose.
Perhaps we should write a book: "The Sixth Sense - The Art and Practice of
the Evolving Organisations" And off course a Fieldbook.
Take care,
Jan
AM de Lange wrote:
>Just out of curiosity I decided to use Google's advance search engine
>with
> evolving organisations
>to see what Internet has on it. I got 377 hits which surprised me. I
>studied a few dozen of them, but little worthwhile came up. Perhaps
>fellow learners may have a look at
>< http://users.wmin.ac.uk/~coakese/knowledge/bit98.htm >
>< http://www.venturemagazine.co.uk/highlights/0103/05-evolving.html >
>which is about the best which i could uncover before getting tired.
>
>
>What is an organisation when it is blind to wholeness and thus cannot
>be a learning, living or evolving organisation? Perhaps it is a
>"dying organisation". Again out of curiosity, i searched Internet for
>"dying organisation". I got 62 hits! From them it is clear that nobody
>want to belong to a "dying organisation". How can an organisation
>without wholeness prevent its dying? I think by the many external
>support systems which it makes use of. Its like a patient in an ICU.
>The person would have died were it not for all the external support
>systems keeping him/her alive. Perhaps it is these external support
>systems which make people blind to wholeness. Is it not that they
>give us improper sensations by which wholeness cannot "creep into
>us"? I do not know for sure, but i have my hunches.
>
>I would like a dialogue on this "blindness to wholeness" very much.
--Drs J.C. Lelie (Jan, MSc MBA) facilitator mind@work
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