Replying to LO30565 --
Dear Organlearners,
Bill Harris <bill_harris@facilitatedsystems.com> wrote upon my:
>> ... You will undo all your good work
>> should you employ any kind of coercion rather
>> than relying on spontaneous responses.
>
>You wrote an important message most eloquently; I wanted
>particularly to highlight this most important and most difficult
>part. I found it was important to sit still and reflect until I "got it";
>only then did I begin to understand what I really had to do to
>facilitate development.
Greetings dear Bill,
I can still remember that almost 40 years ago, when i began to study
chemistry, i also found the distinction between spontaneous and forced
reactions difficult. For example, what criteria do we use to distinguish
between them? There is so much information that we may fail to recognise
the one and only one criterium which is essential. The system has to use
its own free energy to sustain its changes.
What the terrorists tried to do, is to change the American way of living
with the free energy coming from the aviation fuel of those four jet
liners. The same happens now in the Middle East with the free energy of
the bombs. Humankind has a recorded history of some 4000 years. It was
never possible to change people's minds with coercion fundamentally. Minds
can only change spontaneously by authetnic learning.
With care and best wishes
--At de Lange <amdelange@postino.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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