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written and compiled by R. Moon
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The Quantum Edge ExtraOrdinary Listening Dialogue Network
Introduction
Through my experience I form a concept. The concept or meaning I create is different from everyone else’s. From my concept I form a description. My description embodies my unique point of view. My concept does not accurately describe ‘What is going on’. My description less so.
I share these as points on a map. If you can accept the limitations of this description, it can begin a Dialogue to share meaning and deepen our understanding of the study.
Dialogue in Three Easy Lessons
Induction The focus of attention
Inquiry The recognition of attraction Inquiry
Relevation Listening to the whisperings Relevation
Induction Feel where you are Induction
Inquiry Non-resistant relationship Inquiry
Relevation Share who you are Relevation
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SOME GUIDELINES THAT MAY BE USEFUL
IN OPENING THE DOOR TO INQUIRY AND DISCOVERY
THROUGH THE ART OF DIALOGUE
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Maintain a State of Wonder
EXPLORE DIALOGUE AS AN UNFOLDING PROCESS
EXPLORE WHERE THE KNOWN MEETS THE UNKNOWN
Inquire together to suspend opinions and assumptions
Seek a state of mind open to new experiences and learning
Dialogue repeats less what you know and more explores what you are learning
The more collegial the atmosphere we create, the more we are able to share mind power, less energy is lost to friction
Dialogue experiments with awareness to recognize how we pay attention
Dialogue seeks direct experience not based on image or history
Recognize familiar tracks of thought and seek the bounds of perception
A tolerance for ambiguity explores new pathways
Coherent thought coherent intelligence
Dialogue explores ‘two directional communication’
‘listen as intently whether you are speaking or listening’
Two way conversation listening as you speak
As an exercise in maintaining a relationship to the whole,
speak to everyone in the group
Without making it out there or separating from it
Relevation means allowing what is relevant to elevate into consciousness
Shared Inquiry
Shared experience that creates culture
Presence
Informed by a larger process.
Develops and expresses a reverie.
Inquiry and the power of collective intelligence
Full of Wonder
The (leading) edge of the unknown
The mystery
Divergent
Collegiality
Facilitation
Suspension of assumptions
Self – Reflexivity
Indicators indicate patterns – efforting, agreeing/disagreeing, defending, time conscious, communicating out there
Equal Attention to Process and Content – Attention to process is developed by not giving value to one thing over another
Fragmented Awareness
Awareness of the whole
Intense energy of listening
Attention to how we form meaning
Collective intelligence
Thinking together and speaking together
Intense energy of listening to others and oneself speak what feels most essential and true at each moment.
Meaning through disciplined attention.
Awareness of our thought processes.
How we make meaning and the implications of human meaning and valuing.
Attention to experience thinking beyond opinions and assumptions.
Direct experiencing and continual inquiry versus accepting old concepts and descriptions unquestioned.
Forming of one’s deepest and most immediate experiencing.
Inter-play between perception and meaning.
Seeing the building blocks of our personalities and dissolving the glue to allow a more consciously created human experience.
The door to not knowing.
Speaking from a state of mind body unity.
No distance between you and your words.
Awareness beyond habitual thought patterns
Seeing and thinking in new ways
Thinking as distinct from thoughts
Feelings as distinct from felts
Thinking develops thoughts. When we operate out of thought we function out of past knowing. Dialogue catalyzes the movement from thought into thinking, movement from assuming we know to an exploration of the unknown, a shift from knower to learner. Dialogue illuminates the limitations of incoherent thought.
David Bohm, On Dialogue
“Our thought is incoherent,
when it does not produce what we intend
The purpose if there can be said to be one,
might be stated as;
we come together to learn to talk together
and to think together
Shared meaning is the basis of culture
We absorb a great deal of that meaning unconsciously at the tacit level.
I’m suggesting that there is the possibility for a transformation of the nature of consciousness, both individually and collectively, and that whether this can be solved culturally and socially depends on dialogue. That’s what were exploring.
‘intense energy’ of listening ‘freedom from self protective reservations and barriers’
a stream of meaning flowing among and through and between us; . . . out of which will emerge some
new understanding.
It’s something creative. And this shared meaning is the glue’ or cement’ that holds people and societies together
we are not playing a game against each other but with each other. In a dialogue everybody wins.
David Bohm, On Dialogue
“All who are joined in a genuine dialogue need not actually speak; those who keep silent can on occasion be especially important. But each must be determined not to withdraw when the course of the conversation makes it proper for him to say what he has to say. No one, of course, can know in advance what he has to say; genuine dialogue cannot be arranged beforehand. It has indeed its basic order from the beginning, but nothing can be determined, the course is of the spirit, and some discover what they have to say only when they catch the call of the spirit.”
Buber, Martin
1965, The Knowledge of Man
New York Harper and Row
“The map is not the territory.
The map does not represent the whole territory.
The map points to the mapper and their interaction with the territory.”
Korzybski
The Quantum Edge ExtraOrdinary Listening Dialogue Network
This is an experiment in whether this information would have value for people exploring dialogue. Please forward any feedback.
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