[Oe List ...] RS-1 Friday night conversation

[A.M. Noel]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DORIS HAHN
A.M. Noel
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On Wed, Sep 11, 2019 at 3:24 AM Mary Kurian D'Souza via OE <
oe at lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:

> Funny
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On 10-Sep-2019, at 4:23 AM, James Wiegel via OE <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net>
> wrote:
>
> I probably overthought this Randy . . .
>
> RS-1 . . .
>
>  which I took on US Thanksgiving weekend of 1966, in room B at 3444 West
> Congress Parkway, (and repeated a number of times including learning how to
> teach the course — I took a RS-1 Pedagogy course sometime in the spring of
> 1967) . . .
>
> Shifted my image of how to participate — in life, in the world, with other
> people —from being a part of the audience to something much more active and
> responsible — a  pushy, adventurous and thrilling way of being.
>
> Shifted my image of what was happening at my time in history — from a kind
> of naive uneasiness and upset to an appreciation of the wonder and
> significance of my time in history — that this was a revolutionary time to
> be alive
>
> Sharpened my image of my being as a Christian from a lot of bits and
> pieces of Bible verses and hymns and creeds all generally aimed at having
> me be a well-behaved person to a sharper, more focused gestalt that gave me
> images of how of God, Christ, Holy Spirit, Slice of Life, Church showed up
> in my life and challenged my living — these many pieces that were wandering
> around in my consciousness came together sharply — and this was all about a
> deeper consciousness of what life is all about.  I had a kind of picture of
> what each of these was pointing to in my life — not just something someone
> told me, but I had had to wrestle with and come up with something.
>
> I also got a broadened image of who might be involved in this — I remember
> one of the teachers I am not sure who, it might have been Jack Barringer
> who was talking in what to me was a southern accent, and it made me nervous
> and a little afraid of what I might have gotten myself into.  Not to
> mention the funny bowls of cream of wheat that were served along with
> scrambled eggs and which the person next to me ate by putting salt and
> pepper on them
>
> What got me was the way it was done — first, the whole setting was
> designed to communicate — room set up, teacher’s roles, the gong, worship
> set up, etc.  second the cycle of conversation that raised issues with my
> life, a lecture that set a context background and then study and a seminar
> where I /we the participants had to grapple with making sense of something
> and grounding it in our experience.  Third was the surrounding fabric that
> reinforced the course in so many ways — from the meal introductions “I have
> a friend named Socrates who says there are 2 kinds of people in the world —
> there are pigs and persons . . . Let us be self-conscious persons this
> weekend” to the study method “Number the paragraphs . .”  All my life I had
> been told not to write in books . .  The group method, the art forms . . .
> The little lecture introductions, the role of art, the poems “I was so
> weary of the world”. I think it was Frank Hilliard who read “How Beastly
> the Bourgeois is” and he held the book by a corner between thumb and
> forefinger and at the end of the poem just dropped it like a crumpled bit
> of trash.  And Mimi Shinn (I think) was the hostess and she was the only
> one who was nice to me.
>
>
> With Respect,
> Jim Wiegel
>
> On Sep 6, 2019, at 8:39 AM, Randy Williams <randycw1938 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Jim,
> I think you’re probably correct. What would you say were some of the more
> important image shifts that occurred in RS-1?
> Randy
>
> On Sep 6, 2019, at 10:38 AM, James Wiegel via OE <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net>
> wrote:
>
> I don’t remember the part about arguing with the participants during the
> Friday dinner conversation.  I got thinking about this because the Archive
> group was recently reviewing the Imaginal Education collection in the
> archive website and it occurred to me that I think the RS-1 course was the
> best and most refined example of imaginal education that we ever came up
> with . . .
>
> Here is a link to some additional remembrances of RS-1.
> https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUk2c_1SJ0s82ALQvVkg5VLcDiUxrEmrs
>
>
> With Respect,
> Jim Wiegel
>
> On Sep 6, 2019, at 6:52 AM, Margaret Aiseayew via OE <
> oe at lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
>
> I remember telling the group at my first RS-1 that what grounded me in
> history was that I was an Iowa farm girl.  Whoever was leading tried to
> argue with me and I argued that they knew nothing about electricity.  (My
> farmer father had spent evenings wiring houses and as kids my brother and I
> often went with him.)  My grounding in history has never changed, even as
> much as most of my other thinking did in response to that event.
>
>
>
> *From:* OE [mailto:oe-bounces at lists.wedgeblade.net
> <oe-bounces at lists.wedgeblade.net>] *On Behalf Of *Jann McGuire via OE
> *Sent:* Thursday, September 5, 2019 6:11 PM
> *To:* Order Ecumenical Community
> *Cc:* Jann McGuire
> *Subject:* [Oe List ...] RS-1 Friday night conversation
>
>
>
> Jim, I'm neurotic enough to still have my RS-1 file folders. The Friday
> evening conversation was 1) full name and one thing that grounds in history
> (I remember not understanding exactly what that meant.)
>
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> 2) First name and book.
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> 3) First name and movie.
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> 4 ) First name and one pressing concern.
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