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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Jack,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Your chart is wonderful. I was wondering if
Training, Inc. might not be something that fills in that empty box in
training. As one who was sent to be a permeator in every location I was
ever assigned, popular preaching was my forte. I think sometimes it is the
most sustaining aspect of my work at the motel even today. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>(I had a fellow down for breakfast yesterday morning who
was talking about wondering if the job he was doing made a difference. I
explained to him that the difference we make is not something we are promised to
know in this lifetime. Told him a little story about having something
someone had appreciated revealed to me, and then mentioned letting others know
their impact on us. I said it was a gratitude thing. He left the
breakfast room a different person, smiling, laughing.)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>I didn't find the permeators guild work in the training
and I was a part of the social workers that worked in Fifth City. I am
certain that the teachers would have equivalent revelations to offer.
There was always, through permeation and fund raising, a strong connection of
our strategies to the larger world. It was like the seeds that are
scattered in springtime with weeping. I guess I am suggesting that this
continuous external engagement that brought data back into the community is an
essential piece to the research, demonstration and training process, If I
were working on triangles, I would name it a "that without which"
dynamic.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Forgive me in advance if this sounds like someone who
wants to make the form of their engagement year after year sound more important
than it was to the journey of the whole. Everyone has to have a story and
this is a big part of mine and I am sticking to it. Thanks for all your
efforts.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Love to Judi, Margaret</FONT></DIV>
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style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=icabombay@igc.org href="mailto:icabombay@igc.org">Jack Gilles</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=oe@lists.wedgeblade.net
href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net">Order Ecumenical Community</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, September 30, 2012 6:14
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Oe List ...] An Amazing Two
Days at ICA Chicago-Telling OurStory & The Global Archives</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>Herman,
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<DIV>It was a delight for us to have you there for two days. Your passion for
our "living legacy" is indeed the same we are doing in the Archives. We are
excited to be exploring with computer technologies on how we might make that a
reality. I did some adjustment on the screen you have sent out. Here it is. I
intend to develop a short description for each item which will be available in
a week. Someone mentioned our work on Popular Preaching and I'm still trying
to figure where that would go in the chart. We are interested in other areas
of our work that need to be included.</DIV>
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<DIV>Jack</DIV>
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<DIV>On Sep 30, 2012, at 6:40 PM, Herman Greene wrote:</DIV><BR
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">I spent what for me were an
amazing two days in <ST1:CITY w:st="on"><ST1:PLACE
w:st="on">Chicago</ST1:PLACE></ST1:CITY> last Thursday and Friday. I went
because Jack and Judy Gilles were working on the Global Archives and were
going to leave this morning, September 30. It was the only time I could get
to see them. <O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">I am finding a yearning to tell
our story and bring some of it forward. More particularly I miss working
with people who were formed out of the same fire as I was. I work with
activists, truly “Those Who Care,” but something is missing for me. It’s
primarily an interior aspect—that “die on the march” aspect, that “live the
mystery” aspect, that “the past is approved and the future is open (to be
created)” aspect, that “we can get anything down that is necessary” aspect,
that “we can drop everything and focus . . . and sacrifice” aspect,” that
“we can leave all our possessions behind” if need be
aspect.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">One could argue that the Marines
also create this kind of interior steel and discipline, but it is different.
(Actually the Marines might excel in honor of country and even willingness
to die, but it is still different.)<O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">I have only experienced this in
the Order. I know this has made me much of what I am and I have a yearning
to pass it on to others, especially as I realize my own age, 67, and see so
many colleagues passing away.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">So while a part of me thinks its
silly for grownups to be filing all the town meeting 76 event folders (and
all the work that goes into that), another part of me also claws back to
recover that past . . . for the future.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">What we were as the Order has
passed away (I mean in terms of being able to re-create it as it was again),
and all of those magnificent moments and events we created have passed away.
Yet there is an echo in the hallway that will not
stop.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">I will go into this more later,
but what past it is that I want to pass on is difficult to grasp. Is it the
Order, RSI, EI, <ST1:CITY w:st="on">ICA</ST1:CITY>, EI and <ST1:CITY
w:st="on">ICA</ST1:CITY>, all before Joe died (or in my case before 1975
when I left the Order), all up to today including the recent history of
<ST1:CITY w:st="on"><ST1:PLACE w:st="on">ICA</ST1:PLACE></ST1:CITY>? I have
some ideas, but they are not important for this email. All that’s important
now is that I was drawn back to <ST1:CITY w:st="on"><ST1:PLACE
w:st="on">Chicago</ST1:PLACE></ST1:CITY> to discuss, primarily with Jack,
how the spirit transformation part of who we were then (and inside are now)
can be transmitted to the future as we who experienced this grow older and
older and pass away.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">The “we” I am talking about is
those of us who carry a memory back of 50-55 years (other may have a
different time span) when it seems to me the really creative breakthroughs
occurred. I’m at the younger end of those who experienced that as adults (I
was 21 when I joined the Order in 1967). Now some may have joined in 1972 or
later and still have “gotten it,” but what I am talking about is something
that was gotten or it was not, back then. <O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">So we are a dying cohort and the
question has arisen for me whether there is something we still need to do
together? My answer is I think that if there is something that we still need
to do together it is to transmit that legacy as a living legacy for present
and future generations. Part of this is transmitting facts, part the
interior narrative, but most of all it is transmitting the timeless
spiritual reality we came to know and which has shaped our lives but this is
not easy because it is not a simple thing. It’s much more than just coming
out of an RS-1, or any other short even, inspired
<O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">I had many important moments of
understanding this past week in Chicago and felt tremendous gratitude for
what Marge Philbrook and colleagues have done on the archives, and for the
work Jack has done in thinking through how this can be a living legacy.
I<O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">In brief Jack and those who
workshopped with him, realized that its not just a matter of preserving the
past by putting facts in file cabinets and waiting for someone to want it,
but it is giving people a way of understanding what’s in the collection
(Jack uses the term “curation” like a museum curator) and applying that
material to the cutting edge issues of our time. What I especially
appreciated though was the attached chart in three formats, because it gave
me a way to grasp the entirety of what it is that we were/are/may need in
some fashion to pass on. <O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">In a certain sense the attached
chart overwhelms me because I thought there were a few key things like
“contextual ethics” and the RS-1 dynamic and a few other things that might
“really need to be” passed on . . . just a few key things. But now I
see it was “all of it”—a giant spiritual event and happening that unfolded
over many years and took many forms all of which were a single event. To
recreate this would require thousands of people in summer assemblies and a
new order and that is not going to happen. Yet I think there is something we
can do and need to do and which no one else can
do.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">So, in conclusion, I believe
there is something we still need to do together and that is to pass on a
living legacy. By distinguishing legacy from living legacy I meant this:
“Legacy” is preserving the past for its own sake. “Living legacy” is
recovering the past so that it might continue to transform the
future.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">The attached Accessions chart is
just a beginning. I know that Jack would like to receive your
suggestions.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">More
soon,<O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Herman<O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">_____________________________________________</SPAN></FONT></U><FONT
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Herman
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<P></P>Herman,<BR><BR>It was a delight for us to have you there for two days.
Your passion for our "living legacy" is indeed the same we are doing in the
Archives. We are excited to be exploring with computer technologies on how we
might make that a reality. I did some adjustment on the screen you have sent
out. Here it is. I intend to develop a short description for each item which
will be available in a week. Someone mentioned our work on Popular Preaching
and I'm still trying to figure where that would go in the chart. We are
interested in other areas of our work that need to be
included.<BR><BR>Jack<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>On Sep 30, 2012, at 6:40 PM, Herman
Greene wrote:<BR><BR>> I spent what for me were an amazing two days in
Chicago last Thursday and Friday. I went because Jack and Judy Gilles were
working on the Global Archives and were going to leave this morning, September
30. It was the only time I could get to see them.<BR>> <BR>> I am
finding a yearning to tell our story and bring some of it forward. More
particularly I miss working with people who were formed out of the same fire
as I was. I work with activists, truly “Those Who Care,” but something is
missing for me. It’s primarily an interior aspect—that “die on the march”
aspect, that “live the mystery” aspect, that “the past is approved and the
future is open (to be created)” aspect, that “we can get anything down that is
necessary” aspect, that “we can drop everything and focus . . . and sacrifice”
aspect,” that “we can leave all our possessions behind” if need be
aspect.<BR>> <BR>> One could argue that the Marines also create
this kind of interior steel and discipline, but it is different. (Actually the
Marines might excel in honor of country and even willingness to die, but it is
still different.)<BR>> <BR>> I have only experienced this in the
Order. I know this has made me much of what I am and I have a yearning to pass
it on to others, especially as I realize my own age, 67, and see so many
colleagues passing away.<BR>> <BR>> So while a part of me thinks
its silly for grownups to be filing all the town meeting 76 event folders (and
all the work that goes into that), another part of me also claws back to
recover that past . . . for the future.<BR>> <BR>> What we were as
the Order has passed away (I mean in terms of being able to re-create it as it
was again), and all of those magnificent moments and events we created have
passed away. Yet there is an echo in the hallway that will not
stop.<BR>> <BR>> I will go into this more later, but what past it
is that I want to pass on is difficult to grasp. Is it the Order, RSI, EI,
ICA, EI and ICA, all before Joe died (or in my case before 1975 when I left
the Order), all up to today including the recent history of ICA? I have some
ideas, but they are not important for this email. All that’s important now is
that I was drawn back to Chicago to discuss, primarily with Jack, how the
spirit transformation part of who we were then (and inside are now) can be
transmitted to the future as we who experienced this grow older and older and
pass away.<BR>> <BR>> The “we” I am talking about is those of us
who carry a memory back of 50-55 years (other may have a different time span)
when it seems to me the really creative breakthroughs occurred. I’m at the
younger end of those who experienced that as adults (I was 21 when I joined
the Order in 1967). Now some may have joined in 1972 or later and still have
“gotten it,” but what I am talking about is something that was gotten or it
was not, back then.<BR>> <BR>> So we are a dying cohort and the
question has arisen for me whether there is something we still need to do
together? My answer is I think that if there is something that we still need
to do together it is to transmit that legacy as a living legacy for present
and future generations. Part of this is transmitting facts, part the interior
narrative, but most of all it is transmitting the timeless spiritual reality
we came to know and which has shaped our lives but this is not easy because it
is not a simple thing. It’s much more than just coming out of an RS-1, or any
other short even, inspired<BR>> <BR>> I had many important moments
of understanding this past week in Chicago and felt tremendous gratitude for
what Marge Philbrook and colleagues have done on the archives, and for the
work Jack has done in thinking through how this can be a living legacy.
I<BR>> <BR>> In brief Jack and those who workshopped with him,
realized that its not just a matter of preserving the past by putting facts in
file cabinets and waiting for someone to want it, but it is giving people a
way of understanding what’s in the collection (Jack uses the term “curation”
like a museum curator) and applying that material to the cutting edge issues
of our time. What I especially appreciated though was the attached chart in
three formats, because it gave me a way to grasp the entirety of what it is
that we were/are/may need in some fashion to pass on.<BR>> <BR>>
In a certain sense the attached chart overwhelms me because I thought there
were a few key things like “contextual ethics” and the RS-1 dynamic and a few
other things that might “really need to be” passed on . . . just a few
key things. But now I see it was “all of it”—a giant spiritual event and
happening that unfolded over many years and took many forms all of which were
a single event. To recreate this would require thousands of people in summer
assemblies and a new order and that is not going to happen. Yet I think there
is something we can do and need to do and which no one else can
do.<BR>> <BR>> So, in conclusion, I believe there is something we
still need to do together and that is to pass on a living legacy. By
distinguishing legacy from living legacy I meant this: “Legacy” is preserving
the past for its own sake. “Living legacy” is recovering the past so that it
might continue to transform the future.<BR>> <BR>> The attached
Accessions chart is just a beginning. I know that Jack would like to receive
your suggestions.<BR>> <BR>> More soon,<BR>> <BR>>
Herman<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> <BR>>
<BR>> <BR>> _____________________________________________<BR>>
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(f)<BR>> Skype: hgreene-nc<BR>> hfgreene@mindspring.com<BR>>
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