No, Dear W.J., me thinks you remember it correctly. The “packaging” of what was originally “unprocessed”, save through grounded, raw life experience, resulted in a skimmed milk, albeit easily scale-able, replica-able and sale-able product. Mari
On Jul 12, 2025, at 12:38 PM, W. J. via OE <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
I don't often comment here, but I did review RS-1 in a Nutshell. My very precise memory is that "the big squeeze" image from teaching Bultmann starts with using the upward arrows to represent how we are thrust into life by a mysterious power, given care(s), longing (for the true and the beautiful, or just indefinite longing), the thirst for knowledge, and the desire to love (and to be loved, btw), thoughts and strength to work (toward solutions), and our struggle between duty and self-assertion. And the downward arrows to represent how each of those human propensities is limited or negated by the circumstances of life that we are given by that same mysterious power, including the torment of our guilt. So, was that the classic version of how to teach Bultmann, or did I somehow get it flat wrong for all these years (including teaching in the Academy)? And just who decided to flip that image upside down when they squeezed RS-1 Lite into a nutshell for facilitators? I may have some very vague wisps of memory of how this may have been discussed many years ago. Or possibly I'm just getting too old to worry about it now. Marshall Jones
On Wednesday, July 9, 2025 at 09:05:46 PM PDT, Nancy Trask via OE <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
Dear ones, Here’s my memory of the title of Larry’s contribution of the very brief RS-1 story, “The 44-Second RS-1,” and I thought it was said by JWM. It clearly saved a lot of time—just 44 seconds rather than 44 hours! I had it posted at my desk for years at my library job, and it usually made me grin, or sometimes grimace.
“RS-1 in a Nutshell” is as Karen shared from the Archives. Best regards, Nancy Trask
On Wed, Jul 9, 2025 at 9:25 AM Karen Snyder Troxel via OE <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net <mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net>> wrote: Here is the ICA Global Archives page, found in the Spirit Movement Collection on RSI that has both “RSI in a Nutshell” and Tom Bergdall’s paper: https://icaglobalarchives.org/collections/spiritmovement/rs-i-plc/.
On Jul 9, 2025, at 8:42 AM, James Wiegel via OE <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net <mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net>> wrote:
Earlier in this thread, David sent round a summary of RS-1 and mentioned the middle part of Iron Boy transcribes his experience taking the course. Somene mentioned RS-1 in a Nutshell (often attributed to Joe Pierce) shortly thereafter.
In the middle of the night it came up for me that Tom Bergdall (Terry's brother) wrote a summary of RS-1 but I cannot find it. Anyone recall or have that?
I had coffee and a conversation yesterday with son Dhondiram especially about experiences in Kenya, Brussels, the Rite of Passage Journey and the RLC. It was interrupted by a call from his neighbor, Subash, that water was flowing out of Dhondi's yard into his requiring a facetime call to locate the problem and deal with it. Son Shanker is down with COVID at the moment and daughter Jenny is in Alaska visiting their first grand child. More later.
Sending love and gratitude to all the Earth mothers and Earth daughters . . .
Jim Wiegel “We are all time travelers journeying into the future. But let us make that future a place we want to visit. “ Stephen Hawking
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