Randy, So many of our courses did the image shift, at least for me. I remember taking CS-I on the near west side (NW Side) of Cleveland. R. Fishel and D. Scott came and did it. I remember greeting them at a bar in their motorcycle boots and black berets with wedgeblade pins! I never expected clergy to be dressed like that! But in was in the section on the Urban Revolution that they had us just walk the neighborhood. I saw things, heard things and felt things I had never noticed before. It was a magical experience, and we had two pastors who became part of the first galaxy in churches there, Jack & Jane Sherlough (sp?) and Jerry & Marty Lapka. Later the very large body of folks who made up the Cleveland Metro Cadres wrote a song to This Land is Your Land about the Cleveland Metro. A fire was lit that has never dimmed in so many of us. I’ll let Jim give his responses to RS-I, but wanted to share my image shifting experience. Jack
On Sep 6, 2019, at 10:39, Randy Williams via OE <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> 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@lists.wedgeblade.net <mailto:oe@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 <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@lists.wedgeblade.net <mailto:oe@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@lists.wedgeblade.net <mailto:oe-bounces@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.)
2) First name and book.
3) First name and movie.
4 ) First name and one pressing concern.
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