{"id":535,"date":"2005-11-30T12:01:45","date_gmt":"2005-11-30T17:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/?p=535"},"modified":"2005-11-30T16:39:09","modified_gmt":"2005-11-30T21:39:09","slug":"opening-space-for-the-infinite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2005\/11\/30\/opening-space-for-the-infinite\/","title":{"rendered":"Opening Space for the Infinite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The relative quiet of winter settles in, even in the center of this big and windy city.  Newly wireless, freed from my desk chair, I find myself exploring the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paul_Tillich#Theology\">theology of Paul Tillich<\/a> from my living room couch.  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;since things in existence are corrupt and therefore ambiguous, no finite thing can be (by itself) that which is infinite. All that is possible is for the finite to be a vehicle for revealing the infinite&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Recently I discovered that Tillich was in fact a central teacher for one of my own central teachers (and friends), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openspaceworld.con\">Harrison Owen<\/a>, originator of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalchicago.net\/ost\">Open Space Technology<\/a> approach to meeting and organization.  Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.easilyamazed.com\">Ashley<\/a> for uncovering these connections via email.<\/p>\n<p>All of which has me returning and reviewing, this evening season, my own work and practice, in Open Space and beyond, as finite version and vehicle for the infinite.  I notice that these two inform each other, how I see is what I see.  Body as vehicle of perception.  Training as vehicle of understanding.  Practice as vehicle for confusion.  Patient, persistent, opening, visioning, offering, grounding, as vehicle for&#8230;  <\/p>\n<p>I teeter on, in the open space between doing well and doing good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The relative quiet of winter settles in, even in the center of this big and windy city. Newly wireless, freed from my desk chair, I find myself exploring the theology of Paul Tillich from my living room couch. &#8230;since things in existence are corrupt and therefore ambiguous, no finite thing can be (by itself) that &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2005\/11\/30\/opening-space-for-the-infinite\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Opening Space for the Infinite&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88889,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,22,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-space-technology","category-personal-reflections","category-practice","category-quotations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/88889"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}