On Dialogue by David Bohm, Lee Nichol, Peter Senge

By David Bohm, Lee Nichol, Peter Senge

By no means ahead of has there been a better desire for deeper listening and extra open communique to deal with the advanced difficulties dealing with our firms, companies and societies. well known scientist David Bohm believed there has been a greater manner for humanity to find that means and to accomplish concord. He pointed out artistic discussion, a sharing of assumptions and realizing, as a method wherein the person, and society as a complete, can research extra approximately themselves and others, and accomplish a renewed experience of function.

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If something is right, you don’t need to be persuaded. If somebody has to persuade you, then there is probably some doubt about it. If we could all share a common meaning, we would be participating together. We would be partaking of the common meaning – just as people partake of food together. We would be taking part and communicating and creating a common meaning. ” It would mean that in this participation a common mind would arise, which nonetheless would not exclude the individual. The individual might hold a separate opinion, but that opinion would then be absorbed into the group, too.

I will give in a little on this, and you give in a little on that. ” Now, that’s not really a close relationship, but it begins to make it possible to get going. So the suggestion is that people could start dialogue groups in various places. The point would not be to identify with the group, but rather, what is important is this whole process. You might say, “This is a wonderful group,” but it’s actually the process that counts. I think that when we are able to sustain a dialogue of this sort you will find that there will be a change in the people who are taking part.

What about these notions of necessity which we have to set up or discover? If an artist just puts on his paint in arbitrary places, you would say there wasn’t anything to it; if he just on dialogue follows somebody else’s order of necessity, he’s mediocre. He’s got to create his own order of necessity. Different parts of the form he is making must have an inner necessity or else the thing has not really much of a value. This artistic necessity is creative. The artist has his freedom in this creative act.

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