Comments on: Violence, Nonviolence, Protection, and Play http://www.mythic-cartography.org/2008/07/27/violence-nonviolence-protection-and-play/ Revitalizing Riddles, Mythic Story, Family, Village and Land. Sun, 1 Aug 2010 07:05:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: Willem http://www.mythic-cartography.org/2008/07/27/violence-nonviolence-protection-and-play/#comment-24029 Willem Wed, 30 Jul 2008 19:55:43 +0000 http://www.mythic-cartography.org/2008/07/27/violence-nonviolence-protection-and-play/#comment-24029 Thanks Eric - I think you make your point excellently. "Be Prepared to Be Surprised" indeed! In fact, perhaps even the fellow peace-lovers at the Open Space after all could have seen the peace in the Boxing, as a celebration of an ability to hold boundaries, protect loved ones, and develop powerful tools exactly so one doesn't have to use them! I often project my own limited ideas of what other folks can absorb or embrace; I certainly may have done it this time. Thanks Eric - I think you make your point excellently. “Be Prepared to Be Surprised” indeed! In fact, perhaps even the fellow peace-lovers at the Open Space after all could have seen the peace in the Boxing, as a celebration of an ability to hold boundaries, protect loved ones, and develop powerful tools exactly so one doesn’t have to use them!

I often project my own limited ideas of what other folks can absorb or embrace; I certainly may have done it this time.

]]> By: Eric http://www.mythic-cartography.org/2008/07/27/violence-nonviolence-protection-and-play/#comment-24027 Eric Mon, 28 Jul 2008 23:31:21 +0000 http://www.mythic-cartography.org/2008/07/27/violence-nonviolence-protection-and-play/#comment-24027 "Yet recently, while daydreaming at the 2008 World Open Space on Open Space in San Francisco, something struck me: what if one of my fellow SHIFTers and I had a session on boxing, somewhere in a suitable distant corner, and knocked some sense into each other for a period of time? How would the other participants react?" Remember this from your last post, "Be prepared to be surprised"? I think, those who never familiarize and learn this might possibly react opinionated, rude, frightened and act equivalent to a person who thinks they have a one right way for everybody to Open Space...mislead. Yet, I remember once at my first Open Space a REWILD camp last year we thoughtfully did a similar activity to boxing and I NEVER felt our community giving a hoot. Actually, I remember myself at times feeling sidetracked from thinking 'what do other people think.' I think I remember a person saying to me once when we finished our activity, "you two looked awesome." I think boxing and and other protection practices at most times has gorgeousness, and rarely do they have uglyness. With that word uglyness I mean, when a player/players start to go for uncalled for actions (for example; biting ears while boxing; persisting to box even though ref ends box; persisting to box even though opponent hits ground comatose). p.s. Sorry to read that murder story that happen next to you. Sad! “Yet recently, while daydreaming at the 2008 World Open Space on Open Space in San Francisco, something struck me: what if one of my fellow SHIFTers and I had a session on boxing, somewhere in a suitable distant corner, and knocked some sense into each other for a period of time? How would the other participants react?”

Remember this from your last post, “Be prepared to be surprised”? I think, those who never familiarize and learn this might possibly react opinionated, rude, frightened and act equivalent to a person who thinks they have a one right way for everybody to Open Space…mislead. Yet, I remember once at my first Open Space a REWILD camp last year we thoughtfully did a similar activity to boxing and I NEVER felt our community giving a hoot. Actually, I remember myself at times feeling sidetracked from thinking ‘what do other people think.’
I think I remember a person saying to me once when we finished our activity, “you two looked awesome.” I think boxing and and other protection practices at most times has gorgeousness, and rarely do they have uglyness. With that word uglyness I mean, when a player/players start to go for uncalled for actions (for example; biting ears while boxing; persisting to box even though ref ends box; persisting to box even though opponent hits ground comatose).

p.s. Sorry to read that murder story that happen next to you. Sad!

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