In 1992, the late David Bohm, famed colleague of Einstein's, and Leroy Little Bear, JD, former Director of Native Studies at Harvard, brought together a meeting of the minds between quantum physicists, Native American scholars, and linguists to discuss the underlying principles of the Universe, not from an adversarial |
"David Bohm defined "dialogue" as a free flow of meaning among people in communication. A key difference between dialogue and ordinary conversation is that in the latter, people usually hold relatively fixed positions and argue in favor of their views as they try to convince others to change. In dialogue, however, a person may prefer a certain position, |
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point of view, but out of mutual respect for the differences in world views. Since then, a core group of participants, plus |
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but he or she is ready to listen to others with sufficient sympathy and interest to understand the meaning of others' positions properly, |
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occasional guests, have gotten together approximately once a year to continue the dialogue. In 1999, Dan Moonhawk Alford, in partnership with SEED, brought the dialogue to Albuquerque, where for the first time, the previously private dialogues were opened to the public. This year, the participants will return to Albuquerque to |
and is also ready to change his or her point of view if there is good reason to do so. Dialogue implies a very deep change in how the mind works. It is essential that each participant suspend his or her point of view, while also holding other points of view in a suspended form and giving full attention to what they mean. In doing so, each participant has to suspend his or her own tacit infrastructure of ideas. Freedom from the tacit infrastructure of ideas, worldview, and so forth, brings about the true spirit of dialogue." - Leroy Little Bear, JD |
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