[Dialogue] ICA-USA

Mon Oct 8 20:18:04 EDT 2007

Thanks, Sandra for your report and for being there.
Doris Hahn

--- Sandra/Bob True <icatrue at igc.org> wrote:

> I am heartened and appreciative of the positive and
> conciliatory wishes for
> the Living Legacy event held this past weekend. Most
> were posted on the
> beginning day of the event, so suspect many who
> attended will be reading
> these messages after the fact. Some were received
> and read at the event.
> 
>  
> 
> It was with prayerful consideration that I attended
> the "Living Legacy"
> event.  The decisions made in October 2006, were
> shocking but seemed to be
> simmering for some time. The October decision, the
> resulting pain and
> sorrow, many defenses and justifications, and other
> "hear say" events
> continue to baffle, sadden, anger and puzzle me.
> Nevertheless, I did attend
> and I am grateful to have been there. The formal
> report will be published
> soon. Meanwhile, some reflections. 
> 
>  
> 
> There were ~35-40 present. An eclectic group
> representing nearly the full
> historical spectrum of OE/EI/ICA. Laughter, care,
> singing, tears and
> determination were evident throughout our time
> together. The Saturday
> celebration included the showing of the "the World
> of Human Development" and
> the CBS program shown in 1964 of Joe Mathews and Joe
> Pierce and students
> attending the Summer Program in 5th City.  We had
> lunch with Fifth City
> pioneers - Verdel Trice, Floyd Stanley and Lillian
> Fox, who continue the
> Fifth City Reformulation Project. 
> 
>  
> 
> Our facilitators, Mirja Hanson and Duncan Holmes,
> reflected the skill and
> grace that brought honor to the deep theological
> source of ICA processes and
> lead us to authentic dialogue regarding the three
> questions posed. Namely,
> What does ICA-USA need to do to support and serve
> emerging change networks?
> What does ICA USA need to do and be as part of the
> global family of national
> ICA's? What does ICA USA need to do to preserve and
> share 40 plus years of
> wisdom contained in the Global Archives and embedded
> in each pioneering
> spirit? The product of the small groups addressing
> these questions reported
> as advice to the Board and Staff was amazingly
> similar. About ten broad
> categories were identified in the cross gestalt. The
> official, final report
> will be the source for detail but they did include
> substantial items
> regarding conciliation, future relationships, ICAI,
> communication,
> participation, research and the care and
> preservation of the archives. 
> 
>  
> 
> My experience of the weekend re-awakened and
> strengthened my deep love, care
> and appreciation for my life beginning with RS1, all
> my Order and Movement
> colleagues, the treasure of life experiences related
> to these times and the
> way my day to life is informed by them. I came home
> with a sense of hope for
> a positive future, the decision to continue to
> participate in the dialogue
> and to work toward the how to create the new forms
> that can only come from
> and build on our past wisdom and experience. 
> Hopefully, we all will look to
> the future with our hearts and minds open to new
> possibility and
> participation.
> 
>  
> 
> With love and respect to all, 
> 
>  
> 
> Sandra True
> 
> 201-209-1809
> 
> 646-498-8449
> 
>  
> 
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> 
>  
> 
> Much thanks, Jack
> 
> I wholeheartedly agree with you.  The future is
> open.
> 
> Cynthia Vance
> 
>  
> 
> In a message dated 10/5/2007 7:17:43 A.M. Eastern
> Daylight Time,
> icabombay at igc.org writes:
> 
> Dear Colleagues,
> 
> I have watched the list serve messages about the ICA
> include  
> embittered attacks on the Board and I am saddened by
> it.  It is not  
> surprising in the light of the reality that the
> literally thousands  
> of us who both received our life (via RS-1) and gave
> our lives in the  
> Spirit Movement have both a profound sadness and an
> anger about the  
> fact that what we did and what we were/are and what
> we dreamed about  
> putting into history seems to have been dismissed as
> irrelevant, or  
> not to be included.  To me, the Living Legacy event
> is but a shadow  
> of what is really the living legacy, and that is the
> thousands of us  
> who are still giving our lives to make the world
> responsive to the  
> Lord of History, if I can use that language.  Be
> that as it may, it  
> serves no purpose, in my mind, to continue to
> castigate the Board.   
> Their deeds and decisions will be judged by the Lord
> of history just  
> as the deeds and decisions of the rest of us.  If
> they can bring into  
> being something new and great, in the name of ICA,
> then so be it.  It  
> would be appropriate for all of us to pray that they
> do.  They have  
> to live with the reality of how people were treated
> and we can decide  
> to say no (or yes) to what they have done, and move
> on.  It does them  
> and us no good, in my opinion, to vilify their
> motives or intents.    
> Please, let it be, and let us continue to keep our
> faces and hearts  
> moving toward the future.  It needs all of us, and
> it will take all  
> of us and many many more the rest of lives.  So
> let's get on with it.
> 
> With respect and love to all of my fellow
> Order/Movement members.
> 
> Jack Gilles
> 
>  
> 
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