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Watercolor painting: "The Elf Ring'', before 1905
Painter: Kate Greenaway; Adam and Charles Black, London
Wenn wir aber im Lichte wandeln, wie er im Lichte ist, so haben wir Gemeinschaft miteinander. 1. Johannes 1, 7 (NT)
Informationszeitalter ⇒ Konzeptuelles Zeitalter (mit menschenzugewandten Dienstleistungen) – Daniel Pink
Die wirtschaftlichen Trends und das persönliche Glücksempfinden des bereits angebrochenen Strukturzeitalters
beziehen und erhalten ihre schöpferische Kraft aus sechs sinngestaltenden Ausdrucksformen:
Design, Geschichte, Symphonie, Empathie, Spiel und Sinngebung.
- "Die Zukunft wird ganz anders gestrickten Menschen mit einer ganz anderen Denkart gehören – den Schöpferischen und Einfühlsamen, den Musterentdeckern und Sinnfindern. Diese Künstler, Erfinder, Designer, Geschichtenerzähler, Fürsorglichen, Trostspender und großperspektivischen Denker werden von nun ab die höchsten Belohnungen der Gesellschaft ernten und an ihren größten Freuden teilhaben."
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Sieben Phasen auf dem Weg zur authentischen Gemeinschaft – Circle of the Heart
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- Eine gewohnte Kommunikation erweitert sich um Quantensprünge, wenn wir lernen, die inneren Erfahrungsräume des Gegenübers wahrzunehmen. Wenn alle alles von allen sehen, wenn die Welten, in denen Menschen leben, für uns offensichtlich werden, wenn wir nichts mehr privatisieren und alles für alle transparent ist, entsteht eine neue Basis an Interaktion und Erkenntnis. Wir nennen dies transparente Kommunikation – sie ist die Grundlage eines neuen Wir.
Der nächste Evolutionsschritt für die Menschheit als Kollektiv beinhaltet eine neue Dimension von Wir – ein Wir, das von einer geringeren interpersonellen Reibung geprägt ist und somit ein höheres Potenzial an Intelligenz verströmt. Thomas Hübl, deutscher spiritueller Lehrer
- Die wahre Gemeinde entsteht nicht dadurch, dass Leute Gefühle füreinander haben (wiewohl freilich auch nicht ohne das), sondern durch diese zwei Dinge:
- dass sie alle zu einer lebendigen Mitte in lebendig gegenseitiger Beziehung stehen und
- dass sie untereinander in lebendig gegenseitiger Beziehung stehen.
Das zweite entspringt aus dem ersten, ist aber noch nicht mit ihm allein gegeben. Lebendige gegenseitige Beziehung schließt Gefühle ein, aber sie stammt nicht von ihnen. Die Gemeinde baut sich aus der lebendig gegenseitigen Beziehung auf, aber der Baumeister ist die lebendige wirkende Mitte.
Martin Buber [BW 530] (1878-1965) österreichisch-jüdischer Religionsforscher und -philosoph, Das dialogische Prinzip. Ich und Du. Zwiesprache. Die Frage an den Einzelnen. Elemente des Zwischenmenschlichen. Zur Geschichte des dialogischen Prinzips, Auszüge, Verlag Lambert Schneider, Heidelberg, 1923, Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Heidelberg, 4. September 2001, 10. Auflage, 2006
Pfau mit gespreizten Federn
- Wir sind hier, weil es letztlich kein Entrinnen vor uns selbst gibt.
Solange der Mensch sich nicht selbst in den Augen und Herzen seiner Mitmenschen begegnet, ist er auf der Flucht.
Solange er nicht zulässt, dass seine Mitmenschen an seinem Innersten teilhaben, gibt es für ihn keine Geborgenheit.
Solange er sich fürchtet, durchschaut zu werden, kann er weder sich selbst noch andere erkennen – er wird allein sein.
Wo können wir einen solchen Spiegel finden, wenn nicht in unserem Nächsten?
Hier in der Gemeinschaft kann ein Mensch erst richtig klar über sich selbst werden und sich nicht mehr als den Riesen seiner Träume oder den Zwerg seiner Ängste sehen, sondern als Mensch, der – Teil eines Ganzen – zu ihrem Wohlsein Beitrag leistet. In solchen Böden können wir Wurzeln schlagen und wachsen; nicht mehr allein – wie im Tod – sondern lebendig als Mensch unter Menschen. Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179) deutsche Äbtissin des Benediktiner-Ordens, Gelehrte, Heilkundige, Mystikerin, Schriftstellerin, Komponistin; Richard Beauvais, Klinik Bad Herrenalb, 1964
- Ich sage Euch heute, meine Freunde, dass ich trotz der derzeitigen Schwierigkeiten und Enttäuschungen noch einen Traum habe. Es ist ein Traum, der tief im amerikanischen Traum verwurzelt ist. Ich habe einen Traum, dass diese Nation eines Tages aufstehen und der wahren Bedeutung ihrer Überzeugung gerecht werden wird: "Wir halten diese Wahrheiten für selbstverständlich: Dass alle Menschen gleich geschaffen sind." […] Ich habe einen Traum, dass meine vier Kinder eines Tages in einem Land leben werden, in dem sie nicht nach ihrer Hautfarbe beurteilt werden sondern nach ihrem Charakter. Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968) US-amerikanischer Baptistenpastor, Aktivist, afro-amerikanischer Bürgerrechtler, 28. August 1963, zit. in: Mecca.org
- Wir müssen unsere Menschen dazu befähigen, mehr Verantwortung für ihr eigenes Leben zu übernehmen in einer Welt, die immer kleiner wird, wo es auf jeden ankommt. Wir brauchen einen neuen Gemeinschaftsgeist, ein Gefühl, dass wir alle in einem Boot sitzen, oder der amerikanische Traum wird allmählich verschwinden. Unser Schicksal ist mit dem Schicksal jedes anderen Amerikaners verbunden. Bill Clinton, 42. US-amerikanischer Präsident; zit. in: Great Quotes.com, Arkansas, 4. November 1992
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There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. Galatians 3, 28 New International Version (NT)
- The tribe has no "I" (i.e. doesn't take responsibility). […] As long as there is no "I" in the tribe, the tribe can't apologize for what the tribe did. Caroline Myss Myss.com (*1952) US American spiritual teacher, mystic, medical intuitive, five-time New York Times bestseller author, lecturer
- You've got to give up reasoning from your five senses. What has to fail you is [...] this tribal form of human experience. Human justice, human reasoning has to fail you. This requires a Judas experience, some form of betrayal of this system.
You need to have a betrayal experience, because in order to let go of the tribal mind and individuate, what needs to betray you is this form of tribal consciousness. It's not about any one person betraying you. The people in your life chose their roles and their relationship to you before you were all born. One signed up to be a betrayer. Another to be a lover. Another to be a friend. They're all only the players who have agreed to play a certain role in your life. What I'm talking about is the theme of the play; the theme being that in order to let go of the tribal mind, you must have a betrayal experience.
What you need to understand is that this is not just a betrayal experience by one person. It is the betrayal of a whole system of consciousness that you are no longer allowed to have faith in. You have to have a major event that triggers that.
Everyone of us is plugged into the tribal mind. Don't think that just because you may now be in the process of leaving it, you're not part of it. We all subject others to tribal laws. And we get miffed if anyone tries to alter the pace at which we and our group are doing things. Interview with Caroline Myss, Ph.D. Myss.com (*1952) US American spiritual teacher, mystic, medical intuitive, five-time New York Times bestseller author, lecturer, Pioneering The Anatomy Of The Spirit, Randy Peyser, past 2000
- People can relate to each other in such a way that it calls down something, and I've experienced that. When two or three people seriously listen to each other, speak and exchange with each other, something appears: “Where two or three come together in my name,” is, I think, a fact. It's in the possible existence of such community that I think the hope of the world lies. I don't think the world can make it without developed human beings, and a community supporting inner development. Interview with Jacob Needleman, Ph.D. jacobneedleman.com (*1934) US American professor of philosophy and religion, UCSF, author of Two Dreams of America, How Does an Atheist Come to Believe in God?, presented by Religiondispatches.org, Lisa Webster, pg. 2, 28. January 2010
- The individual and the collective both have a reality and they're feeding into each other all the time. An individual's "reach" is determined by the collective, and the collective is nothing more the sum of individuals. Christopher M. Bache, US American professor of religious studies, Youngstown State University, director of Transformative Learning, Institute of Noetic Sciences (2000-2002); cited in: Arjuna Ardagh, British American spiritual teacher, The Translucent Revolution, New World Lib, 15. June 2005
- Men on frontiers, whether of time or space, abandon their previous identities. Neighbourhood gives identity. Frontiers snatch it away. Herbert 'Marshall' McLuhan (1911-1980) Canadian educator, philosopher, scholar, communication theorist, professor of English literature, literary critic, rhetorician
- We need to empower our people so they can take more responsibility for their own lives in a world that is ever smaller, where everyone counts. We need a new spirit of community, a sense that we are all in this together, or the American Dream will continue to wither. Our destiny is bound up with the destiny of every other American. Bill Clinton, 42nd US American president, cited in: Great Quotes.com, Arkansas, 4. November 1992
- Our greatest responsibility is to embrace a new spirit of community for a new century. For any one of us to succeed, we must succeed as one America.
The challenge of our past remains the challenge of our future—will we be one nation, one people, with one common destiny, or not? Will we all come together, or come apart? Bill Clinton, 42nd US American president, 2nd Inaugural Address, 20. January 1997
- The public [...] demands certainties. [...] But there are no certainties. H. L. Mencken (1880-1956) US American journalist, essayist, magazine editor, satirist, critic of American life and culture
- Using well-developed dialoguing and visioning processes involving the entire community, people could develop new ways to organize themselves with community-supported agriculture, barter and alternative currencies, solar and wind energy, holistic and complementary medicine, and co-ops of all kinds. Corinne McLaughlin (*1947) US American author, educator, Gordon Davidson, Utne Reader; cited in: Ideas & Trends; For Y2K Utopians, a Chance to Remake the System, 14. February 1999
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See also: The Corporation, Canadian documentary film written by Joel Bakan, 2003
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- The corporation remains as it was at the time of its origins, as a mad business institution in the middle of the nineteenth century, and legally designated "person" designed to valorize self-interest and invalidate moral concern. Most people would find its "personality" abnormal, even psychopathic, in a human being, yet curiously we accept it in society’s most powerful institutions. Joel Bakan (*1959) Canadian lawyer, writer, The Corporation. The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power, Free Press, February 2004
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Englische Texte – English section on Community
Four stages of community building
US psychiatrist M. Scott Peck started the Foundation for Community Encouragement (FCE) to promote the formation of communities, which, he argues, are a first step towards uniting humanity and saving us from self destruction.
He says that community has three essential ingredients:
- Inclusivity
- Commitment
- Consensus
According to M. Scott Peck Community building goes through the four stages:
1. Pseudocommunity ⇒ 2. Chaos ⇒ 3. Emptiness ⇒ 4. True community. |
| 1. | Pseudocommunity | Members pretend to have a bon homie with one another, and cover up their differences, by acting as if the differences do not exist. Pseudocommunity can never directly lead to community. The person guiding the community building process has the job to shorten this period as much as possible. |
| 2. | Chaos | When pseudocommunity fails to work, the members start falling upon each other, giving vent to their mutual disagreements and differences. This is a period of chaos. It is a time when the people in the community realize that differences cannot simply be ignored. Chaos looks counterproductive AND it is the first genuine step towards community building. |
| 3. | Emptiness | People learn to empty themselves of those ego related factors that are preventing their entry into community. Emptiness is a tough step because it involves the death of a part of the individual. It paves the way for the birth of a new creature, the Community. |
| 4. | True community | Having worked through emptiness, the people in community are in empathy with one another and tacit understanding. People are able to relate to each other's feelings. Discussions, even when heated, never get sour, and motives are not questioned. |
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The four stages of community formation are somewhat corresponding to a model in organization theory for the five stages of team development.
These five stages are: 1. Forming ⇒ 2. Storming ⇒ 3. Norming ⇒ 4. Performing ⇒ 5. Transforming. |
| 1. | Forming | Team members have some initial discomfort with each other but nothing comes out in the open. They are insecure about their role and position with respect to the team. | This corresponds to the initial stage of pseudo-community. |
| 2. | Storming | Team members start arguing heatedly and differences and insecurities come out in the open. | This corresponds to the second stage given by Scott Peck, namely chaos. |
| 3. | Norming | Team members lay out rules and guidelines for interaction that help define the roles and responsibilities of each person. | This corresponds to emptiness, where the community members think within and empty themselves of their obsessions to be able to accept and listen to others. |
| 4. | Performing | Team members finally start working as a cohesive whole, and effectively achieve the tasks set of themselves. In this stage individuals are aided by the group as a whole where necessary, in order to move further collectively than they could achieve as a group of separated individuals. | |
| 5. | Transforming | Celebration is at hand. When individuals leave there is a genuine feeling of grief, and a desire to meet again. Traditionally this stage was often called "Mourning". | This stage corresponds to the stage of true community. |
It is in this third stage that Peck's community-building methods differ in principle from team development. While teams in business organizations need to develop explicit rules, guidelines and protocols during the norming stage, the emptiness stage of community building is characterized, not by laying down the rules explicitly, but by shedding the resistance within the minds of the individuals.
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Characteristics of a True Community
Peck describes the characteristics of a true community as follows: |
| Inclusivity, commitment and consensus | Members accept and embrace each other, celebrating their individuality and transcending their differences. They commit themselves to the effort and the people involved. They make decisions and reconcile their differences through consensus. |
| Realism | Members bring together multiple perspectives to better understand the whole context of the situation. Decisions are more well-rounded and humble, rather than one-sided and arrogant. |
| Contemplation | Members examine themselves. They are individually and collectively self-aware of the world outside themselves, the world inside themselves, and the relationship between the two. |
| A safe place | Members allow others to share their vulnerability, heal themselves, and express who they truly are. |
| A laboratory for personal disarmament | Members experientially discover the rules for peacemaking and embrace its virtues. They feel and express compassion and respect for each other as fellow human beings. |
| A group that can fight gracefully | Members resolve conflicts with wisdom and grace. They listen and understand, respect each others' gifts, accept each others' limitations, celebrate their differences, bind each others’ wounds, and commit to a struggle together rather than against each other. |
| A group of all leaders | Members harness the “flow of leadership” to make decisions and set a course of action. It is the spirit of community itself that leads and not any single individual. |
| A spirit | The true spirit of community is the spirit of peace, love, wisdom and power. Members may view the source of this spirit as an outgrowth of the collective self or as the manifestation of a Higher Will. |
Sources:
* M. Scott Peck (1936-2005) US American psychiatrist, The Different Drum. Community Making and Peace,
Simon & Shuster, June 1987
* Richard Schwartz [abridged], The Stages of Spiritual Growth by M. Scott Peck, M.D.,
excerpted from The Different Drum, pages 187-203
* Video presentation by Dan Littauer, M. Scott Peck's Stage Theory, Vimeo video, posted 6. January 2009
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The Iroquois grandmother council
The Influence of the Iroquois Confederation on the American Constitution
- The Iroquois constitution provided for representative democracy. Voting rights were given to women, and only the women voted for the male representatives (called sachems, meaning senators or chiefs) who then voted in council. The woman were thought to be wise and would not easily vote to go to war when they knew that some of their husbands and sons would be killed. Also, the clan mother held the right of recall when the male senator or chief from her clan did not adequately fulfill his leadership position. Local self-government was provided through local tribal and regional legislatures. This, combined with the Native emphasis on personal liberty, fired the imaginations of those colonists who later were to become the Founding Fathers of the United States.
Legend of the Great Peace of the Iroquois Confederation by Robert Constas
The Iroquois grandmother council consists of thirteen women. They are called the daughters of the moon. 13 moons constitute one year cycle. There is a link to the thirteen fairy god mothers who were part of the name giving ceremony of Sleeping Beauty.
The International Council of 13 Indigenous Grandmothers from seven nations and the four corners of the world was established in 2004. The first council based on allegiance, ancestral prayer, peacemaking and healing was held in the week 11.-17. October 2004 in Phoenicia, New York, USA.
- Womens role in future changes
One of the things that the Grandmothers feel is vital for things to change is to re-balance the relationship between the sexes. Being the givers of life and far more connected with the seasons, the Grandmothers see that women are getting into important roles and are going through changes. The Grandmothers suggest that men should take on the roles of women so that this will free women to help the change needed in the world. [...]
The work of the Grandmothers is said to have inspired the creation of "little circles of Grandmothers around the world". Cited from Wikipedia.en
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- Video interview with Richard Flyer, held the first meeting of the Conscious Community Campaign on Valentine's Day 2006, Creating Conscious Community, presented by Conscious Media Network, host Regina Meredith, 55:25 minutes duration, posted September 2008
- Video interview with Andrew Harvey (*1952) US American author, religious scholar, teacher of mystic traditions, Occupy Wall Street, facing the crising and Sacred Activism, presented by webTV, host Lilou Macé on Juicy Living Tour, YouTube film, 30:58 minutes duration, posted 25. October 2011
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