On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 12:58 PM, Ian Glendinning <[email protected] > wrote: > > > A group has to come out the other side of something together to become > a community. > > Thanks > Ian
nay, thank you Ian. I talk about this a lot, but I don't find that much thought out there on the subject. So some "else" to engage is a delight to my old bones. Where Peck is interesting in contrast to group theory is "emptiness". Emptiness is exactly that "something" that the group must go through in order to self-identify on a more comprehensive awareness. This emptiness can be observed often when people endure disasters togeter - all their normal static patterns are disrupted allowing for a new freedom of interpersonal communication. For a short period people drop their normal ego boundaries and care for the other. It can be replicated in a special community building methodology. And I will be talking about this a lot. Right now I'm at the Grass Valley library checking out more books on Royce. Boy, this library sure has an extensive collection. I guess that stems from being named after the guy. We should start a fund for a Robert M. Pirsig Library - men pass on, but libraries are forever. John Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
