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%POWERFUL COHERENT COMMUNITIES 810906
Power flows into coherent communities, those with
personal integrity. The members of such communities are
not debilitated by fear, guilt, shame, anxiety, and
alienation. They do not attempt to use such negative
realities as tools to achieve any purpose, for they know
that such negative realities have the power to pervert any
purpose, no matter how noble. Rather, members of these
powerful coherent communities are dedicated to promoting
the coherence, the integrity, the dialogue of the
community. It is only as the members of the community
desire and find pleasure in intimate dialogue with diverse
others---that the community coheres and has powerful
integrity. Any behavior which promotes fear, guilt,
shame, anxiety, and alienation thus weakens the community.
Coherent communities are more able to grow and
survive in threatening environments---than are communities
divided by fear, guilt, shame, anxiety, and alienation.
Members of coherent communities are free to perceive and
understand the meaning of change; they are not coerced by
traditions, taboos, and legalistic systems to perceive and
behave in ways suited to the past. They are not required
to limit themselves to merely technical combinations of
old ideas and perceptions; they are free to perceive and
discuss revolutionary new ways of feeling, thinking,
analyzing, and responding to their changing physical and
non-physical environment. Adaptability is valued and
newness is encouraged. Mistakes are accepted and valued
as means to learning and discovery. Mistakes do not
occasion fear, guilt, shame, anxiety, and alienation;
rather they occasion communal learning, and increased
adaptability.
Communal integrity and power flow from a dedication
to the promotion of dialogue. This of necessity involves
a profound disavowal of the use of negative realities such
as fear, guilt, shame, anxiety, and alienation for any
purpose whatever. The members of the powerful community
are those people who share such a dedication and disavowal
and know each other intimately, even though they may be
embedded in a larger "community" which is characterized by
mutual suspicion, fear, guilt, shame, anxiety, and
alienation growing out of their mutual manipulations of
each other in the service of selected purposes.
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