How wonderful to hear from you....thank you for your thoughts. I adore
kindred spirits....think that kindredness is our means to understanding
and acknowledging (maybe the other way around) our connectedness.
(Margaret Mahler writes some wonderful stuff on seperation and
individuation...helps understanding reluctance and attraction to
connecting, don't you think?)
You raise the notion of "disempowerment". It would be enlightening to
hear more about this. What do you think about this whole notion of power
anyway? (dis or em cannot exists without one another anyway, right?) So,
I keep getting back to this control schtick....it seems clear (or
reasonably anyway) that it is a feeling of control that we seem to want.
Even when we create our own appearance of abandon (look at ads for new
fashions....loose, baggy, inside out,.....sort of studied casual) it is
control over the casual....it is the appearance of spontaneous. How about
real sponteniety? Where has it gone? What do you think about this idea
juxtoposed with the perception of power? Power being the result of
control?
So, when stuff like Redfield's Celestine Prophecy continues on the best
seller list for eons.......... it sort of let's us off the hook. There
are things not in our control but knowing about them gives us the
perception of control? I think that Frued (and many before him) provided
us with some handles for dealing with this phenonema...Senge, et al is
giving us even more handles. So, the question becomes; what kind of an
environment do we need in order to translate our need for a perception of
control or power into collective intelligence and wholism and quantumness
and systems thinking? And then, how do we get there?
Have a lovely day....I look forward to more on this...thanks
again....Myrna
Myrna J. Casebolt, PhD; CPHQ
Quality Improvement Consultant
Department of Health and Social Services
Division of Care and Treatment Facilities
1 W. Wilson Street #550
Madison, Wisconsin 53707-7851
U.S.A.
(608) 267-3783 phone
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