Re: ecovillage and sustainability

Tom,

"if you meet the buddha on the road, kill him!"

Yes, Ken Wilber's outsized ego has been noted in various places. Funny how
we take for granted that athletic geniuses, artistic geniuses, scientific
geniuses, etc., often have humongous egos & still expect that
spiritual/social geniuses would & should not be the same. If we look at
Wilber's scheme of development/evolution, (the scheme applies to
communities and nations as well as individual and whole cultures), we see
that while each level contains all previous levels, the sectors do not
necessarily develop/evolve at the same speed. So it is quite common for
anyone to be very advanced in one aspect and quite retarded and primitive
(to use two politically incorrect words!), in other sectors. Wilber is only
human.

we need leaders...otherwise something or someone less appetizing fills the
void.

>So while egoless leadership may be ultimately an oxymoron, we can
>nevertheless >seek out those leaders who clearly demonstrate, in both word
>and action, >pursuit of the asymptotic goal of egolessness--spiritual
>leaders like Thich >Nhat Hanh and the Dalai Lama, or political leaders
>like Gandhi, Martin Luther >King, Nelson Mandela, or even Kofi Annan.
>"Wherefore by their fruits shall ye >know them."

Auribindo and Chinmoy come to mind as a couple more spiritual/community
leaders who have handled their egos rather well. And there are many
more-Findhorn founders Eileen Caddy & Dorothy McClean, for instance. And
Albert Bates at The Farm is cool...I've also met others who rave, but have
also gotten the job well done. Most leaders take just as long to grow up as
most people and some leaders need substantial egos to overcome the
circumstances around them. One could argue that in many ways Gandhi was NOT
a humble man, for instance.


davidc



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