Re: ecovillage and sustainability

on 5/4/04 10:57 AM, earthsea at info-oggiLW5btbMsA/[email protected] wrote:


> 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.

as near as i can tell all leaders have too big an ego, even the benevolent
ones......the real leaders we need for eco-balance are those who are leading
others away from the leader/follower polarity mindset and into consensus
peer group support without any central leader.....

remember the most benovolent leaders of the past were martyrs in most cases
and persecuted for their efforts....we can go beyond this "stressful leader"
approach by not having one....if the movement is decentralized and has no
leader it will spread like a chain reaction or a cell dividing and not feel
so threatening as a centralized leader operated movement.....

leader/follower polarity is more like a cancer growing getting larger and
larger until out of control....for example remember the scene in oregon with
rashnesh or osho as he is referred to now????.....or the current super power
leader bush vs the consensus of the united nations and NATO etc....is time
for the whole world to wake up to decentralized consensus if we are going to
survive on this planet with 6 billion people....

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