There is an important word in theology for this endeavor: Kenosis, which is the process of the self emptying itself or self.
The essence of the message of the great spiritual masters throughout human history; We need to pare away our egos, the paradox the "Whosoever will lose his life for My sake shall find it." paraphrased: "Whoever is willing to lose his ego will find his soul."
We need to pare away our ego's.
The image used in Christianity for the goal of the Kenotic process is that of the empty vessel. We need to retain enough of our ego - the governing part or our personality - to be a functioning container. Otherwise we would have no identity at all.
So we have returned once again to this crucial matter of emptiness.
It will be remembered that Christ spoke of it as the Key to the unlearning and the relearning that we must go through all of our lives if we are to grow and to become as healed and fully human as possible.
It will also be remembered that Jesus spoke of how much this unlearning feels like dying.
Now is the time to describe all the stages of growth that routinely occur when groups deliberately attempt to form themselves into communities.
Through mortise we practice kenosis.
While some have overdone it, nonetheless they were on to something, the fact that not only individuals but also groups need to go through a kenotic process of self-emptying in order to become and stay healthy.
Divine Spiritual warriors note back to us the crucial stage of the community-building process we have labeled "emptiness".
Now it is time to describe all the stages of growth that routinely occur when groups deliberately attempt to form themselves into community.
Pseudo-community's anthem.
In order to avoid the pain of unlearning and change, when groups assemble to form community, they first pretend that they already are a community.
The basic pretense is that all members are the same, a pretense that is sustained by the practice of an "Unwritten" set of Rules that everyone knows: Good Manners.
In this stage, members are exquisitely polite to each other in order to avoid any disagreement in their desire to Deny their individual differences.
But in reality is that people, with their unique Souls as well as egos, are all different, which is why this pretense of Pseudocommunity defines sameness is what are truly destined to continually reside in failure with dire consequence's attached up to forever more.
Organized greed 'CHAOS'
Politico's do not like to be easily healed or fixed, so in a short time they start trying to heal the self-appointed followed by attempting to convert the self-appointed healers to convert the self- appointed converters.
The Wow here = over glorified Chaos that is Noisy, Argumentative, and Unproductive or its simple English: No one listens to anyone else.
There are only three ways out of chaos. One is to revert to an even more profound pseudocommunity. Another is to organize away chaos by creating departmentalized committees and subcommittees: but such organization is never in and of self "Community".
The third and most proven way is "into and through emptiness."
When a sufficient number of members of either political group begin to hear God sent ordained community , what then begins to happen is a very painful, gradual process of (Boys Clubs) emptying themselves of the barriers to communication.
The most common barriers include expectations, preconceptions, prejudices, rigidity of ideology or theology, and the needs to heal, convert, fix, of solve.
As groups enter this crucial stage of Emptiness-
The most critical stage of it's leaning;
it looks very much like an organism
that has totally lost its way.
Indeed, the feeling is like dying.
This is the time of Kenosis.
When community under God hangs in their together -
as, amazingly, occurs almost all the time with proper leadership.
This work of Kenosis or dying will succeed,
and from it renewal will emerge.
Share Reference: M.Scott Peck M.D. - The Road Less Traveled and Beyond.
WHAT IS TRUE PRAYER? AS SLOW LEARNERS TIME AND AGAIN THE HOLY SPIRIT MUST REEDUCATE MANY; SUCH IS RIGHT CONSCIOUSNESS,RIGHT COMMUNITY, RIGHT LOVE AND RIGHT SOUL ALL WHICH HAVE SOMETHING TO DO WITH GOD.
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