The Different Drum: Community Making and Peace'The overall purpose of human communication is - or should be - reconciliation. It should ultimately serve to lower or remove the walls of misunderstanding which unduly separate us human beings, one from another...' Although we have developed the technology to make communication more efficent and to bring people closer together, we have failed to use it to build a true global community. Dr M. Scott Peck believes that if we are to prevent civilization destroying itself, we must urgently rebuild on all levels, local, national and international and that is the first step to spiritual survival. In this radical and challenging book, he describes how the communities work, how group action can be developed on the principles of tolerance and love, and how we can start to transform world society into a true community. |
Contents
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Individuals and the Fallacy of Rugged | 53 |
CHAPTER in The True Meaning of Community | 59 |
The Genesis of Community | 77 |
Stages of CommunityMaking | 86 |
Further Dynamics of Community 707 | 107 |
Community Maintenance | 136 |
Patterns of Transformation | 186 |
Emptiness | 209 |
Vulnerability | 226 |
Integration and Integrity | 234 |
Healthy or Sick? The Christian Church in the United | 257 |
The Heresy of the Church The Church as Battleground Signs of Hope The United States Government Balance of Power or Chaos? The Unreality of t... | 292 |
Postscript | 331 |
The Bridge | 165 |
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Page 24 - We must delight in each other, make others' conditions our own, rejoice together, mourn together, labor and suffer together: always having before our eyes our commission and community in the work, our community as members of the same body.
Page 18 - York that has had all symbols of particular religions removed. There is nothing there but some rows of chairs, a potted plant, and a shaft of light. Marya Mannes writes of this room: "It seemed to me standing there that this nothingness was so oppressive and disturbing that it became a sort of madness, and the room a sort of padded cell. It seemed to me that the core of our greatest contemporary trouble lay here, that all this whiteness and shapelessness and weakness was the leukemia of non-commitment,...