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Jeptha -> RE: Radical Honesty (6/6/2009 9:01:20 PM)
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I did look at a book of his recently and read what I thought was an interesting quote;
" Don't imagine that what you think is very important. It is all stuff you are making up."
He kind of couched it in a buddhist framework, with the idea that much of what we take for reality is illusion.
Then I had to bring the book back to the library.
Mebbe I'll get it out again sometime, though.
In the meantime, I wanted to post this, as I realize that it relates to something I rambled on about earlier in this thread. I'd read this as a kid, and it made an impression on me. Maybe it was rolling around in my subconscious when I was talking about therapy groups earlier (it is a therapy group of sorts....)
It describes "Mutual Criticism", a technique used in the Oneida Community, a late 19th century commune in upstate New York.
Members would take turns enduring the criticism of members of the community in a structured, but still free flowing way that was said to have been pretty intense.
"The system is one of plain truth-telling, and was termed "mutual" because it was expected that all, or nearly all, would alternate as critic and subject. Sometimes persons were criticized by a standing committee selected for the purpose by the Community, sometimes by committees of their own selection, sometimes by the whole Community. The critics were expected in all cases to speak the truth without fear or favour, that the subject might see himself, whatever his faults or virtues, as others saw him."
I've posted this before elsewhere - sorry for the repetition.
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