Contents

AUTHOR'S NOTES    xii

 

PART ONE: STRATEGIC BACKGROUND VISTAS
REGARDING EMPOWERMENT
  3

1. The Complex Labyrinth of Powerdom   3

2. Two Major Concepts of Power  9

3. The Hidden Status Quo Relationship Between
    the Powerless and the Powerful  15

4. Our Human Power Species  21

5. The Role of Secrecy In Designing a Power Structure  27

 

PART 2: THE SOCIETAL PANORAMA OF POWER   33

6. Societal Power vs the Absence of Power Schools  33

7. The Web of Secrets Preventing Access to Empowerment  41

8. The Traditional Power Pyramid  49

9. Four Generic Kinds of Individual and Societal Power  57

10. Empowerment and Depowerment versus Power Games  69

11. "Rules" For Power Deployed Within Powerdom   75

 

PART 3: THE SITUATION OF POWER PERSONAL  83

12. The Ongoing Dichotomy of Individual and Societal Power  83

13. Indigenuous Depowerment and Personal Empowerment   89

14. Power Energies Magnified vis a vis Those who Don't Have Power  95

15. You—And Your Power  101

16. On Having a Sense of Power  109

17. Personal Power versus Local Circumstances and Frames of Reference  117

 

PART 4: GETTING BEYOND SOCIETAL, GROUP, AND
INDIVIDUAL VERSIONS OF POWER  125

18. Closed-Loop Versions of Power  125

19. Power—Intelligence—Smarts   129

20. Evocative Power, Intelligence, and Smarts  133

21. The Intelligences and the Innate Potentials   147

22. Two Pro-Active Vehicles of Power: Will and Dynamism  155

 

PART 5: SUBTLE CONTEXTS RELATING TO
EMPOWERMENT   163

23. Subtle Distinctions Between Unfoldment and Development  163

24. The Direct Connection to Power of Significance and Insignificance  171

25. Empowerment versus the Dumbing-Down of Human Sensing Systems  181

26. Human Sensing Systems, Power Motion, and Power Flows   193

27. The Forgotten Connection of Power and Potency  203

28. Where Do Individual and Societal Powers Begin or Start?  211

 

SUGGESTED READING    217

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