The New Collectiveism and the Dialectic As A Belief Changing Procedure
Bernard Pyron
The requirement that individuals be completely under the control of the
Party or the State is part of all totalitarian regimes, whether Marxist or Fascist.
This is where the Group Dynamics movement in experimental social psychology and the Encounter Group Movement relate to Transformational Marxism. The Group Dynamics movement found ways of manipulating groups and individuals in the groups, which was then applied in the Encounter Group movement.
The term "facilitator" is right out of the Encounter Group Movement of the sixties and seventies. Carl Rogers was one of the leaders of the Encounter Group movement,and with other facilitators under him,they ran encounter groups using the nuns of the
Sacred Heart of Mary in Southern California.
And we can say that the Dragon, or Serpent, used for the fallen angel Satain in the Book of Revelation, was the first facilitator in Genesis 3: 1-6.
In an interview called "The Story of a Repentant Psychologist" long after the
encounter groups were run on the Nuns in 1966 and 1967, one of Carl Rogers' facilitators says "Within a
year after our first interventions, 300 of them were petitioning Rome to get out
of their vows. They did not want to be under anyone's authority,
except the authority of their imperial inner selves."The interviewer
asks "How many years did it take to destroy this Immaculate Heart
order? Coulson: It took about a year and a half."
William Coulson's story of how Carl Rogers and a number of trained
facilitators of encounter group procedures "destroyed" the Sacred
Heart of Mary group in Southern California is an example of the power
of the dialectic as developed within American social and clinical
psychology by the mid sixties. When you have a group led by a trained
facilitator of the dialectic where the group is deliberately led to
avoid focusing upon facts as truth and absolute morality, and instead
the group is led to focus more on feelings and opinions, then you have
a group which is more ready for transformation. Such a group is one in which more traditional
reliance upon facts, or truths and on a fixed set of morals are given
up and whatever satisfies man's feelings and opinions, which are
derived from feelings, or emotions, take over.
“The individual accepts the new system of values and beliefs by
accepting belongingness to the group.” Kurt Lewin in Kenneth Benne
Human Relations in Curriculum Change
The type of group that Kurt Lewin, the flounder of Group Dynamics, is
talking about is a collective, unlike the cohesive family under the father
figure.
"And on the basis of this individual growth of each in our conditions a new
type of mighty socialist collective will in the long run be formed, where
“I” and “we” will merge into one inseparable whole. Such a collective can
only develop on the basis of profound ideological solidarity and an equally
profound emotional rapprochement, mutual understanding."
Nadezhda K. Krupskaya a, Letter to A. M. Gorky
The dialectic was further developed in the Encounter Group Movement by facilitators as a method for changing attitudes and beliefs, which became part of the new collectivist movement in America.
Some forms of the dialectic were popularized and used by the media, in education, by government and in the churches to some extent, especially in the mega church movement. Rick Warren used the dialectic in small groups.
Rick Warren said that "Small groups are the most effective way of closing the back door of your church."
But beyond Rick Warren's use of the Encounter Group attitude changing procedure, forms of the dialectic as a method of making an argument became popularly used in Christian dialogue.. Remember that we can see a dialogue as being necessary to set up the dialectic change procedure in Genesis 3: 1-6, where Satan deceived Eve into disobeying God. . In Chapter 8 of John the Pharisees were making arguments opposing the doctrines of Christ,who was there with them. They were using a form of the dialectic to argue against Christ's absolute truth.This is a second characteristic of the dialectic, making that which is absolute truth - the word of God - into the thesis and directly opposing it by an anti thesis.
"The dialectic is man thinking through his feelings. This is the reason God flooded the world and will judge the world again. "And as it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man." (Luke 17:26 )........."God cannot speak into the pre-flood, Tower of Babel, Sodom and Gomorrah, dialectic mind." Quotes from Dean Gotcher
The presence now of the dialectic mind could be an indication that the prophecy of Luke 17: 26 is starting to be fulfilled. The presence of the dialectic mind is a part of the spiritual darkness which is coming on at this time in history.
The dialectic is a way of making an argument against that which is true or moral. The dialectic mind rejects the truth of the word of God and makes an argument against it by use of dialogue.
Bernard Pyron
The requirement that individuals be completely under the control of the
Party or the State is part of all totalitarian regimes, whether Marxist or Fascist.
This is where the Group Dynamics movement in experimental social psychology and the Encounter Group Movement relate to Transformational Marxism. The Group Dynamics movement found ways of manipulating groups and individuals in the groups, which was then applied in the Encounter Group movement.
The term "facilitator" is right out of the Encounter Group Movement of the sixties and seventies. Carl Rogers was one of the leaders of the Encounter Group movement,and with other facilitators under him,they ran encounter groups using the nuns of the
Sacred Heart of Mary in Southern California.
And we can say that the Dragon, or Serpent, used for the fallen angel Satain in the Book of Revelation, was the first facilitator in Genesis 3: 1-6.
In an interview called "The Story of a Repentant Psychologist" long after the
encounter groups were run on the Nuns in 1966 and 1967, one of Carl Rogers' facilitators says "Within a
year after our first interventions, 300 of them were petitioning Rome to get out
of their vows. They did not want to be under anyone's authority,
except the authority of their imperial inner selves."The interviewer
asks "How many years did it take to destroy this Immaculate Heart
order? Coulson: It took about a year and a half."
William Coulson's story of how Carl Rogers and a number of trained
facilitators of encounter group procedures "destroyed" the Sacred
Heart of Mary group in Southern California is an example of the power
of the dialectic as developed within American social and clinical
psychology by the mid sixties. When you have a group led by a trained
facilitator of the dialectic where the group is deliberately led to
avoid focusing upon facts as truth and absolute morality, and instead
the group is led to focus more on feelings and opinions, then you have
a group which is more ready for transformation. Such a group is one in which more traditional
reliance upon facts, or truths and on a fixed set of morals are given
up and whatever satisfies man's feelings and opinions, which are
derived from feelings, or emotions, take over.
“The individual accepts the new system of values and beliefs by
accepting belongingness to the group.” Kurt Lewin in Kenneth Benne
Human Relations in Curriculum Change
The type of group that Kurt Lewin, the flounder of Group Dynamics, is
talking about is a collective, unlike the cohesive family under the father
figure.
"And on the basis of this individual growth of each in our conditions a new
type of mighty socialist collective will in the long run be formed, where
“I” and “we” will merge into one inseparable whole. Such a collective can
only develop on the basis of profound ideological solidarity and an equally
profound emotional rapprochement, mutual understanding."
Nadezhda K. Krupskaya a, Letter to A. M. Gorky
The dialectic was further developed in the Encounter Group Movement by facilitators as a method for changing attitudes and beliefs, which became part of the new collectivist movement in America.
Some forms of the dialectic were popularized and used by the media, in education, by government and in the churches to some extent, especially in the mega church movement. Rick Warren used the dialectic in small groups.
Rick Warren said that "Small groups are the most effective way of closing the back door of your church."
But beyond Rick Warren's use of the Encounter Group attitude changing procedure, forms of the dialectic as a method of making an argument became popularly used in Christian dialogue.. Remember that we can see a dialogue as being necessary to set up the dialectic change procedure in Genesis 3: 1-6, where Satan deceived Eve into disobeying God. . In Chapter 8 of John the Pharisees were making arguments opposing the doctrines of Christ,who was there with them. They were using a form of the dialectic to argue against Christ's absolute truth.This is a second characteristic of the dialectic, making that which is absolute truth - the word of God - into the thesis and directly opposing it by an anti thesis.
"The dialectic is man thinking through his feelings. This is the reason God flooded the world and will judge the world again. "And as it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man." (Luke 17:26 )........."God cannot speak into the pre-flood, Tower of Babel, Sodom and Gomorrah, dialectic mind." Quotes from Dean Gotcher
The presence now of the dialectic mind could be an indication that the prophecy of Luke 17: 26 is starting to be fulfilled. The presence of the dialectic mind is a part of the spiritual darkness which is coming on at this time in history.
The dialectic is a way of making an argument against that which is true or moral. The dialectic mind rejects the truth of the word of God and makes an argument against it by use of dialogue.
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