Hello to all you power mongers:)

Here is the link to a downloadable copy of my book - it will come as a pdf and take a few minutes to download but at least it's free....

Maybe not completely free...I would like anyone who reads it to post a critique here.

As I said it was scheduled to be published in April 08 - but as bad luck would have it the company closed.

Someone in class suggested that they would publish it...if you have a contact or can make it happen I am going to be open to this again starting this summer. Let me know...

Information is only valuable when it is shared:)

Best wishes to you all

Les


www.frankmaidens.com/RAIN/OHP2008guts_MARCH.pdf

Power

Mostly, Les, I appreciate the scrutiny of life in general. I have explored, questioned, and tried to understand power, where I stand, where I wish to stand....ultimately, I look to my internal power, my mind's perception of a situation and my ability to accept, dismiss or reject it on some level or another. We all give a little to get a little. We just need to decide where the line of giving is too much, when we have given too much of ourselves so we are now undiscerned from another. We give until we are no longer identifiable as an individual, but as a part of another, bigger picture that may contain parts we may not have agreed with but there it is, part of us now. Mmmm...got to go, but I still feel love is the greatest power and is simply not definable, not teachable, only something we experience and need to exist with any level of feeling of control or power.

Ellen

Power course

Hello Class and Les,

My first blog was lost in space that I wrote, and now this blog is nearing the end of a very enlightening semester. Thanks, Les, for your time and care in presenting power dynamics. I will read your book on my holidays...mainly because college profs keep me too busy for extracurricular reading!

I would like to say that the concept of power is exciting...disseminating it really made me think about my life, and the way I deal with people and situations. I do believe that love is not a mechanism of power but is the greatest power of all...mind you I missed the second half of class for a marketing team meeting...power struggle extreme! Perhaps, Les, you made it clear why love is a "mechanism" of power like money, etc. Perhaps the meaning of mechanism was not clear enough to me. Of all power, love is the most uncontrollable...as proven in your movie requirement "Love Naturally". We cannot figure out how why or how we react, it is physical, automatic, primal, and we make the conscious decision not to act on this primal physical draw because we have elevated our emotions above the raw animalistic reaction to simple desire.

Isn't love the ultimate example of power. We cannot escape the need for love. There is no growth, no development of humans without love, human affectionate contact. That is the ultimate power...the giving or the withdrawal of love.

Well, just a thought.

Ellen