The Different Drum: Community Making and Peace

Intro
 Dedication
 Acknowledgments
 Prologue
 Introduction
 Part I: The Foundation
 Chapter I: Stumbling into Community
 Friends Seminary, 1952-54
 California, February 1967
 Okinawa, 1968-69
 Bethel, Maine, June 1972
 Chapter II: Individuals and the Fallacy of Rugged Individualism
 Chapter III: The True Meaning of Community
 Inclusivity, Commitment, and Consensus
 Realism
 Contemplation
 A Safe Place
 A Laboratory for Personal Disarmament
 A Group That Can Fight Gracefully
 A Group of All Leaders
 A Spirit
 Chapter IV: The Genesis of Community
 Crisis and Community
 Community by Accident Community by DesignChapter V: Stages of Community-Making
 Pseudocommunity
 Chaos
 Emptiness
 Community
 Chapter VI: Further Dynamics of Community
 Patterns of Group Behavior
 Interventions in Group Behavior
 Community Size
 Community Duration
 Commitment to Community
 Community Exercises
 Chapter VII: Community Maintenance
 The Order of St. Aloysius (OSA)
 The Basement Group
 Maintenance or Death?
 Part II: The Bridge
 Chapter VIII: Human Nature
 The Problem of Pluralism
 The Illusion of Human Nature
 The Capacity for Transformation
 Realism, Idealism, and Romanticism Chapter IX: Patterns of TransformationThe Stages of Spiritual Growth
 Transcending Culture
 Israel
 Chapter X: Emptiness
 Chapter XI: Vulnerability
 Chapter XII: Integration and Integrity
 What Is Missing?
 Paradox and Heresy
 Blasphemy and Hope
 Part III: The Solution
 Chapter XIII: Community and Communication
 Chapter XIV: Dimensions of the Arms Race
 The Arms Race as Institution
 The Psychology of Helplessness
 The Psychiatry of Force
 The Obsolescence of the Nation-State System
 The Arms Race as a Game
 The Unspoken Payoff
 Nationalism: Healthy or Sick? Chapter XV: The Christian Church in the United StatesWhere Are You, Jesus?
 The Maundy Thursday Revolution
 Pseudodocetism: The Heresy of the Church
 The Church as Battleground
 Signs of Hope
 Chapter XVI: The United States Government
 Balance of Power or Chaos?
 The Unreality of the American Presidency
 Toward a Community Presidency
 Chapter XVII: Empowerment
 What to Do Now?
 Postscript
 About M. Scott Peck
 Copyright