The members of this group have to love power. But not the power of self over others; rather, the power of selves and others, the power to self-organize in complex fashions—transpersonal power (“transpersonal” is explained in the following chapter). Not your power or mine, but yes, the brutal capability to coordinate living systems, to make events come into being. What we think of as oppressive power is really an expression of imbalances of power, between rich and poor, privileged and deprived, humans and non-human animals.[51]
