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an expert -- you know the technique, you know the know-how -- and others are just human beings. A distance arises.
It is good to express your fears -- you become more human. It is good to say that you are also a human being; that you are not perfect, but a human being.
Of course you are leading the group, but you are as much a participant as the others. You are as prone to commit errors as others. You have your own problems -- it is not that your problems are solved, and you can play around with the attitude of 'holier than you'. Otherwise a distance arises, and that distance will make you tense. It is not going to help you, and it is not going to help others.
These groups are not part of what is called expertise. No knowing is needed. But remain human, relaxed, and be always ready to accept that you have made a mistake. That will make a bridge between you and the participants. They will have much more feeling for you. And once they see that you are also human just like them, they will feel more relaxed with you.
And that is my whole purpose here. In these groups, by and by I would like that the difference between the leader and the led disappears. In fact the totality becomes the leader. The group mind becomes the leader... the collective consciousness becomes the leader. And the leader is, at the most, just to give directions so that time is not wasted. Otherwise, even without a leader it can come to a conclusion. It will take a little longer, that's all. I am thinking about that too....
After a few months, I am going to start a group without any leaders; just the participants. But those will be the people who have passed through all the groups. Even leaders can participate in it -- but they will be just participants, not leaders. Just the total mind, mm? Just the group consciousness leads wherever.
It will take a little longer time, but it will come to better conclusions than any leader-led group. Because the very effort to lead brings a resistance into the led. It is so automatic that nobody is aware of it. The leader is not aware that behind the curtain of leadership he may have started manipulating; that the ego may
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