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exteriorize what the mind has formed or formulated. Thus four factors are involved, and
none can be omitted from a truly transpersonal process or vertical relationship.
A transpersonal activity usually requires the ability to act positively and effectively as
a person amidst other persons, thus in terms of horizontal relationships. Such an ability
demonstrates the existence of adequately formed instrumentalities of mind and will and a
relatively autonomous approach to life. Nevertheless, the person's activity, thinking, and
feeling is transpersonal only when these instrumentalities are placed at the service of
processes operating at a higher, more inclusive level of being.
At the service — this is the essential key to the true meaning of hierarchical order and
transpersonal action. Yet in our self-consciously and indiscriminately egalitarian society,
the word service has negative connotations unless applied to the maintenance and repair
of machines or to "self-service." No one wants to be a servant any longer, because service
implies a difference of levels, a vertical relationship between two classes of people, and
some kind of hierarchical structure. But if all persons are equal to all others, without any
legitimate distinctions, interpersonal relationships are always horizontal.
Several interrelated persons constitute a group or community in which the persons are
expected to act positively and responsibly to further the group's decisions and aims. Yet
even a wholehearted devotion to the group's purpose is not considered "service," because
each member is supposed to have actively and equally participated in the generation and
formulation of this purpose which — it is believed — did not exist prior to the deliberation
of the group. If the purpose is believed to have existed before-hand, it was only as an
unformulated answer to a collective need or desire, probably one of several possible
answers.
From a holarchic point of view, any meaningful and valid collective need already has
an archetypal answer. The answer is not only potential but based on planetary or cosmic
principles of organization which need only (a big "only"!) to be brought to a particular
focus to fit an existing situation or one soon to develop. The focalizing process requires a
transpersonal agent who is self-established, self-reliant, and mentally, emotionally, and
dynamically effective at the level of culture and personhood. A group can act as such an
agent, but one individual in the group usually is the "inspirited" focus for the
transpersonal transmission of the archetypal ideal. Nevertheless, the interaction of two,
three, or more minds may be needed to clarify the need of the larger community (or of
mankind as a whole) and to formulate the words (even initially the collective "feeling") of
the answer to it.
The performer of any truly transpersonal act should be aware (at least during or
immediately after the performance) that a superior reality beyond his or her normal
personal self is seeking an "actor" to play a part required in a larger system of activities.
Thus a religiously conditioned person aspiring to transpersonal agenthood may say to the
God of his or her inner life, "Thy will be done, not mine." But this God may well be only a
word or image needed to condense, unify, and personalize everything transcending the
everyday realities of personhood, matter, and life. This all-purpose condensation may
obscure the existence of levels of being which actually can be reached by human efforts or
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