co-operation

• kindred minds incline toward

16:6.3The fact of the cos­mic mind ex­plains the kin­ship of var­i­ous types of hu­man and super­hu­man minds. Not only are kin­dred spir­its at­tracted to each other, but kin­dred minds are also very fra­ter­nal and in­clined to­wards co-op­er­a­tion the one with the other. Hu­man minds are some­times ob­served to be run­ning in chan­nels of as­ton­ish­ing sim­i­lar­ity and in­ex­pli­ca­ble agree­ment.

• few are the duties for the lone servant
• teamwork is one of most important lessons

28:5.14These are the an­gels who fos­ter and pro­mote the team­work of all Or­von­ton. One of the most im­por­tant lessons to be learned dur­ing your mor­tal ca­reer is team­work. The spheres of per­fec­tion are manned by those who have mas­tered this art of work­ing with other be­ings. Few are the du­ties in the uni­verse for the lone ser­vant. The higher you as­cend, the more lonely you be­come when tem­porar­ily with­out the as­so­ci­a­tion of your fel­lows.

• learning to plan with other and wiser beings; quickener of morality seraphim teach

39:4.104. Quick­en­ers of Moral­ity. On the man­sion worlds you be­gin to learn self-gov­ern­ment for the ben­e­fit of all con­cerned. Your mind learns co-op­er­a­tion, learns how to plan with other and wiser be­ings. On the sys­tem head­quar­ters the se­raphic teach­ers will fur­ther quicken your ap­pre­ci­a­tion of cos­mic moral­ity—of the in­ter­ac­tions of lib­erty and loy­alty.

• ability to effectively co-operate learned on Edentia

43:8.4On the man­sion worlds you com­pleted the uni­fi­ca­tion of the evolv­ing mor­tal per­son­al­ity; on the sys­tem cap­i­tal you at­tained Je­ru­sem cit­i­zen­ship and achieved the will­ing­ness to sub­mit the self to the dis­ci­plines of group ac­tiv­i­ties and co-or­di­nated un­der­tak­ings; but now on the con­stel­la­tion train­ing worlds you are to achieve the real so­cial­iza­tion of your evolv­ing mor­ontia per­son­al­ity. This su­per­nal cul­tural ac­quire­ment con­sists in learn­ing how to:

43:8.51. Live hap­pily and work ef­fec­tively with ten di­verse fel­low mor­ontians, while ten such groups are as­so­ci­ated in com­pa­nies of one hun­dred and then fed­er­ated in corps of one thou­sand.

43:8.62. Abide joy­fully and co-op­er­ate heart­ily with ten uni­v­i­ta­tia, who, though sim­i­lar in­tel­lec­tu­ally to mor­ontia be­ings, are very dif­fer­ent in ev­ery other way. And then must you func­tion with this group of ten as it co-or­di­nates with ten other fam­i­lies, which are in turn con­fed­er­ated into a corps of one thou­sand uni­v­i­ta­tia.

43:8.73. Achieve si­mul­ta­ne­ous ad­just­ment to both fel­low mor­ontians and these host uni­v­i­ta­tia. Ac­quire the abil­ity vol­un­tar­ily and ef­fec­tively to co-op­er­ate with your own or­der of be­ings in close work­ing as­so­ci­a­tion with a some­what dis­sim­i­lar group of in­tel­li­gent crea­tures.

43:8.84. While thus so­cially func­tion­ing with be­ings like and un­like your­self, achieve in­tel­lec­tual har­mony with, and make vo­ca­tional ad­just­ment to, both groups of as­so­ciates.

43:8.95. While at­tain­ing sat­is­fac­tory so­cial­iza­tion of the per­son­al­ity on in­tel­lec­tual and vo­ca­tional lev­els, fur­ther per­fect the abil­ity to live in in­ti­mate con­tact with sim­i­lar and slightly dis­sim­i­lar be­ings with ever-less­en­ing ir­ri­tabil­ity and ever-di­min­ish­ing re­sent­ment. The re­ver­sion di­rec­tors con­tribute much to this lat­ter at­tain­ment through their group-play ac­tiv­i­ties.

43:8.106. Ad­just all of these var­i­ous so­cial­iza­tion tech­niques to the fur­ther­ance of the pro­gres­sive co-or­di­na­tion of the Par­a­dise-as­cen­sion ca­reer; aug­ment uni­verse in­sight by en­hanc­ing the abil­ity to grasp the eter­nal goal-mean­ings con­cealed within these seem­ingly in­signif­i­cant time-space ac­tiv­i­ties.

43:8.117. And then, cli­max all of these pro­ce­dures of mul­ti­so­cial­iza­tion with the con­cur­rent en­hance­ment of spir­i­tual in­sight as it per­tains to the aug­men­ta­tion of all phases of per­sonal en­dow­ment through group spir­i­tual as­so­ci­a­tion and mor­ontia co-or­di­na­tion. In­tel­lec­tu­ally, so­cially, and spir­i­tu­ally two moral crea­tures do not merely dou­ble their per­sonal po­ten­tials of uni­verse achieve­ment by part­ner­ship tech­nique; they more nearly quadru­ple their at­tain­ment and ac­com­plish­ment pos­si­bil­i­ties.

• mortals should co-operate with universe managers

65:5.3The uni­verse of uni­verses, in­clud­ing this small world called Uran­tia, is not be­ing man­aged merely to meet our ap­proval nor just to suit our con­ve­nience, much less to grat­ify our whims and sat­isfy our cu­rios­ity. The wise and all-pow­er­ful be­ings who are re­spon­si­ble for uni­verse man­age­ment un­doubt­edly know ex­actly what they are about; and so it be­comes Life Car­ri­ers and be­hooves mor­tal minds to en­list in pa­tient wait­ing and hearty co-op­er­a­tion with the rule of wis­dom, the reign of power, and the march of prog­ress.

• Prince’s staff taught teamwork

66:7.6Fad spon­sored the Dala­ma­tia plan of teach­ing that was car­ried out as an in­dus­trial school in which the pupils learned by do­ing, and through which they worked their way by the daily per­for­mance of use­ful tasks. This plan of ed­u­ca­tion did not ig­nore think­ing and feel­ing in the de­vel­op­ment of char­ac­ter; but it gave first place to man­ual train­ing. The in­struc­tion was in­di­vid­ual and col­lec­tive. The pupils were taught by both men and women and by the two act­ing con­jointly. One half of this group in­struc­tion was by sexes; the other half was co­ed­u­ca­tional. Stu­dents were taught man­ual dex­ter­ity as in­di­vid­u­als and were so­cial­ized in groups or classes. They were trained to frat­er­nize with younger groups, older groups, and adults, as well as to do team­work with those of their own ages. They were also fa­mil­iar­ized with such as­so­ci­a­tions as fam­ily groups, play squads, and school classes.

• not natural trait of man

68:1.3Prim­i­tive so­ci­ety was thus founded on the reci­procity of ne­ces­sity and on the en­hanced safety of as­so­ci­a­tion. And hu­man so­ci­ety has evolved in age­long cy­cles as a re­sult of this iso­la­tion fear and by means of re­luc­tant co-op­er­a­tion.

68:1.4Prim­i­tive hu­man be­ings early learned that groups are vastly greater and stronger than the mere sum of their in­di­vid­ual units. One hun­dred men united and work­ing in uni­son can move a great stone; a score of well-trained guard­i­ans of the peace can re­strain an an­gry mob. And so so­ci­ety was born, not of mere as­so­ci­a­tion of num­bers, but rather as a re­sult of the or­ga­ni­za­tion of in­tel­li­gent co-op­er­a­tors. But co-op­er­a­tion is not a nat­u­ral trait of man; he learns to co-op­er­ate first through fear and then later be­cause he dis­cov­ers it is most ben­e­fi­cial in meet­ing the dif­fi­cul­ties of time and guard­ing against the sup­posed per­ils of eter­nity.

• more efficient than competition in advanced civilizations

71:5.3Through­out the ear­lier ages of any world, com­pe­ti­tion is es­sen­tial to pro­gres­sive civ­i­liza­tion. As the evo­lu­tion of man pro­gresses, co-op­er­a­tion be­comes in­creas­ingly ef­fec­tive. In ad­vanced civ­i­liza­tions co-op­er­a­tion is more ef­fi­cient than com­pe­ti­tion. Early man is stim­u­lated by com­pe­ti­tion. Early evo­lu­tion is char­ac­ter­ized by the sur­vival of the bi­o­log­i­cally fit, but later civ­i­liza­tions are the bet­ter pro­moted by in­tel­li­gent co-op­er­a­tion, un­der­stand­ing fra­ter­nity, and spir­i­tual broth­er­hood.

• civilization dependent on enthusiastic and effective load-pulling spirit

81:6.3412. The will­ing­ness to co-op­er­ate. One of the great hin­drances to the prog­ress of hu­man so­ci­ety is the con­flict be­tween the in­ter­ests and wel­fare of the larger, more so­cial­ized hu­man groups and of the smaller, con­trary-minded aso­cial as­so­ci­a­tions of man­kind, not to men­tion an­ti­so­cially-minded sin­gle in­di­vid­u­als.

81:6.35No na­tional civ­i­liza­tion long en­dures un­less its ed­u­ca­tional meth­ods and re­li­gious ide­als in­spire a high type of in­tel­li­gent pa­tri­o­tism and na­tional de­vo­tion. With­out this sort of in­tel­li­gent pa­tri­o­tism and cul­tural sol­i­dar­ity, all na­tions tend to dis­in­te­grate as a re­sult of provin­cial jeal­ousies and lo­cal self-in­ter­ests.

81:6.36The main­te­nance of world-wide civ­i­liza­tion is de­pen­dent on hu­man be­ings learn­ing how to live to­gether in peace and fra­ter­nity. With­out ef­fec­tive co-or­di­na­tion, in­dus­trial civ­i­liza­tion is jeop­ar­dized by the dan­gers of ul­tra­spe­cial­iza­tion: mo­not­ony, nar­row­ness, and the ten­dency to breed dis­trust and jeal­ousy.

• teamwork depends on leadership

81:6.3713. Ef­fec­tive and wise lead­er­ship. In civ­i­liza­tion much, very much, de­pends on an en­thu­si­as­tic and ef­fec­tive load-pulling spirit. Ten men are of lit­tle more value than one in lift­ing a great load un­less they lift to­gether—all at the same mo­ment. And such team­work—so­cial co-op­er­a­tion—is de­pen­dent on lead­er­ship. The cul­tural civ­i­liza­tions of the past and the pres­ent have been based upon the in­tel­li­gent co-op­er­a­tion of the cit­i­zenry with wise and pro­gres­sive lead­ers; and un­til man evolves to higher lev­els, civ­i­liza­tion will con­tinue to be de­pen­dent on wise and vig­or­ous lead­er­ship.

• marriage highest manifestation of antagonistic c.

84:6.2Ev­ery suc­cess­ful hu­man in­sti­tu­tion em­braces an­tag­o­nisms of per­sonal in­ter­est which have been ad­justed to prac­ti­cal work­ing har­mony, and home­mak­ing is no ex­cep­tion. Mar­riage, the ba­sis of home build­ing, is the high­est man­i­fes­ta­tion of that an­tag­o­nis­tic co-op­er­a­tion which so of­ten char­ac­ter­izes the con­tacts of na­ture and so­ci­ety. The con­flict is in­ev­i­ta­ble. Mat­ing is in­her­ent; it is nat­u­ral. But mar­riage is not bi­o­logic; it is so­ci­o­logic. Pas­sion in­sures that man and woman will come to­gether, but the weaker pa­ren­tal in­stinct and the so­cial mores hold them to­gether.

• on basis of unity of ideals rather than beliefs

99:5.7Just as cer­tainly as men share their re­li­gious be­liefs, they cre­ate a re­li­gious group of some sort which even­tu­ally cre­ates com­mon goals. Some­day re­li­gion­ists will get to­gether and ac­tu­ally ef­fect co-op­er­a­tion on the ba­sis of unity of ide­als and pur­poses rather than at­tempt­ing to do so on the ba­sis of psy­cho­log­i­cal opin­ions and the­o­log­i­cal be­liefs. Goals rather than creeds should unify re­li­gion­ists. Since true re­li­gion is a mat­ter of per­sonal spir­i­tual ex­pe­ri­ence, it is in­ev­i­ta­ble that each in­di­vid­ual re­li­gion­ist must have his own and per­sonal in­ter­pre­ta­tion of the re­al­iza­tion of that spir­i­tual ex­pe­ri­ence. Let the term “faith” stand for the in­di­vid­ual’s re­la­tion to God rather than for the creedal for­mu­la­tion of what some group of mor­tals have been able to agree upon as a com­mon re­li­gious at­ti­tude. “Have you faith? Then have it to your­self.”