Consultation

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Consultation  (1985) by John E. Kolstoe
A Universal Lamp of Guidance

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Dedication
Notes and Acknowledgements
Introduction

  1. Take Ye Counsel Together
    The Lamp of Guidance
    The Nature of Bahá’í Consultation
    The Bedrock of the World Order
  2. How to Consult
    The Prime Requisites
    The Two Conditions
    Procedures
  3. Making Decisions
    Collective Decision
    Who Makes the Final Decision?
  4. Improving Consultation
    Necessary Skills
    Points to Remember
    Summary
  5. Spiritual Assemblies
    Spirit
    Form
    Leadership
    Functions of Officers
    Practical Considerations
    Paper Assemblies
    When Decisions are Wrong
  6. Other Institutions
    Institution of the ‘Learned’
    The Family
    The Nineteen Day Feast
    The Fund
    Summer Schools
    Conventions
  7. Weaving the Social Fabric
    Deepening
    Teaching
    Informal Settings
    Business and Professional Affairs
    The Non-Bahá’í World
  8. Individual Differences and Consultation
    The True Self
    Physical, Emotional and Spiritual Needs
    Perceptions
    Credibility
  9. The Search for Truth
    Understanding, Real and Imagined
    Understanding from Consultation
    Four Methods of Comprehension
    Illuminating the Search
    Unity in Diversity
  10. Spiritual Battles
    Tests and Difficulties
    Sources of Tests
    Stress
    Searching for Solutions
  11. Challenges to Unity
    Common Annoyances
    Enduring Inefficiency
    Attitudes toward Success
    Conflicting Feelings
  12. Serious Disturbances
    Emotional Problems
    Confrontations
    Lying
    Contentiousness
    Jealousy and the Quest for Leadership
    Covenant-breaking
  13. Creating a Healing
    Attitudes
    Actions
    Complete and Enduring Unity
  14. Reflections on Consultation
    Ebb and Flow
    Consultation and the Formative Age
    The Legacy

Epilogue
Key to References