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Our credo is based on a passage taken from a 1986 paper by Dr. Harry Edhouse. In this paper he characterises the state of infancy as being like the tip of the growing stem of the family. This analogy neatly alludes both to the vulnerability of the new-born and the wider effect that its development has on the future of the family and therefore by implication, the future of humanity.
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"The growing tip of an ivy shoot, the tender, sensitive and responsive new growth is based upon and draws sustenance from the penultimate still growing flexible stem, in turn dependent upon the consolidated previously grown branch from the primordial trunk. Progress entails reaching out into the new environment from the vantage point of the old environment. Growth at the tip elicits and authenticates the growth at the trunk. Dynamically, growth inhibition reflects backwards as strongly as forwards, bonsai like.
A failure to grow an individual fully entails failure to be grown as an individual fully. Fulfillment of the species regenerative cycle entails being grown by the growth one gives rise to, the dynamic/organic pathway through which the personality is shaped and which produces growth-seeking behaviour."
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