![\"Eric](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/feb28.jpg?resize=190%2C254&ssl=1\" "\\"Eric")
My primary objection is this. Some individuals who consider themselves in positions of “national leadership” or even community leadership are doing so under pseudonyms and some feel they cannot reveal their real identities, even if that is off the record. To me this seems odd because the whole point of polyamory is transparency. Presumably that is the only thing that separates it from its cosmic counterpart, cheating.<\/p>\n
I know personally nearly everyone in the room; there are a few exceptions. I know friends of most of them, who I trust to vouch for them. So it’s not like I think I’m sitting in a room full of spies. However, I feel passionately that if you are going to put yourself in a position of representing the public, we are all entitled to know who you are, and the things you say belong on the record<\/p>\n
The work I do, the positions I take in life and the things that I reveal about myself create certain debilities that might prevent me from participating in certain things, and I don’t participate because either because I cannot, or because I don’t want to get in anyone’s way. I would love to be Barack Obama’s astrologer, but that is probably not a good idea for his sake. My investigative reporting pisses off plenty of people, but I sign my name to it. There are scientists who will not take me seriously as a science reporter because I am also an astrologer, Kepler notwithstanding. I don’t attempt to participate in these things by concealing my true identity or my beliefs<\/p>\n
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There is a place and time for secrecy, though generally you can be sure that someone who is practicing secrecy has an agenda that is not good for the rest of us. I don’t sense any dark agendas here, though I don’t sense much potential for progress, either. Being polyamorous is about being honest. It’s also about holding others to be honest, and if you want to do that, start with your name. And if you cannot state your name, then step away from the microphone.<\/p>\n
I learned on my way out the door that the confidentiality and transparency issues were slugged out behind the scenes for days on end prior to this conversation tonight; and that my closest friends took the same position I am taking, but they need to be here because they organized the summit in the first place. They were extremely sympathetic to my sentiment that everyone involved be willing to place their driver’s license on the table; and that the meeting and conversation be completely transparent. I said out loud tonight that the doors to the room belong open<\/p>\n
So, I am out of affinity with this group, and opt to not participate on this level on what are essentially religious grounds. Here in the Quaker state, I am exercising my prerogative as a Quaker<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n Back tomorrow with a look ahead at this week’s super interesting astrology, and tonight I look forward into diving into The Alphabet Versus the Goddess<\/em>. This is a cool book about how the development of written word serves to support the left brain and therefore the supremacy of men and male thinking over women and right brain types of thought process. I think in some odd way I experienced that tonight.<\/p>\n Yours & truly, Dear Friend and Reader: I have bowed out of participating in the National Polyamory Leadership Summit today and tomorrow. After a lengthy group discussion of confidentiality taking up most of the first evening, I have politely resigned on the grounds of what I will call excess confidentiality. I will not go so far as to … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12079"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12079\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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