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There’s a new movement coming to Rappahannock County.
Though it advocates peace, it’s not political, and you won’t find its converts marching in the streets, or canvassing door to door.
It’s quiet, and it works on the inner spirit.
It’s the Inner Peace Movement, and in the last few years several ■ hundred people in neighboring counties have found help in dealing with the stress which faces them in their daily lives.
“It’s not a program which people join. There are no dues. It’s not a religion, and not a philosophy,” said Richard Lassiter, a Fauquier County resident who has become a spokesman for the movement. ' Although the program is set up like a college, with different courses . for different interests, there’s not a lot of talking and not a lot of reading. People are free, Mr. Lassiter said, . “to sample until their cup is full, and then back off. When they are ready for more, they come back.”
Inner Peace, said Susan Baccei, “allows us to begin looking to ourselves for answers, to work from our own feelings out rather than looking to others for answers.” She began practicing the I PM techniques five years ago, while a college student. . “It’s a stepping-stone process,” she said.
For Jeffrey Pitts, another Fauquier resident who has been involved with IPM for three years, it has become “an inroad to unfold my sensitivity, to help me interact with other people.” In his business, as proprietor of Class V Outfitters in Warrenton, “it helps me deal with different personality types.” And, he said, it has given him new insight into his own gifts and strengths.
For Mr. Lassiter, his 14 years practicing the techniques of IPM have left him with “a real secure
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