Meta-Power Thoughts at SSREC Conference.

Ok, do you get more power from being unified with yourself? Or is power like atoms, where fission creates a burst of energy (like lightning from a stone or heat in a reactor)? And, to extend the nuclear metaphor, perhaps self-division ultimately has toxic consequences. In social movements, groups want to be harmonious, otherwise risk dispersion. But its the fissures, the dissent, that brings about change/action/newness/rebirth in the first place. Am I conflating power and energy? Should I not?