This-essay is a7309093.htm which is available at the web-site www.essayz.com. See more notes at the bottom. Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay By-Months By-Years By-Words Webs of Like-&-Un-Like ESSAYS <==> Like-&-UN-Like This-One ========================================================== %CEASE TO LIVE 730909 As an organism ceases to use available channels of communication---it ceases to live. The dead organism is unresponsive to others. It may be used as a thing, without awareness and without objection. Mutual awareness is impossible. The functioning organism gives as well as receives. The organism which is always receiving but never giving soon becomes inoperative. To live is to be in dialogue with the environment which is different than self. An organism or collection of like organisms which are not in communication with different others---soon ceases to live. There is little survival value in isolation. If they serve no purpose within a greater perspective, selves pass away, as they have left community. Organisms which are aware of the eternal now---but not aware of the stream of time---may not deal with finitude. Technocrats are aware of the stream of time but not aware of the eternal now---and so may deal with finitude by denying it. Most likely the denial will take the form of inattention. To be inattentive to a reality is to deny it more powerfully than to attend to it negatively. The person in solitary confinement in a prison or an insane asylum---is more powerfully denied than the member of the work gang was in a Nazi concentration camp in anticipation of the furnace. The student who is ignored as a real person---is denied more so than the transgressor who is artificially punished beyond natural consequences. The student who fails to fulfill expectations and is rejected and ignored is doubly denied. Those who are estranged through such failure may in self- defense develop techniques of denial of others. Such denial blocks channels of communication and leads to the natural consequences of blocked channels of communication. Persons cease to live. Through the channels of communication associated with sexual consciousness community is developed. There is renewal associated with an honest awareness of and acknowledgement of finitude and of the absence of the power of full control. To avoid these some people may chose to be unresponsive, so as to avoid sexual states of consciousness. Because of such a block in the channels of communication---such persons may cease to live before those who more openly and with integrity deal with finitude. (c) 1999 by Paul A. Smith in GO: essayz.com "Search for Integrity and Honesty" (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================
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