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                                   %DEATH AND BIRTH 730914

     The new comes to be only with and through the passing
of the old.   Every beginning is made  possible through an
ending.  Through process what was,  becomes what is;   and
what is,  will pass and become what will be. Without death
there  can not be continuing  birth.    For self conscious
creatures this leads to the problem of consciously dealing
with finitude, or else via collusions seeking to avoid any
mutual  awareness of finitude.   For example,  some  would
seek full control over death,   and seek  to preserve  the
dead as living-dead in complex ice boxes; in the wish that
techniques may be  devised  to prolong metabolic processes
at a  future  time.   Such persons are not  free to choose
death,  and can find no meaning in death.   They learnedly
discuss technical definitions of death, but know it not in
their own lives.

     Many  of the central dilemmas of modern societies are
the natural consequences of the use of techniques of death
control  in the absence of the use of techniques  of birth
control.    Technocrats who know not the meaning of  death
can not be helpful in clarifying the meaning  of birth and
re-birth,   and  so  find it difficult  to  be helpful  in
motivating the use of techniques of birth control.   Birth
control must be intimately  associated with  sexual states
of consciousness  and  intimate relations.  Technocrats do
not have techniques for the full control of birth with out
endangering  reciprocal/reflexive  perceptions.    Through
compulsive analysis and full control people cease to  live
as they continue to metabolize.

     Every birth  is  a rebirth and  every  rebirth  is  a
birth.   In  each  there  is death.    Compulsive getting,
keeping, and preserving leads to a crisis in affluence and
waste.   Some  dream the impossible dream  of life without
death,   meaning  without  sacrifice,  possessions without
giving,   beginnings without endings.   On a finite planet
such  a  self-image is not  in  accord  with  the  natural
consequences  of  the  nature of  reality  to  which  real
persons are free to point.

     Compulsive efforts to avoid all death  stand  in  the
way of rebirth and meaningful living.

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