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                              %MUTUAL UNDERSTANDING 731101

     Mutual  understanding  is  made  possible  by  mutual
awareness.   There  are two united aspects to  each.   The
first aspect of each is the other person(s)  with whom the
self  enters  into dialogues.   The second aspect of  each
includes  all  of  reality in which  the  self  and  other
participate and find meaning.

     If the self and other be indifferent to each other as
whole persons, the first aspect of mutual awareness is not
fulfilled, and so the second aspect of mutual awareness is
impossible; as is mutual understanding.

     If  there  be mutual consideration and caring  on the
part of the self and other ---  the first aspect of mutual
awareness may be fulfilled, but not necessarily the second
aspect.  The self and other may be mutually estranged from
the rest of reality.  They may enter into collusions which
deny aspects of reality,  and so make impossible  a mutual
awareness of those  aspects  of reality;  e.g.,  cause and
effect,   objective  analysis,  principalities and powers,
intimate  relationships,  souls,  spiritual powers,   real
persons.    If so,  mutual awareness is only partial,  and
mutual understanding is impossible.

     Both aspects  of mutual awareness  may  be  fulfilled
without  analytic mutual understanding.   Even then  there
may be a powerful mutual understanding with fulfillment of
both of its aspects.  Mutual awareness  may be so complete
that even  without  analysis there is mutual understanding
and the power of human fulfillment.

     Analysis may make possible a tragic quality of mutual
understanding which carries with it the  power  to produce
changes  in  the  self and other along with  the  rest  of
reality.  Such mutual understanding may carry with  it the
seed  of  mutual  estrangement of the self and  other from
each  other and from (but while the victim  of and within)
the  rest  of  reality.  Men dying within  this  state  of
consciousness  have  brought  to  pass  the  environmental
crisis---which is one with the crisis in affluence without
human satisfaction and meaning.

     Scientists  can  not  help students acquire  a mutual
understanding of the nature of natural  processes  without
fulfillment  of  both  of  the  above  aspects  of  mutual
awareness and mutual understanding.  Because of this there
will always remain an essential uncertainty.

                         (c) 1999 by Paul A. Smith in
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