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                             %POINTING TO REALITIES 731109

     Often intellectuals  feel that their  words  ensymbol
truths.   Humble persons seek to use words to call others'
attention to what self has encountered as real.

     If that which has been encountered is  reality,   the
words of pointing may be imprecise---and yet the attention
of seekers be directed to reality.

     If   self   and  others  are  in   dialogue,    their
consciousness  of  reality may be deepened through  shared
experiences of it and their associated responses;  be they
affective,  analytic, and/or manipulative. The experiences
may  be shared through a strange language which points  to
the reality encountered.

     If the self and others are concerned with ensymboling
truths,  they may be more concerned with the perfection of
the  ensymbolment  than  with the  awareness  of  reality.
Estrangement  of  the self and others from each other  and
from reality may follow. Attention is likely to focus upon
the  imperfections of others'   ensymbolment  of  truth---
rather than upon reality.    There may develop a collusion
to   transform   any  perceived  reality  into  what   the
ensymbolment  of  truth  would  have it be.    If  such  a
collusion develops, there is a further estrangement of the
self and  others from each other and from reality; persons
cease to live as dialogue ceases.

     Education   at  its  best  involves  professors   and
students sharing their  experiences  of reality---and also
their affective,  analytic,  and manipulative responses to
it and to each other.

     Education at its worst is a collusion of trainers and
trainees  victimizing  each  other  with  distorted  self-
images---which   are  coercive  and  destructive  of  real
persons.

     It is hoped that readers will  recognize  that  these
words  do  not  ensymbol great truths,  for  great  truths
cannot  be contained  in  words.   It is hoped that  these
words  may point to realities of modern death and birth---
so that there may be  hope and meaning.  Finally,  whoever
points  to  realities  may not be an incarnation of  those
realities  to  which  he or she points ---   and  yet  the
pointing may be helpful to seekers who who are free to see
the realities to which she or he points.

                         (c) 1999 by Paul A. Smith in
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