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%TRANSCENDING THE DICHOTOMY 770324
Human dichotomies may be transcended through the
simultaneous heightening of affect and intellect. This is
unlikely to occur so long as people take for granted that
affect and intellect are mutually exclusive. Often people
believe it is an objective fact that it is impossible to
simultaneously be involved in sensual pleasure and in
intellectual/rational processes. Such a belief realizes
itself, convincing the faithful of the correctness of
their faith. People find in their personal relationships -
-- mostly what they expect to find therein. Thus when
society has in subtle and overt ways trained young people
to expect to find a tension between sensuality and
intellect --- they are likely to discover that tension in
their own experiences --- regardless of which pole of the
dichotomy they value most. In rebellion they may disagree
with their elders about which pole of the dichotomy is
most exclusively valuable---but find it much more
difficult to disagree with their elders about the
inevitability of the dichotomy. To transcend the
dichotomy they need to experience a union of ostensibly
exclusive poles---either personally or vicariously through
freely given and open confessions of others who have
experienced such a union in their own lives or in the
lives of respected role-models.
The transcendence of dichotomies will not be achieved
through intellectual arguments or emotional outbursts
alone, because neither of those processes themselves
transcend the basic dichotomies. The ways to transcend the
basic dichotomies --- themselves transcend the basic
dichotomies. Thus there is no logical way to bridge the
gap between logic and erotic love. Neither is there an
erotic way to bridge the gap between erotic love and
logic. The union of the two involves powers and processes
which are not under the exclusive control of either.
For these reasons it is essential to educe personal
confessions of occasions in which people have experienced
the transcendence of the basic human dichotomies. Such
education will not be possible so long as proponents of
the ultimate/exclusive importance of each dichotomous
poles --- retain the power to demand respect for the value
of their exclusive poles. Personal confessions are not
safe within a coercive environment, and so education is
inhibited. The transcendence of human dichotomies will
come through humane living, not through research.
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