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     Our conceptions of truth and values depend upon where
we   are   in   our   own  life   cycle   and   upon   our
perception/acceptance of our own life cycle.  A  denial of
either  the reality  of or transitory character of one  or
more stages in our life cycle---will tend to undermine our
conceptions of truth and values.  To refuse to acknowledge
our  origin  is destructive.   To try  to  skip  essential
stages  in  our life cycle violates the integrity  of  the
cycle.   To ignore/deny  the  reality of the completion of
the  cycle  also  violates the  integrity  of  the  cycle.
Perversions of the healthy life cycle occasion perversions
in our conceptions of truth and values.

     The  healthy life cycle embraces conception,   birth,
infancy,   childhood,   adolescence,  bonding,  parenting,
letting children go, retirement, weakening, and death.  It
involves     dependency,     rebellion,      independence,
interdependence;  asking,  giving,  receiving;  letting go
into intimacy, bonding, releasing,
friendships,  beginnings,  endings,  rejoicing,  mourning,
learning,  forgetting.   These come to pass.   If they are
not permitted to come to be,  or if they are not permitted
to pass, troubles are occasioned.

     Our  conceptions of truth and values depend upon  our
healthy  growth  and  development---through  the   natural
developmental stages of our life cycle.   The blockage  of
our physical,  emotional, intellectual, spiritual, sexual,
psychological,   social,   political, and/or  self-concept
development---will have profound consequences in the  rest
of  our  life cycle and in our conception of what is  true
and valuable.

     People  who tend to think in terms of eternal  truths
and  absolute  values  are generally  insensitive  to  the
process of human growth throughout the healthy life cycle.
They tend to absolutize some developmental stage as final,
and  to  deny the propriety of others.   They  value  some
status  quo  rather than process;  and disagree with  each
other  as to which status quo is to be valued most.   They
can  not  see  the  process  of  the  healthy  life  cycle
clearly---and so they can not see the process of truth and
values going through their developmental stages.

                                                                                                                               
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