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%DICHOTOMOUS SELF 770905
The two culture dichotomy and a dichotomy within each
self are mirror images of each other. The culture's
dichotomy nurtures the development of dichotomous selves.
The dichotomous selves sustain the culture's dichotomy.
In each instance exclusivity, excommunication, alienation,
and misleading high values are aspects of the process. In
each instance reconciliation is made possible by
commitments to openness on the part of participants. The
key to healing the dichotomy within self/culture is to
make facilitation of dialogue the ultimate concern.
Love is the power which facilitates dialogue
unconditionally. When so viewed to love oneself is to
facilitate dialogue between the essentially different
aspects of ones self, aspects which to varying degrees
mirror the aspects of the two plateaus of the five
cultures allegory. Love acts to unblock communication
between the two plateaus within the self as well as within
the society. The blockages within self cannot be removed
without removing those within society, nor those within
society without removing those within each self.
Removal of blockages is more difficult than avoiding
their installation. We thus need to take note of how the
blockages are installed within each of us as we move
through the passages of life; how some limited aspect of
our self is granted dominance over other aspects of our
self, and permitted to repress the latter---to block
communication between the dominant aspect and the
repressed aspects.
At birth we have inherited tendencies to enjoy:
physical affection, sounds, sights, color, forms, odors,
tastes, food, movement, human relationships, sexual
relationships; intellectual challenges, puzzles, logical
processes, numerical relationships, symbols, formal
communication, self-consciousness, mediation, analytic
thought processes, assertiveness, physical manipulations,
etc. By self-confident example, nervous responses and
counter-examples, rewards, punishments, tangential
responses, taboos, collusions, institutionalization, etc.-
--we are two-culture acculutrated to dichotomize our being
into a dominant and a repressed half---granting half of
our brain dominance over the other half, and reducing
communication between the two halves. Our dichotomous
self is thus born.
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