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                    %REJECTION AS REFUSAL TO RELATE 801209

     Rejection  is  the  refusal to relate  to:    people,
feelings,  desires,  words,  sensory experiences,   ideas,
contexts, needs, etc.   When people are participating in a
balanced  pattern of affirmations they are relating  in  a
balanced way to people,  feelings, desires, words, sensory
experiences,  ideas,  contexts, needs,  etc.   There is no
rejection   implicit  in  a  balanced  pattern   of   such
affirmations,  even though there is an inability to relate
in all imaginable ways.  There is no rejection implicit in
an   admission   of  finitude---and  so   a   pattern   of
participating  in  only a finite portion of  all  possible
relationships. There is  implicit in rejection an aversion
towards  the rejected  relationship, possibly  a  fear  of
getting involved in it.  Involvement in some relationships
may be regarded  as  "evil",   and   so  the  grounds  for
excommunication.

     Excommunication  involves passing judgment,   aliena-
tion,   banishment,  and in  some instances  imprisonment.
Each  of these  may take explicit or implicit  forms,   as
often as not---being objectively not evident to the casual
observer.   Excommunication in its various forms tends  to
involve  various  forms  of  rejection.    People   reject
participation in  some  kinds  of  relationships---because
they fear the rejection of excommunication.

     Through  rejection people lose touch  with  essential
realities such as feelings, emotions, sensory experiences,
spiritual   relationships,    and  other  people.     Such
rejections  involve dishonesty,  a  refusal to acknowledge
such  realities,   a  pretense that they are not  real  or
important.    Through rejection they cease to be foci  for
attention.    Attention tends to be focused upon realities
of more limited natures, realities which are not perceived
as  threatening---even  though focusing  exclusively  upon
them  may be so deadening as to render those so focused as
good  as dead---totally insensitive to their  environment.
People  who are insensitive to their changing  environment
cannot  adapt  to it so as to survive meaningfully.    For
this  reason  rejection is not an effective  strategy  for
meaningful survival.
                                                                                                                               
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