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                       %BEHAVIORISTS NONBEING SOULS 810717

     In the beginning people believed that they had souls,
and  they  believed  in  each  other  as  persons.    They
perceived their souls as the essence of their being,   and
much  of  their doing followed with integrity  from  their
being, their souls.

     When Adam and Eve ate of the fruit of the tree of the
knowledge  of  good and evil they believed that  they  had
found  the  means  to salvation,  when in  fact  they  had
discovered the way to damnation;  the knowledge of what is
good and what is evil is used primarily to alienate people
who one considers to  be a threat to  one's own salvation;
because close association with such people may make  one's
self guilty by association.   Thus Adam and Eve lost their
belief in their eternal souls, and regarded their souls as
corruptible  and  in  need of protection  from  damnation;
i.e.,   salvation.    Their  behavior  and  conformity  to
expectations  became the means to the improvement of their
souls  to  make them fit for eternal life.    They  became
preoccupied  with their doing,  rather than with being  at
ease in their being true to themselves and each other.

     Preoccupation with conformal doing diverted attention
away from being, and from the reality of  people's  souls.
Proper  doing became more and more important;  being  with
integrity  became  less and less  important.    Eventually
behaviorists  came to the logical conclusion---there is no
soul,  there is no being;  there is only doing,  behavior.
Security  must be found in daily proper behavior;  in  the
daily threat of excommunication for non-conformal behavior
which  threatens  others  with damnation due to  guilt  by
association.   Such security is never found,  and the soul
no longer exists as the ground of a person's being; so the
people's  doing is like grass blowing in the  wind.    The
people have no anchor in their being,  so they behave like
grass  tossed  to  and fro;  or like ocean  waves  toss  a
helpless boat against the shores of being and non-being.

                                                                                                                               
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