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     Taboos   block  people  having,   sharing,   mutually
understanding, and socially  giving  cognitive  meaning to
mysterious experiences   which  threaten  to  undermine  a
culture's central collusions.

     The  sense of security of the members of a  collusive
culture   is   threatened  by  any   communication   which
acknowledges the legitimacy of any experience which  calls
into  question  any  of the fundamental  assumptions  upon
which  the culture is based.   Given the power of personal
experience  and experimentation,  the only way a collusive
culture  can survive is to inhibit personal experience and
experimentation   which   might  challenge   a   collusive
culture's  fundamental  presuppositions;  or  isolate  any
member  of the culture who breaks the bonds of  taboo  and
has mysterious experiences  which call the presuppositions
into question in a fundamental way.

     In  order  to protect the  appearance  of  integrity,
superficial   challenges   to  presuppositions   must   be
encouraged and tolerated, for such challenges will make it
appear  that the presuppositions can stand up to  critical
examination.    At another level it is essential that  the
challenges  not  be  granted sufficient  respect  for  the
members  of  the  culture to take  them  seriously.    The
counter-culture which raises such challenges to the taboos
which protect the collusions must be alienated,

     Freedoms of press,  speech,  assembly, petition,  and
representation must not be  granted to persons who violate
taboos without acknowledging the legitimacy of the taboos.
It is another matter if  they "confess"  their "sins"  and
ask for "forgiveness".

     Part  of the process of protecting collusions is  the
confusion of  the nature of  confession and forgiveness in
the   process   of  reconciliation  of  people  who   have
experience  alienation.    Such confusion is  advanced  by
collusions  which  make it taboo to experience  and  share
genuine  confessions  and forgiveness  Pseudo  confessions
and  forgiveness of "sins"  are substituted for  authentic
confessions  and forgiveness.

                                                                                                                               
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