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%TABOO UNDERSTANDING OWN EXPERIENCES 840916
We can not be confident that our insights and ideas
are worthy of respect---unless we are familiar persons
who respect them. We can not find others to respect our
insights and ideas---if our insights and ideas pertain
to experiences that can not be discussed because of
powerful taboos. If taboos make it impossible for us to
own our own experiences as authenticity our own; then
taboos block the development of confidence in insights
and ideas in terms of which we might understand those
experiences and the taboos which block our
understanding of the experiences. The process is
reflexive, not objective. Taboos often create double
binds that act to perpetuate the taboos---by
keeping people in ignorance regarding their respective
insights and ideas pertaining to their personal
experiences.
Salvation does not come through ignorance engendered
by alienation from our own experiences and from the
experiences of those near us---because those
experiences are taboo. Salvation pertains to renewal of
communication which has broken down; not to the
inhibition of desired communication. Thus taboos
which inhibit communication are not the means to
salvation. The roots of the evils of alienation from
people who have failed to conform to expectations in
some way which is regarded as just cause excommunication
which is the essence of evil.
Taboos and excommunications used which are to
maintain taboos---block the development of human
understanding of the experiences which taboos hide from
public view. We can not be confident that our private
insights and ideas are worthy of respect---unless we
have found other persons who respect them. Taboos often
bias our understanding of unconventional truths which are
revealed to us in some of our most meaningful experiences.
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