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%KNOWING YOUR OWN DESIRES 851021
A conformal society tends to overlay its
conventionally introjected desires upon its members' own
desires; to the extent that its members are not free to
know their own desires creative potentials. Introjected
desires undermine the integrity and motivation of the
victims of the introjection. People who lack integrity
and motivation can not in creative ways bring ideas and
people together in coherent ways to strengthen the
community.
Adults who from their childhood have followed
introjected desires can not easily sort out the difference
between introjected and authentic desires. Upon what
basis and motivated by what desires shall the sorting be
accomplished? Shall the sorting please others? Shall the
sorting conform to conventional intellectual dictates? To
scientists' objective/analytic paradigm? To rebels' calls
for rebellion in conformity with their life style? Where
is a person who is alienated from their own being to turn
for a reunion with their own desires?
Introjection of foreign desires undermines personal
and communal integrity by inhibiting openness and honesty
in community relationships. When one is required/expected
to desire conventionally, then one is not free to be in
touch with one's own desires; not free to express thoughts
and feelings openly and honestly. The way back to
wholeness involves working to re-create the context which
by its absence occasioned the disintegration. The
community can be rebuilt only by desiring and working for
open and honest unity so that people can work
cooperatively as a cum-unity.
The most fundamental human need and desire is to be a
meaningful open and honest participant in a community,
even though it may be small and threatened by pressures
for conformity. Such sub-cultures can leaven the broader
community and help it transcend its limited visions and
expectations. Reunion with one's own desires becomes
possible as one sorts out priorities and learns to affirm
those which lead to both personal and communal integrity.
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