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                        %TRANSFORMATION OF CONFLICT 860525

     Conflict   is   expressed  in  many   forums:     the
battlefield,  the threat field,  negotiation,  meditation,
arbitration, resolution, compromise, competition, etc.

     The form which conflict takes depends upon the images
role models,  mentors, ideas,  ideals,  values,  concepts,
etc.   which  play  leading  roles in  the  lives  of  the
participants  and in the lives of those most important  to
the participants.

     How  conflicts  are resolved or  transformed  depends
upon how participants in the conflicts perceive themselves
within  the  conflicts;  within the light of  the  images,
roles models,  mentors,  ideals, values, ideas,  concepts,
etc.  which  are important to them and to their  important
other persons.   The continuation of one form of conflict,
the resolution of a  conflict,  or the transformation from
one  form  to another form of conflict,   is  a  reflexive
process which can be  changed  by the introduction of new:
images, role models,  mentors, ideals,  values, ideas, and
concepts  in timely ways which  provide  new  alternatives
which  participants  are  able  to appreciate  within  the
context of the moment.

     Helpful  conflict  transformation  flows  from  clear
perceptions  of transcendent self interests.   Conflict is
transformed  from  needlessly  destructive forms  to  more
constructive  forms  as participants become aware of their
transcendent mutual self  interests within the context  of
which  they  find grounds for cooperative ventures,  which
advance their self interests in mutually inclusive, rather
than mutually exclusive ways.

     Helpful  conflict  transformation may be  blocked  by
ideas,  ideals and values which block clear perceptions of
transcendent self interest.   Collusive ideals and  values
do violence to truth and the search for truth, and thereby
block  clear perceptions  of  transcendent self interests.
Conflicts between your own ideals and values and  your own
transcendent self interest can  be transformed through the
miracle of Love.   This is particularly the case when your
reflexive ideals and values  force you to regard realities
which were created through human choices,  as if they were
objective  realities  existing  independent of  all  human
choices.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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