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 %POWERFUL COMMUNAL THEORY OF REFLEXIVE INTEGRATION 870103

     A reflexive theory of integration (in terms of  which
we can understand, properly expect, and participate in the
satisfactory  integration  of ourselves  into  a  coherent
whole community)  will help all  people  participate  with
both personal and communal integrity.

     Disagreement (or lack of agreement)  among members of
a community regarding how they should regard themselves as
participants in  the  relationships of the  community,  is
bound  to  reduce  the integrity of the  community.    The
conceptions of the members of the community regarding what
is  possible and proper for them as participants in inter-
personal relationships,  constitute  a tacit  or  explicit
communal theory held by  the community reflecting upon its
own nature; a reflexive communal theory.

     Members  of  a  community  seek  to  participate   in
communal activities  in  terms of their  understanding  of
their proper role in the community as they understand  the
community.   Members of a community may differ in  regards
to  how they conceive the community:   who the  legitimate
participants  are,  their ground of being,  their  origin,
their  character and  their destiny.   To the extent  that
such  differences are  in  conflict  with each other,  the
community  lacks  a powerful  communal theory of reflexive
integration; and members will not have a basis in terms of
which to cooperate fully in  promoting  both  personal and
communal integration.

     Members  of  a  community  may have  a  diversity  of
individually coherent theories.  If all their theories are
objective  to the exclusion of  reflexive  considerations,
the community has no  coherent theory in terms of which to
cooperate in integrative behavior.   If all their theories
are exclusively analytic in character, to the exclusion of
integrative motivations  and insights, then the  community
and  its members have no coherent basis for  personal  and
communal integrity.   The traditional scientists' paradigm
does not lead them to seek  a powerful  communal theory of
reflexive integration, and so their behavior tends to lead
toward communal disintegration on many occasions.

                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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