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  %CHALLENGING PERSONAL AND COMMUNAL DISINTEGRATION 870109

To  enjoy both personal and communal integrity  each
kind  of  integrity  needs to constantly  challenge  in  a
loving  way elements of disintegration which occur in  the
other.    To  be integrative each such challenge  must  be
firmly grounded in its own kind of integrity.  A challenge
which  flows from disintegration within an  individual  as
such,  or from disintegration of a community as such, is a
challenge which will itself tend to be disintegrative.

     To   be  effective,  integrative  moves  need  to  be
balanced.  Integration will not be balanced if individuals
seek  to  advance the cause of  integration  just  on  the
individual   level;    ignoring  the  need  for   communal
integration  in  a way coherent with  efforts  to  advance
personal integration.  If private relationships ignore the
needs  to the  community as  a  whole,  private efforts to
achieve integration will fail due to the disintegration of
the  community within which the private relationships must
exist.    If efforts to further communal integrity  ignore
the  needs of private relationships,   the community  will
naturally  disintegrate  because  communal  integrity   is
dependent  upon the cooperation of individuals of personal
integrity.

     Adverse  secrecy  and  manipulative  efforts  do  not
promote  integrity.   There are better  ways  of promoting
integrity.    The  problem is to realize  what  they  are.
Genuine  integrative efforts move forward  in  ways  which
keep  progress  in personal integration  in  balance  with
progress  in communal integration.   Changes which are not
integrated  tend  to be  disintegrative,   for  incoherent
changes tend  to  be  threatening  and  so elicit fear and
disintegrative   defensiveness,    violence,   resentment,
rejection, excommunication, etc.

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