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                             %TABOO REFLEXIVE GUILT 870401

     People  who  have in some way learned to feel  guilty
about    their   reflexive   considerations,    attention,
experiences,  knowledge,   reasoning concepts,  etc.---are
bound to have difficulties  in feeling,  thinking deciding
and  behaving  with personal integrity.   Their guilt does
not   permit  them  to  reflect  wisely  upon  their   own
experiences  and personal perceptions.   If objectivity is
required and reflexivity is taboo,  personal  integrity is
impossible.   It is important to learn how it is that many
intelligent people have learned to feel guilty about their
reflexive   considerations,    attention,     experiences,
knowledge,  reasoning,  concepts, etc.   For those who are
the victims of  such guilt, learning how they came to feel
guilty  is  taboo.   Their reflexive guilt  is  itself   a
violation  of  the  taboo  against reflexive behavior.  To
reflect  upon  the  guilt which makes  the  guilt   itself
taboo, is a further violation of the taboo which prohibits
reflexive feelings and behaviors.   Those  who feel guilty
can not save themselves from  their  guilt.  They  need  a
miracle;  that which they can not  conceive, which to them
appears so impossible that it does not even appear   as  a
thinkable impossibility.   It is so unthinkable that it is
not  even  conceived  as  impossible,  it does  not  enter
consciousness.

     Hopelessness  grows through strange  feed-back  loops
which accentuate disintegration.   It is especially tragic
when the disintegration  results  from  the fulfillment of
tragic idealistic values which  have  become divorced from
existential validation.  When people are out of touch with
their  own reflexive considerations they can not test  the
validity  of  their values and ideals  against  their  own
experience.  If intellect and logic dominate to the extent
that  they  repress  affect,  reasoning  processes  become
alienated  from  existential evidence and cause many  evil
relationships  ---which are concealed through the  use  of
reflexive  taboos  which  require guilt as the  price  for
engaging in reflexive behavior.  In the name of protecting
unreasonable logic---taboos require illogical behavior for
unproven reasons.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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