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                %COLLUSION TRANSCENDING REVELATIONS 870424

     Through    honest    revelations    collusions    are
transcended.  Collusions   imprison  people  in  games  of
mutual   self  deception.     Players   can  not   through
technological developments find ways to improve their game
in such a way so as to quit the game.  Players of the game
are  trapped in  an exclusive system  of values and ideals
according  to  which  dishonesty is  essential.    Through
revelation players may become aware of  the limitations of
the game, and how the game leads  to personal and communal
disintegration.

     Through revelations some participants may become free
to know themselves honestly.   They may come to value self
knowledge  more than conformity to the dishonest rules  of
the  games of mutual self deception.   Through  revelation
they   may   see   clearly  the  personal   and   communal
disintegration which are occasioned by all games of mutual
self deception.  Then self revelation may become possible;
they   may  first  learn  how  to  reveal  themselves   to
themselves  and  each other  with  openness  and  honesty.
Revelations  come  from outside the game and transcend the
game.

     Participants in games of mutual self  deception  must
be  dishonest  with themselves as an essential step toward
being  dishonest  with  others.   The rules of  the  games
require  conformity  to communal "truths"   which  do  not
conform to personal experiences.   To conform self to  the
communal  rules of the game each participant must  repress
awareness many of personal experiences;  thus participants
are not free to reveal themselves to themselves, much less
to each other.    Honest  intimacy  opens  participants to
punishment for failure to conform to the "truths"  of  the
dishonest  game.   Honest intimacy entails  vulnerability.
Players  can  not  trust others,  for every  player  is  a
potential opponent.

     Revelations  which set people free to know themselves
threaten the collusion and the way of life of a collusion.
Such  revelations  are terrifying and are not  welcome  to
"true"  believers.   In  terror they are likely  to become
fanatical  in  their convictions to compensate  for  their
doubts  and  subconscious  recognition of  their  lack  of
personal and communal integrity.

     Players  of games of mutual self deception may escape
from their collusive games through prayer for personal and
communal  integrity  made  possible  through  transcendent
revelations  from  outside their games.   Such  escape  is
often terrifying.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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