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                                      %LIE KEY WORD 871020

     As a key word "lie"  points to the human tendency  to
deny  the  truth  when  the truth does not fit in  with  a
collusive  paradigm  regarding the nature of  reality  and
what  it should be like.   Denial leads to repression  and
the selective neglect of experiences, truths, perceptions,
etc.

    To lie is literally to affirm what one knows not to be
true,  but in a broader sense to act as if some  falsehood
is true,  or to act as if some truth were not true  and so
to mislead in  an indirect way which  may more effectively
conceal the truth than would an overt lie.

     Members  of  a  collusions  participate in a game  of
mutual self deception of which they are not conscious,  so
they do not lie in the literal sense.   Yet,  participants
in  a  collusion live lives which in a broader  sense  are
lies, for their lives  are dedicated to the repressions of
truths  which  they  can not bear to  face,   and  to  the
affirmation  of  falsehoods  which  they wish  were  true.
Their   games   of  mutual  self  deception   and   mutual
encouragement in their self deception are dishonest to the
core of their being as they are.

     Lies lack integrity and lead to  disintegration,  for
they  cut  the  integrative  strands  of  coherent  truth.
Falsehoods lead to confusion and undermine the ability  to
cooperate to maintain communal integrity.   Repressions of
a  keen sense of awareness of taboo experiences undermines
the ability to learn from experiences and to act wisely in
terms   of  perceived  natural  consequences  of  previous
decisions and actions.

     "Lie"  as a key word points to all such ways in which
dishonesty and misleading behavior undermines personal and
communal integrity in communication,  memory,  thought and
human relationships.

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