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                   %INTEGRATIVE REFLEXIVE FEED BACK 871125

     For  any  community of individuals  to  survive  with
integrity it must take advantage of  integrative feed back
regarding  the  consequences  of  decisions  and  actions.
Ignorance is not conducive to survival.  In the absence of
reliable   information   regarding  the  consequences   of
decisions   and   actions,    mistakes  are  repeated   in
deadly ways.

     The  promotion  of reliable feed back is essential to
both  personal  and  communal  integrity.    It  is   thus
important  that  open and honest  discussions be  promoted
regarding  how  people perceive and feel about  their  own
behavior,    and   the  behavior  of  other   members   of
the community.  Only through such open and honest behavior
can  a  community  take  advantage  of  all  the  possible
information  about   the  natural  consequences   of   the
decisions  and actions of its members.   In the absence of
such  reliable information the members of   the  community
will   be the victims of ignorance  which  could have been
avoided.

     Communities  which suffer from systemic addiction can
not  perceive  the ways  in which their behaviors are  not
informed by the about considerations.  In such communities
collusions  and taboos operate to  blind  members  of  the
community  to  important pieces of information  about  the
consequences of their decisions  and  action.   Because of
their  chosen forms  of  ignorance,   such people  persist
in doing  what is not in their best interest.   They  need
to become aware of the ways in which their highest  ideals
and  values   lead   them  into  disintegrative  addictive
behavior patterns with deadly consequences.

     To   enjoy  both  personal  and  communal  integrity,
communities  and  their members must strive  to give   all
members   of  the  community  security  in    the  context
of  vulnerability.      Only when security  is   given  to
vulnerable  people  can the  people  as  a   whole    feel
secure  in the context  of  intimate  relationships  which
are  open  and honest.     Absent  such contexts,   people
will  feel   it   is necessary to play defensive games  to
deal  with their sense of insecurity.     Those  collusive
games of mutual and  self  deception  reduce the sense  of
security,    and  justify   the  felt  need  to  play  the
defensive  games which generate the sense of insecurity.

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