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         %OBJECTIVE ELIMINATION OF PERSONAL MYSTERY 880624

     When  a  community  has as its  primary  concern  the
elimination  of  mystery through increased  understanding,
prediction  and  control---the  community  is  likely   to
eliminate  real persons who are essentially mysterious  in
character    and   will   not   yield   to    manipulative
understandings, predictions and control.

     If  the top priority of a community is to prove  that
the   whole   universe  is  essentially   susceptible   to
manipulative understandings, predictions and control; then
the  community  is  bound  to do all that  it  can  do  to
eliminate  from  the universe of  its  consciousness---all
that it can not understand,   predict  or  control.    The
process of elimination may be through destructive analytic
violence  which  breaks  down the mysterious integrity  of
that which can not be understood, predicted or controlled.
The process of  elimination may include  cloaking  (making
invisible) that which can not be understood,  predicted or
controlled;  e.g., through collusions and taboos which can
not  be  understood,  predicted  or  controlled;   through
collusions and taboos which make it impossible to be  open
and  honest  with  self and  others  regarding  mysterious
experiences  having  to  do  with  whatever  realities and
relationships   can  not   be  understood,   predicted  or
controlled.

     The  process  of elimination of  personal  mysterious
experiences   leads  inevitably  to  the  elimination   of
personal   meaning   and  significance,   and  so  to  the
elimination  of   the mysterious sense that life is  worth
living.    What  sense is there in living a life which  is
completely  predictable and under  total control  of  some
system of control?  In what sense is there satisfaction in
such a life?  In what sense does it make sense to consider
the  mysterious  sensations of  being  in the  process  of
fulfilling some predictable pattern  of being conscious---
of being a victim of some predictable  pattern of control.
It is a  mystery  why anybody would want to achieve such a
totally predictable and controllable state of being!   Who
can  understand such a mystery and gain control  over  the
mysterious  behavior  of those who want to  eliminate  all
such mysterious  behaviors?  What  fulfillment would there
be in such understanding and control?

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