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  %FREEDOM TO DISCOVER EDUCATE INTEGRATE BEING SELF 880927

     For  a  community  to  enjoy  personal  and  communal
integrity  its  members  need to be given the  freedom  to
discover their own unique potentials.   The integrity of a
community   and  its  members  does  not  reside  in   the
conformity  of  the individuals to any  ideal  form,   but
rather  in the growth of each individual with integrity in
keeping with individual's unique identity discovered in an
honest community with security and vulnerability.

     Jack  cannot be honest with himself and others if  he
is  not  free to discover his own  unique  potentials  for
original thoughts,  integrative insights,  feelings,   and
emotions.     If   Jack's  community   demands   collusive
expressions  of  conformity to conventional  expectations,
then Jack cannot be honest with himself and others.   In a
collusive,  addictive society supported by the good  works
of  codependents Jack is trapped in dishonest conventional
patterns of behavior and expression.   In such a community
authentic conversation,  conversion, learning, cooperation
and integration is impossible.

     In a collusive society it is taboo to believe in  the
reality  of unique integrative personal beings who can  be
discovered  through  open and honest expressions of  being
authentic.    Such  a  belief will  undermine  the  pseudo
coherence  of  the  collusion,   and  will  undermine  the
credibility  of the perspectives of the addicts and  their
codependents.    Such  a  belief must be replaced  with  a
belief  in the ideal form of the ideal person,  and  there
must    be    high   quality    schooling   to     conform
individuals to that ideal form.   Schools are to be  means
of  control  to insure that students conform to the  ideal
form.    Families  are  means  of control to  insure  that
children  grow  up  as  well adjusted  students  in  ideal
schools.    Churches  are means of  control  of  spiritual
perceptions  to  insure  that  members  of  the  community
fulfill  the  ideal  form  of the ideal  spiritual  being.
Everything will be ideal in the end,  except for those who
failed  to help bring in the ideal age;  they will  be  in
hell.    The  idealists  will all be in the  ideal  heaven
alienated from those they put in hell.

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