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 %LIBERAL THREAT REJECT EMBARRASS COMMUNE INTEGRITY 881206

Each  culture  is characterized by the  threats  its
members    experience  as  threats  of  rejection   and/or
excommunication.

Each  culture  is characterized by the  experiences,
thoughts,     feelings,   opinions,   perspectives,    and
assumptions  which make leading members of the culture  so
embarrassed  as   to   fail  to be  open  and  honest   in
opportunities for dialogue.      Such  instances  have  to
do  with  the   culture's   failure    to  integrate   the
occasions    of embarrassment   into    the  intellectual,
religious,  ritualistic and mythic lives of the members of
the community.

The   embarrassment   flows   from   the   lack   of
integration.     The  failure to integrate flows from  the
embarrassment.     Each occasions the other in  a  vicious
cycle  of disintegration through a destructive   feed-back
loop.

In  each  culture  some members of  the  communities
succeed in offering liberation from the embarrassments  of
the culture by creative acts of personal integrity.   They
succeed  in  being whole persons with  integrity  in   the
presence    of  those embarrassments which often  lead  to
failures   to    be   open   and  honest   in    dialogue.
Through   their  personal    integrity   in    the    face
of   traditional embarrassment  they point the way towards
integration    of the   occasions  of  embarrassment  into
the life  of  the community.

Such liberation involves intellectual insights,  but
intellectual    insights  are  not  the  essence  of   the
liberation.      The  essence resides in the integrity  of
persons   being themselves in the presence of what  others
have  found to   embarrass them  to   the  point   of  the
disintegration   of  their communication skills.    Within
such personal  presence there is personal acceptance which
is not the same as approval;    but rather the opposite of
rejection and excommunication.

The   personal acceptance  has to do with  continued
open  and honest dialogue;   rather than with  permission,
approval, judgement,     or   justification; all of  which
the    acceptance transcends.     In the presence of  such
personal  acceptance   being    whole    with    integrity
becomes  possible,      and integration  of  what has been
embarrassing  leads  to   the reduction   of occasions  of
embarrassment which undermines open and honest dialogue.

The  acceptance is personal.   Its essence is not an
objective   fact,    intellectual  statement,   a    legal
adjudication,   a   rational  proof  or  an   experimental
verification.   The  latter  cannot   substitute  for  the
personal   acceptance   which   liberates   people    from
disintegrative embarrassment.

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