This is http://www.essayz.com/a8903122.htm Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay Click HERE on this line to find essays via Your-Key-Words. {Most frequent wordstarts of each essay will be put here.} ========================================================== %SUBJECTIVE POWER OBJECTIVE SYMBOLIC RITUAL TRUTH 890312 The power of objectivity resides as much in the subjective power of the symbolic rituals of finding objective truth, as in the objective use of objective truth. The symbolic rituals of finding objective truths are services of worship of the worth of objective truth. The power of the rituals is not an objective reality and can not be understood in objective terms. The power of the rituals of finding objective truths is a subjective reality which is known through subjective participation. Participation in the rituals of scientists is not objective behavior; it is participation in the affirmation of the value of the objective paradigm to which scientists give their minds, bodies and souls. Such affirmations exist in the realm of subjective power, rather than in the realm of objective realities. People who are dedicated to the assumption that there is nothing in common between the objective realm and the subjective realm cannot perceive the differences within the boundary realm between the two distinctive realms. They try to draw the boundary too cleanly and to see all that is in the boundary realm as existing in terms of the realm with which they are most comfortable. They presume to make a narrower no-man's land between the two realms than really exists, and inhibit those who would enter the no-man's land of the boundary realities. Their space is as fragmented as a bombed city or a boundary of a fractal image. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================