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 %DISINTEGRATIVE PATTERN RECOGNITION HEALTH SURVIVE 900212

     To  survive with meaningful health each creature must
recognize  and  appropriately respond  to  patterns  which
represent  integrative  behavior;  and to  patterns  which
represent disintegrative behavior. Thus, ultimate concerns
have to do with pattern recognition,  and with  meaningful
responses to recognized patterns.

     Some patterns of behavior, situations, relationships,
concepts,   feelings,  attitudes,  belief,   expectations,
aspiration,  conviction,  communication,  etc.   represent
disintegrative  threats;   others  represent   integrative
opportunities.  Ultimate questions pertain to  recognizing
which is which, and pertain to responding appropriately to
such recognitions.

     Integrative   and  disintegrative  patterns  may   be
recognized    within   self,    within   others;    within
relationships  among  others,   and  within  relationships
between  self and others.  If they are not recognized  for
what they are,  it is impossible to respond  appropriately
to them.

     The  essence  of education is educing the ability  to
recognize  patterns for what they are,  and to respond  to
diverse  patterns  in appropriate ways which  promote  the
integrity of self and others.

     Naive and simplistic approaches to life fail  because
they  focus  upon incomplete elements of  patterns  rather
than upon complete patterns. We cannot cope effectively if
we  see elements of patterns as evil and try to  eliminate
evil elements;  as if the essence of evil somehow  resided
within the essence of such incomplete elements.

     It  is helpful  to recognize that ultimate threats to
personal  and communal integrity reside in the quality  of
various   patterns;    for  some  patterns  of   behavior,
situations, relationships, concepts, feelings,  attitudes,
belief,      expectations,     aspiration,     conviction,
communication,   etc.  represent  disintegrative  threats;
others  represent  integrative  opportunities.    Ultimate
questions  pertain  to recognizing which  is  which,   and
pertain to responding appropriately to such recognitions.

     Integrative   and  disintegrative  patterns  may   be
recognized   within   self,    within   others;     within
relationships  among  others,   and  within  relationships
between  self and others.  If they are not recognized  for
what they are,  it is impossible to respond appropriately.
Real  threats  to personal integrity involve  patterns  of
relationships which involve self; thus it is impossible to
eliminate   such  threats  to  self  by  eliminating   all
participants  in  threatening patterns.  Evil  is  not  an
external  reality and cannot be eliminated by  eliminating
external realities.

     Evil is real.   The question is:  where is evil real;
where does it reside, where is it?

     When  one  person or group makes the  judgement  that
another person or group is evil and rejectable;  there  is
real evil present in the relationship between the judge(s)
and the victim(s) of the judgement. The victim(s)  include
the judge(s);  for the reality of evil resides more in the
quality  of the inter-personal relationships which are  in
question,   than  in  individual persons  or  groups.   To
eliminate evil we must learn to resolve inter-personal and
inter-group  conflicts  which  separate us  into  mutually
judgmental/rejective camps which are willing to engage  in
ultimately  disintegrative wars to defend the positions of
our  respective  camps.  In the absence of  reconciliation
there is no elimination of evil; there is just destruction
of healthy relationships.

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