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%REFLEXIVE HONESTY COMMUNAL PERSONAL INTEGRATE EVIL 900614

     Reflexive    dishonesty  leads  to     personal   and
communal  disintegration.    If we cannot be  honest  with
ourselves,   we cannot be honest with each other;  and  we
lack both personal and communal integrity.

     Anything  which  blocks reflexive  emotional  honesty
regarding  our feelings,  emotions,  perceptions,   fears,
regrets,  anxieties,  etc.   undermines the foundations of
both  personal and communal integrity.   Such blockage  of
honest  reflexive expression of what is most uniquely  our
own,  feeds the roots of collusive games  of  mutual  self
deception.

     Anything  which  leads to the blockage  of  reflexive
honesty  will ultimately lead to destructive reactions  to
the repressions generated by such blockage.   Attempts  to
inhibit reflexive honesty (e.g.;  trying always to  appear
to be objective)  will ultimately lead  to expressions (of
the   repressed   personal  realities)   which  are   more
destructive  than  reflexive  honesty  would  have   been.
Pretending  to  always  be  objective  is  dishonest,  and
destructive of personal and communal integrity.

     It is impossible to be reflexively honest with others
without first being reflexively honest with one's own self
through   knowing  and  owning  one's  own  feelings   and
emotions.  To pretend otherwise is dishonest.

     Communal  integrity is impossible  without  reflexive
self  honesty,  because communal integrity is  based  upon
open   and  honest  communications  which  are  impossible
without  reflexive  honesty.    Honesty  about  one's  own
emotional  life is the foundation for communal  integrity.
No ideals,    values  or   traditions which block  honesty
about one's own emotional life are worthy of respect.

     Many  emotions of members of addictive societies  are
associated   with  the  rebellion  of  frustrated  persons
against  addictive  blockages  of  reflexive  knowledge---
addictive emotional backlash.

     Blocked perceptions  are not shared,  and  cannot  be
combined in creative new ways.  Only perceptions which are
openly  and honestly shared are likely to be  combined  in
creative  new ways to deal with emerging new dilemmas  and
problems.

     Whatever  blocks  open and honest  reflexive  sharing
thereby blocks creativity and renewal,  and so is evil  in
the sense that evil pertains to the blockage of  open  and
honest communication.

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