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%OBJECT ANALYSIS PERSONAL COMMUNAL HEALTH INTEGRITY 900623

     The  essence  of  personal and  communal  health  and
integrity   is  not  to  be  found  through  analysis   of
successively  smaller and smaller fragments  of  objective
reality.  The essence of the whole within which health and
integrity   may   be   enjoyed  is   not   found   through
fragmentation;    rather   it  is  to  be  found   through
reflexive  consideration  of  the  ways  in which familiar
healthy  parts participate with integrity within a healthy
whole.

     The   word   "analysis"   carries   connotations   of
fragmentation; taking a whole apart to see how it works.

     We need a word which points to a process of reflexive
consideration  of  the ways in which familiar parts  which
have   integrity  participate  in  a  larger  whole   with
integrity.   To use the word "analysis" to point to such a
contrasting  and  different process is bound  to  generate
confusion.   The word "synthesis"  points to a process  of
creating  a whole where one has not existed  before.    We
need  a  word  which  points  to  the  development  of  an
appreciation   of   the   functioning  of   a   whole   by
consideration  of the ways in which familiar healthy parts
participate within an existing whole with integrity.  This
process  is a process of seeing more clearly the integrity
which   is  already  present,   without  in  the   process
fragmenting the integrity which we would see more  clearly
if we could see it without fragmentive analysis.

     The  paradigm  of the elementary  particle  physicist
does  not  point  the way to  such  holistic  perceptions.
Knowing  more and more about less and less during  shorter
and  shorter fragments of time does not point the way to a
holistic  conception  of the meaning and  significance  of
healthy  living.    People  who  lead  healthy  lives   in
meaningful  and  honest  personal relationships  are  more
likely  to  point the way to a holistic conception of  the
meaning and significance of healthy living.  We should let
them lead the way and encourage them in their efforts.

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