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     %ETERNAL INTERNAL OBJECTIVE SUBJECTIVE REALITY 910101

     It   is  dangerous to be grounded  only  in  internal
realities without reference to external realities;  for if
we invent internal realities without reference to external
realities  we   may come to be out of touch with  reality,
and   suffer  tragic   consequences   through   collusion,
delusion   and  elusion.     We   may grow  out  of  touch
individually  and/or communally.

     In  the  light  of  the  recognition  of  the  danger
of  individually   or  communally  growing  out  of  touch
with  external   reality we often look for sure  signs  of
hope   in  external reality.   We seek objective  evidence
that  what we hope  in  and  believe in is grounded  in  a
reality   which  transcends   our  power   of   individual
and/or   communal invention---which  may  operate in a way
which is  out  of touch with ultimate reality.

     We  do not want to become fools who are out of  touch
with ultimate reality and so we seek to prove to ourselves
and  each   other that what we ultimately  believe  in  is
ultimate reality.  Even so there is a danger that what  we
ultimately   believe   in   is   the   creation  of    our
individual  and/or communal  imaginations;    and there is
a danger  that  the signs  which  we  choose  as proofs to
us  that  what  we ultimately  believe  in  is  ultimately
real  may   be   signs  chosen   for  misguided   internal
reasons,     and  regarded   for  internal   reasons    as
adequate   proof  of  the   ultimate relation of  our  own
conceptions.   Together we may convince ourselves and each
other that what we have chosen as signs of ultimate  proof
are ultimately reliable, even as we grow together  out  of
touch with each other and out  of  touch with reality.

     We  need  to recognize the common signs that  we  are
growing  out   of  touch  with  each other  and   out   of
touch  with reality;    even as we grow out of touch  with
the   deepest aspects of our own self known as an internal
reality.   Each way of growing out of touch with important
truths  is  part of  a  pattern  in  the dishonest   games
of    mutual   self  deception  which   characterize   our
collusive,    addictive  and co-dependent lives.  In  such
dishonest  games of mutual self deception we  cannot  find
reliable signs of ultimate hope.

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