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  %REQUIRE REJECT COMPLEMENT DICHOTOMY POLE EXCLUDE 910625

     A   paradigm   which   requires   of   its   personal
incarnations  that they  reject  in  an  exclusive way the
insights   of   any complementary    paradigm,     is   an
alienative   paradigm. Integrity does not entail rejection
of  complementary other persons,    insights,   behaviors,
values,  ideals, activities, etc.   Integrity is not based
upon exclusion;  but  rather upon integrative inclusion.

     Exclusion   may  occur  through  violent   rejection,
dis-fellowship,   excommunication,  banishment,  shunning,
etc.

     Exclusion   may  occur  through compulsive   activity
which  leaves   no room for any focus of  attention  other
than  the focus of the compulsive activity.   Professional
addicts in professional   training  programs  may  require
of   their  students  such a high level  of  intensity  in
focusing   upon the  compulsive activities of the training
program,     that the  students  do not have adequate time
for    meditation,    prayer,       personal     intimacy,
reflection,    reflexive consideration,  or being in touch
with their own feelings.  Such   exclusive   intensity  is
alienative   and   dis-integrative.

     Exclusion   may occur through unlimited  affirmations
of  the  value  of compulsive foci  of  attention--through
failure  to articulate  the  limited range of propriety of
the  values affirmed.

     Exclusion  may  occur  through the  neglect  to  seek
out   complementary    values,     ideals,      attitudes,
visions, assumptions,   behaviors,  etc.  Neglect may come
through  getting   addicted to the importance of  positive
values   at one  end of a wide spectrum of values;    thus
generating  a dichotomy which is alienative.

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