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 %HONEST PRIMARY SENSORY EXPERIENCE COLLUSION BLOCK 911020

     Because  honest  primary  sensory  experiences  often
expose  the  dishonesty of our collusive games  of  mutual
self  deception,   our collusions set up defenses  against
exposure:

     1.  by   promoting   beliefs   according   to   which
"spiritual perceptions" are more reliable than perceptions
of our merely physical bodies.

     2.  by  setting up systems of authority  and  experts
which  we  are  to  believe are  more  reliable  than  the
perceptions of our merely physical bodies.

     3.  by   traditions  according  to  which  the   more
"dangerous"   stimulations of primary sensory  perceptions
are   taboo,   forbidden,    un-thinkable,    un-speakable
experiences  which  if  revealed openly  and  honestly  in
intimate   conversation   are   grounds   for   rejection,
alienation,  estrangement and formal  excommunication/dis-
fellowship.

     4.  creating   systems   of   cognitive   procedures,
reasoning   and   logic   within   which   attention    is
systematically  diverted  away from awareness  of  primary
sensory  experiences;   and  towards  the  processing   of
secondary cognitive,  reasoning,  logical,   mathematical,
computational, and other non-primary processes.

     In  these ways we often come to be out of touch  with
our  bodies;  both figuratively and literally.  We  become
less  and less rooted in the physical world in  which  our
bodies  exist,   and more and more  preoccupied  with  the
worlds  which we have created in our fearful imaginations.
In  our  fearful  imaginations  we are  the  gods  of  the
universes  of our disparate imaginations,  and fearful  of
each other in those universes; because we are out of touch
with each other. We think in our detached ways that we are
powerful; yet we cannot know each other intimately because
we cannot honestly touch each other for fear of  violating
the  hidden  rules of our collusive games of  mutual  self
deception.

     We  need  to  examine  the logics  of  our  carefully
crafted collusive systems, and consider the personally and
communally disintegrative consequences of our systems.  We
need  to decide if those disintegrative  consequences  are
what  (in  the  depths of our being)  we  truly  want  for
ourselves and for each other. If not, we need to listen to
the ground of our being,  and be true to ourselves and  to
each  other.  This will no doubt involve getting  honestly
back in touch with ourselves and with each other.

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