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   %COMMUNAL AFFIRM ESSENTIAL PERSONAL WHOLE HEALTH 911222

     For  a community and its members to enjoy  wholeness,
health and fulfillment, the community as a whole, needs to
affirm the importance of integrity,  balance,   wholeness,
and  open-and-honest  intimate  dialogue;   through  which
communication integrity is found.

     It  is  essential for a community as a whole to  work
cooperatively in identifying those aspects of balance, and
those kinds of balance,  which are most seriously  lacking
within  the  community and within its  members;   then  to
affirm  communally  the importance of whatever aspects  of
balance  and whatever kinds of balance the lack.   This is
not easy!

     Often  balance  is lacking due  to  collusions  which
repress  into the collective communal unconsciousness  any
awareness  of the integrative importance of those  aspects
of   balance---which   if  affirmed  would  threaten   the
respected collusions, addictions and codependent processes
which   characterize  the  community  as  a  whole.    The
collective  communal  unconsciousness is held  in  common;
because  it  is generated  through  cooperative  collusive
efforts to deny truths which are essential to personal and
communal integrity.

     Recovery  of honesty,  openness,  health,  wholeness,
integrity, hope, joy,  and enjoyment will in each instance
entail  letting  go to the collusive games of mutual  self
deception---through  which  there  is  repression  of  the
communal  awareness of those aspects of balance and  those
kinds  of balance which are most seriously lacking  within
the community, and within its members.  The most seriously
lacking  aspects/kinds  of balance are lacking because  of
the  collusions,  addictions and codependencies;  and  the
knowledge that they are lacking is also repressed  because
of  the collusions,  addictions and codependencies.    The
cause of the lack;  and the cause of the ignorance of  the
lack is the same.

     We need to transcend our collusions,  addictions  and
codependencies through the recognition of the signs of our
disintegration:

     1.  Growing  impoverishment  of  women,  and  of  the
children  upon whom the favorable remembrance of all  our
accomplishments will depend.

     2.  Steady  declines in the medium quality  of  life,
health and hope.

     3.  Increasing preoccupation with increasing rates of
consumption   of  resources,   and  increasing  rates   of
generation of garbage on a finite terrestrial home planet.

     4.  Increasing defensiveness and declining security.

     5.  Declining  health  and  increasing  health   care
costs.

     6.  Increasing   costs   of  law  enforcement;    and
decreasing respect for law and order on the part of many.

     7.  Increasing  differences between the  wealthy  and
the  poor  as regards:  political power,  resources  used,
perceptions, beliefs, attitudes, values, ideals, hopes and
aspirations.

     8.  Increasing preoccupations with technocratic fixes
which do not provide meaningful satisfaction to those  who
are addicted to them.

     9.  Increasing   ignorance  of  our  historical   and
cultural roots.

     10.  Failures   to  use  wisely  the  knowledge   and
information   we  have;   because  we  are   addicted   to
accumulating  more knowledge and information which we will
not know how to use wisely.

     We need to attend to the signs; not ignore them. More
than that,  we need to seek to discover that to which  the
signs point; and not ignore that to which the signs point.

     While  we  need to attend to the signs,  we  need  to
avoid preoccupation with the signs,  for any preoccupation
with  the  signs can be the tool we use to  avoid  dealing
openly and honestly with that to which the signs point.

     The  troubling and embarrassing signs point to  those
aspects of balance, and those kinds of balance,  which are
most  seriously lacking within our communities and  within
us  their  members.    We need to  communally  affirm  the
importance  of  whatever aspects of  balance  and whatever
kinds  of balance are lacking.   This is not going  to  be
easy!
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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