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     %ACCEPT INTEGRATIVE IMAGE VISION FANTASY DREAM 920201

     We  need  to  share  with each other  our integrative
images, visions, fantasies and dreams; picture we have  of
what it would be like  to live with true integrity  within
integrative  communities which provided  secure   contexts
for growth in healthy relationships.

     We may  share  our  integrative images  by  means  of
stories, myths, dramas,  novels, dances, poems,  pictures,
movies,  videos,  ballet,  music,  worship,  convocations,
lectures, and other  rituals.    Each  offers  channels of
communications, vocabularies,  languages,  words, symbols,
grammars,  and linguistic  tools by which we may share our
integrative images.

     Often  messengers  have been abused by the recipients
of troubling, embarrassing  and  unwanted messages;  kings
had unfortunate messengers  executed upon the  fulfillment
of their communication duties.    It is  disintegrative to
treat the channels of communication  in such abusive ways.
We need to take care  not to  clog  or cut the channels of
communication through  which we might be able to share our
integrative  images, visions, fantasies and dreams.   Evil
does  not   reside in the means of communication;  in  the
channels   as means of communication.    Evil  resides  in
broken,     cut,   clogged  and  perverted   channels   of
communication; in our alienative relationships.

     Stories,  myths,   dramas,  novels,  dances,   poems,
pictures,   movies,   videos,  ballet,   music,   worship,
convocations,   lectures,   and other  rituals  cannot  of
themselves be inherently  evil by themselves.   To  regard
any  of them as inherently evil by themselves is  to  risk
clogging the channels of communication through  which   we
might otherwise be able  to share our  integrative images,
visions, fantasies and dreams.   That would yield a tragic
consequence of our misguided  conception  of  evil.     In
regarding some  of  our  channels of communication as evil
we would create evil  relationships among  ourselves.   We
need a less  misleading conception of the nature of evil.

     We need to accept each other's stories, myths, dramas
,    novels,  dances,  poems,  pictures,  movies,  videos,
ballet, music, worship, convocations, lectures, and  other
rituals as efforts to communicate a variety of integrative
images,   visions,  fantasies and dreams.     We  need  to
discuss  them  openly  and  honestly  in  order   to  work
cooperatively    in   generating   insight   into    which
communications are truly integrative;  and which are  not.
Our  judgements should be judgements of  how   integrative
the communications are; not judgements  of   how evil  are
the people who  offer the communications;   or perhaps how
evil are the channels of communication,   how evil are the
elements  of   the  communications,  or  how evil are  the
settings within which the  communications occur.   We need
to  be  honest about both   integrative and disintegrative
processes so we do not  confuse them with each other.

     We often have  difficulty  in  distinguishing between
people's  actions  which on the one  hand  are  dishonest,
coercive,    violent,   addictive,   manipulative,    life
threatening, unjust, uncharitable and disintegrative;  and
on the  other  hand  people's  actions  which  communicate
integrative images, visions,  fantasies and  dreams  which
threaten   only  our  collusive  games  of   mutual   self
deception. The difference is not always  obvious.    Often
there   is  confusion  as  to  which  kinds   of   actions
particular   actions  are.     Often  people  who    offer
integrative images,  visions,   fantasies  and  dreams are
treated as if they had been dishonest,  coercive, violent,
addictive,    manipulative,  threatening  life,    unjust,
uncharitable and so  disintegrative.  Such mistreatment is
often motivated  by desperate desires to protect dishonest
collusive  games of mutual self deception.

     Prophets  who  speak the truth are often vilified for
doing  so,   even  unto  crucifixion.    It  is  sometimes
difficult  to  tell the difference between  criminals  and
saviors.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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