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 %NEW PARADIGM LANGUAGE COLLUSION TABOO PHRASE WORD 921119

     We  live  within various paradigms;   within  various
sets of attitudes,   assumptions,  feelings,   priorities,
concepts,  words,  and languages.  Different paradigms may
use  the  same words within one language such as  English;
but  mean  quite different things when they use  the  same
words.   The new age hippy and the physicists  mean  quite
different  things  by  the  words:   energy,   vibrations,
momentum and force.

     Within some paradigms  there are  realities which are
taboo;    participants    within   the    paradigms    are
forbidden     to  acknowledge  their  reality,    and   so
participants  within  the paradigms  must not  have  words
with which to point to  the forbidden  realities.   One of
the  ways  to make  a  reality invisible  is  to   prevent
anyone   from   having  words  or phrases  with  which  to
point  to the reality.   If any person who  is "in"    the
paradigm uses one of the taboo words  to point  to a taboo
reality;    the  person is shunned so as to  inhibit   the
repetition   of the taboo word  usage.    Thus  people  in
some  paradigms  live in the presence of  realities  which
they  cannot  point  to  and  cannot  honestly  experience
because of language deprivation.

     To  transcend  collusive paradigms we need to  expand
our vocabularies  to  include  words with which  to  point
to  realities which have been taboo for us to acknowledge;
or we  need to learn how to use existing words in new ways
to  point to such realities.   We need to be sensitive  to
other  people    who   may  be  using   words   which   we
think    we  understand,  but they are using the words  in
ways which are not consistent with our paradigm.  If we do
not  understand other  people  we  may find it helpful  to
entertain  the hypothesis that they may be living within a
paradigm which contrasts significantly with ours.

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