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  %DOUBLE BIND EDUCATE MEANING SIGNIFICANCE SEX SCI 930127

     It  is easy for us to engage in a meaningful activity
which we regard as significant in our life if:

     1.  We  have watched role models of integrity  do  so
without  embarrassment,   with pride,  and  with  communal
respect.

     2.  Our role models for the activity have been people
whom we respected, and who respected us as persons.

     3.  Engaging   in  the  activity  has  not  been  the
occasion for embarrassment on the part of others,  threats
on the part of others, or fear of rejection by others.

     4.  We  have not been given reasons for regarding the
activity  to  be dangerous beyond the  possibility  of  us
coping  prudently  with the dangers naturally inherent  in
being active.

     5.  Our family,  relatives,  associates,  and trusted
friends  regard  the activity as significant,  meaningful,
and worthy of respect.

     6.  We  have a theoretical framework within which  we
perceive  the  activity  as  likely to contribute  to  our
personal  and  communal  integrity;  rather than  threaten
them.

     7.  The activity fits reasonably within  our  primary
paradigm;   or  we  see  it as helping us  and  others  to
transcend the limitations of a paradigm which we have come
to    experience    as   unhealthy,    debilitating    and
disintegrative.

     8.  We  find  that  we can  engage  in  the  activity
without   being   rejected,   alienated,   excommunicated,
disfellowshipped,    or   otherwise  separated  from   our
supportive community.

     9.  We  see the activity as contributing meaningfully
to  our overall spiritual life, and as promoting  personal
and communal integrity in our religious life.

     10.  We enjoy  engaging in the  activity,   doing  so
brings   us  and   others   pleasure,    and  we  remember
engaging  in  the activity with positive emotions.

     To the extent that some of the above  conditions  are
not met,  to such an extent we find it difficult to engage
in  an activity meaningfully and/or to regard it as  a  an
actual or potentially significant aspect of our life.

     The   above   considerations  are  relevant  to   the
improvement  of all educational  activities  in  families,
schools,  colleges,  universities,  businesses, and social
service  agencies  in all our communities.  How  well  our
children learn,  how well they will be,  and how well they
will  help their children fulfill their  potentials---will
depend  to  a large extent upon how  wisely  we  and  they
consider   the   above   pre-requisites   to   integrative
education.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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