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     %REFLEXIVE DESCRIPTION OBJECTIVE REALITY POINT 930322

     Objective  descriptions point to aspects  of  reality
and personal experiences  which  are  most  common to many
different people.

     Reflexive  descriptions  point to aspects of  reality
and  personal  experiences which  are  perhaps  relatively
unique; but yet  are  meaningful to those people who share
the aspects of reality and personal experiences in common.
The  fact  that not  all people  share  those  aspects  of
reality and personal experiences in common,  does not mean
that  the  experiences are not meaningful to those who  do
share  them.  To those people who  do  honestly share  the
experiences   in   common   conversations,    the   honest
descriptions are experienced as "true",    even though the
honest descriptions may not be "true"  to those who do not
share the descriptions in common conversations.

     The  extent   to   which  reflexive   realities   are
experienced  as  "true"   depends in large part  upon  the
degree to  which  those  people who experience  them share
their   experiences   openly  and  honestly  in   intimate
conversations.   If  people are not true to themselves and
to  each other  in such  common sharing of their reflexive
experiences,   then their reflexive  experiences cannot be
"true" to them in common sharing.

     Compulsively objective  people  have collusive taboos
which prevent them  from sharing many of their experiences
in common conversations,  and so to them those experiences
and descriptions of them are not "true" in common sharing.
They regard descriptions of such  reflexive experiences as
"false",   or  at least  meaningless;    corresponding  to
unverified   appearances.    Such  people  regard  surface
surface objective appearances of objects as more worthy of
attention than  deeper  reflexive  truths  which  are  not
objectively evident on the surfaces of objects.

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