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This is http://www.essayz.com/a9306041.htm Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay Click HERE on this line to find essays via Your-Key-Words. {Most frequent wordstarts of each essay will be put here.} ========================================================== %ULTIMATE PARADIGM FRUITS REFLECT REFLEXIVE TRUTH+930604 %ACCEPT REJECT EXCOMMUNICATE MUTUAL UNDERSTAND+930604 %RESPECT LOVE LISTEN META VALUES IDEALS 930604 By their fruits we may know the merits and draw-backs of the various paradigms which ultimately lead our reflections upon the attitudes, concepts, languages, convictions, beliefs, decisions and actions of those people who embody the paradigms. We inevitably reflect upon: 1. Each other person of importance to us. 2. Ourselves. 3. Relationships between self and each other person. 4. How others view our relationships with others. 5. Our own ideals, values, hopes, expectations. 6. Dissonances between reality and intentions. At least some of the previous forms of reflection include the process by which we and others reflect upon previous reflections. The process of reflection can become as an endless set of reflections as between two nearly parallel mirrors viewed from a point in between the two nearly parallel mirrors. What we see depends upon the exact orientations of the nearly parallel mirrors and what else beside our self is between the nearly parallel mirrors. It also depends upon how flat or curved the mirror are, how perfectly each tiny bit of mirror reflects, diffuses or absorbs light, etc. If we do not engage in a sufficiently high level of meta-reflection upon ourselves, others, relationships, ideals, etc. --- we endlessly repeat mistakes in terms of misleading paradigms. If we become addicted to finding and fixating upon the highest possible levels of multiple reflection in reflexive considerations---we are bound to lose touch with reality and get lost in the hall of mirrors of our reflexivity. If we seek to avoid insane reflexivity and try to take refuge in the world of purely objective relationships where we do not reflect at all upon our interactions with other objects and other people---we cannot learn from the consequences of our past mis-guided efforts. We need to ask: In terms of what reflections upon what levels or reality may be find the way to a balance between totally impersonal and non-spiritual objectivity, and the insanity of paying attention only to the higher levels of reflections and reflexivity? The answer we arrive at will depend upon how we relate our reflections to our more immediate relationships and experiences. We go insane if we lose awareness of our primary experiences of sight, sound, taste, smell, touch and bodily movements. We go insane if we lose awareness of each other as separate/unique persons who are independent of us and cannot be controlled by us. We become dysfunctional if we fail to be true to ourselves and each other in open and honest dialogue with self and others about our primary sensations, experiences, and perceptions; and in open and honest dialogue with self and others about our primary reflections there-upon. We become thoughtless if we do not engage in open and honest dialogue with ourselves and each other about the basic elements of the paradigms, ideals, values, beliefs, abstractions, concepts, and languages which serve as our meta-guides; and about how they inter-relate within us and affect our relationships with each other. If our paradigms, ideals, values and belief systems lead us to be preoccupied with grounds for rejecting, excommunicating, humiliating, doing violence and killing each other---then we and our communities disintegrate. If our paradigms, ideals, values and belief systems lead us to cooperate with each other in seeking ways to creatively resolve the conflicts which we encounter in our relationships with each other---then we and our communities will enjoy increasing levels of personal and communal integrity. We need to seek together to learn together how to cooperatively recognize paradigms, ideals, values and belief systems which will lead us in the directions of integration; rather than in the directions of disintegrations. Successfully finding and articulating excuses for disintegrative decisions and actions is not a very integrative activity. Successfully finding and articulating ways to promote both personal and communal integration is a very integrative activity. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================