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  %COMPULSIVE PREOCCUPATION RULE REGULATE LAW ORDER+930824
 %CONTROL MEANS GOOD EVIL PERMISSION FORBID REPRESS 930824

     Some people are insecure and compulsively preoccupied
with  rules,   regulations,  law,  order, commandments and
means of control. Such people  fear that in the absence of
rules and regulations their can be no basis for hoping for
people  to  behave  in humane and  reasonable  ways.    To
suggest that it might be possible for anybody to transcend
the  need for  a well ordered set of rules,   regulations,
laws,   moral  codes,   commandments, ethical injunctions,
prohibitions  and   lists  of  permitted   behaviors---and
enforcers thereof---is to  strike  terror into the core of
their being who they are.

     We  may  observe,  however,  that there is a  general
human   tendency  to  rebel  against  external   controls;
especially when the external controls are imposed  without
sympathy,  understanding, love,  charity,  and integrative
perceptions.  Human beings cannot be helpfully controlled.
Much  anger,    resentment,   rebellion, dishonesty,   and
violence  is  engendered  by  attempts  to  control  human
behaviors.

     It is possible for humans to fulfill the  integrative
intent   of  things  such  as  rules,    regulations   and
commandments---without being preoccupied with them.    The
key  is  found  in  working  within the  framework  of  an
integrative  set  of  assumptions,   attitudes,   beliefs,
convictions  and  manners  of  approach  to  dilemmas  and
problems.   The key is found in  perceptions of the  heart
and  spirit expressed through open and honest prayer;  not
in   technology  expressed  through  clever   manipulative
procedures by which control is sought.

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