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     %HISTORY WORD ETYMOLOGY ACKNOWLEDGE ARTICULATE+930827
 %OPEN HONEST PERSONAL INTIMATE EXPERIENCE LOVE SEX 930827

     The   similarities   in  the   words   "acknowledge",
"knowledge", and "know"   point to the fact that our human
knowledge grows only as we  acknowledge  what  each  other
openly and honestly  perceives our personal experiences to
indicate.  The  similarities in the words we use can often
tell us much about our daily lives.

     We cannot  truly  know  what  we  cannot in community
acknowledge   in   open  and  honest   talk,    listening,
conversation, and dialogue.   Private knowledge which must
remain  private is not real powerful knowledge because  it
is not acknowledged.   We cannot truly know what we cannot
truly  say and have openly acknowledged.   Our  collusions
inhibit  the development of  our intimate knowledge  about
ourselves and others.

     We  do not truly and fully know what our  experiences
and perceptions mean to us until:

     1.  We have experienced  the  freedom  to  be  safely
vulnerable in  expressing  what we  have  experienced  and
perceived through careful articulation,

     2.  We  have  done our best to articulate to and  for
ourselves what we have experienced and perceived,

     3.  We have shared our articulations with others,

     4.  Others have acknowledged our articulations, and

     5.  We have  accepted  their  acknowledgment  of  our
articulations.

     If  because of our dishonesty in collusive addictions
and   codependent  relationships  we  and  others   cannot
acknowledge what we have perceived  to  be the meanings of
our decisions, actions, mistakes, errors, and tragedies---
then  we cannot know how to be wise and share wisdom.   We
cannot  be role models for each other of wise and  healthy
living.

     The  people who first put down the words found in the
Bible  knew that intimate sexual relationships involve the
development  of  intimate knowledge  about  ourselves  and
others.   They made reference to sexual intercourse as the
participants  knowing  each other when a male goes into  a
female.  Their language was very direct and to the point.

     We  cannot know each other apart from  some  form  of
intimacy in which we acknowledge each other as persons who
are separate and yet connected with us in creation through
sharing of knowledge about ourselves  and each other. Some
of  our greatest human dilemmas have to do with how to  be
realistic  about  giving  guidance  to  our  processes  of
getting  to  know  ourselves   and  each   other   through
articulations    of    our   perceptions    and    through
acknowledgements of each other's articulations.

     Whatever we  cannot  acknowledge  in  open and honest
conversations  we  cannot  truly  know;  and we cannot  be
converted  by honest knowledge thereof because  we  cannot
engage in conversations about what we cannot acknowledge.

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