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      %BLOCK TRAP OBJECT SCIENTIST RELIGIOUS LEADER 931229

     A block is often thought of an an object which stands
in the way of a person seeking to move through the portion
of  space in which the block stands.   Were the block  not
there  the person could move,  but the black is in the way
in which the person might otherwise move.

     Not all blocks are objective realities.   Many blocks
(or blockages)  are reflexive realities such as attitudes,
assumptions, beliefs, convictions, ideals, values,  goals,
intentions,   etc.   which mislead us and prevent us  from
growing in the ways which would be integrative and healthy
for us and our communities.   Objective blockages lead  us
to  go  around the physical place where they stand in  our
way.  Similarly reflexive blockages lead us to avoid going
and  growing in reflexive ways which would be healthy  and
integrative for us and our communities.

     One  of the tragic blockages which has mislead  many,
if not most, religious leaders is the scientists' blockage
of narrowing attitudes, assumptions, beliefs, convictions,
ideals,   values,   goals,  intentions,  etc.  which focus
people's  attention  primarily (if not exclusively)   upon
objective realities.   A  major example of such a blockage
is the way in  which many religious  leaders have  focused
primarily    upon   the   physical   aspects   of   sexual
relationships  to the near exclusion of any focus upon the
reflexive aspects of sexuality which have  to do with true
intimacy,   honesty,  balance,  openness,   integrity  and
health;  or with  addiction,   codependence,   collusions,
control, confusion, etc.

     The blockage  to human growth and  development  which
originates in exclusive objectivity cannot be  transcended
by any  form of  scholarship  which  is  dominated by  the
attitudes,  assumptions,  beliefs,  convictions,   ideals,
values,  goals and intentions of scientists,   technicians
and engineers.    Such scholarship is unable to  transcend
the  collusive  games of mutual self deception  which  are
played by compulsive objectivists.   Such scholarship does
not  liberate  and  cannot  liberally  educate  the   next
generation to be free of such blockages.

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