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%METAMORPHOSIS CELL DIVISION SEX HATCH BIRTH CHANGE 940129

     All  living  creatures  at  some  time  during  their
existence  undergo  major changes in their being what  and
who  they are.   Creatures which do not engage  in  sexual
reproduction undergo major changes through cell  divisions
by   which   one  creature splits and become  two   nearly
identical  creatures.  Creatures which do engage in sexual
reproduction  engage  in sexual relationships  which  play
significant roles in their life patterns; and thereby into
a new and somewhat different creature comes into existence
through  cell  divisions,   transformation  metamorphosis,
hatching, and/or birth.

     Metamorphosis may occur in ways which are not obvious
to  the objective observer who is compulsively preoccupied
with always  being  (or appearing to be)  objective and in
control.     Yet,   through metamorphosis  a  compulsively
objective creature may  cease to be compulsively objective
and preoccupied with being in control at all times, in all
places, and in all circumstances.

     Creatures   who  are  compulsively  preoccupied  with
always being in  control  naturally  fear  the  specter of
metamorphosis,    because  the  creature which   undergoes
metamorphosis  is not and cannot be in  conscious  control
of  its  own metamorphosis.   Metamorphosis is  a  process
which  is driven  and   guided   by  considerations  which
transcend   the consciousness   of   the   creature  which
undergoes metamorphosis---because of genetic codes for the
process  and/or  because of  environmental   circumstances
embedded in the  objective,   reflexive,   communal,   and
cultural environment which triggers the metamorphosis.

     People  who  seek  to  avoid  metamorphosis  and   to
continue  being  as  they  are (apparently in  control  of
themselves    and   others)    are   bound   to    undergo
metamorphosis because  of  their efforts to control  their
appearances.  When   they  cannot really be as they try to
appear   to   be---they  concentrate their attention  upon
appearances  rather  than upon reality;  and so engage  in
collusive games  of  mutual self deception which transform
them in ways  which  they cannot  control,   because  they
have lost  touch   with   reality. Their  metamorphosis is
driven   by   their  dishonesty  which  leads  them   into
degenerate  confusion and  disintegration.  They cannot be
true  to  themselves or to each other,  and so  cannot  be
people of integrity.  They disintegrate.

     People   who  seek  personal  and  communal integrity
---   willingly  undergo honest metamorphoses and continue
to   be   persons   of   integrity    within   integrative
communities.    There    people  enjoy  being   with   and
cooperating   with   each  other  in  open   and    honest
intimate  relationships.   There people enjoy each   other
because   they  give  to  each other the  gift    of   the
freedom to be true to themselves and to each other as they
grow through honest transformations.

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