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%REVELATION KIND NATURE COLLUDE HIDE FEAR AVOID NEW+940130
   %PROPHET LIBERAL EDUCATION TEACHER LOVE SECURITY 940130

     Often   we  are  tempted to think  of  revelation  as
having  to   do   only   with  some  new   availability of
knowledge    or  information  which  was  not   previously
available.

     In  reality  revelation  often has  to  do  with  our
liberation  from  old  collusive  games  of  mutual   self
deception---which   have   blocked  our  apprehension   of
knowledge  and  information  which   have   been   readily
available to us. Through taboos, repression, shame, guilt,
fear, threats, and confusion our collusive games of mutual
self  deception have kept us from appreciating that  which
has  been  present  to  us.     Revelation  is  often  the
process  of  our  becoming   liberated  to appreciate that
which has been present to us.

     Revelation  often comes to us through the gift of the
freedom  to be safely vulnerable ---  given to us by  some
person  of integrity who is free to be safely  vulnerable.
We  may  be set free by a prophet,   teacher,   professor,
student,   friend or lover who knows how to draw out of us
that  which  we  already know in  some sense,    but  have
feared  to own as our  own  because  of  our fears.     We
may   have   been  so threatened  by  manipulative  people
that  we  have refused to be  true to ourselves  and  each
other about our own senses,  sensations,  experiences, and
perceptions.     They may come to  us  as   revelations---
once we are  free to  be  safely vulnerable.   Revelations
are   not  necessarily  new  flows  of  knowledge   and/or
information.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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