This is http://www.essayz.com/a9403291.htm Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay Click HERE on this line to find essays via Your-Key-Words. {Most frequent wordstarts of each essay will be put here.} ========================================================== %ASSUMPTION PRESUPPOSE INCOHERENCE WHOLE INTEGRITY+940329 %COMPULSIVE OBJECTIVE ADDICT FIX CONTROL COMMUNE+940329 %COMPETITIVE CONFLICT COOPERATE HEALTHY DISEASE 940329 People who make the assumption that there is inherent in the nature of the universe an essential integrity and tendency towards wholeness---are likely to find their assumption fulfilled through their being receptive to communications which are both in keeping with that assumption, and contrary to that assumption. They are not exclusive and so not ignorant. People who make the assumption that there is not inherent in the nature of the universe any essential integrity or tendency towards wholeness---are likely to find their assumption fulfilled through their insensitivity to any communications which might demonstrate their assumption to be wrong---and their persistence in looking for evidence in isolation and alienation which has been generated through their assumption and supportive convictions. They are exclusive and so are ignorant. If we are convinced that we are essentially isolated and alienated from any possible inherent integrity in the universe, from other beings who might be mysteriously connected to us in ways we do not and cannot understand, and from the ground of our being---we are unlikely to be forced to change our conviction. Our convictions are non-objective realities and objective processes are unlikely to have any controlling influence over our non- objective convictions. Our convictions to the contrary block the possibility of integrative learning. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================