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  %SPIRITUAL OBJECTIVE REFLEXIVE REALITY TECHNOLOGY+940414
   %DICHOTOMY SPLIT ANALYSIS PERSONAL RELATIONS JOY 940414

    Often  people  fall  into the false dichotomy  of  the
split between    spiritual/reflexive     realities     and
impersonal/objective  realities.    Some  people  seek  to
convince  others  that  spiritual/reflexive  realities are
real  in  terms of the paradigm of those  people  who  are
operating    exclusively    in    terms    of    objective
considerations.    Such  an  effort  is   futile---because
exclusive    objectivity   rules   out   of   order    any
considerations which are reflexive; i.e., pointing back in
any profoundly personal way to the people who  are trapped
in   the   exclusively  objective  paradigm.     Exclusive
objectivity is a collusive game of mutual  self  deception
which cannot tolerate spiritual/reflexive realities;  even
on a hypothetical basis  within  a hypothesis to be tested
experimentally within existential  personal relationships.
Exclusive  objectivity  does  not  seek  open  and  honest
descriptions  of and dialogue regarding authentic personal
experiences;   it  seeks  exclusive confirmations  of  the
ultimate  worth  and  utility of the  paradigm  of   those
people who  are compulsively objective depersonalizers.

    Often  people who are oriented primarily to  spiritual
and  reflexive realities are exclusive in ways  which  are
mirror     images   of   the   ways  of  participants   in
objectivists'   collusive games of mutual self  deception.
They fall into the same trap,  and seek  to validate their
claims  in  terms  of echoes of  the  validations  of  the
objectivists'    paradigm;    as  if   spiritual/reflexive
realities  were  in  some  sense  "real"  apart  from  the
participants within them,  transcending the  participants.
They are unwilling to acknowledge the essential role which
the participants in spiritual/reflexive  realities play in
creating and  enjoying  spiritual/reflexive relationships.
In what sense can such  realities  exist apart  from their
participants?    What  meaning  and significance  can such
realities have apart from the participants?  In what sense
can  we  know  about  such  spiritual/reflexive  realities
without being participants in them?

    Addictive  people  often  seek  to gain  control  over
spiritual/reflexive  realities as tools  of  manipulation;
and  they seek to reduce spiritual/reflexive realities  to
the level of objective realities which can be  manipulated
and be used to manipulate people.  They are not interested
in    being   involved   in    true    spiritual/reflexive
relationships  of  open and honest dialogue within  secure
contexts where true security is given and accepted as  the
freedom to be safely vulnerable in intimate relationships.
They  are  interested in issues of  control,   conformity,
acceptance,  rejection,   punishment  and excommunication.
Thus  they seek  to  transform  truly  spiritual/reflexive
relationships  into  objective relationships  which can be
manipulated and controlled. They seek to remove the law of
love from the heart---and write  it  into legalistic books
of law,  judgment and excommunication as tools of control.
They  seek  to  replace  the  New Testament with  the  Old
Testament   in  very  selective  efforts  to  use  ancient
fundamentals as tools of manipulation and control.

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