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   %NEGLECT ACKNOWLEDGE EFFECT REFLEXIVE ASSUMPTION+940415
    %OWN DISHONEST NATURE REALITY CONCEIVE DISCOVER+940415
    %CONVICTION OBJECTIVE BLIND RELATIONSHIP PERSON 940415

    It is dishonest to neglect to acknowledge  the  effect
which  our  reflexive  assumptions  about  the  nature  of
reality have upon the kinds of reality which we  conceive,
realize, discover and describe.

If  we  begin  with  the assumptions/convictions that  our
reflexive   relationships   are  not  of  any  fundamental
importance or significance---we thereby reflexively  blind
ourselves  to  the very  reflexive assumptions/convictions
which  blind us.   We thereby  begin playing our collusive
games  of  mutual self  deception---which  are essentially
reflexive  and  disintegrative;  but are invisible  to  us
because we have blinded ourselves to them by adopting  our
assumptions/convictions.

    Beginning with dishonesty about the nature of our most
fundamental  reflexive assumptions about  ourselves,   our
relationships,   and  our  cosmos---is  a beginning  which
assures that   our   reflexive   relationships   will   be
dishonest/disintegrative; and so will lead us to end up as
impersonal,    isolated/alienated,    and   disintegrating
fragments;   in fulfillment of our assumptions/convictions
which we cannot permit ourselves to  see.   We thus assure
ourselves that our beginning assumptions are correct, even
if deadly.   We prefer being deadly correct to being truly
alive.

    The  only  way we can honestly examine our most  basic
assumptions is to be in dialogue with people who have made
and live in  terms of complimentary basic assumptions.  If
we always spend all of our time with people who have  made
the  same  set of  basic assumptions as we have,   we  are
unlikely to examine our most basic assumptions in any open
and honest  way.    Specialization   thus  undermines  the
possibility  of  openly  and honestly examining  our  most
basic  assumptions---and  so undermines  most  integrative
work.

    If our most basic assumptions are exclusive in nature,
then  we will exclude from our fellowship people who  have
made fundamentally different basic assumptions, and we are
thereby  imprisoned  in our exclusive  assumptions.    Our
exclusivity  imprisons us,  makes the bars of our  prison,
and puts the lock on the door of our self-made prison. Our
prison  of exclusive objectivity is a reflexive prison  of
our own making.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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