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    %SPIRIT LOVE POWER COERCE DISCIPLINE PUNISH JOY+940420
     %CONFORM DEMAND REQUIRE PROHIBIT LIMIT FORGIVE+940420
     %CONTROL RENEW HEAL RESOLVE CONFLICT TRANSCEND+940420
    %GROW CHANGE CONFIDENCE CERTAINTY ARROGANCE SIN 940420

    Spiritual   power   is  not  the  power   to   coerce,
discipline, punish,  demand, require, prohibit,  limit, or
judge with confidence and certainty.

    Spiritual  power  is found in the humane  presence  of
God-like   people   who  in  Love and  with  Joy  honestly
forgive each other, and others, for what is past---so that
they may in the eternal now cooperate with  God in working
to transcend,  heal  and grow out of the sin of past human
relationships of:  alienation, distrust, misunderstanding,
separation, isolation, depersonalization, objectification,
coercion, manipulation, control,  management, dis-cipline,
punishment, etc.

    Spiritual power is  not a characteristic of apparently
powerful people/leaders who seek to be  in  control and to
manage  the lives  of  humans  in alienative ways.    Such
apparently  powerful  people  regard heaven  as  a  future
time/place   into   which  only  good   people   will   be
admitted/accepted;   and  from which evil people  will  be
kept-out,  cast-out,  excommunicated  and alienated.  Such
apparently   powerful  people  live  in  and  create   for
themselves  and  others  a  present  hell  which includes:
alienation,  misunderstanding,     spiritual    impotence,
futility,  frustration,  anger,  resentment,  retaliation,
violence and confusion.  They seek to achieve the right to
get  into  heaven  by  being  good  agents  of  alienative
exclusivity---in  keeping with the vision they have of the
nature of heaven as an exclusive future time/place.   They
create, live in and maintain a present alienative hell.

    Honest people of integrity create,  live in and invite
all  others  into an eternally present heaven of inclusive
honest  relationships---characterized  by the  absence  of
threats    of   condemnations,   judgments,     rejection,
excommunication, disfellowshipping, banishment,  and other
forms of arrogant punishment.   Honest people of integrity
live  eternally  in the integrative  presence of  God  who
created them in the  divine  image,  to be participants in
the creative  processes of integrative Love---which  seeks
to include all people in Love.

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