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%OBJECTIVE REALITY COLLUSIVE SELF DECEPTION ESSENCE 940528

    Only  if  we  are participants in collusive  games  of
mutual  self deception does it make sense to us to believe
that  the  complete  essence of all relationships  can  be
understood by attending primarily to the objective aspects
of  the  relationships  and objective  evidence  regarding
them.     If  we are honest with ourselves and each other,
then we know and talk about the fact that  creatures often
participate  in deceptive maneuvers;   to  survive  and/or
gain  advantage.

     Deceptive maneuvers  are  not  successful  if  it  is
objectively obvious that they  are  deceptive.   Deceptive
maneuvers  are  successful  only to the  extent  that  the
creature   engaged  in  the  maneuver  is  successful   in
concealing  the deceptive nature of the  maneuver---hiding
the  objective  evidence of the deception  from  objective
observers.    Objective procedures for gathering  evidence
are  thus  ill-suited  to dealing with creatures  who  are
engaged    in    deceptive   maneuvers;      whether   the
maneuvers    be  consciously  intentional  or  collusively
hidden even from the participants in the maneuvers.

    People  who  focus their  attention  exclusively  upon
objective evidence thereby handicap themselves and make it
impossible to understand many realities and  relationships
which  are  inherently  reflexive;   as is  the  case  for
creatures  engaged in deceptive maneuvers and in collusive
games of mutual self deception.

All    personal   relationships  are to a  large    extent
reflexive  relationships;   the more open,   honest,   and
intimate    the  relationships  are,   the   more   openly
reflexive  the  relationships are.   The  more  secretive,
deceptive  and objective  the  relationships   are,    the
more   collusively reflexive the relationships are  likely
to  be.    There is no clever technical    procedure    by
which to    transform    personal relationships  which are
truly reflexive   into   personal relationships  which are
truly objective;  for attempts to do so  lead participants
into  collusive games of  mutual self deception which  are
devoid of truth and full of reflexive bias.

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