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%ALTERNATIVE PARADIGM NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCE SEX JOY+940608
 %HYPOTHESIS HONESTLY CONSIDER DIALOGUE LISTEN KNOW 940608

People   who   are stuck in contrasting  paradigms   often
find   it  impossible  to  approach  a   common   set   of
experiences, evidence  and  data from within each  other's
alternative paradigm.   They are unwilling/unable to  give
each  other's  paradigm  a  fair test---because  they  are
trapped in the collusive games of mutual self deception of
their own limiting and often exclusive paradigm.

    It  is  not honest to reject a paradigm until one  has
honestly  approached  relevant experiences,  evidence  and
data  from within the framework of that  paradigm---unless
of   course  the  framework  of  that   paradigm   demands
dishonesty  and  personal/communal disintegration  as  the
price of working within the paradigm.

When   a   paradigm  is dominated by  collusive  games  of
mutual   self  deception it is not possible  to  test  the
integrity   of the  paradigm   while  working  within  the
framework   of   the  paradigm.     Some   paradigms   are
essentially  disintegrative  and  cannot  be  tested  with
integrity from within the paradigm.    Such paradigms tend
to encourage people to be exclusive,  narrow,  intolerant,
manipulative, arrogant, alienative, unbalanced, dishonest,
etc.

    When people who consider the same sets of experiences,
evidence   and  data  and  arrive  at  highly  contrasting
conclusions  as  to  how  they  should  be  most  properly
interpreted---it   is  likely  that  the  differences   in
interpretation  originate in contrasting paradigms.   Then
it   is  important  to  examine  the  differences  in  the
paradigms and what they lead to in terms of:  assumptions,
attitudes,   values,  ideals,  goals,  exclusions,   foci,
approaches,  language,  images, visions,  etc.   Attention
should in particular be focused upon what is excluded from
the lives  and  consciousness  of the  incarnations of the
contrasting paradigms,  and  focused upon how they promote
(or undermine) personal and communal integrity.

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