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 %ULTIMATE CONCERN FEAR DEFENSE DEVIL IDOLATRY LOVE+940611
%SELF EGO OTHER ALIENATION EXCOMMUNICATION REJECTED+940611
   %SELECTIVE COMPETITION ELITE EXCLUSIVE SALVATION 940611

What   do wisdom,   love and faith call upon us  to   fear
most?  Devils?  Evils?  Sins?  Non-conformity? Conformity?
Condemnations? Judgments? Rejections? Fears? Egos or God?

    Our  personal  and communal integrity  depend  greatly
upon what we  fear most, and in what  way  we  manage  our
fears.     The  focus of our fears and how we  manage  our
fears  are  motivated  and directed by  how  we  conceive,
conceptualize   and  realize  (make-real)   our   ultimate
concerns, fears and defenses.

    Do we conceive and conceptualize within the context of
threats  of alienation,  excommunication,   rejection  and
exclusion?    Then we are likely to be defensive and  echo
the  nature  of the context within which we  conceive  and
conceptualize  the expressions  of  our ultimate:   fears,
devils, evils, sins, condemnations, judgments, rejections,
fears, egos and gods.

    Do we conceive and conceptualize within the context of
true  hopes  of  acceptance,  communion,   dialogue,   and
inclusion?    Then  we  are  likely to  enjoy  giving  and
receiving free gifts of true security known as the freedom
to  be  safely vulnerable---through expressions of  trust,
love, acceptance, listening, inclusion, responsiveness and
remembrance.

    In  the  former  instance we  are  likely  to  promote
disintegrative  fears.  In the latter instance we seek  to
transcend and calm disintegrative fears.

    In the former instance our egos are central actors  in
the  tragic  drama  of  our defenses against all  that  we
conceptualize,  realize and fear.   In the latter instance
we transcend the motivations and guidance  of our  egos as
independent  realities  fighting for  survival---and  find
that  they are not ultimately real and so do  not  survive
our transcendence of them.

    So  long as we regard our egos as ultimate  realities,
we are bound to fear each other's disposition to engage in
ultimate  conflicts  with  each  other---in  battles   for
ultimate survival in a competitive cosmos.   Ultimate egos
are  not dedicated  to  promoting  personal  and  communal
integrity.    Ultimate  egos  are dedicated to survival no
matter what the cost in  honesty, integrity, communication
and spiritual connections.

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