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  %PERSONAL SALVATION POWER CONTROL IMPOTENT LIMITS+940723
     %TRAGIC LEADERS IMPOSSIBLE FAITH MIRACLES HOPE 940723

Many    people's    lives  are  dominated  by    the
beliefs,  convictions  and  passions  which say that their
personal salvation depends  critically  upon  their having
and properly using the power to control:

DESTINY            CAUSES               EFFECTS

CONSEQUENCES       PEOPLE               BEHAVIORS

THOUGHTS           FEELINGS             EMOTIONS

DESIRES            VISIONS              FANTASIES

FEARS              ANXIETIES            DESIRES

PERCEPTIONS        RELATIONSHIPS        INTIMACY

SEXUALITY          SPIRITUALITY         CONFLICTS

             and much more

     Their  paradigms  fail tragically for  a  variety  of
reasons:

     1.  People are impotent in may ways.   People do  not
have the power, and cannot have the power, to control most
of  what the paradigms claim people can have the power  to
control.      The  paradigms are essentially dishonest  to
the core.

     2.  The  paradigms encourage people to  be  concerned
with  issues  of  propriety  defined  without  integrative
regard for the people's essences,  hearts,  minds,  souls,
and  bodies.    The paradigms lead people to try  to  live
lives defined by externals ---  without respect for  their
need to be  true to themselves and each other in open  and
honest  intimate relationships which are  reflexive;   not
objective and dominated by external objective realities.

     3.  People who are preoccupied with issues of control
are  bound   to  engender and heighten personal  conflicts
by  being  personal  incarnations  of  conflicting ideals,
values,  goals,   principles,   injunctions, prohibitions,
prescriptions, and proscriptions.    They are not  focused
upon being true to themselves or each other. They  are not
focused  upon  seeking  honesty,   integrity,   wholeness,
health  and  balance  through true  conflict-resolution.

     4.    The  paradigms  lead  people  to  protect   the
paradigms through  the playing of a multitude of collusive
games  of mutual self-deception.   A  clear description of
the rules of  the paradigms and their  protective games is
forbidden---to insure  that  the  powerful people of   the
paradigms    have  available    the   potent   tools    of
confusion,     ambiguity, forgetfulness and fear to use in
their efforts to be in control.

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