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%BLOCKAGE DOORS KINGDOM HEAVEN SATISFACTION FULFILL+941023
 %FALSE ASSUMPTION ONE ONLY WAY EXCLUSIVE REJECTION+941023
 %CRIME GANG LORD ARBITRARY LAWS RULER JUST LAW SIN 941023

     There are often blockages at the doors of the Kingdom
of   Heaven.     The blockages at the doors of the Kingdom
of Heaven take many forms and come about in many ways.  We
will  do  well to treat each form of blockage and  how  it
comes  to  be  present  with due  regard  for  its  unique
characteristics.   If we treat different forms of blockage
and/or  the  processes of their formations as if  they are
alike or identical---such  treatment is  itself a form  of
blockage of the doors of the Kingdom of Heaven.

     Many blockages  of the doors of the Kingdom of Heaven
take  the form of FALSE ASSUMPTIONS;  e.g.,  that there is
only ONE DOOR TO THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN.   Many other kinds
of assumptions and particular assumptions also form at the
doors of the Kingdom of Heaven and act  as blockages which
keep God's Children out of the Kingdom of Heaven.

     In  ancient  mythology there were  fearsome creatures
with swords, fires and wings which stood guard of the door
(gate)   to  the Kingdom of Heaven.   Often  the  blocking
assumption  is  made  that such creatures are doing  God's
bidding  to  protect  the King's Turf in the manner  of  a
Crime Gang Lord in  an inner city ghetto---suggesting that
the  Kingdom  of Heaven of the creator of the  cosmos---is
like an inner city  ghetto,  which  is   ruled  over by an
addictive man who makes  his  own  laws without regard for
the integrity of  the residents or of the  community  as a
whole.

     Jesus  re-imaged the nature of the Kingdom of  Heaven
and of the  supreme  power and presence in  the Kingdom of
Heaven---by  referring  to  the  kingdom  as  having  many
mansions where  his  Father  lived, and to  which  he  was
returning  to prepare places for disciples who regard  him
as  the  Truth,  the Way and the  Life.    He  called  his
disciples  to  follow  him  as  humble  and just servants,
willing to  welcome  and  care for children and adults who
are  poor   in  political power,  financial  wealth,   and
community respect.

     Many of  the  blockages of the way to  the Kingdom of
Heaven take the form of  assumptions  that most injustice,
disparity  of  power,   illness,   dis-ease,    conflicts,
misunderstanding  and  alienation  is  unavoidable  and/or
part   of  a  divine  system  of  punishments  for   human
violations   of   a  divine  system  of   taboos,    laws,
proscriptions   and  commandments  which   require   human
conformity   under   threat  of  punishment.     Volunteer
enforcers  seek  to  get  into  the  Kingdom  of Heaven as
refiners and administrators of  such a system of laws---or
as  jail-keepers in the prisons of the Kingdom of  Heaven.
Such  people do  not in the name of the God of Love  visit
the  least   of their brothers and  sisters   who  are  in
prison,    nor  offer  cups  of  water to  those  who  are
thirsty,    nor offer clothing to those who are tragically
without basic human needs.

     Many of  the  blockages  of the way to the Kingdom of
Heaven  are essentially dishonest,  deceptive,  collusive,
addictive  and/or supportive  of  dishonesty,   deception,
collusions and/or addictive individuals or  organizations.
Such blockages are managed by people who seek to be (or to
appear to be)  in control,  in their own name,  or in  the
name  of  the Vice  Lord of the Kingdom of Heaven.    They
protect their  turf in what they regard  as their  kingdom
through  the  use  of:  deception,   deceit,   dishonesty,
confusion,    coercion,   manipulations,    condemnations,
excommunications,   violence  and murder;  all  the  while
regarding  themselves  as  better  than  those  whom  they
deceive,  confuse,  coerce, manipulate,  violate,  murder,
judge, condemn and excommunicate.

     Many  of the blockages of the way to the  Kingdom  of
Heaven pertain to the acquisition of,  manipulation of, or
appearances  of, power to control or be in control---under
the assumption that those who have the power to control or
be in control are more worthy of respect than those who do
not.  Such blockages work to promote conflict, rather than
to resolve  conflicts;   to  pass judgments, condemn,  and
excommunicate---rather  than to  work  for  reconciliation
through open and honest dialogue.

     The  assumption  that security has to  do  with being
invulnerable,  blocks the doors of the  Kingdom of Heaven;
for  true security has to do with the freedom to be safely
vulnerable  in  intimate  relationships  which  are  open,
honest and non-manipulative.

     Ignorance  often  blocks the doors of the Kingdom  of
Heaven, and so also does the promotion of and manipulation
of  ignorance  through  secrecy,   elitism,   exclusivity,
judgmentalism and condemnations.

     Technocrats  often block the doors of the  Kingdom of
Heaven  by trying to achieve what cannot be achieved,   to
solve  dilemmas  as if they were  technical problems,  and
by dealing with reflexive  relationships as  if  they were
objective relationships.

     Attempts  to prevent tragic mistakes often  block the
doors  of   the   Kingdom  of Heaven---for perfectionists'
efforts to prevent all  tragic  mistakes lead  many people
into tragic  violations  of people's freedom to be true to
themselves and to each other.

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