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   %TRANSCEND PROVINCIAL OBJECTIVE REFLEXIVE BIASES+950111
    %EXCLUSIVE IDEALS VALUES ATTITUDES HABITS CLEAR+950111
    %INTEGRITY SECURITY VULNERABLE TRUE HONEST SELF+950111
      %LIMIT IMPOSSIBLE BALANCE CONFLICT RESOLUTION 950111

      Keys to Transcending Provincial Biases

 1.  Eschew  exclusive  ideals,   values,   attitudes  and
habits.

 2.  Work  to clarify and promote  personal  and  communal
integrity.

 3.  Give/accept the gift of true security--being free  to
be safely vulnerable.

 4.  Through  active listening seek  to  understand  other
people's perspectives.

 5.    Be  true to self/others in being yourself,   rather
than pretending otherwise.

 6.  Be  actively open and honest about human  limits  and
limitations.

 7.  Value dynamic and balanced growth, not having arrived
to a resting place.

 8.    Seek   within  human limits to   live   honest  and
balanced lives with others.

 9.  Seek to resolve conflicts between differences, rather
than to win battles.

10.  Seek     to    understand     personal/organizational
addictions/codependence.

11.  Seek   to   transcend   your   most   recent   biased
attitudes/thoughts.

12.  Seek  to GET TO YES in conflict resolution,   not  to
achieve dominance.

13.  Seek contextual as well as analytic understanding.

14.  Seek  to transcend limited knowledge kept  in  formal
records like books.

15.  Be  wary  of dichotomous  attitudes,   questions  and
convictions.

16.  Be wary of defensiveness as a means to appearances of
security.

17.  Be wary of conformists who are not true to themselves
or others.

18.    Be  wary of defensive people who are  overly   sure
of themselves.

19.  Be  wary  of  people  who  manage/promote  conflicts,
confusion and violence.

20.  Be  wary  of  affirmations  which take  the  form  of
denials of other's truths.

21.  Be  wary of deceptive assumptions,   attitudes,   and
behaviors.

22.  Recognize  and  talk about  collusions  as  games  of
mutual self deception.

23.  Recognize,  name and  talk  about   the   reflexivity
of compulsive objectivists.

24.  Recognize  that extreme detachment leads  to  extreme
ignorance.

25.  Recognize  each  human language's  limited  range  of
effective discourse.

26.   Recognize  that truth resides in faithful  reception
as well as in faithful articulation.

27.  Do  not pretend to be able to control what cannot  be
controlled.

28.  Work   to  minimize  alienation,   estrangement   and
excommunications.

29.  Work  to  understand the  world  from  your  enemies'
points of view.

30.  View yourself within the scope of astronomical cosmic
space/time.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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