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  %HYPOTHESIS NOT EXIST INTEGRATIVE SOUL SPIRIT GOD 950305

     People  who  believe  as a matter of  principle  that
there  does not and cannot  exist  any  integrative  soul,
spirit, God, Presence,  Mind,  etc.---are unlikely to work
in cooperation with  any  integrative soul,  spirit,  God,
Presence,  Mind, etc.   Integrity is not important to such
people and so  they  tend to disintegrate and  to  promote
both   personal   and  communal   disintegration   through
unbalanced preoccupations with: analysis,  fragmentations,
measurements,  manipulations,  predictions,  expectations,
controls, etc.

     It  makes  a  great deal of  difference  to  us  what
hypotheses we choose to live in terms of.  When we exclude
integrative hypotheses from  our lives we are unlikely  to
work  for  either  personal  or  communal  integration  or
integrity.    Many of the hypotheses in terms of which  we
choose  to live our lives are self-fulfilling.   By living
in  terms  of them we generate evidence in support of  the
hypotheses which we have chosen to live our lives in terms
of.

     In  the  objective realm which is presumably free  of
reflexive feed-back-loops the  choice  of a hypotheses  is
not expected to generate evidence in support of the chosen
hypothesis---for  by definition such  feed-back-loops  are
not  present  in  the  objective realm which is presumably
free of reflexive feed-back-loops.

     If we insist in living always in the objective  realm
we  must not encounter reflexive feed-back-loops;  or,  at
least,  we must  not acknowledge that we have  encountered
them.  By living in terms of the hypothesis that reflexive
realities  do not exist (or are not important)  we  filter
out  evidence  to the contrary.   Our reflexive choice  of
hypothesis  leads us  to  filter  out  evidence  which  is
contrary  to our reflexive hypothesis.  We always live our
lives  in terms of reflexive hypotheses---for,  if we live
our lives in terms of a hypothesis  it  is automatically a
reflexive hypothesis; even it  we regard it as essentially
having to do with objectivity.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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