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 %SPIRITUAL TECHNOLOGY CONTROL OBJECTIVE MANIPULATE+950305
  %INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS INTIMACY SEX SOUL SPIRIT 950305

     Many tragedies flow form the belief that it possible,
good  and  proper to carry the attitudes  and  assumptions
which  work  in the manipulation and control  of  physical
objects---over into  the realm of personal  and  spiritual
relationships---and  so  to  seek to develop  a  spiritual
technology  pertaining  to a spiritual realm which  is  in
some  sense parallel to the physical technology pertaining
to  the  physical  realm.   The  beliefs,   attitudes  and
assumptions  are  based  upon  the   presupposition   that
spiritual  and inter-personal relationships are much  like
physical inter-object relationships.

     Objects do not demonstrate wills which  are  contrary
to the wills of people who push the objects around.

     Abused objects do not communicate feelings in the way
which abused people do.

     Physical   objects   do  not  show  that  they   have
intentions,   expectations,   fears or in other  ways  are
involved in reflexive relationships of the sorts which are
common between people.

     There  are  many  differences between the  realms  of
objects as objective realities,  and the realms of  people
as  reflexive realities.   Attempts to carry over the ways
of  coping with inter-object relationships into the  realm
of  inter-personal  relationships are attempts  doomed  to
lead  to  tragic consequences because  such  attempts  are
based   upon   inappropriate   beliefs,    attitudes   and
assumptions. They do not take into account the differences
between inter-object   relationships   and  inter-personal
relationships.

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