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%EMBEDDED PERSONAL COMMUNAL INTEGRITY FUNCTION WELL+950606
    %COOPERATE DIALOGUE COMMUNICATE MEANINGFUL LOVE 950606

     Written over the north Atlantic Ocean in the light of
insights  flowing  from  the  conference  "Einstein  Meets
Margritte" in Brussels during  May 28 - June 4, 1995:

     Dysfunctional  people  are  not  well  embedded  with
personal integrity within communities of integrity.    The
dysfunctionality   of  people  who  are  not  embedded  in
communities  of  integrity cannot be corrected,  fixed  or
transcended  by objective manipulations,  procedures,   or
gifts  by  any  person  or persons.    The  roots  of  the
dysfunctionality  of such people are to be found in  their
not being well embedded with personal integrity within any
community  of integrity.    Their dysfunctionality is  not
rooted  in  their lack of possessions,  lack of  power  to
control things or persons, or the lack of technical skills
or knowledge---for  they  could  be  functional  people of
integrity  well embedded in  communities  of  integrity---
without ever  gaining  possessions,   powers  of  control,
technical skills or technical knowledge.

     Often  the transcendence of dysfunctionality  through
becoming  embedded  within communities  of  integrity does
include the acquisition of possessions,  power,  technical
skills, and/or technical knowledge---but such acquisitions
are   not   the   essence   of   the   transcendence    of
dysfunctionality,  even though such acquisitions may often
correlate     highly    with    the    transcendence    of
dysfunctionality.

     The  fact  that in some cultures the cock  crows  and
then  the sun rises with great regularity does  not  prove
that the crowing of the cock causes the sun to rise. Often
the acquisition of possessions,  powers,  technical skills
and/or technical knowledge  is  followed by  dysfunctional
behavior---because  the  person who acquired them was  not
well  embedded  with  personal integrity in a community of
integrity.

     The     above     considerations     suggest     that
impersonal/bureaucratic  programs  are not well suited  to
dealing  with  the dilemmas attendant to the  presence  of
dysfunctional   persons  within  the  regions   of   their
jurisdiction---no   matter  how  much  authority,   power,
technical skills and technical knowledge the programs  may
have  at  their  disposal.    Dysfunctionality  cannot  be
corrected  through the exercise of control,  or the threat
of further alienation  upon  a failure to show respect for
people or procedures which are focused upon control.

     Communities  within which dysfunctional persons exist
should consider dysfunctional persons as threats to  their
communal integrity;  it is dishonest to pretend otherwise.
It  is  also  dishonest  to  pretend  that  disintegrative
techniques  can  be used to eliminate threats to  communal
integrity.    Only integrative responses to disintegrative
threats  can  be effective responses.    Such  integrative
communal  responses will respect whatever unique  personal
integrity may be present in dysfunctional persons;  rather
than threaten any  such unique personal integrity.

     Often communities regard people of differing kinds of
unique  integrity to be threats their communal  integrity.
Such   communities  are  prone  to  be  preoccupied   with
conformity and control.   Such preoccupations are  greater
threats  to  the  communal integrity than  are  people  of
differing kinds of unique integrity.  We need to recognize
which   preoccupations,   attitudes,   ideals  and  values
constitute threats to personal and/or communal  integrity,
and deal with those threats---rather than be distracted by
what  appear  to us to be threats by people  of  differing
kinds of unique integrity.

     In  the  face  of threats to  personal  and  communal
integrity, attention may be focused upon:

     1.  Cognitive abstractions,

     2.  Rules, regulations, laws, prohibitions, etc.

     3.  Traditional rules, rituals, practices, etc.

     4.  Research and predictive efforts,

     5.  Myths and metaphors,

     6.  Technological attempts to solve perceived
     problems,

     7.  Clarifying dilemmas which are perceived to be
     problems,

     8.  Visions of presumably transcendent parallel
     realms,

     9.  Concentrations of coercive power,

     10.  Corporate decision making,

     11.  Ways to emphasize individuals' influence.

     Each way of focusing attention bears its own kinds of
fruit,  not always anticipated clearly by those who  focus
the attention.  Often the consequences of how attention is
focused are quite different from the intentions,  desires,
and/or expectations of the people who focused attention---
because:

     1.  Honesty and integrity were absent from the
     focusing,

     2.  Ignorance and/or confusion blocked insights,

     3.  Disintegrative ideal/values were operative,

     4.  Alienated people were not in dialogue,

     5.  Behaviors were dominated by blinding fears,

     6.  Perceptions were dominated by blinding fears,

     7.  Attitudes and assumptions were misleading.

     Recovery  of functionality by a dysfunctional  person
entails  the dysfunctional person choosing to  participate
in  the process of becoming embedded in some community  of
integrity---in   ways   which  are  congruent   with   the
potentials  of  the  person to be a person  of  integrity.
Recovery is not achieved primarily by virtue of what other
people  do,   although  what other people do does play  an
essential  role in  opening  up possibilities for becoming
personally embedded in a community with integrity.

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