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%SALVATION DOUBT POWER LOVE TRANSCEND OVERCOME EVIL 951218

Salvation is the transcendence of perpetual alienation.

     Due to perpetual alienation many people:

     1.  Never feel  fully  free and secure  to  be  fully
honest with anybody.

     2.  Are always dominated by fear,  tension,   anxiety
and defensiveness.

     3.  Do not  remember ever having experienced reliable
true love.

     4.  Are not  free  to be true to self and others in a
truly intimate and healthy personal relationship.

     People  who  have  experienced  true  salvation  have
experienced  the  transcendence of  perpetual  alienation.
Such people have received the gifts of:

     1.  True security  which  is the real  freedom  to be
safely  vulnerable  in  being fully honest with people  of
integrity within a community of integrity.

     2.  Transcendence  of  fear,   tension,   anxiety and
defensiveness---and  so  they  enjoy  freedom  from  fear,
tension, anxiety and defensiveness.

     3.  Clear memories of integrative experiences of true
love which they honestly feel they can rely on in times of
crisis and need.

     4.  Regularly  being  free  to be true  to  self  and
others in  diverse, truly  intimate  and  healthy personal
relationships.

     People who are  trapped  in  perpetual alienation are
terrified as  opportunities for liberation from alienation
approach in  their  lives.    Their paradigms  are full of
doubts,   fears,   distrust,  defensiveness,   insecurity,
striving,  tension,  contention,  coercion,  manipulation,
violence and disintegration.  They doubt the power of love
to   transcend  perpetual  alienation---to  transcend  the
pervasive   features   of  their  paradigms   which   take
alienation for  granted---and  seek to make  the  best  of
alienation through manipulations.

     People who are trapped in perpetual alienation cannot
conceive of the  possibility  of  anybody transcending all
that dominates their lives and paradigms---doubts,  fears,
distrust,   defensiveness,  insecurity, striving, tension,
contention,    coercion,    manipulation,   violence   and
disintegration.    Much  less can  they  conceive  of  the
possibility  that they themselves might transcend all that
dominates  their  lives and paradigms.   Thus they do  not
conceive,    generate   and   give  birth  to,    such   a
transcendence.

     People who are trapped in perpetual alienation do not
distinguish between "transcendence"  and "overcoming". For
them both "transcendence" and "overcoming" must have to do
with such as:  "overwhelming", "defeating", "frustrating",
"thwarting",    "foiling",   "stymieing",   "checkmating".
They  cannot  conceive of "transcendence"  as involving  a
true  paradigm shift,  which  entails  radical shifts  in:
assumptions, questions,  attitudes,  beliefs, convictions,
ideals,   values,  principles,  words used,   tools  used,
reasoning, logic, communications, relationships, concerns,
etc.

     People  who are trapped in perpetual  alienation take
for granted  that  the alienative landscape of life cannot
and will not change---but  they  believe  that  within the
alienative landscape of life  they  can  get ahead through
their    greater:    intelligence,    cleverness,    luck,
opportunities,   connections,    networking,    alliances,
efforts, resources, sciences,  technologies,  powers, etc.
Getting ahead just requires advantageous manipulations.


     Salvation    is   the   transcendence   of  perpetual
alienation through the  works  of Love which has the power
to help people  who are trapped in perpetual alienation to
have faith which frees them from  their  doubts  regarding
the   power   of  Love  to  promote   reconciliation   and
liberation.

     Those   who  know  love  through  the  experience  of
salvation---say  that  God  is  Love  with  the  power  to
conceive   the   transcendence  of   all   that   promotes
alienation.     Those who have not known love through  the
experience  of  salvation---doubt  the power  of  Love  to
transcend  evil.   They try to destroy evil in  alienative
ways---and   so   they  create   evil   relationships   of
perpetuated alienation.

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