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                 %ISSUES OF CONTROL REALITIES KINDS 960710

     To understand and deal with issues of control we need
to recognize, name, describe and talk about the many kinds
of realities which we may attempt to control and influence
in various ways and to various degrees.

     1.  Objects which we regard as existing apart from us
and independently of us.

     2.  Objective  events  in which objects  interact  in
ways which exist apart from us and independently of us.

     3.  Our physiological  sensations which bring  to  us
awareness of the above realities.

     4.  Our  consciousness of each of the above kinds  of
realities, and of each of the kinds of realities suggested
below.

     5.  Other   living   creatures:   viruses,    prions,
bacteria, amoebas, molds, plants, animals, humans, etc.

     6.  Objective  events  in which living creatures  and
inanimate objects interact among themselves  in ways which
are quite independent of us.

     7.  Reflexive events in  which we and other creatures
are  involved  in   relationships  among  various   living
creatures and inanimate objects.

     8.  Subjective  processes  in which other people  and
objects have no significant way of knowing what is  taking
place within the creature which "owns" the process.

     9.  Spiritual  processes  which for  reasons  unknown
seem to transcend human understanding, manipulation and/or
control.

     10.  Communications from God to us and  other  living
creatures.

     11.  Transcendent actions  by  God of  which  we  are
unaware.

     If we are uninformed, confused or presumptuous we may
attempt  to  control or to require each other  to  control
some or many of the above kinds of realities in ways which
are  arrogant,  dishonest and/or tragic.    We may pretend
that some or many of the above realities are not real;  or
pretend   that   they  are  real  independently   of   our
imaginations---when    they   are   real   only   in   our
imaginations.   We  may pretend that realities  are  holy,
sacred and of God;  when they are not; or vice versa.   We
may  pretend  that we are in control when we are not;   or
vice versa.

     It   is  often  difficult  to   distinguish   between
realities and our experiences of realities.

     It  is  often  difficult to distinguish  between  our
experiences  and  our  responses and/or reactions  to  our
experiences/responses/reactions.

     It   is   often  difficult  to  distinguish   between
realities,  our experiences, our responses,  our reactions
and our descriptions thereof.

     We   may  try  to  control  realities,   experiences,
responses,  and descriptions in ways which are futile  and
disintegrative;   and be unaware of our efforts to  be  in
control as such ---and not be aware of the futility of our
preoccupations with issues of control.

     It  is  not  easy  to deal wisely with  all  that  it
pointed to here,  and it is not helpful to pretend that it
is easy and/or simple to so so.   It is helpful to seek to
facilitate  open and honest dialogue regarding all that is
pointed to here.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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