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%ROLE MODEL DISCIPLES LEGALISM MORALITY CODE ETHICS+970101
 %CHRISTIAN FUNDAMENTALISM EXCLUSIVE REJECTION LAWS+970101
  %ARROGANCE SELF RIGHTEOUSNESS GOOD EVIL KNOWLEDGE 970101

     People  seek to organize their lives  around  various
foci of attention:

     1.  Role models of great personal integrity.

     2.  Systems of codes, ethics, morality or law.

     3.  Systems of rituals, traditions or knowledge.

     4.  Trades, skills and coping strategies.

     5.  Formal professions.

     6.  Political, racial, religious, scientific groups.

     7.  Philosophical, religious or political ideologies.

     8.  Others not suggested here.

     Some people are exclusive in their dedication to some
one form or particular example suggested above---believing
that it alone is the one and only key to salvation.   They
are   not   integrative  in  their  efforts  and   usually
disintegrate themselves, others, and their communities.

     Other  people recognize that integrative  people  and
communities find appropriate ways of bringing together the
best  that is offered by each form and particular  example
of forms suggested above.

     Each of the above forms is susceptible to  particular
forms  of  perversions and heresies due to the efforts  of
people playing collusive games of mutual self deception in
the manner of addicts and their codependent supporters.

     Integrative  people  and communities deal openly  and
honestly  with  all of the above,  giving due respect  and
support---but not honoring or supporting ways of  focusing
lives which lead to personal and communal disintegration.

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