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%KNOWLEDGE POWER TRANSCEND CONTROL DESIRE ADVANTAGE+970129
%SHARE BEING TOGETHER UNDERSTANDING SEXUAL PRESENCE+970129
%LIBERATION EDUCATION STATES CONSCIOUSNESS BEING SO 970129
Often we regard knowledge as the means to the power
to be in control. In truth we sometimes discover that
true knowledge eludes our grasp --- so long as we seek it
as a means to the power to control.
We cannot truly know ourselves or each other so long
as we are preoccupied with issues of control; for then it
is not safe to let ourselves be known without pretense.
If we are seeking to be in control, preoccupied with
issues of control, we find we cannot trust each other and
so cannot share with each other what we have come to known
in wholistic ways---with personal and communal integrity.
If we are seeking to be in control, we cannot safely
be free to be vulnerable in sharing our most intimate
forms of knowledge---for then we do not value each other's
open and honest presence. We are willing to sacrifice
each other's open and honest presence for illusions of
being in control---presuming that we are approaching the
knowledge which will give us the power to be in control.
When we are presumptuous and try to grasp and own such
knowledge --- the kind of knowledge which we most yearn
for evaporates and eludes our grasp.
When we are trying to be in control we are prone to
try to coercively/alienatively manipulate each other in
ways which are prone to become progressively more violent
and disintegrative. Then we cannot know with integrity;
either ourselves or each other. We then feel it is not
safe to be known in that way, and therefore, it is not
safe to be known in that way.
The kind of knowledge which we most yearn for does
not confer upon us the power to be in control, but rather
confers upon us the power and freedom to liberate each
other to be free to truly know each other as being truly
present --- without pretense or manipulative desires,
tendencies or technologies. We become free to offer,
accept and exchange free gifts of the freedom to be safely
vulnerable in open and honest intimate relationships ---in
the presence of all that transcends us in ways we cannot
understand.
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