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  %ALIENATE SELF OTHER RECOGNIZE NAME DESCRIBE TALK+971009                                        
   %OWN CONTRIBUTE PUNISH EVIL GOOD SIN BLAME GUILT+971009                   
   %TREE KNOWLEDGE RESPONSIBILITY BENEFIT RELATIONS 971009                                  
                                                                                                                               
     We continue to be alienated from Self & Other so long                                        
as we fail to recognize,  name,  describe,  talk about and                                                                     
own  as  our  own  ---  all the  ways  in  which  we  have      
contributed to our own alienation for Self & Others.    It                   
is essential that we:                  
                                                                                                                               
     1. Recognize,                                                                                                             
     2. Name,                                                                                                                  
     3. Describe,                                                                                                              
     4. Talk about, and                                                                                                        
     5. Own as our own,                   
     6. All the ways in which we have contributed,      
     7. To our Own alienation from,                   
     8. Self,                                                      
     9. And from Others.                                                               
                                                                                                                               
     There  is  something  essential  in each  step.    By                  
avoiding any step, we can lead ourselves into experiencing  
additional  alienation  buy not owning our own  additional                   
alienation.                                        
                                                                                                                               
     It  does  us  no  good  to  blame  other  people  for                                                               
alienation which we have brought upon ourselves.                                        
                                                                                                                               
     We  need  to  recognize  the roots of  how  we  bring                 
additional alienation upon ourselves.                                        
                                                                                                                               
     1.  We often  focus  upon  how  successfully  we have                                               
alienated  others  from  us as punishment for their  "evil                                       
deeds" --- but refuse to recognize that we cannot alienate                                        
them  from  ourselves  without alienating  ourselves  from                                        
them.                                                                                                                          
                                                                                                                               
     2.  We refuse to recognize that our relationships  of                                                            
alienation  are  the  roots  of the  "evil  deeds"   which                                       
naturally  victimize  us  all --- in  punishment  for  our   
relationships of alienation.                                        
                                                                                                                               
     3.  We often take great pride in how we have properly                                               
separated ourselves from "lesser people" ---  from whom we                                                            
have alienated  ourselves because we have blamed them  for                          
the "evil deeds"  which  we  believe  that  they alone are             
responsible.                                  
                                                                                                                               
     4.  We  have refused to own and accept responsibility         
for any of the alienation which we have engendered between               
ourselves  and  those from whom we are  separated through:                                
confusion,   ignorance,  prejudice, intolerance, misunder-  
standing, anger, resentment,  judgmentalism, condemnation,                                                                     
and other alienative patterns of behavior.                                        
                                                                                                                               
     5.  We have focused upon individuals rather than upon                                                                     
our  relationships  ---   so we can  with  immunity  point                                                            
fingers  at  others  who  are victims  of  our  alienative                                        
behaviors within our alienative relationships.                             
                                                                                                                               
     6.  We have been proud of how we have  benefited from                                               
eating from the "tree of the knowledge of good and evil".                                       
                                                                                                                               
     7.  We  have  refused  to see how our  alienation  is                                        
rooted  in our eating from the "tree of the  knowledge  of                                                            
good and evil"  ---  thinking proudly to ourselves that it                                       
is others who  disobeyed  and  ate from  the  "tree of the                                                               
knowledge of good and evil"  and  it  is they who (through                                
their  disobedience)   engendered their alienation from us                                        
and God.                                                                                                                       
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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