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              %PRINCIPLES COHERENCE INTEGRITY 980228      
                                                                                                                               
     The following text  describes  some principles  which                                                                     
pertain  to coherent  ideals,  values,  and behaviors that                                         
promote personal  and  communal  integrity ---  or to  the                                                                
obverse of them.                                                                                                               
                                                                                                                               
     In  the  text  which  follows,  the   intent  is   to                                                                     
describe --- NOT to prescribe or proscribe;    to point to                                                                     
--- NOT to contain or control.                                                           
                                                                                                                               
     If in our enthusiasm to  affirm  what we regard as of                                 
great   importance   --- we  neglect  to  acknowledge  the                                                                     
principles to  which  the following  text points ---   our                                                            
enthusiasm  is without love,  bears bitter fruit and leads                                           
to little worth respect or support.                                      
                                                                                                                               
     1.   Dishonest/deceptive  behaviors  lead to personal 
and communal disintegration.                                                                
                                                                                                                               
     2.   Coercive/violent behaviors lead to personal  and           
communal disintegration.                                                                
                                                                                                                               
     3.   Alienative/excommunicative   behaviors  lead  to                                        
personal and communal disintegration.                                                                
                                                                                                                               
     4.   Preoccupations  with   issues  of  control   are                                                           
disintegrative.                                                                   
                                                                                                                               
     5.   Personal   disintegration   leads   to  communal                                                                
disintegration.                                                                   
                                                                                                                               
     6.   Communal  disintegration   leads   to   personal                                                                
disintegration.                                                                   
                                                                                                                               
     7.   Personal  and communal integrity are  in essence                  
interdependent.                      
                                                                                                                               
     8.   Balance  is   essential   to   personal/communal                  
integrity.                                                                   
                                                                                                                               
     9.   Exclusivity  is destructive of personal/communal                       
integrity.                                                                   
                                                                                                                               
     10.  Evil  is  an  aspect  of,   and  a  product   of                                       
alienative RELATIONSHIPS.                                        
                                                                                                                               
     11.  Individual people are not evil in the absence of                                       
alienation.                                        
                                                                                                                               
     12.  Alienation   is   a  perverted  kind   of  human                                        
RELATIONSHIP.                                                              
                                                                                                                               
     13.  Alienation  is always reciprocal,  blocking  two      
way dialogue.      
                                                                                                                               
     14.  The use of  fear,   shame and guilt as  tools of                                                                     
control leads toward the  disintegrative  of  persons  and                                                           
communities.                                                                
                                                                                                                               
     15.  Denigrations  engender  alienative RELATIONSHIPS                                        
which are evil.                                       
                                                                                                                               
     16.  Self-righteousness engenders alienative       
RELATIONSHIPS which are evil.                                       
                                                                                                                               
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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