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    %PROJECTION EXPERIENCES COSMOS EXTERNAL REALITY+980510                                   
  %NORMATIVE STANDARDS EXPECTATIONS LAW REQUIREMENT 980510                                                                     
                                                                                                                               
     Often we are prone to internalize in some way our own      
experiences  and  expectations ---  and then project  them                                   
outward  upon  the  cosmos ---  in the form  of  normative                                                                     
standards which we expect others and ourselves to abide by                                                            
and/or  affirm as valid.    The  process  is  not entirely              
logical/reasonable  ---   and not clearly  articulated  in                                                                     
overt language.  In part we want our own experiences to be                   
cosmically validated.   We ask others to validate our  own                   
experiences  through  conformity to or confession  of  our            
perceptions  of  the validity of our projections upon  the        
cosmos.                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                               
     It  would  be  more  honest, healthy  and  helpful to                                                                  
directly describe our own experiences and expectations; to                   
own  them  as our own,  and as having reality as our  own.                   
Such  descriptions  would be less coercive,   violent  and           
dishonest  ---  than are our projections upon the  cosmos,                                                            
and  our  demands  that people conform to our  projections            
upon the cosmos.                                                                                                               
                                                                                                                               
     Were we to work  to  provide  each other with healthy                                                               
contexts  within which  we and others would  be  and  feel                
secure  in  being safely vulnerable  in  open  and  honest                                                             
dialogue---we would enjoy that which we try to manipulate.                                                                     
                                                                                                                               
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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