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%DOUBLE BIND PRISON TRAP COLLUSION PRISON IDEAL SIN+980615                                         
 %IDEOLOGICAL VALUES PRINCIPLE EXCLUSIVE EXPERIENCE+980615                       
  %ASSUMPTION PRINCIPLE PREJUDICES CONFUSION MEMORY+980615                                                                     
 %STUCK CAUGHT FIXATION FANATIC FUNDAMENTALIST SINS 980615                                                                     
                                                                                                                               
     We  may  become  trapped/imprisoned  in  ways   which      
involve one or more of the following:                                                                                          
                                                                                                                               
     1.  Exclusivity   which   dictates   that   essential                  
liberating alternatives be given no real consideration ---                                                                     
demanding that the entrapping/imprisoning ideals,  values,                                         
principles,    assumptions,   prejudices,   memories   and                                                                     
repressions remain dominant/governing.                                                     
                                                                                                                               
     2.  Patterns  of thought and feeling which ground all                                                                     
consideration in ancient ways,  scriptures, traditions and      
patterns  of  thinking ---  giving little if any  emphasis               
upon  current experiences,  experimentation,  discoveries,                                   
visions, dreams, hopes, imagination and revelations.                                                                           
                                                                                                                               
     3.  Fear  of  that  which  is  unfamiliar,   unknown,                   
strange, different, changing, growing.                                     
                                                                                                                               
     4.  Trust   in  technological  and/or   technocratic:                                                  
means, procedures, equipment, and thinking patterns.              
                                                                                                                               
     5.  Collusive  games  of mutual self-deception  which 
validate  themselves entirely in terms  of  considerations    
which  are under the control of dishonest elements of  the                                                    
games.                                                                                                                         
                                                                                                                               
     6.  Fear of criticisms offered by "different" people.                                     
                                                                                                                               
     7.  Dispositions to spend  more  time in  talking and                                                                     
writing --- than in listening and reading.                                                                                     
                                                                                                                               
     8.  Dispositions  to   specialize and/or focus   upon                                                                     
increasingly narrow ranges of experiences,  considerations                                   
and concerns.                               
                                                                                                                               
     9.  The use of dishonesty and secrecy to hide errors,                                                                  
blunders and/or mistakes made ---  making it impossible to                                                    
learn from them.                                                                                                               
                                                                                                                               
     10.  A  lack of a sense of humor and an inability  to                                                                     
laugh at one's own foibles.                   
                                                                                                                               
     To avoid getting  stuck in life --- we need to become                 
aware  of  the  various  ways in which we  can  get stuck,      
without knowing it.                                                                                                            
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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