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%SALVATION EXTERNAL INDIVIDUAL RELATIONSHIP COMMUNE+981129                                                              
%CONSTRAINT BONDS PRISONS THREATS VIOLENCE FREEDOMS+981129           
%DYSFUNCTIONAL RELATIONSHIP ADDICTIVE COVETED THING 981129                                                
                                                                                                                               
     Many  different  kinds  of people overtly  or tacitly               
focus upon salvation and means to salvation.                                                                                   
                                                                                                                               
     Often  it  is  not  clear  to  what  extent salvation                                                                     
pertains to one or more of the following:                                                                                      
                                                                                                                               
     1.  People as individual beings,                                                             
     2.  Personal relationships,                                                              
     3.  Communities as such,                                                                
     4.  Impersonal things, abstractions & circumstances.                                                                 
     5.  Some "source(s)" which are external to people.                                                            
                                                                                                                               
     Often  it  is  not  clear  to  what  extent salvation                                                                     
pertains to being "saved from" or "liberated from":                                                             
                                                                                                                               
     1.  External constraints, bonds, threats, violence,           
     2.  Dysfunctional relationships,                                                              
     3.  Addictive communities and dependencies,                                                
     4.  Coveted things, abstractions, circumstances,                                                                          
     5.  Codependent attachments and forms of service.                                                                         
                                                                                                                               
     If   there   is  little or no clarity about  any   of               
the above --- it is  unlikely  that  any  salvation  which               
is "experienced"    is likely to be powerful or empowering                                   
to  people  who  are weak,  poor and/or  vulnerable.   The                                                                    
"salvation"    which is "experienced"   may in fact,   but                                   
little  more  than  some aspect of a  pattern of collusive                                                   
games  of mutual self deception. 
                                                                                                                               
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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