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                %MODES STATES KINDS SENSATION SENSE+000705
       %PERCEPTIONS SEE EYES HEAR EARS TASTE TONGUE+000705
          %TOUCH SKIN SMELL NOSE FOOD PERFUME COLOR+000705
              %LIGHT SOUND ODOR MUSIC BODY LANGUAGE+000705
               %DREAM VISION MEMORY REMEMBER CREATE 000705
                                                          
     We  differ  as  regards to the  MODES  of  sensation,
perception and experience --- which play significant roles
in  our  daily:  lives,   dreams,   day-dreams,   visions,
memories,    creations,    conversations,    performances,
writings, readings, entertainments, etc.  Some examples of
the above include:                                        
                                                          
     1.   People who have "perfect-pitch",  versus  people
who are "tone-deaf".                                      
                                                          
     2.  People who have "normal sight" versus ---  people
whose "abnormal sight"  can be corrected  with eye-glasses
---   versus  people  with various degrees  and  kinds  of
serious  sight  abnormality  which  are  referred  to   as
"blindness"; in one or both eyes.                         
                                                          
     3.  People who are "color-blind" as regards:  red and
green  or blue and yellow ---  versus normal color  vision
peoples.                                                  
                                                          
     4.   People who are deaf to various ranges of  sound-
frequencies in one or both ears ---  versus acute  hearing
people.                                                   
                                                          
     5.     People   who   are   particularly   adept   in
seeing/perceiving  geometrical figures in   two-dimensions
and/or  in three-dimensions ---  like when looking  at  an
objective-reality;  in memories soon after,  or long after
looking at an objective-reality;  in a vision "dreamed-up"
as  regards to a potential  "objective-reality"   (perhaps
realized  later  as an actual objective-reality)  or in  a
fantasy,    video  production,   or  other   artistic   or
engineering rendition ---  with or without color and half-
tones playing important roles.                            
                                                          
     6.  Musicians who are adept at: hearing, remembering,
memorizing,    performing,    conducting,     pre-hearing,
composing,   extemporizing,   and/or  refining   melodies,
compositions, orchestrations, choruses, etc.              
                                                          
     7.   Mathematicians, physicists and engineers whoa re
adept  at perceiving/discovering and representing  patters
of  quantitative relationships in:  natural,   controlled,
contrived,    regulated,   orderly,   chaotic,   personal,
objective and/or reflexive processes.                     
                                                          
     8.    Authentic people of integrity who are adept  at
perceiving,    discovering  and  clarifying  patterns   of
reflexive relationships among differing and/or cooperative
people  who  are  involved in  dealing  with  conflicting:
perceptions, understandings, articulations, relationships,
environments,   people,   communities,   ideals,   values,
principles,   myths,   stories,   reports,   commandments,
prescriptions, proscriptions, scriptures, taboos, etc.    
                                                          
     9.    People who can perceive and understand  complex
patterns,    relationships  and processes,   and  then  in
simple   ways   help   others   to   respond    to    such
complexity   in cooperative and helpful ways ---    versus
people  who  refuse to acknowledge or deal prudently  with
complex  situations  ---  even when they are  pointed  out
helpfully.                                                
                                                          
     10.   Political  leaders  who are  adept  at  helping
diverse  people  work  out win/win ways  of  cooperatively
integrating  the  complementary  strengths  which  diverse
people  have to offer ---  versus other political  leaders
who accentuate conflicts,  disagreements,  contentiousness
and  domination by people who are preoccupied with  issues
of control.                                               
                                                          
     11.     People   who  see  everything  in  terms   of
dichotomous  either/or,  yes/no,  right/wrong,   good/evil
alternatives  ---  versus people who are comfortable  with
whole   spectrums  of  alternatives,   possibilities   and
challenges.                                               
                                                          
     People   who  operate  within various MODES  may   be
relatively  unaware of the ways in which  their  own MODES
of  sensations,    perceptions  and  experiences  make  it
difficult  for  them  to  understand  each  other  and  to
cooperate  with  each other.   When people who  are  truly
different   in  very  significant  ways ---  assume   that
such  differences   do  not exist ---   they may  find  it
impossible to understand each other and why "other people"
behave in such "strange"  ways.   Under such circumstances
people  have entertained hypotheses such as thinking  that
the "different people" are:                               
                                                          
     1.  Stupid                                           
     2.  Evil                                             
     3.  Crazy                                            
     4.  Tools                                            
     5.  Etc.                                             
                                                          
     Entertaining   such  hypotheses is rarely helpful  to
anybody.     It  may  be helpful to seek  to  discern  how
people   living   in   terms  of  contrasting   MODES   of
sensations,  perceptions and experiences --- may have less
in common than they think they have in common.            
                                                          
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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