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 %PRESENCE HOLY SPIRIT DOMINATION SYSTEM TRAGIC SIN+011022
 %TRANSITIONS PERVERSIONS ENFORCEMENT COERCIVE EVIL+011022
  %DEGENERATION DISINTEGRATION STANDARDS BOUNDARIES+011022
 %BALANCE MODERATION SELF CONTROL EXTREMISTS TERROR+011022
 %MUTUAL UNDERSTANDING DIALOGUE OPEN HONESTY SEXUAL+011022
 %KNOWLEDGE GOOD TREE SWEET FRUIT PERFECT MYTHOLOGY 011022
                                                          
     In  the  presence  of "The Domination  System"    the
following   tragic transitions are prone to take place and
be hidden from view:                                      
                                                          
     1.  The   generation   and  enforcement   of   needed
standards    ---    are   likely   to   degenerate    into
standardization  of patterns of  dysfunctional  conformity
and monotony.                                             
                                                          
     2.  The need for balance, moderation and self-control
---   is  likely  to  become  perverted  into   extremists
demanding that there be external controls with  unbalanced
benefits to the controllers.                              
                                                          
     3.  The need for mutual understandings about gracious
boundaries in human relationships ---  is likely to become
perverted into  the  unilateral  generation of bonds which
constrain and inhibit authentic, open, and honest dialogue
---   and so to  lead  the  inhibition  of:  authenticity,
creativity,  reconciliation, recreation, healing, rebirth,
renewal,  learning  and liberal education.                
                                                          
     4.  The sense of the presence and spirit of God ---is
likely to become perverted into the sense of having  eaten
heavily  of the fruit the tree of the knowledge of who  is
good and who  is  evil ---so generating the disintegration
of personal and communal integrities ---because of  pride,
self-righteousness,  arrogance and domination on the  part
of people who see themselves  as superiors over others who
are inferiors.                                            
                                                          
     5.  The call to be perfect even as God is perfect ---
misleads  many  to become alienated extremists who perfect
coercive/technocratic    ways   of   perfecting   other's:
assumptions, attitudes, emotions, beliefs, and patterns of
conformal behavior.                                       
                                                          
     6.  Revealing myths,  allegories  and  stories  about
people's  lives/relationships  ---   are  likely to become
treated as prescriptions and proscriptions which are to be
enforced  with  coercive  force  ---    rather   than   as
descriptions of  and pointers-to liberating understandings
and discernments --- of spiritual truths about healthy and
unhealthy human relationships.                            
                                                          
     7.  Revealing forms  of  healthy humane relationships
which are admired ---  are likely to become the basis  for
creating  prescriptive formulas and formalities which must
be conformed to ---  in order to be seen as good  isolated
individuals who are right, righteous, proper, and superior
to  ---  disturbing creative  non-conformists  engaged  in
creative and integrative humane relationships.            
                                                          
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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