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     %REVOLUTION INSECURE THREAT FEAR ANXIETY TRUST+020402
  %REASON MYTHS SCIENCE AUTHORITY EXPERIENCE DESIRE+020402
  %RULES PRESCRIPTIONS PROSCRIPTIONS EMOTIONS LOGIC+020402
  %EMOTIONS LOGIC INTUITION LOVE SEX INHIBITION GOD+020402
 %ESSENTIAL FOUNDATIONS PERSONAL COMMUNAL INTEGRITY 020402
                                                          
     In times of major revolutions people become          
       insecure, feel threatened and are at a             
         loss as to what: people, ideals, values,         
           myths, cosmologies, stories, tales,            
             promises, hopes, aspirations,                
               and "cures" to trust.                      
                                                          
     Are we to trust: reason, myths, science, us,         
       them, authorities, experience, desires,            
         rules, prescriptions, proscriptions,             
           emotions, logic, intuition, love,              
             sex, inhibitions, liberation,                
               traditions, exclusivity,                   
                 inclusivity, . . . ?                     
                                                          
                                                          
     1.  People  who  seek to concentrate power  into     
the hands of any small group of people are suspect;  for  
power corrupts and the more concentrated power becomes    
the  more likely  it  is  to  corrupt those in  whom  the 
power is concentrated.                                    
                                                          
     2.  For  the  above  reasons people who  tend  to be 
exclusive are  UNLIKELY  to  prove  themselves   to be    
trustworthy. Unworthy   people  are  likely  to be:       
exclusive, greedy, fearful, power-hungry, domineering,    
defensive,  insecure, suspicious, secretive, ego-centric, 
self-centered, etc.; because these traits are associated  
with each other in people who lack integrity.             
                                                          
     3.  Put in more positive terms trustworthy people    
are:  civil, gracious, hospitable, good-hosts,  out-going,
kind, gentle, generous, inclusive, power-sharers, hopeful,
relaxed,  thoughtful,  humble,  etc.; because these traits
are  associated with each other in the lives  of  healthy 
people  who  work  to  promote healthy  relationships and 
communities in inclusive ways.                            
                                                          
     4.  Trustworthy people  invite  and  welcome poor    
and unhealthy people  into  healthy communities where     
healing of old wounds  and fears  is  the  business of    
the healthy communities.   Trustworthy people do not take 
advantage of poor and unhealthy people's points of        
vulnerability.                                            
                                                          
     5.  Trustworthy people  work intentionally  to       
create sanctuary  communities ---  into which all         
different kinds of people are  welcomed,   their  fears   
mitigated,  their dysfunctional relationships healed,     
and their integrities augmented.                          
                                                          
     6.  Trustworthy people are NOT EXCLUSIVE because     
they are in the the business of integration of diverse    
peoples and their: ideas, ideals, values and principles   
--- into coherent demonstrations of both personal and     
communal integrity.                                       
                                                          
     7.  Trustworthy people are tolerant of diversity --- 
because  only  through  the  integration  of  diverse and 
complementary  elements --- can coherent whole integrities
be demonstrated in reliable and trustworthy ways.         
                                                          
     8.  Trustworthy people mitigate fears, defenses,     
and distrust --- by being people of integrity working to  
build up communities which demonstrate communal           
integrity.                                                
                                                          
     In  revolutionary  times  it is  important  to       
teach fearful  people how to recognize and become familiar
with trustworthy people --- and to work cooperatively and 
creatively  to  facilitate and promote both  personal  and
communal integrities in sanctuaries which are open to all.
                                                          
     Many revolutionary times are dominated by conflicts  
between domineering people who are NOT TRUSTWORTHY because
they  seek  to concentrate power into the hands of  a  few
exclusive people who are: greedy, fearful,  power-hungry, 
defensive,  insecure, suspicious, secretive, ego-centric, 
self-centered,  etc. Trustworthy people in revolutionary  
times  seek  to mitigate such  unreliable  tendencies  in 
gracious ways.                                            
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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