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     Domineering  people are forever engaged  in  contests
and conflicts over:

     1.  Who  will be dominant and/or in control  ---   in
terms  of  the  existing rules and regulations  about  how
power can be acquired, concentrated, exercised, kept, etc.

     2.What will be the approved territories,  domains and
realms  of  the  exercise of (and  the  concentration  of)
power.

     3.  What   will   be   the   limitations placed  upon
the  concentration  of power ---  and the means  by  which
power may be concentrated and exercised.

     4.  Who  will  be  the beneficiaries   of,   and  the
victims of, the exercise of power.

     5.  Who  will be excluded from the exercise of  power
and influence; and who will be included in the exercise of
power and influence.

     That  there  might  be fundamentally other  kinds  of
questions and issues is beyond the realm of imagination of
domineering people.

     The  initiators  of the  major  religious  traditions
have,   however,   demonstrated  that it  is  possible  to
understand  the  limitations  of the  above  very  limited
realms   of  framing  and  asking  questions;   e.g.,   by
demonstrating that:

     1.  It  is possible to let go of preoccupations  with
domination,  controls and concentrations of power ---  and
thereby    open   up  wonderful  possibilities for  mutual
understanding, dialogue and cooperation.

     2.  It is  possible  to  understand,   transcend  and
subvert  "The  Powers  That Be"  in the  service  of  "The
Domination System"  ---  doing so in ways that rob them of
their power to create fear,  confusion, anxiety, impotence
and misunderstanding.

     3.  That  it is possible to transcend the  powers  of
domineering  servants  of  "The  Domination  System"   ---
without  becoming  like the supporters of "The  Domination
System"; i.e.,  without  surrendering to and internalizing
their:   assumptions,  attitudes,  beliefs,   convictions,
fears, anxieties,  paradigms and systems  for trying to be
invulnerable  to  all other servants  of  "The  Domination
System".

     4.  That  liberation  from  "The  Domination  System"
entails  willing  to be servants of (and to  sacrifice  to
improve the  lot of) those who would dominate us,  control
us,   use us,   and take advantage of us.    This must  be
done  without  becoming    like    them   in   how    they
dishonestly    and unilaterally   try   to  achieve   what
they   regard   as "favorable" goals from their provincial
points of view.

     5.  The  above  cannot be done  without  reversing  a
great may assumptions,  attitudes,  beliefs,  convictions,
fears,   anxieties,  paradigms and systems ---  for trying
to be secure  at other people's expense.   The new ways do
not make  sense from the perspective of the people trapped
in  the  old ways.     People living in the new ways   can
look  back   and  understand  how and  why  the  old  ways
appeared  to make  sense ---   even though they inevitably
lead to  both personal   and  communal:   disintegrations,
dis-ease,  disease,   sickness,   dying and  death on  the
part   of domineering  people who are always  and  forever
living-in-hell.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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