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 %WORKING COOPERATIVELY TOGETHER IMPROVING PERSONAL+030416
   %IMPROVING COMMUNAL CONDITIONS COORDINATED WHOLE+030416
  %ISOLATED ALIENATED ESTRANGED RELATIONSHIPS LEAST+030416
%NEIGHBOR SAMARITAN JUDGE PRIEST GOVERNOR LORD KING+030416
%INTEGRATED COHERENT POWER CONCENTRATION CORRUPTION+030416
 %PREREQUISITES SAFE VULNERABILITY SANCTUARY SECURE 030416

     Improving  our personal and communal conditions  must
be done together:

     1.  Cooperatively with other people.

     2.  In  a  way which is coordinated so that both  our
personal and our communal conditions improve together.

     3.  In recognition that our communal condition is not
just the sum of our isolated individual conditions.

     4.  In  recognition that our RELATIONSHIPS with  each
other are at least as important as our isolated individual
conditions; i.e.,  the integrity with which the members of
the   community   are  integrated  into   coherent   whole
communities is very important.

     5.  In  recognition  that the internal  RELATIONSHIPS
among  each   of  our personal sets   of   focal   ideals,
values,  principles, hopes, aspirations, etc. ---  must be
coherent;   i.e.,   the integrity with which our  personal
preoccupations  are  integrated  into  a   coherent  whole
person --- is  very important.

     To be whole and healthy we need to work cooperatively
in   fulfilling  the  PREREQUISITES  to  open  and  honest
dialogue within intimate personal relationships.  Else  we
cannot  safely   be  vulnerable  in   the   processes   of
discerning with    clear  insight    the    significant of
the revelations    and  descriptions of the  possibilities
of  healthy   relationships  between/among us  and   those
who  are "different",     not-familiar, not-trusted,   and
apparently in conflict with us.

     We  need  to build safe communities  and  sanctuaries
within  which  we  will  all  be  free  to  learn  how  to
recognize, name, understand, transcend and subvert the key
elements    of  "The  Domination  System"     of   fallen,
concentrated  and corrupted  powers that be.    We need to
recognize,   name,  understand,  transcend and subvert the
ways  in  which we are victims of and implicated  in  "The
Domination System".   We have been playing collusive games
of mutual self deception with ourselves, with our friends,
and with our enemies whom we  cannot trust;  any more than
we  can trust other people in our own collusive  games  of
mutual self deception.

     We  are  all the creators of and the victims  of  the
double-binds,  repressions, suppressions, addictions,  and
patterns   of  pseudo-interdependence which is  often  the
codependent side of our coins of addictions/codependence.

     We cannot "fix"  ourselves or each other through  the
use  of  clever  systems   of   controls,   prescriptions,
proscriptions,   formalities and  approved   patterns   of
conformity.  Such systems leave us ill-at-ease, dis-eased,
and    with    physiological   and    mental    illnesses.
Pretentiousness  does  not lead us into  healthy  personal
relationships.

     We  need reconciliation,  healing,  recovery and  the
restoration of hearing,  listening,  seeing,  discernment,
feelings,  civility, reverence,  hospitality,  generosity,
and mutual-acceptance into open and honest dialogue.

     We   cannot  be  well  as  individuals,    or  within
relationships   or  communities ---  in   the  absence  of
hospitality,     integrity,  integrations,   civilization,
tolerance,    creativity,   and  the  growth    of    well
integrated   patterns  of  complementary  differences  ---
which   fit  well together in the processes   of  creating
coherent whole people and communities.

                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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