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 %TRUE SUBVERSIVE DISCERNMENT ENTAILS TRANSCENDENCE 030513
 %SUBVERSION FALLEN POWERS DOMINATION SYSTEM DEVILS 030513
  %IDOLATRY INTEGRATION INTEGRITY BALANCE EXTREMISM 030513
%SPECIALIZED EXCLUSIVITY COMPLEMENTARY TRUTHS IDEAL 030513
   %DOUBLE BIND BLOCKAGE UNDERSTANDING ARTICULATION 030513
   %FRAME QUESTIONS ASSUMPTIONS DIALOGUE EXPERIENCE 030513

     True  discernment  entails the transcendence  of  and
perhaps the subversion of:    "The Fallen Powers That Be",
"The Domination System" and the collusive-games-of-mutual-
self-deception played by domineering supporters of them.

     No one prescribed method guarantees true discernment.

     In fact, some prescribed methods must  be transcended
and perhaps subverted, before true discernment occurs.  In
the absence of integration with other ways  of framing and
responding  to   questions   ---   the specialized methods
of  isolated:  scientists,  politicians,   scholars,   and
religious leaders --- cannot  assure  that  there will  be
any   true discernment.

     Specialized  methods  often block the asking  of  the
most  relevant  and  timely  questions  ---   by  imposing
restrictive:    assumptions,  beliefs and convictions  ---
and by subverting dialogue with those who are not likewise
specialized ---  to the exclusion of complementary methods
of seeing and knowing.

     Discernment may entail the recognition of the answers
to questions which HAVE NOT BE ARTICULATED ---  because of
dominant  forms  of exclusive-specialization.   It is  not
easy  to  accept answers to questions which have  not  yet
been  framed  and  asked!   How is one to prove  that  the
answers  make  any sense?     What honored  specialist  is
going  to  be supportive of a discernment which transcends
their own exclusive manner of specialization?

     Discernment  may make sense to only a few people  who
are   ready  to  receive  the  insights  entailed  in  the
discernment --- without first having asked/articulated the
question(s) which related to the discernment.    The value
of   a  revolutionary new discernment  process  cannot  be
authenticated  by  any traditional  authority,   ritual or
formal process.

     The value  of  a discernment process depends upon  it
helping people make sense of their experiences which here-
to-for  have made no  sense to them.    Through   discern-
ment  ---   people  who  have  been  entrapped   by   "The
Domination System",   "The Fallen Powers That Be"   and/or
domineering  people  ---   see what  they  could  not  see
before,  hear what they could not hear before,  understand
what  was  incomprehensible  before;   and  do  what   was
apparently impossible before.

     True discernment  leads to new kinds  of  perception-
with-integrity  ---  of-the-integrity-which-exists-within:
some  people's  relationships,  within  some  individuals,
within  some  communities,  and   within  some  conceptual
frameworks.

     True  discernment  leads  to  greater  clarity  about
what/who  is:  true,  honest,  authentic,  and  worthy  of
reverence.

     True  discernment leads to revolutions which  subvert
in   gracious   ways ---  the ways in  which   domineering
people  support  their  collusive  games  of  mutual  self
deception,    "The  Fallen  Powers  That  Be"    and  "The
Domination  System".

     Many powerful people will  seek  to  subvert any true
discernment,  often as covertly as they can ---  so nobody
will   know what happened!    Revolutions are  displeasing
to many powerful people!  Be aware and beware!

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