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 %SCOTT PECK ROAD LESS TRAVELED PARADOX WHOLE TRUTH 030624
 %CONTRADICTION MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE REJECTION COHERE 030624
  %HERESY APARTMENTS PARTS FRAGMENTED DENIAL ACCEPT 030624
   %INSEPARABLE PERSONAL COMMUNAL INTEGRITIES FAITH 030624
  %HOPE LOVE TRUST DISHONESTY DECEPTION SECRECY SIN 030624
  %PRETENSE ARROGANCE SELF RIGHTEOUSNESS NARCISSISM 030624

     In his book "The Road Less Traveled"  Dr.  M.   Scott
Peck calls attention to paradoxes;   i.e., to whole-truths
which   encompass   affirmations   that  appear   to    be
contradictory and/or mutually exclusive ---   yet they are
affirmations that are coherent in integrative ways.

     Dr.    Peck suggests that the essence of an heresy is
to  take apart a whole-paradox and affirm  one portion  of
the whole-paradox in ways that deny and/or denigrate  what
the whole-paradox as-a-whole affirms.   Thus,  each heresy
denies and/or denigrates the integrity of an  integrative-
whole-truth.     It  follows  that  heretical peoples  and
assemblies-of-people   (e.g.,    heretical   institutions)
cannot   and  do not promote either personal  or  communal
integrity  ---    for personal  and communal integrity are
inseparable.

     All forms of dishonesty;   e.g., deception,  secrecy,
pretense, pretentiousness, arrogance,  self-righteousness,
narcissism,  ego-centricity,  addictions,  collusions, ---
undermine  the  integrity  of  Truth  as   a-whole-reality
which-has-integrity.    All  forms  of   dishonesty   lead
people   into   heresies   which   seek   to     denigrate
paradoxical truths.

     Domineering people  put their  faith,   hope,   love,
trust   and  confidence  in  their  ability  to    achieve
security-as-invulnerability  ---  through   the   use  of:
violence,   force,  coercion,  threats,   and the forms of
dishonesty  suggested  above.

     Domineering   people  are immersed  in  heresies  and
heretical  institutions  ---    trying  to  achieve  their
salvations   through  the control of portions of the whole
truth ---  in ways which deny and degrinate other portions
of the whole truth.

     Domineering  people are terrified  by encounters with
the  unity of the  whole truth ---    as  demonstrated  by
true-lovers     who   reveal   personal    and    communal
integrities   that   transcend:    laws,     commandments,
prescriptions,    proscriptions,    taboos,    scriptures,
politics and  power-concentrations  that  are   inherently
corrupt.     Domineering  people   are   in-the-service-of
"The  Domination  System"    that systematically   demands
that  all people take paradoxes apart ---  and selectively
affirm some partial-truth as  if  a  chosen  partial-truth
is, in isolation, the-whole-truth.

     True-Lovers    terrify  domineering  people   through
personal    demonstrations   of   the   whole-truth    ---
through    personal    and   communal   integrities    and
processes   of  integration.     True-Lovers  reveal   the
absence   of  integrity  within  domineering  people   and
within   "The  Domination System".    Such honest personal
demonstrations  are treated as  if they were heresies  ---
by  "The   Domination  System"    and  by  its  idolatrous
servants.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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