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  %GRADUAL TRANSITIONAL STEPS STAGES NORMAL HEALTHY 030708
%CONTENTIOUS COOPERATIVE DOMINEERING COERCION FORCE 030708
%HEAL RECONCILE PEACEMAKER CONFLICT RESOLUTION EVIL 030708
   %EVOLUTION CHANGE GROWTH RESCUE REDEEM SALVATION 030708
%VIEWPOINT PERSPECTIVE ALTERNATIVE LANGUAGE POINTER 030708
  %EXTREMIST TERRORIST FUNDAMENTAL MOVEMENT REVOLVE 030708

     How, by what transitional steps and stages, do people
move from being relatively normal, healthy and cooperative
---    to  being  fearful,   extremists,    defensive  and
domineering --- and what can be done  to help  people move
in the reverse direction?

     People  at  one  extreme  deal  honestly  with   wide
continuous  spectrums  of  gracious  possibilities.     At
another  extreme    people   deal   only   with   mutually
exclusive-dichotomous    either/or   alternatives   within
contentious relationships.

     1.  How can  we  help healthy  people  avoid becoming
dysfunctionally   domineering;   i.e.,   help  them  avoid
becoming tragic leaders who  trigger personal and communal
patterns of disintegration?

     2.  How  can  we  help domineering  people  make  the
transition  back  toward being involved in  healthy-humane
relationships  ---   which  promote  and  facilitate  both
personal and communal integrations and integrities?

     What   kinds   of  kind-efforts  may  "move";   i.e.,
motivate,  domineering people to relax and let go of their
fears and extremist tendencies?

     What will help domineering people among us  to  relax
and feel less need to be defensive; to less often feel the
need to justify themselves?

     How can domineering/dishonest people be helped to let
go of  contentiousness and dishonesty --- as common  means
for presumably achieving invulnerability and/or security?

     By  what  role-modeling,  demonstrations,   examples,
communal-contexts, virtues and cooperative efforts --- can
contentiousness  be  moderated?   Can it be a gradual  and
gentle  process  from  the point of  view  of  domineering
and/or insecure people?
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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