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%WORLD VIEWS PARADIGMS COSMOLOGIES MYTHOLOGIES GOD 040803 %RELIGIOUS DOCTRINES TEACHINGS SCRIPTURE INTERPRET 040803 %NATURALLY IMPOSSIBLE COLLUSIONS MEANINGFUL TALKER 040803 %LISTENER DIALOGUE THOUGHTLESS INTERNALIZED BELIEF 040803 %ULTIMATE CONCERNS IMPORTANCE PRIORITY RELATIONS 040803 %JUDEO-CHRISTIAN SPIRITUAL MATERIALI INTEGRATE SCI 040803 To the extent that a person has exclusively- internalized any one "WORLD-VIEW" it is virtually impossible for that person to be involved in meaningful and accurate communication about ultimately important relationships, meanings, issues and conflicts. Examples of "WORLD-VIEWS" include the following; somewhat as outlined by Walter Wink --- early in his book "The Powers That Be": 1. THE ANCIENT JUDEO-CHRISTIAN WORLDVIEW which was taken for granted in most of the texts in The Bible, by many Greeks and Romans; i.e., that everything "earthly" has its "heavenly" counerpart; and everything "heavenly" has its "earthly" counterpart; e.g., conflicts, relationships, actors, events, etc. Spiritual and physical realities/realms were viewed as inter-connected and integrated into one whole reality centered on Space- Ship-Earth in con-centric ways. 2. THE SPIRITUALIST WORLDVIEW of the 2nd Century CE which says that creation was the fall and that spirit-is- good and matter/flesh is evil. Our world is the separate prison realm into which evil-spirits have fallen from the good-heaven-above. Consequently sex, the body, and earthly life in general are considered to be essentially evil. The religious task is to rescue one's spirit from the flesh and the associated Powers; and so regain that upper-spiritual-realm from which one has fallen. 3. THE MATERIALISTS' WORLDVIEW of Democritus, THE- ENLIGHTENMENT and scientists --- who assume that all that really exists is in the earthly physical realm and that there is no-spiritual-realm and no-life-which-transcends- death. 4. The TRADITIONAL THEOLOGICAL WORLDVIEW which affirms the reality and ultimate importance of the spiritual-realm-above; and the impossibility of confirming the spiritual-realm-above by means of the lower-physical-processes-and-experiences down-below through the procedures of objective-scientists and non- spiritual-scholars. The two are separate-and- independent-realms without integrity-as-a-whole. 5. AN INTEGRAL WORLDVIEW emerging through a number of streams of: assumptions, attitudes, values, ideas, ideals, and clarifying virtues; e.g.: the new-physics, chaos-theory, the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, Quantum-Theory, liberation-theology, feminist-theology; the refections of psychologist Carl Jung and paneotologist Teihard de Chardin; process philosophyers such as Alfred North Whitehead, Charles Hartshorne, John Cob, and David Ray Griffin; theologians such as Morton Kelsey, Thomas Berry, Matthew Fox; the Buddhists Thic Nat Hanh and Joanna Marcy; and many Native American religions. The INTEGRAL WORLDVIEW of the whole of reality sees everything as having outer and inner aspects which are well-integrated with each other in inclusive ways by True-Lovers. People who are aware only of their own exclusive- world-view find it exceedingly difficult, if not impossible, to be in meaningful and gracious dialogue with other people who are aware of only another-mutually- exclusive-world-view. Such combinations-of-alienated- people are likely to engage in contentious interactions --- without any understanding of the roots of their prejudices, attitudes, assumptions, values, ideals, virtues, vices, conflicts and attempts to dominate each- other and all-other-people who are "different". They stand ready with weapons-of-mass-destruction to disintegrate-each-physical-other and all-different-others for-their-own-good in an eagerly anticipated FINAL-HOLY- BATTLE between DOOMED-EVIL-PEOPLE and SAVED-GOOD-PEOPLE on their way UP-TO their HEAVENLY-REWARDS --- leaving DOOMED-EVIL-EARTH in cinders DOWN-BELOW. GOOD and EVIL are separated realities; and it is good that they be so separated; NOT TOGETHER with any kind of coherence or integrity. Individual people usually combine elements of various WORLD-VIEWS in somewhat incoherent ways --- without any coherent sense of what it is that they are doing. Overlaid upon such a mixture of WORLD-VIEWS there is likely to be some yielding to the WORLD-VIEW of The- Domination-System and the domineering people who are most responsive to the fallen-powers-that-be as described by Walter Wink in his book "The Powers That Be". Domineering people tend to form clusters of people who are "alike" and are able to "cooperate" only with the other "like" people within their local cluster. Domineering people tend to distrust "different" people who have gathered together in "different" clusters characterized by "different" WORLD-VIEWS or are characterzed by "different" incoherent conflations of WORLD-VIEWS. Such "different" people and clusters tend to engage in contentious debates and "interactions" which promote both personal and communal disintegratons. Domineering people do not know how to cooperate in ways which would minimize such tragic developments and would help people heal from the tragic developments. In keeping with their Domination System --- they do not dare try to be open, honest, balanced and cooperative with "different" people and clusters of "different" people. They systematically- disintegrate themselves, each other, their clusters, each-other's clusters and most communities. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================