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  %VISUAL IMAGE UNDERSTAND PROPOSITION MAPS VILLAGE 040823
  %CITIES STATES NATIONS REMEMBER FACES APPEARANCES 040823
 %ABSTRACT EVIL RELATIONSHIPS MATHEMATICS REASONING 040823
 %IDEAL FORMS PRESCRIPTIVE PROSCRIPTIVE COMMANDMENT 040823
    %CONFORMITY LOYALTY EXCLUSIVE INCLUSIVE VIRTUES 040823
  %STAGES LEARN DEVELOPMENT CONFLICT WAR RESOLUTION 040823

    It  appears that some people have memories which  are
more oriented to "visual-images"  than to "propositional-
statments";   and vice-versa.  "Visual-image"  people can
do well with maps of villages,  cities, states,  nations;
and   with  remembering  people's  faces   and   overall-
appearance ---   but  they cannot necessarily do  well in
abstract    reasoning    about    relationships-described
propositionally,   or  with  the essence  of  mathmatical
reasoning.

    It  also appears that some people are prone  to  deal
with   human  relationships  in  terms  of   ideal-forms,
prescriptive and proscriptive commandments,   patterns of
conformity   and/or   loyalty   and   mutually-exclusive-
realities --- but they do not focus much upon abstractly-
conceived virtues  and/or vices,   personal-incarnations,
communal-incarnations,    authentic-role-models,    evil-
relationships,  communal-integrity,   personal-integrity,
shalom, communal-health, etc.

    Different  kinds of people work with different  kinds
of "maps"  to represent in their understanding and memory
of the elements and inter-relationships among elements of
what they perceive to be important.   The kinds of "maps"
used  --- both  facilitate  and  guide   the   kinds   of
understandings and memory --- but not without any kind of
"bias".

    Different  kinds of people embody different:   world-
views,  cosmologies,  myths, parables,  teachings,  life-
styles,  assumptions,  attitudes, etc. ---  and often are
challenged  by the difficulties which they encounter when
they  try to communicate meaningfully with people who are
different  from them in such significant ways ---   while
being  unaware  of the differences in what they bring  to
their meetings, communications, understandings,  and ways
of  interpretations  thereof.

    Our   diverse  "stages-of-learning"   within  diverse
aspects of living and relating ---  play important  roles
in our difficult relationships.

    All of the above is relevant to efforts to facilitate
and promote:  conflict-resolution, peace-making, healing,
reconciliation,    cooperation,   team-work,    civility,
hospitality,   creativity,  sanctuary-constructions,  and
sanctuary-maintainiance.

    In  the  above  we may focus  upon  realities  within
various clusters:

    1.  Conflicts,   complementations,   interpretations,
connections, relationships, exclusions, inclusions.

    2.  Virtues, vices, ideals, rituals, values.

    3.  Powers,     agencies,    persons,    communities,
institutions,     incarnations,     spirits,      angels,
principalities,  governments,  businesses,  corporations,
leaders, dictators, kings, queens, etc.

    The  clusters are not separted by  sharp  boundaries,
and  efforts to define sharp poundaires are not likely to
be helpful.

    There are many ways to think about and talk about how
we appropriate, internalize and remember what we hear/see
each other say and do:

    1.  We may wear colored-glasses  or  other  "filters"
which "color" what we see, perceive and remember.

    2.  We  may  look  through lenses  which  magnify  or
distort  parts of what we see,  and demagnify or  distort
other parts of what we see.

    3.  We may  have  tunnel-vision  or  only  periferal-
vision.

    4.  We may be the victims of fog, snow-storms, and/or
background  noises  which  make it  hard  to  distinguish
between them and the realities we might otherwise be able
to discern clearly.

    5.  We    may   be   distracted    by    temptations,
distractions,   conflicts,  and/or threats which keep  us
from clearly seeing what is going to be most important in
the long-term.

    6.  Past  failures,   tragedies and catastrophies may
color our perceptions in ways that we do not know.

    7.  Being  surrounded  by domineering people who  are
participants in collusive games of mutual self  deception
as: addicts, codependend-supporters, respected-religious-
leaders,   successful-capitalist-corporate-managers,  and
political  supporters of the  Military-Industrial-Complex
---  teaching  the  Myth-of-Redemptive-Violence  to  poor
people  in  under-developed countries who were  feed  the
sweet milk of colonialism in their youth.

    Peacemakers  cannot  help  others  resolve  conflicts
without  in some way considering the realities pointed to
above  ---  and adjusting their assumptions,   attitudes,
beliefs and behaviors accordingly.

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