This is http://www.essayz.com/b0512121.htm Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay Click HERE on this line to find essays via Your-Key-Words. {Most frequent wordstarts of each essay will be put here.} ========================================================== %SEDUCE SHALOM WAY LOVE ESSENTIALLY REFLEXIVE GOD 051212 %REDUCTION INDUCTION LEADERSHIP CORRUPT CENTRAL SEX 051212 %ABUSE ADDICTION CODEPENDENT INDEPENDENCE SELFISH 051212 %HUBRIS INVULNERABLE VULNERABILITY ARROGANCE GAINED 051212 %GATHER SUCCESS RESPECT HONOR REVERENCE HOLY GREED 051212 %SELF CENTERED UNIVERSE COSMOS GANG CAST AWAY LOVER 051212 Seduction is an essentially Reflexive-Process; rather than an essentially Objective-Process. In the absence of reflexivity relationships, there is no seduction and can be no seduction. Seduction often entails both Reflexive-and-Objective Aspects. In the absence of objectivity --- there can be and often is seduction. Seduction is the process of a person or persons being Led-Into-a-Relationship which is Not-Truly-Integrative and does Not-Demonstrate-True-Integrities, because in various ways the relationship: 1. Is unbalanced as regards power and/or wealth. 2. Serves desires of participants in unbalanced ways. 3. Entails dishonesty and/or collusion(s). 4. Is pretentious. 5. Is narcissistic on behalf of some participant(s). 6. Is unbalances as regards knowledge and/or insight. 7. Lacks integrative communal support/understanding. 8. Cannot be sustained with real integrity/resources. 9. Is an attempt to unilaterally fulfill a fantasy. 10. Is not based upon any integrative understanding. 11. Engenders unbalanced benefits, risks and costs. 12. Cannot endure in any truly balanced-sustainable way. 13. Occasions disintegrations; rather than integrations. 14. Lacks true unity and/or coherence. 15. Does not make real sense to those aware of IT. 16. Lacks the key elements of I-Thou Relationships. 17. Embodies key elements of Evil-Relationships. 18. Runs counter to key insights of Systems-Analysis. 19. Often leads to contentious, coercive, violent acts. 20. Is often founded upon an imbalance of power/wealth. 21. Leans toward Selfishness-and-Greed, not Generosity. 22. Leans toward Domination-and-Control, not Liberation. 23. Leans toward Pretense-and-Deception, not Hospitality. 24. Leans inward in Accumulative-Ways, not Integratively. 25. Rarely Survives-Truly in Public-Communal-Settings. 26. Rarely Survives Truly-Systemic-Analyses In-Public. 27. Rarely Entails Letting-Go of Domination/Controls. 28. Rarely Entails Letting-Go of Disintegrative-Fears. 29. Rarely Entails Letting-Go of Paranoid-Anxieties. 30. Rarely can be justified in Authentic-Honest-Ways. 31. May entail seduction into forms of complicity. 32. Confuses people's sense of responsibility/honor. 33. Confuses people's distinctions between Vices/Virtues. 34. Confuses people's understandings of Evil/Integrities. 35. Confuses Integrative-Myths with Dis-Integrative-Ones. 36. Confuses people's understandings of Reverence/Honor. 37. Is one of Unilateral and/or Mutual-Domination. 38. Dominated by a Domination-System-Community. 39. Is complicit "In-the-Service-of" a Dominant-Empire. 40. Is indifferent to dishonesty, coercion and violence. Shalom is the Way of LOVE. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in "Search for Honesty and Integrity" (On Being Yourself Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================