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 %UNDERSTAND MITIGATE HEAL RECONCILE HUMAN SICKNESS 070811
 %DISEASE ALIENATION ESTRANGEMENT BLAME SHAME GUILT 070811
%ORIGINAL SIN DAMNATION IMPERFECTION REBELLION EVIL 070811
%DEVIL RELATIONSHIPS MANDATED CONFORMITY PUNISHMENT 070811
%BACTERIA VIRUS MOULD PRIONS MICROSCOPE MICROSCOPIC 070811
%OBJECTIVE REFLEXIVE HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS INTIMACIES 070811

Early  human  efforts  to understand  a  deal  with  human
sicknesses and disease  often focused upon issues  related
to:   blame,  shame,  guilt,  sin,  etc.  ---  within  the
framework   of   mandated-conformity   &   rebellious-non-
conformity.  Sicknesses and disease were often regarded as
punishments  imposed by a domineering god upon the victims
who were sick and ill-at-ease.   Those efforts at  dealing
with  human sicknesses and disease were  ineffective;  not
helpful.

Later more helpful human efforts to understand a deal with
human sicknesses and disease  focused upon the life cycles
of  bacteria,  viruses,  moulds,  prions,  and other  tiny
parasitic  organisms  embedded  within  human  bodies  and
creating  poisons  and  chaos  within  previously  healthy
organs  of human bodies.   Microscopes made it possible to
see  and  identify  those tiny  parasitic  organisms which
undermined  the  integrities of humans.    Many  of  these
efforts  at dealing with human sickness and  disease  were
truly effective and helpful.

We  may gain from the above helpful insights into  how  to
deal effectively and  helpfully  with human-inter-persona-
relationships  which are sick,  diseased,   dysfunctional,
addictive  and  alienative.   Can we identify  the  active
agents;  even if they are not tiny organisms?   What might
be  the  active  agents of other kinds  which  sicken  our
personal and communal relationships?

Consider  the  following  as  possible  Sickening-Active-
Agents  which  Lead-People  into  the Alienative-Behaviors
that are commonly present within sick/dysfunctional human-
inter-personal relationships:

 1.  Misleading-ideals, goals, hopes and expectations.
 2.  Misleading-values, principles, and beliefs.
 3.  Dishonesty, pretense, arrogance and secrecy.
 4.  Trusting violence, coercion, controls and domination.
 5.  Trysting myths about the above as redemptive agents.
 6.  Trusting knowledge about who is evil and who is good.
 7.  Trusting coalitions of concentrators of power/wealth.
 8.  Trusting technocratic-tools-to-control-people.
 9.  Trusting institutional-tools-to-control-people.
10.  Trusting patterns of exclusivity to control others.

In seeking to recognize,  identify and describe the active
agents  within   sick/dysfunctional   human-inter-personal
relationships --- it may be helpful to Trace-Back to Such-
Agents  from  particular  specific  occasions  of  TRAGIC-
ALIENATIONS  which undermine the possibilities present  in
each of the following kinds of humane activities:

COOPERATION     COLABORATION   Open-and-honest-dialogue

SYMPATHY        EMPATHY        Gracious-Hospitality

LISTENING       AFFIRMATIONS   Gracious-Ways-of-Shalom

MUTUALITY       BALANCE        Learning-from-mistakes

IMAGINATION     VISIONS        Being-honestly-together

GENEROSITY      SHARING        Personal-true-descriptions

HUMILITY        SERVICE        Resolving-Conflicts

TRAGIC-ALIENATIONS  are the "smoke-clouds"  which  we  can
Trace-Back"   to  the Sickening-Active-Agents  which  are
generating  Sick-and-Dysfunctional   Persona-and-Communal-
Relationships.  What are the Leading-Agents of Alienative-
Human-Behaviors?

      Be-Together in the Many-Gracious ways of Shalom.

                         (c) 2007 by Paul A. Smith in
                      "Search for Honesty and Integrity"
                    (On Being Yourself Whole and Healthy)

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