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  %COMMUNITIES MENTAL ILLNESSES DISTORT GOD VISIONS 080425
  %INSIGHTS DREAMS HOPES ASPIRATIONS CREATING GREED 080425
%UNDERMINE MENTAL INTEGRITY FUNCTION EMOTIONAL LOVE 080425
%TRAUMATIC VIOLENT EXPERIENCES ADOLESCENT BIRTH SEX 080425
   %DEATH DYING DRUG ADDICTS CODEPENDENT SUPPORTERS 080425
%PERVERTED ISOLATED VIRTUES VICES INDIVIDUALS LOVER 080425

It  is widely and generally accepted that many  individual
humans  suffer from what we call "mental-illnesses"; i.e.,
from  illnesses which undermine  mental-integrity, mental-
functioning,  thinking,  and emotional-relationships which
involve mentally-ill persons.

individuals' mental illnesses seem to originate in:

 1.  Traumatic-Experiences during people's lives.

 2.  Traumatic-Experiences during birth.

 3.  Traumatic-Experiences during gestation.

 4.  Ingestion of excessive amounts of drugs/chemicals.

 5.  Ingestion of tragically perverted ideals/values.

 6.  Ingestion of tragically perverted virtues/vices.

 7.  Entrapment within Dysfunctional-Families/Tribes.

 8.  Entrapment within Dysfunctional-Economic-Systems.

 9.  Entrapment within Dysfunctional-Religious-Systems.

10.  Entrapment within Dyfunctional-Political-Systems.

11.  Entrapment within Collusive Games of Mutual Self D.

Might it be helpful to examine/consider the ways in  which
various Whole-Communities  might  become  Mentally-Ill and
Entrapped  in ways of Relating to their Total-Environment:
Geographic,  Cultural,  Economic,  Political,   Religious,
Biological, Geological, Oceanographic, Astronomical, etc.

Might  it  be helpful to consider how  Civilizations  have
been born, grown, evolved, gotten-stuck-in-ruts,  adopted-
non-sustainable-habits, adopted-alienative-behavior-habits
and in  become Mentally-Dysfunctional in Tragic-Ways which
are Systemic-for-the-Whole;   not just  an accumulation of
Individual-Mental-Illnesses which are independent of  each
other in isolation?

Might  it be impossible for a Civilization to recover from
a Systemic-Mental-Illness-of-the-Whole-Civilization --- IF
IT  FAILS  to  examine the following realities  with  open
minds and hearts --- engaged in Open-and-Honest-Dialogue?

 1.  Mental-Illnesses   of  individuals   having   tragic
effects  upon  undermining  the  integrity/health  of  the
Civilization-as-a-Whole   through   tragic  effects   upon
various   Individual-Sub-Communities  within  the   Whole-
Community of Space-Ship-Earth which is just a spec in the
Whole-Cosmos.

 2.  The  Mental-Illness of the Whole-Civilization  having
tragic  effects  upon  the individual persons  within  the
Whole-Civilization  of  Space-Ship-Earth  and  its various
individual  Sub-Communities within  the  Whole-Tiny-Space-
Ship-Earth.

 3.  The  Diminished-Abilities of each of the above  parts
of the Whole --- to perceive,  understand and  respond  in
integrative  ways --- to help heal the mental-illnesses of
each part and of the Whole-Global-Civilization as a Whole.

 4.  There being no ONE clear Gracious- Authority-or-Power
which  transcends all of the individuals and  communities;
and  able to offer transcendent perspectives on the nature
of each form of Mental-Illness in ways which transcend the
debilitating effects of each form of mental-illnesses.

 5.   The   ways  in  which  the  mental  illnesses   have
perverted and  diminished  the  abilities  of  people  and
cultures to clearly receive  and accept God's Transcendent
Perspectives ---  through the distorting/obscuring filters
--- of the various forms of mental-illnesses.

 6.  Perceiving  which  humans have best  transcended  the
distorted/obscuring filters ---  of the various  forms  of
mental-illnesses.

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

                         (c) 2008 by Paul A. Smith in
                      "Search for Honesty and Integrity"
                    (On Being Yourself Whole and Healthy)

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