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This-essay is a8603262.htm which is available at the web-site www.essayz.com. See more notes at the bottom. Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay By-Months By-Years By-Words Webs of Like-&-Un-Like ESSAYS <==> Like-&-UN-Like This-One ========================================================== %INTEGRATIVE PERSONAL MYTHS 860326 Myths are personal stories invented by and shared, within a coherent community to help integrate its members sense of who they are, where they came from, where they are going, and what the meaning and value of their lives are. Since myths are personal stories they are not essentially objective in nature, although they may relate to objective events and processes. The power of myths does not flow from how objectively true they may be. Addicts and members of other collusive communities participate in myths which are powerful for them in deceptive ways by including in their stories statements which are objectively false, yet are personally very powerful in disintegrative ways, as they hold the addicts together in their collusive games of mutual self deception. By telling each other myths participants legitimize their experiences and perception. If their myths do not fly in the face of true facts their stories may play genuinely integrative roles in creating a genuine community whose unity flows from myths which have and give integrity to those whose faith is rooted in their belief in and telling of their mythic stories. Even objectively compulsive people participate in myths; myths regarding the value of objectivity. Their myths are personal stories which are invented by and shared within their objectively coherent community to help confirm its members' sense of who they are, where they came from, where they are going, and what the meaning and the value of their lives is. Their myths do not answer objective scientific questions. Their myths respond to their need for answers to personal questions in the forms of stories which help them make sense of their personal lives. Their myths may or may not deal honestly with objective facts in the process of empowering the objective community. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in www.essayz.com Search for Integrity and Honesty (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================
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