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This is http://www.essayz.com/a8702241.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.} ========================================================== %REFLEXIVE SALVATION 870224 Alienated people of low self esteem often try to engage in reflexive self salvation. They often become addicted to some means or other as a prop for their lack of self esteem: alcohol, tobacco, other drugs, food, money, work, sex, etc. In their alienation they can not bring themselves to accept honest help from others in overcoming their alienation, and they try to do the job all by themselves; even though they can not understand just what job needs to be done, and they are rejecting all honest help in recognizing what job needs to be done. Salvation is the process of reconciliation and re- integration into an integrated community. It is not a process which a person can do for self when in a state of alienation. The beginning of the process is the offering by others of forgiveness and reconciliation. The process continues when the offer is accepted because it has become clear that reflexive self salvation is not a viable way out of the unacceptable condition of alienation and low self esteem. The process is a reformation of a healthy self conception of the self and of the relationships between self and others. Relationships between self and others can not be changed unilaterally. Salvation is reflexive in the sense that it is not objective; but salvation is not a "one man show". People can not save themselves because salvation is the incorporation of persons into a community with both communal and personal integrity. It is the invitation into and the acceptance of wholeness. People who are committed to saving themselves from their own problems can not achieve their own salvation, not even when they have been fully responsible for all their own problems through their own foolish choices. They need to acknowledge their need to be interdependent with others in an integrated community as the way to enjoy salvation, rather than as the reward for having achieved salvation on their own. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================