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This is http://www.essayz.com/a9110272.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.} ========================================================== %ATTRACT TRAP PRISON PERVERT PERCEPTION EXPERIENCE 911027 We may be attracted into a way of perceiving, experiencing, being, thinking, feeling and relating which in the end turns out to have been a trap which imprisons us; so that within our trap our misguided ways of perceiving, experiencing, being, thinking, feeling and relating blind and confuse us, so we cannot encounter essential truths about ourselves and our relationships. What we perceive may depend in perverted ways upon what trap we are caught in; as much as upon what is objectively present to us. Highly prejudiced people perceive what is around them in ways which are in keeping with their prejudices. Militarists perceive occasions for defensive military action, where others do not perceive such occasions. Judgmental legalists perceive immorality in the open and honest intimate behavior of people of integrity. Exclusively objective scientists do not perceive essential mystery in situations where essential mystery is present. In similar ways the trap we are imprisoned in may dominate our experiences, being, thinking, feeling and relationships; without our being aware that we are imprisoned in any trap. We may regard all that we perceive, experience, are, think, feel and relate to as being reliable and real as we know it; and regard what we know as quite independent of all aspects of ourselves. We cannot be truly honest in our perceptions, experiences, being, thinking, feeling and relationships if we are unable to entertain the hypothesis that we may be caught in a perverse trap. Only if we are free to openly and honestly entertain that hypothesis, do we have any chance of escaping from such invisible traps as may imprison us and blind us. If we are entrapped in a perverse style of living we are unknowing victims of dishonest experiences and dishonest perceptions; such forms of dishonesty being far more perverse in nature, than our having honest experiences and perceptions, and then dishonestly reporting them. The concepts of "dishonest experiences" and "dishonest perceptions" are a bit strange. Yet, for people who are the victims of a coherent set of assumptions, presuppositions, beliefs, convictions, and collusive games of mutual self deception---within a society which functions like an addict; their style of life dominates not only their expressions, but also their experiences and perceptions in dishonest ways. The "objective world" of their experiences and their perceptions does not correspond at all well with the objective world of healthy people of integrity, living within a community of integrity. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================