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This is http://www.essayz.com/a9202011.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.} ========================================================== %ACCEPT INTEGRATIVE IMAGE VISION FANTASY DREAM 920201 We need to share with each other our integrative images, visions, fantasies and dreams; picture we have of what it would be like to live with true integrity within integrative communities which provided secure contexts for growth in healthy relationships. We may share our integrative images by means of stories, myths, dramas, novels, dances, poems, pictures, movies, videos, ballet, music, worship, convocations, lectures, and other rituals. Each offers channels of communications, vocabularies, languages, words, symbols, grammars, and linguistic tools by which we may share our integrative images. Often messengers have been abused by the recipients of troubling, embarrassing and unwanted messages; kings had unfortunate messengers executed upon the fulfillment of their communication duties. It is disintegrative to treat the channels of communication in such abusive ways. We need to take care not to clog or cut the channels of communication through which we might be able to share our integrative images, visions, fantasies and dreams. Evil does not reside in the means of communication; in the channels as means of communication. Evil resides in broken, cut, clogged and perverted channels of communication; in our alienative relationships. Stories, myths, dramas, novels, dances, poems, pictures, movies, videos, ballet, music, worship, convocations, lectures, and other rituals cannot of themselves be inherently evil by themselves. To regard any of them as inherently evil by themselves is to risk clogging the channels of communication through which we might otherwise be able to share our integrative images, visions, fantasies and dreams. That would yield a tragic consequence of our misguided conception of evil. In regarding some of our channels of communication as evil we would create evil relationships among ourselves. We need a less misleading conception of the nature of evil. We need to accept each other's stories, myths, dramas , novels, dances, poems, pictures, movies, videos, ballet, music, worship, convocations, lectures, and other rituals as efforts to communicate a variety of integrative images, visions, fantasies and dreams. We need to discuss them openly and honestly in order to work cooperatively in generating insight into which communications are truly integrative; and which are not. Our judgements should be judgements of how integrative the communications are; not judgements of how evil are the people who offer the communications; or perhaps how evil are the channels of communication, how evil are the elements of the communications, or how evil are the settings within which the communications occur. We need to be honest about both integrative and disintegrative processes so we do not confuse them with each other. We often have difficulty in distinguishing between people's actions which on the one hand are dishonest, coercive, violent, addictive, manipulative, life threatening, unjust, uncharitable and disintegrative; and on the other hand people's actions which communicate integrative images, visions, fantasies and dreams which threaten only our collusive games of mutual self deception. The difference is not always obvious. Often there is confusion as to which kinds of actions particular actions are. Often people who offer integrative images, visions, fantasies and dreams are treated as if they had been dishonest, coercive, violent, addictive, manipulative, threatening life, unjust, uncharitable and so disintegrative. Such mistreatment is often motivated by desperate desires to protect dishonest collusive games of mutual self deception. Prophets who speak the truth are often vilified for doing so, even unto crucifixion. It is sometimes difficult to tell the difference between criminals and saviors. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================