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This is http://www.essayz.com/a9401301.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.} ========================================================== %REVELATION KIND NATURE COLLUDE HIDE FEAR AVOID NEW+940130 %PROPHET LIBERAL EDUCATION TEACHER LOVE SECURITY 940130 Often we are tempted to think of revelation as having to do only with some new availability of knowledge or information which was not previously available. In reality revelation often has to do with our liberation from old collusive games of mutual self deception---which have blocked our apprehension of knowledge and information which have been readily available to us. Through taboos, repression, shame, guilt, fear, threats, and confusion our collusive games of mutual self deception have kept us from appreciating that which has been present to us. Revelation is often the process of our becoming liberated to appreciate that which has been present to us. Revelation often comes to us through the gift of the freedom to be safely vulnerable --- given to us by some person of integrity who is free to be safely vulnerable. We may be set free by a prophet, teacher, professor, student, friend or lover who knows how to draw out of us that which we already know in some sense, but have feared to own as our own because of our fears. We may have been so threatened by manipulative people that we have refused to be true to ourselves and each other about our own senses, sensations, experiences, and perceptions. They may come to us as revelations--- once we are free to be safely vulnerable. Revelations are not necessarily new flows of knowledge and/or information. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================