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This is http://www.essayz.com/a9406081.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.} ========================================================== %ALTERNATIVE PARADIGM NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCE SEX JOY+940608 %HYPOTHESIS HONESTLY CONSIDER DIALOGUE LISTEN KNOW 940608 People who are stuck in contrasting paradigms often find it impossible to approach a common set of experiences, evidence and data from within each other's alternative paradigm. They are unwilling/unable to give each other's paradigm a fair test---because they are trapped in the collusive games of mutual self deception of their own limiting and often exclusive paradigm. It is not honest to reject a paradigm until one has honestly approached relevant experiences, evidence and data from within the framework of that paradigm---unless of course the framework of that paradigm demands dishonesty and personal/communal disintegration as the price of working within the paradigm. When a paradigm is dominated by collusive games of mutual self deception it is not possible to test the integrity of the paradigm while working within the framework of the paradigm. Some paradigms are essentially disintegrative and cannot be tested with integrity from within the paradigm. Such paradigms tend to encourage people to be exclusive, narrow, intolerant, manipulative, arrogant, alienative, unbalanced, dishonest, etc. When people who consider the same sets of experiences, evidence and data and arrive at highly contrasting conclusions as to how they should be most properly interpreted---it is likely that the differences in interpretation originate in contrasting paradigms. Then it is important to examine the differences in the paradigms and what they lead to in terms of: assumptions, attitudes, values, ideals, goals, exclusions, foci, approaches, language, images, visions, etc. Attention should in particular be focused upon what is excluded from the lives and consciousness of the incarnations of the contrasting paradigms, and focused upon how they promote (or undermine) personal and communal integrity. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================