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Some of the elements in the pattern of the repression of reflexive awareness, insight, understanding, learning and wisdom INCLUDE: 1. Taboos, prohibitions, proscriptions, informal rules, and threats of punishment which lead us to AVOID SITUATIONS WHERE WE MIGHT BECOME INVOLVED in experiences which would generate reflexive awareness, insights, understanding, learning and wisdom. Lines are drawn in the sands of our lives. Such lines serve as boundaries which we feel we must not, can not, and dare not cross. To cross those boundaries would be to risk the great dangers inherent in reflexive experiences. We know very little of, and fear greatly such experiences because of our ignorance. We fear the transcendence of our ignorance, for we are driven by our fears, and see no way to hope to become free of our fears. 2. When the AVOIDANCE stratagem fails we may have some disturbing reflexive experiences, and other stratagems become essential to protect us against the risks inherent in transcending the security of total objectivity. We may be OVERWHELMED BY THE TERROR of having violated the: taboos, prohibitions, proscriptions, informal rules and communal expectations. Our reflexive experiences may be dominated by such terror, leaving us imprisoned in the terror and so unable to experience anything we are involved in apart from such terror. Under such circumstances we cannot distinguish between patterns of natural cause and effect relationships---on the one hand; and collusive patterns of humanly contrived dishonest threats, punishments, rewards and promotions--- on the other hand. 3. If we get past the AVOIDANCE and TERROR of forbidden reflexive experiences; then we may become the victims of FORGETFULNESS and CONFUSION so that we cannot deal wisely with our reflexive experiences in retrospect. If we remember the TERROR we are likely to forget all other aspects of our reflexive experience, or else be very confused about all the other aspects of the reflexive experience. Under such circumstances we cannot honestly learn from our reflexive experiences, and we cannot honestly profit from mistakes made by ourselves or others. 4. If we get past AVOIDANCE, TERROR, FORGETFULNESS, and CONFUSION, then we are likely to become victims of RE- INTERPRETATIONS. The expressions of the lessons learned in the light of our reflexive experiences may be gradually changed, so as to revise the meanings which are given to those expressions and gradually the meanings become reversed and misleading. The New Testament gradually is re-interpreted to be a re-affirmation of all of the LAWS in the Old Testament. 5. If we get past AVOIDANCE, TERROR, FORGETFULNESS, CONFUSION and RE-INTERPRETATIONS, then we may be confronted with ADDICTIVE/CODEPENDENT manipulations whereby expressions of true and clear wisdom are made to be HERETICAL. The expression of any truths about our own reflexive experiences may be repressed---if we have NOT AVOIDED them, NOT BEEN TERRORIZED by them, NOT FORGOTTEN them, NOT BEEN CONFUSED in them, and NOT RE-INTERPRETED them. Collusions cannot survive in the presence of people of integrity who openly and honestly express the truths which they know about their own reflexive experiences. Thus addictive/codependent organizations and communities repress honest expressions of personal reflexive experiences, and insist that all expressions be dominated by taboos, prohibitions, proscriptions, informal rules, and threats of punishment which lead us to AVOID SITUATIONS WHERE WE MIGHT BECOME INVOLVED in experiences which would generate reflexive awareness, insights, understanding, learning and wisdom. The cycles of repression, avoidance, terror, forgetfulness, confusion, re-interpretation, and silence run through many variations, permutations and combinations---which lead round and round inside our Gordian knots and keep us away from the real world of open and honest relationships of intimate understanding and cooperation. We cannot transcend the limitations of our Gordian Knots unless we recognize and deal with the strengths of the elements of our Gordian Knots and the ways in which the elements are systemically combined in our dysfunctional communities and personalities---to imprison us so we cannot visit each other openly and honestly in intimate relationships which are honest and wise, rather than imprisoning. None of our collusions, addictions or codependent patterns of support are God. If we think any of them are God---we are repressing God, avoiding God, terrorized by false gods, forgetful of God, confused about God, re- interpreting truths about God and/or silent about God. Keepers of collusions and of repressive paradigms, addictions and patterns of codependent support thereof--- will be intolerant of even hints of weak support thereof. Any crack through which light, insight, truth and creativity might leak---must promptly be plugged to protect the dishonesty of our collusive and repressive paradigms. Their "integrity" is based upon dishonesty and they will crumble in the presence of open and honest dialogue among people about their own reflexive experiences, awareness, insights, understanding, learning and wisdom. Such honest dialogue cannot be tolerated. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================