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This is http://www.essayz.com/a9602211.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.} ========================================================== %DENY REALITY OWN EXPERIENCES HOLY SPIRIT GROUND+960221 %BEING PERSONAL COMMUNAL INTEGRITY FANTASIES REAL+960221 %DELUSION VISION ILLUSION REVELATION CREATION GOD+960221 %COLLUSION DISHONESTY TRUTH TRUST RISK LOVE SIN 960221 When we deny the reality of our own experiences we blaspheme the Holy Spirit and we lose contact with the ground of our being. That is the one unforgivable sin. Then there is no basis for either personal or communal integrity; for there is no basis for distinguishing among fantasies, realities, delusions, visions, illusions, revelations, collusions and creations. When we deny the reality of our own experiences---we deny the reality of our own being, deny the reality of our creation, and deny the reality of our creator. Then there is no ground for distinguishing between truth and falsehood; and no ground for significant meaning in life. If we cannot trust our own experiences as being real, then how are we to trust our own experiences of what other people say we should experience---and what other people say we should never experience.? If we cannot trust our own experiences as being real, how then are we to trust our own experiences of what we have come to believe God wants us to experience---and what God wants us to never experience? What early experiences led us to deny the reality of our own later experiences? Are those early experiences which led us to deny the reality of our own later experiences reliable? On what grounds should we trust early experiences, rather than later experiences? Are some experiences so utterly reliable that on the basis of them no later experiences are ever to be trusted? Are people who never trust their own experiences the kind of people who merit our respect, trust, honor and support? Do we admire them and want to be near them? If so, why do we admire them and want to be near them? If we never trust our own experiences, then what can we reliably trust? Other people's experiences? What if they are also people who never trust their own experiences? Are we to trust their experiences if they do not trust their own experiences? Why do so? Are we to trust their experiences if they are utterly unlike us--- and they too do trust their own experiences? Why do so? Are we to trust other people's reports of their experiences---utterly and completely---while never trusting our own experiences? Won't that make us utterly dependent upon them; and utterly vulnerable to their inclinations to use and abuse us? Won't that make us utterly dependent upon the reliability of our understanding of what they report---regardless of our experiences associated with receiving their reports? Can that make sense? Are we to trust a formula, program, paradigm, system, institution, organization, family or community which tells us that it is IMPROPER for us to trust our own experiences? How can doing so ever lead to personal and communal integrity---when doing so is the first step to total personal disintegration? How then are others to trust us? How then are we to trust ourselves? (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================