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This is http://www.essayz.com/a9604231.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.} ========================================================== %EXPLORE GLOBAL GEOGRAPHIC PHYSICAL RISK HERO+960423 %INTIMATE RELATION RELIGION POLITICAL BUSINESS+960423 %OPEN HONEST DESCRIPTION PERSONAL EXPERIENCE+960423 %REFLEXIVE PRAYER MEDITATION COLLUSION ADDICTION 960423 Consider the risks and benefits of explorations. In the days of Columbus global explorations were encouraged by political and business leaders at high levels---in spite of the great risks which they entailed for many people and businesses. The explorers who came back from their adventures were welcomed as heroes; and further explorations were encouraged. In modern days intimate explorations are often discouraged by political, business, and religious leaders at many levels---in spite of the great benefits which may come from improved understandings of honest intimate relationships. When honest intimate explorers come out and recount their adventures they are not welcomed as heroes; and further explorations are discouraged. Why is there such a contrast---in spite of the opportunities to reflect upon the advantages of honest explorations and reports of what is found in honest explorations? What is at stake? Explorations for unknown objective realities were not as threatening to many people as explorations for known (but hidden) reflexive realities. Modern honest intimate explorers are threatening many known (but hidden) facts about collusive games of mutual self deception, profitable businesses of promoting addictions, and patterns of control. People who have played collusive games of mutual self deception and hidden such reflexive facts are terrified at the prospect of modern intimate explorers exposing them. It is one thing to be fearful of the objective risks of objective exploration. It is another thing to be fearful of the reflexive risks of reflexive explorations. In the former case the objective world expands and there are perceived m any opportunities for profitable business ventures. In the latter case there is the risk that the reflexive world of collusive games of mutual self deception will collapse and the cosmic egg will be crushed; not only cracked. Fearful people inhibit reflexive exploration; seeking to control future behavior in the darkness of past experiences. They seek to promote conformity in terms of the past. Explorations entail transcending the past and conformity which is based upon the past. Explorations threaten patterns of control and the advantages of people who are in control---or think that they are in control. People in love promote reflexive explorations;seeking to open up new possibilities and new futures in the light of past experiences. They seek to promote creativity in terms of expanding possibilities. Love entails transcending the dark past by being in dialogue with people who have learned from the dark past by being true to themselves and each other. Love threatens patterns of control and the advantages of people who are in control--- or think that they are in control. God is Love. Religious leaders who have traditionally thought of themselves as being in control of the reflexive realms of human relationships---are not happy to see reflexive explorers intruding onto their turf and bringing hidden truths into the light of daily experiences and honest dialogue. Objective scientists and the scholars who envy the certainties of objective scientists---are embarrassed by reflexive explorers who reveal that the ideals, values and goals of objective scientists and the scholars who envy them---are reflexive realities which lie outside of the realm of objective reality, which they often think and feel is the only ultimately real reality. Political leaders who get what they can get by manipulating reflexive realities---are embarrassed by reflexive explorers who reveal the collusive games of mutual self deception through which political leaders seek to be (or appear to be) in control---in the best interests of those whom they presume to "serve". Reflexive exploration is dangerous for reasons which far transcend the immediate risks of reflexive exploration. The risks compound when the reflexive explorers come home and report what they have discovered in their explorations. Often the risks of honestly reporting discoveries far exceed the risks entailed in the explorations themselves. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================