Subject: Confront Level
Sent: 27 Aug 99

I consider ones' level of confront of the future to be inversely proportional to ones' level of current overwhelm in life an livingness.  I have observed ones' level of denial is proportional to ones' level of overwhelm.  

The PS is a very painful future we are looking at.  It takes lots of confront to be here and continue to look at it.  Each person has different capability when it comes to confront.  When a person is confronted with something that overwhelms them what do they do?  What does one do when change in ones' environment is out of ones control.  

I think the natural reaction is to grab on to something not moving or something stable.  One could call this a stable datum.  This is typical something stable that has worked in the past.  It could be an idea or a thing or a person (mom or god for example).

I have observed in reviewing my experience and your recent posted experiences with spouses and relatives that when pushed some will hold onto spiritual path or concept.  Some will hold onto material objects or things.  Some will do a combination of both.   This is all a normal action we all do this with some idea or thing(s) we believe will stabilize our environment or our future. 

When we find denial or denial tendencies we need to be aware of possible overwhelm or lack of confront of the other.  If we then go about attacking or removing the other persons stable datum because it's not logical or crazy, then what is happening is the confusion, pain and/or change that this stable datum was holding in place will hit them in the face again - more overwhelm - thus more denial.  Not the end result we want.  Time to back off or back up on the gradient.   

Just because we can arrive at an observable truth rapidly doesn't mean everyone else can.  Its tough to be patient but patient we must be. 

Note: Part of this file got corrupted and I had to type it again.  O-well second time I did a better job at it I hope.