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From: Unleesh-AT-aol.com
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 17:25:11 EDT
Subject: Re:  Re: Can we think about the flow


"live
professionally?"

i think this depends on the professional values in question. Middle class
bourgeois expectations of professional behavior can limit the spontaneity of
life extremely. The expectation of appropriate credentiality regardless of
one's talent, experience, effort, knowledge is also confining.

I see the professional as a mask I put on and off. I consider it a "sacred"
mask -- useful and dangerous, capable of creating great good but also capable
of taking over. When I leave my office, I take it off. It's not ingenuine, for
I am speaking through the mask, or rather the mask and I are speaking
together, but again, i'm not the same outside the mask. The mask for me is a
way of relating to others who don't share my value structure so i can share
some things which are of value which they might be closed to otherwise. In
other words, it's a form of camouflage. Of course, in an environment where I
lived with people who shared my values more, for whom, example, wearing
dresses or having one's hair discombobulated or being eccentric, into the
earth, etc etc was an accepted thing, my practice would be much more
authentic, and probably more healing take place as I would be more fully
present. But I am living in the midst of an imperial capitalist culture
surrounded by middle class values and a constructed notion of the "mainstream"
and the "acceptable". So I use certain disguises to blend and propagate
deviations of lifefulness.

   

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