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idea. (T/F)
7. Ideological totalists are able to use the universal tendencies toward guilt
and shame as emotional levers for their controlling and manipulating
influence. (T/F)
&The Cult of Confession is a vehicle for personal purification, an act of
symbolic self-surrender and of exposure which makes it almost impossible
to attain a reasonable balance between worth and humility. (T/F)
9. To the totalist the Sacred Science is one of several moral visions for the
ordering of human existence. (T/F)
10. The cliches of totalist language become the start and finish of any
ideological analysis. (T/F)
11. The effect of totalist language is the constriction of human thought and
emotion. (T/F)
12. Doctrine Over Person honors the uniqueness of individual experience.
(T/F)
13. The doctrine subordinates to (accommodate) human character and
experience. (T/F)
14. The `will to orthodoxy' allows for modification of the doctrine in
accordance with one's special nature or potentialities. (T/F)
15. The Dispensing of Existence draws a sharp line between those who have
a right to exist and those who do not. (T/F)
16. Totalists do not feel themselves compelled to destroy all possibilities of
false existence as a means of furthering the great plan of true existence to
which they are committed. (T/F)
17. The totalist environment, even when it does not resort to physical abuse,
stimulates in everyone a fear of extinction or annihilation. (T/F)
18. An environment need only express two of these eight psychological
themes to resemble ideological totalism. (T/F)
19. Every totalist milieu achieves complete totalism. (T/F)
20. The experience of ideological totalism carries a potential rebound effect
of retreating into all-or-nothing emotional patterns. (T/F)
21. The capacity for totalism is most fundamentally a product of human
childhood, of the prolonged period of helplessness and dependency
through which each of us must pass. (T/F)
22. How does this information pertain to you?
The following are essay questions:
1. What is the source of ideological totalism?
2. Under what conditions does man seek to become this guide? 3. How does
idea. (T/F)
7. Ideological totalists are able to use the universal tendencies toward guilt
and shame as emotional levers for their controlling and manipulating
influence. (T/F)
&The Cult of Confession is a vehicle for personal purification, an act of
symbolic self-surrender and of exposure which makes it almost impossible
to attain a reasonable balance between worth and humility. (T/F)
9. To the totalist the Sacred Science is one of several moral visions for the
ordering of human existence. (T/F)
10. The cliches of totalist language become the start and finish of any
ideological analysis. (T/F)
11. The effect of totalist language is the constriction of human thought and
emotion. (T/F)
12. Doctrine Over Person honors the uniqueness of individual experience.
(T/F)
13. The doctrine subordinates to (accommodate) human character and
experience. (T/F)
14. The `will to orthodoxy' allows for modification of the doctrine in
accordance with one's special nature or potentialities. (T/F)
15. The Dispensing of Existence draws a sharp line between those who have
a right to exist and those who do not. (T/F)
16. Totalists do not feel themselves compelled to destroy all possibilities of
false existence as a means of furthering the great plan of true existence to
which they are committed. (T/F)
17. The totalist environment, even when it does not resort to physical abuse,
stimulates in everyone a fear of extinction or annihilation. (T/F)
18. An environment need only express two of these eight psychological
themes to resemble ideological totalism. (T/F)
19. Every totalist milieu achieves complete totalism. (T/F)
20. The experience of ideological totalism carries a potential rebound effect
of retreating into all-or-nothing emotional patterns. (T/F)
21. The capacity for totalism is most fundamentally a product of human
childhood, of the prolonged period of helplessness and dependency
through which each of us must pass. (T/F)
22. How does this information pertain to you?
The following are essay questions:
1. What is the source of ideological totalism?
2. Under what conditions does man seek to become this guide? 3. How does
