Dear Julie , Jim and all, of course such an old and rather unknown phenomenon like Manicheism can be used by everybody for his or her projections. I follow Cees Zwart in his book "de strategie van de hoop" and use it differently from you. For me it seems more human than the Christian believe system, which has difficulties to give sense to the evil. Manicheism said, both extremes, the very light likewise as the very dark, are finally unhuman and extremely dangerous. So every man has to navigate himself between these extremes, like Odysseus between Scylla and Charybdis. So it is up to me, wether I prefer to live in extremes and create my enemies on the other side, like Sharon and Bush and many others, or can take the responsibility for my life and manage to get into balance in the middle (again and again). Thanks for the discussion! Reinhard Mit freundlichen Gruessen Best regards Kuchenmüller & Stifel VISUELLE PROTOKOLLE Munich Germany Tel: +49-89-202 447 48 http://www.visuelle-protokolle.de
