Honoring someone or something establishes a separation or boundary between you and them. This may work to your advantage, their advantage, or be mutually beneficial. By contrast, to hate, dislike, or dishonor removes all boundaries and separateness. Good luck.
Now to mix apples and oranges. I think this not only works with people, but with ideas, beliefs or concepts as well. Take my last podcast for example, where ideas like trauma, inner child, betrayal are involved. In a sense, to say "I have trauma" is a way of identifying a concept which in some ways creates a similar energetic separateness. Instead of the somatic trauma that may be inside you, when you create the concept of "I have trauma" then you have created something else perhaps that the phenomenal experience of trauma. That concept can now be interacted with. The act of this form of identification is a similar energy to me of honoring which in some ways may create a separation, for good or bad. If you honor the trauma, perhaps it allows you more of a space to work with it. However, to have a different relationship to the trauma concept, it might, analogous to dishonoring someone, have a different effect.
Then I was with my father who was driving a semi in Utah. The small rural towns that I remember in my youth we much more developed, almost like resorts. I remember steep hills and lots of road construction. When we arrived at Goshen, which is apparently where I spent my early days with my aunt while my mother was at school, i remember being started about how much it (and perhaps myself :-)) had developed. I remember thinking that I should retire in Salt Lake City, but then how it would not be a good idea because of the mormons. And how someone local like Judge Noll would always be fair not swayed by religious prejudice. Anyway....lol
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