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%SCIENCE PROFESSOR COLLUSIVE ADDICTIVE CODEPENDENTS 880916

Science  professors are participants in a  community
of codependent addicts who support a collusion against the
full  range  of  possible human  knowledge.    As  addicts
scientists  want to be in control.   They want to  control
all  forms  of knowledge,  to be masters of all  forms  of
knowledge.    To be good scientists professors  must  feel
they  have mastered all that is worth knowing,   for  then
they  can feel good about themselves.   Knowledge  is  the
means to self esteem which they lack.

We  can not control all forms of  knowledge.    Some
knowledge   is  essentially  reflexive  and  can  not   be
objective  knowledge.    We  can  not  be  in  control  of
reflexive knowledge.   When we accept reflexive  knowledge
which comes to us as a gift, we cannot control how it will
affect us, any more than we can control how it comes to us
as a gift.

Reflexive  knowledge includes knowledge which has to
do with how acceptance of reflexive knowledge affects  us.
We  cannot control how our knowledge affects us.   We  can
not  control  how the manner in which  we  gain  knowledge
affects  us.   We cannot control how our reflections  upon
our  reflexive  knowledge and processes pertaining  to  it
affect us.  Thus, we cannot control our science.   Part of
the   process   of  recovery  from   our   addiction   and
codependence  with  and  within  science is  to  admit  to
ourselves and others that we cannot control our science or
our scientists.

An  essential  step  in the recovery  process  is  a
process  of detachment in the sense of ceasing attempts to
be in control of that which has become a preoccupation.

We can detach from the focus of a preoccupation only
when  we recognize its disintegrative character and let go
of  the  system of ideals and values which drive  us  into
disintegrative behavior patterns.   As  unhealthy  addicts
and codependents we seek to be in control  of what  we can
not control under of the best of circumstances.
We  can  not  achieve the best of  circumstances  by
trying  to be in control of what we cannot control in  the
best of circumstances.   We must stop participating in the
collusions   which  deny  these  reflexive  truths   about
ourselves.   We must accept the truths and live within the
limitations to which they point.   We cannot transcend our
essential   limitations.     Some  things  are   eternally
impossible to us no  matter how much technical information
we know and how much we try to  be  in control through our
acquisition of more and more technical information.

     We  cannot detach from our attempts to be in  control
through  the  acquisition and management of  knowledge  so
long as we continue to focus our lives exclusively  within
communities  of  people  who are trying to be  in  control
through  the  acquisition  and  management  of   technical
information.     Part of detachment is pulling out of  the
processes  which  affirm the attached  community  and  its
efforts to be in control.
We are not likely to detach from the community which
has  been the focus of our trying to gain self  esteem  so
long as we do not know of an alternative way to enjoy self
esteem.    We  must seek alternative ways  to  enjoy  self
esteem.    Such  alternative ways open the  doors  through
which we can detach from compulsive needs to be in control
through   the  acquisition  and  management  of  technical
knowledge.

When we detach from trying to be in control  through
the  acquisition and management of technical knowledge  we
become  free to pay attention to reflexive knowledge which
comes  to us in ways which we cannot control.   We thereby
escape from the prison of objective knowledge.  We thereby
become  free  to enjoy other kinds of knowledge within  an
integrative  community  of  people,   who  enjoy  personal
integrity,  because they are secure in the knowledge  that
they  can  be  open  and  honest,   in  intimate  personal
relationships full of vulnerability, risk and trust.

                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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