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 %STATIC REVELATION TRUTH KNOWLEDGE ADDICT CREATIVE 900516

     The   addictive  personality  seeks  security  within
controlled fixed contexts which do not entail the  threats
which change brings.   Change brings threats.   The addict
seeks to minimize threats by minimizing change, especially
change which the addict cannot control.

     The  addictive  personality  seeks  security  in  the
absence of vulnerability;  believing that being in control
can   reduce  vulnerability.    This  attitude  leads   to
defensive  measures  which seek to  minimize  change,  and
to minimize any creativity which might occasion change.

     In  reality  authentic security is the freedom to  be
vulnerable while at the same time a member of an accepting
and supportive community of people who enjoy both personal
and  communal integrity.   The possibility of this kind of
security is beyond the vision of the addict, so the addict
seeks security in static control.

     The addictive   personality  is  involved  in    many
collusive  games of mutual self deception which entail the
fear of,  and repression of; truth, knowledge,  awareness,
sensitivity,  responsiveness,  revelation, exposure,  etc.
The addict seeks to control truth, knowledge,   awareness,
sensitivity,    responsiveness,   and revelation.  Each of
these  must be manipulated to protect the collusive  games
of mutual self deception.  The protection of such games is
facilitated  by maintaining an apparently static  set   of
rules  and  conditions   which  appear  to  be  internally
consistent  and  which  minimize  the  threat  of   change
generated by external reality.

     To maintain their apparently static image of  reality
addicts   must   minimize  their  interactions  with   the
external   world of dynamic processes over which they have
no  control.   They become  cut  off from reality so  that
they  can   live   more  comfortably  in  their  world  of
pretense.   The  revelation of new truths  through  honest
sensitivity  to their  own  and others'  experiences  is a
terrifying  threat  to   the addictive personality.   Such
revelations must be avoided and/or repressed.

     These considerations are relevant within most  highly
respected professions, churches,  educational institutions
and political organizations.   They pertain to many of the
activities  of the addictive organizations which  dominate
much of life within any technocratic society which becomes
an addict in most of its collective attitudes and behavior
patterns.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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