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   %IDOL COLLUDE ADDICT CODEPEND IMAGE VISION DREAM 910514

     Addictions,   codependency  and  collusions  work  to
preserve  themselves  at all costs;  they call upon  their
victims to worship them as their God.

     According to the rules and regulations of addictions,
codependencies,   and  collusions; there are  some images,
dreams,   visions,  ideas,  thoughts that are so bad  that
under  no circumstance is a person who engages them is  to
be  regarded as acceptable;   not even for the purpose  of
checking  to  see  if  entertaining  them would    promote
personal    and  communal  integrity.  The   unquestioning
acceptance  of  such  tacit  rules  is essential  to   the
survival of addictions, codependencies and collusions.

     To   transcend   addictions,    codependencies    and
collusions we must recognize that it is imperative that we
be free to check  any  and  every  rule  and   regulation,
to   see if respecting  the  use  of each rule is   likely
to   promote personal   and communal integrity.    Such  a
recognition  is essential to us being  able   to  consider
and   recognize  the  tacit    rules     of    addictions,
codependencies     and   collusions    as    having    the
disintegrative   consequences which they do have.     Such
a   recognition  would  undermine  the   power   of    the
idolatry    and   so   the   rules  and  regulations    of
the   idolatry,     absolutely   forbid consideration   of
anything   which   might   prompt     the  recognition  of
their disintegrative consequences.

     For collusions,   addictions  and  codependencies  to
defend  themselves  and  survive, they must  undermine any
conception   of the possibility of salvation,  redemption,
forgiveness,   reconciliation.    They must undermine  the
conception   of  the possibility of personal and  communal
integrity---to  survive.   They cannot survive  by overtly
undermining such conceptions,  so they do so by perverting
such conceptions through tacit transformations which  make
of   such  treats  to  survival  into  other things  which
are   no threat  to dishonesty;  for example  by  focusing
attention upon  manipulative techniques as being essential
to  all that is of value.

     See next  essays for further consideration  of  these
issues.

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