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   %NATURE REALITY COLLUSION ADDICTION CODEPENDENCY 910514

     It  is important to have a clear sense of the way  in
which collusions, addictions and codependencies are "real"
and  "do"   things  to their participant  victims.    Such
diseases are not independent of their participant victims;
yet  the participant victims are certainly not in  control
of   the  diseases.    There  are  senses  in  which   the
participant victims are controlled by their diseases,  but
just what are the diseases?

     Collusions,    addictions  and   codependencies   are
extended  patterns  of thoughts,   behaviors,   attitudes,
values and ideals which are embodied in their  participant
victims   and   tragically  misguide  the  behaviors   and
perceptions  of their participant victims.    The patterns
have   a  coherence  which  works    to   perpetuate   the
patterns   in   spite   of    the  individual  efforts  of
participant victims.

     We  as   victims  in  collusions,    addictions   and
codependencies  need  to become aware of  the  possibility
that we are victims of patterns in which we as individuals
participate, without awareness of our participation in the
patterns.   We are victims because of our ignorance of how
we    participate   in  patterns  which  transcend  us  as
individuals.  The patterns perpetuate our ignorance of how
we  participate  in  the patterns,   and that  is  what is
coherent about the patterns;   the way in which we who are
trapped   in  the disintegrative patterns of behavior keep
ourselves   in  ignorance of the  disintegrative  patterns
which transcend us.

     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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