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   %BEING RESPONSIBLE TRUE SELF INTEGRITY COLLUSION 910615

     We  cannot fulfill our responsibility to be our  true
unique selves with personal and communal integrity so long
as   we  are  victims of unrecognized  and  unacknowledged
collusions, addictions and codependencies.

     First  we  must recognize,   acknowledge and begin to
deal   honesty  with  the  collusions,    addictions   and
codependencies  with   which  we and others victimize  our
selves.     In   the absence of such honesty we  lose  all
else.

     Virtually    no    people    are  immune    to    the
disintegrative  processes of addictions,   co-dependencies
and  collusions.  To  pretend that we are immune is a sign
of  self  deception and so a sign of participation in  the
dishonesty.   Even if we are not active participants,   we
are  inevitably  to some extent  the  victims   of   other
people's   participations.  Honesty demands a  recognition
and  acknowledgment of how we are   victimized   by  other
people's   participation   in addictions,   codependencies
and collusions through:

     1.  Deaths on the highway due to alcohol abuse.

     2.  Crimes committed to get money to get fixed.

     3.  Broken homes due to addiction/co-dependency.

     4.  Lost work-hours due to addictions and fixes.

     5.  Dysfunctional management due to addictions.

     6.  Dishonesty in price fixing of all kinds.

     7.  Misleading spiritual leadership by addicts.

     8.  Misleading teaching by addictive scholars.

     9.  Disintegration of sexual relationships.

    10.  Increased insurance costs due to all above.

     It  is  dishonest  for anyone to  pretend  that  they
are unaffected by the above.  People who pretend that they
are   immune   are  participants  in  the  dishonesty   of
addictions, codependencies and collusions.

     More subtle are the costs to us in our not being free
to  be  our    true   unique   selves   because   of   the
addictions,   codependencies and collusions which form the
matrix  of  our  lives.    So long as we are  embedded  in
dishonest  coercive expectations,  demands,  anticipations
and  taboos,  we cannot fulfill  our responsibility to  be
our true unique  selves; for we are too busy conforming in
dishonest ways.

     When  we are busy conforming ourselves  in  dishonest
ways  we lose  touch with our true:   selves,    emotions,
insights,  desires,   fears, visions, dreams, hopes,   and
aspirations.  When we are so dishonestly out of touch,  we
cannot  be well informed  and cannot make wise  decisions.
We  cannot  learn from  mistakes made because  we  do  not
allow  our  selves  to recognize the consequences  of  the
decisions  and  actions  in  which  we  participate.   Our
processes  of  conformation demand that  our  perceptions,
seeing,   hearing and understandings correspond   to   the
coercive    expectations,     demands,  anticipations  and
taboos which are beyond  our  control,  because   we   all
cooperate   unconsciously  in   tacitly supporting them as
colluders.

     We  cannot fulfill our responsibility to be our  true
unique  selves   with personal and communal  integrity  so
long as we are victims of unrecognized and  unacknowledged
collusions, addictions and codependencies.

     First  we must recognize,   acknowledge and begin  to
deal  honestly    with   the   collusions,      addictions
and codependencies;    with which we and others  victimize
our  selves.  In the absence of such honesty we  lose  all
else.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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