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This is http://www.essayz.com/a8810201.htm Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay Click HERE on this line to find essays via Your-Key-Words. {Most frequent wordstarts of each essay will be put here.} ========================================================== %LETTING YOURSELF GO BE DO RISK PARADIGM SHOULD DO 881020 When an addict <---> codependent <---> colluder finally recognizes and discovers that the dominant paradigm is not working it becomes possible to understand the meaning of letting yourself go, letting yourself be, letting your self do, letting yourself risk is all about: through a revolutionary (conversion, redemptive, salvation) paradigm shift. The addict tries to go, be, do what others have taught to expected. The direction is external to the addict according to expectations, discipline, teaching, law, rules, legalists, moralists, etc. The addict cannot let go of that conviction until there is an acceptance of a revelation that the conviction is misleading. The revelation is not complete until it is accepted. It appears ultimately risky to accept the revelation; because of the rules of the collusive games of mutual self deception. Letting go is letting go of the rules of the games of mutual self deception, and beginning to reflexively be and do and risk what is essential to both personal and communal integrity. Letting go becomes possible when it becomes apparent that the rules of the games of mutual self deception are deadly rules, rules which lead to death through disintegration. Letting God be God in Her role is part of letting go. The legalistic, moralistic, ethical addict is too busy trying to play God's role to let Her be God. When people try to play God's role of knowing what is good and evil, good and bad, proper and improper the result is that all the actors become confused about who is good and evil, good and bad, proper and improper; and integrity disintegrates as dialogue disintegrates. The confusion is compounded when people who are trying to play the role of God try to straighten each other out according to clear convictions regarding their knowledge of what is good and evil, good and bad, proper and improper. The drama is a tragic drama of disintegration through rejection and excommunication. Often the actors do not understand the meaning of their drama. They play their parts without reflexive understanding. They try to be objective about their parts in the drama, and so do not reflexively understand the personal reflexive meaning of their parts. The tragedy is that the personal reflexive meaning of the drama can be clear to those who become willing to reflect upon it in quiet moments of prayer and meditation. It is not clear to those who are compulsively concerned about whether people are playing their roles properly. It is not clear to those who are compulsively concerned with the knowledge of objective truth and goodness. The fruit of that tree is disintegrative and so is rotten. Eating of that fruit is sickening because it leads to addiction, codependence and collusive games of mutual self deception. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================