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This is http://www.essayz.com/a9005162.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.} ========================================================== %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) ==========================================================