--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "Rory Goff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > Rory: > > > > If I entertain addictions to adulation, flirtation, and so on, > > > > as a substitute for genuine intimacy and appreciation of > > > > Self/Other/Self, those will indeed be "wrong" or "demonic" -- > > > > i.e., diseased, based around pain, an attempt to mask or > > > > compensate for primal fear, guilt and shame :-) > > See, this is what I meant by judgmental: Why can't > adulation, flirtation, etc., be enjoyed in and of > themselves without being addictions or substitutes?
Oh, sure, I suppose they theoretically could; anything's possible. I was speaking of them as addictive patterns used to mask heavier feelings of not-good because that is how I have used them in the past and that's what I am currently interested in: personal transformation and alchemy. I have found that the desire to flirt and receive adulation generally (maybe always) stemmed from a "not- OK" (addicted) place inside; your mileage may vary :-) > That's how *I* took the showing-off image I was > entertaining. You seem to have taken it quite > differently. Yes, I confess I sometimes (generally?) use your posts as stimuli to continue to explore issues I am most interested in in this moment. As mentioned, my purpose for being here is to understand myself better. You sometimes "show" me heavinesses or densities in my field- awareness which I can then dissolve into greater understanding and bliss. It's fun! But of course I speak only of me; what effect if any I may appear to have on "you" (whatever that may be, apart from me) is not really my business :-) ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
