A Profound Cluelessness

Suddenly I realized there are at least FIVE qualities that tend to be shared by people who manifest addictive behaviors. There are the three I listed in The First Principle and at least more which I list below as numbers four and five:



1. a powerful store of resentments,

2. a powerful store of anger and fear,
3. 
and a withering ability to suck all of the habitable atmosphere out of a room into the black hole of our own self-absorption.
4. A profound cluelessness regarding our own true motivations and inner dialog (self-talk); a blind spot with regard to some of our own Core Beliefs.
5. A highly developed ability to rationalize (create a cloud of self-deceptive bullshit) to justify our attitudes and actions.