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THE GREEN ROOM LECTURES 
                    Never forget (or always be aware) addiction and recovery therefrom are incredibly complicated.  

Several things are evident:
  • Personal responsibility and insightful awareness about addictions in this culture is minimal to the point of negligence. This is partly due to (a) the developing and ignored ineffectiveness of the Alcoholics Anonymous original literature, its unexamined cognitive dissonance, its psychological immaturity, and its prejudicial Christian bias, (b) the ignored drastic shift in society regarding alternatives to the God-forgiveness model (meaning atheism), (c) the social and political persecution of some addicts and the imposition of cultural shame, and (d), the related inability of agencies or professionals to stay abreast of these ever-increasing failings and adopting newer and more successful alternatives. Culture is stubborn and bureaucracies change very slowly. 
  • Necessary adult education in the areas of gender equality, sexuality, racism, health, political bullying, energy healing, trauma, personal responsibility, and most especially addiction, is sadly lacking. This is now developing into a too-righteous, militant liberal-leftist demand to impose the politics of affirmative action. This defeats addiction recovery.
  • Prior to 1970 the focus was primarily alcohol and drugs. The face of addiction has rapidly changed. After 2000 there has been an incredible array of addiction concerns that are now obvious. They are incredibly complex and unaddressed. Integrated addictions and poly-addictions, socially approved addictions and  substitution scams, repetitive inadequacy as a part of culture, abstinence available and abstinence not-available addiction, the historical cruelty of harm reduction, cognitive dissonance as a social norm, celebrity worship, intellectual addictions, the demonizing of drug addicts, a culture-wide social instability, and a deeply entrenched personal sense of loneliness and unimportance. All of these operate with the unexamined collusion of society—the backdrop of avoidance, segregation, and righteous blame. There is the unexamined endorsement and contribution of business, politics, religion, and culture. 
  • The awareness of most adults as to their participation and responsibility is minimal. There has not been a supporting shift of knowledge made available by treatment or educational agencies, who themselves are bureaucracies and defensive. Everyone is involved in the catastrophe but no one is responsible.
  • There is a rapidly changing cultural view of religion and the people who promote God beliefs and a drastic increase in the irreligious: humanists, agnostics, and atheists. There is also a growing segment of the religious members of society that declare they are Christians and don't believe in God. The Addiction Recovery Handbook​ explains the basics of this phenomenon. 
  • Responsible adult-addiction education and drastically modified treatment interventions can address much of this abysmal situation. ​The importance of compassion in addiction recovery, very personalized interventions, knowledge, and self-applied energy work is now required.

The Green Room Lectures, therapy, and discussion forums are designed to stand against the emotional and addiction problems we face in this era of modern culture. It is a devastating and pernicious epidemic. It can't be made any simpler than that. The presentations are designed to bring awareness to adults and to suggest alternatives that are presently hidden by ignorance, not ignorance in an insulting way, but ignorance as a lack of insight regarding all of this. 
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