Addiction is a byproduct of an underlying spiritual malady.
Treating the specific bio-chemical elements or the side-effects of addiction is useless. Mainstream treatment is a band-aid. You are just biding time, waiting to relapse.
Or you could become recovered for good.
Treat the spiritual malady and you treat the addiction. Trust in the Power of God and take actions that expand His presence within you. If you rely on someone or someone’s science project to get you better, you will end up fooling yourself all over again. Mainstream treatment is just as much of a false solution as addiction itself.
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How sad it is that we spend time, energy and billions peddling false solutions to addicts, spouses, and especially parents… when all it would take is for, as Jung says, one “vital spiritual experience” to occur. Because of the failure of medicine and science to do anything for addicts, we are relegated to such dismal, dreary and hopeless language like “recovering”, “always in recovery”, “relapse is part of recovery”, and on and on. We are considered to be standing on the edge of a cliff for the rest of our lives… and all we can do is try to ward off triggers and prevent relapse with trigger identification and relapse prevention. These lies are sold to you for profit, for if you were to actually recover, the industry vultures and puppets wouldn’t be able to prey on you anymore. So it’s true that you will always be “in recovery” if you rely on doctors and pharmaceutical companies to help you.
The health care system will never fix a single addict. Ever. Their belief system cripples them. The only thing they know is to treat symptoms of addiction, and in doing so, they leave every addict struggling and subject to relapse at any point. No matter how much money and medical hubris they throw at addiction, they will always fail. How obvious yet wasted the truth is, as it will never be accepted by the status quo.
The government and the health care system will never allow the wisdom and the tools of recovered addicts to influence mainstream treatment. They will never listen to fellow masters of addiction. They are too blind and arrogant. They think they know everything. The more they reject spiritual action and God as a solution, the more parents will lose their children, the more spouses will be heartbroken, and the more our world will caste an entire population as a bunch of useless, unproductive zombies who are kept numbed and dumbed down by the dishonesty of the status quo and the slavery of subuxone, methadone, seroquel, etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc.
If they let me at it, I would entirely change the way we view and understand addiction as well as the way we treat it, but that will never happen.
God, please help us to see past the fog and distraction of academia to understand the true nature of addiction…