Liberation from Addiction

At the heart of what we call addiction is this fundamental misperception: You, as the very source of life itself, have somehow mysteriously created an illusion of separation – of me-ness – and otherness. In other words, most everyone suffers an underlying condition – feeling and believing he or she is separate from the whole of existence, from god, from the cosmos. We could say that the root of all suffering is due to that internally divisive misunderstanding and misidentification we hold of ourselves. 

Human Conscious has evolved in many spectacular ways; too many to count, actually! This is Good News! We are learning we can consciously choose to participate in our own evolution OR continue living unconsciously in self defeating ways from a place of illusory unworthiness, fear, separation; trying to control everything by making the impermanence of experience, permanent.

What we are discovering in reality is that everything is constantly changing and evolving, and perhaps, regenerating unto something more in line with peaceful coexistence. AND, on the plane of Human Existence, we struggle with allowing the natural process of biological, psychological, and spiritual evolution to effortlessly unfold; by becoming lost in our untrue collective stories, internal narratives, and imaginary projections. That is to say this: we resist change and inner transformation by holding tightly to the identities we believe ourselves to be; those self images and self concepts which are no longer helping but hindering life’s inevitable plight – Self Realization beyond the Illusion of Suffering.

The above is basically an invitation toward opening our hearts and minds to a few new possibilities regarding recovering from addiction: One, welcoming the evolution of ALL Twelve Step Programs from the Classic Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous to something more accurate and fulfilling; and or Two, opening unto an entirely new paradigm of Addiction Recovery beyond the dogma of divisive religious concepts, dualistic spirituality, and religion based recovery.