| ADDICTIONS AND SPIRITUALITY |
| ADDICTIONS AND SPIRITUALITY By Janine Rodiles The search for spiritual experience, the longing for God and the desire for transcendence, is the driving force behind all human addiction: alcoholism, compulsive sexual disorder, bulimia, gambling, internet, workaholism, and so forth. Beneath all these behaviors, underlies the desire of the human being to be completely fulfilled and to escape this temporal dimension. Janine Rodiles poses this hypothesis and argues that addicts seek to find the source of wisdom, ultimate reality, by wrong (not evil) methods, because they do not know the proper channels of true mystical experience that involve the configuration of an existential identity. The author explores the compulsive and destructive behaviors of human beings in the context by the denial of love, and the rejection of pain. Rodiles poses that our society wants to eradicate love and pain and create a fantastical new reality that encourages the use of drugs. The way for society to deal with addiction is found in the will of the addict to regain his or her freedom, and moreover, a battle of the mind to overcome this internal slavery. Janine Rodiles suggests that healing takes place through love and commitment, through a true spiritual conversion which reveals that the very core of health resides in discovering the meaning of existence. Rodiles calls for society to respond decisively and with compassionate action to this great crisis of our time. |
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