For much of human history, we have always been curious in exploring what's outside of us, from the deepest point of the ocean to the farthest darkest hollows of black holes. We are continuously defining everything that surrounds us, with the hope that those things, in turn, will define us back "who we are"? But as the cliche goes "what we are seeking outside of us lies inside of us" peering into a human psyche is actually understanding the universe. We are made up of the same cosmos that enliven this universe. We are a mystery, strange, astonishing and most of all a bit weird and nothing vouch more for our weirdness than our addictive nature. Being staunchly dependent on external remedies to temporarily heal the wounds of our soul even when it maims our body. So why do we do this? Why do we crave for such temporary pleasures and relief at the cost of our physical health? Why do we take every single snort or toke thinking it to be the last but it never really is? You know why because that temporary pleasures, those fleeting reliefs are an attempt to fill the hollows of our life. So-called the very last puffs let's just escape and forget the pain that has been inflicted on us from the day we were conceived.
There shouldn't be any surprise why almost every drug addict carries the bitter childhood memories of pain upon pain - beating, humiliation, rejection, abandonment, character assassination. Addiction is a human problem which resides in people. It's always about numbing the pain. Dr. Gaber Mate in his book "In the realm of Hungry Ghosts" says "ask not why the addiction but why the pain" and this pain is not exclusive to just drug addicts. It's in all of us not to the same intensity but we all have it.
Beings cut from the umbilical cord that connected us to the divine being - our mother, being torn away from the womb, the holiest safest place and brought in this harsh world is like a primary trauma that we all have gone through. Perhaps our belly button is nothing but a scar of that wound. Let's admit that we all have our own external remedies to quell that pain of primary trauma. Watching television excessively, excessive shopping, sex, being a workaholic or going on movie binge or going on eating binge are all addictions that fill those gloomy hollows of our life. Addiction of relationship. There's a line in the book "Eat Pray Love" it says "addiction is the hallmark of every infatuation based love story." Addiction to power, addiction to consumerism, addiction of oil, even religion is the kind of addiction that promises salvation and freedom. And for the record addiction of power, consumerism, and oil have caused us more harm than any other addiction in the history of mankind period.
Recommended Book "In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts"
Beings cut from the umbilical cord that connected us to the divine being - our mother, being torn away from the womb, the holiest safest place and brought in this harsh world is like a primary trauma that we all have gone through. Perhaps our belly button is nothing but a scar of that wound. Let's admit that we all have our own external remedies to quell that pain of primary trauma. Watching television excessively, excessive shopping, sex, being a workaholic or going on movie binge or going on eating binge are all addictions that fill those gloomy hollows of our life. Addiction of relationship. There's a line in the book "Eat Pray Love" it says "addiction is the hallmark of every infatuation based love story." Addiction to power, addiction to consumerism, addiction of oil, even religion is the kind of addiction that promises salvation and freedom. And for the record addiction of power, consumerism, and oil have caused us more harm than any other addiction in the history of mankind period.
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