Part II

If we are to heal, then to face the problem head-on is the quickest way forward. It is time to change our beliefs so that we can progress. If one wants to move forward, yet is lost for failure to suitably interpret correct direction, then to advance is only a circle that will lead right back to the start point.

The core problem in living by false beliefs is that if you’re heading the wrong direction, you won’t know it until you end up where you did not intend to be. There is no need to drive a car in reverse going backwards ninety miles per hour in the wrong lane. It’s time to get on the right road, with the right map, with the necessary driving skills, with the same destination in mind, and with the same co-pilot to guide us through the minefields of change.

I shall now focus on the belief system of an addict, for after all this is where the difficulty begins. What makes him tick? What goes through the mind of an addict before he uses? Why is there such an easy break-down in the same kind of self defense that keeps one from putting his face in a fan… or bare foot on a red-hot coal? After such extremes to achieve a high, why do addicts always search for unproblematic ways out of the consequence of such behavior? All the thrills with none of the cost… what a great achievement in wishful thinking!

I have developed majestic creations of philosophic reflection that seek to answer these and other riddles once and for all (so stay tuned). But as stated initially, the problem starts with BELIEF. There is a Spirit governing the universe who gives us inside information to His purposes, which appears in each of us as a Moral Law urging us to do right and making it painful when we do wrong. Mere common sense tells us that we operate lives in opposition to this Moral Law, and covering up or medicating the painful and otherwise motivating feelings of guilt and shame is no cure to this troublesome reality. For this is our starting point: what do we believe?