• Renounce the addiction of the ego to the juice of positionalities. Source unknown

• Recovering from a single addiction can take up the majority of a lifetime. And the most common and insidious addiction is to denial, which benights us through our intellectual vanity. […]
  Even when a person intellectually knows his behavior is self-destructive, this knowledge has no necessary deterrent effect whatsoever; intellectual recognition of our addictions has never given us power to control them. Afflicted by Forces Unseen?, excerpt from Power vs. Force

• The so-called high that the drug or alcohol user experiences, however, can calibrate from 350 to 600. The actual effect of drugs is merely to suppress the lower energy fields, thereby allowing the user to exclusively experience the higher ones. It's as though a filter screened out all the lower tones coming from an orchestra so that all that could be heard were the high notes. The suppression of the low notes doesn't create the high ones; it merely reveals them.
  Within the levels of consciousness, the higher frequencies are extremely powerful, and few people routinely experience these as pure states because they're masked by lower energy fields of anxiety, fear, anger, resentment, and so on. Rarely does the average person get to experience, for instance, love without fear, or pure joy, much less ecstasy. But these higher states are so powerful that once they have been experienced, they are never forgotten, and therefore, are sought ever after.
  It is to this experience of higher states that people become addicted. The high state that people seek, by whatever means, is in fact the experience field of their own consciousness (Self). If they're spiritually unsophisticated and lack a context with which to comprehend the experience, they believe it's created by something "out there" (such as a guru, music, drugs, lovers, and so forth) – but all that has actually happened is that, under special circumstances, they have experienced what is, in reality, "in here”. The majority of people are so divorced from their own states of pure consciousness that they don't recognize them when they experience them, because they identify with their own lower ego states, or their own lowest common denominator. A negative self-image blots out the joyous brilliance that is the true essence of their identities, which therefore goes unrecognized. That this joyous, peaceful, fulfilling state is really one's own essence has been a basic tenet of every great spiritual leader (for example, ‘the kingdom of God is within you’). Power vs. Force, chapter IV

• All addictions are addictions to a higher state of consciousness. Alcohol and drugs blot out the lower frequencies so all you are feeling is the joyful happiness, loving everybody, because the lower frequencies are blocked out by the drugs. That didn't just get born after two martinis. That was there. The low rumbling noise was stopped and now you hear the birds sing. The happiness was there all the time. The high feeling is coming from your real self. You feel the radiance of your real self which is always there, but obscured by the clanging of the ego. The drugs silence the lower frequencies of the ego and allow you to experience the radiance of that which you are in Truth. Sedona Satsang Q&A, 13. September 2006

• What you are unwilling to give up are the payoffs and what holds you to that level of consciousness! Would you rather let go of chocolate or being right? We get addicted at any level of consciousness – you are already addicted to the payoff of a certain positionality. You don't have to let go of the positionality, but to the payoff and the juice of that positionality. All of these dualities yield a narcissistic gratification. […] The attraction is the payoff and the aversion is letting the juice go! Sedona Seminar Perception vs. Essence, 22. April 2006

• The experiencer is the leading edge of the ego. It's the experiencer that is addicted. The mind is absolutely silent, so if you’re looking at thought, you’re looking at the ego.The animal had to have a processing probe; is this all right to eat or not? The ego is an information processor, like an amoeba, constantly checking to see if this is okay or not. That experiencer / processor is what we think we are. Sedona Seminar Alignment, provided by Consciousnessproject.org, 16. April 2005

• You think you’re stuck with whatever – my mother-in-law, money, etc. – but that's only the linear content. It's the energy behind it that you’re addicted to. You really have only one problem; people think they’ve got this problem […] to solve, but really it's just one: you’re hooked on the juice of being right, of loss and sadness. The alcoholic isn't addicted to beer or whiskey; he’s addicted to inebriation. […]
  Forget what the matter is, just notice the energy of the payoff for the ego. Then all you have to do is to become unaddicted to that energy. The ego cannot transcend itself. Only the spiritual will [LoC 850] can do that. Sedona Seminar Alignment, provided by Consciousnessproject.org, 16. April 2005

• 12 step groups are the most uplifting to the collective because they follow the principles of simplicity, honesty, one day at a time, and a caringness towards others. Sedona Seminar Practical Spirituality, 25. October 2008

Personal Questions on addiction

• Question: Can the 12 steps take you the whole way?
  Answer: Yes. 12 steps will take you the whole way. Spiritual inventory, meditation, asking God's will for you, surrendering to God's will at great depth, completely surrendering one's will to God is all that's required to reach enlightenment. Sedona Satsang, 9. July 2008

• Question:  My wife went into AA rehabilitation and left, failed, went back again. I used kinesiology to determine the cause of that failure. Am I morally obligated to do anything with the truth I found out about her through kinesiology?
  Answer: No. I doubt it would be of benefit to her to make it available to her. [Tested as true.]  To hear it from an external source – an interpretation made outside of the therapeutic relationship is always taken as an attack. Sedona Seminar The Miraculous, 9. December 2006

• Question: How do I best care for my alcoholic sister?
  Answer: You surrender her/it to God and let go of wanting to control it. Trying to intervene keeps someone in pain and robs them of karmic merit. […] If you intervene, you’re robbing her of karmic merit and of what she needs to know. She’s going to need to hit bottom, whether she knows it or not. Intervening actually increases her suffering, because every time you try to help, you change where she has to go to hit bottom; now she has to go even lower. Do you love her enough to surrender her to God? If she says, "I hate you, you’re deserting me, I’m going to kill myself," you say, "Well, that’s between you and God." You need the conviction, the first step in Al Anon. Otherwise, you’re serving your own ego if you say, I've got to go in there and intervene. Sedona Seminar Emotions and Sensations, 17. April 2004

• From a medical viewpoint, true addiction is denoted by withdrawal symptoms. Psychological addiction, such as dependence on marijuana, lacks physical withdrawal symptoms. […]
  Psychologically, the addictions fall into two somewhat different classes – those of the sedatives, such as alcohol, heroin, barbiturates, and tranquilizers – and those that are excitatory, such as amphetamines and cocaine. The sedative disorders have only been recoverable since the advent of Alcoholics Anonymous Truth vs Falsehood, S. 185-186

• Complexity is a perception of the ego/mind. One sharp knife can cut through hundreds of different objects; there is only the necessity of one simple action. Analogously, there is only one simple key concept necessary to disengage from all the ego's encumbrances. It has only one addiction, which is to subjective pleasure/gain. That is the secret payoff of all desires, projected values, and attractions. This is exaggerated by projected value or specialness. There is only one gain, and this same gain is merely superimposed on everything that is desired and therefore attracts attachment. The pleasure is associated with derived happiness. Thus, the ego has only one goal. That discernment enables escape from all attractions. This solitary motive is merely projected onto multiple diverse objects, persons, or qualities. Discovery of the Presence of God, S. 119-120

• Recovery from any disease process is dependent on willingness to explore new ways of looking at one's self and life, which includes the capacity to endure inner fears when belief systems are shaken. Power vs. Force, S. ?