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Scham und negative Emotionen als Suchtauslöser

Die Wurzeln von Süchten aller Art sind negative Emotionen und Scham.

Ein drogeninduziertes Hochgefühl kann von BW 350 bis 600 variieren. Es überdeckt die beschwerenden Notstandsgefühle und gewährt Einblick in das, was sein kann und in Wirklichkeit immer schon ist.

Hawkins ist ein über den Bewusstseinssprung in die Erleuchtung genesener ehemaliger Alkoholiker, der
als Psychiater beruflich über fünfzig Jahre mit seelisch Gebeutelten und Süchtigen zu tun hatte.

Definitionen von Sucht

Sucht ist

Machtlosigkeit
Bindungsunfähigkeit
UNFERTIG

Die Musen Clio, Euterpe und Thalia
Eustache Le Sueur, französischer Maler

Siehe auch: ► Wunder und Sucht

Selbsthilfegruppen und das Zwölf-Schritte-Programm

Sinngemäß und in abgewandelter Form lauten die 12 Wandlungsstufen des Zwölf-Schritte-Programms (orientiert an de.Wikipedia, Stand Januar 2007) innerhalb einer sich regelmäßig treffenden Selbsthilfegruppe zur Heilung von Sucht-
krankheiten so:

Sich selbst eingestehen, dass man in Bezug auf das eigene Problem machtlos ist und sein Leben generell nicht mehr meistern kann. Es kann sich dabei beispielsweise um Alkohosucht, sonstige Drogensucht, Sexsucht, Gefühlsnöte usw. handeln [je nach dem Anliegen der Gruppe].
Zu dem Glauben kommen, dass nur eine Macht, die umfassender ist als man selbst, die eigene psychische Gesundheit wiederherstellen kann.
Den Entschluss fassen, seinen Eigenwillen und sein Leben der Fürsorge Gottes, so wie ihn der Einzelne für sich ver-
steht, anzuvertrauen.
Eine gründliche und furchtlose Bestandsaufnahme seiner selbst machen.
Vor Gott, sich selbst und vor einem anderen Menschen die eigenen Fehler eingestehen.
Bereitschaft zeigen, 'Charakterfehler' von Gott beseitigen zu lassen.
Demütig darum bitten, dass Gott sämtliche persönlichen Fehler beseitigt.
Eine Auflistung aller Personen machen, denen man Schaden zugefügt hat, und die Bereitschaft / den Willen zur Wiedergutmachung aufbieten.
Wo immer möglich, diese Menschen entschädigen, außer, wenn sie oder andere dadurch verletzt werden.
Die innere Inventur fortsetzen und die Dinge eingestehen, die man gedanklich ins Unrecht setzt, wo man unrichtig gehandelt hat.
Durch Gebet und Besinnung eine nachhaltige bewusste Beziehung zu Gott, wie man ihn versteht, aufbauen und vertiefen und um nichts als die Erkenntnis bitten, Gottes Willen zu erfassen und die Kraft zu erhalten, ihn umzusetzen.
Nach der inzwischen erlebten spirituellen Erweckung (Durchbruchserlebnis oder allmähliche Wandlung) sich dafür engagieren, diese Botschaft an Mitbetroffene weiterzugeben und seinen Alltag nach den spirituellen Grundsätzen des 12-Schritte-Programms auszurichten.

BW-Werte – Suchtauflösung (Übersicht) – D. Hawkins

Süchte und Suchtauflösung

BW-Wert	Suchtbezogenes Thema	Beschreibung
80-100	Die meisten Drogen	Einige Drogen liegen unter diesem BW-Wert.
150	Antidrogen-Programm der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika	Wirkungsloses Programm, das Zeit, Ressourcen und Geld verschwendet
300-600	Drogeninduzierte Gipfelerlebnisse	High-Zustände
350	Erforderliches Bewusstseinsniveau, um den Prozess der Suchtheilung einzuleiten
540 575	Selbsthilfegruppen von Suchtbekennern mit 12-Schritte-Programmen Bekannteste SH-Gruppe Anonyme Alkoholiker	Dieses Programm bietet den einzigen tiefgreifenden Ansatz zur Suchtheilung, den Hawkins aktuell kennt und empfiehlt. Es heilt das Gruppenfeld. Wer sich vorzeitig entzieht, kann einen Rückfall in Suchtverhalten erleben.
560+	Gruppenleiter von AA-Selbsthilfegruppen	Durchschnittlicher BW der Säulen eines heilsamen Gruppenfeldes
550-600	Ein Kurs in Wundern	EKiW ist ein eigenständig oder in Gruppen durchzuführender bewusstseinserweiternder Kurs in Buchform.

Gelassenheitsgebet

Gott, gib' mir die (Gnade und Demut und) Gelassenheit,
Dinge hinzunehmen, die ich nicht ändern kann,
den Mut, Dinge zu ändern, die ich ändern kann,
und die Weisheit, das eine vom anderen zu unterscheiden.

Standard-Gebet bei den Treffen der Anonymen Alkoholiker, 12-Schritte-Selbsthilfegruppen, Gebet von Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971) US-amerikanischer Theologe, Philosoph, Politologe, (irrtümlich auch Friedrich Christoph Oetinger, Prälat, Theosoph, zugesprochen), entstanden vermutlich 1941/42
zitiert in: Gelassenheitsgebet

See also: ► Serenity prayer

Radikale Wahrheitsübung – D. Hawkins

In seinen Seminaren zum Thema Sucht, Schmerz und Sexualität erläuterte David Hawkins die
radikale Wahrheitsübung als generelle Abhilfe bei Suchtverhalten, Krankheit und Schmerzen.

Vier Schritte zur Loslösung

༺༻	Empfehlung
1.	Höre auf, über deine Empfindungen (Drang) zu grübeln (mentieren) und sie mit Namen (Geschichte, Diagnose, Urteilen) zu versehen.
2.	Leiste deinen Empfindungen keinen Widerstand mehr. Erlaube ihnen, über ihren angestammten Platz hinauszuwachsen und sich in deiner Aura zu auszubreiten.
3.	Übe dich in der Haltung "Mögen noch mehr dieser Empfindungen auftauchen."
4.	Nimm sie ganz an und erlaube ihnen, sich im Prozess der Übergabe vollständig aufzulösen.

Die vier Schritte zur Loslösung von Notstandsgefühlen¹ im nichtintegeren Bereich lassen sich beispielsweise anwenden bei

Sexueller Begierde, Hungergefühlen oder Verlangen sonstiger Art, bei aufkommden Krankheiten und Schmerzen (wie bspw. auch bei Operationen ohne Narkose)
Schuld- und Schamgefühlen und Angst wegen des Verlangens,
Stolz, nachdem man seiner Begierde nachgegeben hat und kurzfristige Befriedigung dadurch spürte und
bei sonstigen illusionären Gefühlszuständen.

Wer loslässt, wächst über seine wollüstigen Begierden und Gefühle der Scham, Schuld, Angst, Wut und des Stolzes hinaus und erreicht einen gelassenen, nicht verhafteten Zustand, in dem er gleichermaßen in Frieden ist, ob nun das Verlangen vorhanden ist oder nicht, ob es auftaucht oder verschwindet. Der Gelöste betrachtet sein Verlangen aus der Haltung der Harmlosigkeit und weiß, wann es angemessen ist und wie es angemessen zu befriedigen ist.

Um eine Bewusstseinsstufe hinter sich lassen zu können,
muss man sie sich in Gänze zu eigen gemacht haben.

Beschleunigen: Die Haltung, dass die anstehenden Schatten-Empfindungen noch stärker auftauchen mögen, ist eine be-
schleunigte Form, '100 Prozent Verantwortung zu übernehmen' für das, was da ist. Man anerkennt seine Empfindungen voll-
ständig und führt sie nicht (mehr) aus. Die Vorstellung, dass das Verlangen endlos sei, gibt man ebenfalls auf.
Es stellt sich heraus, dass es im Prozess der Hingabe austrocknet und irgendwann einfach aufhört.

Quellen (engl.): D. Hawkins, Videovorträge der Office Visit Serie, aufgenommen 1986:
► B-1 Drug Addiction and Alcoholism und ► A-8 Pain and Suffering und ► A-4 Sexuality

Siehe auch : ► Krankheit und ► Emotionen und ► Schmerz und ► Sexualität und ► Spirituelle Übungen

Statistik zum Thema Internet-Pornographie

Sexsucht ist führend im Internet.
Es gibt 400 Millionen pornografische Webseiten, täglich kommen 300 weitere dazu.
89% der Pornografie-Webseiten stammen aus den Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika [Platz 1], 4% aus Deutschland [Platz 2].
Mit Online-Pornofilmen wurden weltweit mehr als eine Milliarde US-Dollar verdient. [Stand 2009]
43 Prozent aller Internet-User schauen sich online Pornofilmen an.
72% Männer und 28% Frauen (Tendenz steigend) rufen pro Sekunde etwa 30.000 Porno-Streams ab.
35% des Internet-Datenverkehrs ist pornografischen Ursprungs.
Ein Viertel aller Google-Suchanfragen dreht sich um Pornografie.
Nur 3% der Sex-Seiten verlangen eine Altersangabe des Nutzers.
'Sex' und 'Porn' zählen zu den fünf meistgefragtesten Suchbegriffen bei Kindern unter 18 Jahren.

Quelle: ► Artikel Zehn Fakten über Web-Pornos, präsentiert von der deutschen Bild-Zeitung, 15. Januar 2010

Referenz: ► Online Education

Siehe auch: ► Statistik

Zitate zum Thema Sucht / Addiction

Zitate von D. Hawkins

⚠ Achtung Siehe Power vs. Truth (engl.) Januar 2013

Von einer einzigen Sucht zu genesen, kann den Großteil einer Lebensspanne beanspruchen. Die verbreitetste und heimtückischste Sucht ist die Verleugnung, die den Blick durch unsere intellektuelle Eitelkeit trübt. […]
Auch wenn ein Mensch vernünftigerweise einsieht, dass er sich selbstzerstörerisch verhält, hat diese Erkenntnis nicht die geringste unerlässlich abschreckende Wirkung. Seine Süchte verstandesmäßig anzuerkennen, hat uns in keinem Fall die Macht verliehen, sie im Zaum zu halten. FU Power vs. Force. The Hidden Determinants of Human Behavior, Kapitel 24 "Resolution" [Ratschluss], S. 289, Hay House, February 2002

Amanita muscaria, Marriott Falls Track
Tasmania, Australia, 12. April 2009

Das Erleben eines langanhaltenden höheren [Bewusstseins]Zu-
standes kann "regulär" nur durch ein Leben hingebungsvoller innerer Arbeit erreicht werden; es kann jedoch vorübergehend auch durch künstliche Mittel erreicht werden. Aber das Gleich-
gewicht in der Natur führt dazu, dass das manipulierte Erreichen dieses Zustandes ohne eigenes Verdienst eine Schuld erzeugt und dass dieses negative Ungleichgewicht abträgliche Folgen nach sich zieht. Der Preis solch' eines gestohlenen Vergnügens ist die Ver-
zweiflung der Sucht, und schließlich zahlen sowohl der Süchtige
als auch die Gesellschaft dafür.
OU Die Ebenen des Bewusstseins, Kapitel VI, S. 98, 2005

Das so genannte Hochgefühl, das der Drogen- oder Alkoholgenie-
ßer erlebt, kann allerdings einen messbaren Bewusstseinswert von 350 bis 600 [auf einer Skala von 1-1000] erreichen. Die tatsächli-
che Wirkung von Drogen dient einfach dazu, die niederen En-
ergiefelder zu unterdrücken, was dem Betreffenden ermög-
licht, ausschließlich die höheren zu erleben. Es ist, als ob alle
unteren Töne eines Orchesters durch ein Sieb herausgefiltert wür-
den, so dass man nur noch die hohen Noten hören kann. Die Un-
terdrückung der niederen Töne bringt nicht die höheren Töne
hervor, sie macht diese lediglich offenbar. […]
Selten erfährt ein Durchschnittsmensch etwa Liebe ohne Angst oder reine Freude, noch viel weniger Ekstase. Diese höheren Be-
wusstseinszustände sind jedoch derart machtvoll, dass man sie, so man sie einmal erlebt hat, nie vergessen kann und sie deshalb unablässig anstrebt. […]
Der hohe Zustand, nach dem die Leute mit allen Mitteln trachten, ist tatsächlich das Erfahrungsfeld ihres eigenen Bewusstseins (SELBST). Wenn sie spirituell unzureichend gebildet sind und es ihnen an Hintergrundwis-
sen mangelt, um das Erleben begreifen zu können, glauben sie, dass es von einer "äußeren" Quelle erzeugt wurde
(beispielsweise von einem Guru, von Musik, Drogen, Geliebten usw.). Dabei ist lediglich unter besonderen Umstän-
den etwas eingetreten, wodurch sie erfahren haben, was in Wirklichkeit "im Innern" vorhanden ist.
Die meisten Menschen sind so weit entfernt von ihren eigenen reinen Bewusstseinszuständen, dass sie sie nicht er-
kennen, wenn sie sie erleben, weil sie diese mit ihren eigenen niederen Ego-basierten Zuständen oder ihrem eige-
nen geringsten gemeinsamen Nenner einschätzen. Ein negatives Selbstbild blockiert das freudige Leuchten, das
die wahre Essenz ihres Wesens ist, das deshalb nicht erkannt wird. Dass dieser freudige, friedvolle, erfüllende Zu-
stand tatsächlich die eigene Essenz ist, ist ein wesentlicher Lehrsatz jedes bedeutenden spirituellen Führers gewe-
sen (wie etwa Das Reich Gottes ist inwendig in euch). FU Power versus Force. The Hidden Determinants of Human Beha-
vior, Kapitel VI "New Horizons in Research", S. 104-105, Hay House, February 2002

Alternative Quelle: Magazin Sober Living, PDF (engl.), Frühjahr 2003, aufgefrischt 20. Mai 2010

Es ist die Energie dahinter, auf die man süchtig ist. Sedona Seminar Alignment, 3 DVD-Set, 16. April 2005

Der Alkoholiker ist nicht süchtig auf Bier oder Whiskey; er ist süchtig auf den Rausch.
Sedona Seminar Alignment, 3 DVD-Set, 16. April 2005

Das Ego kann nicht über sich hinauswachsen. Es kann allein durch den Spirituellen Willen BW 850 transzendiert wer-
den. Suchtverhalten gibt es schon seit Millionen von Jahren. Der Verstand, die Ratio BW 400, ist linear und machtlos gegenüber der Sucht. Der Spirituelle Wille ist nichtlinear. Wenn wir uns GOTT zuwenden, geschieht es durch Demut und Übergabe. Sedona Seminar Alignment, 3 DVD-Set, 16. April 2005

Quotes by D. Hawkins

Personal avowals on addiction

Alcoholism

I suffered from a hopeless and incurable disease. Early recordings, source unknown²

On enlightenment

I succumbed to a progressive and fatal illness [alcoholism] that did not respond to any available treatment. By the time I was 38 I knew I was about to die. I didn't care about my body, but my spirit was in extreme anguish and despair. As my final moment approached, the thought flashed through my mind, What if there is a God? So I called out in prayer, "If there
is a God, I ask Him to help me now." I surrendered to whatever God there might be, and went unconscious. When I awoke, a transformation of such enormity had taken place that I was struck dumb with awe.
Power vs. Force. The Hidden Determinants of Human Behavior, "Preface", S. 11-12, Hay House, February 2002

Humourous sharing:

D. Hawkins shares how he was pulled over by a cop because of weaving with his car while driving on the street.

Cop: Are you drinking?
D. Hawkins: I haven't had a drink in forty years. Sedona Seminar Devotion: The Way to God Through the Heart, 3 DVD set, 27. September 2002

Recommendation:

Twelve-Step Program

Recommendations

I recommend the 12 steps to anybody in the world for anything. Because its merely a spiritual way of living. This was the idea of the Oxford Group. The Oxford Groups were not religious. They asked 'What is the spiritual core of truth?' Because they were disillusioned with traditional religion.
Twelve-step program calibrate at 540 which is the energy field of healing itself. It's impossible to do the 12 steps and still calibrate below 200. Every single step brings you above 200. Don't forget each step brings up resistance! [Partially paraphrased.] Sedona Seminar Enlightenment, lecture 4, Poco Diablo Resort, 3 DVD set, August 2003

⚠ Caveat See Power vs. Truth, January 2013

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

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. The Hidden Determinants of Human Behavior, Hay House, February 2002

It is the level of [...] chronic gamblers who accept failure as part of their lifestyle often resulting in loss. [...] Major losses in early childhood make one vulnerable to passive acceptance of grief later on, as though sorrow were the price of life. Power vs. Force. The Hidden Determinants of Human Behavior, chapter 4 "Levels of Human Consciousness", S. 79, Hay House, February 2002

Alcohol or drugs do not have the power to create a "high" at all; they calibrate at only 100 (the level of vegetables). 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. Power vs. Force. The Hidden Determinants of Human Behavior, chapter 6 "New Horizons in Research", S. 104, Hay House, February 2002

The state of Shangri-La:

This quote is followed by a reference to the fictional paradise-like mystical, harmonious valley Shangri-La nested in the Himalayan Mountains, so described in the novel (later in the movie) Lost Horizon (1933) by British author James Hilton. Synonymously, mystical states have been termed Shangri-La.

Within the levels of consciousness, the higher frequencies are extremely power-
ful, 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.
Power vs. Force. The Hidden Determinants of Human Behavior, chapter 6 "New Horizons in Research", S. 104-105, Hay House, February 2002

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 hap-
pened 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. The Hidden Determinants of Human Behavior, chapter 6 "New Horizons in Research", S. 105-106, Hay House, February 2002

Narcotics are addicting – recreational soft drugs are nonaddicting.

The original critical error was the failure to differentiate between hard drugs and soft drugs. Hard drugs (narcotics) are addicting, with severe withdrawal effects, and have been traditionally associated with crime. Soft drugs (recreational) are nonaddicting, don't induce withdrawal, and are usually initially handled by ama-
teurs. By criminalizing soft drugs, the government created a new criminal syndicate, wealthy and interna-
tional in scope. Power vs. Force. The Hidden Determinants of Human Behavior, chapter 11 "Power in the Marketplace", S. 168,
Hay House, February 2002

Hobbiton, Roger Garland, painter

Recovering from a single addiction can take up the majo-
rity 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.
Power vs. Force. The Hidden Determinants of Human Behavior, chapter 24 "Resolution", S. 289, Hay House, February 2002

All spiritual truth is contained in every spiritual concept. It is only necessary to completely and totally understand one single concept to understand all of the in order to arrive at the realization of the real. The secret of success is to choose one concept or spiritual tool and pursue it with intensity, nonstop, to its ultimate end. It could be forgiveness or kindness carried to the absolute or it could be the third step
from a "12 step" program. The Eye of the I From Which Nothing is Hidden, S. 367, 2001

From a medical viewpoint, true addiction is denoted by withdrawal symptoms. Psychological addiction, such as de-
pendence 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. How to Tell the Difference, S. 185-186, 2005

Addictions are not extinguished by negative consequences, no matter how dire. Therefore they are not comprehen-
sible to the average normal person who expects that a prison term will deter criminality.
Transcending the Levels of Consciousness. The Stairway to Enlightenment, S. 127, 2006

Addiction to the ego's proclivities is like intoxication where pleasure is derived from the emotional payoff of negativity. Thus, negative positionalities tend to be self-perpetuating habits akin to addiction, based on presumption and the inner seductive lure of the gratification of basic animal instincts. By repetition, they eventually gain domi-
nance and control, which is the innate purpose of the narcissistic ego in the first place. In spiritual work, these are termed 'temptations' and it is then presumed that sacrifice is necessary to give them up because one is relinquishing the pleasure of the emotional 'juice' of 'being right', 'getting even', feeling sorry for oneself, etc.
Transcending the Levels of Consciousness. The Stairway to Enlightenment, S. 340-341, 2006

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. Devotional Nonduality, S. 119-120, 2007

AA deals with the impossible. Alcoholism was a hopeless condition; nobody survived it until Bill Wilson’s³ enligh-
tenment. He reached a consciousness level of 575. The light in the room lit up, and suddenly he was in the Presence. Bill got sober, and then he gave it to another. So it was transmitted from one to another. All these people knew that giving up drinking would save their life, but nobody did it. It took the power of his knowingness. And so to this
day, every person in AA has a sponsor. A sponsor is somebody who has taken the bit in his teeth and survived it. Interview with . Hawkins, Conversations about the Teacher and the Student, part III of III, presented by the US American Four
Corners Magazine, Pamela Becker, August/September 2007

The drug doesn't have the capacity to create a high. It is not the drug that creates this feeling of euphoria. The feeling of euphoria is the radiance of the Self. (Calibrated as true.)
Sedona Seminar Perception and Illusion: Distortions of Reality, 3 DVD set, 4. May 2002

The only problem [with artificially induced euphoria] is you didn't really transcend the lower of the ego. You only temporarily blocked it off. You found a shortcut. Somehow that creates some kind of a karmic debt. (Calibrated as
true.) […]
To me addiction is the fast way to God. You either die or you get it. […] The fastest way – it either breaks you or
makes you – is addiction. Sedona Seminar Perception and Illusion: Distortions of Reality, 3 DVD set, 4. May 2002

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 Alignment, 3 DVD set, 16. April 2005

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, 3 DVD set, 16. April 2005

Renunciation doesn’t have to be walking away from the world. It has to do with renouncing the juice of the ego. Find
the critical point, that’s what you need to know. Find that, and the whole thing falls. The crux of the ego is its addiction
to the juice of positionalities. You only have to focus on that one point. If you want to understand the ego, you have to understand the amoeba. The amoeba needs to get. The non-linear has a probe in linearity, and that’s your ego.
It’s checking, is this molecule good, is this one good? It’s information processing. Before it gets invested in something,
it checks it out. We find out what about the ego is it that we need to surrender? It's the experiencer. It's only the expe-
riencing that matters – it is'’t even just the juice, it’s the experience of the juice. You don't have to surrender 10,000
things; you only have to surrender one thing. I remember clearly the moment when the ego surrendered its dominion.
Sedona Seminar Alignment, 3 DVD set, 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, 3 DVD set, 16. April 2005

Resentment is a deadly poison.

Resentment kills more alcoholics than anything else.
Sedona Seminar Transcending Obstacles, 3 DVD set, 3. September 2005

Drugs silence the lower frequencies of the ego which allow to experience one's true Self.

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 ex-
perience the radiance of that which you are in Truth.
Sedona Satsang Q&A, Sedona Creative Life Center, 2 CD set, 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 posi-
tionality. 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, 3 DVD set, 22. April 2006

Personal question on addiction

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 Is the Miraculous Real?, 3 DVD set, 9. December 2006

Addiction serves as a pathway, a fast way to God. […] You either get it or die.
Sedona Satsang Q&A Golden Word Book Signing hour, CD 2 of 3, track 5, minute 1:20-4:30, 13. January 2007

Alternative source:

Blog article Techniques for Rewiring: Additional Techniques for Dealing with Flashbacks and Cravings, presented by the publication Your Brain On Porn, 18. December 2010

Question: How to transcend any desire of a physical nature? How to overcome a craving?
Answer: Ah, a craving first starts in your mind as an image. If you watch this carefully you will see any craving first appears as an image, whether it is a cheeseburger, hamburger, a naked body, whatever, or if you are an alcoholic, a drink. First comes the image of the drink, and you eliminate it instantly (imagine the big red X on the image). The image draws energy to it, so when it first appears, it is only about 5 watts, if you don't exterminate it within the first second, it is about 150 watts, then 600 watts, then it's
a have to. [...]
I always tell alcoholics you have about one or two seconds to eliminate that image of a drink.
Similar to the 'Red X' technique, the 'Rubber Band' technique can help in the same way. Keep a rubber band tied around your wrist and every time you start to entertain a thought or fantasy concerning your trigger, snap the rubber band on your wrist to induce pain. You will condition your brain to associate that thought as being less than rewarding over time. Sedona Seminar What is Real?, 3 DVD set, 16. June 2007

The 12 steps program can get one enlightened.

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 Q&A, 2 CD set, 9. July 2008

The Twelve-step programs teach that there is no such thing as a justified resentment. All that was yesterday. You don't get to bask in feeling sorry for yourself. The etheric body existed and exists first. It is the blueprint out of which the physical body arises. All our belief (mental) systems, our spiritual and physical realities came out of it. Propensities tend to be genetic – i.e. alcoholism, depression. Have an open mind. Tai Chi helps you to explore the human di-
mension. Prescott Seminar Overcoming Doubt, Skepticism and Disbelief, 3 DVD set, 9. August 2008

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, 3 DVD set, 25. October 2008

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Verhängnisvoller Appell der Gegenkultur in den 60-iger Jahren

Finde ein Sakrament, beginne ein neues Leben, befreie dich!
Timothy Leary (1920-1996) US-amerikanischer Psychologe, Protagonist für die Erforschung psychedelischer Drogen, CIA-Agent, Autor, Eröffnungsrede, Pressekonferenz, New York City, 19. September 1966

Nachhaltige Veränderungen anstreben, heißt, Lösungen zu suchen, die v e r l e t z l i c h machen – und genau das lehnen die meisten Menschen ab. [...] Paradoxerweise wirkt genau das, was scheinbar zu nichts führt. [...]
Die Ermutigung, sich anderen Menschen gegenüber verletzlich zu zeigen, bietet einen Ausweg aus der Scham.
Dr. Patrick Carnes (*1944) führender US-amerikanischer Sexsuchtexperte und -therapeut, Minneapolis, Autor, Wenn Sex zur
Sucht wird, S. 254, Kösel, München, 1992

Referenz: de.Wikiquote-Eintrag ► Sucht

Quotes by various other sources

The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so that they cannot
see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.
2. Corinthians 4, New International Version (NIV) (NT)

Personal avowals

Kübler-Ross' reply on the question why she smoked in view of the danger of cancer

Cigarettes cannot touch you if you're not afraid of them. You can only be damaged by those things you fear. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, M.D. [Social impact LoC 485] (1926-
2004) Swiss US American psychiatrist, death and dying researcher, founder of Near-death studies, author, presented by the men's magazine ⚡ Playboy, M. Seligson, 1981

Schedule I Hallucinogenic substances (LSD, DMT, psilocybin [psychedelic alkaloid in mushrooms], MDMA, and mescaline) are restricted drugs in the United States and other countries.

I tell them meth is bad, PCP is bad, cocaine is bad, and I tell them why. But psyche-
delics and marijuana – marijuana, I say, since 1937 the government has spent billions of dollars proving it was as bad as they told us it was. Deleted article David E. Nichols, Ph.D. (*1944) US American pharmacologist, medicinal chemist, LSD expert, Purdue University, Professor challenges how people think about drugs, presented by the independent student newspaper The Purdue Exponent, Shaan Yadav-Ranjan, 19. January 2011

I never thought I was wasted, but I probably was.
Keith Richards (*1943) English musician, singer, songwriter, multiple drug addict, founding member of the English rock band the
Rolling Stones, James Fox, memoir Life, Weidenfeld & Nicolson (UK), Little, Brown and Company, 26. October 2010

Conclusions

Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation. St. Augustine of Hippo [LoC 550, works 503] (354-430 AD) Algerian
bishop of Hippo Regius, church father, theologian, philosopher, Confessions Augustini Confessions, Oxford University Press, 1992

Bruce Alexander (*1939), a professor of psychology in Vancouver, explained to me, the idea of addiction we've all got
in our heads, that story, comes partly from a series of experiments that were done earlier in the 20th century. They're
really simple. You get a rat and you put it in a cage, and you give it two water bottles: One is just water, and the other
is water laced with either heroin or cocaine. If you do that, the rat will almost always prefer the drug water and almost
always kill itself quite quickly. So there you go, right? That's how we think it works.
In the '70s, Professor Alexander comes along and he looks at this experiment and he noticed something. He said, 'ah,
we're putting the rat in an empty cage.' It's got nothing to do except use these drugs. Let's try something different. So
Professor Alexander built a cage that he called "Rat Park," which is basically heaven for rats. They've got loads of
cheese, they've got loads of colored balls, they've got loads of tunnels.
Crucially, they've got loads of friends. They can have loads of sex. And they've got both the water bottles, the normal
water and the drugged water. But here's the fascinating thing: In Rat Park, they don't like the drug water. They almost
never use it. None of them ever use it compulsively. None of them ever overdose.
You go from almost 100 percent overdose when they're isolated to zero percent overdose when they have
happy and connected lives.
Video presentation by Johann Hari (*1979) British columnist, journalist, writer, Everything you think you know about addiction is
wrong, Transcript, presented by TED Talks, YouTube film, minute 3:33, 14:42 minutes duration, posted 9. July 2015

The opposite of addiction is not sobriety. The opposite of addiction is connection. And our whole society, the
engine of our society, is geared towards making us connect with things not people. If you are not a good consumer
capitalist citizen, if you're spending your time bonding with the people around you and not buying stuff – in fact, we
are trained from a very young age to focus our hopes and our dreams and our ambitions on things we can buy and
consume. And drug addiction is really a subset of that.
Video presentation by Johann Hari (*1979) British columnist, journalist, writer, Everything you think you know about addiction is
wrong, Transcript, presented by TED Talks, YouTube film, minute 14:01, 14:42 minutes duration, posted 9. July 2015

The addict only needs to change one thing […] their whole damn life.
Benjamin D. Hill, Ph.D., US American clinical psychologist, University of South Alabama, cited in: article Willpower Doesn't Work. Here's How to Actually Change Your Life, presented by the stories outlet Medium, Benjamin Hardy, May 24. May 2017

Addiction archetype

Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) defined addiction totally insufficiently. [...] AA has defined addiction [in general, alcoholism in particular] as a disease and that the addict is helpless over the disease. I don't particularly buy that. I find that to be a rather challenging position, especially when one positions it within a spiritual context and a spiritual journey of the empowerment of the self. [...]
The addict didn't even exist as an archetype until the 20th century. [...]
Every single one of us is a born addict. That's a given. Why is that? We are not born congruent. Addiction at its
heart is the separation between the mind and the heart. Video DVD presentation by Caroline Myss Myss.com (*1952)
US American spiritual teacher, mystic, medical intuitive, bestselling author, Addiction Workshop, sponsored by Hockley Valley, Ontario, Canada, archived by CMED Institute, minutes 3:07, 5:52 and 27:57, 1:08:09 duration, recorded August 2011

Shadow avoidance as the source of addiction

We have so much shadow within us, it is incomprehensible. And that's why we're addicts. And we don't face that truth about us. And that's why we're addicts.
Video DVD presentation by Caroline Myss Myss.com (*1952) US American spiritual tea-cher, mystic, medical intuitive, bestselling author, Addiction Workshop, sponsored by Hockley Valley, Ontario, Canada, archived by CMED Institute, minute 63:57, 1:08:09 duration, recorded August 2011

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism.
Carl Gustav Jung [LoC 520/540] (1875-1961) Swiss psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, founder of a new school of depth psychology,
author, autobiography Memories, Dreams, Reflections, chapter 12, Fontana Press, 1961, 1963, reissued edition 6. March 1995

Alcoholism is
♦ an obsession of the mind that condemns one to drink and
♦ an allergy of the body that condemns one to die.

William Duncan Silkworth, M.D. (1873-1951) US American medical doctor specialised in the treatment of alcoholism, director of
the Charles B. Towns Hospital for Drug and Alcohol Addictions, New York City, 1930s, referenced in: William Duncan Silkworth PDF

Pioneers of orthomolecular psychiatry:

(Abram Hoffer, M.D.⁴ (1917-2009) Canadian psychiatrist, Dr. Allan Cott, Dr. A. Cherkin, Linus Pauling, Ph.D. [LoC 450] (1901-1994) US American chemist, biochemist, educator, peace activist, author, have confirmed that mental illness is a myth and that emotional disturbance can be merely the first symptom of the obvious inability of the human system to handle the stress of sugar dependency.

The functioning of the brain and nervous tissue is more sensitively dependent on the rate of chemical reactions than the functioning of other organs and tissues. I believe that mental disease is for the most part caused by abnormal reaction rates, as determined by genetic constitution and diet, and by abnormal molecular concentrations of essential substances. Selection of food (and drugs) in a world that is undergoing rapid scientific and technological change may often be far from the best.
Linus Pauling, Ph.D. [LoC 450] (1901-1994) US American chemist, biochemist, educator, peace activist, author, Orthomolecular Psychiatry. Treatment of Schizophrenia, W. H. Freeman and Company, illustrated edition June 1973

The core of addiction is powerlessness. Patrick Carnes, Ph.D. C.A.S. drpatrickcarnes.com (*1944) leading US American sex addiction therapist, Minneapolis, creator of the International Institute for Trauma and Addiction Professionals (ITAAP), author, Out of the Shadows. Understanding Sexual Addiction, Hazelden, 1983, 3rd edition 23. May 2001

Another way to define addiction is a failure to bond. Video interview with Patrick Carnes, Ph.D. C.A.S. drpatrickcarnes.com (*1944) leading US American sex addiction therapist, Minneapolis, creator of the International Institute for Trauma and Addiction Professionals (ITAAP), author, What are the Causes of Addiction?, presented by GeniusNetwork.com, host Joe Polish, posted by Sexhelp.com, YouTube film, minute 2:02, 3:24 minutes duration, posted 24. January 2010

Note:

The midbrain is the unconscious, primitive, reflexive survival-based limbic system.

Addiction is a dysregulation of the midbrain-dopamine and cortical-glutamate (pleasure) system due to unmanaged stress resulting in symptoms of decreased functioning specifically:
1. Loss of control,
2. Craving,
3. Persistent drug use despite negative consequences.

Kevin McCauley, M.D., US American addiction researcher and therapist, The Institute For Addiction Study, Going to the Edge of Current Neuroscience of Addiction, part 8 of 10, YouTube film, minute 6:29, 10:00 minutes duration, posted 15. March 2010

Addiction [i.e. narcissism] is the medical problem of our time.
Drew Pinsky, M.D. (*1958) US American board-certified internist, radio and TV personality, addiction medicine specialist, assistant clinical professor, Keck USC School of Medicine, source unknown

Sex addiction is an intimacy disorder. Sex addicts feel so alone, so ashamed and so unworthy of intimacy and love. Drew Pinsky, M.D. (*1958) US American board-certified internist, radio and TV personality, addiction medicine specialist, assistant clinical professor, Keck USC School of Medicine, source unknown

Question:

In vino veritas? Is alcohol a truth revealing means.

Anderson Cooper, CNN: Is alcohol really a truth serum?
Drew Pinsky, M.D. (*1958) US American board-certified internist, radio and TV personality, addiction medicine specialist, assistant clinical professor, Keck USC School of Medicine: Not really. Listen, it's something that affects brain function profoundly. People that are on drugs don't do things, don't think – even when they are mildly intoxicated, if somebody is truly an addict, people don't understand the fact – the common public sort of understanding isn't the understanding that the drug – that the thinking associated with addiction is profoundly affec-
ted. Thinking is part – or disturbed thinking and thinking at the service of addiction – is part of the disease process.
Removed interview transcript Mel Gibson's Legal Mess. Can Mel Atone?, presented by the US American TV channel CNN, program
"Showbiz Tonight", host Anderson Cooper, aired 2. August 2006

The Sedona Method, ACIM, and the 12 steps programs are all invested in "surrendering" emotions. Reviewing or challenging the exis-
ting mind frame of the predatory social para-
digm, they miss to inspect the dominant-sub-
missive social construct that keeps producing
childhood trauma resulting in pain-killing but destructive addictions. They also lack to con-
vey to recovering addicts: emotional and social intelligence skills and empowerment/leader-
ship skills.
Audio interview with Linda Kohanov (*1950) US American riding instructor, horse trainer, speaker, author, Equine Magic With Linda Kohanov, Spielberg's War Horse, Happy Trails Sag, presented by the US American radio show host by Robert Phoenix [Four
stages of effective usage of emotions], minute 16:30, 1:22:14 minutes duration, aired 21. December 2011

It isn't the drug that causes the harmful behavior – it's the environment. An isolated rat will almost always be-
come a junkie. A rat with a good life almost never will, no matter how many drugs you make available to him. As
Bruce put it: he was realizing that addiction isn't a disease. Addiction is an adaptation. It's not you – it's the
cage you live in. Johann Hari (*1979) British columnist, journalist, writer, Chasing the Scream. The First and Last Days of
the War on Drugs, Bloomsbury, 20. January 2015

Maybe there are as many definitions of spiritual awakening as there are people who have them. But certainly each genuine one has something in common with all the others. […] When a man or a woman has a spiritual awakening,
the most important meaning of it is that he has now become able to do, feel, and believe that which he could not
do before on his unaided strength and resources alone. He has been granted a gift which amounts to a new state
of consciousness and being. He has been set on a path which tells him he is really going somewhere, that life is not
a dead end, not something to be endured or mastered. In a very real sense he has been transformed, because he
has laid hold of a source of strength which, in one way or another, he had hitherto denied himself. He finds himself
in possession of a degree of honesty, tolerance, unselfishness, peace of mind, and love of which he had thought
himself quite incapable. What he has received is a free gift, and yet usually, at least in some small part, he has
made himself ready to receive it. Alcoholics Anonymous, Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, first issued 1953, Alcoho-
lics Anonymous Publishing, S. 106-107, 1st edition 10. February 2002

Since the White Male System / Addictive System defines itself as reality, everything else is unreal by definition. Since its referent is the external referent, the internal referent is unreal and nonexistent by definition. The process of invalida-
ting that which the system does not know, understand, cannot measure, and cannot thereby control is so extreme that large areas of perception and knowledge are lost. We give the system the power to make the known unknown. Anne Wilson Schaef Livinginprocess.com US American psychotherapist, feminist, addiction researcher, author, cited in: Anne Wilson Schaef Quotes

Counterculture phrase in the 1960s

This phrase urged people to cultural changes through the use of psychedelics and by detaching themselves from the existing conventions and hierarchies in society.

Like every great religion of the past we seek to find the divinity within and to ex-
press this revelation in a life of glorification and the worship of God. These ancient goals we define in the metaphor of the present – Turn on, tune in, drop out. [LoC 180] Timothy Leary (1920-1996) US American psychologist, influential figure of the 60s counterculture, advocate for research of psychedelic drugs, CIA agent, writer, excerpted from an opening speech, press conference, New York City, 19. September 1966

'Turn on' meant go within to activate your neural and genetic equipment. Become sensitive to the many and various levels of consciousness and the specific triggers that engage them. Drugs were
one way to accomplish this end.
'Tune in' meant interact harmoniously with the world around you – externalize, materialize, express your new inter-
nal perspectives.
'Drop out' suggested an elective, selective, graceful process of detachment from involuntary or unconscious com-
mitments.
'Drop out' meant self-reliance, a discovery of one's singularity, a commitment to mobility, choice, and change. Unhappily my explanations of this sequence of personal development were often misinterpreted to mean 'Get
stoned and abandon all constructive activity'. Autobiography by Timothy Leary (1920-1996) US American psychologist, influential figure of the 60s counterculture, advocate for research of psychedelic drugs, CIA agent, writer, Flashbacks, 1983

It takes the average smoker 8 to 10 times before he is able to quit successfully.
Steven A. Schroeder, M.D., US American director of the "Smoking Cessation Leadership Center", UCSF, cited in: article
Lessons for Other Smokers in Obama's Efforts to Quit, presented by the US American daily newspaper The New York Times,
Denise Grady and Lawrence K. Altman, 28. December 2008

Reference: en.Wikiquote entry ► Addiction

Quotes by Gabor Maté

Personal avowal

The hardcore drug addicts that I treat are, without exception, people who have had extraordinarily difficult lives. The commonality is childhood abuse. These people all enter life under extremely adverse circumstances […]. I don't have a single female patient […] who wasn't sexually abused, for example, as were many of the men, or abused, neglected and abandoned serially, over and over again. Gabor Maté, M.D. drgabormate.com (*1944) Hungarian-Canadian physician, addiction expert, speaker, author, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts. Close Encounters with Addiction, Knopf Canada, 12. February 2008, issued in the United States, 5. January 2010, Vermilion, 4. October 2018

Dopamine craved for soothing physical and emotional pain.

Food [nicotine and caffeine] will increase one's dopamine levels by 50%.
Sex will increase one's dopamine levels by 100%.
A shot of Cocaine will increase one's dopamine levels by 300%.
A shot of Methamphetamine (crystal meth) will increase one's dopamine levels by 1200%.
None of the drugs (including nicotine and caffeine) can "cause" addictions.
Video (DVD) presentation by Gabor Maté, M.D. drgabormate.com (*1944) Hungarian-Canadian physician, addiction expert,
speaker, author, Brain Development and Addiction, YouTube film, minute 12:14, 1:04:26 duration, posted 23. February 2009

Damaged brain circuits with addicts:

Opiates, dopamine, impulse control, stress control

The addict has no impulse control.
The real problem with addiction is not free will but the 'free won't'. The addict is not able to say no. The part of the brain that is supposed to say no doesn't function in the brain of the addict. […]
Four essential brain circuits:
1. Opiates (love, connection, reward, pain relief),
2. Dopamine (incentive, motivation, vitality, curiosity, sense of being alive),
3. Impulse control
4. and Stress control –

these are the circuits that don't work in the addict.
Video (DVD) presentation by Gabor Maté, M.D. drgabormate.com (*1944) Hungarian-Canadian physician, addiction expert, spea-
ker, author, Brain Development and Addiction, YouTube film, minute 18:40 and 19:11, 1:04:26 duration, posted 23. February 2009

When the American Army went to Vietnam 20% of them came back as heroin addicts. 20% of the GIs who came
back from Vietnam were heroin addicts. A few years later only 1-5% [of them were still addicts]. So 95% of them got over their addiction which is unbelievable.⁵
If 5% of my [drug addicts] patients in the Downtown Eastside (of Vancouver) overcame their addition everyone would think I was a genius of some kind. […] The drugs by themselves can't cause the addiction.
Video (DVD) presentation by Gabor Maté, M.D. drgabormate.com (*1944) Hungarian-Canadian physician, addiction expert, spea-
ker, author, Brain Development and Addiction, YouTube film, minute 20:05, 1:04:26 duration, posted 23. February 2009

Euro coins

Not all addictions are rooted in abuse or trauma, but I do believe they can all be traced to painful experience. A hurt is at the centre of all addictive behaviours. It is present in the gambler, the Internet addict, the compulsive shopper and the workaholic. The wound may not be as deep and the ache not as excruciating, and it may even be entirely hidden – but it's there. As we'll see, the effects of early stress or adverse experiences directly shape both the psychology and the neurobiology of addiction in the brain.
Gabor Maté, M.D. (*1944) Hungarian-Canadian physician, addiction expert, speaker, author, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts. Close Encounters with Addiction, Knopf Canada, 12. February 2008, issued in the United States, 5. January 2010, Vermilion, 4. October 2018

Passion creates, addiction consumes.
Gabor Maté, M.D. (*1944) Hungarian-Canadian physician, addiction expert, speaker, author, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts. Close Encounters with Addiction, Knopf Canada, 12. February 2008, issued in the United States, 5. January 2010, Vermilion, 4. October 2018

Cultural myths on addiction

Conventional thinking on addiction is based on two assumptions:
1. first, that addictions are a matter of choice; an ethical lapse, a stupid decision that needs to be deterred by Draconian punishments.
2. Secondly, there is the assumption that addiction is a brain disease – a genetically determined, inherited disease. […]

I believe the source of addiction is not to be found in the genes or in individual choice but within the addict's particular history, within a particular multi-generational family within a particular culture.

This is the view which dominates medical thinking.
Interview with Gabor Maté, M.D. drgabormate.com (*1944) Hungarian-Canadian physician, addiction expert, speaker, author, presented by the US American bimonthly magazine The Believer, 17. February 2012

Stigmatization (scapegoating) of addicts

Projecting one's shadow on them

Why are we so uncomfortable with mental illness? Because we're all crazy to some degree. Some people are clinically depressed, but most of us are not free from feelings of intractable sadness or loss. People are afraid of their dark sides. In this society – rife with addictive behaviors that go way beyond drug addiction – we project our discomfort with ourselves onto the addict. It's like scapegoating in the Bible, where the sins of the community are put on a sacrificial goat and we chase him into the desert. That's what we do with drug addicts. [...] As most of us aren't drug addicts, but have other addictions, we can safely stigmatize the drug addict. He or she represents the ugly part of us we don't want to acknowledge and deal with. […] It's only in rela-
tionships with compassionate others they [drug addicts] can start to develop a healthy relationship with themselves.
Interview with Gabor Maté, M.D. (*1944) Hungarian-Canadian physician, addiction expert, speaker, author, presented by the US American bimonthly magazine The Believer, 17. February 2012

At the very heart of addiction is the deep absence of self-esteem, which is caused by stress to the traumatized child. Addicts believe that if all these negative things happen to them, there must be something wrong with them. When
they are punished and attacked and criticized further, it hardens that deep sense of self-loathing.
Gabor Maté, M.D. (*1944) Hungarian-Canadian physician, addiction expert, speaker, author, The Rebel Doctor, presented by the publication The Fix, Kristen McGuiness, US American journalist, 11. July 2012

Addiction is not the fundamental problem, but the addict's desperate and doomed attempt to solve a problem – that
of unbearable emotional pain, self-loathing, and emptiness.
Trauma and childhood emotional loss are the template for addictions. They instill the pain, engender the self-loathing, and create the emptiness. Crucially, they program the very chemistry and physiology of the brain to make
the cerebral circuits more receptive to the soothing or exciting effects of substances. Interventions, treatment pro-
grams, laws, social opprobrium do not work – often make the addiction more tenacious, in fact – because they do
not address causes, only behaviours. Behaviours are effects and you don't solve a problem by tampering with effects.
Gabor Maté, M.D. (*1944) Hungarian-Canadian physician, addiction expert, speaker, author, Cory Monteith death reflects media's
lack of curiosity about causes of addiction, presented by the news outlet Straight, 14. August 2013

See also: ► Quotes by Gabor Maté

Quotes by Brenda Schaeffer – Sex and romance addiction

LOVE is
- not a dependency,
- not a feeling,
- not a mental thought,
- not a behavior role,
- not romance,
- not a relationship,
- not a biochemical response,
- not sex,
- and not something we can earn or learn. […]

Love is a real energy in us, below us and above us that enhances life. And sex can be a part of it.
Dr. Brenda Schaeffer, US American psychologist, addiction therapist, author, source unknown

Happily ever after isn't [achieved with]in six months. It's a long term process. It's about maturing. It's about you.
Know living through the hardships and the hard times and having enough heart in the relationship to go through
those tough times. Dr. Brenda Schaeffer, US American psychologist, addiction therapist, author, source unknown

Healthy love is an inside job rather than looking outside of ourselves to satisfy our hunger for security, sensa-
tion, power, identity, belonging. We need to be able to become a really loving, compassionate parent to ourselves.
Dr. Brenda Schaeffer, US American psychologist, addiction therapist, author, source unknown

Today we confuse love with 'in love'.
Dr. Brenda Schaeffer, US American psychologist, addiction therapist, author, source unknown

The newness of the amerous falling in love stage is temporary. It lasts […] about four months in adolescence and six months in an adult relationship. Dr. Brenda Schaeffer, US American psychologist, addiction therapist, author, source unknown

Romeo and Juliet died for […] obsessive love, and many stories are based on that mythology.
Dr. Brenda Schaeffer, US American psychologist, addiction therapist, author, source unknown

I do distinguish between SEX, ROMANCE and LOVE because they do affect different parts of the brain. […] The addictive process […] becomes a biochemical addiction or dependency. We have three neuro pathways in our brains that help us feel aroused, satiated and have a rich fantasy life. […] They’ll start getting urges to have more sex, to look for another romance, because these romance chemicals are waning […] It moves to a biological chemical and not a chemical dependency. […] Many of the love addicts perpetuate the same patterns over and over and over.
Dr. Brenda Schaeffer, US American psychologist, addiction therapist, author, source unknown

Audio interview with Dr. Brenda Schaeffer, US American certified addiction specialist, spiritual psychologist, Is it love or addiction? MP3, episode 13, presented by the US American free web audio channel Personal Life Media, program "Sex, love, and intimacy",
host Chip August, 46:09 minutes duration, 2007-2008

Quotes by ⚡ Bill Griffith Wilson

German version:

Anonyme Alkoholiker in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Geschichte und Entwicklung bis heute, Christa Appel, 2010

Rarely have we seen a person fail who has thoroughly followed our path. Those who do not recover are people who cannot or will not completely give themselves to this simple program, usually men and women who are constitu-
tionally incapable of being honest with themselves. There are such unfortunates.
They are not at fault; they seem to have been born that way. They are naturally incapable of grasping and developing a manner of living which demands rigorous honesty. Their chances are less than average. There are those, too, who suffer from grave emotional and mental disorders, but many of them do recover if they have the capacity to be honest.
⚡ Bill Griffith Wilson [Bill W.] [LoC 540] (1895-1971) US American co-founder of the international mutual aid fellowship Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), Alcoholics Anonymous – The Big Book online, AA World Services, 1939, 1955, 1976, 4th edition, 2001

Many of us exclaimed, "What an order! I can't go through with it." Do not be discouraged. No one among us has been able to maintain anything like perfect adherence to these principles. We are not saints. The point is, that we were willing to grow along spiritual lines. The principles we have set down are guides to progress. We claim spiritual progress rather than spiritual perfection. ⚡ Bill Griffith Wilson [Bill W.] [LoC 540] (1895-1971) US American co-founder
of the international mutual aid fellowship Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), Alcoholics Anonymous – The Big Book online, chapter 5
"How it Works", S. 58-60, AA World Services, 1939, 1955, 1976, 4th edition, 2001

Given enough anger, both unity and purpose are lost. Given still more 'righteous 'indignation, the group can disin-
tegrate; it can actually die. This is why we avoid controversy. This is why we prescribe no punishments for any mis-
behaviour, no matter how grievous. Indeed, no alcoholic can be deprived of his membership for any reason whatever.
Punishment never heals. Only love can heal. ⚡ Bill Griffith Wilson [Bill W.] [LoC 540] (1895-1971) US American co-founder
of the international mutual aid fellowship Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), As Bill Sees It. The A. A. Way of Life ... Selected Writings
of the A. A.'s Co-Founder, Letter, 1966, Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, 1st edition June 1967

Actual success rate of the 12-step program – Lance Dodes

75% AA recovery rates – Claim 1955	5-8% AA recovery rates – Research 2014
AA has worked for 75% of people who have gone to meetings and "really tried." 50% got sober right away. 25% struggled for a while but eventually recovered. According to AA, these figures are based on members' experiences.	Based on the data of a) Alcoholics Anonymous's retention rates, b) rates of active involvement among AA members, (attending meetings regularly and working the program) c) studies on sobriety, Dr. Lance Dodes places AA's actual success rate between 5-8%.
*A.A. Big Book, 1st edition 1939, 2nd edition 1955*, 4th edition 2001	Lance Dodes, M.D., US American retired professor of psychiatry, Harvard medical school, author, Zachary Dodes, co-author, The Sober Truth. Debunking the Bad Science Behind 12-Step Programs and the Rehab Industry, Beacon Press, 1st printing edition 25. March 2014

References:
► Article The Irrationality of Alcoholics AnonymousIts faith-based 12-step program dominates treatment in the United States. Researchers
have debunked central tenets of AA doctrine and found dozens of other treatments more effective., presented by the US American
magazine The Atlantic, Gabrielle Glaser, issue April 2015
► Audio interview with Lance Dodes, M.D., US American retired professor of psychiatry, Harvard medical school, author, article
With Sobering Science, Doctor Debunks 12-Step Recovery, presented by the non-commercial US American media organization
National Public Radio (NPR), host Arun Rath, 5:31 minutes duration, posted 23. March 2014

Englische Texte – English section on Addiction

Progressive stages of addiction and recovery

Concentric dynamics of various addictions

༺༻	Human level of addiction	External 4·quadrants	Theme	Focus	Internal Chakra	Pole	Addiction	Fixation
1.	Individual	I	Survival	Money	1.·Chakra	+	Substance/s	Alcohol, drugs
2.	Family ◊ Tribe	YOU	Procreation / Bonding	Sex	2.·Chakra	+/–	Compulsive behavior	Methods
Threshold between Unconscious ⇔ Conscious – MOMENT of CHANGE: Becoming conscious of addiction
3.	Collective ◊ World	WE	Domination⇔Subjugation	Rankism	3.·Chakra	–	Main personality cult	Projection
4.	Ancestors ◊ Archetypes ◊ Gods	IT	Death-Rebirth / Surrender	Death	4.·Chakra	–/+	Cult around gods	Light or dark

Progressive spiral of addiction and recovery

༺༻	External addiction	Internal addiction	Sense	Recovery approach	Quality/Strength
1a	Self-destruction	Body	Eye	Self-knowledge	Freedom
2a	Ruin of family / surrounding	Emotions	Ear	Bonding / Altruism	Love
Threshold between Unconscious ⇔ Conscious – MOMENT of CHANGE: Becoming conscious of addiction
3a	Genocide / Mass mind control	Mind	Mouth	Planetary connectedness Community	Empowerment
4a	Egocide Maturing the ego	Spirit	Heart All=One	Divine SELF Interconnectedness	Transformation Wholeness O

Tripartition dynamics in healing addiction and trauma

༺༻	Progressive addiction	Bait Process	Action	Ring of consciousness	Signature ⇔ ⚡ Tension	Maturing Conscience building
1b	Body cult / Substance abuse	Bread bait	Joint knowing	1st of 3 thirds	Satisfaction Frustration	I cannot.
2b	Work addiction / Relationship addiction	Play bait	Joint feeling	2nd of 3 thirds	Success Bitterness	I won't.
Threshold between Unconscious ⇔ Conscious – MOMENT of CHANGE: Becoming conscious of addiction
3b	Dominator force War	Crisis phase Effort / Toiling	Joint acting	3rd of 3 thirds	Peace Anger	I endure.
4b	Spiritual / religious idolization Cult of personality	Pole shift Grace	Let it be. Surrender	New heaven and new earth	Miracle Disappointment	Behold, I am making all things new!

Siehe auch: ► Vier Stationen der Suchtheilung

Twelve-step program (AA)

Twelve steps to resolve addiction

༺༻	General description	Personalized expression
Step 1	Admit that you are powerless over your addiction (that your life has become unmanageable).	"I admit I am powerless over the ego – so that my life has become unmanageable."
Step 2	Believe that a Power greater than yourself could restore you to sanity.	"I came to believe that a Power greater than myself could restore me to sanity."
Step 3	Make a decision to turn your will and your life over to the care of God as you understand God.	"I make a decision to turn my will and my life over to the care of God as I understand Him."
Step 4	Make a searching and fearless moral inventory of yourself.	"I make a searching and fearless moral inventory of myself."
Step 5	Admit to God, to yourself and to another human being the exact nature of your wrongs.	"I admit to God, to myself, and to another human being the exact nature of my wrongs."
Step 6	Be entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.	"I am entirely ready to have God remove all of these defects of character."
Step 7	Humbly ask God to remove your shortcomings.	"I humbly ask Him to remove my shortcomings."
Step 8	Make a list of all persons you have harmed, and become willing to make amends to them all.	"I make a list of all the persons I have harmed, and become willing to make amends to them all."
Step 9	Make direct amends to those people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.	"I make direct amends to those people whenever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others."
Step 10	Continue to take a personal inventory and when you are wrong promptly admit it.	"I continue to take personal inventory and when I am wrong, promptly admit it."
Step 11	Seek through prayer and meditation to improve your conscious contact with God as you understand God, pray only for knowledge of God’s will for you and the power to carry that out.	"I seek through prayer and meditation to improve my conscious contact with God as I understand Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out."
Step·12	After you have had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, you carry this message to other addicts, and practice these principles in all your affairs.	"I have a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, I carry this message to others and practice these principles in all my affairs."

Referenced by ► D. Hawkins, Sedona Seminar Enlightenment, lecture 4, Poco Diablo Resort, 3 DVD set, August 2003
Twelve Steps to Enlightenment, adapted from AA's 12 Step program, presented by the dissolved website
consciousnessproject.org [articles/twelve-steps-to-enlightenment]

Reference: en.Wikipedia entry ► Twelve-step program

Whatever problem you have in life, if you apply the 12 Steps to it, that will solve it. (Calibrates as true.)
D. Hawkins, Prescott Seminar Spirituality: Reason and Faith, 3 DVD set, 26. January 2008

Step 9: Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
There are some things that to reveal it would be so disturbing to people that out of compassion for them then. […] So
that precludes dumping! Cause you feel guilty about the affair you had 32 years ago you don't have to blow away your
wife now and tell her about the night you were drunk in Chicago. I mean you wish it had’t happened it’s agonizing you
for 32 years with guilt. But to dump it on her is dumping! It’s misusing her, its gonna hurt her and it does not really mean
anything. It’s better discussed with a confessor. You are saying should I bring this up? What is your purpose? – That
you don’t feel so guilty, well good for you, but what about her! So you have to look about the consequences and avoid
dumping your stuff on others! That's another reason to have a confessor, priest, or doctor, therapist, good friend.
D. Hawkins, Prescott Seminar Peace [LoC 565] 3 DVD set, 8. August 2009

LoC calibrations: Release from addiction – D. Hawkins

Addictions and healing addictions

LoC	Addiction related issue	Legend
80-100	Most drugs	Some drugs calibrate lower than this range.
150	Antidrug program in the United States	It is an ineffective program as it wastes time, ressources and money.
300-600	Drug induced peak experiences	High states
350	Required level of consciousness to set the process of healing an addiction in motion
540 (575)	Selfhelp groups of those who admit their addiction applying Twelve-step programs The best known selfhelp group is the Alcoholics Anonymous	Offering the only profound approach for healing addictions, AA is known to D. Hawkins and recommended by him. Healing is issued by the group field. Those who retreat too soo may experience a relapse.
560+	Sponsor / main mentor of AA selfhelp group	Somewhat above the average level of consciousness of a healing group field
550-600	*A Course in Miracles*	ACIM is a consciousness expanding book course that can be studied individually or in a group.

Serenity prayer

God, grant me the grace and humility and serenity
❁ to accept the things I cannot change,
❁ courage to change the things I can,
❁ and wisdom to know the difference.
Living one day at a time,
Enjoying one moment at a time,
Accepting hardship as the pathway to peace.
Taking, as He did, this sinful world as it is,
Not as I would have it.
Trusting that He will make all things right
if I surrender to His will.
That I may be reasonably happy in this life,
And supremely happy with Him forever in the next.
Amen.

Source: ► Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971) US American professor of theology, Union Theological Seminary, ethicist, public intellectual, commentator on politics and public affairs,
possibly issued the serenity prayer in 1941-1942; cited in: Serenity Prayer

Reference: ► Full English version of the Serenity Prayer of the Alcoholics Anonymous (AA)

Reference: en.Wikipedia entry ► Serenity Prayer

See also: ► Prayers

Siehe auch: ► Gelassenheitsgebet

BW-Werte: Sucht / Addiction

BW 540 – 12-Schritte-Programme

LoC calibrations (engl.): Addiction

LoC 540 – Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) field for successfully overcome addiction
LoC 540 – Twelve-step program
LoC 350-600 – Peak experiences induced by alcohol and drugs
LoC 350 – Necessary level of consciousness to start healing addiction
LoC 540 – ⚡ Bill Griffith Wilson [Bill W.] (1895-1971)
LoC 400 – Sidewalk cafe in Paris
LoC 250 – Coffee shop⁶
LoC 235 – Medical marijuana
LoC 202 – Coffee
LoC 200 – Fast food outlets

LoC 160 – Commercial tobacco industry in the United States [Status 2004]⁷
LoC 160 – Gambling casinos in the United States [Status 2004]⁸
LoC 150 – Antidrug program in the United States (i.e. anti drug addict program)
LoC 120 – Alcohol induced delirium
LoC 80-100 – Alcohol, drugs, vegetable
LoC 95 – Drug addiction
LoC 90 – Alcohol dependency, addiction
LoC < 80 – Drugs
LoC 55 – Drunken driving

LoC 40 – Methamphetamine laboratory
LoC 7 – Cocaine (drug)
LoC 6 – Heroine (drug, substance)
LoC 6 – Methamphetamine (highly addictive substance)

Sources: ► Truth vs. Falsehood. How to Tell the Difference, S. 92, 94, 185, 2005 and other sources

Index: Audio- und Videomedien (engl.) von und mit D. Hawkins

Video presentation Consciousness and Addiction, Volume Serie |I, 2 DVD set, presented at First International Conference on Consciousness and Addiction, sponsored by Dr. Willis Harman (1918-1997) US American engineer, social scientist, visionary futurist, director of the Educational Policy Research Center, Stanford Research Institute (SRI), consultant to the White House in matters of CIA driven LSD research, president of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, California, author, presented by the Institute
for Advanced Spiritual Research, 4 hours duration, 1987; posted by Culture Unplugged 2012
- Consciousness and Addiction, part 1 of 2, 107:14 duration
- Consciousness and Addiction, part 2 of 2, 108:22 duration
Archival Office Visit Series Drug Addiction and Alcoholism, B-1, 1986-1988

Note on Shangri-La [LoC 625]: "Once the person has experienced these sublime states [of i.e. a near death experience NDE] their life is totally transformed. The movie "Lost Horizon" depicts those extremely well.
If you see the movie Lost Horizon [according to a novel by British author James Hilton, 1933] you will understand drugs and alcohol. [O]nce the person has experienced Shangri-La and he tries to go back to the world, the world of 220 has no longer has any appeal. […] And in that movie the main character […] desires to get back to that state of Shangri-La. (Shangri-La calibrates at about LoC 625, a very addicting state of consciousness, once experienced.) So he [the main character] gives up everything in the world to go back to that state. In respect to drugs and alcohol that is exactly what you are going to do. […] You will give up anything and everything in order to get back in that state of consciousness. […] In the end this state requires that you’ll risk and give up your body. […] You're going to say yes to it. Now we know what we are addicted to."

Video Sedona Seminar Perception and Illusion: Distortions of Reality, 3 DVD set, 4. May 2002
Video Cottonwood Seminar Spiritual Life in Today's World, 16. October 2010

Links zum Thema Sucht / Addiction

Literatur

Arno Gruen (1923-2015) deutsch-schweizerischer Psychologe, Psychoanalytiker, Zivilisationskritiker, Schriftsteller, Der Verrat am Selbst. Die Angst vor Autonomie bei Mann und Frau, 1986, Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag (dtv), Neuauflage 1. Januar 1992
Dr. Christina Grof (1941-2014) US-amerikanische Psychotherapeutin, Gründerin des Spiritual Emergence Network (SEN), Mitbegründerin von Holotropic Breathwork, Künstlerin, Lehrerin, Autorin, Sehnsucht nach Ganzheit. Der spirituelle Weg aus der Abhängigkeit, Kösel Verlag, 1. März 1994
Anne Wilson Schaef (1934-2020) US-amerikanische Psychotherapeutin, Frauenrechtlerin, Suchtforscherin, Autorin, Im Zeitalter der Sucht. Wege aus der Abhängigkeit, Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, 5. Auflage 1997
Dr. Reinhard Haller (*1951) österreichischer Chefarzt, Psychiater, Psychotherapeut, Neurologe, Suchtexperte, Sprecher, Autor, Nie mehr süchtig sein. Leben in Balance, Ecowin, 3. Auflage 23. März 2017

Literature (engl.)

Alcoholics Anonymous, Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, first issued 1953, published by Alcoholics Anonymous
Publishing, 1st edition 10. February 2002
Vance Ferrell, You can quit Alcohol, Harvestime Books, 1987, 2. Ausgabe 2003

Rerence to Hawkins' studies of treatment schizophronic alcoholics with highly dosed multi vitamins. [Bezugnehmend auf Dr. Hawkins'
Multi-Vitamin-Gaben-Studien mit schizophrenen Alkoholikern]

J. Randolph (Randy) Richmond, US American former publisher, Human Design consultant, former addict, recovering of alcoholism, mental patient of Dr. David Hawkins, AA program participant, Sedona resident, David R. Hawkins, foreword, Elvia Acuna, translator, Bette Jean Cundiff, cover design), Side by Side. The Twelve Steps and A Course in Miracles, BookSurge Publishing, 1st issue, 1987, paperback, reprint, 12. August 2009
⚡ Bill Griffith Wilson [Bill W.] [LoC 540] (1895-1971) US American co-founder of the international mutual aid fellowship Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), Language of the Heart. Bill W's Grapevine Writings, Grapevine, October 1988
Christina Grof, Ph.D. (1941-2014) US American psychotherapist, founder of Spiritual Emergence Network (SEN), co-founder
of Holotropic Breathwork, artist, teacher, author, The Thirst for Wholeness. Attachment, Addiction, and the Spiritual Path,
Harper Collins, 12. September 1994
Dr. Brenda Schaeffer, US American spiritual psychologist, certified addiction specialist,Is It Love or Is It Addiction?,
Hazelden, 2nd edition 10. October 1997
William L. White, Slaying the Dragon. The History of Addiction Treatment and Recovery in America, Lighthouse Training
Institute, 1st edition March 1998
Dr. David F. Musto, Creating the American Disease. Origins of Narcotic Control, Oxford University Press, NYC, United States,
3rd edition 22. April 1999
Terry Burnham, Jay Phelan, Mean Genes. From Sex to Money to Food. Taming Our Primal Instincts, Penguin, 1st edition
28. August 2001
Caroline Jean Acker, Creating the American Junkie. Addiction Research in the Classic Era of Narcotic Control, The Johns
Hopkins University Press, 1st edition 29. March 2002
Kevin McCauley, M.D., US American addiction researcher and therapist, The Institute For Addiction Study, Dr. Cory A. Reich,
coauthor, Addiction. New Understanding; Fresh Hope; Real Healing, Institute for Addiction Study, 1st edition 4. June 2007
Gabor Maté, M.D. drgabormate.com (*1944) Hungarian-Canadian addiction expert, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts. Close Encounters with Addiction, Knopf Canada, 12. February 2008, issued in the United States, 5. January 2010, Vermilion,
4. October 2018
David E. Schoen, LCSW, MSSW, US American Jungian analyst, New Orleans, Louisiana, The War of the Gods in Addiction.
C.G. Jung, Alcoholics Anonymous, and Archetypal Evil, Spring Journal, 1st edition 27. August 2009

Referring to the correspondence between Swiss psychiatrist C.G. Jung and one of the founders of Alcoholics Anonymous, Bill W.
[LoC 540] (1895-1971), a Jungian take on why the 12 Steps work, proposes an original, groundbreaking, psychodynamic view of addiction

Don Lattin, US American recovered alcoholic, freelance journalist, author, Distilled Spirits. Getting High, Then Sober, with a Famous Writer, a Forgotten Philosopher, and a Hopeless Drunk, University of California Press, 1st edition 18. October 2012
Marc Lewis, Ph.D. (*1951) US American professor of developmental neuroscience, expert in dynamic systems approaches
to understanding the development of emotions and personality, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands, Memoirs of an
Addicted Brain. A Neuroscientist Examines his Former Life on Drugs, PublicAffairs, reprint edition 5. March 2013
Johann Hari (*1979) British columnist, journalist, writer, Chasing the Scream. The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs, Bloomsbury, 20. January 2015

Externe Weblinks

Wikipedia-Einträge 12-Schritte-Programm, Anonyme Alkoholiker (AA), Cenacolo, Gnade, Selbsthilfegruppe, Sucht,

External web links (engl.)

Wikipedia entries Twelve-Step Program, Addiction

Sexual Addiction Screening Test, originally presented by [[https://new.recoveryzone.com/|recoveryzone.com, formerly Sexhelp.com, reposted by psychology-tools.com
Blog article Defense Mechanisms of the Addictive Personality, presented by the website ErikBohlin.net, undated
Conny Larsson, Swedish former cult member, author of Behind the Clown's Mask, The internationalisation of cults – a danger to human rights in Europe?, describing a 31-year long journey in two Indian cults, presented at FECRIS Conference, Brussels,
25. March 2006

FECRIS = Fédération Européenne des Centres de Recherche et d‘Information sur le Sectarisme European Federation of Centres Research and Information on Sectarianism

Overview SPECT Imaging, presented by Daniel Amen, M.D. (*1954) US American physician, child and adult neuropsychiatrist, medical director of the Amen Clinic, self-help advisor, lecturer, author, undated
Article Brain Scan Pictures – Shocking Effects of Alcohol, Cigarettes and Caffeine On The Brain, first published by UK conser-
vative, middle-market daily tabloid newspaper Daily Mail, presented by the news outlet impactlab.com, 5. May 2009

Audio- und Videolinks

Auszüge der Fernseh-Dokumentationsserie unter dem Originaltitel Sucht eine gefährliche Leidenschaft, präsentiert von dem deut-
schen öffentlich-rechtlichen Fernsehsender ZDF im Zeitraum 31. Januar 2009-5. Februar 2009, YouTube Film, September 2013
- Forschungsreise in die Psychiatrie Sucht – Eine Gefährliche Leidenschaft Doku über Sucht Teil 1, 14:31 Minuten Dauer, 24. September 2013
- Forschungsreise in die Psychiatrie Sucht – Eine Gefährliche Leidenschaft Doku über Sucht Teil 2, 13:36 Minuten Dauer, 24. September 2013

Über soziale Suchtfaktoren und biochemische Veränderungen im Gehirn; Einblick in die Arbeit des Pfalzklinikums für Psychiatrie und Neurologie, Klingenmünster

Audio and video links (engl.)

Video interview with Abram Hoffer, M.D., Ph.D. (1917-2009) Canadian psychiatrist, biochemist, agricultural chemist, Interview, presented by the Community Addiction Recovery Association (CARA), Sacramento, California, 27.-29. September 2007, YouTube film, 9:31 minutes duration, posted 21. February 2008

Discussing addiction, Depression, AA, Bill W., Niacin, Linus Pauling, orthomolecular medicine, his colleague Dr. David Hawkins who had successfully treated schizophrenic alcoholics with Niacin Minute 6:40

Video presentation by Stanislav Grof MD-PhD (*1931) Czech US American psychiatrist, consciousness researcher, co-developer of transpersonal psychology, teacher, author, Addiction. The Transpersonal View, "Transpersonal Conversations" series, YouTube film, 3:37 minutes duration, posted 8. May 2008
"You cannot get enough of what you don't really want or need."
Video presentation by Nora Volkow (*1956) US American director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), National Institutes of Health (NIH) (*May 2003), Why Addicts Shouldn’t be Criminalized, presented by the US American web portal Big Think, YouTube film, 43:36 minutes duration, originally posted 27. November 2009, 23. April 2012
"Drug addiction is a disease of the human brain."
Video presentation Dopamine and Addiction by Two Researchers, presented by the publication Your Brain On Porn, submitted by Gary Wilson, 2. December 2010

Short clips on Dopamine by Nora Volkow, director National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Adam Kopecs

Video interview with Marion Woodman (1928-2018) Canadian Jungian feminist, writer, Dancing in the Flames, Marion Woodman and the Conscious Feminine Project, hosted by Dr. E. A. Bennet, London, England, filmed over a period of four years, produced by the Principia Productions, Lael McCall and Marlene Schiwy, Vimeo film, 16:37 minutes duration, first posted on YouTube 2010, reposted 4. January 2012
Video interview with Derek Steele, US American retired business owner, recovered drug addict, public speaker, author of Addict at 10, Overcoming Addiction, presented by the Houston Public Media, program "Living Smart", #?, host Patricia Gras (*1960)
US American television anchor, reporter, journalist, YouTube film, 28:47 minutes duration, posted 12. April 2011
Audio interview with Don Lattin, US American recovered alcoholic and cocaine addict, freelance journalist, author of Distilled Spirits. Getting High, Then Sober, with a Famous Writer, a Forgotten Philosopher, and a Hopeless Drunk, University of California Press, 1st edition 18. October 2012, Frank Faulk's Tarot Deck / Worshipping at the Altar of Vodka and Cocaine, [presented by the Canadian web radio station CBC Radio Tapestry, season 18, episode 18, host Mary Hynes, Canadian journalist, 53:59 minutes duration, aired 9. January 2013
Video presentation by Graham Hancock grahamhancock.com (*1950) British archeo-astronomist, shamanic seeker, journalist, writer, Graham Hancock – The War on Consciousness BANNED TED TALK, presented by TED Talks, Whitechapel, 12. January 2013, YouTube film, 18:44 minutes duration, posted 15. March 2013

Mother Ahauasca gave Hancock an encounter with death and pulled him off of his destructive path of 24 years of addictive abuse of cannabis.

Video presentation by Johann Hari (*1979) British columnist, journalist, writer, Everything you think you know about addiction
is wrong, Transcript, presented by TED Talks, YouTube film, 14:42 minutes duration, posted 9. July 2015
Animated infotainment presentation adapted from the researched data of Johann Hari (*1979) British columnist, journalist, wri-
ter, Everything We Think We Know About Addiction Is Wrong, presented by Patreon, YouTube film, 5:41 minutes duration, posted 29. October 2015
Video presentation by Gary Wilson, US American science teacher, Gary Wilson – Pornography Addiction and Perceived Ad-
diction – Reach 10, YouTube film, 1:59:50 duration, posted 30. August 2017

Wilson explains the science behind the effects of pornography on the brain and body, how addiction is developed, and the widely published! misleading idea of "perceived addiction."

Linkless media offering

Video interview with Timothy Francis Leary (1920-1996) US American psychologist, DON'T TAKE LSD... (V 0.2.1), excerpted from the CBC documentary How To Go Out of Your Mind: The LSD Crisis, filmed 1966, YouTube film, 10:05 minutes duration, posted 25. May 2010
Timothy Leary: "We always have urged people: Don't take LSD unless you are very well prepared, unless you are specifically prepared to go out of your mind. Don't take it unless you have someone that's very experienced with you to guide you through it. And don't take it unless you are ready to have your perspective on yourself and your life radically changed, because you're gonna be a different person, and you should be ready to face this possibility."

Audio and video links (engl.) – Gabor Maté

Video (DVD) presentation by Gabor Maté, M.D. drgabormate.com (*1944) Hungarian-Canadian physician, addiction expert, speaker, author, Brain Development and Addiction, YouTube film, 1:04:26 duration, posted 23. February 2009
"Food will increase one's dopamine levels 50%."
Sex will increase one's dopamine levels 100%.
Cocaine will increase one's dopamine levels by 300%.
Methamphetamine (chrystal meth) will increase one's dopamine levels by 1200.
None of the drugs (including nicotine and caffeine) can "cause" addictions.
Video interview with Gabor Maté, M.D. drgabormate.com (*1944) Hungarian-Canadian physician, addiction expert, speaker, author of In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts. Close Encounters with Addiction (2008), Close Encounters with Addiction, presented by the TalkingStick TV, YouTube film, recorded in Seattle, 16. January 2010, 27:55 minutes duration, posted 22. January 2010
Video presentation by Gabor Maté, M.D. drgabormate.com (*1944) Hungarian-Canadian physician, addiction expert, speaker, author of In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts. Close Encounters with Addiction (2008), In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts. Close Encounters with Addiction, presented at Reed College in Portland, Oregon, Students for Sensible Drug Policy, filmed by Book CSPAN2 TV, 1:44:50 duration, 12. February 2010
Video presentation by Gabor Maté, M.D. drgabormate.com (*1944) Hungarian-Canadian physician, addiction expert, speaker, author, location Forgive US, We Know Not What We do, presented by department of criminology, Simon Fraser University (SFU), YouTube film
- Addictions & Corrections, part 1 of 2, 45:09 minutes duration, posted 1. March 2011
- Addictions & Corrections, part 2 of 2, 1:30:50 duration, posted 9. March 2011

Panel presentations, discussion, Q&A

Audio presentation by Gabor Maté, M.D. drgabormate.com (*1944) Hungarian-Canadian physician, addiction expert, speaker, author, Capitalism Makes Us Crazy: Dr. Gabor Maté on Illness and Addiction, presented by zvents.com, recorded by the listener-funded Californian radio station KPFA Public Radio Exchange (PRX), Berkeley, California, 29:00 minutes duration, aired
19. November 2011
"It's very interesting to look at United States from the outside. [...] If you met some guy who kept telling you how great he was and everybody wants to be like him, how would you diagnose him psychologically? He has got a grandiose personality disorder. What he is actually doing is compensating for his deep insecurity. This is a country [USA] which in its very rhetoric betrays its extraordinary insecurity." Minute 1:35-2:17
Video presentation by Gabor Maté, M.D. drgabormate.com (*1944) Hungarian-Canadian physician, addiction expert, speaker, author, Who We Are When We Are Not Addicted: The Possible Human, Vancouver, B.C., recorded 9. January 2012, YouTube film, 59:19 minutes duration, posted 12. January 2012

Launch of workshop series Beyond Addiction: The Yogic Path to Recovery

Video presentation by Gabor Maté, M.D. drgabormate.com (*1944) Hungarian-Canadian physician, addiction expert, speaker, author, The Power of Addiction and The Addiction of Power, presented by TEDxRio+20 Talks, YouTube film, 18:47 minutes duration, posted 9. October 2012
Video opening public keynote address by Gabor Maté, M.D. drgabormate.com (*1944) Hungarian-Canadian physician, addiction expert, speaker, author, Women, Addictions and FASD – Public Keynote Address, sponsored by the Regional FASD Conference Hope in Action – A Caring Community, Smithers, B.C., 7-9 February 2012, YouTube film, 1:44:36 duration, posted by SCSASmithers 6. March 2013
Audio presentation by Gabor Maté, M.D. drgabormate.com (*1944) Hungarian-Canadian physician, addiction expert, speaker, author, Psychedelics in Unlocking the Unconscious: From Cancer to Addiction, sponsored by the conference Psychedelic Science 2013, 18.-23. Oakland, California, 20. April 2013, YouTube film, 1:00:35 duration, posted 24. July 2013

Linkless media offerings

Video presentation by Gabor Maté, M.D. drgabormate.com (*1944) Hungarian-Canadian physician, addiction expert, speaker, author, Dr. Gabor Mate on how addiction changes the brain, full show, presented by the Canadian TV station TVO, Ontario, host Allan Gregg (*1952) Canadian political advisor, pollster, pundit, YouTube film, 27:01 minutes duration, posted 18. November 2010
Vimeo interview with Gabor Maté, M.D. drgabormate.com (*1944) Hungarian-Canadian physician, addiction expert, speaker, author, Attachment = Wholeness and Health or Disease, ADD, Addiction, Violence, presented by the video producer Touch the Future, host Michael Mendizza, 1:19:57 duration, posted 11. December 2012

Audio and video links (engl.) – Alcohol addiction – ⚡ Bill Wilson and J.R. (Randy) Richmond

Rare TV footage LSD and Bill Wilson, the co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, recorded in 1956, YouTube film, 9:16 minutes duration, posted 31. July 2012

LSD research conducted in Los Angeles in 1956 by Dr. Sidney Cohen, including an interview with the Anglo-Irish philospher Gerald Heard, who turned on a number of influential Americans in the 1950s. Among them was AA co-founder Bill Wilson, who thought LSD could help some drunks have a spiritual awakening.

Video Interview/documentary with and by Lois Wilson (1891-1988) and Bill Griffith Wilson [Bill W.] [LoC 540] (1895-1971)
US American co-founder of the international mutual aid fellowship Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), narrating on Bill Wilson's Story, YouTube film
- Bill Wilson from the movie "Bill's Own Story", 56:48 minutes duration, posted 1. July 2014
- Bill Wilson Story Alcoholics Anonymous, 42:18 minutes duration, posted 21. September 2014
Video interview with J. Randolph (Randy) Richmond, US American former publisher, Human Design System consultant, recovered alcoholic, mental patient of Dr. David Hawkins, AA program participant, ACIM teacher in Sedona, author of Side by Side. The Twelve Steps and A Course in Miracles, Human Design, Bill Wilson – Dr. David Hawkins, part 2 of 2, host Pat Barber aka happyhandyman, YouTube film, 9:50 minutes duration, posted 29. December 2009

Linkless media offerings

Video presentation by Gabor Maté, M.D. drgabormate.com (*1944) Hungarian-Canadian physician, addiction expert, speaker, author, The Human Face of Addictive Behaviour, sponsored by Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, 3. June 2008, filmed by the Canadian TV station TVO, Ontario, deleted YouTube film, 54:33 minutes duration, posted 30. April 2012

Audio and video links (engl.) – Kevin McCauley

Video eight-part series of presentations excerpted by Kevin McCauley, M.D., US American addiction researcher and therapist, The Institute For Addiction Study, excerpted from the DVD Pleasure Unwoven on the topic Addiction, The Institute For Addiction Study, US American addiction researcher, YouTube film
- 1. Is Addiction Really a Disease?, 2:24 minutes duration, posted 6. December 2009
- 2. The Choice Argument, 4:15 minutes duration, posted 26. November 2009
- 4. Dopamine's Role in Reward, 3:30 minutes duration, reposted 17. February 2012
- 8. Hypofrontality in addiction, 4:56 minutes duration, posted 24. January 2010
Video presentation by Kevin McCauley, M.D., US American addiction researcher and therapist, The Institute For Addiction Study, YouTube film, posted 15. March 2010
- Going to the Edge of Current Neuroscience of Addiction, part 1 of 10, 10:00 minutes duration
- Going to the Edge of Current Neuroscience of Addiction, part 2 of 10, 10:00 minutes duration
- Going to the Edge of Current Neuroscience of Addiction, part 3 of 10, 9:25 minutes duration
- Going to the Edge of Current Neuroscience of Addiction, part 4 of 10, 10:00 minutes duration
- Going to the Edge of Current Neuroscience of Addiction, part 5 of 10, 10:00 minutes duration
- Going to the Edge of Current Neuroscience of Addiction, part 6 of 10, 9:03 minutes duration
- Going to the Edge of Current Neuroscience of Addiction, part 7 of 10, 10:00 minutes duration
- Going to the Edge of Current Neuroscience of Addiction, part 8 of 10, 10:00 minutes duration

The midbrain is the unconscious, primitive, reflexive survival-based limbic system.

"Addiction is a dysregulation of the midbrain-dopamine and cortical-glutamate (pleasure) system due to unmanaged stress
resulting in symptoms of decreased functioning specifically: 1. Loss of control, 2. Craving, 3. Persistent drug use despite negative
consequences." Minute 6:29

Going to the Edge of Current Neuroscience of Addiction, part 9 of 10, 8:37 minutes duration
Going to the Edge of Current Neuroscience of Addiction, part 10 of 10, 3:49 minutes duration

Video presentation by Kevin McCauley, M.D., US American addiction researcher and therapist, The Institute For Addiction Study, Dr. Kevin Mccauley Meth and Other Drug and Alcohol Addiction, YouTube film, 1:12:37 minutes duration, posted 7. May 2012

Scientific neurobiological facts behind addiction. Addiction is a disease.

Video presentation by Kevin McCauley, M.D., US American addiction researcher and therapist, The Institute For Addiction Study, Dr. Kevin McCauley – "The Neuroscience of Addiction", presented by the organization COBE, Virginia Commonwealth University, recorded 14. April 2016, YouTube film, 1:09:50 duration, posted 27. May 2016

Audio and video links (engl.) – Sex addiction – Patrick Carnes

Video interview with Patrick Carnes, Ph.D. C.A.S. drpatrickcarnes.com (*1944) leading US American sex addiction therapist, Minneapolis, creator of the International Institute for Trauma and Addiction Professionals (ITAAP), author, YouTube film
- Addiction Is an Epidemic, 1:43 minutes duration, 25. January 2010
- Why Are 12 Steps So Effective?, 2:25 minutes duration, 24. January 2010
- Are Addicts Bad People?, 1:39 minutes duration, 24. January 2010
- What are the Causes of Addiction?, 3:24 minutes duration, 24. January 2010
- Addiction and Excellence, 1:45 minutes duration, 24. January 2010
- At What Point Does Behavior Constitute Addiction?, 2:32 minutes duration, 24. January 2010
- Internet's Role in the Spread of Sex Addiction, 2:43 minutes duration, 24. January 2010
- Chemical Addiction vs. Process/Behavioral Addiction , 3:00 minutes duration, 24. January 2010
- What Is Addiction?, 2:10 minutes duration, 24. January 2010
  "Addiction is a brain disease."
- Public Awareness of Sex Addiction, 3:46 minutes duration, 24. January 2010
- CEOs and Addiction, 2:20 minutes duration, 24. January 2010
- What is the Family's Role in Addiction Recovery, 1:21 minutes duration, 25. January 2010
Video workshop for therapists by Patrick Carnes, Ph.D. C.A.S. drpatrickcarnes.com (*1944) leading US American sex addiction specialist and therapist on "addictive society, sex addiction, Internet porn", Minneapolis, creator of the International Institute for Trauma and Addiction Professionals (ITAAP), author, Why Treatment Works, YouTube film, 40:53 minutes duration, posted 24. March 2017

Audio and video links (engl.) – Internet pornography addiction – Gail Dines

Video interview with Gail Dines, US American professor of sociology and women's studies, Wheelock College, Boston, anti-pornography campaigner, author of Pornland. How Porn has hijacked Our Sexuality, 29. June 2010, PORNLAND – Trailer – Extended Preview, YouTube film, 4:45 minutes duration, first posted August 2010, reposted 20. December 2019
Video interview with Gail Dines, US American professor of sociology and women's studies, Wheelock College, Boston, anti-pornography campaigner, on Crusade Against Porn, sponsored by the Book TV, produced by the US American cable television network C-SPAN2 (MOXNews.com), recorded 4. September 2010, YouTube film, posted 6. September 2010

Social and cultural impact of pornography in American society. Boys first view porn at the average age of 11.5 years resulting in an unhealthy understanding of sexuality.

One Woman's Crusade Against Porn, part 1 of 3, 13:24 minutes duration
One Woman's Crusade Against Porn, part 2 of 3, 14:48 minutes duration
One Woman's Crusade Against Porn, part 3 of 3, 6:58 minutes duration

Video interview with Gail Dines, US American professor of sociology and women's studies, Wheelock College, Boston, anti-pornography campaigner, The pitfalls of porn, presented by the international state-funded 24-hour English-language news TV channel Al Jazeera English, host Riz Khan, YouTube film, 22:33 minutes duration, posted 16. September 2010

The global reach of explicit pornography via the internet creates addicts, desensitizes men and degrades, debases, dehumanizes and objectifies women.

Audio interview with Gail Dines, US American professor of sociology and women's studies, Wheelock College, Boston, anti-pornography campaigner, author of Pornland. How Porn has hijacked Our Sexuality, 29. June 2010 and Melinda Tankard Reist Has porn hijacked our sexuality?, presented by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation ABC Radio National, program Late Night Live, host Phillip Adams, 55 minutes duration, aired 27. October 2010
"One in five men who look at [ Internet ] pornography are [porn] addicted."

Article, presented by Adult Video News (pornography industry publication) Minute 24:16

Audio and video links (engl.) – Internet pornography addiction – Hilton, Schneider, Kastleman, Wilson

Video documentation on Pornography addiction, a health hazard that western culture, written and directed by Jonathan Schneider, YouTube film

Internet pornography is NOT harmless. Interviews with sociologists, psychologists, scientists and law enforcement officials detail the negative side effects of pornography consumption.

A Drug Called Pornography. Understanding, part 1 of 7, 6:59 minutes duration, posted 3. October 2007
A Drug Called Pornography. Understanding, part 2 of 7, 6:02 minutes duration, posted 12. November 2007
A Drug Called Pornography. Understanding, part 3 of 7, 6:59 minutes duration, posted 12. November 2007
A Drug Called Pornography. Understanding, part 4 of 7, 8:06 minutes duration, posted 12. November 2007
A Drug Called Pornography. Understanding, part 5 of 7, 9:28 minutes duration, posted 12. November 2007
A Drug Called Pornography. Understanding, part 6 of 7, 8:44 minutes duration, posted 12. November 2007
A Drug Called Pornography. Understanding, part 7 of 7, 6:58 minutes duration, posted 12. November 2007

Video presentation directed to Youth and Parents by Donald L. Hilton Jr, MD, neurological surgeon, Pornography and its impact on the Brain, presented by the platform SA Lifeline Foundation, YouTube film, 13:23 minutes duration, posted 8. Sep-
tember 2010

Animated video series by Gary Wilson, US American science teacher, presented by BodyWisdomVideos, YouTube animation, posted 6. June 2010

Discussing the relationship between pornography and brain circuits

Things You Didn't Know About Porn, part 1 of 3, 9:24 minutes duration
Things You Didn't Know About Porn, part 2 of 3, 9:49 minutes duration
Things You Didn't Know About Porn, part 3 of 3, 7:30 minutes duration

Animated video series created by Gary Wilson, US American science teacher, Your Brain On Porn, presented by the platform Free Medical Education, YouTube films, originally posted 31. December 2010
- Part 1: Introduction | Your Brain on Porn, 5:50 minutes duration, reposted 3. December 2018
- Part 2: The Coolidge Effect, 5:20 minutes duration, reposted 16. April 2019
- Part 3: The Reward Circuit, 5:26 minutes duration, reposted 22. September 2019
- Part 4: Dopamine: The Molecule of Addiction, 5:59 minutes duration, reposted 18. November 2019
- Part 5: Pornography Addiction Test, 5:18 minutes duration, reposted 28. February 2020
- Part 1-5: Your Brain on Porn, 25:32 minutes duration, reposted 7. March 2020
Video presentation by Gary Wilson, US American science teacher, Erectile Dysfunction and Porn, Part 1, presented by BodyWisdomVideos, YouTube film, 12:55 minutes duration, posted 11. February 2011

Discussing the physiology of erections, ED, virtual overstimulation, recovery from Internet porn

"Love is an addiction based on porn."

Audio interview series (4 parts) with Mark Kastleman, US American pornography researcher, recovered from 25 years of porno-
graphy addiction, author of The Drug of the New Millennium. The Science of How Internet Pornography Radically Alters the Human Brain and Body, 2001, co-founder of Candeo, presented by the US American web radio station Covenant Eyes Podcast, host Luke Gilkerson
- Your Brain on Porn – Interview with Mark Kastleman, episode 5, part 1, 17:11 minutes duration, aired 28. April 2009
- The Porn Addiction Cycle, episode 6, part 2, 16:03 minutes duration, aired 29. April 2009
- Pornography Addiction, Women, and the Rape Myth, episode 7, part 3, 20:43 minutes duration, aired 30. April 2009
- Protect Kids from Porn: Three Key Principles for Parents, episode 8, part 4, 13:34 minutes duration, aired 1. May 2009
Video interview with Mark Kastleman, US American pornography researcher, recovered from 25 years of pornography addiction, co-founder of Candeo, author, Adult Porn Can Lead to Child Porn, presented by PornHarms.com, host Patrick Trueman, YouTube film, 4:19 minutes duration, posted 5. December 2010
Video interview with Mark Kastleman, US American pornography researcher, recovered from 25 years of pornography addiction, co-founder of Candeo, author, Porn, The Brain Science Behind Addiction, presented by PornHarms.com, host Patrick Trueman, YouTube film, 6:37 minutes duration, posted 5. December 2010
Video presentation by and interview with Mark Kastleman, US American pornography researcher, recovered from 25 years of pornography addiction, co-founder of Candeo, author, Pornography Addiction Doesn't Have To Last Forever!, YouTube film,
17:50 minutes duration, posted 18. July 2011