I was addicted to heroin from 22-29. During that time I had I got clean on the outside for 15 months clean – then relapsed and used for 2 years. I then went to rehab and got 5 months up – felt great! Then used again for 3 years – this was so dark, I never felt so addicted before. I really didn’t think I could ever get clean again. I got clean on my own again. I used all the resources I could find to help me, I’m still in early recovery today. Very determined to never go back. Such a cruel nightmare
I recognized that especially in the US scientists and influencers do not use words like "soul", "personality", "self", "psyche", "person" for a human being anymore. Instead, only the word "brain" is used. I think there is something is fundamentally wrong with the anthropological foundations here and this is a symptom of it. If I think of myself as a walking talking piece of tissue aka "brain", think in terms of my "brain functions", chemical processes in my brain, etc., I am reducing myself to mere physical processes. How could anybody feel content or even free with such a reductionist self definition? If I am no more than some chemical processes in my tissues, life is meaningless and it is not even worth trying to stabilize the potential "inbalances" in those tissues (i.e. depression). How can science really help human beings with such reductionist, anti-human materialism? I think with that mindset, people will become zombies or just kill themselves.
I was addicted to heroin from 22-29. During that time I had I got clean on the outside for 15 months clean – then relapsed and used for 2 years. I then went to rehab and got 5 months up – felt great! Then used again for 3 years – this was so dark, I never felt so addicted before. I really didn’t think I could ever get clean again. I got clean on my own again. I used all the resources I could find to help me, I’m still in early recovery today. Very determined to never go back. Such a cruel nightmare
The spiritual life is not a theory. We have to live it.
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I recognized that especially in the US scientists and influencers do not use words like "soul", "personality", "self", "psyche", "person" for a human being anymore. Instead, only the word "brain" is used. I think there is something is fundamentally wrong with the anthropological foundations here and this is a symptom of it. If I think of myself as a walking talking piece of tissue aka "brain", think in terms of my "brain functions", chemical processes in my brain, etc., I am reducing myself to mere physical processes. How could anybody feel content or even free with such a reductionist self definition? If I am no more than some chemical processes in my tissues, life is meaningless and it is not even worth trying to stabilize the potential "inbalances" in those tissues (i.e. depression). How can science really help human beings with such reductionist, anti-human materialism? I think with that mindset, people will become zombies or just kill themselves.
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