Greetings All,
From a larger perspective, try looking at the world (of time and mass) as a kind of addiCtion. It functions as an addition to a pre-historic (pre time/mass) Reality, a Being I sometimes call *Christ*. The math looks like this: Christ + addition = addiCtion. The experience of Reality (Christ) is a constant high sometimes described as "bliss" or "peace". Additions to such a Reality would present a rollercoaster ride of relative highs and lows.
Everyone (in such a world) is attempting to get relatively high, compared to the lows. If it is not some kind of exodorphin, it will be some kind of endorphin that riders seek. An exodorphin may be something as ubiquitous as warm milk served daily to children and adults alike in many different ways (hint: Starbucks). Warm milk yields a peptide called casomorphin (milk morphine) and has an opioid effect. Besides the peptides offered by foods, the process of digestion itself offers endorphins as the lining of the digestive tract is massaged by passing matter. Certain combinations are sometimes called "comfort food". Meanwhile, runners are getting high on endorphins generated through minor trauma to muscular tissue and joints. Trauma to muscular tissue and joints is sometimes called "massage", and offers a potent cocktail of endorphins (endogenous - inner - morphines). When massage is isolated to narrow errogenous zones it's called "sex", and yields high doses of straight dopamine. Straight dopamine, when not mixed with other endorphines, can be highly addictive.
Compare the endorphins generated by "sex" to a "full-body" massage that generally avoids the straight dopamine release (no "happy ending"). The high from such a session is powerful enough to diffuse any interest in the straight dopamine release generated by focused massage ("sex"). If you don't believe me, find a good practitioner and see for yourself. The inference is that an alternative mix of endorphins may be used to "detox" from their harsher endo and/or exo manifestations (ie. dopamine, heroin).
I don't offer the above as a true *cure*, but only as a temporary stop-gap, until *the* cure can be accepted. The point is that peptides (chemical combinations) of inner and/or external source are ruling the behavior of the participants of that which is added to Christ/Reality; namely, "the world" (of time/mass). One type is not better or worse or more or less criminal. They are all fairly addiCtive to the *Great Hooker*. So it's always a case of "Let he who is without sin cast the first stone".
The cure is the direct experience of "the Truth". The Truth is our natural heritage. No high in the world can compare to the high offered constantly by the Truth (no rollercoaster ride). The Truth is a Being. This Being is the ONLY Being, and so, is called "the Truth". All other beings are something mythical, theoretical, conceptual (ie. men, elfs, gnomes, trolls). The Truth is original. The Truth takes away all cravings. So, a return to our origin solves the problem of addiCtion by subtracting the rollercoaster ride we sometimes call (falsely) "life".
Christ
