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Definition of Addiction
: Habitual inclination, bent; a condition of compulsive psychological or physiological dependence on a drug or anything which will bring a feeling, or a physiological change, to the human body. It the feeling provided by that which is taken in, even music as a sound, which develops the inclination to be addicted.
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Life as a total addiction: As one is born into a world full of evil elements there is a time period when choices are made. When the choices are made to follow the ways of the world rather than lead the way by Creation numerous mixed feelings arrive from one extreme to another. There might be feelings of joy, feelings of sadness and feelings of excitement. When feelings of anger and resentment begin to develop they act as a curse because they separate man's conscience from Creator and the ways of the world begin to takeover where they can be food, sex or anything which creates a need for "it". "It" has often been described in this Course as the evil elements because it is "it" that takes over the human mind as if an alien had arrived upon this earth and spread its wings over everyone. "It" could be described as the devil, Satan, an alien or whatever name you would like to give it as long as you can understand that it is a power which opposes that of Creation. As long as man needs his life, his feelings and his possessions he is entirely dependent upon life as a whole and whatever it contains. Whatever is good on this earth not necessarily is good and as long as it had been created by man without conscience and a correct allegiance to Creator it will always contain an evil alien element. The complete concept of any addiction is worldly and earthly and originated through evil's way of destroying that which is good and from Creator.
Any need or dependency is also an addiction. If you need food, if you need sex, if you need love, if you need religion or anything it is just another addiction created upon this earth. Creator did not make this a need. The natural forms of love and the correct way to have sex cannot come under the category of pleasure because the definition of pleasure is "to derive some feeling from it" not to forget that feelings are the conduit for all addictions. This of course does not include pain from injury, from a fire or something resulting from dangerous acts which might cause an injury.
There are no addictions without feelings. One must fully understand the meaning of "feelings" to understand the life process as it truly exists through Creation. Yes, life is full of feelings because the feelings were the result of the programming of the human mind under influences of corruption and negative thoughts which include hate, resentment, jealousy, deceit, mistrust and all forms of molestation which can be verbal, physical or even visual. It is impossible today to avoid any of this as we now see television and Internet full of corruption. We now see our leaders in government following the same transgressions as the people they now rule are totally addicted to their life-style. People are provided with excitements and more excitements which all have a sexual inclination. If they cannot have it through sex than they find it another way through food or even the clothes they wear. The original addiction for the original human spiritual being had been sensuous.
Methods to eliminate
Meditation
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True Freedom
Methods to obtain freedom
Independence
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Absolute Religion
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