As I have promised, here's an excerpt from Down-to-earth Spirituality.
But the real meaning of addiction is that it is an alternative god- people are using a substance or an experience to fill the God-shaped vacuum of the soul. Gerard May deals with this perspective.
...Thus the more we become accustomed to seeking spiritual satisfaction through things other than God, the more abnormal and stressful it becomes to look for God directly.
Essentially, addictive behavior is a failure in imagination, being unable to envision what it will be like after the fix has worn off... and the remorse when one considers the implications of what one has done. But as I have said, it is also a failure in faith.
How can one differentiate escape from addiction?
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