I use the word communion on purpose, so as to illicit a response and begin an exploratory conversation.

Let’s reveal exactly what your beliefs are around these-things and see how they bring clarity to your position.

Because I propose that we enter into communion with the spirits of addiction when we are engaged in the cycle. We feed them our energy and give them our power, and from this unhealthy union, all we get back are the consequences of our ordinary reality actions and the validation, through experience, of our original limiting core belief.

There are three reasons I use communion to explain addiction, and they are:

* The rituals involved

* The definition: to become as one with

* The power this moment in the cycle delivers

I go through each of these to show how this perspective illuminates the insane, but in this moment accurate, logic of how “addiction actually works and makes perfect sense.”

Let me know how all of this lands with you - I’d love to hear your take.

Here’s the newsletter that covers all of this:

Here’s Lesson #33 of the Alchemist Recovery Program that provides material, guidance and experiential exercises to dismantle this portion of the cycle:

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Blessings!

Randy