Speaking from personal experience, a disdain for life, spiritual arrogance is at the heart of defilement. This disdain opens one up to defilement through the myriad of variations available. Some may be as overt as drug addiction and others more socially acceptable like new age spiritualism. A prostitute on the street while more honest than a woman who marries for money, both share at the core, a disdain for life, a disdain for God. One is more socially acceptable than the other. Acknowledging then accepting responsibility for having disdain for God and life itself as a willful act is no easy undertaking and will leave one with a heavy heart. At the same time, it is a gateway, an opportunity to allow for the transmutation of the darkness in the heart, into light. We have become in essence, darkaholics and can only begin to restore sanity in ourselves by returning to a relationship with God which is the foundation of effective recovery systems. It is through you Bruce and the Talamanca review this clarity became accessible. An individual must come to this on their own, it cannot come from an external push and so what may seem a harsh opinion on drug addicts is simply honoring the choice which has been made, which is a death wish in its discordance with life and is therefore quite sensible.
Speaking from personal experience, a disdain for life, spiritual arrogance is at the heart of defilement. This disdain opens one up to defilement through the myriad of variations available. Some may be as overt as drug addiction and others more socially acceptable like new age spiritualism. A prostitute on the street while more honest than a woman who marries for money, both share at the core, a disdain for life, a disdain for God. One is more socially acceptable than the other. Acknowledging then accepting responsibility for having disdain for God and life itself as a willful act is no easy undertaking and will leave one with a heavy heart. At the same time, it is a gateway, an opportunity to allow for the transmutation of the darkness in the heart, into light. We have become in essence, darkaholics and can only begin to restore sanity in ourselves by returning to a relationship with God which is the foundation of effective recovery systems. It is through you Bruce and the Talamanca review this clarity became accessible. An individual must come to this on their own, it cannot come from an external push and so what may seem a harsh opinion on drug addicts is simply honoring the choice which has been made, which is a death wish in its discordance with life and is therefore quite sensible.