Something above and beyond ordinary human experience had to be sought, and that the answer would be found in spirituality.

In understanding addiction, we first need to understand the nature of consciousness and then see how it applies to the addictive process. We will look at the true nature of addiction and the quality that society missed because its understanding of addiction was nil until the advent of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA). Prior to AA, the recover rate from addictions was zero, and it was rarely heard that anybody ever recovered from alcoholism. The truth was represented by Dr. Carl Jung who said that science had no answer for this problem, that something above and beyond ordinary human experience had to be sought, and that the answer would be found in spirituality.

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