Why Addiction Can’t Be Solved In a Three-Dimensional World
The problem is a power greater than us.
After being up for four days straight, wired on cocaine, I still had no idea when I was going to stop.
But I knew I didn’t want to.
It didn’t matter that I could barely breathe, move or speak. Or that exhaustion was doing its best to grab my eyelids and slam them shut.
Or that my teeth ached, gums bled, throat burned, heart pounded, and back spasmed; the pain wasn’t going to stop me either.
Irrespective of how much damage it would cause, all the reasons why I shouldn’t carry on had been lost.
It was as if someone had applied an aggressive accelerant to my thinking that was maniacal, incessant and driving me to annihilation.
There was a real sense that something foreign to me was at work with its own agenda.
An unceasing mental craving beyond my control.
But the most bizarre thing was I had no idea how the whole thing had started. I was adamant about not wanting to do this anymore, yet here I was..
Whatever was happening, I knew I was seriously unwell.
Sleep Walkers
“It was about people whose mental diseases couldn’t be treated because the causes of the diseases were all in the fourth dimension, and three-dimensional Earthling doctors couldn’t see those causes at all, or even imagine them.” ~ Kurt Vonnegut.
Scientists have spent decades trying to prove a visual link for addiction in the brains of hopeless addicts, but to date, no neural footprint has ever been found.
As such, addiction, from a scientist’s point of view, has moved from being viewed as a neurological one to more of a psychosocial environmental problem.
But what if there was something else going on with hopeless addicts regardless of any psychosocial environmental problems?
After all, out of the entire range of the electromagnetic spectrum, only a tiny portion, about 0.0035%, is visible to the human eye.
With all its technology and science, our limited three-dimensional world merely represents the minuscule known.
Every day, we are immersed in a vast unknown reality surrounded by an infinitely more unknowable universe, but we act as if we know everything.
What if something out of our known three-dimensional world was at play?
Curiouser and Curiouser
“No cure that fails to engage our spirit can make us well.”~ Victor E Frankl.
The book of Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) explains that the real addict suffers from a progressive, fatal illness that centers in the mind.
It makes it clear that addicts who suffer from this ‘curious mental phenomenon’, a strange type of amnesia around the consequences of relapse as well as delusional twisted thinking that addicts are blissfully unaware of, are beyond the aid of human power.
The Big Book doesn’t claim to know how or why this condition happens either; it merely shows us what appears to be happening from hundreds of real addicts’ factual experiences with this illness.
The Big Book prescribe a spiritual solution to recover from this life-and-death malady. It also mentions that their solution rockets addicts into a fourth dimension of existence.
The Big Book uses the fourth dimension to refer to the unseen, intangible and spiritual realms.
But what exactly is this ‘curious mental phenomenon’ the Big Book mentions that science hasn’t picked up on?
The Art of Teleportation
“In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.” ~ Desiderius Erasmus.
A rudimentary understanding of dimensions can give us a clue as to what may be happening to addicts.
Let’s begin with the second dimension.
The second dimension only has two directions: forward and back, left and right. A plane is two dimensions.
Unlike the third dimension, there is no up or down. Therefore, a hypothetical two-dimensional being can only experience a three-dimensional being in two dimensions and will not be able to see the whole three-dimensional body. Without any vertical, a sphere would only be experienced as a circle.
However, the three-dimensional being lives in a world of two planes and can see a sphere, or if it was just a circle, a three-dimensional being could step inside the circle.
A two-dimensional being wouldn’t be aware of something inside the circle. Something stepping into the circle would be like teleportation to a two-dimensional being, as if something had magically appeared within.
Furthermore, a two-dimensional being with no experience of three dimensions would struggle to picture something in three dimensions.
However, with tremendous effort, a two-dimensional being could imagine what a third-dimensional being would look like.
All drawings are two-dimensional, but we can easily make them into three-dimensional objects because of our three-dimensional experience.
Similarly, although the leap of imagination is less significant for us, three-dimensional beings, we can imagine what a four-dimensional being could look like and what it could do.
Shamans And Healers
“Awareness is the first step in healing.” ~ Dean Ornish.
It is important to note that science, strictly speaking, denotes the fourth dimension to time. However, remember, the Big Book uses the term fourth dimension to refer to the spiritual realm, the intangible.
Moreover, time is present in all dimensions, so if we stick to dimensions as spacial as in the first three dimensions, a fourth-dimensional being could see our three dimensions, but it could also see the context within them.
Precisely how shamans and healers could see the disease within their patients and cast it out, healing them without making an incision.
That’s why you can’t imprison a true fourth-dimensional being. They can come and go as they please.
Is our consciousness being hijacked by something we can’t see but only experience as it’s happening to us from another dimension?
Appearing in our minds like the three-dimensional being appears to the vulnerable two-dimensional being?
Whose Power Is It Anyway?
“The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.”~ Lao Tzu.
Instead of fighting this condition, whatever it is, we can all agree it is way beyond our mental, physical and emotional control. Therefore, we need to give this illness the respect it deserves and admit defeat.
It is a power greater than ourselves. We need help!
Trying to fight a problem you can’t see using a mind compromised by the very problem you’re trying to beat is a hopeless situation.
It’s why real addicts are powerless.
We need a new approach.
The Big Book’s spiritual solution resides outside our known three-dimensional world.
Instead of looking for answers outside ourselves, it suggests looking for the answer within.
‘Addiction is trying to find happiness in external sources, which leads to spiritual bankruptcy; the kingdom of heaven is within.’ ~ Sabbir Muslim
When real addicts experience and accept their powerlessness, they become very willing and open to something else.
They leave their three-dimensional comfort zone by stepping into the unknown.
By letting go of our old ideas and ways of doing things, we can become open to something new. Our consciousness begins to rise. New possibilities become available.
But this is only the beginning; we must do something else to truly access the fourth dimension.
A Decision To Believe
“Faith is unseen but felt, faith is strength when we feel we have none, faith is hope when all seems lost.” — Catherine Pulsifer.
Catholic priests who perform exorcisms rely on their absolute faith in Jesus to cast out evil spirits.
Addicts are no different. They have to have faith. When they let go of control and decide to have faith in something else, they come into contact with the intangible.
Faith in action is operating in the fourth dimension.
Faith is not just a mental decision. There’s a change of heart. The heart is an inter-dimensional organ, and it can touch and transmit the intangible.
‘The way is not in the sky; the way is in the heart.’ ~ Buddha
Whatever was happening to us can no longer have access to us as we are filled with something else coming through us from within.
Now, there is no more absence of consequences when it comes to relapse; common sense has been restored. We react sanely and are repelled at the thought of relapsing.
We are placed in an energy field of neutrality.
Final Thought
“Forget the self and you will fear nothing, in whatever level or awareness you find yourself to be.’” ~ Carlos Castaneda.
The problem and the solution are powers that do not originate from our three-dimensional world.
The solution is accessed by getting out of self and letting go of control using our free will. The problem has access to us through self and self-seeking motives by hijacking our free will.
When addicts have crossed that threshold into chronic relapsing, something else is in control. Their minds and will have become flawed. No matter how much effort, desire, fear and willpower they put into the situation, at certain times, they simply can’t stay sober.
However, if we finally come to a position of honesty and humility on the facts of the situation, we can choose a different path — the path of living by faith.
And that path can be found right here, right now, within, in the fourth dimension.
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