addiction emerges out of a lack of inner experience of intimacy with oneself, with God, with life, and with the moment.

These oceanic Neptunian states are also an antidote to the problems of alcoholism and drug addiction. From the perspective of transpersonal psychology, substance abuse, codependence and other forms of escapism are recognized as being understandable but mistaken attempts to return to the womb and reorient toward Higher Power. Addicts who reach

This spiritual awakening was itself the product of having hit bottom and surrendered, having acquired a faith, having accomplished a practical examination of our past and our character, having developed a deepening relationship with God, having accepted responsibility for the impact our sex and love addiction had on others, becoming aware of