> Self-help books and spiritual guides espouse the virtues of the sober minds ability to control itself. Frustrated with perplexing meditations that failed to r

> Self-help books and spiritual guides espouse the virtues of the sober minds ability to control itself. Frustrated with perplexing meditations that failed to remove my apathy in the presence of “beautiful” and “amazing” pleasures, pushed me to look for a more effective remedy. You throw away the psychological component for the physiological and chemical, the reverse as the "self-help books and spiritual guides," but this is also as unwise as the first.[0] And then you ridicule alcohol for its addictive qualities, while setting yourself up for addiction through functional drug dependence. As well, you're overriding the bulk of emotion and the autonomous nervous system which is dangerous in itself. [0] http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/ccp/51/6/856/ http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/ccp/51/6/856/