But, as with most humans, he is more likely to have varied traits. The Christian ideals and principles that they followed enabled the 40 Pioneer AAs to have an extremely high success rate of over 75%. This important documented fact is the reason why it is so vital to make the Biblical roots of early A.A.
What is A Spiritual Malady?
It is simply to move people away from threat and towards safety. No amount of reason or rationalization with someone under threat, who is physiologically incapable of reason in that moment, will work. That is like asking a blind person to see. Give a spiritual malady blind person sight and they will see. No amount of reason, rationalization, or punishment, will restore their sight. Giving a threatened person safety instead of reason, rationalization, or punishment, is the equivalent of giving a blind person sight.
How Times of Spiritual Despair Can Benefit Us
- We were prepared to look for it from an entirely different angle.
- In threat, we can be mobilized towards aggressive or reactive defenses or we can be immobilized into passive or submissive defenses.
- We have to be aware of this phenomenon in everything we do and we have to be willing to look directly at this reality to be aware and correct course.
- The advanced question types help up collect deep insights.
Foundational to this practice is the understanding of threat and defensive physiology versus safety and restorative physiology. We also house traumatic memories in the threat centers of our brains that are slightly different than predictive codes as they may bubble up to awareness or into nightmarish dreams. These, too, bias the system towards threat physiology. We look very different in these different phenotypical states. Particularly notable to this discussion is what we look like in threat.
Our Church Life
Therefore my illness is a result of relying on self. I want to make clear to members that these thoughts are not definitive treatise on the subjects. Just an attempt to stimulate thought or discussion and provide information based on my study and experience. Today I look further at the disease of alcoholism focusing on it as a spiritual malady.
- If you aren’t ready to get involved in your church, that’s your decision.
- That, we think, is the root of our troubles.
- We pray and pray, only to seemingly receive a numbing “radio silence” in return, and it feels like our fate rests solely in our own failures and victories.
Convergence of Faith and Science
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How do we achieve a spiritual experience?
