ADDICTION: A Spiritual Search... In All The Wrong Places? - Jeff Foster

Jeff Foster offers an alternative perspective on addiction. He suggests that all human beings are ’addicts’ to some extent - we are all trying to escape or distract ourselves from the present moment in various ways - through drugs, through shopping, through alcohol, through work, even through spirituality - seeking contentment outside of ourselves, seeking wholeness in the future. What goes to the core of all our addictions is our addiction to “me“, our misidentification as a separate wave in the vast ocean