I just finished The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure and Zen and the Art of Happiness and want to thank you for your insights.
My difficulties with alcohol began with my first treatment center when I was fifteen years old in 1985. Since then I have tried everything and anything. I have attained some measurable sobriety in AA several times and in other programs through the years but inevitably ended up with less than favorable results. Finally a few years ago, at my wits end, I started putting together my own program through individual doctors, what I learned in AA, and literally dozens of books that I have read. I followed a path similar to the one you took with Pax. What I did not realize, though, until I read Cure, was that I was still carrying the disease concept of alcoholism with me and not asking myself the simple question of “why?”.It was a weight that I have carried for so long I did not realize it there and the damage it was causing. Thanks to your book I have had that “paradigm shift” and I think I have found the missing piece to my lifelong puzzle.
Keep writing and I look forward to your next book.
