Snapshot · The School of Greatness
Unlike drugs or alcohol where you can avoid the substance, sex addiction's neural pathways continue to deepen even through fantasy alone, requiring a level of psychological mastery that drugs and alcohol do not.
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Lewis asks how Bayer found his calling from God. Bayer traces his spiritual arc: atheist, then agnostic, then drawn to the law of attraction and Abraham Hicks, before feeling the limit of relating to 'the universe' rather than to a creator. The story of David facing Goliath resonated because of its quality of intimate, personal faith in a father. The practice that emerged, communion journaling, came through three overlapping signals: his wife suggested journaling instead of lying awake, Yogananda's autobiography showed him the value of early morning writing, and a breathwork session physically directed his hand to pick up a pen. The resulting practice — beginning with 'Dear Father, thank you,' moving through gratitude, then asking from a place of certainty, then praying for others — is what Bayer identifies as the felt experience of a personal relationship with God.
Unlike alcohol or drugs, sex addiction's neural pathways deepen even through fantasy alone — meaning you can be deepening the addiction without any physical contact. That's what makes it the hardest addiction to break, requiring psychological mastery, not just abstinence.
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