Beginning With Fire
The Story of Addiction, Human Nature, and Evolution
Chapter Sketches
Section Two
Dissolutions
Addiction is all about moving from fulfillment of longings to pain.
The double-entendre of
the section heading, “dissolutions,” is very much intended.
Over time the solutions to the problem of self provided by control begin
to dissolve — to diminish in efficacy. Meanwhile, there is an accompanying
deterioration of the integrity of the “self” that has embraced
the control solution, leading to a state of being dissolute (“lacking
in moral restraint; degenerate, degraded, dissipated;” etc.).
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Roget Lockard’s thinking about the complex topic of addiction is both revolutionary and unique. His work abounds with a wonderful mix of down-to-earth knowledge of addiction, and at the same time, a transcendent perspective on the breadth and depth of humankind’s capacity for addictive behavior. Lockard applies his exciting new thinking about the nature of addiction to all levels of planetary survival. I feel invigorated by his ideas — always!
Dusty Miller, therapist with more than thirty years in the addictions field, and author of Addiction and Trauma Recovery; Women Who Hurt Themselves: Your Surviving Spirit; Stop Running From Love; and numerous journal articles.
