Addiction strengthens forces within the soul that seek repetition, compulsion, and immediate gratification. The more they are fed, the more independent they become from the conscious will.Human freedom arises when the higher self becomes awake and governs the lower nature, rather than being governed by it.The free spirit is the one who can follow his own impulses because he has made them his own through conscious insight.Recovery, then, is not merely abstinence. It is a gradual awakening. The fo