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The Root Cause of Addiction

20 May 2025 · 1 min

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This is a YouTube video titled "The Root Cause of Addiction" containing a dialogue between two speakers, Louis and Speaker B, discussing the emotional and physical roots of addiction, focusing on fear and pain as central themes. The conversation explores concepts of consciousness, emotional awareness, and the nature of power in relation to addiction.

What is at the root cause of all addiction?
Fear. Pain. It's the same. Fear is pain. Emotional pain is fear. Emotional pain is physical pain. And when you read this book, you learn how to learn when you're in fear or when you're in love, somatically, through your body. It won't lie to you. So, for example, if you're feeling a painful physical sensation, a painful emotional experience, then you put your attention inside of you, not outside. This is where the old consciousness has you put your attention. Because from that perspective, it's the world that's producing pain in you. you. So to relieve yourself of the pain requires changing the world. That's manipulation and control. That's external power.
Changing people, changing your external environment, whatever it might be.
Yes.
Trying to change things that are hurting me.
Precisely. Precisely, Louis. That is the understanding of power of the old Consciousness. It's the only understanding of power that a Consciousness that's limited to the five senses can have.