JBP: the aim is possessed by the substance of addiction

AH...He's been sober more than four years now he got out of there and never looked back and I wonder now, whether something something must've changed in his brain by adopting what it was essentially a different structure structure, but wasn't doing it before extreme consequences were on the table at that time When he went in weren't enough something about going there and the work that he did there allowed him to then it's almost like he got another prefrontal cortex. 

JBP...well that's not a bad way of thinking about - that people are trying to do when they Pray. So you can invite in spirits to possess you. That's a good way of thinking about it. I know that's odd terminology but that's what you do when you dwell on your rage right? Imagine that you're doing that in the most positive possible direction, so what you're doing is your generating a hypothesis about the motive conduct and perception that would best help you if you were ideal, and then establishing a relationship with that, and inviting it in that's what the evangelical protestants are doing when they formulate a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. That's exactly what they're doing. 

... This is another insistence that's derived from the religious literature, so, because the idea is that if your aim is the pathway forward to that will make self-manifest, and that's true. You could think of our perceptual systems and our emotional system as navigating tools, right? So now the addiction, the addicted brain, see the aim is possessed by the substance of addiction, right so now the highest God is cocaine so now all pathways in the world, our pathway to cocaine all objects in the world are markers on the pathway to cocaine cause it just dominates, but it's not it's not just an impulse it dominates the perceptual landscape as well. Well that makes the emotional landscape and it comes with all these rationalizations that's all those lies. Right,the whole thing,whole personality, brutal, brutal.