The Relationship Between Spiritual Experience and Addiction

The majority of people have what they would describe as a spiritual experience, right? But it turns out there's a big range in how intensely people have a spiritual experience. Some people will have an extraordinarily potent spiritual experience and some people a minority have no spiritual experience at all. It turns out the positive effects like smoking cessation correlate very closely with how intense your spiritual experience is. If you do not have an intense spiritual experience you have very few positive outcomes. And I think this tells us something that fits with the wider evidence that we're piecing together in this conversation which goes back to the opposite of addiction is connection.