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Martin Shaw & Felix Marquardt on Religious Conversion, Being Vulnerable, and the Power of Myths

The Sacred

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The Importance of Faith in Recovery

"I converted at first because I was a heat seeking like an attention seeking missile and the idea of the frowns on people's faces in the Bouljua Parisian milieu that I grew up in of having converted to Islam" "It took maybe three weeks or not much more than three or four weeks before one day I was sitting in rehab in in spain sitting outside on a bench and I saw a sunset and I could literally physically feel faith being born in me for the first time so my my faith you know I tried quitting drugs hundreds of times if not thousands of times on my own self will," he says. He has never had a drug or a drink since then and

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