Extraordinary Awakenings and the Disappearance of Addiction

September 22nd, 2021

By Steve Taylor, Ph.D.

Guest writer for Wake Up World

During his childhood, Parker was bullied and had few friends. Desperate to gain some status and popularity, at the age of 14 he started selling drugs to his high school friends. At first, he sold pot, then moved on to psychedelics. However, he was caught selling marijuana and was expelled from school. His parents threw him out of the house too, so that at the age of 16, he found himself living alone. This led to a period of heavy drug use, which lasted for two years.

As he told me, “I ended up getting heavily addicted to cocaine, as well as doing meth and other drugs. I couldn’t see any purpose in my existence. I was very unwell, mentally and physically. There was a period in the end when I was awake for close to a week, constantly doing drugs. I was expecting to die of an overdose, and I was kind of okay with that.”

However, the next day Parker woke up and felt completely different, for no apparent reason. As he told me, “I suddenly wasn’t addicted anymore. It was incredibly bizarre. I called my sister and said, “I’m done with all this. I’m not taking drugs anymore. Can you come and pick me up?”

Suddenly, Parker felt that he had a new wide and deep awareness, as if he had had a form of awakening. “It occurred to me that everyone was running around worrying about this and that and missing the picture. I felt like everyone around me was crazy.”

However, as an 18-year-old, he didn’t know how to communicate his insights and was confused by the sudden appearance of his addiction. He went to see a psychiatrist, who also couldn’t understand how someone so heavily addicted to drugs could spontaneously become free of them. Parker’s confusion led to a period of frustration and depression, but he remained sober. Some 20 years later, he is now a successful professional, with a wife and child.

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