If I understand him well, above everything Ralph aches for unity with the eternal feminine caritas—blessed, soul-saving divine love. Divine here refers not to a supernatural deity above us but to the immortal essence of existence that lives in us, through us, beyond us. Religions may identify it with a god belief, but a search for the eternal extends far beyond formal religious concepts. One consequence of spiritual deprivation is addiction, and not only to drugs. At conferences devoted to science-based addiction medicine, it is more and more common to hear presentations on the spiritual
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