Recovery Manifesto
“We have been taught that freedom is the freedom to pursue our petty, trivial desires. Real freedom is freedom from our petty, trivial desires.” – Russell Brand
Introduction
What are the terms for ending the “war on drugs”? Will there be retribution from those who profited and great grandchildren can now exponentially profit for the rest of their lives? What is recovery reckoning? What will this new recovery look like to the masses? What are psychedelics going to do to our society?
Well, our program is the first recovery-based dissociative learning program that is teaching healers how to become healers or healers to improve their healing efforts. We are also reeducating people (citizens) on the terms of citizenry and moral development because spiritual and religious decay and corruption (absolute power corrupts absolutely) have dominated the human existence and spirit for long enough. We see the deadly condition to be addiction, which the establishment has failed to operationalize. We offer our path of recovery to those who want to know what cannot be known (O’Brien, 2023a), become what they could not imagine (HERE), and come to believe the exact opposite of what they once believed (HERE). If a recovery manifesto is anything or for anything, it is an update to the Declaration of Independence or new amendments to the Constitution.
When in the course of human history there is enough evidence to support common sense as the winner of social and cultural issues, then common sense shall be the law of the land. If one can demonstrate how and why something horrible is happening as a result of someone else, profession, or institute not accepting the common sense answer, then trauma (event), dissociation (dependence), and addiction (abuse) can be seen to be happening (O’Brien, 2023a). If solutions are not worked and other professionals are not holding up to their end of the (inter)dependent relationship, then addiction or abuse can be said to be present (HERE). Because living dissociated and addicted, being conscious and unconscious, or being aware of awareness is all relative to who is who and who cares, we must declare that psychological laws (HERE) and spiritual laws (HERE) are established science (O’Brien, 2023a; O’Brien, 2023b).
From the common sense (e.g., Occom Razor’s) answer and being on the right side of history (O’Brien, 2024c) point of view, when there is enough awareness around an issue like addiction and a solution to solve it with recovery, but healing is not happening, then again, trauma, dissociation, and addiction can be seen to be involved in a power struggle between professions (O’Brien, 2024b; HERE; O’Brien, 2024c; HERE) and the cause of an unhealed nation (HERE). As a result, citizens need laws and professions to protect them from the professions who rule, govern, and regulate the citizenry. Therefore, what we are manifesting in this work is the universal citizens right to heal, the right to choose, the right to practice healing without consequence, without fail, and under no implicit consequences other than what we face: death. In good faith, we pursue peace and harmony and not more chaos, murder, and wars against drugs, food, or citizens.
Orientation
As we have come to define addiction as trauma-related dissociation (O’Brien, 2023a), dissociation must be professionally clarified because this term explains why history, society, and culture unfolded and developed the way that it did. What this recovery manifesto defines is the separation between psychology and spiritual beliefs and practices because psychology and the medical model are outside of their scope of practice and abilities to handle the reintroduction of psychedelics to modern society, existential nature of stress and unresolved trauma, addiction as a dissociative feature of unresolved trauma, moral development, and the concept “mental health issues” is anything other than dysregulation in the body. This manifesto statement is what people will realize when taking a psychedelic; therefore we are preempting this danger. What people realize when taking a psychedelic is that psychology has been inaccurately portraying themselves as experts on what we all already know (e.g., “you don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows”) (O’Brien, 2023b; O’Brien, 2024c; HERE). The fact that they can diagnose, defer, and imprison another citizen over food is very concerning. Additionally, their use of technology to track what people are doing in their private lives is why and what we must protest against so we can manifest recovery solutions.
Background to the Problem
Our recognition that psychology has had different shortcomings without an operational definition of addiction, without a clear definition of the unconscious, and an inability to capture dissociation as a trauma and addiction-related condition that is on a normed dissociative spectrum (O’Brien, 2023a). What resolves all of these shortcomings is that the physical body is the psychological unconscious (O’Brien, 2024c), but will have to be accepted by the field of psychology and medical science. Progressive thought does not appear to be their trend (HERE; HERE).
Data
We (O’Brien, 2023a) argue that if trauma can be addicting, then so can anything; making addiction transdiagnostic and on a dissociative spectrum.
We (O’Brien, 2023b) argue that any mechanism of action that helps access memory reconsolidation is already evidence-based, which includes, but is not limited to: meditation, walking, talking, reading, singing, working, psychedelics, and breathing.
We (O’Brien, 2023c) argue that healer is a separate profession from that of a licensed psychological professional and have provided a path for those interested.
We (O’Brien, 2024a) established a profession of Healer because others did not have the conceptualization of dissociation prior and two of our main qualifiers is a healer has been through a process of recovery and have survived a near death experience. (Our training program helps induce these so people can learn how to navigate them before they die.)
We (O’Brien, 2024b) argue that the psychological professional system of licensure gatekeeping is not helping clients get their needs met and that professionals should be advocating for civil liberties (Moral-Ethics) to the professions who took them away and the psychological associations who did not do enough to stop the governmental overreach that created the conditions of abuse and enabled their addiction to power and control.
We (O’Brien, 2024c) argue that nothing is something because nothing is something and nothing is separate. We argue that the physical body is the psychological unconscious. If we are living in the illusion of our minds, this would all be reasonable.
We (O’Brien, 2024d) argue that potential clients are expecting professions to be moral before being ethical and we support Moral-Ethics professionally because actions are required to be moral.
We (O’Brien, 2024e) created a certified anger and batterer management program (cannabis-based). Our theoretical approach is for those who identify as having unresolved trauma related to perfectionism, altruism, and ambition addictions.
We (O’Brien, 2025) established our meta-cognitive analysis of our doctoral research on addiction, dissociation, and trauma; therefore, we can establish our theory of Applied Recovery. Applied Recovery is when everyone can be moral when there are laws that are morally illegal and unethical because the difference between ethics and morality are the actions you take and don’t take.
For more abbreviated highlights, bullet points, and cliff notes for those who do not want to take the journey: HERE
Discussion
While we have made are case and argument for society to recognize what it has done to the artists, dreamers, drug “addicts”, and free citizens of the world, we must recognize that we can know the answers to the questions that they don’t ask. An addiction research observation is that while they are looking for addiction’s expression in the genome, they are stressing the genome out. Thinking that there is one addiction gene is concerning, but so is non-addictive opiate now. Other than playing with chemistry set that will lead to more scientific atrocities, what is the answer to the question worth when recovery exists? The cost of doing recovery business may be too high, but won’t know that until we get the bill.
Conclusion
Our conclusions are what is in the rest of this book. (O’Brien, 2025)
Implications
This is a choose your own ending kind of journey…
Future Directions
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