Avoiding the Void: the Lack of Self in Psychotherapy and Buddhism
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The drugs thatpeople takefor non-medicalreasons do more than numb pain or enhance pleasure or induce perceptual distortions. They are a weaponagainstthe void. Inhisbook onopium,Jean Cocteauwrote that every human activity "takes place in an express train hurtling towards death." To take drugs, he proposed, is to get off that train. The potent illusionthat drugsprovide is calleduponwhen the more commonplace illusionsfail, andespeciallywhen life appearsas nothingmore thanthe conduitbetween birth and death (LUG Sante),I
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