"Malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man," wrote A.E. Houseman. When he was asked about help for those who drink too much, Carl Jung wrote to Alcoholics Anonymous co-founder Bill Wilson that he thought men and women could only stop drinking after having a spiritual conversion. The cure for drinking he wrote, was spiritus contra spiritum.
Drinking as a Low-Level Search for God
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