Abstract

The purpose of this research is to examine how an aversive life event might formatively influence one's life in the initial stages of recovery from personal addiction. Furthermore, the research will look at how this event, inasmuch as it might be experienced as a crisis of confinement and diminished vital-functional control, may precipitate a reflective apprehension and appraisal of one's deeper spiritual imprisonment in addiction and autarkic encapsulation. The particular context of this examination will be based upon an experience of legal arrest and incarceration due to a drunk driving offense. ;The research will examine the movement from a current dissonant form of addiction which is rooted in autarkic, prideful vital and functional control, through an experience of unmanageable crisis which is recognized as symbolic of one's self-imposed state of deeper spiritual confinement, toward a more receptive and consonant mode of presence in respectful recognition of one's relative powerlessness and need for transcendent abandonment to the Mystery. The research will adhere to the comprehensive methodology of the science of foundational human formation