I know from personal experience how stubborn addictive behaviors can be, and how equally attached to illusory perceptions and beliefs I often am, so when I read in the introduction to Ronald Chapman's book Seeing True: Ninety Contemplations in Ninety Days that spiritual blindness can be treated much like an addiction, I was curious. Could the formula, concentrated action=habit=change, that is the basis of successful recovery programs help me dispel illusion and find more clarity in my life? I wasn't sure ninety days could loosen the grip of a lifetime of misconceptions and truly affect change, but I was willing to give it a go. By the end of the book I certainly hadn't earned my illusion-sobriety pin, but I was beginning to understand Chapman's statement in the preface "It's another day in paradise...it just doesn't look like I expected." My idea of paradise suddenly had changed too, and that shift in perception was making life look and feel much saner and more satisfying.
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