IS IT TIME TO CHANGE THE WAY WE UNDERSTAND ADDICTION?
For years, we learned to think about addiction one substance at a time.
FIRST NICOTINE. THEN CAFFEINE. THC. ALCOHOL.
Then sugar, energy drinks, vaping, highly processed foods — and an expanding number of products that we are now told to avoid because they can make us want more and get ill.
DON’T SMOKE IT. DON’T DRINK IT. DON’T EAT IT.
But when so many different substances and products can repeatedly pull the human organism toward another exposure, perhaps the more interesting question is no longer which product is addictive.
WHAT IS THE ENERGY BEHIND ALL OF THEM THAT MAKES A BIOLOGICAL ORGANISM REPEAT?
That is the question I have followed since 2014.
I began with nicotine and followed the investigation beyond the substance itself — into repeated stimulation, biological states, metabolism, carbon and the chemistry of methyl groups, eventually taking the investigation all the way to the volcanic Earth of Milos, Greece.
12 YEARS OF INVESTIGATION. ONE QUESTION. A DOCUMENTARY AND TWO BOOKS.
Not another list of what you should avoid.
AN INVESTIGATION INTO WHAT MAY BE HAPPENING UNDERNEATH THE REPETITION.
IN MILOS, YOU ENTER THE INVESTIGATION FROM THE OTHER DIRECTION:
FROM MODERN ADDICTION BACK TOWARD THE EARTH.
You are coming to Milos. You will probably see beaches, volcanic rocks, thermal waters and old mines.
Milos is one of the places where you can actually see the materials and processes that became important to the history of Earth — sulfur, iron, manganese, thermal water, carbon, salt and the movement of energy through different conditions.
So while you are travelling through Milos, this is another way to travel through the island. At each place, we will look at something that is actually there, and use it to follow one part of the story.
By the end, you will not have simply seen Milos as a volcanic island. You will have followed a trajectory from the chemistry of the Earth to the chemistry of the human organism, and you will have seen how I arrived at my investigation of addictive energy.
MILOS IS MORE THAN A DESTINATION. IT IS A TEACHER.
Volume I
VOLUME II
Finally after 12 years, the research moved beyond information.
The volcanic landscapes of Milos, Greece, became a living laboratory to build the next state of the investigation
