Life (Zombies, Recovery, and Other Musings) by Vince Jones

Having life in the spiritual sense is different from just being alive.

We have met spiritual “zombies” as we have moved through life. Possibly at some point in our own lives we lived as zombies for a time.

What is a Spiritual "Zombie?"


This state is arrived at when we close our minds to new information, refuse out of stubbornness (actually fear) to recognize a different point of view or even the possibility that we may be mistaken, we close our minds to growth and mount the sacred cow of arrogance and contempt.

All zombies ride sacred cows. Now there is an interesting visual.

The good news is that once we dismount the cow -  life returns.

“There is a principle which is a bar against all arguments, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance; that principle is contempt prior to investigation.”

Stay young at heart by a willingness to investigate everything that interests you. By remaining open minded and willing to learn, we open ourselves to the sunlight of the Spirit where we find our connection to the eternal and “experience life when you feel yourself to be free and useful and joyous, unconscious of either fear or doubt.”

- Vince Jones

Vince Jones is an esteemed lecturer at our treatment facilities -  for both men and women.  Check back often for more of his thoughts on recovery and living on a Spiritual life.