Genesis 42:1 People from surrounding lands came to Egypt to buy grain from Joseph because THE FAMINE WAS SEVERE THROUGHOUT THE WORLD. When Jacob heard that there was grain available in Egypt, he said to his sons, "Go down and buy some for us before we all starve to death." SO JOSEPH'S TEN OLDER BROTHERS WENT DOWN TO EGYPT TO BUY GRAIN.

“Go down and buy food for us before we all starve to death. So Joseph's ten older brothers went down to Egypt to buy grain.” Traced to its root, Jewish bondage in Egypt began with hunger. Similarly, we addicts travel “Bondage Road” motivated by hunger. But, hunger for what?

Specialists in addiction therapy have discovered a curious fact. In their normal habitat animals don’t develop addictive diseases. Addiction appears to be a uniquely human phenomenon. Why? While humans, like animals, are driven to satisfy physical hunger, they are also, unlike animals, motivated by spiritual desires.

Bill wrote to Dr Carl Jung, the famous psychiatrist who played no small role in the foundation principles of AA: “Because of your conviction that man is something more than intellect, emotion and two dollars worth of chemicals, you have especially endeared yourself to us.”³⁹  Dr Jung replied: “Craving for alcohol (is) the equivalent, on a low level, of the spiritual thirst for … union with God.”⁴⁰

C S Lewis concurs. “God invented us as a man invents an engine. A car is made to run on petrol, and it would not run properly on anything else. God designed the human machine to run on Himself. He is the fuel our spirits were designed to burn. There is no other.”⁴¹

Humans are spiritually hungry … hungry for God. So Bill’s words are not surprising! “LACK OF POWER, that was our dilemma. We had to find a power by which we could live, and it had to be a Power greater than ourselves. That means … we are going to talk about GOD.”⁴²